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I sent a resume into Petcetera...I’m applying for the position of livestock manager. I doubt I’ll get it cus I’m waaaaay too young but I figured that since they have NOOBODY and they're basically bankrupt I may have a chance...I really don't know why I sent it in.

my face is killing me...I grind my teeth like a fricken cow when I sleep (worst case the dentist has seen)so my jaw muscles are all pulled on one side making me have a huge headache an even bigger jaw ache. I clench my jaw so tightly when i sleep that my bottom molars have holes (like pin holes) in them from the spikey's on my top molars (is that a good explanation?). i grind and clench so much i hear it and it wakes me up...nasty! Seriously if it's not one damn thing it's another....WHY LORD WHY?!?!?

annnnnnnnnyways Sab has decided to get a bird (the evil birds had another clutch of babies) and I’ve taken the liberty of making a list of names that would certainly kick major a**!

Finnegan
Milo
Elric
Bourbon
Turpentine
The Professor (nah, I’m jk, but seriously that's such a cool name!)
Mango (Her sister's is named kiwi)

That's all I can think of at this moment...

annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnyways I can't sleep. My uncle was supposed to come over here from god knows where (all i know is that it's about 10-12 hours away). I’ve only seen him like...once? Anyways nobody believes me that his wife makes bird feeders and hangs them outside her kitchen windows so she can shoot the birds that come to eat there. I seriosuly remember her telling me she did that... anywyas he isn't here yet and it's 12:30 so every one has decided to go to bed but now I can't sleep.

My brother is out somewhere...probably smoking dope. i'm keeping my fingers crossed that he'll get arrested. anyways my dad went out to "pick" him up.

i'm gonna go load up on aspirin to stop my face from imploding. I’ll probably stay up for a few more hours...then hopefully drift into sleep where I can further destroy my face.

i went to the dog park today with my 2 pups and sabrina's pup. it was pretty funny because beethoven kept going in the water and laying down in it so it would run over his back and then he'd roll from side to side in the water so it looked like he was having a seizure lol. it was the funniest thing i've ever seen i seriously peed ma pants a bit...jk...seriously...Anyways he'd wiggly his entire body (legs stretched out behind him) so he could go deeper and then when it was deep enough he'd actually swim normally lol. Spoon didn't swim, i suppose he doesn't appreciate the water like tove does smile Beethoven also bit sabrina's dad. i drove us all out to sab's house to get her dog and sabrina's dad picked up the tove and started like pressing him against his face and tove bit him on the mouth. i felt so bad but he should have known better then to pick up a strange dog and shive your face next to theres...plus tove doens't like men because of his past and i told him that but he didn't listen or maybe didn't hear i ono. i still feel really bad tho...

Ferin said his first words yesterday wink he says "pretty bird". it's not perfectly clear but everytime he says it it gets clearer and clearer. i've decided to start clicker training him and he's getting the hang of it pretty fast, i'm actually surprised at how smart he is wink it was so cute, today i had him out in my room and i ended up falling asleep on the floor while he was eating and i woke up because he was rubbing his face against my cheek smile i felt so specail! i also discovered he likes pizza, he keeps trying to fly into the box everytime i walk by it. he sits there pecking at everything and eating all the green peppers off it lol. it's funny...hopefully no one gets a mouth full of poop lol. jk, he didn't poop i made sure.

Sab and i are having fun text messaging each other. other then that i'm not doing to much, i'm gonna go pick up my brother at work around 8 and then i need to give my herms a bath....maybe set up my new fish tank *devious*. my parents are such tards sometimes, they're constantly telling me "no more pets!" yet my dad went out and got me a fish tank with everything in it (like 200-300$ worth of s**t--he got it for free from some dude at work). i'm thinking of having a tank full of tetras...i kinda want goldfish cus they're cute but they're way too dirty, and i kinda want guppies but i want one of my beta's to go in there and the guppies will eat him! *gasp!* anyways tetras are pretty and i can put a whole bunch of different kinds so i suppose they're not too bad. i still need to convince my dad to let me have them tho!

anyways i should go wink i'm waiting for sab's reaction to the text i just sent her lol, after that i'll probably head out to get paul.

sab's over at my house and we're soooooooooooo bored...well at least i am lol. theres nothing to do! anyways i pulled yet another all-nighter because sab was supposed to be comming over here around 6:30 and i didn't want to fall asleep and forget to unlock the door ect... so anways i stayed up all night looking up things about cockatiels...training, behavior and what not. im planning on teaching Ferin a bunch of different tricks, for exemple i want him to scream HELP HELP HELP when i put a towel over his head, and then when i take it off i want him to go hahahahaha (trick depends of course on whether or not it;'s a boy), and i want him to put money in a piggy bank and to be able to lay on his back if i flip him upside down. plus theres a bunch of words i wanna teach him, so i was looking up the best way to go about training him. I also looked at a few videoclips on youtube. When sab finally got here we stayed up an extra 2 hours becasue lestat wasn't feeling well and i was scard he was sick. he was impacted for a while but finally passed it all today after laying on a heating pad, force-feeding (he stopped eating) him a specail food mixture i made and giving him a warm bath. i'm gonna feed him the mixture again around 6 jsut to make sure he's well hydrated and getting at least a few nutrients in him. anyways we decided to go back to bed around 8 and we woke up around 1. i'm still totally bagged tho....

