Fish babies, dead rats, sick dogs and random other things

Well this has been an interesting few weeks. Lets start with the fish. Decided to set up a new fishtank a few weeks ago. Its been going well. We only lost 3 fish the first week and none since. Right now we have 3 male (Flame, Little Blue, Citrus) and 3 female (Peacock, Little Red, Rainbow) fancy guppies, 1 female mickey mouse platy (Minnie), 1 male marigold platy (Jack), 1 male (Pongo) and 1 female (Perdita) dalmatian mollies, 2 zebra (Stripes and Dirty Snowball) and 1 pearl danio (Pearl) sex unknown. Last Friday the kids and I had to go pick up meds for Shake at the vet (Ill get to that later) and when we came home we found a few baby fish in the tank. Now anyone who knows me - really knows me - will understand when I say that totally made me so excited! I could only find 3 at the time but they seemed to be doing well so I decided not to try taking them out of the main tank and away from the adults. Next morning I wake up and I can only find 1 baby. I went into panic. Tore apart the whole tank. Took out all the "savage baby killing adults" lol and started my baby hunt. Well I found my 1 baby and 5 others! YEAH! Got them into the little plastic breeder tank and the adults all back in the main tank happily when all of a sudden I see a 7th baby swimming around. Well I was already soaked and wasnt about to rip apart the tank again and decided to leave it be. That was a week ago and I havent seen it since so I assume it didnt make it. The good news is my 6 others r doing great! They r growing fast and I can even see them poop and eat lmao. They r cute. I have a few other females I think r pregnant too so Im watching them. Now comes the weirdness. I cant tell if they r guppy, molly or platy babies! I have no idea. In a few weeks as they grow Ill be able to tell but for now they just look like little swimming sperms with big black eyes lol. The other fish r all doing well too. We have 1 male betta (Elvis), 1 albino pleco (Alby), 1 fancy goldfish (Swimmy), 1 black moor goldfish (Jackson), 1 chinese algae eater (Brock) and 2 african dwarf frogs (Froggie 1 and Froggie 2 - I cant tell them apart! lol). It amazes me how relaxing and fun it is to just sit back for a few mins and watch them all do their fishy thing. Very nice!

Ok now onto the dead rats. Morbid I know! We r down to 3 ratties. 1 female Slushy who is about 2 and 2 males Nigel and Odd Ball who r 2 1/2. Its sad to only have 3 but its also ok. In the long run I want to get back to having just 2 males of the same age together. I started with females because the boy "parts" really grossed me out lol but the females get sooo many more tumors. I just moved Slushy into a smaller cage now that she is by herself and she seems to be happy. Nigel and Odd Ball r also getting a smaller cage this weekend because they r getting old and having issues climbing the ramps. I want to make it easier on my old men. Thats the rat news here.

Dogs. Man. Dogs. Remind me again why I have dogs? lol. So last week Shake started not feeling well. He will be 7 in Feb so not old really. He started to have a hard time getting up and he would leak pee. On the couch, floor, everywhere. And he wasnt happy about it. He would look so sad. Wouldnt eat and was just not himself at all. So we take him to the vet and his kidney functions r failing. Meds and home he comes and they decide to check him for Cushings Disease. Sure enough he has it. At the same time his intestines r inflamed so we r dealing with that also. So tomorrow I have to go back to the vet and get his first batch of new meds. With meds and testing its going to cost about $500 a month to start and hes going to be doing this forever. I cant not treat him though and I cant put him down. I just cant. So we will make it work. Somehow.

As for the other critters (hamsters, birdies, bunny, cats, dogs) everyone is doing good. Hopefully they will stay that way because Im runnin out of money! lol. Shimmer has a vet appt next Saturday to get her thyroid checked again and Cry Baby also has an appt next Saturday for his ear infection.

