Where Is My Happy Ending?
For several reasons, my boyfriend is now having to spend a couple of nights away from home a week. He leaves around 8am on a Tuesday and returns about the same time on a Thursday. It will be a bit of a new experience for me to spend a whole night alone in this house. While I spend plenty of time here by myself, I've never spent a whole night here alone. It will be weird to sleep in that bed by myself. Anyway, it's a necessary thing and is the best option. I'm sure I'll get used to it!
I got up this morning after he left and had a shower before coming out to make some breakfast. I noticed that our budgie was not flapping around like the spastic she usually is so i stood on tiptoe ( her cage is on top of the fridge, to keep her away from the dogs) to have a look at her and she did not look very well at all. She was huddled down near the front of the cage, just behind the bottom perch with her head actually under the perch. Normally she's a tad hyperactive and I've seen sick budgie's before. When they get like that, it tends to just be a matter of how long...
Which is was. By 10ish she was gone and I had to get her out of the cage and do something with her little body. She was my boyfriend's daughters budgie and I haven't told her yet. She got two of them as pets when she used to live here. When she went back to live at her mothers she couldn't take the budgie (the other one died a little over a year ago, before I came here) because her mother's house has a cat. So she was left here for us to take care of, which I didn't really mind. Budgie's don't take much looking after. She was a bit of a nut (she had a habit of emptying all the seed out of her container onto the floor and then picking up the container with her beak (as far as she could, as it's one of those cages where the containers sit in little "doorways") and then dropping it. Yeah that noise got really annoying after a while. But she was always a pretty happy thing.
My boyfriend doesn't know much about budgies. He estimates that he bought them about two and a half years ago, but doesn't know how old they were. They could've been any age. Pet store people see guys like my bf coming and know they can sell them anything and claim that they're "baby budgies". Most probably they weren't. And even if they were, I know that it's not uncommon for budgies to die suddenly. My last budgie, named Ozzie, died at barely 18 months old inexplicably, the same way this one did today. And I bought him and I know he was a young'n when I bought him. And myself, and then my folks when I was at uni, looked after him in style. He basically had his own little room where it was sunny so he could sit there in the warm winter sun and not get chilly! At nights he slept in the kitchen with a little tea towel over his cage so he knew it was "ni-nights" lol. So it happens. Hopefully Jorja will not want a replacement bird as really, it's just one more thing to worry about when we want to go away. If she was here and would look after it, I wouldn't mind. But she's here only 2 days out of 14 so she can't really contribute much. And I have always tamed my budgies and I wouldn't be able to do that, owning 2 greyhounds! Still, it was very sad seeing the poor thing this morning. I was already a bit emotional, that just kinda amped it up.
Last Wednesday I had my first experience at becoming an aunt! My boyfriend's brothers already have an assortment of kids, but this is the first one I have been there for. I was there when they found out they were expecting another baby, so I count this as my first official experience. Anna Faye was born into the world at 3:15pm on Wednesday the 15th of August 2007 weighing 7lb, 1 ounce. Mum and Bub are well, and have been back at home since Friday. On Saturday my boyfriend and I bought them some cute things to send up. Couple of little outfits. Hopefully they like them. And hopefully we can get up there and visit them sometime because although I have met Dave, I have yet to meet Berna. They also have another daughter, Abbey, who is 2 next month. We have bought her birthday present already too! Hehe.
I'm a bit clucky. Is it noticeable?
I suddenly realised that I slacked off horribly in updating my list for the books I have read this year. Now of course, I have forgotten about two dozen of them, so I will endeavour to go through and find what I have read and post about them. I did read a really nice book the other night that Rochelle leant me - The Five People You Meet In Heaven. I really enjoyed it - everything about it really. From the way the whole story unfolded slowly (like you didn't learn what happened to him in the war, or how things panned out for him and the love of his life right when it's first mentioned) to the lovely way it was written. I am often prone to crying in books and only the fact that my bf was lying beside me as I finished it, kept the tears from falling. He loves to (gently) tease me about my crying in books! It was really sweet and a bit heartwrenching at the end. The last person he meets is not who I thought it would be, but it's very powerful. I have heard good things about his other book so I might have to hunt that down. My boyfriend has just bought a bunch of the Robert Crais Elvis Cole novels, he has read #1 and left that for me to read. I dare say I will get through it soon.
On Sunday I went on one of the GAP walks to St Kilda beach. It was a lot of fun, I just took Rolly as she's a bit of a handful and I didn't trust myself to be able to safely walk both. And I was right, lol. Rolly pulled her guts out nearly the whole way around! Mostly because she knew she could. Anyway she made herself a tad sick, coughed up a little big of foam but that didn't deter her! After the walk was over one of them people there had some little treats and things and she sat and begged very nicely for them, and for hot chips. The little piglet even snitched a treat out of another dogs mouth, so she got in trouble for that! Anyway Kerrie, one of the ladies who comes along (she owns a beautiful girl called Nyah who does cute tricks) took this pic of Rolly
(all rights to Kerrie Anderson)
I think she looks cute. She's such a funny little girl! So very different to Power. They each have their charms. Power is calmer and much more even tempered, I think he would be very suited to the Responsible Pet Ownership Program where you take them around to schools and things. He's very tolerant of children and will stand there for ages and let people pat him. Rolly is a livewire and a wriggle worm and she would get boisterous/bored. But she's very loving and affectionate, where Power is more aloof.
