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#1 ·
Hey all, so I figured why not just start a journal since someone *coughmarcoughcough* has been bugging me for one ;-)

And I just needed a place to dump the one thousand and four photos I take of my fish in a day! Haha, so this will be a log about everyone except for my babies which have their own journal set up and running ;-) but occasionally I throw in a picture here and there of everyone!

So as of today, this journal is officially working and started up! woohoooooo!

Ugg oh yeah and I'll probably complain about this horrible summer weather we're having! "Who said it was alright for Summer to come in?" it's a whooping 96 degree's today although it's cooling off now and the humidity is still up at 65%! What even is that! Tomorrow we're getting to 70%! Lol almost typed 700 there, mind as well be 700% though! It definitely feels like it!! Ug!!!!

Next post will be a dump of pictures ;-) stay tuned!
 
#614 ·
Yeah! I did get to pet him! Soooo soft! OMG and to hear him eating!! He was only eating hay but it was just like CRUNCH, CRUNCH, CRUNCH! lol, crazy loud crunching! he's so cute though!
 
#616 ·
I cannot even begin to imagine how much that guy eats! Lil, you should take a look at my journal, I've spammed like 2 pages with pics of Catw0man's fish LOL
 
#618 ·
More gallons than that, LOL. I swear, I must drink 5 gallons of water daily XD
 
#620 ·
I just snorted water out of my nose, LOL. I am totally there with you on the PE class! So glad I only had to take it once. I get enough exercise walking my dogs every night! (Separate 1 hour walks are GREAT) Gah, sorry Lil, taking over your journal here!
 
#622 ·
ROFL! How old is your sister?
We have a "Silly Things nonBird people say" thread over on talkcockatiels. X3 We should starte a silly things nonfish people say thread here. :-D
 
#623 ·
oh lol guys, no worries, I have a blast reading everything. And Elsewhere, I did see the girls and at first I thought they caught Velvet but I realized it was just bubbles, nearly had a heartattack when I saw them! But congrats on the girls! They're beautiful! Did you take the Red Marble PK boy as well? I wanted him so bad but at the time had no more room for males :-(

And on the note of silly things asked, my older cousin who has her ditsy moments (but when don't we all have a few?), asked me if I had to water the plants in my aquarium lol. Well actually she said "Oh do you have to water--" and stopped when she realized what she was going to ask, we still laugh about it today, it's hilarious. So yes, I think you should start a thread about the silly things non-fish people say!
 
#627 ·
oh lol guys, no worries, I have a blast reading everything. And Elsewhere, I did see the girls and at first I thought they caught Velvet but I realized it was just bubbles, nearly had a heartattack when I saw them! But congrats on the girls! They're beautiful! Did you take the Red Marble PK boy as well? I wanted him so bad but at the time had no more room for males :-(
LOL, I was wondering if you might've thought that for a second after uploading! Yes, I did, he's just beautiful! I named him Wilt, haha!
 
#625 ·
Oh my gosh, Zeus must have been quite the handsome site to behold in person, wow! Kinda jealous everyone gets to be around horses! Love the pic of the girl itching her nose through the gate!
 
#626 ·
*wants to pet Zeus* So cute!!! Feel bad about him having all those health issues though *now wants to hug Zeus*.
 
#628 ·
Yeah, Zeus was ornery as all heck but who would be with atrophying muscles? but he was sooooo soft ^_^ I mean, there aren't many horses that aren't soft haha but still, he's huuuuuuggggeee!
 
#630 ·
dug up some facts about Zeus from their webpage! Here it is copy and pasted!
Zeus Facts:
10 Years Old
21 Hands Tall (7 feet) at the shoulder
Approximately 3000 lbs
Breed - Belgian Draft Horse

My story: My family purchased me when I was 4 years old in Whitneys Point NY. The reason they bought me was to pull sleighs at Nestlenook with Fred, another Belgian who weighed 2500 lbs. When I was 4 yrs old I was 20 hands and 2400 lbs. In one year I grew 1 hand (4 inches) and 300 lbs. I am broke for riding but no equipment fits me so sometimes my family hops on me bareback but I mostly hang out and visit with guests.

Zeus Vet/Health Fund: My diet used to consist of 40 lbs of grain a day and all the hay & grass I could eat. That all has changed since I have recently been diagnosed with Type 1 PSSM. It's a muscle disease which means sugar is stored in my muscles which makes me sore & lame. I have a hard time getting up when I lay down to rest. I spent 2 weeks at the hospital & now my diet has changed. I am on a hight fat, low sugar pellet feed but I still can have all the hay that I can eat. The pills and meds are expensive and my family will need to buy me a pulley with a sling so when I can't get up they will be able to help me to get up without a struggle. We started a 'Go Fund Me' page where my friends can make donations.

and here's the webpage if you want to check it out :) http://www.ridingintheclouds.com/meet_zeus.html
 
#631 ·
I just realized that Zeus is larger than Big Jake, who I saw at the Midwest Horse Fair two years ago, and who, at the time, was the tallest horse.
 
