coating

I posted this everywhere else, and it just occurred to me to post it here.

I met Lil Bub today!!!! SQUEE!!!!!!!!!! I posted a bunch of photos on flickr in case you want to see more.

finally

Some of you probably understand exactly how I felt when my new therapist listened to me tell her how out of control my life feels right now and she offered to keep helping me through this instead of telling me I could just do some breathing exercises to get over it, but in case you have no idea how that feels: I felt relieved. So relieved.

Also, there’s a door code to the bathroom in her building but I can’t (won’t) tell you what it is.

fortune

Oct23

This past weekend was pretty epic.

Friday I went to my brother-in-law’s wedding, gained a sister-in-law, drank some Jesus juice, and met the neighbors I’ve heard so much about for so many years from Mama Dawg and Hollywood.

Saturday Dawg and I went to brunch at the Georgia Diner with Mama Dawg, Hollywood, Mr. Clean, and his new bride Mariposita. We had a great time just being a family together. It’s very cathartic to spend quality time with family, and it’s nice that Dawg’s family feels like *my* family too. We then got Subway and went home to watch movies and then I cleaned while Dawg wrote.

Sunday we spent the day with our very dear friends. I can’t remember if they have nicknames, I just know I love them as if I’ve known them all my life, and love their baby that much too. While Baby Jax stayed home with his godmother the rest of us went to the Intrepid to see Enterprise in its new resting place. In Chantilly it was roped off, in NYC you can walk under it! And touch it if you’re very tall, but then you probably get yelled at. After visiting the museum we had dinner at the Georgia (twice in one weekend).

I very much miss this wonderful weekend.

about to happen

Oct18

Friday evening I will be attending a wedding. Immediately following that wedding will be a Halloween party reception. I’m going as a cat!

My kinda wedding.

(But not my wedding.)

codes

Aug8

I dispatched on Friday night, as I anticipated that I would. It was fascinating to learn so much more about the vollies organization, why it existed in its original capacity, and how things have changed over the years to bring it to its current raison d’être.

For some reason the dispatch trainer decided to put me on the radio Friday night. My first shift ever. I didn’t kill anyone, except one person in role play with the dispatch trainer, but I was slightly overwhelmed by the end of the shift with how much information I had absorbed versus how much more I was going to need to learn.

I love dispatching. I’m totally terrified of getting it wrong, but I still got to be on the radio my first night there and I did a pretty good job, according to everyone listening. (Apparently my radio voice is “adorable” which is just what you want your dispatcher to be when she’s yelling at you to 10-4 her request to 10-12 your 10-84, right?)

Also, they make you FOOD at the corps, and not-Ku makes a MEAN shepherd’s pie. I even ate the peas and carrots!

I guess this blog will be about family, friends, food, the subway, and vollies now.

time to shop for pants.

Jul30

Last night I was accepted as a probationary member to the same vollies organization that Dawg, The Steff, Donkey, The Terrorist, X, MusicPub, Kash, and so many more people I consider family are or were a member of.

I start my dispatcher training next Friday, and I cannot WAIT!

Time to go shopping for new pants.

It’s time for cheery stuff

Jul22

Bring on the butterflies, birdies, blue skies, fluffy clouds, and my birthday! (It’s on Monday — Christmas in July. Buy yourself a gift and say it’s from Santa Poppy!)