Monty’s gone

I came home from work today and discovered that Monty had passed away.

We kind of thought it was coming - Monty still hasn’t eaten, but we were both holding out hope.

I am so sad

Sheila is still doing well, and I hope she stays that way.

I will never buy anything other than fish, if that, at Petco again.

I knew I should have went and looked for a reputable breeder, but I was too impatient.

And it really cost me.

We did discover that the snakes have snake mites last night. I’m not sure if that contributed to Monty’s death or not, but it probably did.

Snake mites can’t infect humans, or animals, but they do infect snakes, and they can lead to death in large enough numbers.

We’ve only seen one mite since we’ve got the snakes - and that was last night, so they are sneaky little buggers.

We are working on getting rid of them, and moving Sheila to her new 75 gallon tank. I guess we don’t have to worry about making sure Monty’s tank is as big as Sheila’s anymore :-(.

Well, I better go, I’m trying to catch up on some work, but I can’t stop thinking about poor Monty.

Between this and the kitty cat it’s been a long, long, emotionally draining week.

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Our great garage sale find!

Since DH and I have been in MN, we’ve went to a lot of garage sales - our best find so far has been a 55 gallon aquarium, with a wooden stand, a hood, and rocks, and a 3 decorations for $100.

We didn’t get the pump because we are going to use the tank for Sheila. Monty still isn’t eating, and we hope that if he gets his own home he will feel more comfortable and start eating.

We finally got the tank cleaned out, yesterday, we were looking for a screen to cover the top of the aquarium so Sheila can’t escape from it.

When we went to buy the screen - we got the biggest screen they offered - a 55 gallon screen.

DH took it to a 55 gallon tank in Petsmart to see if it fit…and it did - but that aquarium looked a lot smaller than our aquarium.

We looked around and realized that our aquarium is a 75 gallon aquarium!

So we were both walking around Petsmart looking all depressed and in shock because we thought we’d bought a 55 gallon aquarium, and actually got a bigger, 75 gallon aquarium.

Unfortunately, that means that DH will have to build a screen to keep Sheila in the tank - so that’s why we were disappointed.

But it will be ok. I’m sure that Sheila will love the extra space.

We are thinking that she is a female ball python, and they can grow from 4-6 feet long, so even though most people say they need at least a 30 gallon aquarium to live in, I think she’ll be happy with the 75 gallon aquarium, and I’m glad that she will have lots of space.

Of course we probably won’t be able to get as big an aquarium for Monty…but he’s so much smaller than Sheila is, so we’ll worry about that later.

Of course now that I know that it’s a 75 gallon tank, it kind of makes me wish we’d gotten the pump!

After all, we are planning on getting a fish tank sometime.

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Confession Time

I have a confession…I’m going to become an Arbonne consultant.

My mother in law took me to an Arbonne party about 2 weeks ago - I meant to tell you about it, I really did…

She wants to order some things, so she convinced me to become a consultant so that she could get some products for 30% off.

I live in MN, but if you live in ND you don’t have to pay the $29 fee to join - that’s a great deal.

I’m still going to have to check and see if you get the same stuff in ND.

I’m going to learn how to work the business offline, because I’m interested in learning.

I’m not exactly sure that I will work it offline though.

I am planning on promoting Arbonne online on my sites - it would be irresponsible not too, since I have the websites, and since I have been thinking about adding some ads instead of the adsense ads on the forums.

In fact I have an ebay auction now for 1 month of ad space on Etailers Mall.

Of course I will still have the free ads on Etailers Mall - that’s what the site is all about.

So now you know my secrets.

Oh yeah…unlucky me Josephina has already claimed the Arbonne ad for the cosmetics section of Etailers Mall…and I’m going to leave that up.

I’m not saying that I won’t figure a way to get my stuff in there somehow though

I’m thinking of adding some new options to Etailers Mall, and I need something to test it on.

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Hi! I’m back

Hi - I’m back and life is back to normal!

It sure is nice

I’ll have pictures of the changes in the house up soon, and I’m working on adding some new etailers to Etailers Mall too, so we’ll have quiet a few new etailers in the next few days!

Everyone loved the snakes - I was really suprised

A few people even held them, and two women wanted one of their own

We’ll see if they get one though.

We found a great new 50 gallon aquarium with a stand at a yard sale, so we are working on getting that cleaned up, and ready for Sheila.

We’re going to leave Monty where he is, since he still isn’t eating, and I don’t want to stress him out too much.

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I might disappear for a while

With all the job stuff going on, and my sister-in-law (sil) and my neice here to help us fix up the house I won’t have much time to post.

I hope you have a great week!

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Another Interview

Well, I got another call for another job in the city next to mine today.

I have an interview next Wed.

I hear its a great place to work, so we’ll see.

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Not Laughing Anymore

Well…they haven’t called for the interview yet…not that I’m heartbroken or anything.

The original person who called made sure to get my time zone, so the time difference shouldn’t be a factor.

Oh well.

It’s strange that they’d call and set up an interview for the next day, then not call for the interview.

Strange, I tell ya.

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