http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/africa/7399962.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7399962.stm

Sudan asks for the Darfur rebel that led the weekend attack on the capital to be listed as a terrorist group.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7399897.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7399897.stm

Reports from the epicentre of China's earthquake suggest the number of dead could be higher than feared.

my bird is bipolar. one minute he wants scritches then next biting. one .inute he poofy the next flying around like a god damned jet plane.

he needs birdie lithium.

• 08:43 Failed at not-sleeping. Breakfast, and then Serious Nap. Am about 8 hours shifted off my schedule. #
• 08:49 DF4: OMG Murphy + Walmart + Cold Iron applied most rapidly & effectively! <3 #
• 16:47 Just did something very scary on facebook. She meant a lot to me. #
• 16:57 @coffeechica Cackling over here re: cheese fry status. :D #
• 16:58 The only cure for finishing a book is starting another book. This applies to both writing and reading. Reading right now, alas. #
• 17:49 @mamajoan Check your direct messages! :) I don't do the last name thing online generally, and don't link this ID to the last name. #
• 18:20 Thing that has made me laugh hardest all day so far: tinyurl.com/66ddt5 #
• 20:29 Booked flight out, emailed to aunt. #
• 21:01 The way I go through books when I have the time to read as much as I want, the challenge is not going through more than 50 books/month. #
• 21:05 @eng1ne after lunch, by chance? #

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Watched Sickhouse. Fun flick. It further cements my lurv for plague doctor masks. I want one bad-like. Might be fun to wear to Screamfest.... along with a skimpy outfit XD

The local Walmart, despite being non-super... is 24 hours! Huzzah! This = win. But it did not have bean bag chairs, which we want.

Speaking of things for the new apartment... I should locate a step-stool for the kitchen. I cannot reach 90% of the 2nd shelves in the cupboards, and I cant reach the top shelves at all. I'd like to utilize them.

I like how I'm looking in mah new bikini. Not much more to improve on the ol body. I'm so excited.

hi

it's Roselle here, I need your help.
I need to find the phone number to call to report my defective human.
She has not fed me seed for four days!!!!
Though I may admit she is serving passable meals such as vegetables, rice, saucy beans and greens and that egg'and'biscuit mix. I will eat them . But that's not the point! She has not been giving me the tasty treats I deserve.
She even tried to distract us by drying corn skins in the oven and putting them in the cage. So I showed her what I thought and ripped them all to pieces. She says she can't eat many foods any more because she can't tolerate them, so she ends up cooking for herself and feeding us side portions of healthy foods ! Ugh what I can't tolerate is being treated like a stoopid hooman. Bon Bon doesn't mind he is a piggy and eats everything and hogs the food dishes. I am a dainty lady and require little seeds to nibble on thank you very much. So what if they make me a little curvey, it means I'm voluptuous and alluring.
Look here I even am practicing my not impressed face. Then she had the audacity to take a photo and to call be henny-butt. I think I might just scream at her even more than I already do to show here how upset I am.

What's the point of having humans if you can't train them properly????

At least she is going on holiday soon then daddy will feed me all the millet I could want ;)

So a really quick update before bed on a busy week.

I've lost 30 pounds! WOOT! It is a big enough weight lose that people at work have been doing double takes every now and then. I'll wear something that wouldn't have fit me before that is form fitting and the double takes are constant. It's so fun.

Cayla is doing tons better minus the new issue which we will get to. The diagnosis was that her Colon wasn't working properly. They perscribed all these chemical laxatives and pretty much didn't tell us how long she should take it. So we did that one weekend of her in pain from the laxatives and said screw that. High fiber diet and prune juice as a regular friend = easy on her and no more stomach pains.

So the new news is that she has to have an eye surgery now. Her right eye is starting to wonder off to the side causing her to get headaches, run into walls, miss her chair. It isn't as big of a wonder as it did before her first surgery in 2000 which helped until this last few years. Last year the eye doctor perscribed a very mild perscription just to see if it would strengthen her eye. It didn't really help so it's back for another surgery but this time she is older so they are talking about doing an adjustable sutcher. This means they will wake her up near the end of the surgery to have her tell them when her vision is straight. She is NOT happy about this and I don't blame her.

But this is much easier to deal with then stomach pain. An eye patch helps with the headaches and she is not crying all the time. The surgery isn't an emergency situation and can be worked out gradually as I investigate and speak with different surgeons to find the right one and the right procedure for her. The important thing is that we get past this year of fixing her up so she can continue her life healthy and more aware of how to care for her body. I've learned a lot from all of this about nutrition and I'm feeling healthier and slowly feeling happier.

So off to bed. I'm exhausted so please pardon any spelling errors.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/sport1/hi/football/europe/7398449.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/europe/7398449.stm

Rangers aim to win their first Uefa Cup in Wednesday's final against Russia's Zenit St Petersburg.

A man posing as Darth Vader attacked a Star Wars fan who had founded a Jedi Church, a court has heard.

Arwel Wynne Hughes, 27, from Holyhead, Anglesey, admitted assaulting Barney Jones and cousin Michael with a metal crutch. They suffered minor injuries.

Hughes, who was drunk and dressed in a black bin bag, shouted ""Darth Vader!"


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The above link with video has cheered me up a bit.. plus a batch of Devil's Food Cupcakes with Whipped Cream icing.

EDIT: Good news! Drunk Darth Vader spared from jail.

My macaw Sonic has a new boy friend it think..she loves this commercial!

If anyone in the SF area had their heart set on a cages by design cage...
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/fur/679848826.html
I was browsing furniture I wish I had 200 extra atm :(

I have started to use Cease on my parrotlet for overpreening. I did try giving her new toys and shreddable things to play with first. The bottle tells you how to use it, but doesn't tell you how frequently to use it. Any advice?

Titans once more walk the earth.

In other news, despite what I'm going through, still alive. Not sure if that's a good thing.

 

A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indianaby Haven Kimmel

 Pretty good book.  A more normal childhood memoir.  They were poor  but for Zippy it was all just part of a normal childhood.  It was nice to read a book where someone felt they had a normal childhood.

Mercy by Jodi Picoult

 Most of Picoult's books I really enjoy but this one was not one of  my favorites.

I really hope that the only people that are interested in this post are parrot-experienced people.

I'm tempted to ask for just the parrot. :) I asked if they would be willing to give the parrot away without the cage. I've always wondered if people were willing to do that!

So, we ended up catching Forgetting Sarah Marshall tonight. Judd Apatow is rather hit or miss for me; I adored Freaks and Geeks, thought Undeclared was somewhat above average, really didn't like 40-Year-Old Virgin, and skipped Knocked Up.

All four of us were laughing pretty hysterically through the whole thing. It doesn't hurt that Jason Segel is one of my favorite of his regulars (and actually, it was written by Segel, not Apatow). Romantic comedies often aren't my thing; their underlying assumptions often fundamentally irritate me enough that I don't enjoy them. This was definitely an exception. Also, it's wonderfully raunchy, in a whole-hearted way that feels paradoxically clean to me (then again, that may just be me).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/south_asia/7399823.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7399823.stm

A curfew is imposed in the old city in Jaipur in western India after a series of blasts killed at least 60 people.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/americas/7399794.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7399794.stm

Hillary Clinton says her win in West Virginia means the race for the Democratic nomination is not over yet.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7399830.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7399830.stm

The Thai prime minister departs for Burma, where he will urge leaders to allow in urgently-needed aid.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/europe/7398781.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7398781.stm

EU diplomats say Lithuania has dropped its veto threat, paving the way for EU strategic partnership talks with Russia.