"I don't like Mom."

If Soph spoke, this is probably what she'd be saying right now. We're having a little fight, and it's been going on all day. I'm not sure what has caused the problem again--maybe she keeps sneaking 'bad food' (um, like cat food?)... but whatever it is, she's been preening her legs again today. I gave her a full shower this morning. She glared the whole time. Wouldn't come to me for the rest of the morning, acting like I abuse her or something.

This afternoon every time she saw J she went crazy like, "HELP THIS WOMAN IS SO MEAN! SAVE ME I LOVE YOU!!" Her wings half-fluttering, screeching for him... And whenever I'd try to pick her up for kisses and cuddles she'd jump right down and waddle her little feather butt elsewhere. LOL

She's decided the computer monitor is the greatest perch, ever. It's nice and warm... so she sits there, but then keeps getting into trouble. She took out several keys on my keyboard, tried to eat the mouse. Then we warred over my super-blinging mechanical pencil. She chomped down on it, and grasped it in her little feet. She was not going to come off... I finally put her (and the pencil) back down (tummy-up) in her basket. When she flipped over she jumped up, marched to me, and bit my arm. That was it, to the other bathroom on her basket for some time-out.

Anyway, other than that, this afternoon I kept offering her treats. She would drop them and ignore them. If I tried to pet her, she'd inch away. A few times I caught her over-preening her legs, and I misted them. She screamed bloody murder. (I assure you it did not hurt.)


I'm trying to widen the variety of her diet, since she's so scrawny. I rinsed some freshly-made couscous. "No thanks, I'd rather have yours." She hopped over and toppled my plate. The unseasoned fish was acceptable.

Oh yeah, and my potty-trained parrot also now hops on me just to do her business, and then jumps off and goes her merry way. How's that for passive-aggressive?

Sorry that all I write about anymore is my parrots... I really have a very boring life. It consists of studying, eating, sleeping, studying, feeding pets, and nothing more. I could write things like, "Oooh! Did you know if you don't wear a seatbelt and you are in an accident b/c of the other driver's negligence, you will still be contributorily negligent and therefore partially liable? Then you won't get a full recovery... So always wear your seatbelt!" But really, who wants to know that...?

ETA: Well, whaddya know? Little Angel-girl is on my shoulder, sweet as anything. I do love this parrot, even if she drives me insane sometimes!!