Another year gone!

Well, finally I decided to venture back here, as I finally have time to do so! Wee! School starts tomorrow, and after more than a month off, it feels...odd, to say the least.

Christmas was spifftastic...besides my wisdom teeth surgery on the 18th of December (yeah, that was the earliest time I could get it without it interfering with my school schedule). The painkillers made me sick so I lived off water and gatorade for a couple of days. FUN! Thank the Gods I felt 200% better on Christmas eve, so much so that I actually ate FOOD for the first time in days! AHHH what bliss! I still ached for a week and more, so New Years was a bit of a dud, thus, in order to satiate my hunger for entertainment I watched both seasons of Rome in one day. Go me.

Another endless form of amusement came from my personal flock of magpies---yes, I am quite serious. I don't actually own them; I would never do that! But nonetheless they come to my kitchen window every morning for their daily handout of peanuts. As I spend more time watching them and as they grow more and more used to me (believe it or not they seem to recognize me and come much closer than they do to other members of my family), I have begun to strongly resent the horribly misplaced hatred so many people have for them. So, I have been performing somewhat of an independent study of their behaviours, and I can't stress enough their high levles of intellegence; they are, after all, related to crows, jays, and ravens, you know!
So if anyone cares to listen, I may in time make my case to defend my high opinion of pica pica, the illustrious black-billed mapgie

Ah, one more thing I forgot to mention! To my utmost delight I got a brand new Nikon D40 for my birthday, as well as a telephoto lense to get as close to those birdies as possible. I had to send it away because the screen broke somehow; there was a blue line going through some of my pictures . BUT now it's fixed and it is amazing!