thoughts while watching shark week

i love shark week. i love watching shows on killer animals like sharks, bears, lions and of course my ultimate favorite aligators. the shark on this episode was the greenwich shark or something like that. its a shark that lives under artic. it gets about 14-16 feet and has no natural enemys. basically its the great white of places that are frozen over. during the episode one of the researches said one of the stupidist things i have ever heard. they said they had to catch the shark and sometimes the shark dies but thats ok cause it helps us(humans) to learn how to keep the animal alive. hmmmm...i have a feeling this shark was living just fine before we ever discovered it. good chance its been living fine well before humans ever got into its area and even after humans discovered it. why all of a sudden do we have to catch and kill an animal that has been living just fine so we can learn to keep it alive. i know the answer to this. leave it alone and it will live just fine without our help.

i know im getting bad aboutupdating my blog ( long)

well today was interesting. nice 5.4 earthquake this morning. nothing like an earthquake to really wake you up. for those who are worring thou dont. my fish tank survived.

large project:

well i have pretty much cleaned up my room. for any one who has seen my room knows thats a big project. yes my room gets messy. but to make an excuse everything i own is in my bed room. my california king size bed, my large computer desk, my large entertainment cent, my dresser, tv, fish tank 9 18 gallon totes of my stuff ect ect. all in my room. so my room is going to be packed. add that to the fact i spend most of my time when im home in my room andits very easy for it to get a little crazy.

part of my problem is i save stuff. if someone has given me anything in the last 15 years it was prolly in my room. one small example is a box of jelly bellys. it was given to me for my 20th bday. i never got around to eatting it so i kept it to remind me of that time. it isnt something i kept out on display or anything but it was in one of my totes and when i go thru it and see it it brings back memorys of that time and the person who gave it to me. i have alot of that stuff. well i use to have alot of that stuff. i thru it out. if i counted right i filled up four 50 gallon trash cans worth of that kinda stuff. not trash just keep sakes i guess you would call it.

but i figured if im going to have a nice looking fish tank in my room, my room should be clean so people can come in and enjoy it. only thing i have left is to go thru all my clothes and get rid of the ones that dont fit right anymore and the stuff i just really dont need to be wearing. on that note i can proudly say i still have a pair of pant from high school that i can still wear. they are tight now but i can wear them( yes they are going in the throw away pile)

some pictures of my fish tank:

now that i have shown you that. i gotta show you kinda what i want to end up doing.

that is a 33 gallon aquarium so only slightly larger then mine. i love how that looks so it got me to think and have decided to change the way my aquarium is going to look. that fish tank looks like a rain forest. i love it. now dont ask me how but that tank only took 2nd place at some aquarium contest. and those are all real plants, rocks and wood. and fish of course

this one was the winner but i think the one above is better

if you havent figured out im really into this whole aquarium thing. besides changing the look i had thought of for my aquarium i have kinda changed my mind on the fish too.

german blue ram. same as before:

sunset platy same as before:

glolight tetra replacing the neon tetra. these fish are brighter

and instead of a algee eatter fish im goign with red cherry shrimp and hope my other fish dont eat them all:

once again sorry i havent been updating as much as i should. but this pretty much wraps up what i have been up to lately.

more fish stuff

well not much has been going on. been waiting for my aquarium to reach the 2nd phase of bactira growth which happened today. yay me. happends between day 5 and day 14 usually and today is day 7.

the process is ammonia( which i added to the tank) then a bactira eats that and turns it into nitrite. then a diffrent bactira eats that and turns it into nitrate. ammonia and nitrite are very lethal to fish which is why i dont have fish yet. in a tank its the fish poo which makes the ammonia. so what im doing now is getting to the nitrate stage which produces the bactira that gets rid of the bad stuff so when i add fish i will have that bactira already.

i really wish i had my camera thou( shoudl be back some time next week i hope). the tank is crystal clear right now with 2 peices of wood one small and one really big and a rock. but my favorite part right now is the splash of water from the filter which is really relaxing.

what i hope my fish tank turns out like

the first 3 tanks are actually smaller then mine. the 4th one is 30gallon and mine is 29 gallon so its pretty much same size as mine. the last picture is a saltwater reef tank. if i get a good job after i graduate im going to do one ( if this freshwater one im doing now turns out good). the big diffrence thou between the first 4 and my tank is i want more plants. i want a heavly planted tank.

