Experiment gone wrong...sort of

I don't know if you know of my little betta fish experiment, so I'll fill you in. A couple weeks ago I was at the pet store and saw a female betta fish and thought 'hey, that'd be cool if I could get bettas to mate to have little baby bettas.' It sounded like an interesting experiment at the time, so I stuck the male and female in a tank to see what would happen. The first hour goes by, and nothing happens. Second hour -- nothin. Second day -- nothing. It wasn't until about four days later that anything else besides what looked like a game of tag was being done in the tank. The two lovebirds did mate, and they did lay eggs, although we didn't realize this at the time. I was about to take him out of the tank the other day (cause I thought the experiment was over and nothing else was happening) when I saw what looked like little fleas jumping around in the water.

So now I'm the mommy of at least 100 little fish, and there's probably about 100 more eggs that haven't hatched yet. Funny thing is I didn't expect the whole thing to work, so I never planned this far. I was thinking, 'Fishies'll mate, and most likely one of em will die, and that'll be all.' Nope! I was wrong there. I've got the potential of having 100 fish and no where to put any of the ones that'll actually survive. If you'd like one, let me know and I'll be more than happy to give you one. The hard part now will be to try to keep them alive.

Oops

My cell phone just got a good washing. Haha yeah, it was in my coat pocket, and my coat got put into the washer machine. So it's squeaky clean now, but it just won't turn on. That was one expensive booboo.

After the first major snow storm, it looks quite pretty outside. I love when it snows to the point when you can't tell where the lawn ends and the street begins. And I love that everything looks like it's been covered with powdered sugar *

The end of nothingness

Winter break is over, unfortunately, bringing the days of doing nothing to an end -- and bringing with it freaking cold weather. I thought my nose was gonna fall off today after walking a whole 2 minutes to the bus stop. And who's the genius who came up with the design for those little bus stop overhangs. It's like a full blown wind tunnel in there. Good news is I didn't do anything stupid today, like go to the wrong campus or slip on the ice.

Speaking of stupid, I did something yesterday that there's no recovering from -- I addressed someone as 'ma'am,' and when I came closer to them they clearly were not of the female gender. I had no clue what to say to the poor kid. But then I had a reason for calling her -- wait, no, him -- that....They were sitting at the train station all bundled up from head to toe, and a kid no older than 8 was sitting next to them. Even so, I had no clue what to do. The only thing I could think of was to keep talking and hope they hadn't heard it. Which he obviously did, but at least he didn't make a big deal of it. He just sat there looking at me with this blank stare. It's a good thing th whole situation is funny now, in retrospect.

Having a grand ol' time 

Happy New Years!

Happy New Years!! Can't believe it's 2005 already. I've made only one resolution this year, but I'm 90% sure I'm not gonna keep it. Just like 99% of the other Americans out there who make resolutions =)

New Years was a lot of fun this year. There's something about spending it with family that makes it different...in a good way. As quirky as some family members might be, it always ends up being a lot of fun in the end. And my family's got it's share of quirkies...myself included. I would've picked a night like that -- with loud blow horn things, goofy hats, sparklers, and fire crackers -- over anything else. It's really nice and comforting to know that you've got a family you enjoy hanging out with *