Aww yeah, I see what you mean. Dang boomers -LOL Wut am I saying I AM ONE -AHHH runs away from the facts. But see just coz Im part of what I CALL a PROBLEMATIC GENERATION --Im not one of those BAD BOOMERS --trouble makers -I just CANT be around most of those boomers. Okay here is the thing, as I SEE IT and not being mean simply honest --EVEN WHEN WE WERE YOUNG --the boomers were SITLL LIKE THAT YO. Now ya'll YOUNG FOLKS see how they are --NOT ALL OF THEM JUST SOME OF EM and get that. Oh goodness boomers have a SERIOUS attitude problem too SOME of them. I just wanna GO OFF On some of em verbally coz they ANNOY the hell out of me sometimes. I just CANT with those ppl!!!! Gen. X is better but BOOMERS --those ppl DESERVE the BAD RAP they get. I see WHY that OKAY BOOMER MEME caught on too -COZ ITS TRUE. lol

I was thinking about something lately too okay here it is Mom was born in 1924 so SHE is at the end of the GREATEST GENERATION as they call it. Dad is SILENT GENERATION though since he was born in 1925. Okay here are my thoughts since Mom was born into the greatest generation HOW did she have a BOOMER like me since the name of THEIR generation is the GREATEST GENERATION --see what Im saying here? It makes sense to ME that IF your a member of the GREATEST GENERATION then you would have and raise GREAT KIDS coz of the name of your generation.

DAGNABBIT my parents were BOTH members of the GREATEST GENERATION coz the CUT OFF years for that is 1927!!!! Google done messed me up again!!!!

Anyway, I used to LOVE hearing TRUE stories from my parents childhood, teen years and adult lives before I was born. I think I would have done GOOD if I was born in that era too. I LOVE THAT TIME PERIOD too but NO TECHNOLOGY --OMFG, I would DIE without COMPUTERS and internet and stuff!!! I WOULD THOUGH. Even my BUDGIES look at each other like --when dat FOOL gonna get outta that chair and PLAY with us? LOL. --THEY DO THO. thats when I get up and give em some play time coz my 2 females are SWEETIES. All budgies are sweet to me.

OH GAWD, I LOVE STORM SO MUCH but she is STILL a cage bound bird and she is cage AGGRESSIVE so much --she is MEAN when it comes to that cage!!! My Senegal parrot got that way too --not sure why coz her CAGE door was always open for her to PLAY and FLY when I was home.

OH GOODNESS SAKES -you best tell that GALAH to chill out man!!!! Silly parrot -guarding dat old cage!! Food aggression is bad too and see DOG owners think their the ONLY ones that have that problem -HAH we fooled them.

Yeah, Im a DUMMY I guess coz I get the birdies UP at 7AM and IN MY HUMAN MIND -I think well STORM will be happy to see me since I CLEAN their cage in the morning, give them both FRESH FOODS and fresh water and I always ROTATE some of their toys DAILY coz well THEY GET BORED with toys fast --coz their parrots!! So RECENTLY I STUCK my hand in their cage when I got them UP in the morning --the light was OFF coz I like for them to ACCLIMATE to the dark so they can get used to having their cage covers off first. I use a FLAT HAND technique as that works MUCH better with my 2 bids. THUNDER Is not cage aggressive though --she is sweet instead and RARELY aggressive. lol. Anyway, Storm sees my hand in the cage and ATTACKS me like the TRUE PREDATORY PARAKEET she TRULY is -LOL. Yeah, I know their PREY animals but YOU try telling my budgie STORM that. Anyway, she CHOMPS down on my hand HARD and she makes SURE she NAILED my hand good --she only got one finger but she BROKE THE SKIN like she always did!!!!! lol. This was about 2 weeks ago but she made a NASTY cut on my index finger. I guess its a LOVE BITE from my bird --EH NOT REALLY. I think she either HATES me or tolerates me.

