13th
Moving Mayhem....and Goodbye Turts
I have been horribly bad at keeping up with my personal blog, mostly due to the fact that I’ve been pretty good with the company blog and feverishly planning for Investor day—-which is just over a WEEK AWAY! I’ve had great intentions to post a bunch of different blogs, so I’m just going to play catch up.
I moved. Again. One would think that moving gets easier with time but that’s a lie. It sucks each and every time. That being said, I am now located in North Boulder and live in the basement of my landlord, who is an older real estate agent. The 10 minute bike ride to work has turned into twenty, and it’s a bit weird living with somebody twice my age. But there are some positives that came out of the deal: I now have a bath tub! I have laundry! My closet is a walk-in!
One of the conditions of my move was that I had to obey the “no pets” policy of my landlord. This means that I had to find a new owner for Rambo and Rudy, my turtles. This presented a bit of a problem for me because I’ve recently been wrestling with the injustice of keeping turtles in captivity. Austin calls my aquarium a “turtle spa” because they have different lighting options, sunbathing logs, and all the food they want. But it is 20 gallons of water that is shit in all day long by two dirty turtles. It never seemed like heaven to me. So after much internal debate and a reasonable amount of research, I decided to let them go in the Colorado University Pond (C.U. Wildlife Control, if this is breaking a law it’s all a farce and nothing I’m saying actually happened).
Last weekend my entire family accompanied me on a special trip up to the pond with the turtles. We staked out the best possible spot on the lake and I let them out of their bin and they INSTINCTIVELY KNEW WHERE TO GO! They weren’t even facing the water but they both took a quick u-turn and headed down to the shore and into the lake. We hung out for awhile to get a lay of the land and saw a ridiculous amount of wildlife in that pond…and they all looked like they were on steroids. Turtles, fish, ducks, more fish. They all seemed happy, plump and able to co-exist peacefully. I think this is the right decision and although I miss them more than I expected, I feel good about letting my kids out of the nest. Go visit them if you have a chance.