Nerds With Birds

(Life) UGGG! Cody was sick last Friday through the weekend and still has a yuk cough and now I guess it’s my turn AGAIN.
I have a bad sore throat and can hardly talk. It sucks! I hate to be sick. It seems I’ve been sick a lot in the past year…maybe I’m getting old ;) or maybe it’s because I have a kid in school and I started going to college. who knows…Sucks either way!

(College) School is going pretty good I guess. I’ve been keeping up really good grades in ASL, Health and Bio but Math is really kicking my butt. My teacher sucks - I can’t tell you how many times he will write the wrong answer and solve the problem wrong only to have another student point out the error. I should invest in erasers! So I will be taking this class over with a different teacher next year.

(Farm)We bred the rabbits on Saturday. Just Sassy and Walter. I’m hoping this one sticks and we actually get a litter. Everyone else on the farm is doing good. The chickens have been laying eggs pretty steady again. I guess they think warmer weather is heading our way. I’m totally ready for that!

(Kiddo’s) Cody is doing good. He has been fascinated with germs lately *L* Gee I wonder why. So I bought him a book by the magic school bus about germs. I couldn’t believe how excited he was *L* He’s been doing good in school. He took his fall pictures Monday so I’m anxious to see how they turned out. Miss Emily has been cracking me up lately. She acts so grown. She told me yesterday “Momma, I just want to do what I want to do” - gotta love that from a 2 year old *L* She sure is a loving little thing.
She was trying to wake up Cody (which seems mean right?) because she wanted to share he drink with him *aawww* although I didn’t let her wake him up, I was proud that she wanted to share with him :) Such a doll!

(Movies) Gosh, we have watched a crap load of movies in the last few weeks. I just haven’t been online much (for leisure) to update the blog. Every time I get on the computer I’m doing homework it seems.

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Well I think I can safely assume that neither of my wabbits are going to be having any babies. Sassy is STILL pulling fur…crazy bunny! So I guess this weekend we will be breeding rabbits again.

Let’s see what else has been going on *hmmm*
(School) Well I had a blast going to deaf club night last friday. I didn’t learn much but it was fun to be there. I’m planning on going again the next chance I get. I’m still very excited about my sign language class. It’s hard but so much fun!
(Cody) The kiddo’s are doing good. Cody has been griping about the cold. Since we’ve had so much ice this year and school’s were canceled because of it - he thinks if it’s ice outside he shouldn’t have to go *L* What a fun argument at 7am! He has also made a new friend, Nathan. Apparently Nathan has a Nintendo Wii and has Mario Galaxy - so they have something in common. They even call each other n the phone and chat about the game. It’s so amusing :/

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Well valentines day has come and passed..and no babies. Although Sassy has pulled a bunch of fur, So I’m hoping to find some fuzzies in the morning ;)

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This past weekend was so nice as far as the weather goes. We went ahead and built a new roof in the pigeon/quail area, cleaned out the rabbit cages, cleaned out all the chicken nest boxes…just the chores that have been needing to be done. We also lost our baby pigeons on Saturday- not sure exactly sure what happened, they were just fine on Friday. So maybe with the new area - with a new nesting box we will have a set that will make it to adulthood.

THEN all hell broke loose *LOL* The weather was having none of that and sent an ice storm our way. The schools were canceled and we lost power all of Monday and into Tuesday. We were fine - I was proud :) We had our heat (propane and kerosene) and I got the blankets up over all the windows right when the power went out to keep the heat in. I closed off all the bedrooms and doors. That helped to keep the temp for awhile (all things I learned from last year’s ice storm) The power came back on for about an hour Monday afternoon. I was skeptical that it would stay on so I turned the heaters our room and bathroom up to flame (80+ degrees *L*) and closed the doors. It worked out because when the power went back out it stayed out until the following morning. The bedroom (which was where we camped out) never dropped below 72! I felt prepared this go round although I didn’t think we were going to lose power this time. Mainly we were just bored. We were warm, had our lights (I even gave the kids glow sticks to play with *L*) and we had food, and a small tv that runs on battery’s. The kids had the nintendo ds’s and a few toys so that kept them business. I got caught up on my book and some podcasts. It wasn’t to bad overall - I don’t like the power out by any means but I know we can handle it - and we did better this year from the trial and error last year.

