I'm baaaaaaack.
you: "oh goddamnit"
righty then, lots of things have been happening lately. I've been working a lot (I had 37.5 scheduled hours last week), I sleep a lot, I'm reading a long book, and Lesley was here for a full week and we kept leaving and shit. Plus I'm getting sick of coming on because no one ever talks to me except Alan and occasionally Meag, and Alan's not always on and Meag's almost always gone. Yay for rhyming.
Anyway. As of two weeks ago I had like 80 fish.. consisting of umm.. six mollies, six platies, a swordtail, a bunch of guppies, a fancy goldfish, two glow-light tetras, two neon tetras, three zebra danios, ten bettas and a shitload of baby black lyretail mollies, silver mollies, guppies and swordtails. And then, well, they all went away.
It started when Lesley was here, one night (okay, it was about 5 a.m.) I went to bed and saw that a few of my fish were laying on the bottom, not looking too healthy. And two were dead. I did tests, changed the water, took out the sick fish, but nothing seemed to be helping. So slowly, over the course of a week and a half, I lost ALL of my fish except two zebra danios and the bettas. And I don't know how much longer the danios will last. Grrr.
My mom's still saying she's going to buy me the big 50 gallon tank ($99.95 at Petsmart, including two hoods, stand is $71.84 at WalMart, and the filter will be between $30 and $40, and either I'll convince her to get it or I'll do it myself.) After I get that, I'll use my ten gallon tank for a couple goldfish or something and put ALL my decorations and things in the big one. And when it's settled and ready, I'll get me s'more fish.
Also, I got myself a couple birds. Two blue parakeets named Murphy and Jack. I can't remember which one's which, though. lol. Everything's good so far, they're a bit on the unfriendly side (they gnaw on my hand whenever I come near them, unless they're cornered, and then they let out insane squawking). They're both supposed to be boys, but I'm starting to think one's actually a girl. The way you can tell is the little ..thing on top of their beaks is tanish brown on the females and blue on the males. The bluer the male's beak thing, the older it is. Well one of mine is obviously blue although it's light, and the other is, well, it's a toss-up, lol. He/she/it is either a chic or they're gay, because they cuddle up together and things. It's really cute. When I got them, the first seemed okay with being captured. The second however, made a point of being as loud and squawky as he possibly could be. I USED to know which I picked first (Murphy) and which I picked second (Jack), but now I'm confused, and they both seem to squawk at me equally. One I'm having an easier time getting along with, the mystery-sex bird. He/she is fine with sitting on a perch (box with a bar, hanger, necklace hanging from my ceiling fan, anything) near me, but doesn't like being touched. Touch the bird and you're gonna get gnawed on.
So far they've been alright, though. They twitter and chirp cutely when I'm not right next to the cage, and seem to sleep through the night. I haven't been woken up once by their noise, and Gweebi stopped messing with them on the second day, lol. She still watches them like a kitty-TV, though. The two birds seem to really enjoy each other's company, always staying together even though the cage is really big. I'm thinking I might get another one before the sale's over on the 18th. A green or yellow one this time. Or maybe the pretty white one I was looking at before.
hmm hmm hmm, what else has happened? OH! lol, Dean got fired!! That one assy guy that I kept complaining about. Yeah he's gone. YAY! =)
Lastly, at least I think it's last, but I probably missed a bunch of stuff.. I'm getting a car. See, Jenni had a Kia and an Escort, bought a van and sold the Escort to a friend of my step-dad's. I was joking around with him while he was here and told him to give me his other car.. and, well, he's going to. Mom and John are going to pay to have it fixed, and I'll have to get my own insurance and pay for gas. I don't know how much it'll be, but in this first month of working at Jack in the box, I've gotten almost $600. I'm pretty sure that's enough to cover car insurance, even if I'm 19 with a permit.
Okay, I got off the phone with Alan two hours ago saying I wanted to go to bed. I have nothing else to write, I've seen this episode of X-Files and my birdie is asleep next to me. I think (s)he's trying to tell me something.
so yeah, 'niiiiiiight.