aj's birthday

aj - for all of you that don't know here - she is a wonderful female
if you know her you know what i mean....

on thursday nite the ladies of spirit ways threw a cake and punch party for her to give gifts and celebrate her.....spiritways is the metaphysical shop where she works.....the photos are a little quriky..........






i have spent quite few birthday's with aj.
in fact the first birthday we spent together was hers (not to be corny) we both got tattoos. we both got symbols that look as if there painted on - hers on her back and mine on my breast bone....


aj and i met at 849 washington street house.
i met her right after my mother passed away and aj was starting to realize that her father was not going to beat cancer the second time. because of these situations she and i gave a lot of understanding to one another about learning the stages of mourning. we cheered one another up by becoming great playmates - one of the reason i love her

i lived on the entire first floor and she had the whole basement apartment. there were three other apartments in the house only one of which we were super friendly with - rob and kelley.....they've gone their own ways now.

one evening aj had her niece in town and we promised to wake her up after we got back from being "out". we decided to go back to the house wake up cj and build an entire pillow & sheet fort that would cover the apartment, i seem to remember convincing a few other people we knew to come and join us in our well thought out plan

aj and i lived in that house for a few years and only moved out because of the two other horrible apartments and the slum lord....boy oh boy was that house fun when those three problems weren't around. we then went to 2950 humbolt and started living with other roommates. bad idea.

but now she and i have passed 6 or 7 birthday's together and i suspect that there will be quite a few more in store.........

the week of movies

for some reason this week (and it's only thursday) i have seen three movies - sam has been to all of them with me!

last friday some of us were going to go to the spike&mikes sick and twisted animation festival....but i wanted to see it with gio and he was covering for tyrone (doing a double! noon to one am!) and the rest of the participants of the evening couldn't get it together - including me

monday:
labor day.
i was busy at work - we are one of the only coffeeshops open on holidays all of them but christmas day. 364!
sam and i decided to go to the dollar theater and see the latest harry potter. much better than the last one.

tuesday:
brasilian independents day
gio and i celebrated by a bbq and beers in the afternoon while waiting for the ups guy to deliver gio's new doll.




we met up with sam while waiting for nils to get off work at armasan.... then off to the movies




when the movie got out gio and i stopped by craig thomas' new art gallery "ism". we chatted for awhile - craig told us he was waiting for a lady he'd just met to come back (they were going to hand out) and in walks a customer of ours maureen....that girl gets around town! she hangs in good spots.

we got home and had a few cocktails. gio pulled out his new guitar from mark and played while i did some yoga/acrobatic moves and took picture....

i love evenings like that!

wednesday:
just pain ol'wednesday
work again.....work.work.work.work......


then another movie! sam and i went to see ju on.

it's a horror flick -i have to say i was nervous going in thinking i was going to pee my pants at some point. no pee to report. not to scary but good.

the hard decisions

i went into work on Friday to see gio for a moment and i walked out with a kitten.



deep breath…..he’s so cute. yesterday i thought that i didn’t want the responsibility of another cat….



i do want a playmate for seven but i wasn’t sure that new guy is it?









today? I think he’s getting more used to all of us. seven seems to really like him – he walks around calling for him when he can’t find new guy (yes that’s his name for now).



last night they both slept in between gio & i.
i think they like each other,

some problems with new guy:

he screams when he meows

he tries to eat off the dinner table (i had to put him where bad kitties go! the bathroom)

he tries to get out of the house a lot

he’s already destroyed a plant


some good things about new guy:

cute

purrrrs

plays with seven

is stating to attach to us?

And right now he’s asleep in my lap looking so cute



gio seems ok with him (he’s been pointing out how much seven likes him)



nils thinks he should be with a family with kids.



sam seems not to mind if we keep him.



I’m not sure what I think. i am mixed with my feelings….?