Pets

Dear reader,

Yesterday I found to my shock that one of my goldfish had broken his back, Poor thing... I have no idea how it happened, a few hours before it had been just fine, After some research I think it might have been because it swam into the glass with to much force.

Anyway, the poor thing (I got him and 2 other goldfish 50 weeks ago so he didn't make it past a year, the other two are still alive) was still alive but seemed to have lost all will to live. It wouldn't move for food it wouldn't splach when beeing scooped and it couldn't swim so i decided that the humane thing to do was to freeze it. (this might sound odd but the coldness makes it numb so that it notices as little as possible from the process.)

So my poor goldfish named Monogatari(japanese for fairy-tale) died yesterday after having lived with me for almost a year.

I felt incredibly sad.

And I became an absolute wreck when I remembered that I can't take my fish with me when I go to college, my room doesn't allow them, not even fish... It makes me feel incredibly sad.

And of course, my brother in law told me he would give me a hamster (including cage and everything because he dotes me and hates seeing me sad) Which made me even more sad cus I would actually really like one but I know I can't have one cus the owner has the right to kick me out if I own a pet.

But still, I have grown up surrounded by pets, we have had cats(They died when i was really young so I don't remember them well), dogs(we still have 2 of those, one is 13 the other is nearly 9), rabbits (we had two, one died when he was 8 because of stomach cancer and the other one was 11 and he died from another form of cancer) but we've also had tropical fish and other small animals.

I have never been without a furry (or fishy) companion and I am forced to go without for the next 4 years...

I'm contemplating getting a tamagotchi or something.

I wonder how I will survive without a furry creature looking at me with expecting eyes hoping I will play or cuddle with them... Maybe I should try to find a room where I'm allowed to keep a pet...

Perhaps...

Greetings,
BB

My Place, or crib or whatever you call it

Hey you!

For my second post I thought I might eleborate on my place, or the room I will be living in starting february.

In my country it is custom not to live in a dorm (we don't even have dorms) People buy houses and rent out the rooms.

My room is about a 100 square feet (so it's not big) and there is a closet of about 15 square feet, so all in all... well it's a shoebox. A shoebox that looks like an IKEA catalogue.

To give you an idea of how awesome IKEA is here comes the IKEA furniture:
Two bookcases

My Desk

My bed

My couch, I love this thing, it doubles as a bed so people can stay over!

Well that was about it for the Ikea furniture apart from a small table that holds up my tv and xbox360.

Apart from that I have my own sink in the room, a small cubboard under the sink and a fridge so I don't have to go downstairs for a cold drink.

I was surprised by the amount of stuff i managed to cramm into the room without making it seem small.

I just hope that all my clothes will fit into the closet.... and all of my shoes... and my books....

I might need another bookcase but that is for the future.

Luckily, one thing I don't have to worry about is food or finance, I'm a good cook and I can make myself a healthy meal for a fraction of the price it costs to get takeout. and every month I recieve 1200 dollars to get by and with rent only 320 dollar a month I will get by easy! (if everything goes according to plan of course, which in my case... doesn't ever happen...

Love,

BB