The other day I was getting on the highway and in the little triangle of grass between 8 Mile, the 8 Mile ramp onto 275, and 275 there was a man on his knees with handcuffs on and he was surrounded by cops!
Went to GLR: 548 made it to the semi-finals, Novi was 1/3 of the alliance that won, and PCEP didn't do so well. And a funny story: one of those freshman girls on the PCEP team turned around and told the team "on the count of 3, everyone yell 'Lindsey shake your booty!' " so everyone stood up and someone was trying to get Marty to get Lindsey's attention (and that one song "Shake it Like a Polaroid Picture" was on too). It was sooo funny, she started cracking up and doing this weird dance-y thing and I was just cracking up.
Went to have dinner with Colleen afterwards and was thinking on the way home about how we because good friends. Her ex was best friends with an old crush I had and the four of us went to homecoming my high school freshman year. Now, we've dropped the boys and we're really close :)
Sunday, March 11, 2007
Saturday, March 10, 2007
With a sense of poise and rationality
Went to the Pistons vs. Bulls game a few weeks ago (where everyone boo'ed every time Ben touched the ball) - hands down, the loudest game I've ever been to! We won by a 2 pointer Webber shot in the last 2.2 seconds:
When I really think about not going anywhere for spring break, it's okay because I tell myselfI'll just wait until I've graduated and have a job. Then I will have to money to really enjoy myself, take a good two weeks without having to worry about coming back to school, I'll be old enough to go to Vegas to gamble and drink if I want to, I'll be able to spend a little extra money to upgrade to a nicer hotel... you know. Stuff like that. I ended up working most of the week but I did get to do 3 really cool things together since I had more time:
1. Ricardo hosted the annual Casino Night last Saturday. Since our company is small enough to have these little outings, they invited all the employees plus one guest to this banquet hall where there was catered food, a chocolate fountain with fruits and pastries for dessert, casino dealers, and a deejay for music. And yes, all those chips sitting in front of me are mine! Of the 9 people at out table, I wiped out most of them :) Until the last hand where I matched the last person left all in because I realized my funny money was not enough to win the grand prize.
And to keep it going, D had some buddies and me over for euchre and more poker:
2. D's Aunt Martha wanted to get rid of one of her aquariums. He and I spend literally a day and a half taking apart, taking down, cleaning, and re-setting up the 40 gallon aquarium at his apartment. I am jealous - it has such gorgeous fish! They are mostly cichlids - two orange, one dark yellow, and two blue striped - but he also has a plecost*mos catfish (D says it's bad luck to spell out the whole name), a clown loach, an upside down fish that actually swims upside down, and a fish called a Daffodil, like the flower. We bought this great looking castle with lots of places for the fish to hide in because they are very territorial. It was hard though because they swim fast. Oh and there are 4 giant zebra danios as mediators but really, they just steal all the food.
3. I got my hair highlighted. I haven't done that in a few years since it's pretty pricey! But I also needed a haircut bad so I got it all done at once.
After a month and a half of this on going thing, things with my mom are finally getting better. We talked about random things for like an hour yesterday while playing with the puppy. She was asking "how are things at work" and "how are things at school". Turns out, she was talking to a friend at work and decided she might want to start a blog or something so I was showing her one of the blogs I made about the pup.
Back tracking a little bit, my female guppies have been having baby guppy fry (did I already mention that?) About 3 or 4 weeks ago, I actually sat down to watch my fish while I was on the phone with D and my 2 pregnant guppies looked really fat so I separated them into the floating trap tank. I called it - I told him on the phone "This one looks so pregnant, I bet you if I sit here for 5 minutes, it will burst" and sure enough, within half an hour, one of my pregnant guppies had 2 fry! Unfortunately, the other pregnant guppy ate the second guppy less than a minute after it was born, and I got to see that too (blehh).
Tonight, Justin came over and me, Tim, and Justin were watching my pregnant fish again. I moved them back to my floating trap tank since they are the largest I have seen since the last time I watched them have babies. It was pretty much a replay of the last time I saw the births. We watched for about half an hour and when I thought I saw two tiny eyes poking out, Tim whipped out the camcorder and we watched in awe. To make a long story short, we watched and taped for 8 minutes and in the end, we concluded that what came out of the pregnant guppy was either a deformed and dead baby or it was a really really large, strange looking piece of poo. I really do think it's a dead baby though, but we have it all on tape either way.
