//*shrug*/

Thought I'd do some bloggin', but I haven't really done anything interesting to blog about, LOL. Sigh.

Did go out a couple of times, gaaassp. Mainly shopping though.

Went to the Glenelg with a bunch of friends which was awesome when I actually went into the water, lol. Went again (Semaphore though - not as good as Glenelg IMO) on Saturday with Mum, Dad and Danielle, too. It was cold when we first got there, but the sun came out for a little while so I managed a little bit of swimming. x3 The water was *freezing* though. I managed to get sunburned too, the one place I forgot sunscreen - my face! And I was wearing sunnies dammit! -_____-;;

Had a movie night on Friday! Can't remember the last time we had one of those - must be over a year! Angelo, Terrie and Sarah came over and we mainly just talked about random stuff and watched Taken (and whatever was on TV after that). It was cool, I hadn't seen Angelo in a looong time, and had hung out with Terrie only a couple of times at her new place and in hospital (got some serious stuff going on with some tumors :/) Hopefully can do it again sometime, it was fun. I was still getting over a cold so I kept leaving the room to blow my nose ahah, I didn't talk much...stupid froggy voice. Well not that I do anyways, LOL!

I got my L's renewed - again...lol. So sad. Driving is still scary! :| But the sooner I get my license, the sooner I can get a job (public transport = eek) and the sooner I can get moneeyyy haha. ^^;; $20 a week sucks, especially when it's all put away to save for the Sydney trip. I still want to go see Watchmen darn it, and that 17 Again looks good.

Speaking of Sydney, our 12:50pm flight from Syd back to Adelaide was cancelled and then moved to a 6:30am flight. *Not* cool. Since we can even check out that early...prompting a call from Dad which then changed to Mum who got her frustration across, haha. Seems the only other flight is 4:30pm. The hotel we're staying out has checkout at 10am, meaning we'd have to carry our luggage around all day, unless the hotel could hold it for us. Hope so, anyway. Under a month to go! And still waiting for Supernatural to come back on Channel Ten. >:[

Recently I've been hooked on the TV show Bondi Rescue, which follows the lifeguards patroling Bondi Beach in Sydney. I think it's pretty cool, lol. We have the first three seasons on DVD now, haha. Good stuff. It's not too far away from our Sydney hotel, so we could make a little trip down there - especially if we have the 4:30pm flight on Sunday. :3 Hopefully it's not too cold.

We've had Louie for nearly three months now! So he'd be about five months old now, not that we got a hatchdate (haha), that would have been cool. He's started to talk more and more these days, which is so adorable. He makes kissy noises and says "Good booyyy!", "Boo!" and he's starting to say "kiss kiss!" and "clap clap!" because we'd randomly clap when he did good stuff to excite him, haha. We got him some new toys too. ^____^ He's really shy around new people though (Daniel scared him LOL), so he just kinda sits there most of the time, all ".____." lol.


Hehe.

Videos!





He's getting there. :3

I've read all the available Vampire Academy books now, yayyy. They're awesome. More awesome than Twilight, even! I think so anywho. It just has much more going on than Twilight does. And muuuch less lovey dovey mushy stuff. xD But I still love Twilight and I'm trying to keep up with all the New Moon stuff, haha.

Yeaaahhhh that's it.

//Bloggaaage./

Haven't blogged in over a month, hmm.

Haven't been up to much (surprise, surprise!) really.

Went to the Zoo with Sarah and Danielle, that was fun. Sarah got to use her new (pink!) camera that she got for Christmas. It's quite different there now, stuff is being built and moved around/taken away to make way for the Panda's coming in October. Woot woot!



Had a look at the Adelaide Museum too, for the dinosaur exhibit they had going on. Cool stuff. I'd love to do stuff like that - be an archaeologist or paleontologist or something. Except I never did science/biology/etc in high school. xD Lol fail.

What else...oh! Danielle, Sarah and I finally bought our plane tickets for Sydney. It's starting to set it in now. :D Also, Misha Collins is joining us, too! (He plays the Angel, Castiel fyi.) Pretty awesome. Except neither Sarah or Danielle wants to split a $40 a get a photo with him, darn. Oh well, I'm happy with my pics with J & J. :D A little over two months to go!

Sarah also turned 20 in January. We went and had dinner with her and Mum and Dad at the Bombay Bicycle Club. They had a really yummy steak! It looked tiny, but I juuust managed to eat everything. xD Yum.



