brokenrecord | Entries tagged with birds

It snowed today! Ok, it was a flurry, and it lasted for probably about 10 minutes, and the snow melted several seconds after it hit the ground. But still, it was really cool. I'll probably be sick of snow by April and missing California winters, but still. I've gone skiing at least once a year for the past 6 or 7 years, so it's not like I've never seen snow before, but I've only witnessed snow falling a few times, so it's pretty cool to me.

In other exciting news, my bird, Caitlin, laid another egg. She laid three a month ago (I'm not sure if I posted about all three or just the first one). The other eggs were infertile and this one probably is too. I feel bad for her, though. Cockatiels are so small, and it takes a lot of energy and their own mass to create an egg. I hope she quits laying eggs soon.

I have a feeling I'm not going to enjoy the rest of the semester very much. I have an outline due for my geology paper tomorrow and I have no idea what I'm doing. Like, I have part of my topic defined, but I can't figure out the other part, and I really don't want to do this now. sigh. On the plus side, though, I was worried about this presentation I have in my Technologies for Representing Gender class, but I figured out what I'm going to do, and I'm really looking forward to working on it. Unfortunately, I have to finish this outline before I can start working on the project, since the outline is due several days before the presentation, so that sucks. Oh well.

Current Mood: good

So one of my birds has laid three eggs in the past week. They're probably not fertilized, but it's still kind of crazy. It makes me really wish I was home.

I've been sucking at updating. I think it's partly because I don't feel like this is home, I feel like I'm still on vacation (except with homework. What a crappy vacation) so I'm not as in the habit of updating.

Not a lot has been going on. I went on an overnight camping field trip with my geology class and two other classes Thursday and Friday. It was pretty fun, but I missed out on a lot of stuff at school (a lecture from some astrophysicists who discovered dark matter or void galaxies or something to do with that stuff, a lecture about Osama Bin Laden for this series of Middle East peace summits they're doing, and a lecture from this dancer about sexuality and gender and his dancing which I could've also gotten extra credit in my Technologies of Gender class to go to and write a synopsis of), not to mention the premieres of My Name Is Earl, Ugly Betty, and The Office (I did watch The Office premiere the second we got back, though, and oh man I loved it. I'm so excited for this season).

Parents' weekend is this Friday through Sunday, although my parents are coming on Thursday morning so we can do some shopping that afternoon since I still don't have snow boots or a winter coat, and I could really do with some waterproof shoes, since it rains a lot, and my shoes are all sandals or made of canvas.

Anyways, I should get some work done, since I did nothing yesterday, and I have loads of work for this week (including my first astronomy test on Friday! sigh).

Current Mood: okay

Thanks to everyone who replied to my last post. I was most upset about Derek from when I found out he had stopped eating to right after he died, but after that I was better. Probably because he's been sick for like a year or two and he's never been in the best health and I've been expecting him to die for just as long. So now that he is, I can kind of accept it and move on.

It's really sad, though, one of my birds, Jason, he's really unsettled by Derek's death. Like, they were never friends, but they didn't hate each other either (they were just sort of acquaintances), but we got Jason after Derek, so as long as Jason's been here, Derek has. So I think it kind of freaks him out that he's all of a sudden not here. And for some reason he blames my dad. It's so bizarre. Whenever he comes home, Jason starts attacking him and won't go anywhere near him. He's a very confused little bird.

Computer is not in yet, so I still have to use my mom's to go on-line. It's not too difficult to update, but checking my friendslist would take hours, and since it's dial-up I don't really want to spend hours on it because it'll tie up the phone line, so I can update from time to time, but I won't be able to check my flist until I get the new computer. And so now I'm incredibly bored what with school finally being out and all. Today I went to blockbuster and rented Reefer Madness, Little Miss Sunshine, and the first Bridget Jones (even though I'd already seen it since I bought the 2nd for like $5 over the summer and haven't watched it yet (I mean, I'd seen it before I bought it, but I haven't seen the one I bought) since I felt like watching the second but didn't have the first, and I've never seen the first followed by the second before). I watched Reefer Madness and Little Miss Sunshine today, and Reefer Madness was good and Little Miss Sunshine was excellent.

