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Last Friday was my pup's one year birthday! He had some ice cream, we bought him a black sweater that says "Security" on it, and took him to a bunch of pet stores and other places to make his day eventful. It never ceases to amaze me how small he is, especially when he sits down next to me or sleeps in my lap. So tiny!
I bought a few new plants and fish for my tanks - another Rotalla, two Micro Sword plants for my betta tank (these plants need a lot of light!), and a Bacopa plant nicknamed the "minty" plant because it smells like mint. 
But wow, some of the magazine pictures I found are amazing! I mean look at some of these I found online:
I decided I'm switching from Neon Tetras to Cardinal Tetras. They look almost identical, but the red on Neon Tetras are only on half of the bodies while Cardinal Tetras have the red stripe all the way across their bodies. Also, the colors on Cardinal Tetras are a little bit bright. Most importantly, Cardinal Tetras are more "durable" even though they are more sensitive to the water type. So I currently have 5 Neon Tetra and I bought 2 Cardinal Tetras.
Meanwhile, when I start a new tank (or start over with an older tank), I want to have a school of Rummy Nose Tetra. Bernie said that as long as I have a school of fish, Rummy Nose will generally stick together with the Neon and Cardinal tetra, so I bought 1 Rummy Nose (that was all he could catch anyway).
Oh I almost forgot!
The other day when I went to Petco with D, there was a tank full of baby Red Wag Platys, some just born and some a few months old. It turns out that my little floater of baby guppies are not all baby guppies! The ones with a more orange-ish tint and black tails are Red Wag Platy babies! So I have two different kinds of babies!
I guess someone donated the bunch of baby Platys to Petco, and when I asked about them, they gave me 5 of them to adopt. They are sooo cute!
So I bought a very pregnant, full grown guppy from Bernie. My pregnant guppies aren't even full grown - they're like half the size of a full grown guppy. I figured I have 7 babies (used to have 10 but 1 died and I somehow lost 2 in the transfer of tanks because they're so tiny!) If I'm going to raise babies, I might as well raise a bunch more at a time and sell them or give them as presents.
Anyway, I hope I can make the time and money to keep indulging in this hobby when school gets out.
Student government elections are so ridiculously intense!
I talked to Muhi who is running for Maize and Blue president (which is what I voted for), and some other random guy for Unity Slate sort of followed me after Muhi left to talk to me. The politics in this are unbelievable! I've heard some real crazy stories about what people on each side will do to win a vote or put the other party to shame. It's sad that politics are just this way but I'm pretty happy that there are such dedicated students out there vouching for things I didn't realize the student body had any power over.
On a separate note, the weather this week has been incredible so far (I'm sure I don't have to convince you - if you're in the area, you know what I mean).
Yesterday, carpooled with Steven and studied for Econ with him. It gave me an excuse to be late enough for work that I didn't have to go. I don't usually play hooky but I have to say, it was really nice to get out of class and have the rest of the day under my control instead of booking it to Ricardo. And Steven and I got to geek about our aquariums (his 60 gallon looks amazing and I am jealous!)
Speaking of which, I've decided that at the end of the semster, I'm going to do 1 of 2 things:
- Completely scrap my 25 gallon and start a saltwater tank since I don't have the money to buy a BioCube or
- Move my 25 gallon's gravel into a new 20 gallon, temporarily move what are left of my fish to my 5.5 gallon, and start over with the 25 gallon picking and choosing which of my plants and fish I want in that aquarium.
For sure, I need a centerpiece fish. Either a dwarf cichlid or an angel fish. I'd really like a discus fish but those might be too high maintenance for me to handle.
Spent the weekend nights with D, Tom, and Alandra and got to see Ava yesterday!
And spent the majority of this past Saturday doing a real thorough cleanup of my room, the bathroom, and the laundry room. Unfortunately while my bed sheets were in the laundry, Romeo puked on my bed twice (bleh) so I have to figure out what else I can do to clean it off.
Worked on my tanks a little bit too. I'm thinking when the semester is over, I'm going to sell my unwanted fish and unwanted plants back to Choice, move my wanted fish and wanted plants to my other tank, scrap the entire tank's setup, and start a saltwater tank. It'd be prime to buy a BioCube because those are more for saltwater tanks, but unfortunately, I don't have that kind of money to burn :(
I recently started a new scrapbook for myself. It'll be a compilation of major events in my life of 2007. I've never completed a scrapbook for myself before, I don't think. But I've made many for other people. What I really need to do is get a big scrapbooking bag with tons of pockets so I can organize the ridiculously large amount of equipment I have, but again with the money! I can't believe how expensive those bags are!
Anyway, Catherine moved in with Gary because her apartment lease is up and they're getting married in August anyway. She gave me this awesome crockpot because Gary already has one. It has a deep lid that I suspect you can flip upside down to use as a tray or to heat something else, and the pot itself sits on this heating thingie that you can also use as a skillet! For the first time, I can say I successfully made chili for the first time this past week. The recipe called for garlic, which messed it up a little, but now I know not to use it. The best thing, too, is that I bought these new Reynold's slow cooker liners that came with a little booklet of recipes. When I was done with the chili, all I had to do was throw out the liner and wipe down the moisture that collected on the lid.
I have a couple other things but I'm getting kinda drowsy...
Last Friday, I was at the Michigan Collegiate Fair as one of Ricardo's representatives. What was ironic, though, was that I should have been on the other side of the table as one of the students visiting booths. Most candidates I even talked to were either graduating, graduated, or going back to school for another degree and I am barely and undergrad. One of the perks of going to these things: they had this amazing buffet for the employers and employer representatives. I walked off to eat lunch and take a look around and Lynda was like "Just don't get another job!" Ironically, little do they know, I have been applying to a ridiculous amount of other summer internships that are mostly out of state.
My mom's birthday was this past Friday and we ended up celebrating on Monday at Tuesday's (when she said she wanted to go to Tuesday's, I thought she meant she wanted to go on Tuesday). She likes it there because they have this great salad bar (all-you-can-eat of course).
Friday night, D was supposed to get home from Europe but instead, his flight from JFK to Detroit got canceled. From there, every possible thing that could have gone wrong, went wrong. All night, Maggie and I were trying to figure out what to do. If he took a bus home, he'd have to take 4 suitcases with him on a taxi for almost an hour to Port Authority before getting on a 15 hour bus ride and paying extra money for having so much luggage. There were no more cars to rent except round-trip cars, and even if he could get a car, he would have to pay extra for not being at least 25 and then drive through the bad weather. There were no more train tickets available for the time being, and the airline reps told him the earlier flight out to Detroit he could definitely reserve a ticket for was Monday afternoon. It was such a mess. Saturday, he was supposed to get put on 3 different flights - one was a standby flight that he waited in line 3 hours for, and the third flight was delayed 3 times before finally arriving in Detroit 10:15pm (over 24 hours since he was supposed to be home). His luggage was on the previous flight he was supposed to be on to top it off.
The first thing we did Saturday was rent The Terminal and laugh about it :)
Easy
Too easy
To give into the words that you say
Stupid, stupid, I must admit
It's really weird because... doesn't it seem like the people you love the most also hurt you the most? I feel like people who want what's best for me end up upsetting me more than anything.