You know that look parrots give you like --I LET YOU LIVE IN MY HOUSE HUMAN so behave --thats when she feels SORRY for me!! This budgie is my SWEETIE too -I would do ANYTHING in the world for her too --Thunder too of course but Thunder is always sweet with me. Anyway, Im not a WIMP at all but this BITE sh gave me -its DEEP and it still stings!!! She a BAD GIRL sometimes!!! She thinks she is a macaw!!! Either that or a medium blue, white and black Amazon parrot!!! She could beat up a LARGE parrot so easy and she would make them BOW DOWN to her too!! Oh yes, she would she is a QUEEN among budgies. You see I LOVE STORM so much but she wants things HER WAY or no way. Im STILL trying to TAME this gorgeous bird too and she is FOUR now. Teach me oh great one --where did I go WRONG with this COULD BE SWEET AND TAME young parakeet?? She wont LET herself be tamed either. She RUNS from me inside her cage no matter HOW slowly I take things -its funny sometimes but tragic really coz she wants to be SWEET and SHE IS --but she hates my hands!! That is why I use what I call --the flat hand technique I developed. IT WORKS WITH my other birds. I tamed CLOUD using that method!!! Storm will RUN from me and yes birds can RUN coz they have LEGS!! Then when I try to pick her up so I can PET her and SHOW her that she can trust me she gets SO MAD -OMG --she has SUCH a bad temper for a tiny sweet bird!!! Even her facial expression changes when I TRY to pick her up and show her love. She does not WANT my love. She DOES tolerate my presence though. I thought maybe Storm would WANT to get picked up after seeing and witnessing THUNDER being picked UP my me and that she would think WELL she picked up the other bird --that sort of thinking but NOPE I was wrong about that.

Storm does have an excellent personality though and she is very smart and funny and she sings and chirps EVERY DAY --she just wants NOTHING to do with ME as far as ME trying to tame her or pick her up!!!!

Sorry about your galah but parrots are gonna act like parrots meaning that is how they get sometimes!!

Coolio --glad to hear it. Im a boomer but see I just dont GET that boomer personality so many of em have. Like SO MANY of the ppl from my generation are like that and Im like WHY they gotta act like that ya know? I respect everyone, I really do and AGE is only a number. Younger ppl are my favorites too and always have been. Some of the boomers their just so jaded and bitter and complain about younger ppl and so much more. I feel like ASKING them --do YA'LL boomers like ANYBODY in life. Their NEVER happy and always judgmental too. Ive NEVER been like that.

Glad things are going good for ya. Thunder my TAME budgie, when she is tired --she will be like NOPE, NOPE dont PICK me up and pet me now coz IM TIRED HOOMAN. lol. Most YOUNGER ppl I know are chill and smart and all that sort of thing. my generation --LOTS OF THEM EH not so much. Its like their NEVER happy. I dont know whats WRONG with em. Maybe their baby formula was BAD or something when they were little. lol

