5/21/03

Quote of the day:

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.” – Albert Einstein

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There is this awful “motivational” sign on the wall here at work, it stares you in the face every morning first thing when you walk through the door. Here’s a couple lines from it: “Know what we’re supposed to do. Make it what we do everyday. Don’t skip steps!” I nearly died the first time I read this sign. Granted a lot of people will try to get things done faster by “skipping steps” but really, do you need to tell your employee’s to “Know what we’re supposed to do”? If you do, perhaps you should look in to finding better employee’s! This is probably the lamest sign I’ve ever seen but at least it doesn’t say “Strive for Excellence”.

One of my bettas is sick, Curly, I’ve had him a year now and am not sure how old he was when I got him. Bettas are generally a few months old when you buy them. Curly was a BIG FISHY when I bought him though, which leads me to believe he was probably a year old already. The breeder might have kept him longer if he wanted to use him for breeding or if he’d had an illness or something of that nature so it’s possible. The normal life span for bettas in captivity seems to be around 2-3 years although some live up to 4 years or so. Curly has had ICH. Ich is a protozoan parasite (Ichthyophthirius multifilis). I wasn’t too concerned when I noticed it because Simon has had ICH recently too and I was able to treat it quickly with Aquarisol. *sigh* The Aquarisol isn’t doing the trick for Curly, even though most of the ICH seem to be gone off his body, last night I noticed he was very pale. He’s normally a nice dark red, his body is a faint red now. I prepared some water for a water change last night and figured if he was still alive this morning I would put him in some stronger medication (you can’t mix most meds so you have to change the water). When I first went into the office this morning I flipped on Curly’s light and saw him face down in his rocks and thought “Damn”. But I looked closer and he was still breathing, a couple minutes later he went up for air. I changed his water, upped the amount of aquarium salt in the water (Ich hate salt) and put him in the stronger medication and now we wait and hope the stronger medicine and salt does the trick. Good luck little buddy!

All my other fish are doing well.

I’ve noticed something. I’ve been paying closer attention to my dreams since I started reading Freuds “The Interpretation of Dreams”. I haven’t gotten far in it yet. But anyway, I’ve noticed that when I go to sleep with the television on my dreams are more vivid and I almost always dream, or remember my dreams, when the television has been on before I go to sleep (hubby watches TV later than I do). When we both go to sleep at the same time without the television I’m unable to recall any dreams the next morning.

I had a couple dreams last night, one involved me being in the bathroom, I was at the sink. I usually dream about the bathroom when I need to use the bathroom. It’s kinda weird. Although sometimes I have more disturbing dreams. I’ve had very vivid dreams of wetting the bed before, when I woke up I had to go really bad! Guess that was my brain saying “You better wake up or this will be your fate”. hehe

My other dream last night was that my grandpa called me at work. Then after I hung up on the phone with him I looked up and there my dad was standing by my cubicle. He said hi and stuff then wanted to know where Howard sat on my floor. There’s no one by the name of Howard on my floor but my dad has a cousin named Howard so that’s probably where that name came from. After he visited Howard he wanted to know where Tim was. There is a guy here at work named Tim although in my dream I directed my dad to the office a guy named Jim used to sit in, hehe.

Only today and tomorrow left of work for me this week! I’m sooooo happy. I am slightly annoyed though as the weather report is showing rain every freaking day of our vacation. There goes the fucking gardening. UGH! I guess if we get screwed out of gardening we’ll take some day trips to indoor places. The Mark Twain house, things like that. There’s still a lot around here that I haven’t seen yet. At this rate I’m starting to think we should have just gone to Maine. They’re predicting less rain there this weekend and we could have enjoyed this: *pout*

Oh well.

Sara is doing well. She’s getting better by the day. She’s got some adult teeth now we’ve noticed. I’m glad because those damn puppy teeth are SHARP. She’s really starting to look like an adult now, not a baby anymore. I’ll have to take some pictures this weekend. Looking back at her 8 week pics I really can’t believe she was ever so small. I’m definatly glad we took a lot of pictures. Another 3 months or so she’ll be damn near full grown. I saw picture of two of her sisters yesterday posted on the breeders website. Sara looks nothing like her sisters. She’s thinner and somewhat darker. Her sisters look overweight to me. I’ve been carefully following the directions on the back of the IAMS package as to how much to feed based on age and weight, one of the most important things with goldens is to not let them get overweight AT ALL since they’re prone to hip dysplasia. We’ve also been using the IAMS Large Breed puppy food as it’s supposed to keep the puppies growing at an even rate without all the growth spurts, very good for healthy hips. When the vet weighed Sara at her last visit she nodded slightly and said “good” so it looks like we’re doing well. 🙂 Too bad I can’t control my own eating habits so well. 🙂 I’d be lean and fit like Sara! Sara’s sisters do seem to be better trained though, hubby said that compared to her sisters it sounded like Sara was in “remedial classes”. We’re going to have to buckle down and work a little harder on training. I had her sitting within a couple weeks and laying down. She’ll sit and wait for her food for as long as you ask her to and stuff but she won’t hardly listen to any commands outside and she won’t do much if you don’t have a peice of kibble in front of her face. I’ve been too laid back on the training. I’m lazy, what can I say. 🙂 She’s a good girl though regardless.

I guess that’s about it. I should probably shoot off a reminder e-mail to my boss about my vacation day on Friday. Then I should see about actually doing some work so I’ll be sure and be caught up before my day off.