This and That...

You know how you go about your daily business and things strike you as blog-worthy, but you somehow you don’t end up finding the time to create that post you concocted in your head? Oh, you do know that feeling? Well, great, because that is exactly what it has been for me.

When I magically have some available time, I use it to sleep or perhaps take a shower. I am not even kidding. No reason to go into crazy details at this point, but just know that at this moment I am wearing one brown high heel and one black high heel. And, I had to shower at work today. Yay me!

Anyhoo, a few posts that I’ve been “working” on & other miscellaneous stuff…

---A post about my favorite animals of Blogistan and why I love them…ETA is TBD…..mainly because the list is so freaking long!!!

---I recently reconnected with a very dear friend from my late teens/early 20s. Her name is Wendy and I’m thrilled to have her back in my life, especially now. We have some amazing, fun, CRAAAAZY memories from our “younger days” and I hope we can create millions and millions more. She lives in Minnesota now (somehow I think Laura and Wendy would swap great “I hate Minnesota” stories…) with her gorgeous baby kitties, Abby and Quincy.

I didn’t know she had a blog until I saw her post a comment on Dudley’s Diary. (Bad Wendy!) Just kidding! :-) She has her Hebrew name on her blog and she was brave enough to move to our little neighborhood here in Blogistan, so be a great neighbor, stop by "A Tail of Two Kitties", say hello, and maybe bring a martini or two with you. .... http://atailoftwokitties.blogspot.com/

---Speaking of Blogistanimals, I can’t stay away from Dudley’s Diary and Diaries of Diva. One is a handsome, energetic abandoned kitty, and the other is a gorgeous, also energetic, chocolate lab puppy! Yay for kittens and puppies!!! Diva belongs to Ruby and her human family… http://diariesofdiva.blogspot.com/

---I haven’t found time yet to complete the update of my blog’s “summer look”…

---I want to walk Torrey Pines again so badly! It is so good for my soul. Time! I need more!

---Speaking of walking, Achilles fell twice on his walk today. It broke my heart. He is fine now and More Mommy is lovingly caring for him, but I haven’t been able to get his sweet face out of my memory. He looked so stunned and I’m sure he’ll be sore tomorrow.

---Milo is a goofball. I love that about him. He does a dance I call the “booty bop”.

---Two weeks from today it will be the one year anniversary of Nick’s death. It was Tuesday, July 10th, 12:35 p.m. when he took his last breath in our arms, in our home. He was our first beloved pet, and then God sent two more Golden angels to our home to fill our hearts with love, all the while healing our hearts.

Losing Nick was such a tremendous watershed moment in our lives. Yes, he was our dog, and I know that it is not the same as losing family or loved friends, but in our life losing Nick will always be a defined turning point for us, especially for me. I loved that sweet boy beyond description and I felt singed and burned with grief.

I honestly did not believe I would recover. In many ways I never will, but that is the beauty of life. In never fully being able to recover from his loss, I am able to more fully appreciate and more fully love my sweet animals now and for all my future time.

---Blogistan has brought me an entirely new family of friends. I want to post about that when I can give it the attention it deserves. Karen, Suz Buzy Bee, Happy Wife, Mags, Engine of the Family, Christina…I can go on and on…but you know who you are and I love the little window into your lives you allow me to have. Thank you. Which reminds me of yet another thing….I need to update my blogroll….

---I’m hungry.

---Jamei had a baby girl, little Angelina. She’s precious. I’ve known Jamei since I arrived in the U.S. I have to find some time to get up there and visit the new arrival.

---Feel better soon Laura…. Wrigley and Chumley, you’ll be receiving your paychecks for being such great nursemaids. :-)

---Amanda, Mary Beth, and Helen, my condolences on the passing of your uncle and I'm grateful your mother is well. I'm sorry I haven't commented...

---Suz, may your family's soldier return in health and good spirits. Thank him for us.

---Our engagement/wedding party is coming up on 7/19 and I am so touched that so many of our friends are coming from so very far away, and from right here in San Diego, to support and join in our celebration. It makes me so happy. My dearest friend Anna is hosting the grand soiree and I cannot ever thank her enough. Tomorrow the "ladies" will lunch on sushi... me, Anna, and her beautiful Zoe girl. I love that little daughter of hers.

---Last, but most definitely and most certainly not least, I would like to kindly request that you include my father and my grandmother in your prayers. I am flying back out to Chicago next week for an operation that my father will have. It is delicate and dangerous, but unavoidable and very necessary. My parents sacrificed their world as they knew it to bring me & my sisters to safety in the golden land that is America. I can never repay them and whenever God decides to call them home I will miss them something fierce. Please pray that the call will not be anytime soon for my father, my Baba Jaan.

---My grandmother, Bobo, suffered a very minor heart attack a couple of days ago. She is resting and doing fine now, but at 93 years old, I know that we are witnessing a twilight. It is so very hard to know that her body is now frail and that her organs are beginning their descent. I pray fervently every daily chance I get that she will be granted health and peace for as long as possible. She took care of me in Afghanistan when the Soviets invaded and my parents were stuck in Iran for two years.

When our backyard is ready for planting, a pomegranate tree will be included to honor the courtyard of my grandmother’s home, the courtyard of my memories. My Golden-hearted friend Lynne actually suggested it and it reminded of my dream to create “Little Kabul” in my backyard. Thanks Lynne, for that reminder, and for much more. Oh so much more.

Soooo much more I want to vent about, write about, share, and just randomly throw out…but I gotta run for now.

P.S. I still have one fuzzy leg and I’m hoping my boss won’t notice my different color heeled sandals.

P.P.S. I know I'm forgetting to mention a shitload of stuff. Forgive me!!!

P.P.P..S. I miss my Belov-Ed. He'll be home tomorrow and I cannot wait to gather him up in my arms and smother him with slobbery kisses. Oh, how I love him.