The Animal Happening

This morning I was awakened by The Baby Muffin calling my phone. Her Mom seems to think this was because I was the last person she called yesterday, but this is not the first time this has happened. It's because she can't wait to talk to me and see me. I just know it.

Anyhoo, after said phone wake up, I decided to get with it and join the living so I could Skype with that Muffin. When I come out to the kitchen to feed my fish, thye are both chillin on the rocks behind their plant. Normal. But, when I sprinkled their breakfast flakes into the bowl, the big one (Missy) did not move at all. And normally that greedy bitch is up there with "dude, I was STARVING eyes at me" immediately. The small one (Sam) looked at me with quiet anxiety. This wasn't good.

I tapped on the bowl by Missy, which I heard you're not supposed to do, but she looked pretty spaced out. She didn't move at first. Then I did that again and she shot around the bowl like a maniac banging into the rocks then the glass and finally, lodging herself into the middle of the plant where she again went totally still except for breathing. I started to panic a little at this point.

I moved the plant and dipped their net in in an attempt to get her to swim away from her plastic fortress and eat. She did swim out, but she did the crazy shoot around thing again and returned to her original still self behind the plant on the rocks. I decided she was either playing games with me or was dying a violent mental death so I put a few more flakes of food in and began to Skype with Muffin, who after careful consideration, I had deemed more important than the fish at this moment. Maybe the fish just wanted some more sleep and I was making her furious.

*Aside: My friend just recently had a fish die in Michigan and in my head, I was totally thinking "Holy shit, what if this is like that movie The Happening, but for animals? And my fish is about to start swimming backward and just shred itself on that plastic plant until it's dead as shit!?"

About 10 minutes later while Skyping, I glance over, and this asshole fish is acting totally normal and swimming around and gobbling food off the top of the water or anywhere else it thinks a flake may be. Missy really gave me, and Sam who would not leave it's side while it was acting all stroked out, a real scare. This is just not the kind of thing I need after the strong emotions of the So You Think You Can Dance finale!

In other news: I clearly need to get a grip.