My first home!

After a year and a half of exhausting realtor.com and spending Saturday mornings driving from one end of Cobb County to the other, I finally decided on the perfect home. It's a brick townhouse in Marietta built in the late 70's. I knew that I wanted to live in this particular neighborhood, so it was just the matter of choosing a house.

My realtors were great - Lauren and Rich Stormont at Keller Williams. They selected three homes for me to view the first Saturday. I told them I wasn't afraid of a fixer-upper, but the first house needed... a complete makeover. To say the least. No thank you. The second house was okay, good back yard, just seemed overpriced. The third house was nice, and with a sigh, I figured I'd make a bid on it. As we were walking out of the third house, we noticed another home for sale at the end of the culdisac. Although it wasn't on the list, Rich got us in with his code-cracking realtor key. The door opened and there it was. My new home.

Gorgeous cherrywood floors, brand new carpet, hideous kitchen cabinets, a beautiful dining room with great natural lighting and a backyard that would give Ahmed Hassan enough work for a month. Then I noticed the oddest thing. One of the bedrooms upstairs had a random sink around the corner of the closet. Apparently it used to be cool to have a "morning bar" with a sink and mini fridge in the bedroom. I quickly realized that a sink in this huge bedroom meant

plumbing. And if there's plumbing for a sink, maybe there could be plumbing for a full bathroom...? And Voila! The adventure begins...

My First Exotic Bird Fair

Today Jeremy took me to my first exotic bird show.

This enlightening experience was held at the North Atlanta Convention Center in Roswell, and
we had such a good time.

This Rosebreasted Cockatoo is the first bird I've ever encouraged to perch on my arm, and although he didn't seem too fond of me, he absolutely loved Jeremy. I have a feeling that if Jeremy had $1500 parked in his wallet, this bird would have walked out the door with us.

This bird show presented a lot of "firsts" for me, including the sight of newborn birds. There are some things you need to see

just once in your life, and after that, you never need to see them again. These colorless, terradactyl-looking freaks completely

sucked any excitement I've ever had to see baby birds right out the window. Surprisingly, the thing to the left grows into the cutie on the right.

By the end of the day, I was open to the idea of having a bird around. I'm not sure how Seven would react, but I've seen enough Sylvester & Tweety shows to know what might happen. The African Greys and Rosebreasted Cockatoos seemed the most likely of candidates for my house... just as long as it already has feathers.