Blue Monday...and Tuesday, and Wednesday.
My frog died on Monday night. So I'm sad. He had a long life for an African Dwarf Clawed frog, but still, it's never fun to find a pet belly-up in his tank in the morning. Butterfly Woman happened to show up just as I was conducting the funeral (by the downspout on the corner of the house; being a frog, I figured he'd like to be someplace damp) and she was very kind and supportive. It's been a rough few weeks in the aquatics department, I've lost a couple of tetras out of my main tank, and at the zoo, the female nurse shark appears to be getting ready to check out. She's listless, she hasn't been eating, and today she was flipped over on her back. I thought she was dead, but turns out she just needed to be flipped back onto her stomach, which I did. Still.... she doesn't look so hot.

Tuesday, I ran over my wristwatch. Yes, with the car. No, I don't know how my watch ended up in the driveway. I'd taken it off to cook dinner monday night; I must have slid it into my pocket and it slid back out inopportunely on the way to go bowling. It still works, but a couple links in the band were pretty smashed. After the jeweler up the street told me he couldn't fix it and would have to send it out, I came home and made it 99% perfect with a pair of pliers and some brute force.

Wednesday, I was getting dressed in the morning, and gave my pants a good hard shake to untwist one of the legs that was inside out. A small metal object (yeah, ok, a gaming minature) that had been in the pocket of the pants and apparently worked its way out *somehow* and down the pant leg, came flying out of the pants when I snapped 'em, and hit me in the face like a friggin' guided missile. Missed my eye by about 2", and instead hit me in the forehead so hard I was momentarily stunned with pain. In fury, I flung the miniature across the room, then remembered it was a gift for someone and I probably had just dented it even more than it already was from hitting my skull at 30mph. I've got a small cut, and an interestingly shaped bruise to show for my trouble. So really, today was a great improvement and tomorrow is bound to be excellent comparatively! After all, the frog was old, my watch is fixed, and I didn't lose an eye. Stay tuned for next week, when I run over myself with the car and drop my watch into the aquarium.