Oh, cool!

As I said--I'm so easily amused.

I get to take care of a very big (fat) Maine-Coon look-alike named Albert and a long-haired guinea pig named Blackie for a week.

Albert, other than being fat, looks like a completely gorgeous, nice brown tabby boy, and I'm looking forward to getting to know him. But I'm esp. excited about the guinea pig. I've never been around a guinea pig before, so I read up on them online this afternoon. They're apparently really nice critters. Blackie let me pick him up and after he knew I was going to hold him securely he started making those cute guinea pig noises at me. When I put my finger against his cage, he nibbled very gently.

Poor boy, he doesn't have any toys. Maybe I can find something he might find interesting. He doesn't have a little house, either, which I read they like--some place to kind of hide out in, which would make sense if you're a round edible morsel near the bottom of the food chain.

No, I'll be good, I won't go in and be Miss Know-It-All. But I am looking forward to laptime with both Albert and Blackie. I hope Albert will like me.