Marley

Yesterday evening something nearly impossible occurred. My sister and I were both at home. At the same time. And she was cooking dinner.

While to some this may not seem like a big deal, for the two of us, it is. I work a very steady job 7 to 4:30, Tuesday through Saturday. Jess, however, is the assistant manager of a retail store in the mall, and her hours vary from week to week. But most of the time, she works 1 p.m. to 10 p.m. every day. As you can imagine, 2 or 3 whole days may pass before we see each other, since I'm up and out of the apartment before she's awake, and many times, I'm asleep before she gets home at night.

I was sitting on the couch, browsing websites, checking e-mail, etc, and Jess was in the kitchen boiling macaroni and assembling the ingredients for an absolutely delicious taco casserole. She was talking excitedly on the phone to our mom about the newest member of our little, her Betta fish, which she had just bought. As I heard her telling Mom that she had named him Marley and he was getting settled in his bowl, I giggled. Playing in the background was No Woman No Cry, a song by, can you guess who? That's right, Bob Marley. Teehee. As I giggled I turned to look at her and said, "Omg...you named the dang fish after Bob Marley!" She nodded her head and laughed in response. Can you guess what color the rocks are in Marley's bowl? Green and red...the colors in the Jamaican flag. She explained to me that the pet store was out of yellow rocks, but she would definitely be adding them in to complete the Jamaican theme. My sister is cRaZy!

Marley definitely didn't seem to like his new home at first, and for a while we couldn't even see him as he was hiding behind one of the artificial trees Jess has placed in the bowl.

As the evening wore on and we finished our dinner, we relocated from the living room to  Jess's bedroom. If you haven't guessed by now, my little sister is a little bit on the eccentric side, so now instead of vibin' to the mellow sounds of Reggae, we were listening to her Disney movie soundtrack. Ha. Do you know what happened when Under the Sea from The Little Mermaid came on, Internet World? Little Marley came out from behind his tree and started swimming toward the sound of the music! Looks like Marley is one little fish who will be living up to his big name!