Trippin's good

In case you haven't noticed, I've continued to have a hard time banging out the entries in here. I'm taking a little break...

My trip to NY to visit Marguerite was wonderful. I didn't take too many pictures, though. I'm not too good at wielding the camera for all those special "moments". But I did get some great shots of Central Park. I'll post some when I get around to it some day. I also got to hang out with Rich and Devin, which was a blast. I took the lovely subway system from Queens to Brooklyn to hang out with the guys on Monday and Tuesday while Marguerite was at work. I really enjoyed those trains, it was so different having freedom without a car. It's amazing how dependent we've become on cars here in L.A.

I find that I really needed this trip, it helped me rearrange my head a little. It helped me realize that my number one concern right now should be learning to relax about life. I've been taking things way too seriously, overthinking them into the ground and sending myself out to that vacant, black sea. It's time to reel it in and stop fishing for blame in those murky depths of despair. I'm paddling back to the clear, blue waters...

Yea.

Meanwhile, the hills near my home are burning like crazy! The weather was so nice and mild when I left last week... I hated coming home to this awful heat wave and huge wildfires everywhere, but I guess it was coming. This is naturally a fuel fire. Not enough rain, but ample time for the underbrush to get nice n' big n' D-R-Y. We've gotten away with murder in terms of the summer weather this year. It's been so nice and mild most days... Anyway, I hope the weather starts to cooperate and they're able to get those wildfires back under control before more homes are lost. I don' lyke it! It's smellies an' yuckies!

Oh yes, and little update on Mickey bird. He's all fine and good healthwise, so I've started to let them all out together. The first day I let him out, the poor guy didn't have his bearings and flew into the ceiling fan, then the window, stunning himself in the process. That's a risk I take letting them be fully flighted... I've been lucky so far. I stroked his little head and put him back in the cage to recover for a bit. I figured I'd call the vet if he wasn't better in a few minutes. He was back to playing with the others within ten minutes. *Whew* After that he learned to maneuver quickly, though. Now he's following the others in circles around the livingroom almost flawlessly.

Well, we've gotten our container of goods in from Europe this week, I'd better get back to it. We've got more back orders to pack and items to count. Joy.

Later!