Luna Tail

I need to keep track of which crab is where and who is molting and who is not… so I’m going to do this here, as well as on my Flickr page. So here we go!

This picture is of the 20 gallon long I have upstairs… there is only one crab in here. I got this tank and this crab on Veteran’s day, the 11th of November 2008. The person who gave him and the tank to me said that there may be bugs in the tank… so I cleaned it out, and gave him some new shells, and he switched shells. And he’s in isolation to make sure he’s okay.  So far, so good.  Though he may be molting under that pile of ecoearth:

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Downstairs Tank. I got this tank and the two bigger crabs on 06 Nov 2008, Thursday. I got the three smaller crabs from Petco on 07 Nov 2008, Friday (not sure why I bought them, I was being goofy that day). 29 gallon (I think, I haven’t measured it yet). Three of these crabs are out and about and two of them seem to be buried, possibly molting.

These are the two on the cholla wood. The bigger of the two seems to be doing quite good. I got him for free on KSL.com and his name was Max. The other one I got with him was named Lucy (since I have a dog names Lucy that’ll have to change) and she was in a painted shell. She is not visible at the moment.. so she is buried and maybe molting. Though when I say ’she’ I’m guessing, I haven’t sexed them yet.

The other guy in the white shell is one I got from Petco. Seems okay, though not much movement out of him.  He hasn’t gone down to molt though so maybe he’s okay.

Oh, this is the tank where one of the crabbies was nakid for a day or two.  He is now gone, and I don’t know if he’s molting or if he got a shell.  Hopefully he’s molting. There is no bad fish smell so hopefully none of them have died on me.

This is the third guy in the downstairs tank that is not buried. He is also a Petco crab. He seems to be doing okay, though like the little white guy he hasn’t had much movement. He’s been on the cholla wood most of the time, too, with the other two crabs.

Finally, here is a picture of the whole tank downstairs. My tanks are pretty sparce right now mainly because I want to keep an eye on the crabs, and also because I don’t have much to put in them yet! Plus I have a tank at work that I’m going to be switching to a way cool 35 gallon hex my friend Christy gave me.

So there we have it! They have ecoearth substrate. Salt Water (Instant Ocean) and fresh water bowls. Wood to climb on, and food from The Crabbage Patch as well as fresh food. I need to eat more fresh food myself, and share with the crabbies!

I will post about them occasionally so I can keep track of them!

I joined Weight Watchers and have been following it since I got back from my cruise. Last week I had two cheat days… which was bad. I was planning on only one but then two ended up coming out of the blue. Mainly because I went to lunch at work both days I worked last week. And that ends up giving me too many calories.

So anyway I can eat 21 points a day. At about 50 cals a point (that is not exact, the formula depends on fat and protein too) that’s not a lot of food. I am not really hungry, though. But I need the structure to follow or else I end up eating way, way too much. If I don’t write down what I eat, at the end of the day I don’t remember what I ate at the beginning of the day and so I eat more than I should.

I’ve been quite good at eating only my points. And my weight is dropping, yay! So now instead of eating a piece of toast with butter and jam for 4 or 5 points, I think heck, I can fill myself up a lot more for the same number of points if I eat a huge salad! So I am learning about how to fill myself up with less food.

Tomorrow will be hard, I’m going to my parent’s to make Marzipan. And I love that stuff. My sister will be there, though, so hopefully she will help me not eat all that yummy stuff! Ugh!

Gah… my internet connection is being very slow tonight. Bleh. I hate slow. Even my husband is saying it’s slow and it’s not me causing it this time! I wonder if I can get Sears Layaway for online items…? If so, I’ll need a faster internet connection to do anymore online shopping. I love online shopping, it’s the best. It’s easy and quick and I really don’t like going into stores much anymore. Sometimes I get into the mood to shop in stores themselves. And I might have to get into that mood, because Christmas is coming pretty darn soon.

I’m hoping to find some good Christmas presents this year… and, according to the Sears Layaway site… i can buy online and then pick it up in the store. and even using layaway! That is awesome. That saves me on shipping for products I buy online. Plus it saves me the time it would take for the presents to be mailed back to me… and that can take a while this time of year.

My sister says she wants a Muffin Pan… hrm… I bet they have one at Sears! And I bet they have some nice clothes too. I actually like Sears clothes, and I like the brands and styles they carry, too. So I hope to get a nice shirt for a friend of mine, too. And some other apparel too. So.. lol, I can get these wishes on layaway!

