Today, I watched Julie very thoroughly as she shaved her legs and plucked stray slightly ingrown hairs. It was riveting. She was very confused as to why I found this so incredibly fascinating.

Gordon came over, and I have decided I actually like him quite a bit, and enjoyed his company. Matthew had some "el-jay" emergency, though, so he went upstairs and then Gordon left. But not before giving me a little bit of the bread from his sandwich. I like Gordon.

Julie took me upstairs with my playgym (they keep calling it the "Poo Palace") and we sat on the bed while she read a book. I could hear Matthew, though, and it was making me crazy, I knew he was just in the other room, but he would not come in and see me. :( I like having all my flock in one place.

When I started to get too agitated about this, Julie decided we should go for a walk around the neighborhood. First we went to the neighbor's house to see if they wanted to come with, and they didn't. So, we went to the fruit stand on the corner down the street, and the guy there gave me peanuts in the shell! OH THE RAPTURE, OH THE JOY, OH THE PERFECTION OF THIS SMALL DELIGHT!!! It is a perfect package to chew on, it crunches and I can pierce it and I can crunch it right up and tear it apart, and once I've done that, there's this little tasty nugget inside! Oh the loveliness. This guy was now my best friend. Before the peanut, he was just some guy I didn't really care for that much. After the peanut, I wouldn't mind if he came home with me, so long as he took the peanuts with him. However, after some reflection, I realized he was a bit nervous around me and misinterpreted my movements and was a bit scared. He was too twitchy. But mmm, peanuts. Julie (who was now covered in small bits of peanut shell) was going to buy me a small handful of peanuts, but he gave them to me for FREE!!

I liked this man very much and gave him a kiss before we left.

Julie also bought some nectarines, a mango, a pear, some cucumber and ...I lost interest, mainly when she picked up the cucumber, I stopped caring. I am pretty much all about the peanuts. And nectarines.

After we left the fruit stand, we kept walking around the block and people in their cars would slow down to look at me and wave at me. Pretty much everyone loves me and thinks I'm great. This, of course, does NOT go straight to my head. When we got home, Julie let me sit on the swinging bench and we ate nectarines and mango.

Then, mid-bite, I realized that there were some people on the other side of the fence, talking. Why were they not coming in to the patio to talk with me? I kept doing the "come here" motion, but they did not come to me. I guess I made a big fuss out of it, because Julie picked me up and took me over to the other side of the fence to say hi. I don't think they knew what to make of this. I think they thought we were a bit daft.

I started feeling very sleepy after that, and kept yawning (which made Julie yawn, too), so we went inside and I took a nap.

When Matthew was done with his "el jay" emergency, he gave me a peanut!!! I tore it completely apart. Then I napped again. Matthew and Julie left after a while and I got to snooze.

They're back now, and though the cover is over my cage, I'm fiddling around in here. I can't sleep when they're down here making noise. Well, I can, but really, I've been napping since early evening, so I'm not that tired anymore.

I like Saturdays, though, we can do fun things on Saturdays. Maybe tomorrow they'll take me to the toy store so I can see that cute guy that works there so I can try to Jedi Mind Trick him some more.

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Yesterday, Matthew and Julie took me to the toy store with them! I knew where we were the minute we stepped in the door and started singing for joy! Too bad no one else appreciates my singing voice. :(

Anyway, I was so excited I chewed everything. Everything! If I could chew it, consider it chewed. It was great. Also, there's a really cute guy who works there. I mean, really cute. Sadly, he evaded my Jedi Mind Trick dance, said something about having to get back to work and stopped adoring me. Luckily, I'm too easily distracted by things I can chew to be disappointed for long.

I tried to invade the cockatiels' cage when Julie was showing me the mitred conure. I met a bunch of adoring people, too.

Julie let me pick out a toy made up almost entirely of stringy fabric for me to pick off, which I promptly began to do and got it all over Julie's black shirt. She also got me this stuff kind of like cardboard that she says she's going to weave between my cage bars in convenient places for me to chew on it. Lately, she's been attaching cardboard tubes in my cage and while I enjoy that, it gets in my way.

Matthew got me a toy that has a yellow wooden ducky with soft ropes hanging off it. Since I was in a chewing mood, that got chewed, too.

After we left the toy store, we went to some place with a lot of cars and Julie and I sat there for a while, then Matthew came back with a bag that wasn't for me, and we went to Julie's grandma's house. Now that the DOG!!!! is gone, i could meet Granny, who liked me a lot.

It was 9pm by this time and I was really tired and yawning a lot and making everyone else yawn, too, so we went home and went to bed.

Today I just want to stay in and nap. It's been rainy and cold outside, so it's not as much fun to go out for walks, so we haven't. Matthew kind of wanted to take me with him to see his parents, but I don't feel like it right now, so he left without me and I'm just cuddling the polly dolly.

Oh, Julie took some pictures of me with her camera phone (I know it's a phone because she talks to people other than ME on it, and I figure it is a camera because she keeps pointing it at me and it makes clicky noises when she takes my picture), and she'll have to put those up. I don't know if you will be able to see very well, but I have grown a LOT more fluff on one side!

Matthew theorizes it's just one side because I'm also busy growing my tail feathers out. There's also a little orange feather on my leg, and darker and thicker fuzz with some colored feathers coming in on my body. I'll work on getting a full coat of feathers in time for winter. Julie showed me those coats on that website and I don't think anyone's going to get anywhere near me with one of those things. I'll wear my own feathers, thanks. I'll work on it.

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This is a backdated entry - my first entry is from May Day, but this entry is about going to THE TOY STORE. Matthew and Julie took me to the TOY STORE and I heard another conure and we had a conversation, though Matthew kept saying he was going deaf. He let me see the other conure but I wasn't terribly impressed. He seemed too excitable to me. Matthew and Julie let me pick out toys but I was really more concerned about the fact that I was out, about and conversing with other birds and people. I got a car ride, and new toys, a small playgym, and then we went to Julie's mom's house to get some newspaper and say hi to Julie's mom. I got to meet her, stare down a deaf cat, and drive Matthew nuts because he was stupid enough to try to take a phone call while I was on his shoulder. Why he hadn't already figured out that Just Isn't Going To Happen, I don't know.

Then, when we got home, PEOPLE came over to the house! I guess Julie and Matthew invited their neighbors over, and OH BOY OH BOY OH BOY oh *BOY* was that great. I love love LOVE Maureen and Chris loved ME! Oh the love.

This was a very exciting day for me.

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