I need an automatic updater

I feel I am neglecting my blog… blame facebook as it takes away much of my pootling about on the internet time (well that and the fact I have no news to blog about). So……. Archibald died. I am sad but I knew it was going to happen. He had not been acting right for a week and on Saturday he was very out of sorts indeed. I blame the fish grrrrrrrrrrr. I think they kept him from eating and they bullied him. Luckily I am getting rid of them, and not in the mafia sense as I don’t have the heart to do that (although I have thought about it, but then I feel guilty for thinking it). My friend is going to take them as she had an aquarium craving (odd girl but we like her anyways). I shall then get two frogs so they have company and NO PESKY FISH and hopefully that will be more successful.

In other news… I have been working late oh and I got a dynamic brace for my arm. It is scary and the amount they want you to pay for it is, quite frankly, absurd - thankfully I am renting it and even then it is a hefty fee even with insurance paying the majority. I have been wearing it over the weekend to build up the length of time I can wear it and now it is somethng I wear at night. It is hard to sleep in but well it is even harder to type in so sacrifices must be made. Oh and in case anyone does not know what a dynamic brace is go here (mine is the first one):

http://www.dynasplint.com/wrist2.html (I could not be bothered to write the html to make this a fancy link so you will all have to do with simple, reliable cut and paste)

The idea is that it holds you in a permanent stretch and then every few days you crank it up, thereby getting more movement. We like more movement. Doctor just thought I probably was not going to get there on my own. This helps with bending the wrist back, known as extension (a more useful movement). The flexion (bending it forwards) will have to come on its own I guess. I am all worried I got extension and flexion backwards, oh well. Anyways that is probably about it. I will try and be better at writing when anything interesting happens.

Today has been..

pants!

Nature

Driving home from a friend’s house tonight I saw my first ever live opossum. Up to this point all the oppossums I have seen have been deader than many dead things by the side of the road (the wonderful M will argue this point when it comes to racoons and claim they are only napping but he is a sensitive boy). They are quite cute. Google oppossum if you have never seen one (oh UK friends of mine).

Oh and Archie is currently swimming around like a total loon so I guess he has become a night owl.. frog.. whatever. I think he may be afraid of the light.

Peekaboo

So I have discovered where Archibald was hiding the other week, the crafty little beggar. There is a little gap in the bottom of the filter where the power unit plugs in and he was there. I only know this as I had another ‘where the f is my frog?’ panic and I suddenly saw his little head poking out from the hidden place. Must say he has become a really antisocial poo-head lately and has taken to going there quite a lot. I think he is scared of the fish, which is quite pathetic really. He won’t eat when they are near the food even when he wants to. I am giving him a little space as he did shed his skin this week (and he ate it - gross!) and perhaps this is a traumatic thing for a little frog.

Otherwise I am uninspired when it comes to blog posts.

Snooze....

I had a wonderful weekend, but nowhere near enough sleep. K made a beautiful bride. It is funny how spending time with people you don’t see very often makes you realise how much you miss them. I really did not want to come back yesterday. Sigh. I miss rather a lot of people at the moment :(

Work horse

As I type this I am waiting for my lovely and indispensable USB drive to fill up with all the lovely figures I need to print out. I have been working late a lot lately - I am talking regular fourteen hour days - and it is taking its toll. Luckily I have an excursion this weekend that will take me away from it all. My friend is getting married and I am a bridesmaid. Very excited! I shan’t have to think about work for two whole days if I don’t want to, plus, of course, I get to share in her special day. I’m off tomorrow after physiotherapy, HURRAH!

Abracadabra

Last night I was convinced Archibald has escaped and was lying dead somewhere on the carpet, most likely behind a bookcase where I would never find him until malodourous waves reached my nostrils. I took everything out the tank (plants, filter, his little pot to hide in, the feeding plate) except the fish and the gravel. He was nowhere, and I was sad. Suddenly there he was, like magic he came back from wherever he had been. I was most relieved on two levels (the YEA my frog is alive level and the thank goodness there is not a dead frog in my flat level). I think he may be traumatised with all the moving of stuff that went with the search but I nurse him back to health.

Now if the damn fish would stop eating his food (those fish make me soooooooooooo mad) all would be well. Does anyody want two fish?

Mooooooooooo

It is now May and I promised myself that in May I would get off dairy again. The lactose intolerant in me is a loser as I just like cheese too much. Day one going well so far though, few days until the cravings and grumpiness kick in. Drinking a lovely black iced coffee - on a side note is there any scientific reason why I like my cold coffee with no sugar but my hot coffee with?