Weekend Update

It’s been a while since I posted an actual comment. Apparently, digital paintings and Retrospective installments don’t count. So, let me regale you with some current happenings.

Memorial Day weekend was spent in and out of vet clinics and emergency animal hospitals. Two Socks (who is 15 and diabetic, as you may recall) took a sudden downward turn, apparently from some sort of infection. Her glucose level was at 48, lower than it’s ever been. Lower than she could live with for long. The vet reduced her insulin from 3 units twice a day to 1 unit in the morning. By Monday, her level was at 312, which is actually high but closer to normal for her. She’s stable now, but still weak, lethargic, and thin. At her checkup this past Wednesday, she’d dropped to 8 lbs, which is the lowest she’s been since reaching adulthood. Here's a picture J took of Ms. Puny Butt on Memorial Day.

I’d hoped last week that we could have an intimate and cozy “makeup weekend.” But J had to work both days. On Sunday, I made the mistake of thinking I could wait for her, car running, in the handicap spot just outside her building. I suppose I deserved a ticket rather than a warning, but with our recent vet expenses, the $250 fine was a blow.

I’m still working at the framing shop, which apparently exists outside of time as we know it. No matter how busy I am, time crawls at a snail’s pace. When I get off, normal time resumes. When J gets home, time doubles its pace. I guess if I want to live longer, I need to stay at work. I wonder if Michael Jackson is aware of this phenomenon. Honestly, though, I don’t think I could work with the dude.

Anyway, another weekend has rolled around, and J and I are excited at the chance to play for two days and hopeful that nothing will intrude upon our plans. Being Tauruses, we intend to do nothing Saturday but eat pizza, drink wine, watch movies, and have all the sex. (I apologize in advance to those of you who must do without because of our lustiness.) Since Tauruses also enjoy pretty things, we plan on going to brunch and taking in a couple of art shows on Sunday. We’ll probably only have time for some of the sex on Sunday, so indulge yourselves. (-;

Gotta go pick up my Shakti. No more waiting in the handicap spot, though. Once bit, twice shy.