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That darn kamera is missin again!

i can't find that darn kamera again!  Where could it be?  i've beeen looking for it allll day.  How am i supposed to take phootos if i can't find it?  i can't!  mrs. Armstrong and Rachl are going someplace tomorrrow.   i heard them talkin about it this mornin.  i'm not sure where they're goin but could it be Rachl put the kamera somewhere so she wouldn't forget it tomorrrow?

i have no idea.

Hooooray, i'm back in businesss!!!!

you'll never guesss what happpened to me today!  i found Rachl's kamera!  it was under her bunkbed!  i'd looked there before, of course, but there was one place i hadn't looked.  In her Uggs!!!  That's where the kamera was!  In one of her Uggs booots!

You're probably asking why would i ever to think to loook in Rachl's Uggs for her kamera.  Welll, i have Honey Buns and Sugar Smacks to thank for that.  After i saw Honey Buns drop what i thought was mr. Durkins's body into Rachl's sneaker yesterday, i got to thinkin.

"Hmmm..." i thought.  "I wonder what could be in Rachl's other shoes?"

So i snuck out of my cage while Rachl was at skoool this morning and scurried under her bunkbed to take a loook.  I pushed over her Ugg booot and -- OMG! -- there it was:  Rachl's kamera!  Rachl must've hiddden it in her Ugg boooot so the twins wouldn't find it.  i'm talking about the human twins -- Betsy and Susie -- not the goldfish twins, Betsy and Susie.  i'm so happpy to have found Rachl's kamera!!  i'm back in businesss!  i can take photos again! 

But here's something a little unsetttling.  i was going through the pictures that the twins must've taken when they had Rachl's kamera.  i came upon this one photo that, well, to be perfectly honest, has me a bit concerned.  Loook at the size of this pumpkin!  it's huge!  it's a monster pumpkin!  Are the twins growing monster pumpkins now?  Do mr. and mrs. Armstrong know about this?  Look how big the pumpkin is next to that little human boy!  If these pumpkins grow that big, can you imagine how big they'll be next to a little gerbil like me!?

i don't even want to think about it!

My blue refrigerator

Have you ever become so focused on somethin you can't think of anythin else?

Welll, that's what i realized was happenin with me and Rachl's kamera.  i was becoming obsesssed!  So i've decided i'm not goin to think about that darn kamera anymore.  Really!  i'm not!

Just to show you, you know what i did this morning?  i got on my exercise wheel and ran and ran and as I ran and ran I fixed my gaze on my blue refrigerator that's in the corner of my cage and wondered what i'd put in it if i could put things in it. Since it's a piece of dolllhouse furniture, the door (which has a yellow happpy face sticker on it) doesn't actually open.  

i didn't have to think very long about it.  i know exactly what i'd put in my blue refrigerator.  Yogurt puffballs!  They're so delicious, those yogurt pufffballls!  Particularly the red ones!

Homework

i didn't get to try out my big plan yesterday. This time it wasn't because Rachl was in a bad moood, though.  it was because she didn't come right straight home after skooool.  Not sure where she was.  Maybe at a friend's house?  Don't know.

i do know this, though.  When she did finalllly come home, she had so much homework she sat down at her desk and got right to work.  She was so focused on her homework, i didn't have the heart to interrupt her by runnin on my squeaky exercise wheeel and gnawin on the front bars of my cage.

So i guess i'lll just have to try again tomorrrrow.

A close one!!

i snuck into the secret passageway this mornin and went back into the twins bedrooom.  (i guess you know by now that i'm talking about the human twins.)  i went back to take another loook at Rachl's kamera that's sittin on Betsy's and Susie's boook case.  i was hopin that if i went back and loooked at it again maybe i might think of a way to either (a) tell Rachl that her kamera is in Betsy's and Susie's bedrooom or (b) i might figure out how to bring it back myself to Rachl's bedrooom. 

I stepped out of the tiny hole of the secret passageway and hurried out into the middle of the twins's bedrooom floor.  I stoood there on the carpet (the twins have a nice, plush, blue carpet), gazing at the kamera on the second to bottom shelf of the boookcase, hoping a brillliant idea on what i should do would pop into my litttle head. 

