This time it’s for real

(If you don’t want to read about my bird scroll down to the weight loss cartoon and read from there).

So you all know I have my bird Broccoli (picture on the about me page) and she’s a yellow undersided green cheek conure. WELL as much as I love my baby girl, I don’t love her little “presents” she deposits every so often. My couches and clothes suffer. When I see her wiggle her butt cuz she’s about to poop I usually can catch it in a napkin, but sometimes she just gets you!!!

So I went around online looking for two things, one- something so I can take her out and keep her wings long so she can fly, and two- something I can do about her pooping everywhere.

SOOOO last week I found this:

It’s a flight suit/diaper for a bird. When I take her out she can go with her leash, and inside the home she can wear the suit when she’s out of her cage. There is a pouch underneath that catches the poop, it comes with a liner that you change every so often- it recommends for a bird like Broc to replace the liner every four hours.

I had tried a “feather tether” but it scared her so bad that I tossed it (waste of $20) but people online were raving about this product, about how the tethers also didn’t work for them, but this did. So I bought a red one and a pack of liners and one leash ($30!).

It came in yesterday and first I just put it down and I think broc likes the color red (yes she seems to gravitate towards that color) so she picked it up, checked it out, and so on. THEN there was the real test of truth- I picked her up and put it on her, first try didn’t work, but second try it did. Course she just immediately started biting it- which I let her- and I grabbed her and took her outside. She didn’t seem too interested in outside so we went back in. I tried giving her some apple but she took one bite then went back to the suit. Finally I was like okay you sit there and chew on your suit (it’s made out of good material she can’t hurt it) so while we ate dinner (she forgot to beg that’s how absorbed she was by the suit) she turned her back to us the whole time. When I tried to play with her she’d just fly back to her cage, and so on.

Finally I decided let’s go out with her- so hubby and I went to Office Depot and got the printer paper we were out of and then she started going HEY, I AM OUTSIDE! My husband said he felt a little silly with a bird on a leash outside- but PFT like I CARE about what other people think. Some people just looked and smiled (according to my husband really I was just paying attention to her so I didn’t notice) and when we got home she was better, she wasn’t biting the suit as much- but she still was annoyed with us. She didn’t want to come and when she did she’d just fly back to her cage.

Finally after three hours I took the suit off and she was happy again lol. She slept for an hour with mommie until I went to bed myself. I know she had an exhausting day…

Who knows what today will bring for her, I’m hoping it goes better.

Don’t you wish that were true? Though I don’t eat croutons anymore! Nuggets of fat lol.

So yesterday was a good day also, was within my calories. My neighbor said she’d made lumpia and had me come over and get 12 from her, I had no sweet and sour sauce so I made my own. It turned out really great (found a recipe online). I use so little I don’t know why I wanted some anyways lol. My hubby ate like 6 of them, I had three, and then left three for my sister. My neighbors husband died last year and I told her I was sorry to hear about it (no we aren’t close neighbors) and she almost acted like she didn’t care lol. Like oh thanks honey, I’ll never get married again. Yeah I know crazy! But she does well because her children and grandchildren are there all the time.

Anyways- yesterday I was dead so I just basically came home, made dinner (cajun chicken with active lifestyle pasta and green leaf salad), went to the store to get some printer paper, then chatted with some friends online, watched Supernatural and tried to hide the drooling from my husband lol (see last post for man candy), and then went to bed.

This weekend I’m going to be slammed! I want to go see that new movie with Beyonce and Ali Larter, Obsessed, so I’m going to convince hubby to take me Sunday Morning lol. Then I have to work on finding some templates for a client’s website and schedule a meeting with him for next Sunday. After that I got to do the normal cleaning of the house and some laundry. Oh we also have to go shopping all of hubby’s socks have holes in them so I threw them all out except for a few pairs and told him it’s underswear shopping this weekend lol.

So ladies, have a great weekend, and here’s some more man candy for ya!

There is something about Dean holding that gun that makes me hot