i bought 7 new fishies for my casa sottacqua. 5 hours later, one was dead. booooooo. i tell myself that it wasn't my fault, that i did not mortally traumatize him in those horrible few seconds when he inexplicably got left behind in the plastic bag sans water... a healthy, sane fish would've swam w/ the current & left the bag, like the other 6... ( Read more... )

my potential roomie di novita' will be arriving in about an hour. rand promised him chicken scallopini, then ducked out to richmond virginia today for a callback. (he has auditioned for an HBO movie about john adams- it's just a bit part, nothing career-launching, but the director just won a golden globe or something, so w00t for rand.) anyway, i ( Read more... )

from the department of internal affairs, casa sottacqua ( Read more... )

i fear mr. plecostomus is dying. sorry to lay that on you w/out preamble, w/out preparing you for the bitter tragedy... but frankly i'm irritated, agitated & angry at the damn guppies. i blame them. i think they overpopulated my tank. i tried to cut down algae growth by only turning the light on for 6 hours a day & i think mr. plecostomus starved ( Read more... )

from the department of Things NOT To Do: do NOT, under any circumstances, EVER rent 'donkey skin', a french fairy tale filmed in 1971. it is the ultimate in suckness. the effects were on par with 'the worst witch', but the dialogue wasn't as cheesy (y'know- it was in french, so it was hard to tell.) it was, however, a musical, & it's kinda ( Read more... )

woke up this morning & reluctantly peeled myself from the fuzzy embrace o' teh cuddlemonster again... why isn't he that cuddly on my days off when i can dawdle there for hours, allowing myself to doze off & revel in the softsilky sweetness o' teh gattino caro?

& surprise, surprise! /gomer pyle voice i spied a fresh, new, just a few days old baby ( Read more... )

tragedy struck this morning at the casa sottacqua, as young Ginger Molly was found dead at the bottom of the tank. Several attempts to revive her were unsuccessful. She seemed to be languishing yesterday evening from some unknown cause, and apparently died some time in the night ( Read more... )

yays! great news from the Fuzzy Department! the vet called yesterday & said that teh rumi-bear's fructosamine levels have dropped by half since his test in January. He's now somewhere around 200, with the bottom range of healthiness being around 100. so now i have to take him in tomorrow at noon, which is historically the nadir of his glucose curve ( Read more... )

the mystery of the fishies still envelops the casa di gatto. when royal_spice popped in on tuesday, i could only find one baby to show teh spice... & then i started noticing baby corpses lying under the rocks along the edges of the tank. *oh noes!* i says to myself- but then last night, around feedin' time, i saw at least 7 LIVE babies hiding hither & thither ( Read more... )

first, the good news, from the department of BAHAHAHA!...

I GOTS A VALENTINE! yays & a snoopydance! it's from tferguson & like all things fergy, it's hilarious on many different levels. (hope he doesn't mind me blogging about it, but my dear readers are the only ones who will get & appreciate the joke(s ( Read more... )