If I have learned anything in my life, well I have learned a lot, but let's go with the cliche...ok?...
It's that Mick Jagger was right. Or whoever wrote the song. I'm not about semantics or details tonight.
And no, I don't have the moves like Mick Jagger. At all. Side bar over.
I'm tired. Overwhelmed. There is a lot going on. My house is a mess. And my six-hour-old fish is dying.
The fish? That's really just a complicating factor. Think like a Muppet Movie cold fish smacked in the face of the Swedish Chef moment complicating factor. Ridiculous.
To back up. Noah was the lucky lottery winner of one of his classroom's crayfish. And who doesn't want a free pet crayfish? (Don't answer that.)
So in anticipation of the arrival of said crayfish, I took the kids to the pet store today. No, I would not buy the expensive lizard that required me to keep my house at 84 degrees. No, I do not think rats are cute. No, I will not buy a $200 aquarium set and beautiful tropical fish that cost $30 each. I have enough issues with feeling like I am sometimes flushing money down the toilet without actually doing it.
But yes, while I spent $25 readying for Noah's "free" crayfish, I took a moment to celebrate the giddiness over the other two wanting to share a pet Beta fish.
They were giddy. And plan-ful. They named him Yoda and spent a half an hour agonizing over the interior design for his bowl. They were victorious.
Then we got home and the fish tipped over. And that was that. He was gone.
I had to laugh. Not at the loss of life. But at the insane, dark, comic timing of it all.
Because really? Right now? In the midst of all of the...well all of the all? Let's add in a dead brand new pet.
Because we can.
You can't always get what you want, can you? You try sometimes, but you just might find, you get what you need.
No, I didn't need a dead fish. A toilet funeral was not what I had in mind. But it was a good reminder that sometimes life gives you
And then I smiled. And thought back to when I grabbed this video of Eli several months ago in the back of the car.
And RIP Beta Yoda. I promise we were a good family. We just have city water.
