B!TC# IT OUT!

[Shimmer Mermaid]

And the silver scales are holographic and "shimmer" in the light

[Hydra1337]

Oooh. That's really cool!

[Shimmer Mermaid]

Thank you 😊

[PearlieMae]

Shimmer, those people who dissed you for having a fabric tail are asshats and you don't want to do that party. If you wanted to press the issue, you could say 'I don't have a multiple-thousand dollar silicone tail to go over my baby bump, that's just false economy. I don't know of ANYONE who'd have a silicone tail for a pregnant belly.'

But it doesn't sound like it would have been a fun party.

HOWEVER, if you were to advertise yourself specifically FOR baby showers, with photos in your fabulous fabric tail, you could probably book parties right up until your due date! I mean, how unique! Turn your disappointment into a profitable opportunity!



Also, your hubby sounds like a dream!

[Hydra1337]

I am so sick of this effing stove! It's literally brand new but apparently is factory faulty! It takes me half an hour to boil a saucepan of water (shown in the pic) and the burners apparently don't even stay on! I'm having my husband remind our landlord to either come fix it or repair it because I'm sick of missing out on hot food during my daughter's naps because of a faulty stove.

[Shimmer Mermaid]

You honestly are like the fairy godmother of the mermaid world.

That is the best idea I have heard and I didn't even think to specifically advertise for baby showers!

I definitely will have to tell him that he's got mermaids swooning over his heroism. Lol

[Sabrina the Selkie]

Sympathy, Hydra.

And that is a great idea, Pearlie, Shimmer!

[Shimmer Mermaid]

My dad (if you go back on this thread you'll find where we talked about him winning the lottery and buying us all a mermaid island) said that if he did get us a mermaid island, that he would totally put Pearlie in charge because she's just so great at pretty much everything and has so much experience. Lol like Pearlie would be in charge of business ordeals and such, and then shed have a little group of other mermaids who have made waves in the mermaid business world as well to talk to, like Raina, kariel, hannah, merman christian (didn't spell his name right most likely). I thought it was pretty great.

[Sapphire Mermaid]

A mermaid island! Yes!!!

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[The Water Phoenix]

Another thing to rant about..not really. When my friend and I were on our way back from the local dog park, we accidentally drove over a bird that was in the road. We tried to get around it but it was already injured and couldn't get out of the way, plus we were going too fast. I heard it hit the underside of the car and I originally thought it was a stick or a rock but it was a bird, flapping around. The bird is out of its misery now, I'm just sad about the whole ordeal. It happened so fast and we weren't expecting a bird to be in the road. We didn't even see it until last minute. The bird is in a better pace now

[Shimmer Mermaid]

If it was already injured there's no telling how long it had been there for. It's better for it to be out of it's misery than to still be in pain. Someone hit a little doe the other night in front of my house and didn't even stop to see if she was okay, didn't stop to get her out of the road so she wouldn't be a hazard to other drivers... I went out there and they had put an unfixable hole in her stomach, had it been able to be sutured I would have fixed it, and put her in the barn and nursed her back up like I've had to before. But instead she was kicking and crying there, she calmed when I put my hand on her, and I luckily had a shot the vet gave me a while back just in case my now passed older horse got down and we needed to put her down.
It was humane and I buried her to keep her from being messed with.

[The Water Phoenix]

The bird was already injured so I guess a car had already hit it. We wanted to slow down, but the road was busy

[Sabrina the Selkie]

Hugs to both of you. That is so hard.

In my town, squirrels have a habit of just dropping dead in the road (or perhaps above the road, my town has so much tree canopy coverage, we technically count as a forest) and I always try to pull them out of the way before a car hits them.

And once, my dad and I found a cat-caught little one. Died before we could even think of taking it to a reserve for treatment.

And I've tried to help birds after my grandmother's dog got to them. And then he got to the shoe box and killed it on the landing to her floor of the two-flat.

Also. A friend of mine's mom accidentally ran over a Chihuahua. While driving down an extremely busy Chicago street during rush hour. It had gotten off leash, and they could see the owner chasing after it, but couldn't stop in the crowded conditions, neither to avoid it, or check on it after.

[The Water Phoenix]

Thanks Selkie Running over animals here in Australia doesn't happen very often, but it does happen. When I was in New Zealand, I remember seeing possums run over on the roads. They are not native to New Zealand but still not a very pleasant sight.

[Sabrina the Selkie]

Indeedy. Sorry you had to see it.

[Shimmer Mermaid]

I've taken in a little buck and a little doe, and then a doe that was down trying to give birth and got attacked by a coyote.
The buck got shot by a bow and had an arrow in his back thigh, removed the arrow, cleaned, and sutured. Kept him in a single stall for about a month and a half while it healed up and he could walk normal again.
Little doe had been hit, and had a gash in her belly, me and my local vet put all her *ehem* parts back in, and sutured her, she stayed in the barn for 3 months, and once I let her into the wild, she chose to stay in the woods and field by my house. That was a few years ago and she still visits.

The mother doe had her legs pretty gashed up, and the stress of it all caused her to have complications delivering, I acted as a midwife and helped her deliver her twins. And kept her legs clean, and infection free so they could heal. Both her and her babies run the same herd as the other doe.

I'm lucky that I've got the experience to save the ones I can, and am legally able to keep them until they are able to be released.

[PearlieMae]

My dad (if you go back on this thread you'll find where we talked about him winning the lottery and buying us all a mermaid island) said that if he did get us a mermaid island, that he would totally put Pearlie in charge because she's just so great at pretty much everything and has so much experience. Lol like Pearlie would be in charge of business ordeals and such, and then shed have a little group of other mermaids who have made waves in the mermaid business world as well to talk to, like Raina, kariel, hannah, merman christian (didn't spell his name right most likely). I thought it was pretty great.

Hahaha! Thanks, but I think I'm probably more of a cranky old mer that doesn't put up with much shit, really.

I have been thinking about you being the baby shower mermaid and I hope you pursue it! Find a wheelchair and decorate it with lots of pink and blue and ocean colored tulle, have your husband be your mertender and dress him in doctor scrubs! (I'm talking about dry events, obviously.) Modify baby shower games to have an undersea theme, and you'll be a star(fish)!

[Hydra1337]

So I just got back from a mango festival near me and I'm extremely disappointed that I wasted the last of my change to go. "Free food" and "free mangos to take home" does not mean a few free samples and no free mangos but a butt load of advertising for immigration agencies.

[Merman Dan]

I still want to see Humango vs Mangerine on Syfy.

[Amphitrite]

Hdra if you are in the USA (and it applies in your state) might I suggest looking into an escrow account?