Sal Monella Returns

Okay, so I know that you haven't gotten the rest of the road trip yet, but give me time. Yesterday was horrible and the day before was crazy. Today may or may not be horrible, depending. It has to be a little better than yesterday though, I can tell ya that. When in Idaho (we crossed over from WA just for this purpose) I bought a little tiny red eared slider turtle. He's like two inches across, very small. I named him Sal Monella, and he's very cute. Anywho, I got home from Rachel and Nick's wonderful two year anniversary camping trip and was EXHAUSTED! I checked out all the animals, Sal was doing fine at the time. Like half an hour later the lad was gone! It was all very Unsolved Mysteries. I looked everywhere all day but couldn't find so much as a toenail. Well you know how as a kid you could look for something for hours and it just wasn't fucking there and then you mother walks into the room and bodda bing it was there all the time? I was on the phone with her talking about the phone call that never came (that's a whole other blog), and the missing turtle and she told me to check back around and under the couch. I argued, saying I already had 84,000 times, but when I got off the phone I gave it a whirl, guess who was right in between the couch and the comp? Good grief. So I went down to Petco and got a carrier that seems to be cat proof. *Whew* Welcome to my life.