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Fish Swill

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Bulimifish

 

This is our bulimic fish, Shimmer.

 

Shimmer throws up/poos/sullies herself often and as a result, her fish bowl looks trampy and boggy almost every day. So I clean it a lot.

 

Swillin' Sea World

 

These are the two red plastic cups we keep by the kitchen sink. We have 1,009 in our pantry, but we only put two out at any given time, despite the fact that there are four of us in this family. I think this is because I’d need to lie down/stay forever in a sensory deprivation tank if there were ONE more freaking thing to clean in this house. And no one, except for occasionally my husband, wants that. (San Diego Momma in sensory deprivation tank = no yelling about clean red cups and boggy fish bowls.)

 

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This is my daughter, Toots, who…

 

Well, let me back up.

 

As previously mentioned, I clean my bulimic fish, Shimmer’s, fish bowl often. And most of the time, I unceremoniously gently scoop her up in my hands and place her lovingly begrudgingly in one of the red plastic cups by the kitchen sink. Then, I piss-offedly calmly rub out her crap with a sponge and re-fill the bowl with water, dumping re-positioning Shimmer into her skank tank. At which point, I rinse the red plastic cup, throw it away, and retrieve another one from the pantry for placement next to the sink.

 

I guess I got distracted the other day.

 

Because after Toots took a drink of water from her red plastic cup, she said it tasted like “Sea World.”

 

Sorry, Toots.

 

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April 25, 2008 · 8 Comments

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  1. Cheri says

    April 25, 2008 at 3:15 pm

    Now that is funny. Get a little Betta tank with a filter. And although they say it has to be cleaned once a month, you never don’t have to clean it that often.

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  2. Cheri says

    April 25, 2008 at 3:16 pm

    Oops . . . “never” was supposed to be crossed out up there. I guess no html codes are accepted here.

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  3. Angela says

    April 25, 2008 at 5:24 pm

    Oh NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yuck-A.

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  4. Tootsie Farklepants says

    April 25, 2008 at 8:59 pm

    Whew! For a second I thought Toots was gonna swallow Shimmer. Like some kind of hazing ritual.

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  5. mommypie says

    April 25, 2008 at 10:30 pm

    I totally thought Toots was going to swallow Shimmer too!!

    And Skank Tank — baha! THAT’s the reason I haven’t broken down and bought a fish …

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  6. Myra says

    April 26, 2008 at 5:23 am

    i don’t laugh out loud when i’m alone very often. but today i did. :) toots has now been inoculated against a multitude of fish viruses. so that’s good, right?

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  7. matteroffactmommy says

    April 26, 2008 at 5:26 am

    LOL @ tasting like sea world. classic.

    evidently, we need to start drinking out of red plastic cups and paper plates. i’m so sick of doing dishes.

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  8. Restless Housewife says

    April 27, 2008 at 12:23 pm

    ewwww – then again, isn’t the “vein” in shrimp actually their intestine?…not so bad after all – you might’ve invented a new delicacy!

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