Sudddenly, behind me, i heard a low, hummming sound.  it was coming from the top of one of the twin's bed.  (i'm not sure which is bed is which twin's.)  

"What on earth could that sound be?" i wondered.  Because i'm so litttle, i couldn't see the top of the bed.  i noticed that the bed had a bedspread that hung down to the flooor.  As i gazed at it, i realized i could probably crawl up the bedspread to the top of the bed.  So that's what i did.  I dug my claws the soft frabic (which, like their carpet, was also blue) and started to climb.  As i climbed higher and higher, the hummin sound grew louder and louder. 

As i came up over the top of the bed, i froze.  The bed was drenched in morning sun that was streaming through the bedroom.  There, on the pillow, sat the tiger cat, Sugar Smacks.  She was sittin in the sun, humming to herself-- or, i guess, the proper term is "purrrin".  Luckily for me, her eyes were shut so she didn't know i was there.

i felt myself break out into a cold sweat.  "Oh, no!" i groaned.  "This isn't goood  Not goood at all!"

Slowly and ever so quietly, i turned and bgan climbing back down the bedspread.  Reaching the flooor, i tiptoed on all four paws across the carpet to the litttle hole that leads into the secret passageway.

I slipped into the secret passageway and let out a big sigh.  "Whew," i said to myself.  "That was a close one."

I was about to head back to Rachl's bedroom when, behind me, a gruff voice suddenly said, "So you found the kamera, eh, kid?"

I whirled about and saw a smalll black smudge in the dark passageway.  it was mr. Durkins!  Which, of course, made sense:  it's his secret passageway, after all.  i was so jittery from seein Sugar Smacks, though, I leaped into the air, screamed at the top of my lungs, and hightailed it down the secret passageway.  As I ran off, i heard a "meeeeoww" back in Betsy's and Susie's bedrooom.  i guesss my scream woke her up from her nap.

i didn't stop runnin until i got back to Rachl's bedrooom.

it's not easy bein a gerbl

i wish i knew how to speak English so i could telll Rachl where her kamera is.  Or i wish Rachl knew how to speak Gerbil.  Or i wish i didn't have 3 cats to worry about so i could just go get the kamera myself. (There's no way i could push the kamera down the bedrooom halllway without one of the cats seein me and the kamera is tooo big to take into the secret passageway.)  it's not easy bein a gerbl.  it really isn't!

i've been wracking my litttle brain tryin to figure out how to let Mom know where her kamera is so she can rescue it from the twins Betsy and Susie (the human twins Betsy and Susie, not the goldfish twins).  if i could just let Rachl know where her kamera is, she'd march right right into the twins bedrooom and grab her kamera and bring it back into her bedrooom.  Then i could start usin it again.

i know i can figure this out.  i just know i can.  i was able to figure out to get food when the Armstrongs went on vacation, after all. i just need to think of somethin.

i found Rachl's kamera!!!

OMG!  OMG!  OMG!  Oh, My Gerbils! 

i found Rachl's kamera!!!  Jose was right!  it is in Betsy's and Susie's bedrooom -- the human Betsy and Susie, that is, not the goldfish Betsy and Susie.

i snuck into Betsy's and Susie's bedrooom this morning after they left for skoool.  i toook the secret passsageway to get to their bedrooom.  the hole to the secret passageway that's in their bedroooom comes out next to their boookcase.  As i was steppin out of the litttle hole, i saw somethin out of the corner of my eye.  it was a litttle, dark rectangular box on one of the shelves on the bookcase.  it loooked just like a litttle kamera so i turned to take a closer loook.

it was a litttle kamera!  And not just any litttle kamera!  it was Rachl's littttle kamera!!!

i'm so excited that i finally found it!  Now i just have to figure out how to telll Mom that's where her kamera is so she can get it. 

i bet Jose is right!

i bet you anythin Jose is right!  i bet you Betsy and Susie have Rachl's kamera!

it makes perfect sense:  Betsy and Susie (the human Betsy and Susie, not the goldfish Betsy and Susie) are always takin Rachl's things.  it would be just like them to take Rachl's kamera.

