Bianco is sick.

I changed his water, and it seems to have helped.

God I hope he pulls through.

Bianco Got His Groove

Coolest thing about my fishy? He always swims to the front of the tank when I sit at my desk. Then when I leave, he swims back to his plastic plant, where he likes to chillax.

He was having some stomach problems when he first came home, but they seem to have cleared up for the most part. I've figured out that he prefers two pellets to three, and a bloodworm dessert. I think he has a hard time getting down the third pellet, and they are kinda big for his little mouth.

It's fun to feed him one pellet at a time. He hangs around the surface, biting the bubbles, until I drop his next morsel. He plays with his pellets a bit, but he inhales bloodworms like a little scaly vacuum.

Mom just got a beta of her own. I think she's calling him Larry, which is weird. He's stunning with these blue-ish color-shifting scales.

Bianco is such a good fishy! I kinda hate that I can't feed him tomorrow, but it's best to let Bettas fast for a day so their digestive systems can recover and even out. But he gets foods again on Sunday!

Oh, and I get to spend Monday and Tuesday with my boyfriend, which is also cool.

As long as I can get home in time to feed my fish.

LadyG: Getting her priorities straight since 1993!

Introduczione!

Everyone, this is Bianco:

He's kinda hard to see, but he's in the top left of the picture. My mom's digital camera is made of suck and won't take a non-blurry picture to save it's life, so I had to use Hugh's onboard camera, hence the weird angle.

Bianco is a male pastel opaque veiltail betta. And he's GORGEOUS! Right now he's living in an aquaview 360 2 gallon tank, but I'm going to upgrade him to a 5 gallon as soon as I have the money. He eats betta pellets (reluctantly) but only, apparently, if he get's a freeze-dried bloodworm chaser. I'm thinking of switching his diet to flakes. Or maybe switching brands.

Right now he has a plastic plant with no sharp edges, but as soon as his aquarium regulates and starts to grow some nice, healthy bacteria (yes, bacteria in a fish tank is a good thing. For the most part) I'm getting him a live plant. That white smudge in the back is a Greek ruin. I think it's a doorway. Anyway, that's why I refer to his new tank as his Loft Apartment in Athens. ^.^

So, yeah, I've been bitten by the fish bug. I love keeping fish. It's like The SIMS only eleven billionty times more rewarding. I hope to get a pleco for the 5 gallon, because they usually get along with betas as long as there's plenty of algae to munch on. Then I want to take Bianco's current tank and put a couple of Tetras or Danios in it. For now, though, I'll settle for a new surge bar so I have someplace to plug in Bianco's new heater. Grrr! All the technological advances of the past few decades and we still haven't found a way to heat a fishtank without a handy wall socket?!

Bianco is awesome. Ever since I set up his tank, I've been using my laptop at my desk instead of on my bed so I can have him next to me when I type. He always swims to the front of the tank when I sit down, then when I leave he swims around to the back to lounge around in his plant. He kept coming right up to the glass when I was trying to take his picture with the digital camera. I would've gotten some amazing shots if the stupid camera would've cooperated. Ganesh I need one of my own.

Oh, and my boyfriend. He is an idiot. He sent me an e-mail midweek saying he needed to talk to me in person, but we couldn't get together until Sunday, so I spent the rest of the week trying not to convince myself he was going to break up with me. I finally get to see him, and the whole thing was a FALSE ALARM!!! He was just unsure about how "emotionally available" he was, and whether or not I was happy in the relationship. I wanted to punch him in the neck!

GRR! BAD BOYSHAPEDTHING MAKING GIRLSHAPEDTHING WORRY FOR NO REASON!

And then he wondered why I put him in the doghouse. Men.

Okay, that's it. Enough rambling and stupidity. I'm going to glare at the clock until 9 pm when Leverage comes on. Yay, Hardison!

Sigh...and me without any orange soda...

Things Have Happened

Oooh, but right now my head is killing me and I can't stand looking at the computer screen any longer. Ow. So until tomorrow when I introduce a new character, talk about my boyfriend's annoying antics in ALL CAPS and start getting really annoying by talking about my new hobby, please enjoy this wonderful video of super awesome:

You Have Been Warned.

Uh guh bluh

Minions, I am SO tired! My sleep schedule is FUCKED! I wake up late afternoon and I'm still too groggy to function. Blaaaaaarg!

But, be that as it may, Cheeky Lotus posted a new blog post and I will not be outdone even though I have nothing to say that isn't simpering about my relationship or complaining about work.

But wait! I have dogs! Kilo is now 75 lbs, Maddie has arthritis in her back legs, and they're the only dogs I know who get their dinner with a side dish.