When I really think about not going anywhere for spring break, it's okay because I tell myselfI'll just wait until I've graduated and have a job. Then I will have to money to really enjoy myself, take a good two weeks without having to worry about coming back to school, I'll be old enough to go to Vegas to gamble and drink if I want to, I'll be able to spend a little extra money to upgrade to a nicer hotel... you know. Stuff like that. I ended up working most of the week but I did get to do 3 really cool things together since I had more time:
1. Ricardo hosted the annual Casino Night last Saturday. Since our company is small enough to have these little outings, they invited all the employees plus one guest to this banquet hall where there was catered food, a chocolate fountain with fruits and pastries for dessert, casino dealers, and a deejay for music. And yes, all those chips sitting in front of me are mine! Of the 9 people at out table, I wiped out most of them :) Until the last hand where I matched the last person left all in because I realized my funny money was not enough to win the grand prize.
And to keep it going, D had some buddies and me over for euchre and more poker:
2. D's Aunt Martha wanted to get rid of one of her aquariums. He and I spend literally a day and a half taking apart, taking down, cleaning, and re-setting up the 40 gallon aquarium at his apartment. I am jealous - it has such gorgeous fish! They are mostly cichlids - two orange, one dark yellow, and two blue striped - but he also has a plecost*mos catfish (D says it's bad luck to spell out the whole name), a clown loach, an upside down fish that actually swims upside down, and a fish called a Daffodil, like the flower. We bought this great looking castle with lots of places for the fish to hide in because they are very territorial. It was hard though because they swim fast. Oh and there are 4 giant zebra danios as mediators but really, they just steal all the food.
3. I got my hair highlighted. I haven't done that in a few years since it's pretty pricey! But I also needed a haircut bad so I got it all done at once.
After a month and a half of this on going thing, things with my mom are finally getting better. We talked about random things for like an hour yesterday while playing with the puppy. She was asking "how are things at work" and "how are things at school". Turns out, she was talking to a friend at work and decided she might want to start a blog or something so I was showing her one of the blogs I made about the pup.Back tracking a little bit, my female guppies have been having baby guppy fry (did I already mention that?) About 3 or 4 weeks ago, I actually sat down to watch my fish while I was on the phone with D and my 2 pregnant guppies looked really fat so I separated them into the floating trap tank. I called it - I told him on the phone "This one looks so pregnant, I bet you if I sit here for 5 minutes, it will burst" and sure enough, within half an hour, one of my pregnant guppies had 2 fry! Unfortunately, the other pregnant guppy ate the second guppy less than a minute after it was born, and I got to see that too (blehh).
Tonight, Justin came over and me, Tim, and Justin were watching my pregnant fish again. I moved them back to my floating trap tank since they are the largest I have seen since the last time I watched them have babies. It was pretty much a replay of the last time I saw the births. We watched for about half an hour and when I thought I saw two tiny eyes poking out, Tim whipped out the camcorder and we watched in awe. To make a long story short, we watched and taped for 8 minutes and in the end, we concluded that what came out of the pregnant guppy was either a deformed and dead baby or it was a really really large, strange looking piece of poo. I really do think it's a dead baby though, but we have it all on tape either way.
Monday, February 19, 2007
Since you love me
I never thought I would be
So moved by the dreams I've had of you
Every time I close my eyes
It's so hard to fall asleep
I actually like Chris Daughtry's "So I Lie Awake" better than his "It's Not Over".
I am so frustrated, its gotten to the point where I am wondering how any of this is going to be worth it in the end and how much of this is really going to make a difference.
So moved by the dreams I've had of you
Every time I close my eyes
It's so hard to fall asleep
I actually like Chris Daughtry's "So I Lie Awake" better than his "It's Not Over".
I am so frustrated, its gotten to the point where I am wondering how any of this is going to be worth it in the end and how much of this is really going to make a difference.
Sunday, February 18, 2007
Fishy therapy
In the past month, I've come home to baby fry guppies in my tank. Unfortunately while I was gone, only 8 have survived and then one died. So now, I've got 7 fry in a breeder tank and I'm contemplating what to do with them (and no, feeding them to other fish is not an option).
In addition to my 20 gallon tank, here are my 2 newest tanks:
This 1 gallon tank was an idea I adopted from Josh. He (and eventually Tiffany) bought these little 1/2 gallon tanks complete with filters and lamps. He bought a little blue Betta for it and put it on his desk. I went to Petco to look around, and they did not have the 1/2 gallon version so I bought the 1 gallon version. I'm glad I did because I think the 1/2 gallon tank would have been too small. I bought dark blue gravel and a red Betta fish.
