So there we were. 4 grown men holding hands singing koom by ya, wiping tears from our eyes as we flush the toilet. Saying goodbye to two of our beloved friends. Flushed we unlock hands and look down, we realise the toilet’s overflowing and our beloved friends are back again …. could this be a sign, an omen that they don’t want to leave the living?
Ok, so we didn’t sing koom by ya, we wern’t holding hands, the toilet didn’t overflow but I did have to flush two of my fish down the toilet to give them the proper toliet burial. What’s that you ask? Do I need really need to explain?
So let me explain from the beginning, which was last night by the way, to the end to describe how a bad day turned exceptionally good, ok … not exceptionally but rather decent.
Before we start I must take you back a month or two when I was moving my fishtank from my old apartment to my new one. Well to make a long story short everything went perfect until my final trip, my heater for the tank broke. Well, I waited a day or two and everything was peachy so I didn’t feel the need to buy another heater, now if this has anything to do with the story or not, I have no idea …
My bala shark has been acting fishy latley, now I realise he is a fish and to act fishy would be ok but not in a case like this. He’s going spastic! Trying to jump out of the tank, beating his head on anything in site and just acting un-lady like(yes, I know my bala shark is a female). To continue … I was watching like I usually do for a few minutes just to make sure everything was going fine and it was, tank is crystal clear and no "floaters" so all is good, then I see my shark turn vertically and jet straight towards the top of the tank! She ramed the lid and the light to the tank and she did that twice! "Ummm, hello? anybody home?" Was all I could think. So later the other night I wake up to some thrashing in the tank only to wake up yesterday to find 2 fish dead, I’m assuming were killed by the shark but that baffles me, Bala Sharks are incredibly peaceful, hmmmm … who knows. So I to scoop them out and I realise, oh geez, this water is freezing! I’d say 50-60 degrees easily. Seeing as they are tropical fish 80 degrees minimum if not higher. Ouch. I felt so horrible and I had a huge knot in the bottom of my stomach. I figured room tempature would be good but it definetly wasn’t, I’m definetly lucky and very thankful that I didn’t loose my shark, wow am I lucky and again thankful. Did I mention thankful?
So what did I do once the guilt set in, I decieded now was an ideal time to get a water heater so I proceeded to petsmart, picked up the water heater and a few other goodies. I bought a powerhead for my tank as well. So what’s a powerhead you ask? Great question, basically I have an underwater gravel filter that ran primarily on an air pump. The whole concept is the air bubbles as they approach the surface they create suction(sp?) and all of the gunk and junk gets filtered up. Well, this idea is great to keeping your fishtank clean however if you can just imagine for a moment air bubbles. This probably produces 1 gallon tops an hour. A powerhead is a submursable unit that basically pulls up water and spits it out, which is perfect if you spit it out towards a filter. The only diffrence between the two of course is air bubbles only produce about 1 gallon an hour, this powerhead produces 125 gallons an hour. 
What does that mean for me? Even less cleaning and less maintenance. It’s proven is value already as the moment I put it in the tank it sucked up a ton more gunk and shoved it towards my filter creating a crystal clear environment for my fish. This my friends is modern technology at it’s finest. I think that’s why I like fish because it’s greate eye candy and yet it’s all automatic in its processes. Very little work is required to keep it up. And that is pretty nice. While I was out I got a heater and 2 additional fish. I got a Beta which is gorgous and also a knife fish. This thing looks incredible, so smooth how it swims it’s great. He’s incredibly friendly too. When I put in some other decorations at the bottom of the tank he came right up inside my hand and just stayed there for like a few minutes. I went to feed them and he went straight to the top to eat. Weird personality this fish has but he’s definetly grown on me.
So … that was last night … and it’s only just the beginning of my poor luck. I wanted to share this info last night but for the past week my wireless keyboard has been acting up, skipping keys and such. Last night when all the stores were closed it just decieded to quit on me. Fresh batteries and such couldn’t fix this … it just went dead. I figured it was only a matter of time but I didn’t figure it would happen when it did, not when I had so much to share. I ended up digging up an old junky dirty gross disgusting keyboard to type a few emails and then proceed on with my day.
So proceeding on it’s now time to shave. Oh, did I mention I got rid of the stupid genric hair pulling razors? Well if I didn’t’ I did. I threw them away and learned my horrible lesson with that and vowed never get the cheap stuff, especially when it comes to sharp objects coming close to my face. Only the good stuff for these baby cheecks. So I’m shaving, everything is going good and then "KABOOM" my gel, shampoo, toothbrush and all go plumeting into the toilet! Well this scares the holy bejesus out of me and I cut myself with the blade which just so happen to have triple the protection aka triple blades.I have 3 nice cuts on my cheeck. 4 hours later when it stops bleeding I’m searching for my watch. I can’t leave without my watch! It’d be like me leaving the house naked which for your sake and mine will never happen. So here we are 15 minutes late for class I get there only to reach for my backpack, which just so happens to be in my roomate’s car from the previous day of work. Could things be getting anyworse? Sure they could ….
Did I forget to mention that when I showed up to class I looked at the back of my shirt only to see a huge stain of a bleeded pen? My favorite shirt ….. my FAVORITE shirt and non-other. Could things be getting any worse?
NOPE. My poor luck was over. I went to CompUSA to get my keyboard and mouse. I had to get wirless. It was a must, no if ands or buts about it, just how I like to sit, with my legs propped up and also with my keyboard in my lap, I had to there was no question in it. Keyboard in lap? Don’t think I’m weird, just remember I’m a computer programmer and well I am weird.
So all in all, 2 fish dead, triple protection cut, ruined shirt, late to class, no books, no watch and keyboard broken, all in all not a bad day. No seriously …
Being the optomistic type that I am(note the sarcasim) I tried to find the positive in all of this, I really did and I think this time for once in my life I actually found it. The martha stewart in me really did appreciate getting the exact style keyboard and mouse in diffrent color, matching my computer and monitor. I’ve got a nice little war wound that I can make up some ficticious story about how I got it, perhaps I got into a fight with a bear? Ohhh, that would be a good story to tell … good story to tell. I no longer feel guilty of my fish anymore becuase they are now living in a palace. I have 2 really cool fish that make my tank that much more vibrant and alive. My watch, I ended up finding it after tearing my room apart and then cleaning it back up again. As for my books in my class they wern’t needed and class proceeding on like it normally did and most importantly I am still wearing yellow.
I look down even now and take a look at what’s carved into the bracelet. "LiveSTRONG" and I realise I do. I live strong.
Do you?
kc
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