btw i dont think i have mentioned im actually afraid of fish lol

YAY im back

Yay im back. looks like i got my computer situation all figured out. See school is good for something. Computer problems drive me crazy. im someone who spends alot of time on the computer and so computer problems well drive me crazy lol.

lets see whats been going on:

4th of july.
went to my brother in laws parents house to celebrate with his family and my family. for the most part it was a nice relaxing day. most people complained about the heat but id rather be hot then cold. i dont do cold well so heat is always welcome. i do have one story from the 4th.

one of jims family members( not sure of exact relations) had a little baby. 3-4 months old i think but am not really sure. anyways all the ladies were playing with the baby, bouncing it up and down and making it giiggle as babys like to do when not sleeping or crying. after 3 or 4 of the ladies got tired of bouncing the baby up and down they asked me if i wanted to watch the kid. not thinking about how much the baby had been bouncing up and down((( notice a trend here with the word bouncing up and down?))) i said id hold the baby for a little bit. well it didnt take long for the baby, who btw had been doing an awful lot of bouncing up and down by the 3 ladies who handed the baby over to me, to decide to put his head on my shoulder....and proceed to barf all over me.

now i wanna say this. my lil b who is related to me and lets be honest he tends to drool alot and has drooled on me has not barfed on me once. and he is related. related barf while not fun is acceptable. unrelated baby barf on the other hand is not fun lol.

so my first officail rule in my blog is related baby barf is fine. unrelated baby barf i can do without.


so that was friday the 4th of july. on saturday the 5th of july i went to work and had to leave work early to back problems. ....... .... .... ok now that you feel sorry for me, i faked it so i would get my holiday pay but could leave work to go up to my sister and brothers house up the hill to watch the big ufc fight. the fight was great but the house was really loud. and really loud houses are typically not my thing. but i got to watch the fight and had a good time. i stayed up the hill for the night and crashed at lara's house. the next morning ( really afternoon ) when people woke up i was sitting around on the couch talkign to my sis when a wishie came floating thru her house. it went around her living room and then floated right to me. if that isnt a sign from the wishie fairy i dunno what is.


on another note i wish i had my camera. i loaned it to my parents who have started there annual summer vacation. i have started a new hobby/project and wish i could take pictures of the progress. i got myself a 30 gallon aquarium and am in the process of gettign it ready to add live plants and fish to. its kinda a long process so if my sister stops by sometime soon hopefully she will have her camera and i can get a couple pre plant and pre fish shots. aquariums with like plants are amazing because they change as the plants grow and get pruned so the tank never looks the same. im really excited about the possabilities. ill keep you posted. right now the water is just runnign thru the filter and making umm stuff in the water so the fish and plants can live healthy when they are added to the tank.

sorry

sorry i havent posted for a little while. having computer problems. once i get it figured out i have some things to post about.

man enough #1

some things most people dont want to get out but im man enough to admit that:
1...i have worn a dress twice and ruined a good pair of high heels one of the times.

yes it was for holloween both times. the problem was i wore it the first time when i was 14 and the second time when i was 18. why is that a problem you asked. because when i was 14 the outfit fit fine. between 14 and 18 i had alot of growth spurts. the second time i wore it i had to use saftey pins because it was a very very short dress at that point. the first time i wore it i wore my moms high heels and ran around the neiborhood. i gotta admit thou i could run pretty fast in those suckers but they were tore up when i was done

happy 4th of july

happy 4th of july everyone.

blog

so i got an email tonight with a link to a blog of someone who had visited my blog. the language is not english but the pictures are just amazing.just goes to show you a picture is worth a 1000 words in any language



http://internapoli-city.blogspot.com/

Happy Birthday

Happy ? Birthday MOM

(i may name names in my blog but im not crazy enough to name my moms age)

happy anniversary

Happy 4th Anniversary Brian and Becky

well atleast i still have my hair

so i decided to color my hair. been a couple years since i did. i am now some shade of blonde.

while doing it, i skimmed thru the instructions. mix packed 1 into bottle ... check. mix packit 2 into bottle .. check. shake.. check. from shake its always apply to hair. ok check. let sit for awhile check. skim over instruction before washing out ... oppsy. and just for the record oppsy is not a good thing. after shake it is add liquid something and shake again. i forgot that part.

let me tell you i for a minute had thoughts of my hair falling out. from there its rinse off fast and pray. so for now i still have all my hair. if i have a blog post tomorrow titled bald you will know why.