Plotting my next fish tank. It's years in the future, so it can be as big or as little as I want it to be.

Tiger barbs are a must.
Cherry barbs I've had my eye on for so long. Should I commit? I don't eye them with longing the way I do with tigers.
Bloodfin tetras for a little bling in the tank.

Of course I also want a fancy goldfish. Do I want ( Read more... )

Well, no more fish tanks. I got rid of them last night. Two different people showed up to claim a fish tank each. So now they're gone. No more tetras. No more minnows. No more constant whir of the filters and splash of filter output. No more extra white light in my room. It's just Sonny and me now.

It's so quiet and dark in my room ( Read more... )

I've made an ad on craigslist. [link]

May god and spammers have mercy on my brain. Actually within twenty minutes I had a response! Cool deal.

I'm trying to write a bit but it's difficult to concentrate. Sometimes I try to write about how I feel and something I try to write about Life is Beautiful, which is what I should, technically, be ( Read more... )

Mom and Dad silently watched a "comedy" video that rewrote fun.'s "We Are Young" into an even more depressing song about accepting that we're no longer young. Later, as I am cleaning dishes, I start singing the original.

Kelsey: Now I know that I'm not all that you got, I guess that I, I just thought, maybe we could find some ways to fall apart. But ( Read more... )

Kelsey: I have to know this because -- because what if I'm reading, and it says that Chao Chao went from Turfan to ( Read more... )

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So James had a big, mean gourami, who prowled his tank and decided who lived and who died. It killed almost everything, except for a few tetras who were swift enough to get away. James hated the gourami, but there was nothing he could do until the gourami died. We decided that when that happened, I would get whatever tetras were left and he would ( Read more... )

In two or three years, after I graduate and get a full-time job, James and I are going to live together. Possibly even as people married to each other, but anyway, we discuss it a lot. We want to get a townhouse, because we have too many in-tank animals to keep them in just a small apartment. I've been trying to think of ways to save space with ( Read more... )

Since yesterday was to be my last day among the diurnal, I wanted to go out and do fun things with James. He'd always wanted to go to the Udvar-Hazy Center, so we did that. I'll post pictures when I'm on a computer that will let me upload. We also made a trip to Petsmart. Sadly those cats with pink eyes are still in the adoptable areas; the ( Read more... )

Packing some stuff, getting ready for the move...I think I have way too much stuff. I think July and August I'm going to go ahead and get rid of some stuff. Sell it? Donate it? I don't know. Some books will have to go. The stuff I don't like, that people just handed to me more to get rid of it than to actually gift it. A lot of my knick- ( Read more... )