Here Fishy Fishy

When the temperature is over 90° who wants to think about chores?  This seemed like a really good day to choose a short task, one that I knew I could complete before the day got too hot to function.  As you enter my home, there is a 10 gallon fish tank on a wooden cabinet stand.  At one time there were fish in it.  I even bred mollies and guppies for the kids to watch and learn.  I also populated a 15 gallon tank and a fish bowl.  I was very proud of the tanks and I got great pleasure out of watching the fish.  One day, about three years ago, when I cleaned the tanks there was a problem with the quality of the water that I used.  Overnight, I wiped out my entire aquatic community.

After moving, I found that my fish tanks could serve quite another purpose.  My lovely tanks could hold anything and everything.  I could even see through the sides and find “stuff” if I needed it.  How convenient!  How creative!  How chaotic!  My small tank could have been used for one of those time capsules that they fill with whatever and bury for the next fifty years.  Some person in the future would have known that I

• like fish tanks
• have long hair and I wear pony tails
• am interested in alternative healing
• garden
• read
• have children, male and female
• was missing one wireless handset (which I am very grateful to have finally found)

It looked like this:

 So on this hot, humid day I had a choice…I could keep this journalistic peek into my loves and likes as is or I could return it to its natural state, that of a feng shui type aqua-therapy.  I chose the latter, kind of.  I invested about 75 minutes into cleaning out the tank and cleaning out the cabinet underneath.  I found several missing socks. (At one point in time I had stuck the singles in there to wait for their mates.  The joke is on me because the children have outgrown those socks!)  I found my missing scrunchies and a warranty to something I bought at Best Buy quite a while ago.  Have you ever noticed that they do not note on the extended warranty which item is covered?  THIS is why I need a better system.

Almost everything that I had thought was important enough to store in the fish tank for later use ended up in the garbage.  NOTE TO SELF: Be more careful when choosing to keep things.  Do you need it?  Will you use it?

A little while later my fish tank, which is now almost ready for fish, looked like this:

I must say that the children and I are all looking forward to decorating the “new” fish tank and getting some goldfish.  I am starting small this time.  One of the kids said we should buy five.  Why not?