Weekend

Most of my weekend was spent working on the fish tank, or at least it felt that way. This thing is a lot of work, I tell ya.

Friday night we went with Kenny to see Million Dollar Baby. REALLY good movie. It totally wasn't what I expected it to be, but wow it was good. Don't read any reviews for the movie beforehand, just go see it. Hilary Swank did a great job - remember Boys Don't Cry? That's the one movie I can never watch again. Not because I thought it was bad (I thought it was really good), but just because of how much it disturbed me. That was the hardest movie to watch, I just couldn't do it again.

Saturday morning Marc and I went to Costco and somehow inexplicably bought $240 worth of stuff. I don't think it's possible to leave that place without spending less than $200. I don't even really remember what we got. I know we got meat, but I know it wasn't $240 worth of meat.

After that, Marc took him mom out to run some errands, and I went to Aquatic Gallery in Milpitas to buy some stuff for the tank. I got a few rocks, some macroalgae, and a few snails and hermit crabs. Then I went to Mermaid Aquarium in Fremont and got some peppermint shrimp (one of them didn't even live to leave the bag).

Our blue tang seems to be doing pretty well. She's still kind of shy, but I've had her swim up to the glass to look at me a couple times. She eats like a total pig now.

Our leather coral is still not doing so well. :( It's still all slumped over, and one of the arms is almost broken off. It's kind of sad. On the other hand, our mushroom coral expands more and more every day.

That night we rented Dodgeball. I fell asleep halfway through the movie, and never finished it. It might have been all the popcorn and raisinettes that made me sleepy.

Sunday we didn't do too much. I took Bandit to Petsmart for class, then pretty much watched football for the rest of the day while fiddling around with the fish tanks. The Colts-Patriots game sucked. I'm tired of seeing the Patriots in the playoffs too. I think I'd like to see an Eagles-Steelers Super Bowl.

I also finished converting our wet-dry filter under the tank to a refugium. I put some live rock rubble in there, along with some macroalgae, and installed a light in the cabinet for it.

Despite all the work and the problems, I'm really enjoying this hobby. There's so much to learn. I just wish it weren't so damn expensive. I told Marc we need to win the lottery so we can get a nice big house with a big 'ol tank in the wall. Like this guy. He's got a dedicated fish room and everything, it's amazing.

We watched some of the Golden Globes in the evening, and then went to bed (late).