Sab took this really cute video of Ferin on her camera phone. he's sitting on my head doing head bobos and weird mouth things. it's so cute, i'm forcing her to keep it until she can download it on my computer. anyways ferin's back in his cage now, probably trying to eat the hanging strand of tortilla wrap i left in there for him wink i had to re-arrange his cage around again because he wasn't drinking from his water bottle and i thought that i'd bring the water bottle up high so he'd feel more comfortable with it...he doesn't like going on the bottom or near the bottom of the cage. anyways it looks pretty good, and the way i arranged makes it alot less crowded. so yay!

ysterday i went out to dinner with my mom, we had vietnamese food. I was supposed to go to the doctor but my mom said i should wait a while longer and see if it gets worse..easy for her to say...
anyways other then that my afternoon last night was pretty drag, mostly i played with ferin.

anyways i should go, maybe i'll try and convince sabrina to come have a quick nap with me before we head out to the store.

i'm at sabrina's house, i've spent most of the day here just hanging out. i had to wake up at 6 in the morning so my mom could drive me and it took me FOREVER to fall back asleep. it was probably because Sabrina was freaking me out!!! she would cuddle up close to me and then make this weird laughing sound, roll over and have this really creepy smile...all this while she was sound asleep. i finally got to the point were i just pushed her face away from me, rolled over and shuddered internally every time she made the weird noise. we woke I decided to make this really cool hammock thingy (amanda brought down this tinkertoy box thingy, it's sticks and stuff of wood that you can make into different forms and such). anyways we decided to make it really tall and remove the hammock portion of it because her bird didn't like it lol. it was fun, but we tore it down.

in other news i'm going to the clinic tonight because my stomach has gotten really bad. don't want to go into any details but i'm in a lot of pain most days and it effects what i can and can't do. anyways today is pretty bad but not as bad as it's been in a long time so i'm hoping if i load up on extra-strength advil the pain will slowly dissipate.

anyways Ferin is doing quite well wink i've done so much research on cockatiels i could write a book lol. it's funny because theres a bunch of toys in his cage but he doesn't know what to do with them. i'm planning on making my old room his "room". his cage is already in there but i'm planning on having a play pen in there for him and a bunch of other knick knacks so that he can walk around and play. it'll make him a little more independant, but still bond with me at the same time because i'll be in there helping him and teaching him that toys are fun wink We had this old cat house that the cats are too big for and so Sab and I re-painted it and i'm planning on hanging toys and having treats in there for him. there's two stories in it so i think it'll be quite fun for him.

speaking of birds, Sab's birds had babies again. theres 2 little ones and there so cute. i don't think i'll take a second one though because i only want one bird. when oyu have 2 they usually bond to one another instead of with you and that's not what i want. plus my cage isn't big enough for two birds. anyways because school is starting in 2 weeks or so, Amanda and Sabrina aren't going to be able to feed them 4X a day, so i'll probably come over during the day and feed them. knowing me i'll probably bond to one or both of them and it'll be extra hard when they're old enough to give away. oh well, i can't just let the littlins starve! anyways i doubt my parents will mind if i end up taking a second one since they're in love with Ferin, but i'm not entirely sure if i should or not, especailly since they're siblings i wouldn't want them mating...or if they're two boys i don't want them being aggresive towards one another. anyways the only way you can tell they're sex by they're feather patterns is when they're 6-10 months old and that's too long because they'd already be living together for months and months and i wouldn't be able to give one away....

annnnnyways i should go, my mom is leaving work in about 5 minutes and i should get ready before she comes to pick me up. i'll update when i come back from the clinic to let you know how i'm doing.

So I totally made a fool of myself today sad I came home and took Ferin out of his cage and brought her around with me to do whatever but she kept sneezing and I was really worried because when a bird sneezes a lot it's usually a sign of an upper respiratory problem. anyways I phoned the vet (which I saw yesterday) and asked if she was ok since she had no discharge or anything coming from her nose and eyes and the vet said to just keep an eye on her but that she was probably fine. So I ended up phoning Sabrina and telling her that Ferin was fine but I totally started crying! I cried for like five minutes because I was so scared that she was sick. anyways she seems fine, she's only sneezed a few more times but she's pretty active and she still eats so I’m hoping everything is ok. I moved her cage upstairs to my old bedroom because I was afraid that maybe it's too cold for her downstairs. Now she has a very nice view of the outside so she's not so lonely when I’m not there. Lord knows she shouldn't be bored with the amount of toys that are in there, but she's still not used to being alone for long periods of time so I’m hoping the view of the "great wild" will keep her occupied and less lonely.

As I was saying, I took her to the vet yesterday for a check-up. Everything seems great except that she's a little thin. the vet said that was normally because she's being weaned and that she still had muscle mass so there was nothing to worry about (they lose 10-15% of they're body mass). Anyways I found out that I won’t know if Ferin’s a boy or a girl for another few months because she needs to molt first (in about 6 months) before she gets all her real feathers. I’m kinda thinking she’s a he, because he’s pretty vocal, but then again she is a baby so of course she’ll be making tones of “mommy, hold me” noises. Anyways that’s why I’ve been going back and forth between he and she, oh well it’s a habit that will be broken in a few months lol.

Sab rented the new Inu Yasha movie for me *grin*. It was awesome, very watch-worthy. I’m totally gonna ask for it for my b-day! lol, it's so sad my birthday wish list is like...Inu Yasha movie, Silent hill movie....ahhhh, I ono....money? lol. anyways i've totally been craving birthday cake for like...the past 2 weeks. and not the shitty home-made crap but the one that's full of sugar and the other good artery clogging ingredients...yumm, arthrosclerosis.

Today I spend with Sabrina (of course) and we ended up taking her dogs to the dog park. It was really fun and I really want to bring my two there, but they need to have they’re vaccines updated first. There were so many puppies there, and I saw a miniature version of my dog Beethoven (the tove). It was so adorable.

Anyways I should go, not because I’ve got nothing better to do, but because I just don’t feel like writing more lol.

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