Snackie

It's the beginning of another short week. How glorious. July is a lax month around here so it's good for taking days off and leaving early. Ron, me and my cousins are going to a Judas Priest concert this coming Friday...wooooheeee!! I get to leave work early again. Then we're going to see Robert Plant on the 24th, so I took the 25th and the 26th off for a little mini vacation. I'm also looking forward to that week because a friend I haven't seen in a year will be home. He's a friend of Melanie and I who we started hanging out with a lot a few years ago. He was one of the roommates of her ex-boyfriend. He lived there with his boyfriend. He's a very nice, eccentric gay guy who is the type that keeps you guessing. Very fun to be around. It'll be great seeing him again. Melanie took those days off, too, because we're hoping to get some camping in that week. Let's just see if we can pull it off this time. Not another disaster like the artichoke fest!

So July is supposed to be a busy month. Ron is going to visit his grandma in Alaska, we're going to concerts, camping... Plus, I'm getting my new bird! I think I'll be able to pick him up by the end of the month. We went to the parrot store on Saturday and the owner/breeder said that we should come back in a week, that they should be ready to be out in the open by then. I'm very excited about that. This will be the last pet I'm going to get for a very long time. I have determined that the reason for Pickle's horrible plucking this time around is the fact that he's lonely. Everyone keeps asking me why I don't just get him a female and put them in the same cage. It's because he's been without a 'mate' the entire four years I've had him and to introduce him to a female (which are very aggressive by nature) that would be living in his cage at this time in his life would be a huge pain in the ass. The chance of them getting along without tearing each other apart would be kind of slim, not to mention that it would probably stress poor Pickles out even more. Plus, I don't want another lovebird, I already HAVE one. I want to try something else. Lovebirds are LOUD and two of them with their piercing chirps in my living room would not be fun. Parrotlets are considerably more quiet than the parakeets and lovebirds. I also don't want him humping the real thing because I DON'T want babies. There are enough lovebird breeders out there. So I've completely thought this through and feel that I've made the right decision. I will be sticking with it. NO MORE PETS!

I had a wonderful long weekend. But it flew, as usual. Friday we went on a nice, scenic bike ride at the park. Then we stayed up almost all night playing video games and Scrabble. Saturday looked lovely enough to go to the beach, but once we got there we were disappointed to engulfed by a hideous fog that just got thicker as we went along so we just turned around and drove back home. We were tired, of course, by the time we got home so we took a loooooooooooong afternoon nap. Then we got up and cooked this huge snackie-dinner. Well, Ron did. We just ate and ate like lil' piggies. We decided to dub the night "snackie evening" because it's all we did was snack. First we split some ramen soup with veggies in it. Then Ron made garlic bread and salad, then we had more soup (bean and ham with cheese), then vanilla icecream with chocolate drizzle. *Whew* We were full. Sunday it was off to his mom's for a BBQ...yummy chicken, pasta salad and beeeeeeeans. It was fun talking to his mom, she's cool and I felt so comfortable. We got home that night and were both just farting up a storm. We were speaking ass. It was great... Yesterday was spent tooling around again, watching the Twilight Zone Marathon, making snacks, playing on the computer...at which time I changed my template AGAIN. I think I'm going to keep it this way for a long time. I even figured out how to add some lovely pictures. And OH the snacks Ron made...we started out with these little bagel pizzas that blew me away! Cream cheese, thin tomato slices, garlic powder and mozzarella. Put 'em in the oven for 20 minutes and it's HEAVEN! Then we had the BBQ chicken salad with garlic bread again. So naturally we farted garlic chicken all night. Mmmmmmm!

That's it for this boring entry, now it's time to finish things up for the day. I've been going back and forth and I can't do that anymore. It's time to concentrate.