Ya got that right mate. My Aussie friends always said MATE a lot when I was a kid so I got that from them. It just means FRIEND from what they told me so thats why I like using that word. Aussies are great. I wish Americans were more like Aussies coz well to me, Aussies are just BETTER people in every way. I lived in America for my ENTIRE life except for the 10 years I spent in other countries when I lived overseas with my parents coz my Dad was in the army my entire childhood so yeah, I spent tim in other countries and LOVED everything about it, but America, IDK dude, it has just changed for the worse and so have lots of the people. People USED to help each other here in hard times and in good times too, they still do but they do it MUCH LESS than before. I think most Americans are just APATHETIC, cold, unkind and just detached from other people esp. when they need people in their life and when other people need them. People are supposed to HELP each other when they can and nope, Im not talking about MONEy or material possessions. I never had much FAMILY coz of the army life for my entire childhood and well my maternal grandpa NEVER bothered to show up and hate to say this but back then, he was a HUGE drunk. I know this coz my GRANNY, his FORMER WIFE told me this and so did my Mom his daughter. lol. He NEVER even took care of his family financially either --NEVER --no emotional support for them from my grandpa either. It was a very bad situation for all of them. I seriously wish I was NOT related to my maternal grandpa as he was very self-centered, extremely immature and wild in all the WRONG ways and a huge drunk. He was the TOWN DRUNK from what everything EVERYONE ever told me. Forgive him --how am I am SUPPOSED to do that when he never bothered to even SHOW UP in my life?! He is the one that messed up by choosing NOT to be in my life. I did him no wrong as the song says --he did ME WRONG coz he is my true BIOLOGICAL grandfather. He OWES me his time --time to spend with my grandpa -time for ME to get to know him and prove to people that they were WRONG about what he was like as a person. Only one problem, he passed on years ago from old age. Oh well nobody lives forever here on Earth is all you can really. Its like the OLD SAYING my granny taught me (his former wife) the saying is this --"you made your BED and you gotta LIE in it". Meaning is simple. You messed up and now you gotta pay the price. That is what HE did not me. Nope, Im not forgiving him. We might MEET in some other life if REINCARNATION exists but I have no reasons to FORGIVE him coz I didnt do anything bad to him and I never HURT him. HE HURT ME. lol. He never cared though. I tried to find out where he lived when I was 18 so we could spend time together but there was no WEB back then and phone books --yeah right -I would have to know what STATE he lived in first. He lived in a STATE called CONFUSION is all I know. He found happiness and contentment at the bottom of a LIQUOR bottle and at the bottom of a glass of beer. THOSE ARE FACTS not my issues with him. I dont respect DRUNKS and never did, never well. They need help and they should go to A.A. meetings. MY FRIENDS did coz they knew they had a problem with booze. It aint rocket science as we both know. Heres what I did when I was younger --ya gotta problem with BOOZE either CUT BACK on the amount you are drinking or just quit it all completely. I never HAD that problem as I was a SOCIAL drinker only A.A. said that term does not exist but that is weird. I know PLENTY of people that simply like to have ONE DRINK a month for example --having ONE DRINK every 30 days does NOT make anyone an alcoholic. lol. SCIENCE, logic and psychology does not agree with what A.A. teaches and believes in either. Logic prevails in life and most people should realize that. Life is good for me and it always has been. Only BAD part of my life was always my ABSENTEE GRANDPA as I call him coz that is what he was. Not is, coz he passed on from OLD AGE --I know that coz when those ancestry sites were FREE I used the information I had on him to SEE if he was alive and see if he was doing better in life. Yeah, I care about him and I LOVE my grandpa -but he is a wild beast and he WAS a total drunk during a HUGE part of his life coz EVERYONE told me that. He never cared if he drank daily as he was a DAILY drunk. Im surprised that his liver and other organs survived all the drinking he did over the years. It kills most people coz I watch documentaries so I know and besides its common SENSE to know that daily drinking is VERY detrimental to a persons health.

Ah well I tried to find my maternal grandpa. Nobody ever HEARD of him when I did finally get information on how he was doing and where he was living. He passed on in America in his 70s is ALL I ever found out. He made a NEW life WITHOUT his caughter --MY MOM in it and without 2 of his grandchildren in it -me and my brother. My brother is my only sibling but my brother is the best sibling you could ever want too. I mean that.

