The boorishness guy - phone call

I got a charming, funny message from the guy, weeks ago, responded twice, but firefox was malfunctioning or something and the responses weren't going through. So I logged on through explorer and just messaged him, "I've written you twice and it hasn't gone through! Can you send me your number and we'll just talk?"

This also eliminates the waste-of-time messaging period!

We talked last night, and I really liked him. My major complaints: he's a total morning person (I am more like a vampire) and he said he needs to have a house with a concealed backyard because he keeps "a bunch of jalopies" back there. I guess he works on them? These are very much acceptable issues in my book. He seems genuinely nice and smart and funny. So we'll see. He's got a house in Orlando (only been here 10 months) and he's going back this weekend, said he'll call me next week. He is, however, planning to buy a house in Morningside.

I like men that are planning to own a home here, it means they plan to stay. So many don't. I know it's cool to bitch about Miami, but mostly I like it here - but a lot of guys want to leave. I even like the wild parrots that wake me up in the morning with their screechy squawks - because they're in my window sills, and climbing up my window screens with their little feet/claws and otherwise making a tremendous racket. I love those little bastards!! Love 'em! They pair off and nuzzle in the sills, and if I'm quiet I can watch them. My mom enjoys this when she visits, too. My new apartment has them in the windows much more than my old one. I think I'll learn to ignore them, which is good at 6 in the morning, but too bad because I'll take them for granted, those funny cute little buggers.

Funny Miami Fact: Wild Parrots

Parrot Jungle used to be located in Pinecrest, part of Miami-Dade County.

During Hurricane Andrew in 1992, the park was damaged. Now there are flocks of wild parrots around Miami! I wasn't particularly aware of them until I moved a couple of miles away from my old apartment in Pinecrest. There is a flock that lives in my neighborhood, Kings Creek.

The parrots are really, really loud. Lots of squawking. Not really a beautiful sound. It used to bother me but now I don't notice the squawking, even though it travels around as they move from tree to building to tree. They travel in bunches, but then you'll see pairs off alone as well - it's sweet. Once there was a pair by at my window - one was hanging upside down on the screen, looking in at my blinds. It was noisily shuffling around on the screen. The other appeared to be keeping watch! As soon as I peeked at them, though, they looked startled and took off.

My parents were just here; my mom said it reminded her of the movie "The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill." We ran outside my apartment to try to see them but they kept moving! The Miami parrots don't have a full red head like that movie's parrots; ours either have red on the very tops of their heads or no red at all. Here are some pictures I found of Miami parrots - I have trouble taking decent photos myself!