spring!

its officially spring I think. I actually saw a bird at my birdfeeder today, a sweet-ass chicadee (none other then the official state bird of my homeland)...I definitely think the birds have been noshing, its about 1/3 of the way down the container. I'll try to get pics of birds, they are very fast though so its a little sketchy. anyways I was happy to hear them out there this morning, I was getting worried that they hated my birdfeeder! It was probably just that a lot of them weren't around in the winter. That is different from maine, at home we have birdfeeders all year round, and they even come when its cold outside. I dunno maybe maine birds are a heartier bunch. We always got a lot of bluejays and squirrels, my dad didn't like either. they 'scared away' the little birds. oh. anyways, it is beautiful out, but I am stuck in the clinic. I dont mind that much, I might walk over to weggies to get some coffee in a few minutes, I dont have my first patient until noon. OH. Last night we were feeling especially frisky, so we got ingredients for this phillipino dessert I learned of last night. It's called halo halo, and its basically a mix of a bunch of different things. They are traditionally made with sweetened beans and some purple yam, but I wanted it to make it not so weird, plus they didn't have either at wegmans, so I just added more fruit..it was canned fruit in the bottom (papaya, mango, and some weird thing called 'jackfruit'. It wasn't bad, some of them just had a weird texture, kind of like chewing gum) then 'shaved ice' (I dont have an ice shaver, so we just took ice cubes and pounded them with my incriminating rolling pin, to get back at the downstairs neighbors for playing their ethno-beat crap music at 8:30 in the morning..not exactly the right texture but we got the basic idea) and then coconut milk on top of that...then evaporated milk on top of that, and a scoop of ice cream to top it all off. They were very good, although we were bouncing off the walls after eating them. It wasn't very authentic, but kind of the right idea. We sure know how to party! anyways.