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This is my pet jellyfish:
I haven’t named it; I’m not sure it needs a name. At any rate, it hasn’t suggested one yet.
The Oregon Coast Aquarium is equipped with an extensive and alluring gift shop, and they were featuring these beautiful jellyfish-glass objets d’art in the front windows–and zoop! I was drawn in! They had plain off-white, blue- and pink-tinged, and dark reddish ones in two sizes. I was awfully tempted by them, especially once I discovered they were glow-in-the-dark, but I tried to resist their glow-in-the-dark jellyfish-under-glass charms. Ken, perhaps having a clearer vision of the immediate future, decided the trip home would not be bearable if I left them ALL behind, and very nicely bought me the most beautiful and perfect one in the whole shop.
We brought it home and discovered that exposure to a little UV light (like the one emitted by my Official Dr. Who Replica Sonic Screwdriver) makes it light up like a nightlight, so that’s how I use it. I charge it up, snuggle down, and lie there thinking peaceful, floating-in-the-depths thoughts until I drift off into slumber.
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July 9th, 2008 at 8:52 am
Your Ken is such a gem. How unbelievably beautiful…
July 11th, 2008 at 10:32 am
Not a gem. Just sure that I didn’t want to deal with al that moping.
July 11th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
You mean she mopes as well as whines?! She does have a way of getting her way. (Smiley face goes here.)
B-T-W – The pictures are gorgeous. Do you (Ken) get the credit?
July 11th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
Don’t listen to Ken, of course he’s a gem! He’s me very own darlin’ boy.
The pics are a mix of Ken’s and mine: on the pet jelly, I did the daylight photo and he did the nightglow ones. For the rest, you can use the rule of thumb that the grainier they are, the more likely I took them, as I only had my camera phone with me, and Ken was using his muy macho setup.
July 11th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Actually Kari’s photos are really a lot better than they should be for a cell phone camera, and sized down for the website they’re better than most of the shots I took.
I blew through over 200 photos and large percentage of them aren’t very good. (I did have a broken lens with me, but that’s no excuse).
The good thing about my pictures, compared to Kari’s, is that the files are large enough for prints.
July 14th, 2008 at 5:27 am
Yeah, those Centro phones have a decent camera.
Also, Ken, yours really do rock. I honestly think you could submit a lot of your work for sale. You are quite talented.