my fish are stinking up my room!!

that is so wrong!

i already cleaned out everything, having fish stink emergencies all the time now. stupid filter. i dumped the gravel. (it was stinky too.)

i don't have a cover for the filter... maybe that's what's going on. the filter that came with the tank doesn't have a cover, i mean, isn't even made with one. i put in a new filter just days ago and it's supposed to last for a month. and andre scared me and told me i need to get gravel because it helps disintegrate the fish poop. and my fish tank is looking all star-wars-ish now, without gravel and with shot glasses holding up a turtle, like those giant walking monsters in one of the first three star wars movies. very spacey. but it wasn't really the look i was going for.

i guess it's redecorating time, but what am i going to do about the smell? i need gravel, a plant, and a castle. i want my fish to be happy, not smelly and trying to hide behind a glass turtle.

fish are so much work. no wonder my mom prefers cats. so do i, but i can't have one :(

in other news, i've decided to start using my calender again.

oh, and back to the fish - my favorite blue fuzzy slippers kathy gave me got soaked by dirty stinky fish water when all hell broke loose when i was trying to clean out the tank. so i went out and bought new ones (slippers) and then andre, dear andre, told me just to wash my blue ones. i just totally don't think sometimes. so i washed them and they're still drying.

i'm just complaining because i wonder if these 4 fish know and appreciate how much time, effort, and money i am putting into them to make them happy. the LEAST they could do is not die on me.

there. no more talk of fish from now on. (unless i figure out how to solve the stink problem, then i guess you'll hear about it.)

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