i hate yellowfish.

she killed pete. she did.

Christina and I watched her attack him until he couldn't swim anymore.

i had been gone for the evening and by the time i got back he was very injured and yellowfish was finishing off the job.

yellowfish is a murderer!

if you'd like to see Gulp Gulp at his finest

a sad day.

so today a sad thing happened.

holly (who lives down the hall) noticed that Gulp Gulp seemed to be stuck in the plant in my tank. Now he usually sits up there for a few hours out of the day, so seeing him up there was not unusual. but today was a different story. today, he was stuck. we managed to get him out of the plant, but unfortunately, he could not pull through. at 8:45 p.m. Gulp Gulp was flushed after being found upsidedown on the bottom of the tank. the plant killed him. Goodbye Gulp Gulp. you were wonderful. It is sad to see you go.

oh, and the glass fish died a few days after arriving due to depression.

i think Yellowfish and Pete are getting nervous.
but yellowfish might be pregnant...so we'll see how that goes.

goodbye Gulp Gulp.

what a good day....

so yesterday after my classes and stressing out about my major (whatever....do i really need one of those??) i decided to take a good long nap. i was going to get up around 6:15ish (i went to bed about 5:00)...but when dad called at 5:30 and woke me up, my nap definitely needed to go longer. silly me woke up at 7:00 and realized i had missed dinner. :-( so i fell back asleep. when i finally did get out of bed it was already 8:30......and whoops, i realized i missed my IFC meeting. but.....(here's the good part!)

Alexis was headed to Ivanhoe's, so i went too. i ate too much, but it was yummy....plus, i had a really healthy day otherwise. but before we left i checked my mail. i was SO excited to find out i had 2...yes TWO real letters. (okay cards...whatever) my mom had sent me one, which was absolutely wonderful. i will definitely write her back soon. and then there was a second one. i did not recognize the handwritting whatsoever, and i was quite confused. that was until i turned it over and realized it was from landon's grandparents!! they sent me a nice card for my birthday. i was shocked......so yes. 2 wonderful cards in 1 day!!!!

so after Ivanhoe's i knew i needed to study, but decided to get to bed early and study this morning. but before i fell asleep, i had to name my fish and frog. i've had them a week...and they needed names. My fish are Pete and Yellowfish. and my frog is GulpGulp. I think those are perfect names....and someday you should ask me to tell you the story of GulpGulp and Yellowfish.

so this morning I got up about 8:25ish and came to the library to study. yes yes. I have now studied for about 2 and 1/2 hours for my statistics test....i hope it goes alright. yikes. now it is time to get to lunch with Alexis. :-D

Syrup....

a new link is over there on the side....Syrup. you should look at it.

it's good stuff.

so much has been going on.....

so yes. friday night mom made me this awesome new fleece blanket....because my post was so short, i forgot to mention it. so i shall mention it now. it has a blue backing and hockey players on the front. sunday morning i skipped out on church to go to DeSoto Elementary School. I parked my car, got out, laid my new blanket on the grass and read a wonderful book by Donald Miller. I spent quite a while just sitting on my own being by myself. It was very refreshing to get away from the craziness here at Taylor and go back to Elementary school. It was wonderful. But you know what made it so much better than if i had done this last week......this week i had a great blanket to lay on all because my mom is SO great!!

Tuesday morning I got up early to meet Karen in Muncie. I met her at 9 AM at G&M pet store. There she bought me my birthday present. She bought me my fishies!! I now and the proud owner of 2 guppies (1 male and 1 female), a colored glass fish, and an African Dwarf Frog!! I am afraid I have done something wrong though because the frog is acting weird and the water is cloudy. but things seem alright now....i just hope they stay this way.

