Cures For Boredom

[jessiesgrrl]

Ok, so I have a while to wait until I can start my OJT hours. I'm used to working 40-60 hours a week, and I am getting cabin fever studying at the house.

I have baked cookies, cakes, and lasagna; visited all sorts of fish stores; taken Alyssa to the shore several times; cleaned the house to the point it looks psychotic; rearranged my tanks; read all kinds of stuff on here... and um, it's not working although I must say my tanks look much better after being redone.

Any suggestions?

Laurie

 

[Shultz]

Count exact number of polyps in your tank

Cheers Shelton.

 

[jessiesgrrl]

As requested..

 

[jessiesgrrl]

So, for anyone who is wondering.. the sun coral is out and the goni and xenia are upset because I had to stick my hand in the tank. Sorry, but my scarlet hermit (He's pretty big) had tumbled one of the suns over. The sun coral comes out anytime he smells me in the tank now. I'll take pics later again when the others are happy.

The mandarin was hunting behind the rocks with my sea cucumber.

I can't wait until my MH gets here, I bet the whole tank is just going to *sparkle*

Oh, and that is my youngest daughter Alyssa, our dog Odie, and Bill the Cat in the last pic. Ashlynn (My oldest, 10) is in WA for the summer with her dad, and Tamra (9) lives in CO with her mom. Bill actually weighs more than the dog, if you can believe it. Chewy the cat couldn't be reached for comment at this time. He's out hunting by the river most likely at the time. (Right by our house is the mouth of the river where it empties out into the ocean, it's a cat's version of heaven).

Hope you liked,
Laurie

 

[Reefwifey]

Lol, I like your cures for bordeom.....though many of them sound like they'd just make me fatter. :lol: You could come clean my house, man does it need it! Cool pics, hey, your cat looks just like my cat Rusty!

You have lots of girlies! Letsee, what could you do. Do you knit or crochet any? I went through a sock making phase. I'd buy like regular Old Navy roll down socks, ya know what i mean? Then I'd crochet rims around them, and work in all kinds of glittery sead beads. So pretty! My daughter likes them, and it cracks me up that you can buy a pair of beaded sock at Nordstroms for 18 bucks a pair, when I can make like a dozen for 18 bucks. Hehe.

So make socks! :lol:

 

[jessiesgrrl]

That sounds really pretty! I have only tried to knit once. I made a winter hat for Alyssa when she was maybe 3. It was super long because I didn't really know when to quit knitting it. I net they would wind up with socks up to their mid thighs LOL

I'd like to make a wall quilt one day, maybe. I started to once, and then researched patterns online and got a bit discouraged. Math for the sake of fun just didn't seem right.

:LOL:
Laurie

 

[jessiesgrrl]

Argh... I have another cure for boredom... Transfer the 56 column reef BACK INTO the 55 long it came from, 4 days after you got it done in the first place...

The rockwork kept falling no matter what I did because the clean up crew (and blenny/gobies) didn't like it. After they crushed my blue crocea with a falling rock I gave in and switched EVERYTHING back into their old home. Tank 2, Laurie 0.

Oh well, the corals are happy again and I have had 24 continuos hours of no falling rock, so I think the clean up crew is happy too now. The panther grouper doesn't care what tank he is in, so I guess no blood no foul... except for my poor crocea.

RIP Benny Crocea!
Laurie

 

[jessiesgrrl]

My Poor Reef :

I should have never moved it in the first place, but I hope at least now they are back to where they like to be again and all is well. I am about to get a buch of newbies to the reef, so maybe the good vibes will spread.

Knock on wood, this is another 24 hours of the clean up crew being happy. I wish I knew why they kept toppling the rock in the column tank. And it was NOT easy to topple- I even drilled it and zip tied it. (Which is what killed the clam- because of the zip ties, not one but 2 large pieces fell and crushed him. ) They never did that in the long tank, and now that they are back, they aren't doing it anymore. Any thoughts????!!!!????


Laurie

 

[jessiesgrrl]

Oh the clean up crew consists of:

2 horseshoe crabs
2 brittle stars
1 rose urchin
10 blue legged hermits
10 snails
1 XL scarlet hermit
1 yellow cucumber

 

[furforfour]

If you're still bored check out this website http://www.whitepage.com.au/XtabaysWorld/

You can download free cheezy hawaiian music from the fifties to listen to while you look at your tank. There are also links to a ton of other free music sites. I spent hours and hours at the beginning of the summer trying out new albums.

 

[jessiesgrrl]

Cool! I like it, lol, it is very upbeat.
Thanks!
Laurie

 

[EDGRAY]

Gosh too bad you leave faraway from me cause if you're bored i got plenty things to do at home just waiting for you Laurie ...

Anyways i feel the same way sometimes so thats why i got my Tank and well also after 1 1/2 year i started going to the gym again it really helps on stress and all sort of thing we tend to have when nothing to do lol also im always online 8-5pm you can always play DOMINOES with me at Pogo.com or any game you wish with me or any other people lol...if does are borring i have more sites you can visit

Love you and take it easy

EDDY

 

[Reefwifey]

Cure for boredom #112: Paint your nails in coordination with your favoriate zoas. :flower: I have 'lunar' toes currently, purple base, and use the corner of the brush or a toothpick to sorta put very short orange streaks on the tips for skirts. I even had a very irridesenty orange glitter topcoat to cover it all with, Lunar Toes!!

Come on, you must have Asterina Toes!

Kam

 

[jessiesgrrl]

ROTFL!! That's AWESOME Kammy.. I will definately try that! I think I'll have to go find the green nail polish though.. LOL!!!

Awww, Ed, I love you too! I will play Pogo with you, knows knows maybe I'll turn out to be okay at it. I play Scrabble on my cell phone alot with my daughter.

:hugs to all:
Laurie