again with the snowflakes!

yesterday was thanksgiving; i went to alan and roger's for dinner. they had quite a spread including smoked salmon and ham along with the requisite turkey and stuffing, etc. i ate too much.

i left there around 9 and rented a couple of movies. i watched one last night and will prolly watch the other tomorrow. last night was angela's ashes.
it was a really good movie. i read the book when it came out a while back and had totally forgotten they'd made a movie until i saw it at hollywood video last night. what a miserable childhood that guy had. my mom always says "never forget how lucky you are" whenever my sister or i bitch about what we haven't got... watching that movie last night really made me feel like a little ungrateful snotball. it was also interesting because i lived in limerick, where the story takes place, for four months in college and i could pick out scenes of places where i had been and seen while i was there. it was very cool.

i have some more painting to do before christmas carol is ready to open tonight, so that's what i'm gonna go do.. i will post pics soon, i swear.

also, i went to the fish store today, and bought two new fish. i got another upside down catfish and a gourami that's blue and orange striped. i found out that this particular fish store does trades for fish.. so i am considering trading in my plecostamus and the bigger of the two red-tailed sharks.

this seems like a weird concept, trading in your pets. on the one hand, i feel like an evil pet owner, like there's some fish union or prevention of cruelty to pet fish society that will secretly know. i am convinced i will secretly feel like a bad mom leaving my kids behind. on the other hand, the big shark is a total bully and the plecostamus shits more than any living creature ever should, filling his corner of the tank up so fast it's disturbing. he's also a bully. i'm hoping that once i trade them, and also my rosy barb finally kicks the bucket, i can steer more towards a community tank instead of the semi-aggressive groove i got goin.

we'll see....

this blog made me giggle.

Lily's Blog

this site is interesting.. a little unnerving, confusing and amusing too.

Ex-Gay Watch: Anything But Straight

yesterday i also managed to make my car payment, vacuum out my fishtank and re-arrange it with some new plants and a new driftwoody rock thing. the fish are muy happy now. i think i saw one frolic!

today i hope to finish christmas carol. otherwise i fear it may kill me if it drags on any longer. thursday is thanksgiving, and i'm going to my friend alan's for turkey etc.

also today - it's snowing.

today has been a great day so far. jessie and i went out to the state park where our friend betsy works and rode horses. betsy is in charge of the horses at lockwood state park. this morning we went out there around 9 am and helped load hay into wagon and then drove all around the pastures throwing it out for the horses to eat. there looked like around 30 horses all together and they followed the wagon to get the hay right away. then we helped feed and water the goats, sheep, swans and a chicken in the other barns up the hill. then we took horses out and rode them all around the trails up in the woods. i learned how to trot and how to saddle the horse after you scrape all the mud off (it's rainy today). we had a blast.

then we went for cheap mexican food - tres tasty. now i'm showered, i've written out all my bills, and am cleaning my apt. so productive!!