When I put all this stuff together, my fish was swimming vigorously but staying in one place, and I couldn't figure out why. It turns out this filter is too strong for him (I guess if the environment is not as warm, the Betta has to conserve its energy so it is not as active). I turned the filter off and he stopped, and when I turned it on, his fins started getting sucked into the filter. As a result, this filter in the picture is now in my 5.5 tank instead. To clean up the tank, I'm going to buy a mystery snail. I'll handle cleaning the tank water. After all, it's only a 1 gallon.
I took another baby Sword Plant and replanted it in this tank (after the picture was take of course). I'm kind of miffed because I bought a tiny 1-5 gallon heater which was a few bucks more than a heater for a 5-10 gallon tank. I moved one of my two thermometers into this tank to find that the temp had gone up about 5 degrees.
This picture is pretty outdated because I took out the filter, added the plant, heater, and thermometer. Hopefully I can find a little castle to put in next to the plant:
This 5.5 gallon tank was another spur-of-the-moment thing I decided to do. It has 2 Glass Fish, 4 Long-Tailed Tetra, and a Otocyclus Catfish (did I spell that right?). The large Sword Plant in my 20 gallon sprouted a bunch of baby plants, and I replanted 4 of them in this tank. I also moved the little cave into this tank for bacteria growing purposes. I don't know if I'm going to keep that in this tank though - I sort of want to get a small piece of driftwood for it instead. The front, right corner has a little bush of Java Moss (aka guppy grass). I bought a piece of driftwood from Choice Aquariums and took Stephen's advice: use a little bit of thread to tie the Java Moss to the driftwood and it will grow over the wood. Oh and, the little filter from my Betta tank is now attached to this one.
This picture is from the day I set it up so there are no fish, no filter, no driftwood, and fewer plants:
In addition to my 20 gallon tank, here are my 2 newest tanks:
This 1 gallon tank was an idea I adopted from Josh. He (and eventually Tiffany) bought these little 1/2 gallon tanks complete with filters and lamps. He bought a little blue Betta for it and put it on his desk. I went to Petco to look around, and they did not have the 1/2 gallon version so I bought the 1 gallon version. I'm glad I did because I think the 1/2 gallon tank would have been too small. I bought dark blue gravel and a red Betta fish.
When I put all this stuff together, my fish was swimming vigorously but staying in one place, and I couldn't figure out why. It turns out this filter is too strong for him (I guess if the environment is not as warm, the Betta has to conserve its energy so it is not as active). I turned the filter off and he stopped, and when I turned it on, his fins started getting sucked into the filter. As a result, this filter in the picture is now in my 5.5 tank instead. To clean up the tank, I'm going to buy a mystery snail. I'll handle cleaning the tank water. After all, it's only a 1 gallon.
I took another baby Sword Plant and replanted it in this tank (after the picture was take of course). I'm kind of miffed because I bought a tiny 1-5 gallon heater which was a few bucks more than a heater for a 5-10 gallon tank. I moved one of my two thermometers into this tank to find that the temp had gone up about 5 degrees.
This picture is pretty outdated because I took out the filter, added the plant, heater, and thermometer. Hopefully I can find a little castle to put in next to the plant:
This 5.5 gallon tank was another spur-of-the-moment thing I decided to do. It has 2 Glass Fish, 4 Long-Tailed Tetra, and a Otocyclus Catfish (did I spell that right?). The large Sword Plant in my 20 gallon sprouted a bunch of baby plants, and I replanted 4 of them in this tank. I also moved the little cave into this tank for bacteria growing purposes. I don't know if I'm going to keep that in this tank though - I sort of want to get a small piece of driftwood for it instead. The front, right corner has a little bush of Java Moss (aka guppy grass). I bought a piece of driftwood from Choice Aquariums and took Stephen's advice: use a little bit of thread to tie the Java Moss to the driftwood and it will grow over the wood. Oh and, the little filter from my Betta tank is now attached to this one.
This picture is from the day I set it up so there are no fish, no filter, no driftwood, and fewer plants:
Thursday, February 15, 2007
And it feels like tonight...
My mother and I have gone over 2 weeks straight living under the same roof without saying a word to each other. This is depressing me - something has got to change.
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