Home Shopping and other ways to amuse yourself…

Well, the time has come to talk about one of the things that amuses me the MOST. My sister, Lucy…

Now, I had already been around for 12 years by the time she hit town… I was 12. 12 is a big deal in bird years… ok, so it’s no Big Bird… he’s 45 (although he acts 6, it’s in his contract…) It’s interesting, too, because I am 15 now, and I am supposed to have the average intelligence of a 10 year old kid, but I can go higher. I am actually pushing about 18 in human years – what can I say? I think that we already covered that I am smarted than Big Bird in my first post…

Lucy is a climber. Nothing wrong with this – I climb myself. In fact, I like to think that when she was a baby, I influenced her climbing interest… it’s a big brother’s job to influence younger siblings… heaven help my mom and dad if I ever get a human sibling (heh heh heh) but what amuses me about Lucy is her ability to be stealthy and steal stuff. (ok, if I am being honest, I really think she gets THIS from me, too… I am just not out enough lately to really teach her the big stuff… YET.)

She steals stuff from milk rings to twisties to shiny little baubles… pieces of paper (boring) Barbie Doll shoes… hair ribbons, hair scrunchies, hair bands… (I sense a theme) and lately, gum. Dunno why she’s been stealing gum lately, but she licks it a lot, then bats it around the room.

Me & my sister Lucy

Anyway, when I am down in my normal cage, I enjoy watching what she comes up with. Sometime soon I will have to teach her how to steal me some snacks… a cracker… some cheese… a grape… some pizza crust… WAIT – sorry, I went off a little. OK, so I call this watching my very own Home Shopping program… Lucy shops around, our Mom runs around the house trying to find everything she swipes (once she took Mom’s Bluetooth when we lived in the apartment…that was cool! Mom FREAKED OUT!) and I get ENDLESS entertainment from this. The BEST is when I have a full bowl of sunflower seeds, or some rice krispies… then I sit back and enjoy the show. Yup. GOOD TIMES.

Sometimes we Play Dress-up, but if you tell anyone
I will have to punch your lights out… I still have
the frying pan, don't test me...

However, all good things must take a break, and Lucy likes to nap. I, myself, and not above a nice little nap. Naps are 2^nd best to snacks! That’s right folks… a little snack… a little nap – wake up and take a nice bath… yell really loud when you’re done so your Mom gets you clean water… have a little drink… sit back and crunch your beak and make happy noises. This is the life. WAIT – I did it again… what were we discussing? YES  -  Lucy takes naps. Then I get bored. When I get bored I make games up. You know, like getting my dad in trouble… or trying to blame something I did on Lucy… or spending my energy trying to figure out how to trick my Mom into letting me out of my cage so I can hang out. This is always a good option if it works because if I am out, Lucy makes herself wake up from her nap and she comes and plays. And even tho I pretend she annoys me, she’s actually kinda fun to play with! Sometimes, she will shop around the house and bring me things to play with together. It’s pretty cool. Unfortunately, she gets so excited that sometimes she licks me. Then I am DONE. Finished… fin-uh-reeto… and I go back up to my playhouse on top of my cage, grumbling about it the whole way. MUSH. I HATE MUSH. Why do sisters haveta ruin perfectly good playtimes? Which reminds me – have I mentioned how many cousins I have? GIRLS. All of them but one. Poor Dad and I am SURROUNDED. Some of them were over the other day. I am sad to say NOBODY remembered THIS MURPH and gave him a snack. I blame my parents for this, tho. They stuck me up in their room because of the remodeling. Oh well… they came up to say hi (empty-handed, by the way… not a crumb amongst them.) which reminds me, I have to add “re-teach cousins how to bring #thisMurph snacks!” to my "to-do" list...

Well. There is a rumor on the street that Dad did some painting today, so I am hoping this means that I am closer to getting back down to the real world.  WOOHOO! Another thing I enjoy to amuse myself is watching TV. I love the Walton’s. I love Little House on the Prairie. I love Big Bang Theory and Friends… I love the View. I also watch a lot of CNN… (Hey, a guy’s gotta keep up on what’s going on in the world…) The last thing that I do to amuse myself is to chew up my Blue Fuzzy Bed. Ok. Yes, I know, I LOVE my fuzzy bed. But sometimes I am bored. And a bored Murph leads to a Murph getting in trouble. I TRY so hard NOT to get in trouble. But somehow, it always happens anyway. Well, it’s last on my list of things to do to amuse myself… but it’s on there. Hey, I get a new one to chew up…I mean sleep in… every year for Christmas. So we’re all good…

Me & my sister, Lucy, hanging out...

OK. It’s time to chew… I MEAN SLEEP now. So I will catch ya later!

Murph