Book Commercials & Misanthropic Observations

Schrody died today

I didn’t see that comin’. I mean, we were concerned yesterday, when he started with the swimbladder symptoms, but fish can sometimes recover from that.

I’m not the only person who gets crazy attatched to fish

Ok, I don’t think I’ll go this far for Schrody- but I really hope he recovers. It’s just awful to watch him be so helpless in the water. This is a great description of what’s wrong with him.

I think Sweet Cheeks is awfully cute, and HOW do you get golfish to eat from your hand?

The dreaded swim bladder

Schrody is not well today. He has no equilibrium, actually rolls as he tries to swim. Poor little guy has swim bladder. Some fish come by a tendency to it through breeding, sometimes it’s from overfeeding (I don’t think that’s the problem here) and if they have any tendency to it they are way more vulnerable during the first month or so of a new tank. It’s called new tank syndrome, a time when bacteria levels are unstable. He keeps getting stuck under rocks and such, so I’ve cleared the tank of decorations and he’s treating himself the best way he can, by hanging vertically upside down along the filter. I’m just doing what I can and am sad about it, since I already have gotten pretty attached. I’ll let you know if he pulls through.

Shrody update

Shrodinger definitely has his own quirks. He does a little hard to describe dance in an attempt to get fed. It’s the same every morning when Paul gets up to make his coffee, and pretty funny.

He’s afraid green leaf lettuce (hides behind something on the other side of the tank until I remove it), is indifferent to lighter green leaves like spinach, prefers his cucumbers chopped rather than a slice hung on the side of the tank, but LOVES oranges. He also happily eats peas. I have 3 different kinds of goldfish food, and of course he ignores the two cheap brands from Wal-mart and goes crazy over the one from world of fish.

I’ve settled into a pattern on water changes on Mondays and Thursdays and really like having him around. The fabric on the back of the tank has special meaning for me. When we went to Kuai with Ed and Vonda, everyone indulged me one day and trekked to a fabric store so I could pick up a souvenir. Back then I used part of it to recover my makeup table stool (see picture #2 in the redecorating post)where it reminds me daily of our trip. I love having it as the background for a fish tank too.

Bedroom redecorating pics

Before… we had an island theme here, the walls were actually pretty cool and looked like stone.

After… The paint color is called “Space Suit”, we love it. That’s my wedding dress train on the wall, it looks really beautiful, and we framed pictures of our feet on our wedding day rather than using standard wedding portraits. It’s really fun and I feel like it honors our marraige without being too predictable.

Dear anyone with a gun

Looking for an adventure? Please come shoot the skunk living in our shed.

Thanks in advance, Brandy

The redecorating snowball

1. Well, we found a new bed for a great deal,
2. AND we need new bedding because our old bed was a king and this is a queen, we don’t have any queen sheets.
3. Now is a great time to paint before we set up the new bed
4. (as we take down the curtains to paint) oh! these curtains are really faded, we’ll need new ones that match the paint better anyway.
5. I want the bed on this wall, not that one, but then where will the TV go? The tv won’t fit along that wall because it’s so deep, - let’s just get a flat screen.

Adobe bridge acting cranky

Refusing to show random video files, and giving me an error about not allowing keywords.

Answer: Clear Cache in preferences. Worked like a charm.

Camping

Paul agreed to sleep on the futon in the kitchen this weekend and let me paint the bedroom. I hope it doesn’t take longer than this weekend, or we’ll be camping all week while the home improvment project stops for the workweek. It might, because our walls are brown now and if we chose a lighter color, which I am open to chosing anything Paul wants, - except lime green, I think he was joking - it’ll take a few coats.

Dear Craig’s list

You Rock – First, I was able to get rid of our huge, broken old TV in less than 3 hours. Then, we were able to buy the exact same bedroom set that we had picked out of the Ikea Catalog and were gonna have to wait until next year to afford for 1/5th the price. Love it!!!

Looks like I’ll be repainting the bedroom as soon as Paul and I can agree on a color. Decorating tip: I pulled my 9 foot long wedding dress train out of the box and it’s going on the wall behind the headboard. I’ll remember to take before and after pics this time.