Last night I remembered that I have bunnies due Thursday so we had to do some cage swapping. I lost a rabbit yesterday(maybe from the cold? not sure as everyone else was just fine)  So I loaded everyone up with extra hay, pellets and added in the nestboxes to Sassy and Alberta. So I’ll be running out there a lot checking for babies.

Schools are still canceled today - mainly due to the side roads being extremely slick and the ice on the sidewalks. Hopefully it will melt some today. I have school tonight though - math test..why can’t it be canceled for that?! *LOL*

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Alright so I know this video has been shown one million times but I think it is the funniest thing. I so want to do this someday *lmao*

Here’s the supposed lyrics…
I need a double cheeseburger and hold the lettuce
Don’t be frontin’ son no seeds on the bun
We be up in this drive thru
Order for two
I gots a craving for a number nine like my shoe
We need some chicken up in here
In this hizzle
For rizzle my nizzle
Extra salt on the frizzle
Dr. Pepper my brother
Another for your mother
Double double super size
And don’t forget the fries.

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So while surfing I came across a new list challenge! 102 Movies to see before you die…I’m stealing the idea from here. So according to rogerebert.com <snip>These are the movies I just kind of figure everybody ought to have seen in order to have any sort of informed discussion about movies.<snip> So since I have been reviewing movies, I guess I have a few more to watch *L* I’ve already seen 22 of these and a few more but it’s been so long I didn’t count them because I barely remember the story *LOL* I may make my OWN list of must see movies!

