Most of the time, it's good. Comfortable good. Not terribly exciting, but not all that boring.
And then sometimes I feel like the wind's been knocked out of me.
Today was -almost- one of those days. Fortunately it managed to rescue itself, somehow.
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We bought my daughter her first official pets-of-her-own: four "feeder" fish, the kind that cost 15-25 cents at the store. Cherry, Apple Slice, Little Star, and Steel were settled into a little aquarium on the bookshelf. Easy, right?
Then we bought an aquarium decoration that, after being in the tank overnight, caused two of the fish (the minnows) to die. I actually SAW one of them die, afte