| I just wanted to share this because I found it cute.
On the bottom left, by the way, is the old house, which I put back in. They both fit.
To get this quality of picture, I had to put the camera inside the tank at the other end, do not attempt this shot through glass. =)
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| It rained today. Also known as free car wash day. I'm sure glad I bought new windshield wipers for the Explorer this month!
I went to PetCo to get food for the lizards. I got lost trying to go there last week, even though I've gone there once before. However, this time I asked the internet how to get there. I got the food, and also bought them a new house. I've been trying to get a good setup in their tank for a while. I want them to have seperate hiding places, because sometimes one of them goes in the house and the other one stays outside all day. You're technically supposed to have one more hide than you have lizards, but there wasn't room for two medium sized hides and I didn't think they'd even fit in the small sized ones. Today they had a new type I hadn't seen before. It's kind of like the magnetic two-part one, except without the outside part and for half the price. It looks like this (click will take you to PetCo product information page):
I scraped away some sand from beneath it because it has a floor and the old house didn't. Well, one of the lizards got so distracted digging around the mound of sand that it didn't take much notice of the house. The other one looked at the house confused for a while
Finally, I picked up the more docile one and put him down with his head just outside one of the three doors. He got the hint and looked inside. He went in up to his hind legs then backed out and kept digging.
I picked up the other one and put her outside another door. She went in, walked straight through, out the other door, and back around to the one she started at. When he saw that the other lizard made a big circle, that got the other one's interest. While they were exploring the house, I was also putting food into the dish, so they didn't poke around for too long before they decided to eat.
I put a VHS tape on the other side of the glass so they feel a little more secure in there for now, but I'll probably remove it when they're more comfortable. I'm also going to see if I have another hide in my lizard tank cleaning kit (a medium kritter keeper I put them in when I clean the tank, it stores lizard supplies when not cleaning) that will fit in the tank now. There may actually be room for a second one of these against the long side of the glass, then we'd be color coordinated (I've never seen this particular color, I even looked for a coordinating small hide while I was at the store today)! I wouldn't want to put another one of the same on the opposite short side because that's the food and water side. You don't want the food and water on top of the heater.
As I'm writing this, they've now discovered that they can climb on top of the house. I may need to start putting the lid on, because on their hind legs they may now reach the top of the tank. (They have a tendancy to do that, get up on their hind legs and make like they're going to climb up the walls. In fact, one of them's doing it now, but from the bottom level and not standing on the furniture. They'll learn eventually, I'd imagine.)
Oh, and today on the way back from PetCo I discovered Smart and Final. Go me! I went there and got some stuff instead of going to the grocery store on the way home. =) | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | I need to talk to David, my pet expert. These damn ants are swarming the worms not only in the can but in the food dish in the tank. Can't imagine it's good for the lizards to eat ants that are on the worms... I just cleaned the tank too. :( I'll have to relocate it and clean it again, but not in that order, or in parallel rather... | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Yeah, remember how I said I had too much to do and too little time? As I was going to PetCo to get food for my poor, hungry lizards, which I was going to rush home and feed them before I went to the apartment, I get a flat on the freeway. The THIRD flat tire of our new car we bought in May. You know, my '91 Explorer has had it's problems, including replaced brakes, radiator issues, etc, but it's never left me stranded on the side of the freeway...
Of course, my phone was almost dead and rather than have it die on me when I was snaking up the Pacific Coast Highway in the dark, I had left it on the charger while I made the "quick" trip to the pet shop.
I was bad and drove the car some more after I realized the back left tire was flat. I passed an interchange, because getting on another freeway was going to be no help. I got off on the next exit, near a Ford Truck place. Of course, they didn't do tires for "small" cars, but one of the guys at the shop was nice enough to change the tire for me. So I'm driving on a spare for now. I borrowed Mom's car again to go to Oxnard, which sucked because in the process I somehow lost the loan application which was in the trunk of the car before I left to PetCo. It disappeared, and now Charles has to drive down to El Monte so that we have a form with both of our signatures on it... | | comments: Leave a comment |
| As much as I like to think that my "part-time" job gives me time to do stuff, it really doesn't. I work 11-5, which means I would have had to wake up far too early to go to the bank for a loan (considering the time I got off the phone with my boy last night), and today when I get home I have to program the sprinklers, load a television in the car, pack up clothes, show mom how I want my wedding dress, and then get to Oxnard (almost 2 hours away) before it gets too late. Another reason why I can't get up early, I need to sleep now rather than sleep on the road. Oh, and I ran out of worms for my lizards. Well, kind of. I noticed ants in my room, and I couldn't figure out why. Then when I went to feed them before bed, I realized that there were ants milling around INSIDE the container of worms. I was very confused, but now we know ants eat worms. So I have to go to PetCo and get worms and come back and feed them before I leave. But I can't choose not to go to Oxnard, I have to get finger printed early in the morning for my new job and I don't want to risk driving there in the morning and not getting there on time.
I feel very emotionally drained. Yesterday, I got called in by the division manager to ask why I took a long lunch the day before. Well, the reason that I took a long lunch the day before was that there was lightening and a union meeting. Now, we're a swimming pool, and people can't swim in lightening, it's not allowed. So everyone was out of the water, the lifeguards were at home, and I had a supervisor in the office. I told her I was going to the union meeting, which was upstairs in the same building. I figure the reason my supervisor didn't reprimand me for it was because she was there too. So instead she went two steps up the chain of command to have the division manager do it.
We're having financial problems as of late. I actually don't want to quit my job at this point, I'd rather see how long I can keep working two jobs without being either totally drained or very pissed... I already came to the realization that once I move, my first two hours of work each day go to pay for my gas, so if they'll let me work two ten-hour days I will. Then I can work three days at my new job. At least long enough for us to pay off what our wedding is costing us...
My supervisor at my new job plans to start me the Monday after the wedding, which is really cool of her. I think she's getting married soon too (well, I know she's getting married, how soon is the part I don't know), we were having a discussion on changing last names. My boy's taking me from A to W, I think hers is taking her from S to Z. Not sure who wins there. :)
I have a lot of stuff. Just stuff, in general. I've been sending things home with Charles when he comes to visit, or dropping things off when I visit him. Now most of my CDs, DVDs, files, and a good amount of clothes are in his apartment. Then I look at the rest of my stuff and I wonder if I even want to clutter myself with it at the new place. I have clothes that don't fit anymore too. It's so hard for me to buy clothes, I went wedding dress shopping last night with mom and sister and my chest and waist/hips are in two different sizes. I can either have my chest constricted or my hips baggy. I think I'd rather keep the dress I already have.
On a final note, I must admit that I purchased three (small) cook books last night. Make of that what you will! | | comments: Leave a comment |
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