Welll, there's only one way to find out.  i'm going to have to pay a litttle visit to Betsy's and Susie's bedrooom.  The human Betsy's and Susie's bedrooom, that is, not the goldfish Betsy's and Susie's bedroom.  Actually, i guesss it couldn't posssibly be the goldfish Betsy's and Susie's bedrooom because they don't have a bedrooom. They live in an underwater castle.

Boa and Jose

I poppped in on Boa, the corn snake, and Jose, the tarantula, this mornin after the Armstrong kids had all gone offf to skoool.  I toook the secret passageway to get to Craig's bedrooom.  As usual, Craig's bedroom door was closed and his bedrooom was very dark.  I snuck out of the secret passageway hole and dashed over to Craig's desk, which is where Boa's and Jose's aquariums are located.  I grabbed hold of the electrical cord to Boa's aquarium light and began pulling myself up the cord.

"Hawo, Boa," i said as i came up over the side of the desk.

Boa was so startled to seee me, his eyes widened and his jaw dropped open.  "Oh-beee!?" he blurted out.  Then he began sayin, "Bowaaa!  Oh-beee!  Bowaaa!  Oh-beee!  Bowaaa!  Oh-beee!"

i smiled and turned to Jose's aquarium.  The tarantula was inside his lighted aquarium, sitting on a flat rock that was lying on the sand.  I waved my paw at Jose and said, "Hawo, Jose."

"Seniorita, Obe!" he cried as he hoppped over to the glass to get a closer look at me.  "What brings you here?"

"i'm lookin for Rachl's kamera," i replied.  "i can't find it.  By any chance, have either of you seen it?"

Boa shoook his head and said, "i don't think so."  He turned to Jose and said, "We haven't seen Rachl's kamera, have we, Jose?"

"No, we haven't seeen it," said the tarantula.

Boa focused his eyes on me and said, "Sorry, Oh-beee, we haven't seen it."

 "Oh, well," i sighed.  "i didn't think you probably had, but i thought it couldn't hurt to ask."

"Have you tried the twins bedrooom?" asked Jose.

I peered at Jose inside his aquarium and said, "The twins bedrooom?"

Jose nodded.  "Yes, the twins bedrooom.  Those 2 little senioritas are always taking things from Master Craig.  Maybe they took Rachl's kamera from Seniorita Rachl."

"That's a very good suggestion, Jose!" i exclaimed.  "i'll try loookin in their bedrooom."

Boa smiled.  "That Jose, he's one smart spider!"

Jose spun about and glowered at Boa.  He looked absolutely livid.  "How many times do i have to telll you?  I'm a tarantula, not a spider!  A tar-ant-u-la!"

Boa shrugged.  "Tarantula, spider!" he said.  "Same thing!"

"They are not the same thing!" cried Jose, hoppping up and down in fury.  "They're not!  They're not!  They're not!"

"They are!  They are!  They are!" cried Boa.

"Welll, guys, gotta go!  Thank you for all your help," i said and, with a wave of my paw, toook offf.

No kamera in Rachl's backpack!

Rachl's kamera wasn't in Rachl's backpack. 

i snuck out of my cage last night when Rachl and the rest of the Armstrongs were all downstairs eatin dinner and checked in Rachl's backpack.  But it wasn't there.  Or, at least, it wasn't in the main part of her backpack, which was unzippped and which I could crawl into and peek around in.  i saw boooks and notebooks and a sharp yelllow pencil that I nearly stabbed myself on, but no kamera.

The side pocket of Rachl's backpack was zipped up, but i'm pretty sure it wasn't there, either.  i felt around with my two front paws, but i didn't feel anything that felt like it could be a kamera. 

i had another thought, though.  i know it's not very likely, but i wonder if Boa or Jose may know where Rachl's kamera is.  i know what you're thinkin.  You're thinkin, "Now why would a snake and a tarantula know where Rachl's kamera is?"  To be honest, that's what i thought, too, when i first thought of the idea.  After all, they live in aquariums in Craig's dark bedrooom and Craig always keeps his bedrooom dooor closed so how could they posssibly know where Rachl's kamera is? 

But then i said to myself, "Well, while all that is true, it can't hurt to ask, can it?"

So that's what i've decided to do:  i'm going to go ask Boa and Jose if they know where Rachl's kamera is.

i'll let you know what i find out.  Wish me luck!