with the help of children of course...

i love my tanks, they're wonderful, relaxing and quite a joy, and normally require little maintanence...i spend two day working, come home to find, some super fragranced bubbly stuff in one tank...(what hearty gold fish i have, they lived)we found an empty can of lysol spray, and the other one had globs of food and a funky, slimy, something icky and gross covering the entire ground and plants...

so last night i spent breaking down three tanks,completely cleaning and packing away the five gallon, adding another room for our hamster with the ten gallon, and cleaning the fifty five gallon out for almost three hours(The groddy, slimy, funky one) and am now down to just the fifty five gallon(the gold fish are now happy) with doubled up angel fish(they're suprisingly getting along). and then my old grumpy angel whose been happy in his tank with his buddy the pacosamus for years...

but what is is about children and tanks, well, children and the levels of stress they create in general; that make us want the damn little things, even when they have you ready to wring their necks, lock them in a closet and forget about them, you still have the desire to hug them, spoil them and give them yummy strawberry and bannana waffles with fresh fruit and yogurt for breakfast?

is this the curse of mommyhoood, or my mother's ancient curse "what you do, your children will do three times worse"

so what do your children do that make you feel homicidal?

I hate kids.

I don't have them, I have considered getting an aquarium though. One with multiple fish highways.

i don't have any kids, but i want some eventually....

but i have a niece, and yeah....she can make ya wanna pull your hair out and scream....i think itz that whole you'll be tryin' to watch TV and she'll come in chantin' non-stop "Baby! Baby! Baby! Baby!" (she wants to watch home-movies of her as a baby, she loves 'em)....so of course you put 'em on for her, even though you seen it a thousand times, and then she's all "Elmo! Elmo! Elmo! Elmo!" so you gotta put Elmo on for her, then ten minutes later she's all "Arthur! Arthur! Arthur!" so you gotta put that on for her, and then five minutes later she runs out of the room and wants to play on the computer....and yeah, you're just like "PICK SUMTIN' KIDDO! AND STICK WIT IT!".....and yet, you just gotta love 'em....she's kool.....

but, in a way i'm glad i don't have any kids of my own yet, because tryin' to watch my niece one day a week is aggravatin' enough......but in the long run i can't wait to have children....

My kids are monsters. Yep, horrible little bastards. I lock them in the shed with my rabid dog, Steeples.

YOU LIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yup yup

How do you know?! Why would I lie?!
I have five children:
Boris and Dudley are 3
Lozenge is 2
Fozzy is 1
and little Merrigoround is just 3 weeks.

then, in your young/youthful years you been rather slutty and busy....and havin' 5 kids and goin' to skool....man, you must be livin' da life....tell me, how do you do it?

I get boned alot by my hubby. Nowt wrong with that. Cept the kids.
My college are very understanding.

my college ARE very understanding?

and um....rock on.....but um, ever heard of a condom, or the pill, or pullin' out?

My college -is-, I meant.
Children fry your brain.
I'm just very fertile, there's no point trying to fight it really, and I like being up the pole.

more like on the pole.....RAWR!

I have kids, but no aquarium. Sometimes I want to get a big aquarium, and put the kids in it.

We had a fish tank once....it left me with a very empty feeling.

hahahahahahaha....why's that?

I hate it when you have to flush em down the toilet... Clogs it up now and then....

I was a virtually silent child.
This non-stop chattering of my offspring is melting my brain.
She describes everything she see, every dream, moment by moment account of her day....she talks in her sleep....

she's gonna be a writer....encourage her!

I say beat her with a large stick!

that might have serious reprecussions.....i wouldn't advise it