Archive for December, 2006

Happy New Year


2006 has been, without a doubt, a year in which friendships have figured strongly in my life. I have made many new and wonderful friends on- and offline.

It seems increasingly difficult in recent years to look ahead with optimism, perhaps more so this year. I find hope for the future not in politics or world events but in those friends of mine, and in noticing an increasing maturity in my own words and deeds.

My friends have been, and continue to be, a blessing when seen individually and collectively. They are a wonderfully mixed bag of gay, straight, old, young, male, female, pagan, agnostic, Christian who, while sharing many of my own values and interests, have, over the past year, introduced me to lots of new ideas and points of view as well. I found a community of like-minded souls who provided great support and a lot of love, and I have certainly known who my friends were in trying times.

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Sunday, December 31st, 2006

The Vagina Monologue


Drusilla, the cat whose sole intention since Christmas Day has been to get some while my primary occupation has been making sure she doesn’t, kept me awake most of last night.

I rose to greet New Year’s Eve with somewhat less enthusiasm than I might otherwise have done. After several hours of an incessantly whining vagina-on-four-legs trying to burrow through carpets, in the process destroying all hope of ever getting our deposit back on the house come the eventual day we move, I took the drastic step some might perceive as cruel but hey, it worked. I took Drusilla into the bathroom, placed her in the shower cubicle and sprayed her back end with cold water.

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Sunday, December 31st, 2006