Boredom, Friday Five, Axolotl talk
Pretty bored ATM. I would otherwise do some more hinging in DAoC, but in less than 10 minutes they'll be taking the server down, and I don't really want to waste time getting all setup when it won't last long. So... I'm making a post here.
I figured I would answer the Friday Five questions to kill some time, but they're not the best of questions to be asking someone like me.
1. When was the last time you went to the doctor?
I think it was probably sometime back in June of 2002. At the time I was mainly going in for tests at the hospital... I guess I went to a doctor a couple of months before that so I could get a reference for the tests, but I don't remember going.
2. When was the last time you went to the dentist?
Heh... It's probably been 4 years, and I won't go again for the rest of my life if I can manage it. I could be the poster girl for why you don't give braces to 8 year olds... I have tons of cavities from the experience, but I've learned to live with them. The last thing I need is the "help" from a dentist that will gladly schedule (and charge me) for 10 office visits to fill 1-3 cavities at a time. I'd rather they knock me out for for 5 hours and do them all at once, but apparently that's not possible. So... for now they just give me another reason why I should lay off sweet stuff 
3. When was the last time you filled your gas tank?
I think the last time I filled a gas tank was the day before I went to my first job through the employment agency. Or maybe I did once sometime while Matt was here back in November? Can't remember.
4. When was the last time you got enough sleep?
I'm actually having the problem of getting too much sleep lately.
5. When was the last time you backed up your computer?
I don't really back up my computer... ever since my zip disks started erasing on me for no reason, I stopped trying to kid myself that it's ever possible to keep all the data you want.
Sigh. I'm actually really looking forward to feeding my axolotls today, and waiting for when my mother gets home to do it so she can watch... just cause I like her seeing them Cayenne's leg is growing back nicely (not sure if I ever mentioned it... but when I put Kasey and Cayenne in the big 20 gallon tank, I guess Kasey got so hungry beyond his control that he felt the need to bite Cayenne's arm off. I had hard them splashing, so I guess I discovered it right after it happened) and as they're getting bigger, it's becoming more and more obvious that Cayenne is a boy... though Kasey I'm still not 100% sure about. They're responding to the cow liver moreso than the shrimp, so hopefully they'll grow alot more in the coming months. No matter what sex they end up really being, I'll always refer to Cayenne as "she" and Kasey as "he"... simply because they look that way to be by their coloring and personalities.
I had had Cayenne in the big tank for a while, but the filter I was using broke a night or two ago while I was trying to get it to stop making such a rattling noise. I kept trying to figure out what it was hitting up against, but now I'm just accepting that it was old and it was a crappy filter anyway. I couldn't keep Cayenne in the tank after it broke, since she was depending on the filter to put air in the water, and I wasn't sure that she'd be able to swim to the surface with her bad leg. Plus, big quantities of stagnant water just gets freaking nasty after a while. I'd really like to get a canister filer for the tank as soon as possible... But they're in the range of $45-65. I've told my mother about it, and she tried to convince me to cash my state tax return check and use that money... it's only $50, but I had wanted to keep that for when Matt came here. I had given my $144 check to my father, since the union at my mother's work is planning on going on strike sometime in late March, and they'll need all the money they can then (since my parents don't understand the concept of saving, they have 0 saved up for emergencies such as this). So... yeah. My mother wants me to talk to my father about buying a filter for me, but I don't see how he'd ever say yes.
Matt will be arriving here in a week. Doesn't seem like that long ago that he was here in November. I guess most of this week will be spent cleaning this nasty house again, though it never ends up looking all that great... but clean > dirty I guess, whether it's a visible difference or not.