Gineen - I completely understand why you're done! You guys sure have had a whole lot in the snow department this season. And we're sadly lacking, which is also bad for the summer fire season. Why does weather have to be so unbalanced?
My D19 and BF left Albany last night between 8-9 pm. They pulled in my parents' driveway at 6 am. Both my parents shoveled their driveway to make room for the car. They told me that they have between 12-15 inches (snow drifts made it difficult to tell) and another 3 inches expected this afternoon. Yikes!!!! And Mom told me another storm may be brewing to bring more snow again this weekend???
LOL about your friend and the Siamese. I've had them since I was a kid. When Bert and Ernie died (they were my adorable Seal Points before I even got married), I promised Mr. Wonderful I wouldn't replace them since he had some allergies to them. The week after he moved out, I went out and bought little Butterfly, who is MY adorable Chocolate Point. She's been socialized to D16, but let's just say I think she could be smarter (run away IMMEDIATELY when D16 walks in the room). When I had Mocha (our adorable golden retriever), they both allowed D16 liberties with them that no other human would have been granted. It's like they know. In fact, when she was born, Bert slept near her because he knew something was wrong.
Anyway, Butter is my baby. She sleeps with me and talks to me and suffers everyone else. I think she's mad at D19 for leaving. Since that happened, she has been kind of stand-offish and a little snotty to her. Maybe Petey will be the kind of cat that bridges the gap and makes her jealous enough to be more friendly to everyone. They just don't understand her, you know? She only wants to be pet or picked up when she lands on my lap. Otherwise, leave her the f&*k alone. (Especially if she's sitting on a heater vent.) I'm the only one who gets that.
At any rate, we'll head over after D16 gets her blood drawn. You'd think it was complete torture and something that she's never done before with all the caterwauling and theatrics. This will be my carrot reward for it. LOL.
Tomorrow night is my gay male-straight female Valentines dinner! My flank steak is marinating, and I'm taking off at lunchtime tomorrow to go finish everything. Gay men are the BEST audience - they will ohh and ahh over the china, and we'll talk about my floral centerpiece and is that ginger in the marinade? And then the 2 cops will talk about the meth heads they've slammed to the ground, and my world will be absolutely perfect. Topped off with homemade blackberry cobbler and vanilla ice cream. Oh, the love. I've promised myself to do this more often. D16 will just sit there and laugh her ass off while she stuffs herself full of valentine candy.
For all of you in the snow belt, stay warm! Gineen, go read some books and enjoy the next 24 hours to yourself. I really LOVE those kinds of days! Our tradition was always to bake. I bet my mom that D19 would want to bake cookies when she finished helping her BF shovel. My dad will definitely appreciate that!
"There are only 2 ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
