So I am not sure what the deal is with me finding goldfish in the most random of places, but last week my tank became home to four new finned friends. Last Wednesday I went to visit my college and sit-in on a presentation by one of my professor-friend's classes. She needed people to review her students and give them feedback on their presentation so I and a couple of good friends from college decided to help her out.

In the classroom on top of the rollaway TV cart, was a seemingly empty Starbucks cup. But when one of the students went to toss it out she noticed that it was not empty at all, but contained a small amount of water and four little goldfish flitting about the bottom.

"Are you kidding me?" I exclaimed.

No one knew where they had come from and assumed it was from a former presentation earlier that day. But why the heck someone would use some poor live fishies is beyond me (as I have already made clear).

I examined them closely and being much less scurvy looking than the last bunch, I decided they would be okay to take home. So they rode with us in the car, in their Starbucks cup in the cup holder. They also accompanied us to dinner at Wendy's where they received a water change in the soda dispenser.

They have been with me a week and so far so good. They are actually kinda pretty little fish. They are white and orange spotted like Koi fish. =) But while my heart has endless capacity for saving abandoned critters, my fish tank capacity is well beyond full, so please people...stop with the fish abuse!

Whew...what a past few months! My goodness I have been busy. You may have noticed the sudden surge in posts, that were obviously not posted a few days ago. No you didn't forget to refresh your browser, they weren't there before. I have adjusted the dates of the events to fit in chronologically with my life timeline. You will find that I do this often. Why? Because I am OCD and it drives me crazy to have them out of order! So there.

I had started a number of posts, and they have been sitting as drafts in my blogger for months now, I just had not finished them and tonight I decided to do some blogging therapy and catch up. So technically I did start them around the correct time, I just didn't published them. It is so not cheating! "Whatever I WANT okay!! I swear!!"

I will try to be more on top of things in the future. And if not...how are you gonna know anyway! muahahahah! Man...I wish I could alter real-time this easily. ^_~

My First Mickey Mouse ears!

I had originally planned on writing more about this trip, but there is just too much to say. Where to even begin!? But what it really comes down to is this; The Happiest Place on Earth...really is happy. You can't help but be happy. It is really kinda freaky, almost evil, but it is not. It is pure happy magic. I dunno what that fairy puts in her pixie dust, but damn, I was high on happiness.

I bought a new camera so that I could take pics so I will let the pics do the rest of the storytelling.

It was such an awesome trip! Thanks again D+H for making my first Disneyland trip and adventure!

Jon's family and I just got back from taking a 3 day cruise to Mexico. It was the first time I had ever been on a cruise. Heck, it was the first time I had ever been on a boat in the ocean before so naturally I was excited!

The Good:
Road Trips and listening to comedy routines on the iPod.
Little Italy in downtown San Diego where we had a yummy dinner at a neat Italian restaurant.
14th floor bay view from the hotel room where we could see sailing ships and watch the sunset over the ocean.
The perma-drunk feeling that comes with being on a huge rocking boat. One min you are fine and the next your equillibrium tries to adjust to the rocking and you have a moment of drunken stumbles.
Free food. It wasn't the best food ever like the rumors say, but their was alot of it, and it was free. Even free sushi and cappuccino.
Marvin, our awesome head server who was always smiling, joking around and even gave us Table Etiquette 101 lessons!
Fish tacos at a Mexican restaurant in downtown Ensenada were surprisingly yummy.
New leather jackets that we got a great deal on in Mexico (lightweight so I can even wear it in AZ.)
Deep dark starry skies that go on forever and the cool patterns of rolling shadows of the waves in the night.

The Bad:
The weather, while beautiful wasn't warm enough so I didn't get a chance to use my awesome new swimsuits.

Sleeping in a strange place like a ship rocking on the ocean was tough to get used to. I kept waking up in the middle of the night in a panic attack because I would hear a loud noise and instinctively thought the ship was going to sink. =S

My Janky Knee. I dunno what happened to it, but I had to go to the doc and wear a knee brace for a few weeks because it was all out of whack. So all the walking irritated it.

The Biggest Bad of all:
Lost my Camera and cried for days. I had been taking lots of really great pics of our trip. I haven't been much of a picture taker the last few years and I was lacking in scrapbooking material, so I had been taking pics of everything and all the family and it was great! I was going to make scrapbooks of our trip and give them to the family as Christmas gifts. No one else was really taking pictures because I was taking pics for them and was of course going to share. I remember the exact place that I last saw it, but when we went back it was already gone and no one turned it into lost and found. I think someone pocketed it.

The Ugly:
Old baggy-skinned ladies in swimsuits. *shudders* (Hey I know it is mean, and I may be an old baggy-skinned lady someday. But you can bet I sure as hell won't be in a swimsuit showing it off!) And to be equally sexually discriminating, old men in speedo-esque swim shorts. Eww.

Ensenada. Cultural rich land my ass. Mexican Ghetto culture maybe. Let me paint a picture for you...

Imagine driving through a town of old stone buildings and through fields of derelict cars and stinky goats for 45 mins on a bus that smells so bad of diesel exhaust we had to breathe into our shirt so as to not get high so that we can get get to a wretched tourist trap called "La Bufadora" (or in English "The Blowhole") to walk through a street that was more like a tunnel laden with cheap souvenirs, designer knock off bags, and fake jewelry, all the while we are bombarded with shop owners whistling, yelling, and asking us to step inside for "just a mexican minute" as we make our way to a mossy, crab infested crevice of rock on the shoreline that if you watch will suck in ocean water and spray it up in the air in a "spectacular presentation" of water that is "wow", about 2 whopping stories high and nothing to rival Old Faithful and so we turn around and make our way back through tunnel of peddlers and get on the smelly bus for the ride back to town where we are encouraged to "take a nap" on the ride back, I imagine because they don't want us to see the rest of the town as we roll into a "historical monument" of an old church that smells of rotting wood and the bathrooms smell like nasty because you can't flush the toilet paper due to the old sewer pipes so all the poopy paper is tossed in the overflowing trash cans where I wanted to barf into because my germaphobia was at its peak, but that would make things even worse so I doused myself in Purell, and cried a little on the inside and then walked into the "nicer" part of town (which meant that this area had paved roads) and so we had lunch at a little semi-Americanized restaurant where we drank bottled Coke (like you can get at Costco) and then walked back to the ship but not before getting hassled by a little wide eyed girl that was selling bracelets and "chicle" and who gave me the evil eye when I didn't buy anything as she tailed me all the way across the bridge where after only a few more run ins with crazy shop merchants we finally got to the boat where I could take a much needed hot shower and scrub off a few layers of skin before laying down for a nap.

*deep breath in* And that was Mexico. And also the longest running sentence in the history of this blog.

Haha! Nah, the LaBufadora was kinda cool. The water was pretty colors and it was neat to see all the crabs and seals and stuff, but it was alot of hype and annoyance for just a little water. =/ Kinda anticlimactic. I had some really great pics of the rainbows in the geiser which are now, oh lost!

My thoughts towards the jerk who pocketed my camera have also been very ugly. I hope bad karma wails on you buddy.

Here's wishing you all a wonderful day! I hope that you get to do something fun to celebrate. As for me...I colored eggs today. =) I colored brown ones, which I have never done before, but that is all I had in the fridge so that is what was used. They actually turned out pretty good. The colors are deeper and some of them came out really dark. Overall I was pleased.

Have fun all! Happy Easter!

From Easter 2009