Birdwatching...it's not for everyone.

So, I needed a super easy credit class for this semester that doesn't involve alot of homework, not much studying and only once or twice a week. Well I found that perfect class. Birdwatching. It is the easiest thing I think I have ever taken. The only assignments are to sit outside two times a week and record what I see and hear with my birding guide, and once a week write a quick summary about the "field trip" we took the week before. Piece of cake.
So, the in class part is Friday nights from 7 to 8:30, not bad, I get off work at 4 I have time to get cleaned up and head out. Then Saturday morning we meet from 8:30 to 2pm, and this time we usually go somewhere to look for birds at like a park close to campus.
Well two days ago(Saturday) was our BIG final trip that is like 85% of our grade. Instead of staying close to Winter Park, we made the trek and met up at the Merritt Island Wildlife Refuge. Since I dont think ANYBODY who reads this knows what im talking about in the slightest, its about an hour's drive from my house, hour and a half from the campus. So we were supposed to meet up at a boat ramp at 7:30 am to drop off some cars and carpool together because its one of those driving tours where you stop every 100 yards to get out and walk around. 

The Sonj and I took my car and didn't quite volunteer to take anyone, but if someone wanted to ride with us we wouldn't turn them down, so we went into this thing thinking it was going to be miserable. It was amazing. We have to keep a tally of what birds we see and how many of each and the species topped over 50 and grand total was over 1000 birds. I got a few great pictures, sorry if the resolution isn't that good I took it off my crappy phone camera.

This is the first time we got out and I tried to take a picture over the girls head who was looking in the scope we had set up, we were looking at a family of wood ducks about 500 yards out. You cant see them in the picture but I promise they're there.

 This picture is just an odd gathering of rocks that I thought look pretty neat. I was trying to figure out a way to make it seem like those are super big boulders and its a really big drop off into the huge lake behind it, but then I realized the shadow of my camera was in it. So it's not boulders, its just rocks.

This is a really cool picture, it was the only path that wasn't paved in tromped over grass, we took this path to the dock about halfway down and apparently I wasn't the only one who thought it was a great photo-op, not only did Sonj and I pose in front of this long lane, but about half the class did also. 

This is by far my favorite picture, I like how you can see the line where the sun came from behind the clouds in the top of the picture.

The trip was so great and relaxing and I surprisingly had a blast. I only have one week of it left and am actually sad it will be over. It's such a fun class and exceeded every expectation I ever had for it. If you attend college or you know of a birdwatching class in your area, sign up, it may sound corny and you might not want to tell your friends about it, so just keep it your little secret and take it, its well worth it.

Took me over 3 hours, but this is possibly the best cd I have ever made! If I had a cassette player I would make mixtapes for everyone!! (But cds are a bit expensive, so email me if you want one!)

Would You Rather Wednesday!! (Actually on Wednesday this week!!)

Ok, so I was brushing my teeth and thought of a fun one for this weeks Would You Rather.

Would You Rather...

Have super white teeth, but ample amounts of face hair

or

Have super white teeth, but oddly disproportioned arms.

Things to Consider: If you shave the hair, it grows back within a day, long sleeve shirts, clothes in general, razor blade prices.


I would pick the ample amounts of face hair. I could shave my head, tape my chest down and be fricken Paul Bunyon for a month. With super white teeth. :) 

Maybe you can help me out...

What makes people think they have the right to treat you like shit if they are paying you. Like the assholes that clearly see you have your hand extended, en route to meeting their hand and they go over your hand...to throw the money on the counter. Or, when they walk up and hand you money and stare at you. How am I supposed to know what you want if you don't speak. It's not even that big of a decision. Golf Balls or Tokens. Two choices. Then once you pick, decide how many you want. No I cant make that decision for you, its your call. Also, if your cage breaks...don't come in here and DEMAND a token to reimburse you. 1. It's not my fault the cage didn't throw you all ten stupid baseballs, don't take it out on me, and 2. I ALWAYS reimburse people if something happens, I'm not a bitch, if something happens and you don't get your full money's worth, ill throw you a token or two, there's no need to tell me I need to give you another token like its the last hit of crack after a five day binge, with some transients, under an interstate overpass, in a bad part of town. Haven't they ever heard of Karma? I don't want to be around when it all comes back around. Yikes.