Anyway it's nearly time to feed the pooches so I will toddle off and get some things done while their dinner defrosts.
I got up this morning after he left and had a shower before coming out to make some breakfast. I noticed that our budgie was not flapping around like the spastic she usually is so i stood on tiptoe ( her cage is on top of the fridge, to keep her away from the dogs) to have a look at her and she did not look very well at all. She was huddled down near the front of the cage, just behind the bottom perch with her head actually under the perch. Normally she's a tad hyperactive and I've seen sick budgie's before. When they get like that, it tends to just be a matter of how long...
Which is was. By 10ish she was gone and I had to get her out of the cage and do something with her little body. She was my boyfriend's daughters budgie and I haven't told her yet. She got two of them as pets when she used to live here. When she went back to live at her mothers she couldn't take the budgie (the other one died a little over a year ago, before I came here) because her mother's house has a cat. So she was left here for us to take care of, which I didn't really mind. Budgie's don't take much looking after. She was a bit of a nut (she had a habit of emptying all the seed out of her container onto the floor and then picking up the container with her beak (as far as she could, as it's one of those cages where the containers sit in little "doorways") and then dropping it. Yeah that noise got really annoying after a while. But she was always a pretty happy thing.
My boyfriend doesn't know much about budgies. He estimates that he bought them about two and a half years ago, but doesn't know how old they were. They could've been any age. Pet store people see guys like my bf coming and know they can sell them anything and claim that they're "baby budgies". Most probably they weren't. And even if they were, I know that it's not uncommon for budgies to die suddenly. My last budgie, named Ozzie, died at barely 18 months old inexplicably, the same way this one did today. And I bought him and I know he was a young'n when I bought him. And myself, and then my folks when I was at uni, looked after him in style. He basically had his own little room where it was sunny so he could sit there in the warm winter sun and not get chilly! At nights he slept in the kitchen with a little tea towel over his cage so he knew it was "ni-nights" lol. So it happens. Hopefully Jorja will not want a replacement bird as really, it's just one more thing to worry about when we want to go away. If she was here and would look after it, I wouldn't mind. But she's here only 2 days out of 14 so she can't really contribute much. And I have always tamed my budgies and I wouldn't be able to do that, owning 2 greyhounds! Still, it was very sad seeing the poor thing this morning. I was already a bit emotional, that just kinda amped it up.
Last Wednesday I had my first experience at becoming an aunt! My boyfriend's brothers already have an assortment of kids, but this is the first one I have been there for. I was there when they found out they were expecting another baby, so I count this as my first official experience. Anna Faye was born into the world at 3:15pm on Wednesday the 15th of August 2007 weighing 7lb, 1 ounce. Mum and Bub are well, and have been back at home since Friday. On Saturday my boyfriend and I bought them some cute things to send up. Couple of little outfits. Hopefully they like them. And hopefully we can get up there and visit them sometime because although I have met Dave, I have yet to meet Berna. They also have another daughter, Abbey, who is 2 next month. We have bought her birthday present already too! Hehe.
I'm a bit clucky. Is it noticeable?
I suddenly realised that I slacked off horribly in updating my list for the books I have read this year. Now of course, I have forgotten about two dozen of them, so I will endeavour to go through and find what I have read and post about them. I did read a really nice book the other night that Rochelle leant me - The Five People You Meet In Heaven. I really enjoyed it - everything about it really. From the way the whole story unfolded slowly (like you didn't learn what happened to him in the war, or how things panned out for him and the love of his life right when it's first mentioned) to the lovely way it was written. I am often prone to crying in books and only the fact that my bf was lying beside me as I finished it, kept the tears from falling. He loves to (gently) tease me about my crying in books! It was really sweet and a bit heartwrenching at the end. The last person he meets is not who I thought it would be, but it's very powerful. I have heard good things about his other book so I might have to hunt that down. My boyfriend has just bought a bunch of the Robert Crais Elvis Cole novels, he has read #1 and left that for me to read. I dare say I will get through it soon.
On Sunday I went on one of the GAP walks to St Kilda beach. It was a lot of fun, I just took Rolly as she's a bit of a handful and I didn't trust myself to be able to safely walk both. And I was right, lol. Rolly pulled her guts out nearly the whole way around! Mostly because she knew she could. Anyway she made herself a tad sick, coughed up a little big of foam but that didn't deter her! After the walk was over one of them people there had some little treats and things and she sat and begged very nicely for them, and for hot chips. The little piglet even snitched a treat out of another dogs mouth, so she got in trouble for that! Anyway Kerrie, one of the ladies who comes along (she owns a beautiful girl called Nyah who does cute tricks) took this pic of Rolly
(all rights to Kerrie Anderson)
I think she looks cute. She's such a funny little girl! So very different to Power. They each have their charms. Power is calmer and much more even tempered, I think he would be very suited to the Responsible Pet Ownership Program where you take them around to schools and things. He's very tolerant of children and will stand there for ages and let people pat him. Rolly is a livewire and a wriggle worm and she would get boisterous/bored. But she's very loving and affectionate, where Power is more aloof.
Anyway it's nearly time to feed the pooches so I will toddle off and get some things done while their dinner defrosts.