Well finally, after over a year, I have redone the Crabitat. From what I’ve read you are really supposed to do a deep clean, which means to remove and replace the entire substrate, about every six months. Well that’s not gonna happen with me… sorry crabbies! My Hermit Crabs will get that about once a year, probably in the summer when I can take the thing outside and rinse it in the grass.
This isn’t a very good picture and I’ll try to get some more tomorrow. My camera battery was out of juice and I needed to put the wide angle lens back on before taking pics of the whole tank. So now that the tank is clean and nice, my house feels like a mess. Oh well. It’s a mess, I just have to live with it. Can’t afford to hire my friend to come clean. And I have too many dog things to clean myself. So the dog-fur dust bunnies are running rampant.
I thought I had eight crabs in the tank, but I only found seven of them. So either I miscounted or one of them died and disintegrated or something. I dunno. Otherwise they seem pretty healthy. All the shells I dug up didn’t have crabs in them, so no one seemed to be molting so that was good. I worry about that when I change out the substrate.
Yay for day five! Not made with a Samsung, the movie was made with a Mac. But that’s just better anyway. LOL. too much fun. I miss Denmark. I’m really back into the swing of being home again. And I really would love to go back. But life keeps me here, ya know how that goes. Work and family and friends and such. Life goes on.
This is the day we were in Fredericia at the Danish Swedish Farmdog specialty dog show. It was fun. Though the judge didn’t like Jet because he’s young and skinny. Oh well. Jet will get more broad, and I love him just the way he is anyway!
Okay Yup, I’m going to change my meds. LOL. I went to a new GYN last week and I really liked her! And, bonus, she’s on my insurance! Okay wait, she’s the Nurse Practitioner, haven’t actually met the doctor, but that’s fine by me. She gave me a prescription for bio-identical progesterone. I’ve wanted to try it forever… the prescription kind. I’ve done the over the counter kind often enough, and it does help, but I’ve wanted to actually work with a doctor to see if we can get the balance just right for me.
And I’m dropping off the Zoloft. Yay! I’m sick of it. I’m sick of having my muscles feel like they have electricity going through them all the time. Yuck. It’s not fun. And I am blaming most everything on the stuff now… I can’t drop weight for the life of me. My tension in my neck. And my swollen sinuses and face. These are, actually, all side effects. So hopefully getting off it will get rid of these. I just gotta keep my PMS under control, and the associated awful anxiety. Bleh.
So it’ll take about 6 weeks to get completely changed over. We’ll see how it goes. So far, so good. Maybe I’ll get some bow ties to make myself feel pretty when I’m done. Oh wait, that’d be for the husband wouldn’t it? LOL.
Anyway, I’ll keep the world posted about how I’m doing! And for the record, I’m really not that bad. I just want to even myself out a bit. Not like my life is miserable and I’m suffering awful anxiety all the time. So maybe I just need to suck it up anyway. LOL
When my husband came home one day and told me that we were moving to Colorado because he got a new job at a college there, I started planning the move immediately.
We had gone through this before, several times actually. We got married after undergrad and since then I’ve moved with him to various colleges for him to study and complete degrees at, and eventually teach at. I have the logistics down pat by now.
First we started looking for a house. Then I knew that I would have to find a reliable Internet service because he does so much work through e-mail. We’ve used satalite internet iowa for a while no so I searched for similar services in Colorado. After a short while I found and settled on wildblue CO.
Then I called the movers and started to arrange actually getting our stuff there. You may think my logic is a little off there, but we could get to our new house and my husband have to immediately get on his computer to do work. It’s happened before.
(This was not written by myself, Cynthia, it is a guest post thanks!)
Okay ready for another video of Denmark? I hope so. Here is day three. I’ll be putting these up occasionally as I get them done. I have a few done now and so I need to get them up!
Denmark was so very fun. I want to go back and my sister and I are planning a trip to Germany and Austria in 2012. I really hope that we can get it going. Depends on money, of course. Bleh, I wish we had more money. Maybe some thermogenic fat burners would help too… then we could be skinny when we go!
Okay I’m loosing weight. Thanks goodness. Finally. I am sticking with Eat To Live, it’s the only way I can drop the weight. It’s a very healthy way to eat… lots of fruits and veggies and beans. And I can fill myself up with them so I’m not hungry. It’s a low calorie way to eat, too, which is actually good. Studies have shown that reduced calorie diets actually cause critters to live longer. Mostly mice. And probably humans, too.
So good thing I don’t have to worry about eczema, but I do have to worry about my food intake. And as long as my stomach is full, my body doesn’t seem to get hungry. It’s not the amount of calories that I eat, it’s being full and being healthy that counts.
My husband and I went on a hike up to Dog Lake last Friday and there were some very pretty flowers. This is one of them. Yes I am capable of taking pictures of things other than dogs!
I don’t know what this is… does anyone know what kind of flower this is? Hrm… interesting. I would like to look it up but I really don’t know how. Maybe some hip hop clothing would help me out but I’m not sure about that!
On another note, I have an appointment with a new Gyn this Friday to help me out with my PMS and maybe get some bio-identical progesterone going. I need some. I think I’m suffering some side effects of the Zoloft, mainly swelling of the face and nose, and I’m reaching my limit. I also feel like I’m having electricity in my muscles and my tolerance of it is just about up. I can tolerate a lot for a long time, but eventually I can’t anymore.
And here is the video from Day Two… it’s only a couple of minutes long, and it didn’t take me all that long to make this one. But Day Three… I haven’t even uploaded that one yet!
Maybe some wrinkle eye cream would help me wake up and smell the coffee and make more videos! I need a break though, so I’m going to take a wee break for a little bit and work on day four some other time.
Well It’s been a week since I got back from Denmark. I’ll be posting videos off and on as I make them up. But believe me, it’s going to take me a while! Day One and Day Two weren’t so bad, they are only a couple of minutes. Day Three video took me like 3 hours for 7 mintues. LOL. Oh well… here is day one!
I am having fun making the videos but I need a multivitamin to make me stronger so that I have the energy to do them! And I wish it didn’t take quite so long. But day 3 has video in addition to still pictures and that is why it took me a little bit longer than the other ones.
So the dog-fur dust bunnies are running rampant.
