Blogosaurus Vex

November 29th, 2008

So I am bird sitting.  My cousin has these two finches and he also has a girlfriend in New Jersey and in order to propose to latter, he needed to ditch the former for a couple of weeks.  I love animals and I’ve never had a bird so when he asked if I’d watch them my head exploded and I said yes.  (And now he is engaged, HOORAY.)

Of course, animals are strictly verboten in this apartment but I figured, what’s two weeks?  Who’s to know?  The people who could fix my sudden lack of hot water, that’s who.  But Husband declares it’s better to have an apartment with cold water than hot water in an apartment we just got evicted from, so we can’t get someone to come fix our lack of hot water until after the birds go (Tuesday).  The lack of hot water appeared three days after the birds arrived, so we’re in the home stretch of a week and a half with water that is tepid at best.  Yeah.  It’s pretty awesome.

Still, the birds are pretty cool.  One of them has a properly developed song (did you like how I applied my standards to a couple of finches?  As though I know anything about birds!) which is sort of repetitive but charming nonetheless.  They beep and peep all day long, which is pretty cute so long as I’m not trying to nap on the couch, and they have this darling little bird nest affair that they nestle into at night and seriously, I die of cute when they’re in there. They make for nice company, and they’re interesting to watch.

The only downside of birds is they are messy eaters.  Their seed shells (or whatever it’s called.  The stuff they strip off their seeds before they eat the insides – it’s thin and sort of soft but clearly inedible based on their consistent rejection – and ejection! – of it) are all over the place.  Also, they poop about once a minute.  And I do feel sort of sad when I watch them try to fly but their cage is so small they can’t get more than a couple wing flaps in before needing to land.  I get rumblings of guilt over it because they clearly want to fly and clearly cannot, but try over and over and over all day long.  But again, what do I know about birds.  Maybe birds love being in cages.

So we won’t be getting any finches for ourselves.  Instead, I’m going to get groceries.  Ha ha ha!  Oh lord I amuse myself.  No really.  Today I want to do some stocking of the freezer.  I’ll make a big boiled down pot of pho broth, more spaghetti (I always have spag in the freezer.  Recently I discovered it’s helped a lot by the addition of balsamic vinegar, and I also add nutritional yeast, which adds a cheesiness to the flavour), maybe some chili, and a soup I think too.

And finally, what do you eat for breakfast?  I get hungry in the morning but I dislike everything when it comes time to eat.  Cereal is too cold.  Toast is too crispy.  Oatmeal is too revolting.  Ham and eggs is too animally.  I like soup in the morning but I always get an upset stomach afterwards.  Recently I’ve been having date squares for breakfast but they don’t hold me.  Also they probably have next to no nutrition.  Help!  What should I have for breakfast?

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