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| getting ready to go |
| 12.23.04 (4:40 am) [edit] |
Tomorrow I drive to my Dad's house for Christmas. My stomach is in knots. I'm staying in a hotel this time to protect myself from some of the heartbreak associated with the house and the negative interactions of the people who now reside in it. It'll be easier dealing with physical pain and fatigue in private.
Christmas used to be a treasure, a shiney spot on the calendar. I delighted in choosing gifts for people I loved, wrapping them with care, giving them with open-mounthed joy. Now, It's nothing but a chore, so odious that even whining about it online seems better than doing it.
I've told my father that next year I won't be coming there at Christmas, nor will I be receiving or giving any gifts. The price to my health and sanity is too high. I don't think he believed me.
When my mother was alive, she was the lynchpin of the family. Now she's gone and none of us seems capable of filling her place. Rusty habits held us closefor a while, but with their disintegration we are being flung apart.
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| just when you thought it was safe to go in the water |
| 12.11.04 (3:24 am) [edit] |
The National Geographic reports that herring break wind to communicate.
This intriguing idea comes from scientists who discovered that herring create a mysterious underwater noise by farting. Researchers suspect herring hear the bubbles as they're expelled, helping the fish form protective shoals at night. Robert Batty, senior research scientist at the Scottish Association for Marine Science in Oban, goes on to eplain, "It sounds very much like someone blowing a high-pitched raspberry." And they very kindly provide sound samples for your edification.
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| paradise fish! |
| 12.10.04 (2:07 pm) [edit] |
I'm so excited! I'm getting a pair of paradise fish!
Fishie Mama at Aquamaniacs (got fish?) is sending me a sibling pair of her very beautiful Macropodus opercularis. I'll be setting up a new 30-inch 20-gallon planted tank just for these little guys who, though only about 1.5" now, will grow up to around 3". Here's another cute picure.
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