Im just glad I have my cousins, lots of friends and pets. But nah, I rather NOT think about WHY my grandpa chose to STAY AWAY from me for his entire life. I never hurt him coz I NEVER even met him. He makes me sick. He makes ME feel guilty about things but I had NOTHING to do with the break-up of his marriage to my grandpa. He was an IRRESPONSIBLE DRUNK and a party animal so those are TWO of the reasons they broke up. I could write a book about him and it would be a best seller too coz he was a WILD WILD man. He had his own business too and he had skills too. He was from Missouri here in America --thats all I know. I never asked my cousins IF he came around to meet them when they were kids but Im gonna ask my first cousin that. My other cousin is cool but he is an ultra-religious type guy. He is nice and pleasant though. My other first cousin is just straight up WEIRD too -I LOVE HIM but he has anger issues or something. I FINALLY found his phone number just by asking my first cousin -did she know what STATE he lives in --okay so I called him to tell him I loved him. OMG, the man sat there on the PHONE and chewed me out like I had DONE HIM DIRTY somehow. I never even GREW UP with him and he is more than SEVEN years older than me so HOW in the world could I even GROW up --we are difference AGES --he would have finished HIGH SCHOOL during my childhood which would make it hard for us to RELATE to each other. Anyway, my first cousin we will call him X for now --X chewed me out SUPER BAD, almost CURSED at me and he asked me WHY I had called him. DUH coz HE is my cousin and coz I LOVE HIM unconditionally no matter what. Besides, he has some kind of LUNG DISEASE so I wanted to wish him well. HE HATED THAT TOO but I didnt bring that up. See HE KNEW my Dad was in the ARMY for the ENTIRE 18 years of my childhood --so I could NEVER spend much time we him as we lived ALL over the country coz thats how the ARMY works --YOU MOVE EVERY TWO years or THREE YEARS coz you get STATIONED in one location --normal TOUR OF DUTY here in USA is 2 years --you can get a ONE YEAR EXTENSION for tour of duty coz DAD told me that --thats for officers anyway --not sure if it works that way for enlisted ranks. Anyway X my first cousin -he was all like -WHY U CALLING ME now --I kept telling him coz I love you cuz. I think he hated that more --he does not want LOVE from anyone --not me anyway. His wife is a HORRID person too and emotionally distant. See the thing is my first cousin X --he was always a SPOILED little RICH brat and very self entitled. I know that coz the REST of the family told me that. He was my uncles ONLY child so of course my Uncle B would always SPOIL HIM ROTTEN coz he was my uncles only kid. He IS extremely self-entitled though nd hard to get along with. I would be AMAZED if my cousin even HAS any REAL friends in his life at this time. He TRIES to hard to drive people AWAY FROM him like he did that day on the phone. This was about 3 or 4 years ago. I DONT KNOW really coz the ENTIRE CONVERSATION with him was so hostile, negative and just immature and angry ON HIS BEHALF. There was NO WEB when I was younger so that I could GET IN TOUCH with this FIRST COUSIN NAMED X --he knows that --I thought he was SMART enough to realize that too. NONE of the family has anything to do with him so I guess he is a LONER or maybe they dont get along I DONT KNOW. Coz you know how SOME relatives are in the same age group so they keep in touch and have things in common --NOPE not X. He lives in TEXAS and has a wife and has LUNG DISEASE --thats ALL I know. He is basically a MYSTERY MAN coz NOBODY in my Moms side of the family knows much about his ADULT life --its weird really --like a TV show, web series, Netflix drama or some crap. I love X though as he is my cousin and I respected him when I was younger. He is a very HARD person to like. At least I got to tell X my cousin that I LOVE HIM and I TRIED to explain to him that I was NEVER able to find him. I know he is the type of person that always gets his PHONE NUMBERS UNLISTED so the family cannot FIND him too -you could just TELL too. He even asked me IF I was calling to get money and things from him --HOW RUDE and insulting. I dont need his STINKING MONEY and things as I dont want ANYTHING from anyone. I get EVERYTHING I need ON MY OWN from working. If Im broke my brother helps me out. Im never broke though coz I sell things like my JEWELRY and other things I have --nope I dont use ADS or online to sell stuff. I put an AD in the local paper and then meet the person at the MALL (coz there are lots of ppl there in case things go badly) and then take someone with me for safety of course. Too many WEIRDOS in society now and you never KNOW if their gonna act BADLY and do something to you. Anyway, thats what America is like --always gotta watch your back and watch out for the NEGATIVE people.

How are things with ya? My birds LOVE the mornings too. I dont clip their wings coz they enjoy FLYING so much. My room is fairly large so they stay in my room and its their AVIARY and I love to see them fly. Another reason is my avian vets ALWAYS told me that budgies are PRONE or CAN be prone to OBESITY. Must be true as mine spend FOREVER at their food dishes chowing down --on fresh veggies and fresh fruits that I cut up for them daily and fresh whole grains and their normal mix of top quality seed mix and I use Roudybush brand pellets to give them. They LOVE the pellets too and never any left in their food dishes coz Ive BEEN feeding them pellets since they were baby birds. Their great pets -but I DO want to keep some freshwater fish again --either a GOLDFISH or a betta --as those are my top TWO fave. kinds of fish. I mean SURE, I love all FISH for pets to keep at home. but I got VERY FOND of bettas during the time I lived in Bangkok Thailand for 2 years. I lived there during second and third grade years. Age 7 and 8 for American schools. We had OPEN AIIR MARKETS back then and the LOCALS would put up BOWLS of HEALTHY and gorgeous male bettas --I never bought one but I wish I would have as the Thai people told me that their NOT fragile fish and that their easy to keep and feed. I LOVE THEM. I love all fish really and anything that lives in the water. I had pet HERMIT CRABS THOUGH as I would take a few of them home from the beach and I learned how to keep them from reading our encylopedias. NO WEB YET when I was a kid --lol. It was fine just no web invented back then of course. You cant MISS what you dont have -is what I always say. No computers back then either --well the GOVERNMENT had computers but thats it. All I can say is that its been a GREAT life for me so far --even though my MATERNAL grandpa never was a part of my life. He simply never came around to meet me. I asked my brother a few days ago --did you ever MEET and spend time with grandpa -he say NOPE coz grandpa never CAME around. I was NOT gonna PLAY DETECTIVE to find him either. I had better things to do like BE A STUDENT, spend time with family, friends and my classmates without HIM in my life. Too bad he missed OUT on knowing me then coz I know me and him would have had LOTS in common. Oh well Im tired of thinking about it. I just wanted to SHARE that story with you coz well I always felt like I did SOMETHING WRONG as a kid and that is WHY he never came around to meet me and to spend TIME with me. I needed him in my life but I guess he never felt the same WAY about me. Its just sad and tragic that way.

