This Week in Funny Bunny… Vol. 3

Posted February 10, 2015 at 10:00 am in Blackjack Bunny Rabbit

Well, first thing’s first, let’s just get all the Blackjack photos out of the way. I’m also really heavy on the Instagram photos this week, apologies, apologies. Here’s lots of cute bunny. Do not be alarmed, the pose on the left here may look like a dead bunny – this flop terrifies rabbit owners. James likes to say every time he finds Blackjack like this, he immediately starts thinking, “Oh God, he’s dead. How do I get rid of the body before Natalie sees???” Also, bonus bunny feet. He likes to sleep at my feet and I like to bother him with iPhone flashing.

Exploratory bunny! I’ve been doing a lot of cleaning and moving around boxes this month. He would very much prefer everything stay the same all the time, thank you. Not happening, bud. When I finish all the decluttering, I’m coming for your hay pile in the hall.

And normal bun. Grumps and bun loafs for all!

In bunny related news, I have a problem, and that problem is my collection of bunny-related paraphernalia. I saw this at Target for $2 and I was like YES this is the bunny bank I always wanted and never knew until this very moment. Now it just kind of sits awkwardly on the coffee table and I don’t know what to do with it. The photo on the right is also rabbit related, most people don’t realize that rabbits’ teeth grow throughout their whole lives! This means they need a lot of good, stiff hay and tree twigs to chew on and wear down their teeth over the years. Blackjack demolished this basket; usually he just leaves it sitting for a few weeks before deciding to chew on it, but he did this overnight. Destructor bunny, roar!

In my culinary adventures, I left my spaghetti squash on the counter for a month so when I cut it open, I found this sprouting. Whoops! For the record, sprouted spaghetti squash loses all of the flavor the squash previously had and, quite frankly, tastes kind of bitter and awful. Do not recommend. On the right, though, I’m quite proud of this chicken – it was my first time spatchcocking a chicken, and I was amazed at how (relatively) easy (kind of) it was (insofar as chicken is ever easy, I always find it to be a pain in the butt), but what was really good was the cooking. It’s all flat, laying in a relatively even line, so it cooks more evenly in the oven. I was pretty pleased! I highly recommend it if you’re bored one evening and have a sturdy pair of kitchen shears!

Just to prove I have friends and see people that aren’t my rabbit, here’s a quick one of the Finley and Honda, who came over for a day of board games. I really enjoyed Tsuro – if you ever play it, I recommend trying to play it cooperatively. The objective of the game is to, ostensibly, be the last person standing, but if you actively try to avoid killing other people, it takes on a whole new level of interest, I feel. Game not pictured, by this point we were playing Red Dragon Inn 2, haha. I also took a quick snap of the huuuuge Zelda map I gave my boyfriend, James, for his birthday a few years ago. When they were renovating our apartment last year, the people doing the reflooring “respectfully” (excuse the sarcasm here, every time we went through this with the landlord, they kept assuring us they were treating our belongings respectfully) ripped this off the wall, wadded it up into a tiny ball and threw it outside in the dirt and let it sit there. They didn’t even bring it back in – I discovered it when I came home for the day. Anyway, I was pretty upset by the whole thing and haven’t had the heart to hang it up again until now. Welcome back, Zelda 1!

Last, we have my new way of storing the towels, linens, clothes…really anything I can fold. I recently read “The Kon’Mari Method: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up” by Marie Kondō. When I initially read it, I was extremely dismissive, if only because it was so plainly Japanese. That isn’t a problem, except that I felt much of the book’s popularity and success has to do with the fact that Kondō is basically an adorable Japanese woman and while her Japanese fans would consider this a point of interest, we, as American readers, are attracted because we find her Japanese-ness exotic. I really would have rather read it in Japanese because the English translation of only keeping objects that “spark joy” (ときめき) or “thanking your clothes for a hard day’s work” (お疲れ〜とか) sounds absolutely insane in translation.

Anyway, this made it hard to take the book seriously even though I could see the Japanese in my mind that the English translation came from… In the end, though, I did find it to be intriguing enough that I decided to give it a go. It’s pretty difficult, since I share a lot of things with James, but I’ve been making progress. By far, the most daunting part is the category of “komono” or basically, “miscellaneous things.” I have so much miscellaneous stuff! I feel like I’ve been working on it for ages and the donation pile by the door just keeps on growing. Luckily, James doesn’t really mind how I organize the apartment as long as I don’t throw away anything that belongs to him, and as long as I have a dump corner to just put his stuff into (sorry, guest bedroom) where I don’t have to see it, I’m happy. We’re at a bit of a fighting point right now because I need his help to finish the living room, but he doesn’t have time to help me. I warned him, if we don’t do it this week, I’m hiring a Task Rabbit for an hour!

I had a couple of other photos that didn’t make it into the bunch, which were basically “Natalie likes to play with makeup even though she never leaves the apartment” and “James wears sunglasses and a rice paddy hat on Saturday nights” but I’ll just let you wonder what that looked like on your own! Have a great week, everyone, and a happy Valentine’s Day to those people who are into that! Check back next week for a sweet San Francisco City Hall elopement!