#22 Part B

First of all I would just like to say...WOW...this blog has already had over 1,000 views in it's short life.  I am absolutely amazed!  I can't believe there are that many people reading this.  Or is my mom just stalking this page everyday? You've got to admit it's a possibility.  However I do prefer to think that I have more readers than that :)


Anyways..on to some more good news...THE FISHIES HAVE ARRIVED!!!!   It is a very big day in the Duprey/Chisholm household!  We were at Petco promptly at 9:15 this morning (they didn't open until nine, otherwise we would have been there earlier!)  And we went straight to the glow fish!  These little fishies are amazing and are genetically created to glow!  They come in all shapes and sizes from thin bright pink ones to larger blue green ones.  We had a brief dalliance with the boring orange 15 cent fish because Ollie thought paying $9.00 for a single fish was a little ridiculous, but the glow fish were too cool to resist.


We wanted to buy about 10 fish to start, but were told with a new aquarium it is better to start with one or two fish otherwise some chemical (whose name I can't remember) would rise too quickly in the tank and CHEMICALS KILL FISH.  (there is so much to know about keeping fish!) So we decided on two of the green/blue glow fishes that had just arrived in the store (they caused quite a stir with their arrival-people were very excited).


After being trained on how to introduce the fish to our tank (a 45 minute process involving "floating" the plastic bag in the tank and slowly introducing the tank water into the bag water-DO NOT LET THE BAG WATER INTO YOUR TANK-YOUR FISH WILL DIE!) we got to take them home!


After sprinting to the car with the fish inside me jacket (it as freeeeeeeezing out today!) we were on our way!  Yay!  We drove home like there was a newborn in the back seat.  We didn't want to jostle/upset/stress the fish in any way-apparently it is very easy to stress fish out AND STRESS WILL KILL YOUR FISH!


We got home and it was all we could do not to dump them straight into the tank and watch them swim around.  But we listened to the Petco girl, and we didn't even turn the aquarium light on because THAT WILL SHOCK YOUR FISH AND YOUR FISH WILL DIE, and slowly introduced them to their new home.


Good news is-they love it here!  Although we're not sure they like the aquarium light because they tend to get a little twitchy when we turn it on, we're going to have to ask the Petco people about that when we return to get the awesome goldfish we saw there today.


It is my great pleasure to introduce you to Frederick (never Fred-just Frederick) and Zumi Zumi (short for Zoom Zoom Zoom You Make My Heart Go Boom Boom Boom).  Can you tell which one I named?  Anyways, they're awesome, I love them, and they are best friends already yay!  Stay tuned for our next addition!

Frederick 

Zumi Zumi

Fishy Friends!

#22

There is a reason why Ollie isn't allowed to go grocery shopping with me anymore...when we go shopping together we tend to think "the bigger the better" and "the more the merrier".  We tend to go with the "grab-and-go" method.  If we see it, and we want it, we get it. This tends to lead to very high grocery bills and very full grocery carts.  And that's exactly how we ended up with this....

Yup...that's a 10 gallon aquarium.  How did it end up in our apartment?  Let me take you back....


It all started with #22 on the list....get a pet.  Since my mother and landlord have conspired against my having anything cuddly and fluffy, I decided I would get a fish.  I was thinking about getting a simple beta fish.  Bowl, some rocks, maybe a plant.  Simple.  Instead we left Petco (its where the pets go!) with a tank, filter, heater, rocks, plants, several structures with an "around the world" theme, and dreams of the glow-in-the-dark fish we'll get to put in the tank.


Ollie and I walked in the store and immediately the  sad betas in the plastic cups were forgotten.  We were entranced by the myriad of freshwater fish we could get....if only we had an aquarium!  I personally voted for a "nemo" fish, but unfortunately they are salt water fish and quite aggressive, unlike their quirky portrayal in the Pixar film.  Ollie and I bounced around from tank to tank, eyes wide, taking in all the little fishies we wanted to fill our "starter kit" aquarium with.


Luckily we spoke to a Petco supervisor first, otherwise we would have killed all of our little pets within the hour.  We were told we couldn't take any fish home tonight, because we needed to set up the aquarium and treat the water before we could add the fish-otherwise we would shock their little systems and kill them!  Not good!


We practically skipped out to the car, aquarium in tow, and raced home to set everything up.  The tank looks great and is sitting nicely on our entryway table just waiting to be filled with little fishies!


We get to return to Petco on Friday to pick out our little fishes.  Stay tuned to meet them!

Update!

Hello all!  Just wanted to give you an update on my half-marathon efforts!  Unfortunately they've been stalled for the week due to rainy days and extreme shin pain. I tried a couple of economical self-fixes, but Misha was right, I wasn't smart enough to type my shins on my own.  So I stopped running, hoping they would heal themselves.


I decided that in order to help the shin-situation I would get new running shoes.  I went down to Runner's Alley this morning for a fancy new pair of running shoes.  The ladies at RA are kind of geniuses.  They know everything about running, they were also completely aghast at the state of my current running shoes. They insisted I needed a new pair about a year ago, and were convinced that they were the cause of my shin pain.


After trying on a million, ok 8, pairs of shoes, they finally brought out the big guns.  They prefaced the arrival of these shoes by saying "they're the cadillac of running shoes."  BOOM.  I was already sold.  I tried them on and they were like running on a cloud-I was practically prancing around the store, and I'm about to take them for a spin right now!

See? Aren't they puuuuuurdyyy?

So yay!  Training can resume again!  On another note- I HAVE REACHED MY FUNDRAISING GOAL!! $500 has been raised for the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in memory of Amma.  THank you SO MUCH to everyone who has donated!  It means so much to me.  Didn't get a chance to donate?  That's ok!  You still can!  The site will be open until June 6th, one month after the race, and donations will be accepted until then.  Cancer won't beat us-we'll beat it!  HOpefully this race won't beat me first!


http://www.firstgiving.com/fundraiser/whitneyduprey/amma