Tomorrow I'll watch both Bridget Jones, possibly go and by myself new jeans since the ones I have now are getting holes everywhere, and possibly start some of my winter assignments (ugh, I have winter assignments in every class but calculus).

Today was pretty awful. Derek, one of my birds, died. He stopped eating on Monday morning and by this morning he couldn't hold himself up anymore. It wasn't totally unexpected because he's been sick for a long time, but I was still really upset about it. And it sucks too because it's like why are you so upset? and I'm like "My bird died" and it's like what? Bird? Who cares? But I had him since I was 6 years old and I'm 17 now, so that's way over half of my life. He didn't just sit in his cage all day and chirp; he had his own little personality and I don't know. I just really loved him. I'm still pretty upset about it and I probably will be for awhile, but I guess it's getting better.

On a happier note, but computer situation is fixed. Well, the computer itself isn't, but my mom e-mailed Dell and they e-mailed back and were like "OMG we're so sorry! We'll send you another computer right away!" It's like "...what? You're just going to send us a new computer?" Seems kind of weird, but whatever, I'll take it. It probably won't get here for a few weeks, and we're going skiing in Mammoth the day after New Years, so I might not have it awhile, but at least I'll have it eventually. And I don't have to feel guilty for asking my parents for a new computer!

Two more days left before winter break. Unfortunately, I have a lot of stuff to do, including studying for chem test, writing a french essay (I really need to start that tonight, but it's not likely), finish writing/editing the play for english, and physics test (except I decided to fail it since I can afford to drop a test since I have an A in the class right now even without a dropped test, so I probably won't bother studying for it). So I should probably start working on that now.

Current Mood: depressed

Quick update before watching DVDs.

On Wednesday I ended up having no willpower, so I watched the first two episodes of The Office with commentary (I justified that to myself by saying that watching with commentary is different than just watching the episode because I don't pay very much attention to the episode when I'm listening to the commentary) and then the first two episodes of Arrested Development. Tonight I'll hopefully finish Arrested Development and then tomorrow will be an Office marathon!

Today I had an essay on the Scarlet Letter and I think it might be one of the best essays I've written in a long time. This doesn't mean I think I'm going to get an A, because I think I'll probably still get a B because of stuff I didn't notice or whatever, but just based on my standards, I'm really happy with that essay. When I get the grade this'll all probably come crashing down, but for now, I'm happy.

Yesterday one of my birds, Caitlin, was like... wheezing and sneezing funny, so my mom took her to the vet and he thought she had a seed stuck in her trachea, so they put her under anasthesia and performed surgery on her and it turned out she had a fungal infection, and yeah, this was all very shocking to come home to considering she was fine the night before. She's all right now, she still wheezes but we're giving her medicine and it should get better. I feel so bad for her, though. She'll like try to chirp but she can't because of all that so it just comes out as this little like... wheeze or squeak, and it's just really sad. :( I hope she gets better soon.

...I think that's all I wanted to update about. I can't wait until next week, because it's major premiere week. I'm really looking forward to Studio 60 starting (well I've seen the pilot already, so not so much to this Monday, but just in general I'm looking forward to the show) and definitely The Office (I'm so excited for the new season to see how everything turns out, but nervous because I'm afraid that I won't be happy with whatever path they end up choosing) and there's also ANTM and My Name is Earl, neither of which I'm totally in love with (MNiE definitely more than ANTM, though) but I'm still happy new seasons are starting, and yeah. Yay for next week! :D

Ok, off to watch season 3 of Arrested Development!

