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feeling: not too bad
listening to: Gackt - Fragrance
This song is freaking AMAZING. Where has it been all my life?? MAN, I love this song.
Yeah, I don't really have anything to say, but I feel like blogging. So I'm blogging. Whatever comes out, comes out.
So tonight I went to the huge Walmart in Waverly, and of course I just had to go tp the pet section and check out the bettas. And holy frick, was I ever appalled. It's bad enough Walmart keeps their bettas in those horrible little cups, but some of the ones I saw tonight held LESS than an inch of water, while others were actually almost full, but had PLANTS in them. The ones with plants didn't hold bettas though - they had snails and dwarf frogs. Dwarf frogs! I just about exploded, seeing those poor little froggies trapped in those cups with a plant sprig and zero space to stretch their cute little legs. Someday I want to try keeping a few dwarf frogs. They're sooo cute, and they have about the same water, feeding, and general upkeep requirements as bettas... sometimes they can even live together with a nice, peaceful male betta. It broke my heart seeing them in those horrid little cups today. *shakes fist at Walmart*
Anyway... Walmart also had the CUTEST little female bettas. I mean, they were so tiny... probably less than an inch long... and most had quite nice, dark coloring. Some even had the teeny tiny little black polka-dots in their fins that often indicates melano genes. Melano, by the way, is the term for pure black bettas. PURE black. So pure that they're quite rare... plus melano males are often infertile, and melano females aren't even black at all, so they're torture to breed. They say the only way to tell if a female has melano in her genes is if she has teeny, tiny, close-packed black dots in her fins, especially the dorsal... and almost all the teensy females I saw tonight had spots like that. I almost wanted to buy one just for that. Melano is VERY hard to come by, and almost impossible to just run across in a pet store. But I'm not THAT senseless. I already have 2 bettas I barely have room for.
Have I mentioned this song is AMAZING? I heart Gackt~~ *plays Fragrance on repeat for hours*
The other day I drew one of my half dozen or so alter-egos, Haneyuki, for the first time in... a long time. Just felt like drawing her again. And darn it, she looks CUTE so far. Her pose is just to die for. *pride* I was thinking lately, though... her name doesn't really work. It's Japanese, and it basically means wings (hane) and snow (yuki), since she's loosely based on the ice-summon Shiva of Final Fantasy fame and can sprout big ol' Draconian wings at will. I like the name Haneyuki enough, but... well, it's too long. In Japanese, female given names just don't have more than 3 syllables. So I need to either say it's her 'family name' and think up a shorter given name for her, or find different, monosyllabic readings for the character(s) 'hane' and/or 'yuki'. I'm gearing toward the former, but I just can't think of a good given name for her. Fuyu (winter) or Fuyuko came to mind, but that just sounds... weird. I dunno.
...ittai nan no tame ni umaretekita no ka... *still loves Fragrance*
Hm. I'm bored. I think I'll go screw around at random websites to kill some time now. And thus concludes another shotgun blog by yours truly.
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 3/21/2003 11:40:00 PM
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