I just made myself some KoolAid. I love it. I haven't had KoolAid since last summer and before that I can't remember when it was. I was just thinking about how last summer in Costa Rica every day at our work site we would work, take a snack, work, lunch, long nap, work, snack, and then work for a little while longer. and everyday with our snacks and lunches....we would drink KoolAid. It was always an exciting surprise to taste what flavor I would get that day. It hardly ever remained the same. Oh, and the KoolAid could always use some more mix stuff. So as I sit here at my desk drinking my KoolAid, that could probably use more mix stuff, I think of Costa Rica. it was a good trip. I miss those kids from home. you sure are some great ones. I love you.

the weekend

went with my family to see fever pitch tonight. a very cute movie. i enjoyed it.

going to see landon tomorrow. excited about that. doing lots of homework....but at least i get to see landon. good good.

church on sunday and a birthday cookout for alex robertson. :-D should be a good time.

in a hurry, but i'll write something anyway....

so i'm headed off to work in about 3 minutes. i got out of stats early....that was sweet. it is a beautiful day outside and it makes me not really want to go to work, but i've gotta. i got my first check yesterday. that is wonderful....i might actually be able to pay for some gas. oh joy. so yea.

i'm probably going to change my major too....isn't that exciting. oh you know it is. so i've gotta figure that one out too. yikes. a lot to do in these last few weeks of school. alright.

i've gotta get to work.

so i'm guessing you want to hear the rest of the birthday weekend....

yes i know you do.

So about 7:30 Landon arrived at my front door with a dozen red roses. :-D they are wonderful. we left for dinner at Damon's. On the way he played me a song by Keith Urban (oh yes i love the country..hehe) and then gave me my very nice and simple anklet with a cross on it. Dinner was great and perfect. We played the trivia game......that was entertaining. i actually knew some of the answers all by myself!

after dinner we went back home for cake and ice cream with family. Billie and his fiancee and their kids, grandma, patti, tammy, karen, rajeev, liz, and mom (plus me and landon) were all there. They stayed until about 10ish.

Saturday.....Landon, Mom, and i went to Louiville to pick up my new sofa loveseat thingy. we made it back in time to see Rachel Delph at the mall getting her make-up done for prom. she looked great. then it was back to my house for me and landon switched his phone with his mom's phone. we then we to Puerta Vallarta with Kim and Alex. we also went and watched the Ring2. grand. I liked it. then back to Alex's house and i fell asleep on the ground.

Sunday.....church, then lunch with grandma, karen, rajeev, landon, liz, mom, and me with apple dumplings. so good. landon and i then brought my sofa to taylor and took the futon home. landon was going to go hang out with his friend sam, but sam wasn't able to do that. so he is hanging out with them on friday instead. so landon was able to spend some more time around here. we got some food and watched a movie.

it was a wonderful birthday weekend. i am so thankful for all of my family, friends and all those that care about me. you made my birthday wonderful once again!

April Fool's Day

i love it.

as i have said earlier, it is my birthday. what a day. i have been told that i love my birthday and celebrate it like it's my job. and that is true. so i make sure that everyone knows when my birthday is so that way everyone tells me happy birthday on my birthday. The thing is that my birthday is very memorable. For one, it is on the first of the month and it is usually noticed when months change. and then again it is also April Fool's Day, which throughout your day, many people probably mention. so therefore, people remember my birthday.

So let me tell you about my birthday this year.

i slept on the couch last night as i did not want to clear off my bed which is covered in lots of odd things i brought home from school as i was not using them. i woke up around 8:15, kind of early, but not too bad. about 10:15 mom and liz and i left and went to the Albany post office and then headed to the the bakery to pick up my cake and some breakfast. i ate a blueberry doughnut with blue icing and sprinkles and half of a very good cresant doughnut. it was delish. then we went to the mall and i got my second hole put in my ears. i now have 6 peircings and i think that is pretty good. after the mall we called grandma and ate lunch at the olive garden. i had the seafood alfredo. delish once again. liz and grandma then went shopping and i went with mom to hobby lobby and the grocery. karen joined us at hobby lobby and then headed to work (she had just gotten off of jury duty...fun fun). mom and i then went to marsh. we ran into Denise Shockley from across the street, Jane Delph (Rachel's mom), Landon's mom, and this other lady's that had me speak at her church for a 30 hour famine thing. We were just going for a short trip, but ended up staying way too long. oh well. it was nice to see all those people. Then we headed home and put away the groceries. i ate another cresant doughnut.

i am now sitting at my computer and about to take a nap.

my birthday plan has worked (the one about getting people to remember) because 8....yes EIGHT people (only two realated) have called me today. i feel so so special. it is a great day.

landon is coming to take me out to dinner sometime tonight. it's all a surprise. so that's exciting. i'll let you know how it all turns out!

Hey....do you know what today is??

oh yes.

it is my birthday!

now it is time to go have some fun.....i'll let you know all about it at the end of the day.

so happy birthday to me!