Dead Fish, No Eulogy

There has been a recent death in the aquarium. Flower the Fish died yesterday. She didn't get an proper flushing or eulogy-reading because I had to take her back to Wal-mart so I could get my money back. It's so gross that you have to bring your dead fish with you so they believe that it did in fact die. I guess people were taking their receipts and saying the fish were dead and getting free fish. So Flower's final destination is at the mercy of Wal-mart. Not a happy thought. I think that Skinnies drove her to her death because he was always bullying her. Lucky is probably going to prove to be unlucky and die soon too. Did I mention that I hate pets?

Garden

I haven't had much motivation for yard work lately but on Saturday I finally decided it was "now or never" to get my garden planted. The bushy thing in the front is parsley. I have 7 tomato plants, 2 zucchinis (I am going to probably take one out). I planted pumpkins, cucumbers some lettuce and a few beans. We'll see if anything grows. I'll post more pictures as things start to grow. I'm pretty darn proud of myself for gettin' the garden planted!

My zucchini babies that I raised in cups from wee seeds and transplanted in my garden.

Update

Holy cow I haven't posted for 10 days! Has it really been that long??? Here's a quick update in our crazy but boring lives:

I have to take Adele back to the ENT in a couple of weeks to find out for sure if she will have to get tubes. He put her on a steriod that was supposed to clear out the "effusion" that was in her ears (basically the built up fluid.) Let's hope she won't need tubes.

In other medical news, I took Emilia to the Instacare last night for what I thought was an ingrown toenail. Turns out that it was a paranicial infection, probably Staff. (Paranicial means outside the nail.)

Adele has been sick with the flu all weekend. She threw up on me today so we stayed home from church. I also let Emilia stay home because her toe was sick. (Actually I needed to drain the pus from it and have her soak it so I just let her stay home.)

Kent also had the flu last week.

The kids at Elise's school are always joking around and checking the other kids' heads for nits and now Elise has a lice paranoia. She has been waking up at night saying that there is something on her head or that her head itches. She finally told me that she is worried about getting lice. For this reason I am glad that school is almost out. Then she won't have to worry about lice anymore.

I taught a couponing class at Enrichment this week. I think it went ok and hopefully I inspired someone to save some money.

We got 3 new fish last week and they are all still alive. We got 2 Platies and 1 Danio. Their names are: Lucky (black tail), Flower (orange tail) and Skinnies (the Danio is the skinny one so its name is Skinnies. They all seem healthy and I don't think any of them have Ick. I hope they live a long time.

Slacker

I can't believe a whole week of May has gone by and I haven't blogged. I keep trying to think of things to blog about but there hasn't been anything exciting going on. We have been spending more and more time outside because the weather has been so warm. I am trying to get my garden ready. I have some parsley that survived the winter and I planted a few things in some cups. They haven't sprouted yet. I have some good turkey poo-fertilizer (aka mulch, don't worry, the bag says it is sterilized) that I need to spread out in the garden but the kids have been playing in the dirt in the garden a lot so I hate to make it off limits. I think I will do that next week.

Adele had another ear infection last week and so she will probably have to get tubes in her ears. She has an appointment with the ear doctor tomorrow. Poor thing.

My kids have 2 weeks of school left. I just can't believe it. May is such a fun month for them at school though because they just keep going on field trips and having parties. I don't think they learn anything in May. They are ready to be done though. I think they are really burned out. I am burned out too with all the homework and papers I have to help them keep track of.

The cute little ones

Weeds and Poo

Elise stayed home from school on Monday because her stomach hurt. She acted sick for a little while but then she seemed fine. To keep the kids busy, and to make our neighbors stop hating us for spreading seeds I decided I'd make the kids pick the dandelions in our yard. We haven't had a chance yet to spray weed killer on the grass yet so putting the kids to work seems like the next best thing. They weren't too interested in picking dandelions until I told them I'd give them a penny for each one they picked. By the time we were done they picked over 500. I probably picked 500 too. (Time to spray the grass huh?)

While we were out picking the dandelions I discovered not one but 2 presents that were left in our yard. (Curse the evil people who let their dogs run free and poop in MY YARD.)

If you think the pictures are gross you should have seen me retching and gagging while picking the poo up with my double-bagged hands. Blechhhhhh.

And of course it HAD to be on MONDAY right AFTER the garbage guys got our trash. Now the POO has to sit in the BLACK garbage can in the HOT SUN for a whole week.