Thank goodness they accepted it. I mean SOMETIMES older people from another generation are not accepting of certain things even when they DO understand them, it baffles me. I always say and this is my THING in life for lack of better words --Accept people as they are. I believe in that too. NO, I do not mean they will for can change LATER. Change is CONSTANT in the universe and change sometimes happens on its own without any help from us and sometimes we has humans bring about the changes coz we KNOW we need to change in positive ways.

Like I was just telling a friend of mine here --my dear Canadian friend --I told her negative energy just creates MORE negative energy in the world --coz its true. Basic psychology, common sense and I guess physics --maybe not but its NOT New Age nonsense like some people think.

Like when you see people in public and something NEGATIVE happens and then they ALL jump on the bandwagon and saying NEGATIVE things too --gah, that just upsets me and makes me sad. Then the NEWS has to report the TRUTH and well though i LOVE news its always so graphic, TOO REAL for me and just full of negativity. I know it has to be that way for PROPER journalism but they NEVER even have a human interest story like my local stations do. They dont even give us a HAPPY ENDING story or a tell us about a GOOD THING that might have happened in the world that day. It is disheartening to me coz they paint the world to be such a HORRIBLE place. Well this planet we call home has NEGATIVE and POSITIVE things about it and LOTS of the negative things were CAUSED and CREATED by people anyway as you know.

See I was in the military --U.S. Navy -I could not stay coz Im AGAINST KILLING as Im a PACIFIST. Im not killing anyone --and thats how I feel. I wold DEFEND myself against CRIMINALS yes and KILL an ENEMY if my life was threatened but thats it. Im not gonna KILL grannies, grandpas, babies, kids or old people and well I would NEVER kill or harm anyone as that is just WRONG for so many reasons to me. Nope, I did my 3 years in the Navy and re-joined civilian life. Got my veterans benefits too which I still use today of course!! I was 30 when I joined the Navy and thats OLD for the military here coz the CUT OFF age is 35. lol. Better late than NEVER I always say!! Navy bootcamp was EASY too -fun also. Anyway, they treat the ENLISTED people like CRAP when I was serving in the military so I said SCREW THIS and did my 3 year hitch and returned to civilian life. lol. Nope, no military life for me but I tell you ONE thing --we had SLAMMIN good benefits and perks. That part was great --we even had a UNIFORM ALLOWANCE --meaning they PAY you a certain amount of money so you can buy uniforms. I even got MONEY for FOOD since my work hours conflicted with the galley. Galley is a kitchen chow hall as you prolly know. The food was okay but it SAT under those heat lamps for hours. I only got off at 7PM but for that reason I got 100 EXTRA dollars a month. Doesnt sound like MUCH I know but every little bit of money HELPED a lot!!!

My folks never knew coz I was always SCARED to tell them. They always said ITS WRONG for you to be gay and well they accepted it when their friends and coworkers were gay so IDK how to feel about that. Ya know, likes its FINE for everyone else but not for our family --thats just being a hypocrite to me coz it is.

My birds were so ANGRY and sad after their bath I gave them yesterday. I use a plant mister with lukewarm water. THEY HATE WATER and they always have. They sat on TOP of their cage POUTING, thinking and just being sad at ANGRY at me for an HOUR. lol. I laugh coz they still do NOT understand what WATER is for other than drinking it. They dont PLAY in it, they refuse to bath it in too. My one female Storm she hangs UPSIDE DOWN to drink water so it does not TOUCH her body --its very cute but well whatever makes her HAPPY is what I always say.