Down With The Sickness

Pet sickness, does it ever end? We lost our iguana last Thursday. It was awful. Jubilee was about 8. She had always been pretty healthy. Over the last month though, she wasn't doing too well. She was Lura's baby, not really mine at all, but I had lived with her for three years and loved her dearly. She will be missed in a big way. On the kitty front, Max, my baby, is in surgery tonight. $2000 later...

Mary and I through a surprise birthday party for Carmen on Friday. She turned 28 (oh my god). We spent the whole day lying to poor Carmen, trying to find excuses for not seeing her so we could get the party together. She got a little miffed that no one seemed to want to hang out with her that day, but she got over it quickly when she walked into the Shannon Arms to a big old party just for her. She drank a lot and was very cute. Mary was my hero, without her it NEVER would have happened. God I love that girl.

Last night we had a birthday gathering at Carmen's mom's house. It is in Alameda, right next door to my most recent exes old house. Driving there was sad for me. Seeing his apartment lights on was spooky. Someone else is living in the apartment I spent almost a year sleeping at. Odd. The dinner, however, was awesome. We had fresh cracked crabs. A ton of them. We pigged out. It was so yummy. We ate until we cried, can't beat that with a stick. I was so tired when I finally got home I just curled up with Strega (my on-loan kitty) and passed out. I didn't wake until noon today, then I rushed my Max to the vet.

Speaking of exes...I have talked to my ex (the one with the new girl) twice this week. That is a record. We have had some of the nicest conversations since we broke up. It makes me happy to be able to reconnect with him. We weren't the healthiest couple on the planet, but we loved each other immensely and I am so pleased that we can finally talk. I hope eventually we can even hang out. How mature of us.

I haven't heard anything on the job front. It isn't surprising, just a drag. I don't really want to start work until after the New Year, but it would be great to have it all lined up. It would nice to spend the month traveling a little, seeing people over the holidays and so on.

This will be the first year in nine that I have been dateless at Thanksgiving. Kinda nice since last year my date didn't help cook, ate a bunch and proceeded to fall asleep on the couch without helping clean up...men, I tell ya.

I have been really happy lately, despite all the icky things that keep happening. Carmen tells me that as time passes, it all gets easier to deal with, and she is right. You forget that sometimes. Life is wonderful and I intend to grasp that to the fullest.