First of all, happy birthday to

orton_qaf! :D

Second, went to the Spectrum today with Tiffany. I got two new shirts at Hot Topic: a Fall Out Boy shirt and an Epitaph tour one, from the tour last winter that Tiffany, Danny, and I went to at the House of Blues in Anaheim with Motion City Soundtrack, Matchbook Romance, From First to Last, and The Matches. After about an hour we got bored. Usually we can spend a lot more time there because first we'll go have lunch at Johnny Rockets (except we're saving money for tomorrow, so we decided not to go to lunch at Spectrum today) and then go to Hot Topic, FYE, and Barnes and Nobles and then go back to the food court. Except today I didn't really have any CDs in mind like I usually do, I just wanted to go to the Spectrum so I could get out of the house, so... yeah. Went trhough Barnes and Noble and FYE pretty quickly. I found in Hot Topic that I had 2 Hot Topic gift cards. One was all used up, but the other still had nearly $40, and the Epitaph shirt I got was on sale, so... yeah. Didn't have to waste any money on the shirts. Then after that there wasn't much to do. So, we called Annie to see if we could terrorize her at home, but it turned out she was at the Crossroads with Joe. So then I drove Tiffany and me over to the Crossroads and we hung out there with Annie and Joe for like an hour and a half. Then at 5 Annie had to go home, so I drove Tiffany home and then went home myself.
( The two shirts I bought )

Tomorrow at noon I have my first animal shelter thing. I'm meeting with this buddy who is going to show me like... how things are done and stuff. Then after that, I can go in whenever I want. Woohoo! I'm getting really excited for this. Especially since I've been like... majorly wanting to get a cat recently (no idea where it's come from, but I do) and since I can't get one (4 birds and a cat wouldn't really mix), this is the next best thing. That should end around 1. Then after that, I'm driving Tiffany and me to Anaheim to go to Chain Reaction. It's this club, and from 10 AM to 5 PM there's going to be this like... thing where they sell a bunch of band CDs, signed posters, shirts, etc. It sounds cool, so yeah. I'm a little unsure about driving all the way to Anaheim (it's only like 15-20 min away, but... I've only ever driven as far as like the Spectrum, and plus... it's still illegal for me to drive other people. Only for 20 more days, and tomorrow it'll only be 19! But... yeah. It still makes me kind of nervous), but well... driving today around a bunch helped make me more confident. I think thinking about it is like... worse than it'll actually be. Meh, my dad doesn't see any problem with me driving there, so I think it'll be ok. If I don't kill Tiffany and me driving there, it should be fun. :)

( Lastly, some picspam of my birds. )

Edit:
Snaps Cup! meme:
A Snaps Cup is a cup that a group of people will all put a piece of paper in. The cup will be designated to a particular person, and then that group of people will have put compliments for that person on the pieces of paper they placed in the Snaps Cup. This way, everyone gets anonymous compliments and it's a great team building exercise, and ego booster.

Post your username in a comment. People will then reply to you ANONYMOUSLY and tell you something they like about you. It must be a positive comment and it must, must, MUST be posted anonymously.

Give me comments?

Current Mood: happy

!! Dude! Ok, so your friendslist is probably being spammed with this enough as it is, but but... 100 userpics! I thought it was just going to be like... an option where you could either buy up to 50, or pay more and buy up to 100! Ah, this is awesome! :D
Edit: Uh, you'll only see this if you have a paid account and purchased the extra userpics so you're up to 50. So if you don't see any difference at that page, that's why.

Oh, also, happy birthday

vamripire! I hope you have a great day. :) And also my bird, Derek. Well, we don't know his exact birthday, of course, but we were told mid-August, so we've always said it's August 15, 'cause... mid-August. He's 10 today-ish.

Current Mood: cheerful
Current Music: American Idiot - Green Day

( Babbling about SAT diagnostic test results that most people don't care about. )

I downloaded the pilot of Dead Like Me like a month ago but never got around to watching it. I finally did this morning and I totally fell in love with it. I want more now. I'm downloading torrents of both seasons, but they're taking forever and probably won't be done until tomorrow or even Thursday. Oh well.

