YAY!! I'M HOME!!!

And on to other important things.

So, I was at my Grandma's house yesterday just sitting and visiting with her, Mom, and my aunt and my aunt noticed a bird sitting in the tree that my Grandma has all of her birdfeeders hanging from. So, I got up and took a look and I said, "That's a falcon of some sort." I thought it was a kestrel because they're all over the place in Elk Ridge, but Mom grabbed Grandma's bird book and some binoculars and we took a closer look. Here's what it looked like (the picture is from the internet, of course)


Does anyone know what this birdy is? Anyone? Anyone have a guess?

Rupert I already hinted it was a falcon. It's beak and body is completely wrong to be a duck. And it's too big to be a sparrow. Go take a bath!

Sheesh, some goats. Anywho, becuase I can see you're all biting your nails in confusion and excitement I'll tell you. This here, and that bird sitting in my Grandma's yard, is a Merlin. Falco columbias. What's cool is that you don't see them a lot here in Utah. They are migratory birds, but will sometimes take up winter residence in some places. Apparently that female merlin (the males have blue-gray wings) decided that Grandma's house is an excellent place to hold out for the winter. And boy does she take advantage of those bird feeders! I think this was the same bird that I saw at Christmas time. That time, I actually saw this she-merlin catch a bird and start eating it.

Grandma wasn't so happy about that, but I thought it was cool. Nature in action! And a merlin!! AWESOME!!!

Tagged

Ah! I've been tagged! Drat! Now they're going to be able to track me with satellite and radios. I don't want to be a part of a biologists experiment! I don't want my habits and behavior studied! I don't want to be documented in a scientific journal! I don't want my methodical madness to be known! AAAAHHHH!!!

*runs around for an hour or two*

Okay, that was fun. So, I got tagged. . .by Lizardbreath. . .so here's some seven strange and wondrous things about the Defective Minion Nomad Jekka Fiend:

1. I can cross one eye, both eyes, and move one eye in a complete circle at a time. It's rather fun and I love freaking people out with it.

2. I have a fascination with boxes of any kind, but I especially like the boxes that are antique-looking. I have yet to come across/get my hands on a box with an old fashioned key to open it.

3. I can make dolphin noises, and according to a dolphin trainer at Marine World I really sound like one. I can also do a loon call, chickadee chirps, and house finch trills.

4. I still have Pogs, complete with a whammer. They're all in this little Felix the Cat case that I got in a Wendy's Happy meal

5. I am slowly becoming an Anime freak. I've been watching a lot of anime and I'm going to an Anime Convention that's coming to St. George. I just finished Trigun yesterday (AWESOME!!!) and have a few animes that I would actually buy

6. Unfortunately, all my buying money goes towards books. I'm addicted to books. (Elantris came!)

7. Being blond, I like brown hair. No matter how hard I try to put variety in my stories when it comes to hair color, I always picture the characters with brown hair. Though red hair sometimes pops up, like Liliana, on rare occasions.

Well, that was fun. Er, I guess most of my buddies have been tagged alweady. . .but, I'll do it again, just to be sure.

Francis! Ready the radio transmitters!

100 Posts and other things

Because I want to flaunt this abnormal fact around concerning my apartment. . . .

ATTENTION!!!!

A growing trend of dish rape has been sweeping Manzanita D. If you or anyone you know is exhibiting the signs of dish rape, contact your local dish rape specialist immediatly. Remember, it could be your dish that gets raped. Speak out, save a dish.

This ad was brought to you by PLAD (Please Leave Alone the Dishes).

So, yeah, that's my apartment. I love it. Brittany wrote the above ad so go leave a comment on her and Alex's blog. Now.

The story behind that shtuff is we have a sign above the sink that says "Dishes are like boyfriends. Your roommates should not be doing them." I'm sure you can see where dish raping came from?

Anywho, happy 100 postings! Er, nothing much happening. . .I'm still waiting for my stinking Elantris book! Okay, it's not stinking but the people who shipped it are! I was expecting it Wednesday at the latest and it still hasn't come! ANNOYANCE!!!

At least I have the Golden Compass, and Wheel of Time no matter how irksome it is. . . .Oh! So on Tuesday my roomies and I went to Wal-Mart. I wasn't intending on buying anything but I got this plastic green bowler hat with a shamrock on it, some easter eggs that were gold and silver (very shiney), and then a packet of TMNT easter eggs!! They make me happy! I love the turtles!

Cowabunga!

No, Winston I'm not going to do homework today. I'll do that tomorrow. You go back to your philosophical discussion with the slingshot. That's a good goat.

Tarot Card

Found this from Washi's blog and thought "Hey, why not?"
I was a little surprised by what I got. BUT, I like the dragons!

You are The Lovers

Motive, power, and action, arising from Inspiration and Impulse.

The Lovers represents intuition and inspiration. Very often a choice needs to be made.

Originally, this card was called just LOVE. And that's actually more apt than "Lovers." Love follows in this sequence of growth and maturity. And, coming after the Emperor, who is about control, it is a radical change in perspective. LOVE is a force that makes you choose and decide for reasons you often can't understand; it makes you surrender control to a higher power. And that is what this card is all about. Finding something or someone who is so much a part of yourself, so perfectly attuned to you and you to them, that you cannot, dare not resist. This card indicates that the you have or will come across a person, career, challenge or thing that you will fall in love with. You will know instinctively that you must have this, even if it means diverging from your chosen path. No matter the difficulties, without it you will never be complete.

What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.

Yeah, took me by suprise. Love? Ew!

Random again

Blah! I hate lacking books to read! After finishing Alcatraz versus the Evil Librarians, I don't know what to read! I've opened up WOT: The Knife of Dreams again after three months, but that only pushes me to read a different book. Sorry to all the fans of Robert Jordan out there, but I just don't care for those books. Whiney adults? No thanks!

Why do I keep reading them? Because there's a good plot line going on and I do want to see what happens. I just can't stand all the drama and soap opera-ish stuff that goes on! Not to mention angsty prophesied ones.

I did order some books off of lovely amazon.com: Elantris, Dark Lord of Derkholm, and Rakkety Tam. Along with Oceanborn by Nightwish. However, I have to wait a week before I get those. A week! What am I going to do? I can write, yeah, and I probably will, but but. . . .I WANT TO READ SOMETHING!!!

I want my bookshelves. There's some books on those that I'd like to read right now. . . .

As for crackers, they're very tasty. I likes them a lot. I've been eating more crackers than chocolate, just becuase I eat them while I study.

. . . .No, that's all. . . .yeah, I'm done. . . .no, they don't want to know that. . . .They told me so. . . okay fine!

Rupert wanted me to post that my last, official day at Hollywood Video is April 11. I don't know why he's so excited about that. I'm more excited than him! My last day! FOREVER!!

I'm never going back!