Courtney Shay About Me Page at Helium

courtneyshay(at)hotmail.com

My passion is ...

children and animals.

I know too much about ...

cats

My parents always told me ...

I was the best.

My childhood ambition ...

was to be a writer or a singer.

My favorite memory ...

Oh so many...

Why I write ...

It's fun!

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Reading: This Much I Know is True by Wally Lamb

My first job ...

Babysitter

Pets & Animals > Aquarium Fish Sea monkeys: Keeping brine shrimp as pets: 4 of 5

I never cried harder over the loss of a pet, than I did for my sea monkeys. It may sound strange, but it's true. At age 8, I desperately wanted a hamster. All my friends had hamsters, and I had never had a pet of my own, much less one that was inside. What I got instead was Sea Monkeys. While it wasn't the fuzzy creature I had hoped for, when I saw the package, I was thrilled to my young core. The box feature families of human-like aquatic creatures, cute cartoon representations of what could appear out of the package of flakey dried life-forms. Astonishing. I could not contain my exciteme...
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