So, I finally got back to posting! Bet you thought I never would. Actually, I was beginning to wonder myself. But life goes on, even if it seems to bypass me. As they say----!@#$ happens. Like today, for example. Just when you think it's going to be another boring day, Murphy's Law intervenes. I get up early, go downstairs, check on the guinea pig and the gecko, and somehow end up tipping over one of those glass Galilleo thermometers---which breaks and spills God-knows-what toxic liquid in the gecko's tank (fortunately, the gecko knows what a klutz I am and got out of the way in time), and thus I am forced to chuck the tank and buy a new one, because geckos can live to be 30 yrs old. Did you know that? Neither did I, until the petstore told me. Now, since I BOUGHT the gecko there some 10 yrs ago, you'd have thought they would have told me THEN. Are you kidding?!! So, of course I now have to shell out about $200 for a whole new habitat for a critter who's likely to outlive ME. Oh well...
Then there's the guinea pig, who enjoys urinating on my son, and you'd be AMAZED at how much urine that little !@#@$ can leak. Anyway, since his cage is right next to el gecko's I can't be sure it hasn't splashed in there as well, so he has to be bathed (ever try bathing a cat? My cavy HATES water) in the tub and his cage cleaned. I swear, for a little fella he sure seems to give me the Augean Stables every time. This is no small cage, either. It's about as big as a bathtub (again, the petstore said he'd NEED it for exercise, but he doesn't, and he never puts on a POUND, dammit). So today, of course, had to be the hottest day of the year thus far, and tomorrow I have a craft fair. I'm pooped. At least the animals are happy...
