The Daizy Gym

Hello Again,

I would like to now pay homage to my newer friend and life companion, Daizy Puppers. Today I had some revelations about this part of my path. Getting grounded and actually becoming Outdoor Girl with baddass dog!

Daizy and I have started walking serious now. I have walked her plenty around the small block trying to work on verbal and leash cues. Now we are going much further on a harder course. I am not sure of the distance, but it starts with some hardcore downhill Jonny says is like 100 or so degrees. I work out my arms controlling Daizy's speed during this part. Then we walk across a flat area where some of Daizy's dog friends live. I haven't met the owners so I don't know their names but they like to play through the fence whenever Daizy comes by. Then we turn again and up a slightly less steep hill to the neighborhood park which is actually directly behind out house. We walk the perimeter of the park and then have a short rest in the shade. Daizy isn't super patient with this but understands that Mom needs a rest and some water. We like to visit with any brave humans that speak to us. Daizy is learning to be polite as not to scare others with her dangerous appearance!
By the time we get home I have had a full workout finished off with the stair stepper back up the 100 degree hill. Its so much more doable with a dog that's bred for pulling up in front! Daizy and I both like to come back into the nice cool house have a drink and relax with some smooth jazz!

She is like a cat in the dark and then she is the darkness...

Today is one of the hardest days of my life. Today I set my Familiar free from her earthy existence.

Rhiannon has been in my company for seventeen years this month and has not been in optimal health for the last year or so. She had been diagnosed with kidney failure about a year after we moved to LA and had stopped eating the prescription food since about the first of June. When I returned from Austin Monday night her eyes said she was in pain and she was having trouble getting around...I knew in my heart she was ready to go but its so hard to let go...

For those of you who don't know the story, I was joined to her one otherwise uneventful day while working at Highland Mall in 1990. On a whim I detoured into the pet shop after my shift to find domestice kittens for $19. I am gererally against pet store animals, but was drawn there without much forthought. I had always wanted a black cat to name it Rhiannon after the witch described in the Fleetwood Mac song. SO when I picked up this fluffy black female with big yellow eyes and she nudged me lovingly under the chin I knew SHE must be the one.

She grew into a beautiful luxurious Princess. She has been my all knowing companion for my whole adult life. I am sad to let her go, but I know she has lived a life full of love and adventure.

She provided Jonny and I with entertainment without too much complaining.

We will miss her...

Time flies when you're procrastinating...

A year has passed and I still haven't uploaded one album on my amazing ION player that was to allow for the context of my blathering here in cyberspace...

I did play a few records since I got it hooked up to the computer! To my dismay, I found the first few to be injured in the years of being lugged about and secluded in various closets. When the Wham album that I was aching to hear again skipped in a not-so-hip-hop way, I was extremely discouraged! Not to mention Jonny was unable to make the record player and the rest of my computer audio work at the same time...

I finally asked him to yank the record player in favor of the ability to hear songs on myspace and Youtube audio and listen to all the music that I do have stored on the computer. THEN Jonny got me an IPod shuffle for crishmas and I was completely distracted by the shiny new music toy thats easily accessed by the computer and hooks onto my clothes like a fancy accessoire. :P

Today I have done a whole latta nuthin! I did get up and care for my sweet puppers this morning and I watered the plants that Jonny asked me to, but other than that I have been "computering" all day. Mostly messing with Picasa and trying to make my blog cool...Julia is going to help me when I am in Austin next week! YAY!

So its likely that there will be more to come with pictures!