#632 ·
Wow! It seriously amazes me with these animals being so huge! I mean, I know horses are generally big, but just to see them up close, hug them, pet them, love them lol, it's something else for sure. I can see why people want to raise them and have a horse farm. I really want to loose weight so I can go horse back riding again! We used to go every year for my birthday but then I got fatter and nearly broke my tailbone and hip....sooooo yeah, that's been an issue. But just going back to see and be around horses (granted I'm high allergic so I can't be around all the time but I could still ride twice a year or something!) really made me want to lose weight and remember to do my stupid back exercises >.< I'm so bad with remembering!

I'm in a mess right now with being sick because I keep forgetting to take my allergic pill or I remember but I'm already in bed and I'm too lazy to go get it from my backpack....I really need to think of some sort of system to remember things. I tried the cell alarm thing and it worked for a while when I was on a good schedule and then I just started to forget and the alarm meant nothing to me. It's rather frustrating sometimes though.

Anyway, here are some other pictures from Sunday when I went to check on my fish and change some water. Oh and Mattie died, I believe over last night or yesterday night late. She wasn't completely covered in the slimy stuff and she wasn't completely stiff either which makes me think she died during this last night. She lived quite a while though with that sickness and was a super trooper for sure! I'm proud of her and while she'll be missed, I'm kind of happy so I don't have to change any more 1 gallons three times a week >.<

Anywho, lily pads!


And, anyone know what this stuff is? It's just in my 33 I believe.


Jarvis! Sorry, the glass is really dirty >.< stupid snails are spending all their time in the sand! And then my one Ramshorn in there or at least I thought there was one, looks like it's making babies! There was a little glob on the glass with what looked like to be a baby snail in it!



He's such a little cutie but Mercury needs to stop biting him through the divider >.> Jarvis often looks like the obedient husband as Mercury 'yells' at him through flaring obscenely through the divider and Jarvis just sits there and looks, confused on what's happening.


And my 3 gallon on my side table!



Whew! Look at that growth! I feel bad for the DHG since it has to go through the gravel >.< but I didn't have any sand for it and the gravel is sort of small enough....eh! it won't be like that forever anyway.


And look who's in the 3 gallon now! he's happy to be back in his domain.



He's still got that stuff on his head but otherwise seems to be uneffected so I'll just let him live out his life whether it's long or short, he can decide.


"Muwah! You gives me a kiss!"


"Oh noes, I is too bashful for a kiss!" (Note his pectorals, they look so cool! It's only an optical effect but cool nonetheless, he looks like Pinwheels! If anyone here remember's Pinwheels, kudos to you!)


"Oh thermometer, how I've missed you! I will gives you a kiss, yes!" lol We should write a book; The Love Story of a Betta and a Thermometer! New York Best Seller's three years in a row! haha


And some girls, unfortunately these are of the girls who are more sick since I couldn't get good pictures of them before for my other thread. But they also contain mostly healthy fishes too!




 
#633 ·
And more pictures of Rembrandt from today!

He was just chilling there with his fins spread out...silly boy!


I don't know if his fins will ever heal but that's okay, he's gorgeous all the same!
 
#635 ·
Yay! Rembrandt!!! (Sorry, but I absolutely love his coloring and name!) The girls don't look bad at all (though that's to my untrained eye). I'm very sorry to hear about Matisse, but at least she isn't suffering anymore.

I feel like Rembrandt & Merlin have been talking to each other about their tails. I don't think Merlin's will ever look nice and neat...just so long as he doesn't do anything to make it short again I'll be happy.
 
#636 ·
Yes! I love Remmy, he's my beautiful boy! Also also my favorite Artist and my favorite coloration type ^_^ so two things I love in one, best thing ever!

Yeah, seriously, his tail used to be pretty nice but then some of my silk plants actually cut it again because he was being a goof and swimming through them >.> his anal has always looked like poop but now it's just worse. His dorsal is finally getting to a good place after being ripped off by a small bout of fungus way back in February/March.

Let it be known that Dorsal's are the last fin to appear after birth and take the longest to heal >.<
 
#639 ·
Thanks DQ!

Yeah, I seem to like fish with lipstick ;-) Rembrandt has it, Steve has it, Tony has a little; most likely from kissing Steve ;-) haha. Hawkeye doesn't and Aero doesn't exactly, he just has scaling, almost a Full Mask now. Then Jarvis doesn't but Mercury does lol so that's four out of seven, not bad! A few girls have some lipstick as well, Mononoke has half lipstick, Selkie has some as well lol. My fish are such player's ;-)
 
#640 ·
And I just spent the last half hour trying to vomit my brains out in the bathroom :-( yay go me.

