Weird Day. 9/7/2010
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain.

This really happened.

I don't know why I put this at the beginning of the entry, but it seemed important to me to say it. It really happened. It's not just some weird story I make up to entertain readers. Well, I write it down for that purpose. But it's true.

I am an idiot.

So, some of you might say 'Yeah, I guessed that much' or 'ooh, what a surprise', and those who know me well might just shake their heads and mutter 'oh Pinguin, what did you do this time?'.

My turtles are gone.

So you know, we have a pond in the garden. We dug it ourselves, in our first week in this house, 9 years ago. This is a long long time, more than half my lifetime. And it is a really, really small pond. Not too deep, maybe one or two feet. Not too wide, maybe 3x3 feet. It's tiny. But it had plants and fish. It was cool. Then the turtles came, or rather, we found them on the street and took them in.
They ate our fish. They ate all the plants. But hey, they do what turtles do, and I loved them. They were my little green shelled cats. (They'd hiss at me from time to time.) They were my TMNT.

My mum gave them away yesterday.

Hey. I've seen that man's pond. It's bigger than our whole garden. (I'm not kidding.) He has Koi and biiiiiig goldfish and a small turtle named Pauline. Kassiopeia and Franziska are gonna fit right in. I know it's the best for them, because without plants the water in the pond is turning oily and black.

But I miss them like crazy.

And when we left that man's garden, I couldn't help but mutter, "The guys are gonna kill me."

My mum heard me and said, "who is gonna kill you?" But I ignored her and she let the matter go.

This is my story.
I miss you, Franzi and Kassi.
I hope you are all right.

The guys didn't kill me.
They hugged me. They stroke my back. They were really nice.
That didn't help me at all. It made me forgive my mum.

That's a good thing. I guess. Because I love her.

You're kinda, sorta, basically, pretty much always on my mind.