this guy

I was in traffic with this awesome person on my way to work.  It's a cockatoo and two parrots and then underneath it said, "My Feathered Family".

He got away from me before I could see who was driving but I'm assuming that it was the coolest guy in south Florida.  Someday I hope to be just like him.

sticking with my resolution

I promised to post more about Beyonce so I'm sending you to this article that Jon sent me this morning.

The video above is what immediately came to mind while I was reading it.

I am incredibly curious to see some of Beyonce's art.  I'm even more curious to see Solange's art.  I love that she studied in Paris.

i love the pet store

I just feel like the problem is that I want everything, and the girls there know that too.  They come and talk to me and then the pick up the most adorable animal that I'm looking at and play with it and cuddle it and make it do tricks.  I have seriously been so close to getting something every time I wander in to this place.

Like this guy!!!

He was so nice!!  He had somehow escaped from the bird area and crawled over to a stack of boxes where he was working his way through the top of one.  I took several hilarious pictures of him, I won't make you look at all of them, but here's one more that I liked:

I felt like the girl who worked at the pet store was slightly annoyed that I was just standing there taking pictures of him ripping through their merchandise.  I couldn't help it though, he was just so dedicated!  I loved him.

I also loved these two guys:

And yes it is two of them and not a mirror reflection, even though they look exactly the same in both of these pictures:

They were very talkative and funny.  The one closest to me was VERY interested in me.  He kept looking like he wanted to climb up on me and I was going to let him but then I asked the girl who worked there if he was going to bite me and she took one of those clenched teeth inhales and was like, "he might"

So I just admired them from a distance.

The ones I really wanted were a pair, this was the only one I managed to take a picture of though:

They were deafeningly loud when they made noise.  I like that.  It's just their way of saying hello.  I'm going to save up my nickels until I can afford him.

Unless somebody really generous wants to get me one!!

!!

hard to say goodbye

I'm leaving today and won't be back until Saturday.  Clearly these guys can't even handle the thought of living without me.  It exhausts them just to imagine it.

I'm headed out to vegas to meet up with Jon for a few days and I've decided that I'm not bringing my computer.  My hope is that I'll win big when I'm out there and I'll be able to buy a new computer and do an inaugural blog post sometime in the next few days informing you all of my glory.  So if you don't hear from me just know that I'm coming back penniless.

I'm excited about vegas regardless though.  Having been there with Jon back in October I feel like I am better prepared now.  But it's still always sad to say goodbye to all my Florida friends, even if I'm only going for a few days.  From those nice kitties to all the fish in my dad's fish tank, especially this nice starfish who seemed to be saying, "ooooohhhhh beeeeeeeeeennnnnnnn,  iiiiiiiiii'mmmmmm gllllaaaaaaadddddd yooooouuuuuuu caaaaaaaaaammmmmmeeeeeee toooo viiiiiissssiiiiiiitttt meeeeeeeeeeee.  Haaaaaaaaavvvvveeeeeeee aaaaaaaa ssssaaaaaaaaffffeeeeee ttrrrriiiiiippppppp"

I even got a grand Florida farewell from some green parrots in the front yard this morning:

There are two of them, I know it's not the best picture in the world but I still thought it was pretty cool.  I wonder what I could do to encourage them to hang around the house more.

I really am going to become an animal hoarder.