I also have a nephew! Who...I only saw twice since he got out of the hospital. Apparently he's gaining weight like it's his job and also he is adorable. Somewhere in this house there exists a USB to connect the digital camera to Hugh. One day, I may find it. I promise nothing!

I have a GRRRR! Because my boyfriend is an annoyingly good guy who actually posesses a work ethic. The result? The only chance I have to see him is Monday night because all the other days of the week he's at one of his two jobs and RAWRDONOTWANTRAWR!!!

And I have a reccomendation! If you're not reading Jeph Jacques' webcomic Questionable Content, you really, really should. It's AWESOME, but don't read it if you have somewhere to be because it's nearly 2000 pages long and addictive as hell!

That's all I can think of, so... please enjoy this condensed awesome:

This. Means. WAR!

Last year, it was fruit flies.

This year, it's motherfucking ANTS!

This Job has been invaded, invaded I say, by six-legged demons from the spawning pits of Hell!

I was sweeping up the sprinkles and nuts behind the register when I noticed some of the chocolate sprinkles seemed to be moving.

Okay...a lot of them were moving...and segmented...and were way smaller than chocolate sprinkles should be and HOLY CRAP ANTS! ANTS IN MY STORE! DIE! DIEDIEDIEDIEDIE!!!

So I called the store manager to see if this development merited a freak-out. Kickass Manager was peeved, but not freaked, and suggested that we should sweep and mop behind the counters more often than once a week (maybe) like it says on the list.

Well, being the daughter of Mum, a.k.a. "She who vacuums up lady bugs with extreme prejudice." I snatched up the broom, sent Depressive to fetch the mop, and attacked. Sadly, there were stupid ice cream customers and I couldn't pull out the far counter for a good ten minutes. When they finally went away I swept every inch of exposed floor and swabbed like a shanghaied cabin boy staring down the business end of a flintlock.

I want those ants DEAD! No way in Hell am I gonna be responsible for the mass poisoning of This Job customers. I may hate their greedy, self-absorbed asses, but I will not be the one to whom the CDC traces the epidemic.

Oh, yeah, I'm so about to become my coworkers' worst nightmare.

Ladies and Gentlemen: Your Cast!

As promised, the cast list of my misadventures at This Job:

The Store Stock Players:

Aspiring Actor Lacking Work Ethic: Red-headed 21-year-old with a Captain America belt buckle and an aversion to doing his job.

Depressive-Depressive: Slow speaking high school student with a daily quota for suicidal/homicidal comments. Often expresses wishes to blow up the Earth. Has twice electrocuted himself.

Efficient Veteran: Bespectacled savior who works whenever school is out of session. The days when Veteran is away at college are the darkest days of my life.

Brudda-Brudda: Brother of Veteran, newest hire, very little is known of this employee.

DevilSpawn: Redheaded sixteen-year-old demon child, formerly the ice cream girl, currently the biggest pain in the ass ever to darken my shift. Aspiring Actor ignores his work, DevilSpawn resents hers, and will do anything, up to and including blatant refusal citing "hangover", to get out of doing it.

Kiddo: Current ice cream girl. Fifteen years old and carrying some odd form of hero admiration for me. Weird.

Lummox: Thick limbed employee currently doubling in the Deli section, notable as the only male on the Deli payrole. Has been at This Job for a few months less than I have, still seems to have no idea what they pay him for.

Chipper Manager: Rarely seen in the evening shift, exceptionally nosey about EVERYTHING in the employees' personal lives. Damn good worker.

Kickass Manager: Big boss who demands 100%. Also encourages lazing around and goofing off after the work is done. If executed properly, all work can be finished with time to spare. Kickass manager likes down time, and encourages workers to get shit done so they can goof off.

The Deli Divas:

The Paminator: Deli manager and single most effective employee in the store. Does part time duty in the store area, often finishes your job just as you've realized it has to be done. Comes early, stays late, saves everyone's sanity. No one dislikes the Paminator.

Cavalry: Deli veteran who was called in to resume her role after a series of hiring disasters left the deli short staffed. Damn good at her job, currently pulling double-duty in Deli and Store.

All Smiles: Relatively recent hire, never in a bad mood, efficient worker and a quick hand at dishes.

Drama Queen: Hired around the same time as All Smiles. Very poor at her job, finds insults wherever she can, constantly tries to stir up tension and loves to ask me whether or not I've slept with my boyfriend yet.*

Enigma: Works mornings, so I rarely see her. I know next to nothing about her.


So there you have it. My cast. Don't you wish you had my job?




*The answer, by the way, is nunya.