And you owe me nothing in return.

kyoki_tenchi rocks.

I'm sitting on her pull-out sofa with her fuzzy tiger kitty, Pink (her kitties are so cute!) and that sort of sore back that only comes from sofa beds. Why do they all smoosh in the middle so you sleep with a hunchback? Still, I was so tired from the heat that nothing could stop me from sleeping, and the enormous fan she directed at me was wonderful. SHE is wonderful.

She drove like a bat out of hell to pick me up. When she and soulcatcher73 picked me up, my grandmother was probably thinking, "Why are girls always coming to pick up my granddaughter?" It's funny because Grandma always got irritated in my youth for only having male friends, and when A. and I were married, she kept telling me how inappropriate it was for me to talk to boys. I wonder what she thinks about all of my female friends now. ;)

Anyway, I got to play with kyoki_tenchi, soulcatcher73, and sandnor for a while and then my Chazzie and I went home and gabbed until bedtime. I got a goodnight call from Ms. doulamel as well, which was cool. And then I took a cold shower because Chaz's apartment was SO HOT!

We're having sushi today, yay! I am so spoiled. And tonight I'll get to see my siercia, my scirocco, my Widget, my prunesnprisms, and her Matty Jean. *dances* (Don't forget the directions, Ms. Siercia Jean, please. I remember the way mostly, but don't want to screw up someone else!)

I know I prattle on and on and on about how blessed I am, but I am, and I'm amazed by this every day. I'm so terribly fortunate and am surrounded by so much love. I don't know what I could have done to deserve so much, but either way, thank you.

~//~

and to think that at this moment
i could have everything i said i wanted
just a few short weeks ago
only to waver and
ignore possibilities
for the impractical
for the impossible
for the pain

and it's true that pain is feeling
and feeling is living, like breathing
but how can i juggle
all these choices
all these wants?
bruised tomatoes, apologies

Sorry, I can't help myself. So don't look at me that way.

No one's gonna sympathize when we crash.
They'll say, "You hit what you head for.
You get what you ask."
And we'll say, "We didn't know. No, we didn't even try.
One minute there was road beneath us,
and the next, just sky."

I'm trying to fight gravity on a planet that insists that love is like falling, and falling is like this.

We only have eyes for YOU!

Chaz's eye



Jude's eye

( Here be more pictures. )

I crack myself up! :)