Froggie Feeding Days

At our house, there is always someone to be cared for. There are children, a husband, a dog, a bird, 4 snails and since Christmas, 2 little African frogs. Yes, I consented to share my living space with two inch long African frogs. How that happened I have yet to comprehend. One minute I was making a Christmas purchase at a toy store and the next minute I changed my mind and bought these two funny looking froggies...I'm still shocked at the swiftness with which it happened. Shocking, really.

This just proves that you can't go shopping the day before Christmas with your best friend who could talk you into ANYTHING at the drop of a hat! My mother used to say I'd lie and she'd swear to it...and she may be right...but I like to think that we have more scruples than that!

The first dilemma with these frogs is that I hate frogs. Well, I don't HATE them. I just don't LIKE them. They're icky. Icky AND cute...which is how they ingratiated themselves into my life in the first place. I swear if I am ever forced to TOUCH one of them, I'll have my whole body sprayed down with Lysol!

Then there is the feeding dilemma. They eat twice a week. Hmm....now how does one figure out WHICH two days to feed them? You certainly wouldn't feed them on a Tuesday and a Thursday because then they would have to wait four days to eat again, and they could starve to death! We considered other combinations of days...the debate went on for a day or two (all the while they patiently waited for the divine hand to bring them their pellets) until we finally decided on Monday and Thursday. So now, twice a week, our little froggies get fed 4 pellets on Monday and 4 pellets on Thursday. Dilemma #2 solved.

Dilemma #3...not so easy. Naming the little buggers. I thought maybe my daughter would want to name them after her favorite couple, Elizabeth Swann and Will Turner from the Pirates of the Caribbean movie, but that's not what she wanted. Then I thought maybe something simple like Ike and Mike, after the two ducks my grandmother had many years ago. Very cute names, I thought. My daughter didn't agree. We ended up naming them Eragon and Arya, her two favorite characters from the Eragon movie. (She's a big dragon fan!) Anyhow...the frogs now have very fancy, fantasy names. Good for them.

Ok, I think I'm out of dilemmas. Not even sure why I felt it necessary to write about my frogs, except I'm distracted to DEATH here at work and I can't write my snipets because everyone's conversations are rolling around in my over addled brain and I can't come up with anything that makes any sense. Writing about the frogs seems to take care of two things...one, it gets this "whatever" that is pent up in me out, AND it may also cheer me, as writing always seems to do that.

This morning on Facebook I said that this was going to the the greatest Thursday of my life. Well, I can't say that it's lived up to that, but you know, the night is still young! You never know!