here's a few pictures of our gnifty gnew gnomes! uhh... i mean rats. yeah. rats.
Showing posts with label pets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pets. Show all posts
Friday, April 11, 2008
Saturday, February 9, 2008
several things to talk about in this post: my blog, taxes, computers, fish, and a secret mystery surprise.
let me just say right up front that you people suck. i got only three votes for my new blog title and each of them was for a different name:
let me just say right up front that you people suck. i got only three votes for my new blog title and each of them was for a different name:
- Annuminas - 'West-tower' or 'Tower of the West'
- Echad i Sedryn - 'Camp of the Faithful'
- Tirion - ...ok this one doesn't actually mean anything, it is just the name of a city in heaven.
so if i couldn't choose between them to begin with, how am i supposed to now? grrr... alas, the person i would normally ask help from in making a decision has already voted and is therefore no longer impartial, and the only other person left to ask (the only other person i know with the same tolkienian disposition as myself) is 3,000 miles away and thus unavailable to help as well. i guess i'll just have to make a decision myself...
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tax season is here again. joy of joys. [shudder] at least we're basically done with them now. it took me about three hours this morning (this is after my aunt, who is a CPA and does taxes professionally, spent who knows how long actually figuring everything up and getting it ready for me) filing taxes for beth and i with both the federal and state governments. state was actually MUCH easier than federal. to file federal taxes i basically had to re-do all the work my aunt did in preparing our forms to begin with. that sucked. with the state e-file, however, they had an option to just type everything into a .pdf version of the form. so since i already had a paper version, all i had to do was copy. that one, at least, was simple.
so, in conclusion: taxes = bad. being done with taxes = good.
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i don't want to tell you about this one actually... ask me yourself if you feel inclined :-)
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ooh..the fun part of the post! we have fish!
so the other day (actually almost a week ago now) we went to the pet store to get a mouse to feed indy. while we were there we decided to look at the fish and fish tanks and whatnot, having already decided it would be cool to get a betta to have on the coffee table or kitchen table or something. so we walk in with plans to pay $2.35 for a rodent and spend some time LOOKING at fish and their various accouterments... an hour later we leave the store with $285 worth of fish accouterments, and no rodent. i still don't understand how. oi. well several days later once the water was ready we got some actual fish. not many, just a few to get the nitrogen cycle going in the tank and we're gonna add more in a few days or weeks. it actually looks really nice and i'm glad we have it cuz i love to watch them swimming and the sound of the water (our filter is the kind that acts about like a waterfall. kinda like the one in Finding Nemo) is relaxing. the downside is that we now have pets i can't cuddle. and, a week later, i'm still not sure how it happened.
(as i know beth has informed you, she is now banned from Petco because of this)
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did you get it? :-)
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tax season is here again. joy of joys. [shudder] at least we're basically done with them now. it took me about three hours this morning (this is after my aunt, who is a CPA and does taxes professionally, spent who knows how long actually figuring everything up and getting it ready for me) filing taxes for beth and i with both the federal and state governments. state was actually MUCH easier than federal. to file federal taxes i basically had to re-do all the work my aunt did in preparing our forms to begin with. that sucked. with the state e-file, however, they had an option to just type everything into a .pdf version of the form. so since i already had a paper version, all i had to do was copy. that one, at least, was simple.
so, in conclusion: taxes = bad. being done with taxes = good.
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i don't want to tell you about this one actually... ask me yourself if you feel inclined :-)
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ooh..the fun part of the post! we have fish!
so the other day (actually almost a week ago now) we went to the pet store to get a mouse to feed indy. while we were there we decided to look at the fish and fish tanks and whatnot, having already decided it would be cool to get a betta to have on the coffee table or kitchen table or something. so we walk in with plans to pay $2.35 for a rodent and spend some time LOOKING at fish and their various accouterments... an hour later we leave the store with $285 worth of fish accouterments, and no rodent. i still don't understand how. oi. well several days later once the water was ready we got some actual fish. not many, just a few to get the nitrogen cycle going in the tank and we're gonna add more in a few days or weeks. it actually looks really nice and i'm glad we have it cuz i love to watch them swimming and the sound of the water (our filter is the kind that acts about like a waterfall. kinda like the one in Finding Nemo) is relaxing. the downside is that we now have pets i can't cuddle. and, a week later, i'm still not sure how it happened.
(as i know beth has informed you, she is now banned from Petco because of this)
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did you get it? :-)
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