5 Budgies!!!

Tomorrow I may be getting my budgies!  I'm so nervous!  I've cleaned the bird cages a thousand times and still I feel like they don't look right.  I'm agonizing over every little dumb thing.  I just don't want her to show up and for some reason, not find me a suitable parront.  =) I'm supposed to go to the shelter tomorrow.  We're having a busy adoption day, two guinea pigs, two goats and I swear there was something else getting adopted... maybe it was the rat.  Anyway, since I don't know what time she wants to do this tomorrow, I don't know when or if I'll be able to make it up there.  The first couple of days, I'm just going to let them relax and get used to being around us before I start training.  Training isn't fun for the bird or the trainer.  I have many a bloody fingers from today while training my cockatiel.  It's worth it in the end though, for both the bird and the owner. 

I only got about two hours of sleep last night.  I'm surprised I lasted the whole day without taking a nap.  Thankfully, there was a lot of stuff that needed to be done today.  Friday's are always busy days.  Lots of animal food to go buy every Friday.  And I had to clean out the budgie cages.  They were covered in dust.  I haven't had a budgie in years and had neglected the cages in that time. 

Silly Senegal

I think I must have the most neurotic senegal parrot out there.  Everyday she finds a new way to make me go, now what are you doing?  First, she would sleep upside down.  Yes, I mean, hanging from the top of her cage, completely upside down and asleep.  Then she started playing with her toys.  Sounds normal enough, right?  Yeah, not with this bird.  She lays in her food dish on her back and then plays with her toys with her feet.  Ok, so she's just lazy you say?  The other day, she began to go to the bottom of her cage.  I try to discourage this because of the icky's that she leaves during the day.  Well, she has started to scratch on the side of her cage with one of her feet.  She grabs the bars with her beak and holds on with one foot while she scratches... over and over and over again.  Makes you want to rip her little feathers out.  There's really not a good way to discipline a bird, so you just have to wait them out, and wait and then wait some more.  Owning a bird can be quite frustrating so I hope people will think a little harder before they buy one. 

Snowing, snowing, snowing

We've gotten a ton of snow in the last 24 hours.  It's up past my knees as of a few hours ago, although it has continued to snow quite steadily since then.  Of course, I was the one who went out and shoveled in the freezing cold and snow.  I want to strap little shovels to all my dogs and let them run around the front yard.  Wouldn't that be a sight?  haha  There definitely wouldn't be any straight lines that's for sure!

I'm getting more and more annoyed everyday with certain people.  Do you ever feel like someone is mad at you but they don't actually have the nerve to tell you?  Maybe if those people actually told you what was wrong and what you did, you could explain yourself or fix it in someway.  Although, in this instance, I don't think I'm the person in the wrong, I see nothing that I could've done.  If anything I should be mad at said person and not the other way around.  My mom always tells me, you can never really know a person and it takes a long time to really get to know someone.  I understand that, you put on a facade for people when you first meet them, hoping they'll like you but that doesn't mean you should change your whole persona.  Deep down, you should still be you because, in the end, we may not like the real you and you've just wasted both of our time.  And then again, we may have liked you the way you were, if you had just been yourself from the beginning.  All and all, I'd rather waste my time with someone who actually deserves it and not with the person who lies to my face and then gossips about me the minute I leave the room.

Almost done... sigh

Well, we've almost finished moving around this room.  Things like this always take longer than you want them to that's for sure.  The cats seem to like it better this way and so do the dogs.  Everyone is sprawled out on the floor and in their kitty houses.  If only they knew how long it takes to pick up everything they scratch or chew up.  That's me though, here to tend to their every whim, even when it's destroying everything within reach.

Ellie bird has been working on her singing lately.  She's doing her whistles very good.  I had her in her day cage yesterday and she started scratching on the floor of it like a cat.  The bottom of that cage doesn't have a grate on it so she can actually sit on the floor of her cage.  She's succeeded in tearing up the newspaper on the floor of it.  I don't know what brought that on.  She's been trying to do the same in her bedroom cage but there's a grate on that one.  haha That's one tricksy human.  (yeah, I'm a LOTR freak) Well, I've got the usual chores left to do still today and then some.  Kitty litter, bird cages, bunny cages... *sigh*

Stupid Girl

I won't be writing much tonight.  I made up for it all last night I guess.  I'm a stupid girl and it's my own fault that I won't be writing a lot.  I'm anemic and have to take 65mg of iron everyday and the last few days I've skipped my pills and now I'm paying for it.  If you've never been anemic, I basically feel very disoriented, dizzy and just downright crappy.  Feels like my brain is kind of swimming around up there and getting sea sick but there's nothing I can do to stop it.  I just have to wait till my pills start to kick in again. 

Fly AWAY

Ok, I'm having a little bit of a crazy insane lady moment.  Please won't someone tell me how in the hell I get rid of these little annoying, nasty fruit flies?????  Please, I'm going out of my mind here.  Oh but there's a catch.  I have two birds in said room where said stupid flying rodents are and birds are extremely sensitive so it has to be something bird safe.  I hate these bugs.  I can deal with regular flies, they have a tendency to sit on my monitor and are very easily murdered.  I dislike killing these very much but bugs such as flies (ANY kind of fly), mosquitos, ticks and anyother nasty little blood sucking, vomiting, and just plain annoying insects.  I do not however kill spiders.  I pick them up, yes in my hands and yes I am a girly girl but spiders don't bother me, and then I place them outside, IF it's warm enough, if not I just put them in someone else's part of the house.  *Big Grin* Hope mom's not reading this right now.  she's deathly afraid of spiders and acts like the smallest house spider is actually a black widow in disguise.  Ok, not gonna write anymore tonight, I promise.  Ok, so I have a tendency to break my promises.  Tough.

I know, I know

Yes, I'm aware that I just wrote like two minutes ago but I just had to write about something that happened within said two minutes.  I'm just sitting here, doing the journal thing, got the tv on in the background, quietly of course so I don't wake up DH.  All of the sudden the tv is much louder than it was before and I swear the sound was coming from inside my computer desk!  Ahhhh, is it a ghost?  Some strange electrical mishap that caused my tv to come through my speakers? (don't laugh, my mother-in-law has constant radio music coming from her speakers even if you turn them off and you're not connected to the internet, very weird) Ok, ok, I'll tell you what it really was, geez, so impatient.  My dog (a beautiful blue merle Austrailian Shepherd, no matter what everyone else says... ok they call her the ugliest dog in the world) just happens to be sitting under my feet, sleeping peacefully.  Now up here in these parts (using my best hick accent) we lose power more times then not (ok enough with the accent, I know you can't hear it but I hear it in my head and it's driving me nuts) so years and years ago when we could afford to waste money (ah the good ole days) we invested in a little 5 inch battery powered tv.  The dog decided to stretch and turned the volume up and the tv on.  Just as I realize where the noise is coming from, she stretches again and turns the tv off.  You know that feeling when something scares the hell out of you, only to leave you embarrassed a minute later because you feel like an idiot?  You laugh at yourself and hope no one was watching?  Yeah that's how I'm feeling right now.