Happy Birthday, lisah!!!

Which apparently will always make me hear that song on "The Simpsons"

And now I have it stuck in my head. Which is not a bad thing!

Happy birthday, lisah!

EM cancelled her Tuesday morning visit, so I'm going to have to muster the executive function to pay my bills, send emails and clean the Guinea Pig cage by myself.

In good news, a friend I've been trying to get to visit for more than a year finally got clearance from her job for a long weekend and she'll be out to visit in two weeks. Very excited about that.

I've had a good streak of socializing and uh, how would one say..."leveling up" of friendships lately. One occasional friend (4 times a year) turning into more of a monthly get together. Have tentative plans to socialize with my one-on-one Pilates instructor (the self described "queer glamazon). And my friend I see twice a week (the woman who's painting my back stairs) and I had a lovely, connecting talk on Sunday.

Takes some of the edge off my extremely empty nest. I posted a picture on FB last week of an old picture of the whole fam at an ice skating rink in Reno - me, JZ, Emmett and Matilda. And what I thought but didn't write was: "I used to make breakfast for four every morning, and now....I do not."

Thanks everybody! Helping my friend buy a car for my birthday.

It's probably better not to write that, Hecubus. But some of your nestlings will be back sometimes.(Bet my mother wishes, although she ended up in my nest, instead, that things had emptied out a little bit more. I know I do, at least sometimes.)