“2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968) Stanley Kubrick
“The 400 Blows” (1959) Francois Truffaut
“8 1/2″ (1963) Federico Fellini
“Aguirre, the Wrath of God” (1972) Werner Herzog
“Alien” (1979) Ridley Scott
“All About Eve” (1950) Joseph L. Mankiewicz
“Annie Hall” (1977) Woody Allen
“Apocalypse Now” (1979) Francis Ford Coppola*
“Bambi” (1942) Disney
“The Battleship Potemkin” (1925) Sergei Eisenstein
“The Best Years of Our Lives” (1946) William Wyler
“The Big Red One” (1980) Samuel Fuller
“The Bicycle Thief” (1949) Vittorio De Sica
“The Big Sleep” (1946) Howard Hawks
“Blade Runner” (1982) Ridley Scott
“Blowup” (1966) Michelangelo Antonioni
“Blue Velvet” (1986) David Lynch
“Bonnie and Clyde” (1967) Arthur Penn
“Breathless” (1959 Jean-Luc Godard
“Bringing Up Baby” (1938) Howard Hawks
“Carrie” (1975) Brian DePalma
“Casablanca” (1942) Michael Curtiz
“Un Chien Andalou” (1928) Luis Bunuel & Salvador Dali
“Children of Paradise” / “Les Enfants du Paradis” (1945) Marcel Carne
“Chinatown” (1974) Roman Polanski
“Citizen Kane” (1941) Orson Welles
“A Clockwork Orange” (1971) Stanley Kubrick
“The Crying Game” (1992) Neil Jordan
“The Day the Earth Stood Still” (1951) Robert Wise
“Days of Heaven” (1978) Terence Malick
“Dirty Harry” (1971) Don Siegel
“The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie” (1972) Luis Bunuel
“Do the Right Thing” (1989 Spike Lee
“La Dolce Vita” (1960) Federico Fellini
“Double Indemnity” (1944) Billy Wilder
“Dr. Strangelove” (1964) Stanley Kubrick
“Duck Soup” (1933) Leo McCarey
“E.T. — The Extra-Terrestrial” (1982) Steven Spielberg
“Easy Rider” (1969) Dennis Hopper
“The Empire Strikes Back” (1980) Irvin Kershner
“The Exorcist” (1973) William Friedkin
“Fargo” (1995) Joel & Ethan Coen
“Fight Club” (1999) David Fincher
“Frankenstein” (1931) James Whale
“The General” (1927) Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman
“The Godfather,” “The Godfather, Part II” (1972, 1974) Francis Ford Coppola
“Gone With the Wind” (1939) Victor Fleming
“GoodFellas” (1990) Martin Scorsese
“The Graduate” (1967) Mike Nichols
“Halloween” (1978) John Carpenter
“A Hard Day’s Night” (1964) Richard Lester
“Intolerance” (1916) D.W. Griffith
“It’s a Gift” (1934) Norman Z. McLeod
“It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946) Frank Capra
“Jaws” (1975) Steven Spielberg
“The Lady Eve” (1941) Preston Sturges
“Lawrence of Arabia” (1962) David Lean
“M” (1931) Fritz Lang
“Mad Max 2″ / “The Road Warrior” (1981) George Miller
“The Maltese Falcon” (1941) John Huston
“The Manchurian Candidate” (1962) John Frankenheimer
“Metropolis” (1926) Fritz Lang
“Modern Times” (1936) Charles Chaplin
“Monty Python and the Holy Grail” (1975) Terry Jones & Terry Gilliam
“Nashville” (1975) Robert Altman
“The Night of the Hunter” (1955) Charles Laughton
“Night of the Living Dead” (1968) George Romero
“North by Northwest” (1959) Alfred Hitchcock
“Nosferatu” (1922) F.W. Murnau
“On the Waterfront” (1954) Elia Kazan
“Once Upon a Time in the West” (1968) Sergio Leone
“Out of the Past” (1947) Jacques Tournier
“Persona” (1966) Ingmar Bergman
“Pink Flamingos” (1972) John Waters
“Psycho” (1960) Alfred Hitchcock
“Pulp Fiction” (1994) Quentin Tarantino
“Rashomon” (1950) Akira Kurosawa
“Rear Window” (1954) Alfred Hitchcock
“Rebel Without a Cause” (1955) Nicholas Ray
“Red River” (1948) Howard Hawks
“Repulsion” (1965) Roman Polanski
“The Rules of the Game” (1939) Jean Renoir
“Scarface” (1932) Howard Hawks
“The Scarlet Empress” (1934) Josef von Sternberg
“Schindler’s List” (1993) Steven Spielberg
“The Searchers” (1956) John Ford
“The Seven Samurai” (1954) Akira Kurosawa
“Singin’ in the Rain” (1952) Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
“Some Like It Hot” (1959) Billy Wilder
“A Star Is Born” (1954) George Cukor
“A Streetcar Named Desire” (1951) Elia Kazan
“Sunset Boulevard” (1950) Billy Wilder
“Taxi Driver” (1976) Martin Scorsese
“The Third Man” (1949) Carol Reed
“Tokyo Story” (1953) Yasujiro Ozu
“Touch of Evil” (1958) Orson Welles
“The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” (1948) John Huston
“Trouble in Paradise” (1932) Ernst Lubitsch
“Vertigo” (1958) Alfred Hitchcock
“West Side Story” (1961) Jerome Robbins/Robert Wise
“The Wild Bunch” (1969) Sam Peckinpah
“The Wizard of Oz” (1939) Victor Fleming

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Time for a quick update.

(Farm) We basically worked around the house and the farm all weekend. We got all the wire to build the next set of rabbit cages. 4 more and we are done! *woohoo* we got some wood to make a better roof over the quail/pigeon enclosure. Jay redid the opening on the water barrel to hold the heater thing and so far it’s holding - which means I can plug that in and keep the barrel from freezing which will eliminate the need for me to carry 2-Liters back and forth everyday :) and that makes me happy! The pigeon babies are doing good. Looks like they will be white spotted and brown. I took some pictures today (finally) and they will be uploaded tomorrow. I lost another bun last night - Alberta’s solid black baby. Now she has lost both her babies. Why? I haven’t a clue! They didn’t seem to be attacked - bitten or otherwise. They looked as though they just laid down and died. Just weird. So after this I’m contemplating having JUST the Angora’s. They are bigger, seem to be abit healthier, and I like them *L* but like I said I’m not for sure yet. I’m going to wait and see what happens around the 14th (her and sassy are due then) and if she has a litter - that will determine her outcome.

