Thursday, November 11, 2010

pairs that would miss each other if they were separated

so one of my best friends from home, kali, and i have been facebook messaging about life. She's at JMU, so we're a little bit too far to really hang out, other than over skype, and who has time for that? well, thanks to facebook, we can keep up with one another, and we started saying "i miss you like..." i started off with "I miss you like macaroni misses the cheese before they're mixed together." so here are a few more:

I miss you like barbie would miss pink if the color disappeared.

I miss you like mint ice cream misses the chocolate chips. (Kali)

I miss you like tom missed jerry when the show ended.

I miss you like trees miss their leaves when they fall off in autumn. (Kali)

I miss you like barney...wait, barney doesn't miss anyone, what am i talking about?

ok, that's enough of those.

so yesterday during english class, sarah and i made lyrics to the song "teenage dream" by katy perry. we each did different themes, sarah's was food, mine was about the fish that i had that died. here's the story of the fish (i'll try to post the song lyrics later):

once upon a time, i wanted to buy fish. i knew i couldn't buy fish because i wasn't yet 18, and petsmart won't let anyone buy fish until they reach the age of 18. so, on my 18th birthday, there were two things i had my friends do with me: get my ears pierced a second time, and buy fish. so i get my ears pierced, then we drive over to petsmart and get a pink fish tank (go figure) with pink rocks and a pink bubble background. all i needed was pink fish. well, i got them. one of them was pink anyway, the other two were yellow, and orange. we named them flo, glo, and spankie. the pink one was flo, and was terribly mean, glo was the yellow one, and we were afraid she may have been pregnant, and lastly, spankie, the orange one, was the midget of the trio.

fall break came up. i didn't know what to do with the fish over the 5 days i would be home. should i take them home? should i maybe leave them here? should I just let them die? my roommate suggested getting some time-release food that lasts a while, but i didn't have any way to get to the store and buy this stuff (yeah, i really need a car here!). so, there i went, all the way home with the fish. they made it there perfectly fine, and they added an extra something to my dining room at home. I took care of them at home, and my mom enjoyed seeing them there.

it's time to go back to cnu. i pack the fish up again, get back to cnu. the first thing i did was let the fish back in the tank, rather than the ziplock bag in which they had been swimming during the car ride. they began swimming, then i looked in the tank a few minutes later, and spankie was caught in the filter. oh no...how do i get a fish out of the filter? no idea. i raced to unplug the fliter, but it was too late, he was already dead. he didn't move from the filter either. the other two quickly died after that. I really don't know what the cause of death could've been, just that they all three died.

i guess i'll eventually get new fish. what should they be named??

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