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You Can't Graph Happiness

Saturday night we went to Cassie and Martin's for games and the conversation somehow got around to finances. I am really anal about keeping track of my cheking account (I know, shocking) so I still balance my checkbook, recording every transaction in Quicken on my computer. Martin was saying that he does the same thing and then creates a graph of the different categories of expenses. I'm afraid to do this because I think it would be shocking how much we spend on "dining and entertainment." Anyway, Martin commented that the "pets" portion of their graph has gotten bigger and bigger due to Cassie's recent foray into the world of aquariums to which Cassie responded "you can't graph happiness."

I tried to remind my self of this yesterday as I entered the receipts for Chester's new terrarium, substrate, water bowl, climbing log, and plant into Quicken. For a $5 frog, he certainly has a nice home. When I told Andy that I thought it may be a little over the top he responded by saying "no, it's just like the exhibits they have at the zoo" uh, yeah...exactly.

After we put the new terrarium up yesterday morning and introduced Chester to his new home we spent about an hour watching him climb around. The cage is 18 inches high and he repeatedly climbed to the top and then with no where left to go would just fall back down to the ground. Either he really likes the new place and climbing around or he hates it and has been trying to commit frog suicide since yesterday morning. Either way, he was a lot of fun to watch.

Labels: chester, pets

posted by carolyn @ 4:10 PM