ODESSA: Born - April 2012. Odessa pulled her hamstring the other day while trying to jump over a box full of scorpions to get to the bunch of bananas on my desk. We did the whole "ice then heat" thing but it didn't seem to do any good. She's still whining about it today. All I'm thinking is she learned her lesson and won't touch the bananas on my desk again...
ALMA: Born - April 2012. Alma has a twin called Wilma. They seriously do NOT get along and when they're in the same room it's almost like a tornado is in you midst with the way they fight. Amazingly enough, neither one ever gets hurt or seems to carry emotional baggage over what was said and done. Once they've finished their arguing, they hug, shake tails and act like nothing happened. Strange. Too bad it isn't like that in the real world with siblings...
ROBIN: Born - April 2012. Robin really doesn't care what I write, he just wants to know why the hell I had a box of Scorpions in my room??!! Come to think of it, where did that box go? Interesting....
FOGO: Born - March 2012. Fogo came to earth on the mother ship called "Caprica 1". He was originally from earth BUT, was taken by aliens as a young pair of socks. Not knowing what to do with socks, the Aliens searched our Internet, found my blog and did what they could to copy what I do with socks and came up with Fogo. Not a bad job if you ask me. I wonder if they'll work for cheap making all my sock monkeys...hmmmmm...
KAMI: Born - March 2012. Kami was outside walking his sock dog when he heard some crying in the bushes. Being a curious Sock Monkey, he checked it out and that's how Fogo was found. Kami helped Fogo out of the bushes, cleaned him up and brought him home to my Sock Monkey Mayhem - just what I needed, another stray. HOWEVER, being the sweet person that I am, I welcomed Fogo in and Kami has been his mentor and friend since that day, helping him to learn our earthly ways. Good on you Kami!
IKOE: Born - March 2012. Ikoe befriended Kami and Fogo as he has always dreamed of meeting an Alien of sorts and thought this would be a good opportunity to learn all about them. Unfortunately, as Fogo was just a pair of socks when he was on the mother ship and only made into a Sock Monkey days before he was dropped on earth, he doesn't really have a lot to tell about Aliens. He did give Ikoe one important piece of information though. Aliens LOVE Girl Scout Cookies - and NOT the chocolate, only the vanilla ones. This information my friends could be significant in an Alien invasion. Just think, a war won with cookies not guns...
Author's note: I think we should go into mass production of Vanilla Girl Scout Cookies and arm every household with a box or two. Of course, I don't know how effective this would be as when cravings hit, what do you think will get eaten first? The stinkin' cookies of course and then where would we be??!!!
MANSELL & DUNDEE: Born - March 2012. These two lovely characters are Sock Goblins of course - NOT to be confused with Sock Monsters. Sock Goblins will get quite nasty with you if you accidentally confuse them with the Sock Monsters and heaven forbid you call them a Sock Troll!! You see, Sock Goblins feel they are a superior race - above the trolls and monsters... I'm not so sure about the "superior" thing but they do play better practical jokes AND can karaoke a lot better than the rest. Mind you, in a battle, Karaoke and practical jokes aren't gonna get you far. This is probably why the Sock Goblin population is quite low. Just an observation....
SYBEL: Born - March 2012. Sybel had a career in bubble gum engineering. It was quite a prestigious career and she was at the top of her game. Her job of course was engineering the highest quality of gum and in particular, ensuring optimum bubble producing gum. This was all fine and dandy until the day one of her test monkeys blew a bubble so large that when it popped, it engulfed the entire facility which in turn caused major melt downs, malfunctions, equipment failing, general all around surface damage and stickiness and inevitably, loss of production, loss of money and loss of jobs. Talk about a sticky situation! Sybel no longer works as a bubble gum engineer....
MONA: Born - March 2012. Mona was the test monkey that blew the bubble gum up. This monkey has one hell of a set of lungs and now works as a compressor....
CASSIOPIA & PERSEUS: Born - March 2012. This lovely Sock Monkey couple own a cattle ranch in Texas. Every morning they get up at the crack of Don - oops - I mean dawn, and head out on their scooters and round up the cattle for their daily lessons in algebra. The cattle don't seem to really get the equations and the general answer is "moo" so I'm not too sure why Cassiopia and Perseus continue trying to teach the cattle. At one point they thought they had a break through when a young heifer mooed three times to a question that the answer was "three". However, they later found out she was just messing with them and wanted to amuse the other cows. Damn cow.
ANYWAY, I think Cassiopia and Perseus are going to pursue a different line of education - Physics. Good luck you two!
OASIS: Born - February 2012. Oasis doesn't actually understand the meaning behind her name. She lives by a giant body of water (which happens to be the 10th largest body of freshwater in the world) and doesn't get the whole idea of "desert" as ice and snow cover her home 7 1/2 months of the year. Why name her Oasis then? An oasis is typically an isolated area of vegetation surrounding a spring or water source which, in the desert, can be a life saving place. I think Oasis (the sock monkey) can be lifesaving as well - depending on who she ends up with and their set of circumstances. We love Oasis.
GYPSY: Born - February 2012. Gypsy is a traveller. He never stays in one place very long and loves to explore new places. He is colorful, cheery, full of life and rather eccentric at times. It's not surprising that due to his lifestyle, his best friend is Oasis. These two compliment each other well and have many adventures together. They will be co-authoring a book in the near future titled "The Oasis of A Gypsy" which will compromise of mostly pencil stick figure drawings... Gotta love these two and their enthusiasm for life.
GEM: Born - February 2012. Gem is the original author of the nursery rhyme we all know today as "Mary had A Little Lamb". How is that possible you might ask? Her ancestry comes from a long line of poets and Gem is just her ancestors re-born SO, technically, she wrote it. Her great, great, great, great grandmother's first version was about a "little armadillo" but that didn't go over too well as no one knew what the hell an armadillo was. It was changed to a "little toad" then a "little giraffe" until "little lamb" was finally settled on. Talk about the people you gotta please just to write a stinkin' nursery rhyme!
GUS: Born - February 2012. Gus rides the bus. That's all I got - my attempt at a nursery rhyme. I'll finish it one day...
GIDGET: Born - February 2012. Gidget likes to fidget with her digits next to a midget..... not bad. Think about it. I probably used the only words in the English language that rhyme with Gidget and put it all in one sentence. Okay...it needs work BUT, it's a little better than "Gus rides the bus" don't ya think?