Hrmph.. well, yeah, I do feel somewhat less angry today. Sorry about the prior cryptic post. Today is day 19 and it seems like day 24 or 25 instead… Not sure why, but my patience is short and my temper is short and I just want to be selfish and do what I want to do. Which mainly entails lying about.

However I did clean the kitchen today! It’s been bugging me for some time. I even cleaned the stove and put fresh tinfoil under the burners. I don’t do that often enough. And I’m having some tea… I love Yogi Tea. So far every kind I’ve tried I like a lot.

I’m probably going to be doing dog training each day of the weekend for a while… Fridays obedience, Saturdays agility, and Sundays flyball. I do really really wish I could have one weekend day off, but I don’t want to give up any of the training and the other people I’m training with can’t change days. I really like to have one day off a weekend! But oh well. I do love the training and Chase needs the agility training and the flyball is just fun. And so is the obedience. Ah well. Life goes on!

Noooo… time goes way too fast anymore! It’s already the 15th of November and I haven’t done any shopping at all yet. Bleh. And I need to get on it. I have some Christmas lists from relatives, and I have some ideas for friends, so I really need to make a list for shopping and get on it.

One of the stores I do like to shop at is Kmart! I still like them, even though there are other department stores now that may be bigger. The Kmart Layaway is awesome, and I’ve been known to take care of it. Do you remember the blue light specials? Well they still happen! I remember them from when I was a kid even! And that was a while ago now… do you remember the Mr. Bluelight character? I only barely remember him. But he is a cutie little guy!

Kmart has a ton of stuff… from Jaclyn smith clothes to electronics like TVs and radios and mp3 players. They have the Joe Boxer apparel too for the whole family. And I do love lounging in soft PJs and tops in the evening… I wonder what colors they have? Hrmm… I love pinks and blues.

So… well, I think I better get shopping!

Hrmph. I am pissy tonight. I am not going to go into detail because, well, just because.  But tonight as I sit here on the couch and Lucy is hacking up water… regurgitating water, and my husband snapped at me, and I’m tired and I ate crappy today… I feel like other people feel like their needs are more important than mine, and I want to get my own needs met.

Suffice it to say that I, also, am not sure what I want to do about the situation. Because I can say no, I know that I can.  But I don’t know if I want to do this thing more than I want to do something else… like take care of myself and give myself something. Because I do want to do both, but I want to do them on some different days next week.

Cryptic enough for you? LOL… well, I refuse to write anything in my blog that hurts other people’s feelings and so I will be cryptic and change the names of the innocents… although, there really aren’t any innocent adult humans left in this world.

I hate it when Lucy regurgitates water. She drinks, and we don’t catch her, and it comes back up.  And then Chase was doing some choking thing too and I don’t know what to do about that either. So I feel helpless and tired and my neck hurts and I just CAN’T stop cracking it because I forget that I’m doing it and I get home and realize it hurts from cracking but how can I stop doing something I don’t even know that I’m doing?

So it’s a crappy evening and I want a relaxing weekend but I don’t know how much relaxing and meditating and down time I’ll get and I’m realizing my down time is as important, if not more so, than my up time. I need it for my own mental and physical health.

So that’s my cryptic story for the day.

I actually woke up this morning and felt like I wanted to get up! For about the last week, and maybe longer than that, I have woken up in the morning feeling like I really need more sleep.  I wonder if I just don’t get enough sleep, or enough rest. For the last two days… both Sunday and Monday, I sat on my but all day long and felt pretty crappy.  Not really sick, but not like getting up and doing anything.

Fortunately Monday I worked from home and so I was able to sit on my but all day and do something, though nothing physical. I went to bed at about 10pm last night, and I actually woke up on my own this morning without feeling like I need five more hours of sleep. I got up at 7:50 am but I could have gotten up earlier, it was just so nice to snuggle in bed with the dogs all sleeping peacefully.

Maybe I’m still recovering from the cruise.  I’m not sure.  Maybe I just push myself too hard and I don’t get enough idle time.  Sunday I revamped Tip Tail, my dog blog.. and I’m sooo happy with the new theme! Every theme should have a sidebar option in the header!

Right now, 8:22am, I am sitting with Lucy after having fed her in her Bailey’s Chair. She has to sit for 20 minutes for her food to go down into her tummy. And I feel the need to clean, organize, train the dogs, and actually do stuff!  I like this better than feeling ucky!

Oh and the rose…? My husband picked it from one of our rosebushes in the yard. Isnt’ it pretty!  It’s kinda late in the year for roses, but it’s opening up beautifully in the house in a glass of water.