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| HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!
So have you made a resolution? What have you resolved to do this year? | | |
| As I walked to my car, I looked back over my shoulder with a brave smile and there she still stood on her porch, also wearing a brave smile. One last time she waved her hand in that beauty pageant contestant way and said "I love your hair, hope you win!" as we've done a million times before, and I blinked rapidly at the moisture gathering and waved back and said "I love YOUR hair, I hope you win. You've always been a winner with me"
I turned back quickly before the tears could fall and nearly ran the last few steps to my car. I got in and swiped angrily at the tears that wouldn't be contained, started my car and looked back, but she was gone.
And as I drove away, I felt the end of the chapter, the end of the era. We've grown up now. Twenty-five years as friends and neighbors, confidants and sisters... we've seen each other through heartaches and failures and amazing victories. We've consoled and celebrated each other. We've fought bitterly and loved deeply. We've been down so many twisted crazy roads together, but this is one road I can't see her down, an unavoidable fork that has forced us onto different paths. A part of me goes with her, and a part of her stays with me. I wonder if we'll ever be completely complete again. And I heave a deep sigh of sorrow. I can see her house in my rear view mirror and her lovely smiling green eyes in my mind, and I miss her already. | | |
| All true cat lovers know that the first step to loving a cat is accepting a few things about them that make them uniquely feline. Cats are proud and independent and vain; but they are absolutely gorgeous animals after all so they have plenty of reason to be vain. They are graceful and sleek and playful and moody. Cats are truly loyal creatures, and gaining the trust of a feline is one of the most precious and difficult things to acquire, and one of the most delicate possessions to retain. It is truly worth the effort to have a loyal cat.
There are few pleasures greater than a cat who will curl up in your lap and vibrate and purr as you tickle her chin or stroke her back or rub her tummy. Cats are completely hedonistic and devoted to a sensual lifestyle. A playful cat will afford you hours of amusement with household items as simple as a string or a ball, and a loving cat will keep your lap warm for hours on end. And a cat who will sneak up on you and pounce for fun is worth her weight in gold!
The most essential skill of a cat lover is reading a cat’s body language. They will tell you what they are feeling. Do not try to play with a cat in a loving mood or love on a cat in a playful mood; you may catch the end of her claws.
Do not be fooled, a kitty is a big commitment. While dogs are overtly present in your life, a cat has a more understated and elegant presence. One of the essential differences in cats and dogs is that while a human may tame a dog, a cat will tame her human. If you take good care of her, she will lower your stress, preen for your pleasure and give you hours of love and affection. But if you neglect a cat or fail to give her the attention she deserves (or has come to expect from you), you can only imagine her kitty-claw wrath.
Cats are truly complex creatures. Something vitally important to remember about cats is that each one is completely unique with her own personality and characteristics. Cats can be as varied and unpredictable as the humans that love them.
So this is your introduction to loving a cat. Now don’t you wish you had one? ;) | | |
| Okay... so I emailed as many people as I could about this... so if you've already got it in your email box, sorry for the repeat!
Happy Monday friends and family! This weekend I got a hard lesson in humanity... My cell phone was stolen!
Unfortunately, along with the pain of my naivety and paying off the international calls that someone helped themselves too, I've now lost ALL of your numbers (and some numbers for people that I do not have email addresses for!). Oh woe is me!
So here's the deal. Would you please email me your phone numbers so I'll be able to put you all back in my phone? I'm sorry for the inconvenience, I sincerely appreciate your effort! =)
Thanks peoples!
Since there have been many questions about what happened exactly, I'll tell you that the excess of calls are really my own fault. Because I was naive and believed in the goodness of man to return what was taken from me. Its true! I realized my phone was missing Sunday morning, and checked my account online, saw no calls so thought it might be lost in my car or even in my ginormous purse, and since it was on vibrate from the night before, I didn't bother about it. Last night when I got home late from the Canterbury Choral Society Christmas show, I checked my email (for some odd reason, because that's not very normal for me) and whoever had stolen my phone had the courtesy to email me the pictures on my phone. Bizarre! So in a panic I logged into my cellular account and saw a days worth of international calls to Guatemala. So I called and suspended my phone service, but I take responsibility for the calls. After all, its my own belief in the inate goodness of man-kind that got me into this mess!
Knowing what I know now, I would have immediately canceled the phone and saved myself money and a headache. But it IS only money and a headache afterall. And now I've contacted people I haven't talked to in ages to inform them of the change in numbers.... so really, it was just a push to talk to people I needed to talk to anyway.
But let me ask you something... Do you believe that man is inherently good or bad? What would you have done if you had "found" someone's cell phone? | | |
| I just don't understand. How does this exploding pain just appear in my head and suddenly cause my entire body to hurt? I mean, the exploding pain isn't sudden, most of the time I can feel it coming on. But that doesn't seem to matter, it just prolongs the agony, a lot of it mental, in knowing what's coming.
So the headache doesn't exactly sneak up on you, rather it ROARS up in a rage, you can usually sense it from a mile away the energy is so powerful. And despite your best efforts, precautions and the application of drugs, you still get hit like the broad side of a barn in a tornado. And to add insult to injury, nothing seems to make it abate once it's come. No drugs, no sleep, no ice, no heat, no dark or light. Nothing but time will save you.
Oh frustration! Time march faster please, my friend, and relieve my racked brain and my sore body of this pain! | | |
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