Came back from a mini holiday to Port Hughes this past weekend, too. Sarah was going with another friend, but there were some problems going on with her, so Sarah made out they would cancel and asked us to go instead, LOL! We left on Friday night, hung out on the beach on Sat and went out to dinner at the local pub and came home on Sunday.

The beach was bloody windy though (and we all managed to get really sunburned haha), so that kinda ruined it a bit. Couldn't put the shade tent up that we'd brought because it was so windy (though there was big one there already) and we kept getting whipped by the sand, haha ooww. Not to mention the beach was choppy, and me not liking waves kinda lowered the fun factor! LOL. :| Was still a really good time, though. I'd go again. :)

Too lazy to upload all photos, though I have an album uploaded with them on my Facebook. :P



I've finally started reading Vampire Academy! We have the three books that are currently released (another one is coming out later this year, I think) and I've nearly finished the first, really enjoying it. n____n

Louie is still the cutest thing ever. Had him around...a month and a half, I'd say. He's hilarious. He's starting to mumble words now! I'm a proud momma! *squishes him*

Although we had a close call almost two weeks ago. He jumped/flew (wing is still clipped) out of his cage to Missy's feet, which caused her to jump and she must have partially squished him because he made this weird screechy noise. :|

I screamed REALLY loudly lol, quickly picked him up and put him back in his cage. I was so scared because I'd heard stories about birds dieing from being stepped on. D: But I guess lucky for us it was Missy, she's light on her feet and she seemed to have jumped out of the way of him anyway. Brandy is like she has bricks on her feet, lol.

He's perfectly fine, just took a little bit to recover from the shock. I'm never keeping the cage door open like that again, that's for sure! Jeeez.

Mum's decided to leave North Side Express, where she's been working at for I think three years or more. David (Sarah's pop, the business owner) wanted to change Mum's hours from 10am - 2pm which didn't work for Mum.

She's made up her mind that she wants something knew. She went for a job interview yesterday, hope it works out! Sarah's sad that she's leaving. :(

Been playing around with our camera, trying to figure out the other settings (It's not an SLR, but "SLR-like" .__.), and I got some pictures of a pretty sunset on Sunday. :3





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Yeah...that's pretty much it. Gotta start driving again...dammit lol.

Also - RIP to all those taken by the VIC fires, and my warmest sympathies to all those affected. :( I have some friends and family (nan, pop, aunt, uncle etc.) in Victoria, but lucky the fires haven't touched where they live. At least I don't think so...Mum and Dad haven't contacted them. They've just been checking where the fires are hitting.

//Haaappy New Year./

Happy New Year, dudes! Hope everyone had fun welcoming 2009. I celebrated it my usual way - watching the Sydney NYE broadcast on TV with the family, lol. ...I had Doritos and dip! Yum. Then sent new years texts to people, sat around for a bit and went to bed. x3 Hooray.

Not even going to *think* about resolutions. *sigh* Oyyy. v____v;;

Hmm...what to look forward to next year...

Well, my license expires in March, LOL! So I'll either have to rush to try to get my P's, or just pay for that extension thing again.

SuperOzCon in April. :DDD Should be like, the best. day. *EVER*. Lol. So excited. Except I'm kind of panicking about saving up the money for the airfares lol, I've turned into a major scrooge! *hoards money* We can save another $200 before April, right..?

I could even get a job *le gasp*! That would make my money issues a lot easier. But my fear of public transport kind of ruins that, lol. Hence I need my P's, stat! :| I don't like driving... .____.;;

Umm...that's it. xDDD

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Louie has settled in so great, it's a shock! Had him five days now. I have to keep telling me he's not a Cockatiel, and that he has a different temperament (and personality) to Roxie. Barely anything seems to faze him. :P

He's so freaking adorable! Already he's started to learn to laugh - I heard a pretty clear "hah hah!" from him today - although Danielle said it sounded like he was imitating Kookaburras (which are at the aviary we bought Louie from - in a big aviary out the back)

He had a bath two days ago, and one again today - so damn cute. :3 He's so soft and cuddly.:3 Naw.

We also got a few perches and stuff to add to his cage to help him a bit, because he keeps climbing to the top of his cage and squawking - either because he hasn't figured out how to climb back down yet and is stuck, or he's frustrated that he's at the top of his cage and can't climb any higher, lol. He flaps his wings sometimes too...maybe he wants to fly? One of his wings is clipped though, so that's impossible!

Piiiccss:


*melts*



Louie's new and improved cage. c:


Snuggling up in Danielle's jumper, teheh.






Lollll.

Also, videos! :D

Louie "squak"ing with/at Roxie:


Laughing/clucking at his mirror toy (previously Roxies, LOL)


Me feeding him some carrot, nom!

