Urlacher

Dan and I are no longer alone in our apartment. We adopted today.

First choice: a baby.
Pros: cute, loving, warm. Cons: Nursing school, teaching credential, expensive, takes lots of time that we do not have, takes even more money that we don't have and we should be married for a while longer.
Second choice: a dog.
Pros: cute, loyal, happy, entertaining. Cons: terrible for apartments and against the rules.
Third Choice: a cat.
Pros: interesting, quiet, easy to hide. Cons: difficult to apartment-train, non-loyal, Dan hates them, and also against the rules.
Fourth choice: a fish.
Pros: quiet, entertaining, inexpensive, colorful, easy to care for. Cons: not a baby, dog or cat.

Given these options, it's obvious which we chose.
His name is Urlacher, and he is a fish.
Believe it or not, I chose his name.
Urlacher is a golden fantail from the land of Walmartia.
His best friends are a ninja and a 49ers player.
He will not eat.
He opens and closes his mouth a lot.

We really do enjoy our new addition...Urlacher is our first pet!In other news, school begins again tomorrow. We are both looking forward to it, though we will miss all the time we've had together. May God grant us balance, endurance and fortitude for this upcoming semester.