On a lighter note, the end of the semester is coming near, and I am all registered for my summer classes and am so excited to start! Also, Holly the ferret went to the vet yesterday because she had fleas that I couldn't get rid of, no matter what I did. The doctor said she was super healthy, I guess the weird, syrupy/vegetable oil looking stuff that she goes nuts over has vitamins in them, the doc likes ferrets to weigh in at 2 pounds max and little Holly weighs in at a whopping 2.8 lbs!! What a fatty!! Oh yeah, by the way, found out that after a year, Holly...is a him. Yep, after owning her for almost a year now, just now found out she is a he. Apparently, all ferrets in the United States come from Marshall Farms in California, so they fix and descent them almost as soon as they're born, so they don't have enough time for they're external genitalia to develop, so it makes it very hard to figure out the gender of a ferret. I took the store clerks word for it when they said he/she was a girl. I have decided to keep his/her name Holly because that is what he/she comes to. So from now on I have a transvestite ferret and I'm ok with that.

Life Update-Explanation For Not Blogging Lately.

So I haven't been around much. Blogging that is. I have only posted things that don't take much effort.

So after high school, I wanted to live the good life and work for a year, save up, and party to the hardest. So I did that, realized that I wanted an education and get a career. I decided I wanted to be a dog trainer. I love animals, all kinds, if I had to make a list of my animals, it would be 3 dogs, 2 cats, a ferret, a bird and 2 mice. Its the whole fricken food chain! Anyway, I figured, what better to do than to pursue a career in the field of animals?!? So I went to "Dog College", (that's not its name but I don't want to get in trouble for bad mouthing them), the college is actually in California, it's a beautiful campus. So I signed up to do it online from here in Florida.
The program was supposed to be completed in 16 weeks, 14 at the earliest. I got about 12 weeks into it and was SO tired of working with dog's and their owner's I called dog college and told them to put my account on hiatus. Well, after that I went back to school at an actual college here in Orlando, and have just recently(in the past 8 months) declared my major. So, dog college calls me up a few weeks ago and pretty much said, "Hey ASS, we know you dont want to become a dog trainer, but you signed up for this crazy freaky payment plan and you cant finish paying it off until you finish the program." So, im taking 5 classes at college here, I am already so overloaded with homework and upcoming exams, and dog college tells me that I can skip the last two steps (volunteering and being a mentor to a newer student) by just automatically taking 5 points off my final exam. I took that minus five points in a heartbeat! So they sent me my final and told me I had a week to finish it starting last Monday. It was 150 multiple choice and 45 essay questions. I wanted to cry. Last week was the week of 3 exams in actual human college. I don't think I slept for at least four days. All my hard work, and determination payed off though!! I passed all three exams with flying colors and I will find out Tuesday if I am a certified dog trainer.
The good part, the only reason im not kicking myself for wasting the 4,787 dollars on dog college is, it gives me something to fall back on if I want a career change when im older. So now its back to the grindstone of human college, finals are coming up, presentations are due, but I figured out my schedule for this year and its looking like I dont have to take 6 classes each semester until I graduate! I can take 2 classes over summer, that way I only have to take 4 classes this fall and 4 classes next spring and im done!! I am so excited to be able to say I will have my AA by next spring! Took me long enough. :)
I also have been working about 45 hours per week since we lost an employee a few weeks ago, so not much has been going on. Posts will resume on a more regular basis hopefully soon.

Just a little morsel...

This has got to be the funniest thing I have seen in a long time. Poor little guy, just wants to be one of the gals!!

Would You Rather Wednesday!! (technically on thursday AGAIN)

Would you rather...

Do the macarena in front of everybody on a table 

or 

dress up as a chicken and dance like a freak in front of everybody?

I'm pretty sure i'm not the only person who has done some sort of instructional dance in a big group. If ive done the electric slide, I can do the macarena. Care to join?