( Google Meme Thing )

By the way, I realized that my layout is all messed up when being viewed on Firefox. I don't know why this is, but, well, it is. So, if you can't see it, that's why. Someday I'll try to fix it.

( Lastly, picspam! Outside my house and some more of my birds, because they are camera whores. )

Current Music: "Sugar, We're Going Down" - Fall Out Boy

It's 12:30 AM and I'm bored and kind of tired, so it's obvious what must be done. Sleep? Far too logical. Instead, picspam of my birds!

( First, the Piper saga, in which Piper decides what to do after having a bath. )

( Second [and last], the normal, dry-bird pictures. )

Ok, done with the picspam.

I realized that my training for the animal shelter is in only one week! I am excited. I hope it shall be awesome. And plus, my tetanus shot reaction thing is loads better. Doesn't hurt at all right now, and it usually does like this. Only hurts if I really press on it, which I don't because, duh, pain=bad. There's still the like... bump under there, but I think that's the thing I saw where people were saying it was like... a rock under their skin, and they said that lasted about 3 weeks. As long as it doesn't hurt anymore, I don't care, and it doesn't, so yay! :)

I want a new layout. I know exactly what it'll be of when I make it, I just... need to get motivated to make it. Haven't been in a very graphics-making mood, save for right after I saw 510 and 511. And that died after I made some icons from both of the episodes, anyways.

...yeah. I should probably get to sleep sometime soon.

Had a tenor sax lesson this morning. Blah. Not fun.

Painting's started. Last week he did the textures on the wall, this week he's actually painting stuff. My mom's office is done, and it looks really nice. It's this light greenish color, and it sounded bad to me when she told me about it, but I think it looks really good. I'll take pictures if I end up getting my digital camera.

I had this plan to talk to my mom about the digital camera at lunch today. I figured we'd go to Golden Spoons for lunch since it's right on the way back from my tenor lesson. It'd be good because neither of us would have anything to read so we'd have to just talk to each other, and I could bring up that. Unfortunately, it failed, as my mom told me we were going to pick up food from In-n-Out. sigh. Oh well. There aren't any other really oppurtune moments to ask, so I think I'll just wait till Tuesday. I mean, we're having dinner together first, so I figure I can bring it up then. Plus, if I bring it up while we're actually at the Spectrum, it'll seem less out of the blue, I think. I kind of wanted to ask beforehand just in case my mom would be all "Well, we still have the old one, see if it works" because if it actually did work, then... I could just use it and not cost my parents any money and not feel guilty for getting another. But I looked for it last year sometime where I had last seen it, at the top of the closet in the family room, and it wasn't there. I don't know if it was put in the attic or given away or what. But whatever, I'll just ask tomorrow, I suppose.

Oh, and I told my mom about ordering the Harry Potter book. She was just like "Oh, that's cool," and when I explained I was letting her know so she wouldn't think I stole her credit cards, she said "Oh, I would never assume that. I would be curious, but I'd ask you about it first." But yeah, anyways. It should come on Saturday, according to Barnes and Noble's website. I keep thinking July 16 is Friday, not Saturday, for some reason. I need to get it straight in my head. blah.

I finished the first three Harry Potter books yesterday. Man, I really love the third. I don't know what about it it is that I love (perhaps because I absolutely love Sirius and Lupin, and I love Harry finally having some sort of parental figure who really cares about him), but everytime I read it... blah. It's totally my favorite out of all the ones I've read. Started #4 this morning, but I probably won't finish it for a day or two. I have the SAT diagnostic test tonight from 4-8:30, and SAT class from Tuesday-Thursday, plus going out tomorrow after SAT class. I should be able to finish both 4 and 5 by Saturday, though. I'd be very surprised if I didn't manage to.

Because of the painting starting, my mom took the birds to the vet yesterday to board them. Can't come back till the paint fumes go away, which won't be till Friday at the earliest. Awwww. I miss my birds.

All right, that's all. I think I should review some stuff for the SAT diagnostic test and then I'll probably read some more Harry Potter.