Casa de Chester
When Andy and I came back from Louisiana over Christmas we brought back our aquarium which hadn't had anything in it for almost eight years. This was mainly due to the fact that I never kept a fish alive for more than two weeks in it. So, after three months of deliberating about what to put in the aquarium and even running the pump with only water in it, we decided to transfer Chester to the aquarium and then Andy's snake from school will now live in Chester's old habitat upstairs. Since he's been moved Chester is much more active, hopping around a lot more which has caused Miss Kitty to take much more of an interest in him. Here's Andy and Miss Kitty feeding Chester last night.
Labels: chester, miss kitty
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
Odds and Ends
Last night Andy and I ate at a new hibachi restaurant literally across the street from our apartment. We hadn't eaten at one of those in forever and it was just as kitschy and cool as I remember it. The chef did the whole knife show and the onion volcano. fun fun.
We also fed Chester for the first time last night. He's supposed to be fed every two to three days, crickets or mealworms. We gave him three crickets last night and let me tell you, Chester is lethal. As soon as we dropped the cricket in he grabbed it in one leap. He's quite the badass.
We're venturing to New Jersey this weekend for a wedding reception on Saturday which means we'll miss the LSU game. We're going to tape it and Andy and I were saying this morning that we didn't have to worry about anyone talking about the outcome of the game. If we were in Louisiana no one would have scheduled a wedding that conflicted with an LSU game and even if they had everyone would be huddled around a small TV watching the game at the reception.
Everyone wish Nick a Happy Birthday...I know, one day late...sorry!
Pictures from the first half of Andy's Cross Country trip with Mike this summer are up..just click the link on the right. He's releasing them in two batches of around 250 each so grab a drink and settle in before viewing. I also added pictures from the Halloween parade...these are at the end of the "Friends in NYC" album. Check out the puppets..very cool.
The Vegeenas won last weekend behind 41 points from one Mr. Ladanian Tomlinson. We're on a three game winning streak right now and we've risen to third in the league. Hopefully we can keep it going this weekend. Go Vegeenas!!
Labels: chester, football, restaurants, vegeenas
New Addition!
Last night I told Andy to text me when he was leaving school and I would leave work at the same time. Well 5:30 rolled around and he still hadn't texted so I left work...I called him on the way out and he sounded super-chipper and even offered to cook dinner. Karin was walking with me to get coffee and I mentioned that he sound awfully happy for being at work until 5:30. So I got home and he came in about 20 minutes after me with a surprise!! A new pet..a fire-bellied toad. I had been talking for a while about wanting a frog so he went to Petco and picked one up for me. He is super-cute. I'm just assuming that it's a he. We haven't settled on a name yet, waiting to get a feel for his personality. I immediately called him Chester and Andy has been calling him Roscoe or Coe for short. He also threw T-Bone out there but I vetoed that one. Suggestions are welcome. Here are some pictures of Chester/Roscoe. And we are going to pick one name...we aren't going to combine them like when Andy and his sister couldn't decide what to name the bird so they just called him Scooterbingo. Anyway...enjoy the pictures of our new family member! I'm still trying to figure out how we're going to get him in the Christmas card.
Labels: chester, pets