Ok so random things. Wayne is still at EB and he really likes it. He just moved from a driller to a nuke instructor. Scary eh? lol. Hes the only ex-Navy nuke there though so he was a sure hire for the job. Big raise and all that. So then he has to get this physical for his blood pressure at our regular dr. I went to get mine done too. Of course his is sky high and mine is just a little up. Well I decided to ask the dr about Xenical. For those who dont know about it its basically double strength Alli which is a weighloss pill u take when u eat meals that have a lot of fat. It keeps ur body from absorbing all of the fat in the meal. Over the summer I joined the gym and I loved going but my back was and still is a serious issue and the dr didnt want me to go anymore. Ive been working out at home (Wii Fit and EA Active kick my ass 5 days a week!) but things hurt. A lot. Im hoping the more weight I can lose the more I can get my back/hip feeling better. So Ive lost a little but not as much as I would like and Wayne needs to drop an easy 100lbs. So the dr said yes to the Xenical and the ins is actually paying for it so we started that today. A few years ago I did Alli and lost 30 pounds in a few months. Most of that was leftover Robyn baby weight. It was great but cost a fortune. This is double strength and 1/3 the price. Nice. I dont want to lose tons. I really dont. But Wayne HAS to lose weight and if I dont make him he wont do it. As much as I want to kill him lol I dont really want to see him drop dead of a stroke. Once he sees me doing it he will follow. He always does. So we started the Xenical today. Wish me luck!

Lets see. What else? Oh the kids! Cant forget them lol. They r good. Trying to force them into the swing of school. Not easy. Robyn is soooo stubborn. I mean really. Shes nothing like me! LMAO! Angelina and Wayne r butting heads big time. Ive had to take her phone away a few times and send him to bed lol. Josh is just Josh. Pretty chill but the teen years r upon us so we r dealing with that. Fun fun!

Oh geeze and phones! Weve had Sprint for about 3 years. Service was pure crap at home and we were always roaming onto Verizon so in August we decided to switch to Verizon so we got new phone numbers. Much better service let me tell u but what a nightmare. People please when u leave a number TELL PEOPLE so they dont keep calling u! I get constant calls and texts for someone named Andy. Apparently Andy never told anyone he has a new number. He owes his baby mama child support, his car broke down and he had it towed and never went to get it 2 months ago, at the same time he got a rental car which he never returned, he doesnt show up for work half the time AND dude owes people a ton of money. Heres my thing. If Im going to run off on my kid and snatch a rental car and owe people cash why change my number? Id like to know when they r all gonna hunt me down and beat my ass! Id just ignore the calls and keep the same number. Geeze. Andy if ur out there please I beg u. Call these idiots and tell them to take my number out of their phones and please go get ur baby some formula! My god.

Ok so lets talk TV. I dont watch tons but I have some faves right now. NCIS is amazing. Last season was awesome and this season so far does not disappoint. It helps that Gibbs is hot (as is Ziva even though shes a chick lol)  but really the writers for that show r just incredible. Keep it up NCIS! Then we have Dancing with the "Stars" ack. I hate it but I watch it  because Josh loves it. This season I dont have a clear fave. Ones I wanted to hate Im liking and ones I thought I would like I dont so much. So that should be interesting. Glee. My god. At first I wanted to rip my own eyeballs out watching it. Then it grew on me a  little. Very little. We missed the first episode of this season but I did see this weeks and it SUCKED ASS! If they dont step it up its coming off my dvr real quick. Outsourced. OMG soooo funnnny! Basically its am American guy running a call center in India. Like that would ever really happen? LMAO! Really though its too damn funny and the fact that its on the same nite as Big Bang Theory gives me a good Thursday nite! Loving RuPauls Drag-U lol and Project Runway and Americas Next Top Model this season as well. American Idol I still havent decided if Im going to watch without Simon. Randy annoys me and I dont love the new judges. Ryan being hot might keep me watching but thats about it. Waiting for So You Think You Can Dance to come back.

Anyway thats the news here! Nothing too exciting. lol. For those reading this my plan is no more than 1 post per day. I have friends with blogs and when they post every 5 mins it drives me nuts. Thats what Facebook status updates r for people! So this one Im going to post since I doubt Ill add to it later but usually Ill just draft it and post them at the end of the nite. Have a good weekend all!