Dogs...fish tanks...and the Zoo!

Someone recently requested that I post a blog update on life. She said that my recent quirky posts were entertaining and fun to read....but don't count as a blog update. (sigh....) fine. I have sat down to blog (about life) many many many times throughout the past few weeks. Yet every time I sit down, words evade me and I realize yet again, I have n0thing interesting to write. :-/ its like the never ending writer's block. Ugh...

I shall try to make this as interesting as possible, but forgive me if it ends up being rather dull and boring.

Also, I have tried and tried and tried to post pictures in the blog update, but something is wrong with blogger and it won't allow me to post any pictures. :( Sorry peoples...

Let's see...what have I been up to lately?

Well, not that anyone cares...but we got our dog Ella groomed!! (told you this post was going to be rather lame.) Ella is a cocker spaniel and her hair grows SO long, knotted and messy! We took her in last week and had her completely buzzed. She looks like a total different dog! (Truthfully, I like this "new" Ella much better than the old shaggy Ella.) After Ella's new look, I couldn't help but look at our other dog, Sarah, and wonder if a good grooming would also improve her looks....yeah right. (Well, honestly, anything in an improvement when it comes to Sarah....this dog is the UGLIEST dog i've ever seen.) I wasn't about to pay $50 to get Sarah groomed, so I took her into the back yard and trimmed her hair myself. Poor dog knew she was being laughed at. However, it was an improvement...sort of. (I so wish I could post pictures! This story needs a picture to do it justice!)

Hummm, what else? Lately I've been itching to go on a day trip. I really want to go to the Ocean or San Francisco for the day. For some strange reason, going to a Zoo has sounded fun this past week. Weird...I know. (Lol, I've never even been to a REAL zoo before.) Hopefully Jeff takes me somewhere soon. :)

Jeff and I have taken up a new hobby. We started a fish tank in January and LOVE IT!!! (Seriously, we spend hooouuurrrss a day sitting in front of this tank!) We got a used 45 gallon tank off of amazon at the beginning of January. Both of us admitted when we purchased it, that we doubted we would stay interested in the hobby for long....we were both so wrong. We absolutely LOVE our tank!! We actually are planning on eventually buying a larger one for our living room, and putting the 45 gallon tank in our bedroom. Right now we have 3 red tailed sharks, 1 betta shark, 1 albino tiger barb, 6 guppies, 5 neon tetras, 5 danios, 2 mystery snails and 1 zebra snail, 1 plecostomus (sp check!), 5 platties, 1 gournami, 9 gold fish and finally...our favorites...3 clown loaches. (I'm pretty sure I missed a few fish in there somewhere.) The clown loaches are our favorite fish! They are new (they became part of the Bauman fish tank as of yesterday) and they are only this long: ----------------. But they are SO fun!! They love swimming in the bubbles (we have 2 air stones in the tank to give them oxygen...and the loaches LOVE playing in them!) While the rest of the fish swim around slowly and boringly, these loaches are SO active and playful. They are incredibly fun to watch. They live for up to 30 years!!! (the average is about 24 years) and they will eventually get to be a foot long each. I am sure we won't have this tank still in 30 years, lol. So eventually these little guys are gonna have to go back to the pet store. We are really enjoying our fish tank, and joke that our favorite "dates" are spent going to pet stores!! Hopefully in a year or so, we will attempt to tackle a salt water tank.

Anyhow, this is all I can think of to post about for now. Hopefully sometime soon I'll come up with something more interesting to write about and I'll actually be able to post pictures also. :)

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It just dawned on me, that this entire post had to do with animals!! Dogs...fish...and zoo's?!?