I'm very thankful for the amazing changes in my friends' lives, and that they've given me the rope to tag along and fret and rejoice and delight with them.

(I've more, but the words are tripping all over themselves. In any case, I sometimes look at the people in my life and get all giddy-gleeful. I am so lucky! I've been kinda fuguey off and on and yet still, they persist. So if I were to make resolutions, one would be to make sure they know how treasured they are and be a better friend.)

For me 2006 was the Year of the Hospital Bedside Vigil. Dad had 4 hospitalizations, one of them a horror show that lasted a month and scared the crap out of both Mom and me. But he got released from his last stay on my birthday, and has thankfully remained healthy (for his age and condition) since then. May that continue for the foreseeable future.

I've continued to live out the proof of Mona Ramsey's philosophy of life, what with having a great apartment, a great job, and a love life in dire need of a defibrillator. But two out of three ain't bad, and at least this year I've had the chance to enjoy more socializing with the extended family than I usually get.

Message to Lee from The Casa Calibre Cat Collective.

t drool. twitch. drool. meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyow!

Message to Lee from the Humans:

BWAHAHAHA! They're having TURF WARS over the thing.

HEE! See, this is what I was saying.

Dude, I went into the living room, and Ohm had kicked Shiva off of it and dragged the whole thing into a corner with him. Mo just sort of shakes her head and comes and sits by me while they wrestle over possession of the crack pad.

hee.

!

I got a Roomba! And a promise of a Wii when they're buyable! Christmas (while late) was good to me. Also, I have not yet beaten any relatives, which is a good.

Plei, did Lee get your kitties this crack pad?

Ashton LOVES it.

Not Plei, but yes.

So does Perkins. still, after several months.

Also, those pictures still make me very happy.

I'm sipping wine from Colorado! AIFG! Thanks again, DebetEsse!