//Welcoming...Louie. :D/

Holy crap, we got a Quaker Parrot LOL!

When we were getting ready to go out today, I thought it was just going to Camsal Aviaries to get the toys for the cage and stuff...we talked a little about either getting one from a breeder or Camsal Aviaries, though.

We went and got some perches and toys and stuff (and a calcium perch for Rox), and then Mum asked one of the guys at the store if we could see the baby Quakers! Lol. I got to hold one, he was so cute and let me pet him and everything. We ended up getting that one, haha.

The man at the store (lol fail, I don't know his name) told us they're about 9 weeks old, and "look like" they're all male except for one. We'll have to take him to the vet and do a DNA test to be certain, but I don't mind.

He seems to have settled in really well. After an hour after being put in his cage, he was going to sleep, hehe. So adorable.

We ended up naming him Louie. :3

Pics, of course!



Bawhhh.


We need to keep the stuff low for now, since he's only little. Baby Quakers are also pretty clumsy, or so we've been told and read. :P Can you see him on his perch?

Yeeeey.

Roxie says hi! x3 *is sitting on my shoulder*

//Xmas Bloggage!/

Prepare for a photo dump of d00m! *ominous music plays*

Christmas was cool, we had the usual present opening, sending Christmas SMS's, playing with/checking out presents, a massive lunch, chillin' (lol), more playing with/checking out presents, and going back on the laptop, LOL.

And I of course had to take pictures of, like...everything. :P

We got awesome pressies this year (Mum got her books, and Dad got...socks! LOL. Well that's what he wanted!). :3 Our converse shoes, Twilight Movie Companion, makeup, Tomb Raider: Underworld (already finished lolz), toys for Missy, Brandy and Roxie, a really cool pentagram (petancle?) charm on a necklace (ala 'Supernatural'! :D) and some other goodies. n___n;; Soo spoiled, lol.

Sarah popped over for a little bit (hung overrr from her night out clubbing LOL, poor thing) and gave us some choccies. c:

Pic spammage!



Danielle's new jewellery box. c:



Meh shoooessss yay. I put the rainbow laces on! :D But I've changed them back to white now, lol.


Danielle's black onesss.


Pentagram (pentancle?) charm necklace (ala Supernatural!) is awesome.



Cute 'lil charm thingy we spotted.



Mum got me a watch - she got me one last Christmas too lol, but I accidentally broke that one! This watch has changeable wristbands and faces, but they're a bitch to get off. The watch stopped yesterday, too. -___-;;


Woooo. ^___^


:3




Roxie's new toys. The top two are now in her cage, and she's chewed off one of the beads ahah. She doesn't like the bally thingy. :c








Bawh. n___n













Wohoah! Lol. Mum bought us this sparkly eyeshadow-mascara-body glitter stuff, it's pretty coooool.


Roxie roxxx. :3

Phew! Done. xD


My gosh...I think we might be getting a Quaker! .____.;; I didn't expect to get one anytime soon - I never hounded or nagged Mum or Dad, just continued telling them some of the cute things other peoples Quakers have done. x3 We ended up buying a cage at Camsal Aviaries and looked at their young Quakers there, haha! n____n;;

Continuing with our hunt for bird shops, we visited two more stores that Danielle found on a directory - one in Elizabeth North, and another on Main North Road in Pooraka. We also checked out the pet shop at Paddy's Market - Mum loves that place!

The one at Eliz. North was...not very good in my opinion. Waayy to many birds (It is called 'Birds, Birds, birds'!) cramped in cages too small, shoved in every corner, stacked ontop of eachother...*shakes head* I mean, do they need that many?! I saw about six Rainbow Lorikeets, five Green Cheek Conures, two Quakers and Sun Conures...lots of finches, Indian Ringnecks...loads. Tiny Shop. Not good. :/

The Paddy's market one was nice, nice and cool too. There were some young Galah's for sale, we were looking at them when we noticed one lying on the bottom of the cage with it's wings out...I freaked out and was all "OMG, is it dead?! DDD;" but his tail was moving - it looked like he was struggling to get up. Mum got one of gals working there, she picked him up and sat him right in her hand...he was laying there all "O____o". She thinks he might have fallen and stunned himself. Dunno. Poor dude.

