The World Of Jadeey

Currently my cat, Felix, is sitting on the back of my chair. Every so often he bashes his head into mine. I'm pretty sure this is his way of saying, "Hey Holly! I love you! Don't forget to pat me!"

Speaking of my cat, he is still terrified of that bird I talked about a few weeks ago. He doesn't even like going outside during the day anymore because the bird is always out there. This, combined with me being totally sick of 6am wake-up-calls by the damn singing, is making me really wish the bird would hurry up and find a new home. I don't want to wish death upon it, but I will be soon. (I already do every morning when I am woken from my peaceful slumber. When I'm fully awake I just wish it would go away, not die.)

Oops Felix just got so into banging his head into mine that he lost his balance and fell off the chair. Now he's looking sheepish and embarrassed. I love how cats get embarrassed when they do something silly.

Labels: animals, Felix

For the past few weeks a blackbird has been calling our yard home. There would normally be no particular problem about this, but this bird is driving everyone in my flat mental. He's the happiest little bird you could possibly imagine and I hope nothing bad happens to him, but he's so damn annoying.

He sings ridiculously loudly and just doesn't stop. Ever. He wakes up early in the morning and immediately starts singing at the top of his voice. My bedroom is at the front of the house so he's pretty much right outside my window, so every morning he wakes me up. On Thursday he woke up at 4.48am. Thankfully I've discovered that covering my head with my pillow blocks him out. Unfortunately it also makes breathing challenging.

Derek and Ingrid are equally annoyed with him. He doesn't wake Derek up, since Derek's room is further away. But he's just so damn loud that it's annoying all day long.

The one suffering the most though is little Felix. Felix is a totally scaredy-cat. And he's not very good at hunting - sometimes he'll catch rubbish, bugs or already dead-animals but he really isn't any good at hunting anything fast. The poor little guy is terrified of this damn bird. Tonight I was in my room and I could hear the bird singing away. Suddenly I heard Felix frantically meowing at the door. I opened the front door and Felix raced past me and hid in the lounge. Yep, my cat is scared of a bird. That's kinda like if I was suddenly scared of a hamburger.

Here are some photos of the happiest (but also most annoying) blackbird in the world. (And the friend that joined him in the yard this evening. The friend wasn't quite as loud thank goodness)

You can see by the amount of bird poo that he spends a lot of time on our outdoor furniture.
(Our blackbird's new friend is the one off to the right. )



And here's the little guy just chilling out on the path

Labels: animals, Felix, grumpy

Graduation was tonight. It was awesome. There were nice speeches, good food and lots of drink.

I got a prize for being the person in the class who "always remembered the importance of cute baby animals in the publishing world." That made me laugh - I'm a total sucker for baby animals!

Each week me and a couple of classmates would pick new desktop pictures. Mine were always baby animals - such little cuties that whenever I looked at my computer screen I just wanted to cuddle it.

Here was the one I had this week.



So cute! Look at his little paws! And his happy smile!

Labels: animals, school

The final dolphin from Napier's Marineland died today. :(

When I was about 12 me and Melissa went swimming with the dolphins at Marineworld. Back then there were 2 dolphins. Swimming with the dolphins is one of the coolest things I've ever done. The dolphins didn't really let us touch them, but it was still very cool.

I'm very happy that people aren't allowed to just catch wild dolphins and train them. But it does make me sad that it means Marineland might be closing.

Here is a video of the dolphins (and other animals) at Marineland, taken in 1993.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8047613612071205019

Labels: animals, the past