I alluded to this before, but I'm fleshing it out tonight: now that we've bought this house, we're now the owners of 20+ fish. I tried to count them multiple times, but they're fast and many of them look the same, so let's just say we now have 23 fish. I have increased my number of pets by over 1000% in less than a week! At that pace, every animal in the universe will be mine by October.
(Explanation: the house came with a fish tank and the fish tank came with fish.)
One thing I was looking forward to was naming all of those fish. I've tried a couple of times to actually do that, and I just don't have the heart for it. First, it's hard to keep them separate, even for the moment it'd take to name them. In fact, it's so hard to keep them separate, it's entirely possible that instead of 23 fish, we have 3 fish and a really reflective tank. In this case, I am definitely overfeeding those 3 fish.
Second, to put it bluntly, there's no point in naming something that's going to live for maybe another week. I've managed to keep me and Octopussy alive for several years now, but we're robust.
I do still like the idea of having fish. They're nice to look at, and I enjoy shopping for weird fish tank decorations. This evening at the pet shop, I saw this wiggly skeleton busting out of a treasure chest. You think I can pass that thing up? For now, I remain a fish owner.
It occurred to me just now that I never did plug the folks who greatly, greatly helped get us into this house. We were fortunate enough to have a tag team of awesomeness in our realtor and our mortgage broker, and not even for a moment did the real estate market stand a chance against their combined forces. The mortgage man is Michael Llewellyn with Westwind Mortgage, and the realtor is Tom White with Keller Williams here in Austin. If anybody wants to be set up with this dashing duo (no, not in that way), just let me know and I can send along their email addresses.
Posted by Cody at May 13, 2008 9:57 PM