Ugg, I feel terribly weak right now and horrible but I can't skip today, not again. I think I know what's been up with me. This allergy season has been horrible, I haven't been taking my Zyrtec which doesn't help of course. So I've had worse Post-Nasal drip than ever before. On top of that I take ADHD meds and these are relatively new, only a month and a half that I've been on them. I like them because they do help me focus but not only that, I've been paying more attention to my time management which I've perviously sucked at, so I'm trying to learn how to best manage my time.

However, with these meds I've now learned that if I drink coffee with them right away, I end up sick. Two weeks ago when I was sick on Monday, I had taken two and had coffee. Today I took two and also had coffee, it's the only thing that's contingent between the two so it has to be it. Other day's when I take my meds without coffee I've been fine, a little bit of an upset stomach but mostly I've been fine. So yay....no coffee for me anymore :-(
 
#641 ·
So nothing I do is good enough for my boss, this is the third time I've "Screwed up" as he so lightly puts it and I'm effing tired of hearing that phrase.

Okay so we've got five vans with the licence plates; 1942, 1956, 1369, 1138 and 1727. Now I'm in charge of these van's and putting out the key's and approving people's request for them for field trips for the building and their classes. They're also used for labs for when they need to go out and collect samples. Occasionally we have the people who don't return their key's after they go out, they come in the next day or so. Now the issue with that is that I need to use these key's for the next person who needs them. Each van has two set's of key's so usually that's not too much an issue.

Now my biggest thing was this past weekend one of our guy's took the two van's out: 1727 and apparently 1138 however I did not fill out the envelopes, my boss Nasir did. It was also not on the calendar so how am I to know that these key's went out? So yesterday I had taken all the envelopes in from Monday and start to prepare to put the new ones out for Tuesday. How I do it is I take out all the key's and put them back in their binder's first to see if anyone is missing. And then I take out the trip tickets which is just a little paper where you write the mileage or are supposed to, half the people don't do it which pisses me off. And then I put them back in the folder to take out the new ones for the new day.

Yesterday I noticed two key's were out, 1727 and I swear it was 1369, I absolutely swear it because these two are the least used so I notice when they're out because it's not normal. So I wrote a note to my boss since I don't technically work on Tuesday and he doesn't get in till 9. I told him the two key's were missing if this person from the weekend hadn't turned in their key's yet which they've been known to do in the past.

So wrote him a note and came in today and he starts off by saying "So...what's going on?" and that always mean's that I've "screwed up" so I'm like....what the hell did I do now? So he continues to ask about the note I wrote and why I saw 1727 and 1369. Apparently he looked out in the lockbox where the key's go out and said he saw the key there....now he won't even let me get a word in when I try to tell him that I saw the key missing before I even put any other key's out and that Sidio had brought the key's back last night so I had both 1727 and 1369. He told me that Sidio had used 1727 and 1138 which he was right, so which leads me to say that me, being dyslexic and ADHD, had switched around the numbers. But I swear that 1369 was also missing and this is before I even sent out the new keys. I looked to see who had it last and the last person was Friday, the key's had not been used and we were returned so how the hell was 1369 missing if no one used it and it suddenly pops up?

He starts to give me this spiel about how it's important to pay attention and that I should be taking more care in which I agree but I haven't told him about my disability, he has no idea although he's gotten quite the taste of it. So question, how the hell do I tell him that I've actually been sick lately, the meds are making me so sick in the morning that it's a struggle for me to eat breakfast. Normally I down breakfast like there's no tomorrow, it's my favorite meal after all and I CANNOT skip it! Two Monday's ago I was sick and didn't even come into work after calling him and today sick again but I came back in.

So how the heck do I tell him I've been sick without looking like a fool because I know I don't look sick, I hardly ever do even after I've thrown up in the girls bathroom...and then of course when I'm feeling anxious, or moody or depressed, I can never stay that way. I'm always smiling and cheery so people never believe me when I say I'm actually depressed and it's infuriating. I hate crying in front of people (who does, seriously) and I know that if I start to talk to him I'm just going to burst out in tears from weeks of building up all this pressure.

I'm sorry to vent on you guys but obviously I needed to talk to someone. Facebook seriously isn't the place to do it and I'd vent to my best friend but normally it's the other way around and I'm not there when she's there and visaversa so it's hard to see her :-( I really need to just talk to someone other than my mother though and just give a good cry.

On a good note I just got permission to use the microscopes at school! Linda is the best :) she even showed me where the alcohol is placed so I can sanitize the place after I use it. And because next week is Columbus day, apparently all labs are out for the week which means I can use any darn microscope I want to at any time! So I think next week I'll euthanize one of my girls, one of the more worse ones and take her in to examine her. It's between Mystique, Cherry and Raven since they're the worse of the bunch but neither are bad enough to die :-/

I'm thinking just to do it with Mystique since she's the biggest which will make it easier to cut and look around, Cherry is tiny and literally all bone so I don't think I could ever do it on her just because she's so small, same with Raven actually. Sorry if I gross anyone out by talking about it. Anyway, trying to get commissions done :-/
 
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