(Kids) Cody beat Super Mario Galaxy(Wii) this weekend. That boy amazes me! It took him a little over a month. He got the game for xmas. Emily has scavenged my nintendo ds these days. She can play the heck out of cooking mama *LOL*

(Hobby) I did a little sewing this weekend. Mainly fixing things but I’ve got the plans to make the ig’s a snuggle sack (dog bed) this week.

(Life - College) I have decided to stick with math. I’m going to go and listen and TRY to learn but I’m not banking on passing this class. Ahh well. It was going to cost $$ to drop it so I might as well stick with it till the end of the year. ASL is going great. It’s hard but I love it. I have learned alot in just a few short weeks. We were at bass pro the other day and there was a deaf couple there who were discussing which boot to buy. I was happy that I caught the jist of their signs until I realized I was ease dropping :/ I didn’t think of it that way I was just trying to see if I really learned anything. Biology is pretty rough - well it seems to be for me, but I think I should pass it no problem. Health? uhh well that’s a no brainer *L*

(Sweepstakes) Got a wild hair yesterday and played 56 online contests - didn’t win a thing *lmao*

(Movies) We got in several movies this past week/weekend.
Deathproof - can we say lame? I hated the b&w swap and the old film lines..plot was insane. What is the point of getting to know characters to see them die in less than 2 seconds? It’s a typical grindhouse movie plot - Come on now. 5/10

Balls of Fury - ping pong? What is it with my streak of bad movies? Lots of lame unreal action shots with a horrible story line. 3/10
Death Sentence - the latest Kevin Bacon movie. It was decent. I liked the plot and the shots - although very predictable. Overall a decent movie I guess. 7/10

Stardust - Weird and reminded me of the movie Big Fish. It was a good fairy tale/tall tale kind of movie though. Predictable ending though. Robert DeNiro was hilarious as a queen! 8/10

The Invasion - Slow to boot but it gets better. I tried last week to watch this and wasn’t able to - I fell asleep. This time once you get past the first 30 minutes it’s actually a good movie. I liked the idea of it and the ending kinda makes you think “what if?” 8/10

Underdog - The kids wanted to see this one. Man that is one ugly dog *L* The story was fine, it follows the same plot as the cartoon. Decent kids movie. I like Jason Lee for the voice - reminded me the whole time of Earl though *LOL* 7/10

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1. Eat 3 or less fast food meals (breakfast,lunch,dinner) per week. Again - I’m trying to get healthier!
2. Take a multivitamin - everyday. I didn’t do so hot on that one - gonna try again!
3. Make more hobby time! Let’s finish at least…4 things!
4. Coupons! Goal savings this month? $55 buck-a-roo’s.
5. No more ice cream - I’ve been on an ice cream kick. No more for me!

Check back next month and see how I did ;)    and just how did I do in January? Well…

1. Take a multivitamin - everyday. ( 17/31 days)
2. Eat 5 or less fast food meals (breakfast,lunch,dinner) per week. ( 12/93 meals)
3. Go through and start to de-clutter the house. Which means getting rid of dust collecting items. I’m going to attempt to get rid of at least 1 thing each day (31 things total) I sold my entire Martha Magazine Collection, and donated 3 boxes of clothes. Way more than 31 *L*
4. Starting to go green : change out all the light bulbs to CFL’s. (6/23)
5. Starting to go green : Reducing the amount of time I drive (make the most of my trips out) I think I did ok for this task. Only a few times I thought “crap should went that way and then I wouldnt have to cut back over there” *L*

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