Domesticated Diva

Cleaning bird cages

I’m not sure if I’ve shared on this blog, but I am a big birdlover.  Birds are my babies.  I have a Sun Conure named Mimi, and a 24 year old African Gray named Sammy.  They are my loves.  Actually Sammy is Harry’s bird, but I tell Harry that I’m only with him for Sammy.  I told him if we were to ever break up, I’d HAVE to bring Sammy with me.  lol..

The only thing I don’t like about birds is cleaning their cages.  Sammy is a big bird, so he’s got a big cage.  It’s a pain to clean it, but what I do is get out the vacuum, newspaper, old rag, and a basin of soapy water.  I put Sammy out on his playground and I get to work..Takes 5 minutes.  I take a rag and put it in the soapy basin and wring it out.  I would then wipe down the whole cage.  For tough areas like under his perch I will just soak it a little more.. more soap and water in that area.  Then put that back into the basin, grab the newspaper and garbage out of the bottom of the cage.  (Tray pulls out on all birdcages) Wrap it up, toss it in the garbage, and then I wash that out with the rag.

I then go and get the vacuum the floor, and take the reach part of the vacuum and vacuum out the corners of the cages that I couldn’t get with the rag.  I also vacuum all this toys in his cage, and switch them out monthly.  I know this seems like a lot.. but I’m done.. I throw down a thin layer of newspaper into the bottom of the now air dried tray, and put sammy back in his nice clean cage.  I grab his dishes and throw them into the basin of water and head off to the kitchen where I drop off the bowls. And head to the bathroom to dump the water and clean out the basin.  I would replace the bowls on my way back through the kitchen.   Takes me 5 minutes to do the entire cage.  We aren’t talking about a small cage either. It’s all about routine.  Get faster as you go.  The more often you clean it the easier it is to clean each time.

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Tick a Tick Tock-Gerard Genta

Since I’ve been searching for Christmas presents for the kids online, I got thinking about other people in my life that I need to be looking for too. My most expensive recipient would by far be my boyfriend. He’s done so much for me this year, and I just adore him. I have been thinking of all the different things that I could get for him. There’s many things that he’d love. He’s probably the easiest to buy for. He wants a new GPS, a digital camcorder, or even a watch. Not just a cheap citizen watch or anything like that. He’s not into those kind of watches.

Harry is a big watch collector. He has watches that are like $50,000. or more

I’m looking at this one.. It’s a Gerald Genta . I think it’s really nice. I’m sure he will like it.  I’ve been searching and see a lot that I like but its him that has to wear it. But it’s me that has to pay for it.. LOL I can’t afford just ANY watch. Some watches are way overboard in price. I have a limit too. lol

He likes some of the movida’s and can’t stand roladex’s so I think I’d be safe going with a gerard genta . He will probably wear it regardless cause I bought it for him.. well he better! lol.

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Kids? Playrooms?

Come on… lets get ready for the Holidays. Time to get up and clean out those playrooms. Rid yourself of the chaos now BEFORE Santa comes. Toss a ton of toys. Give them to Freecycle.. OR just toss in the garbage. I’m into being “green” but come on.. if you just say your going to give them or people don’t show up, what will you do? You need to really get it out of your house.. You’ll feel so much better.

Get ready toy toss!!!!! How much can you toss?

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Ready for Black Friday?!

Omg! I found this awesome site and I’m already planning my big black friday adventure.  Let me tell you about last year.  I went through all the fliers on Thanksgiving at my mothers house.  The parents all whispered, and me and my sister in-law from Buffalo were going shopping.  AWESOME! So I get a babysitter, and our plan is to get everything we wanted.. My sister wanted the guitar hero and the X-box 360 or something like that.. Now I had to go to Circuit city super early to get some sort of ticket, and then go back and get it .. I’m really not sure how it was going to work.  I went to sleep after putting the kids to bed around 9pm and was going to pick my sister in-law up  at 2:30am.  Guess what? 4:45 I jump outta bed and go running.. Freaking out!! Now I did sleep in my clothes cause who wants to wake up for kids at 2:30am.  Off I go to pick up my sister in-law who was up waiting for 2.25 hours!!!!!!! What else was she to do? She didn’t have my number with her to call me.  Nor did she want to wake up the house..  Long story short.. I missed EVERYTHING I wanted.  Bummer! Still fun to get out and go shopping.

This year is going to be different.. I’ve got it all planned out!!! I will be hitting black friday like I always do!! I will be sleeping in my pajamas this year.. and will be shopping in them too!!!!!!! No joke! I found this awesome site with 2008 thanksgiving specials!!!

I was just casually browsing the site when I realized that some stores haven’t shared yet with the public what their sales are going to be.. SO.. there’s an email list they will EMAIL you when they get the new sales!!! But Browsing I found a store that I’ve never seen in person.. but I am going to be online that night ordering a laptop for $349.99 An EXCELLENT laptop.. Check it out!! Oh I cant wait! This year I will be doing black Friday all online.. get with the program!

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Election Time.. Clean up!

Time to do some self cleaning..  Wipe out any negative feelings you have toward either candidate because you really have no clue who is going to win.

There are a few more hours left to vote, and even though Obama appears to be winning, you really have no idea.  If you have ill feelings clean them out now, cause if you’ve voted you’ve done all you can do and now it’s up to the rest of the world.

I heard it was the biggest election participation ever.  Who did I vote for?! Hrmmmmmmm I voted is all I can say.

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Annoying phone calls

Seems everyone is getting these sales calls to extend a car’s warranty. I got one, took the phone number and searched it on the internet. I was shocked to find this Report Annoying Callers site where the same number existed several times. This site allows you to report these people.. and kind of vent about it. I love the concept of the site, and put my comments there too!

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Get rid of mothballs smell in closet

I had a closet in my boyfriends house full of the mothball smell.. YUCK! I opened it up, aired it out, and had to clean it completely out.. I had to take all the clothes out, wash them, etc… I vacuumed out the closet, and then hung a deodorizer in there. After 4 days, it’s just NOW removing that awwful smell of mothballs

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Marketing your website

If you want to have a lot of readers reading your blog, or website it’s very important to get interested and knowledgeable about search engine optimization. That will help you to come out higher into the search engines.

It’s really important to learn about Search Engine Marketing and stay up to date with the latest. That will teach you how to market your site and keep your site higher when people are searching for topics that you may cover on your site. The more you learn the better off you will be.

There is a lot to know about Search engine optimization, because the search results algorithums are always changing. The more your in the know of things the better you will be.

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Declutter time

Take time to toss 30 things today. You will feel so much better when you remove clutter from your home. If you haven’t used it touched it or don’t have a place for it, file it in the garbage. Really!! Take this time for yourself and just get rid of it.

Your house will look and feel better too! Just do it for yourself today! Get ready for the Holidays.. Get ready for thanksgiving! Do it now.

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Want to own my own business

My boyfriend just received some money.  He wants to take 1/2 of it and invest it, and take the rest to open up a business for us to run together.  We feel that with this market the only way to go is a business that has been tried and tested.  I think Franchises are the only “safe” way to go.

We found Best Franchise Opportunities. It’s a great site to find everything we were looking for. I’ve been searching for hours. If I can’t find a company here that fits us both then I never will. This place is great! We seem to be able to agree on one thing. We’d really like a franchise that we can do from our home. Yes! They even have home franchises. Ok, I’m going back to search some more.

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