R.I.P. WeeBay

Hmmm....maybe naming my fish after a drug dealer who is serving a life sentence for murder wasn't the best idea. I can't imagine why...But then again, you don't see many people naming their children Hitler either...so in retrospect maybe it wasn't the best idea.

WeeBay....died. I found him Friday night laying in the rocks in his bowl, which wasn't too odd considering he had been laying on a flower in his tank the night before...but apparently, this time it was in fact a trip to the big sea in the sky instead of an award winning acting job like last time.

I told my mom and she felt very badly for me. I thought that a pair of Puma's would make me feel all better, but apparently a trip to the mall on the first nice day of this winter just wasn't in the cards for me. Instead my mom and I went to a fish store and bought another fish. Actually we bought two...one for me, and one for my copycat mom. I toyed with the idea of naming this fish Bodie from The Wire...but considering that he met his untimely death when being shot in the head coupled with the fact that WeeBay didn't make it past 7 months I decided to stray away from The Wire.

I named him after another murderer (I didn't learn my lesson), but at least this one murders for the greater good! Dexter (from Dexter) is the new addition to my household. I tried to get my mom to name her fish Miguel Prado, but she refuses to name her fish. She worries that if she names her fish she will become too attached to it. I am not sure what point there is to having a pet if you wont name it and don't want to become attached to it.

Much like WeeBay, Dexter won't eat...but I think this is because he senses something went terribly wrong in his bowl before he called it his home and he is trying to decide if someone needs to be punished for this. (I'm hoping that he doesn't think I'm the murder...murder by fish doesn't sound that great of a way to end your life.)

Maybe Puma's would make Dexter feel better! You know what? I think they will...Nordstroms online here I come!! (FYI I am blaming this purchase on Rebecca Bloomwood's Confessions of a Shopaholic character...it just seems so easy!!