The store in Pooraka ('Gem Birds') was cool (...I mean good!), too. We were looking at all the different birds when a man working there asked if we needed any help. Mum told him we were sort of looking for a hand reared Quaker, and he told us "Well, this is the guy you want." and pointed to a little blue Quaker who was in a cage with three other hand reared cockatiels. He was telling us how if they're reared "the right way" they're really friendly and a great companion, etc etc. He got the little guy out of the cage and was cuddling right up to him! He seemed totally fine with him. I got to hold hiiimm. :D He was so adorable! I cuddled him and petted his head, hehe. We didn't buy him, though (...$475), but Mum got his card anywho.

Danielle suggested we might as well pop in to Camsal Aviaries so Mum could see the green ones (Mum said she prefered the green) at the store lol. They're adorable, as was Cheeky! (Pet store owners Quaker who's always there) We looked at the cages and ended up buying one and put it together at home. c: It's in the kitchen where the Christmas tree was. We need to get more toys and perches of course, but it's a really nice cage!




Can you see the toy that Roxie shuuunned? Lol.

Gossshh. Excited. Except now we're fighting over names! xD Danielle and I had agreed on Felix when we were thinking about a name (hypothetically LOL) for our potential Lorikeet. Mum doesn't like it, and Dad keeps saying "Felix, Felix the cat!" -___-;; haha.

Mum wants to call him Minty. o_____o I don't like it loolll. But we've come up with Oscar (Ozzy!), Louie and Buddy (Mum agrees with that *cough Hawthorn footy player cough*) for a male, and Bella (Eh, eehh?), Izzy, Emi, Neela and Jada for a female. :3 I like Louie but Mum doesn't like that eitherrr! ><;; Lol.

//Meeerry Christmas!/

It's nearly Christmas! Less than an hour ago. :3

We did the last of the shopping today (thank *GOD*!) which was just fruit and veg. Other than that, we're all set to go!


(white Chrismas tree, yayuh!)

Some of our Christmas shopping was done in Rundle Mall last week and...eek. Craziness. And it's like everyone forgets their manners. They'll walk into you, cut you off, push you and not say a word. *sigh* But on a high note...Mum got us converse shoes! They're pretty cool. They're our Christmas present (although of course Mum said she didn't want us to only have *one* present lol -___-;;)! Mine are an awesome silver colour, and Danielle's are black. c:

We've also been getting Roxie out a lot lately.


Lol.



Bawh.

Danielle and I have been reading a lot about bird behavior and all the stuff they need, and there's so much to learn! We've also been trying to find a way to stop her from plucking (she's chewed and plucked feathers from her wings and has now moved to her feat and her chest .___.) We haven't really been bathing her, she doesn't seem interested...that's something that can cause plucking, along with a bad diet (we feed her seed pretty much), not enough toys (she has two LOL), lack of sleep (continuous 12 hrs a night...) and some other things.

So she now has three toys for Christmas! Yay.

As I've been hanging outside a lot and taking lots (and *lots!*) of photos of Rainbow Lorikeets, Mum started to talk about getting one as a pet! So we went crazy looking up prices (hypothetically, of course...) and how to take care of them and such. That led us back to this pretty parakeet called the Quaker Parrot, that we were squeeing over a few months ago.

Pics!




Blue mutation on the right. c:


Yayz!

Aren't they cute?!

They're expensive (about $400 for a green at a pet shop - Roxie was about $85) though...but they're really intelligent and just seem so funny and cute! We've visited a lot of bird aviaries lately (and found more online to check out!), one of them just got a bunch of them in - so adorable.

We've been telling Mum about all these cute stories and such, she seems interested in getting one! We'll have to see though...they're really expensive. Although apparently it's cheaper (and better?) to get one from a breeder. We might look around next year. Fingers crossed!

Maybe Roxie could get a frieeennd. Though it might not happen after some things I've been reading about Quakers being jealous birds and such - I don't know.

Back on the subject of Roxie...it seems that she's actually...a *he!* It probably sounds so idiotic when you see photos of her - she's still a girl to me, it's stuck now! Roxie is a pearl white face.

(here's a photo so you can see - click for larger version)



As you can see, Roxie's the mutation that has removed the yellow and orange colour (whiteface), and the pearling, which she had when she was younger. Now, females keep their pearling after their big molt, the males loose them. Roxie doesn't have her pearl feathers anymore. Also, the female whitefaces don't have the whole painted white face. :/ Roxie does speak quite a bit as well (saying "Come on Roxie, come on!" "See ya Roxie" and recently learning "Ready Roxie, ready?" and "Good girl Roxie, good girl!").

I don't care, she's still just Roxie to me. <3 I got some new photos of the Rainbow Lorikeets today! And some Musk Lorikeets a few days ago. :D





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:DDD

Have a great Christmas, everyone!