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i think i've thought of somethin!

No skoool today!  Snow day in New Kanaan, Konnectikut!  Rachl is outside, playin in the snow.

Hey, i think i've thought of somethin I can do for my New Year's resolushun!

the idea came to me while i was starin at one of the postcards that Rachl stuck in the bars of my cage.  When Rachl came back from vacation last year, she stuck 4 postcards in the bars of my cage.  There's one of Cape Cod, one of Maine, one of New Hampshire, and one of Vermont.  The one from Cape Cod shows a beach with humans in bathing suits.  The one from Maine shows a huge lobster.  The one from New Hampshire shows a lake with a motor boat and a girl waterskiing behind the motor boat.  And the one from Vermont shows a pasture with cows in it. 

Anyway, i was starin at the postcard from Vermont (cows) and thinkin what a pretty photograph that is when i thought, "Hey, maybe my New Year's resolushun could be that i learn how to use Rachl's kamera!"

Okay, i know what you're thinkin.  you're thinkin, "There's no way a gerbil can learn how to use a kamera!"  That's what I first thought, too.  But then i remembered something mrs. Armstong is always tellin Rachl when Rachl isn't sure if she can do something.  mrs. Amstrong will say, "Nothing ventured, nothing gained."

Besides, when Rachl and her family went off on vacation and i wasn't getting fed, i learned how to find food for myself.  if I can do that, i should be able to learn how to use a kamera, right?

so that's what i'm goin to do for my New Year's resolushun:  learn how to use a camera!

Gotta go!  Just heard the kitchen door downstairs open and mrs. Armstrong call out, "Take your booots off!  I don't want you bringin snow in the house!" 

Can't think of anything

i'm having a lot of trouble thinkin of a good New Year's resolushun.

Actually, i'm having a lot of trouble even thinkin of a bad New Year's resolushun.

Who knew thinkin of a New Year's resolushun would be so difficult?

One thing i thought I could do is keep my cage more tidy in 2009.  But then I thought, "How much tidier can it be?"  After all, the flooor of my cage is covered with heaps and heaps of cedar shavings.  They're not easy to keep tidy!  Plus, it's Rachl, not me, who cleans my cage so it really should be her New Year's resolushun, not mine.

Then I thought, "Well, maybe my New Year's resolushun could be that i exercise more."  The only problem with that, though, is that I run on my exercise wheel for exercise.  The faster I run, the more my squeaky exercise wheel squeaks.  When Rachl hears my exercise wheel squeakin, she doesn't say, "Gosh, Obe, you sure are a fast runner!"  No!  She gets mad!  (She can't stand all that squeakin!)  She comes over to my cage with a fierce look in her eyes and unhooks my exercise wheel from the bars of my cage so it can't squeak anymore.  Which is all fine and good except it means i also can't run anymore!  So that's why i can't make that my New Year's resolushun.

i wish i could think of somethin!

I could start a club

i haven't heard from any gerbils so either (a) there are no gerbils out there with good New Year's resolushuns or (b) there are no gerbils out there.

So i guess i'll just have to think of a good New Year's resolushun on my own.

Let's see ... I could start a club.  But who would i invite?  The three cats?  I don't think so! 

mr. Smithers?  He just repeats everything i say.  (I can just imagine our first meeting.  "I now call this meeting to order," i'd say and then mr. Smithers would say, "Erp!  Erp!  I now call this meeting to order!")  I can't be in a club with a parrot who says everything I say!  I'd go crazy! 

I could ask Mack, the old yellow dog, to join my club, but he's always sleepin.  And Betsy and Susie, the gold fish twins who live in the aquarium down in the TV room, are so anti-social they hardly ever swim out of their underwater castle so why would they want to join my club?  They wouldn't! 

I guess i could ask Jose, the tarantula, to become a member, but if I invited him he'd want me to invite Boa, the corn snake, too.  Bein a gerbil, i probably shouldn't be in the same club with a creature who eats gerbils. 

Then there's that nutty squirrel who lives in the maple tree that's out on the Armstrong's front yard, but he's convinced I'm a criminal so that wouldn't work out, either. 

And i could ask mr. Durkins, the old mouse who lives in the atttic, to join, but he hates the Armstrongs so much, he'd only want to spend all of our club time trying to think up ways to take revenge on the Armstrongs.

You know, maybe startin a club isn't such a good idea.

Having trouble

i can't figure out what my New Year's resolushun should be.

If there are any gerbls out there who have made a good New Year's resolushun, i'd very much like to hear from you.

Hawoooooo, any gerbils out there with a good New Year's resolushun? 

Callin all gerbils with good New Year's resolushuns!!  Hawo!  Hawo!  Any gerbils out there?

Maybe I should have a New Year's resolushun

You know, all this talk of New Year's resolushuns has got me to thinking ... maybe I should have a New Year's resolushun -- some big goal for 2009. 

Hmm, I wonder what it should be?