Had some ink done

Been thinking about getting a couple tattoos for over a year and finally got my first one. It is a very stylized moon design on my right arm.


Next one will be a stylized sun on my left arm.

More Geddy Cat

I still can't get over how cool a cat that Geddy has turned out to be. Very attentive and has the cutest meow. He is also declawed but still acts like he is sharpening his claws on furniture or me.
Here's more photographic coverage:

Kinda sleepy plus a mew cat in town

I was a bit out of sorts yesterday. Still a bit tired today but nothing that a red bull couldn't cure. Hopefully I will feel better tomorrow. A little voice told me to go visit the shelter today. I'm glad I did. The animal control officer asked if I was going to stop volunteering because I adopted a cat. I said No, Not going to stop taking care of the shelter cats.



So a feline has adopted me. His name was Soccers and he has silky smooth fur. A very sweet cat. He is also declawed but he acts like a naughty kitty and faux claws the couch. He has been officially renamed Geddy.

9 Days Later

This year has caused my perception of time to become distorted. Unfortunately the days and months have disappeared along with the summer. The past 9 days have reversed the trend. Circumstances have caused time to stand still and a chance to catch our breath before we start off again.

Nine days ago it was Dana's birthday and I hoped that she was feeling better. But alas, her condition was getting worst. Paul and I talked her into going to the doctor the next day. I stayed the night to watch over her, meditating while she slept. She was shivering and it was probably due to her blood loss. The next morning she looked white as a ghost and I was very scared. I love her dearly and she asked me if I would take care of her cats if she died. I told her of course but there was no way we were going to let her die. It took both Paul and I to get her down to the car without her falling down. Then after a relatively short car ride we were at the emergency room.

Dana had lost too much blood from a miscarriage and needed surgery to stop the bleeding. The ER nurse told us that she would have died within a day if she had not been brought in. We also learned she lost nearly half of her blood and ended up getting transfused with 2 liters of O neg blood and 2 liters of type specific blood (A pos). They took her up to own room and I came back a little while later to see her. It is amazing how important blood is and how beautiful the color returning to her face was. I was very happy to see her be able to enjoy the dinner the nurse ordered. After a overnight stay, she was ready to get out of hospital.. No picnic being a human pincushion. I credit her strength and force of will to able to make through the whole ordeal. I could see the joy on her face as she was able to walk with full strength after being carried into the ER the previous day.

All of us are very happy to have her back in the land of the living and finding a new perspective from a near death experience. Breaking old cycles can be difficult but well worth the fight.

I lost another dear friend earlier this year to a senseless car accident. It would be devastating to have lost another amazing soul and I can only say that it was fate that allowed Paul and I to come to her rescue. The past 9 days have passed very slowly and deliberately for me. But it was some of the most cherished days I can remember in recent memory.

The past is history, the future yet to be and the present just that, a gift wrapped for us to enjoy.

Coke Haiku

My water of life
Best with ice in a tall glass
Must have it daily

Save Me

You look like a perfect fit
For a girl in need of a tourniquet

But can you - save me
Come on and - save me
If you could - save me
From the ranks of the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone

'Cause I can tell
You know what it's like
The long farewell
Of the hunger strike

But can you save me
Come on and save me
If you could save me
From the ranks of the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone

You struck me down like radium
Like Peter Pan or Superman

You will come to save me
C'mon and save me
If you could save me
From the ranks of the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone
'Cept the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone
But the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone

C'mon and save me
Why don't you save me
If you could save me
From the ranks of the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone

Except the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone
Except the freaks who could never love anyone

"Bong Hits 4 Jesus" & The Supreme Court

This article caught my eye in the Seattle Times today - "Bong Hits 4 Jesus"

A student in 2002 was standing across the street from the school with a banner that read "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" as the Winter Olympics torch passed by. The principal of the school took the banner and suspended the student from school. He was not on school property and wasn't disrupting school activities. This was clearly a case where the 1st amendment rights of the student were violated and he was punished for speaking his mind. Why in the hell is this case going to the Supreme Court in the first place? This should have never even left the state supreme court. Why would the school district continue to appeal? The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said "the student, Joseph Frederick, had a right to express himself as long as he didn’t disrupt the school or its educational mission."

This really chaps my ass when major effort is expended on trying to suppress a individual's freedom of expression. It is not like he was sending death threats to the president (now I'm on the FBI's watch list for sure). Somebody is always trying to censor something that might make people think for a change, especially when it makes fun of Jesus and mentions illegal drugs :) Damn uptight right wing zealots.

Current mood: annoyed
Current music: Rush - Marathon