Well, this past friday happened to be our beloved Takumori's Birthday, and we had a lot of fun:) We got to indulge in a nummy Ham, Spice-cake, and treat him to seeing 2012 at the premier.

The movie itself was a lot of fun, good SFX, and some good story too, definetely worth the watch:)

Saturday saw us simply enjoying ourselves, with a good friend, CloudChaser, joining us for some running around the neighborhood with a rickshaw we got ahold of.

It's been, heck, at least 2 and a half years since we got taku in our Family, and I have to say I don't regret it one bit, he is everything we could hope for and more, and cheers us immensely:)

Happy birthday dragon... you deserve every thank you and bit of love you get, and a thousand more besides:)

Well, the day after our anniversary(yesterday) was also my Dad's B-day: I'm not going to post his age, but lets say he was in his 30's when he got around to having me with mom;)

Right now he's still working 50+ hours a week for the crucible of evil known as Clear Channel(of you want stories, boy, do I have loads), and even after all this time still has a sense of humor and wonder at the world around us. He's also not fully embraced, but accepted, nak and I, and I can't thank him enough for that:)

Among other accomplishments, he's built a mobile radio station out of a semi truck for half a million *under* budget, designed a portable satellite dish more powerful than those 50 foot wide jobs you see outside of Many TV studios, built something which got him and the First FM station in the city of Angels thrown out of the church basement they were in, and so much more:)

Happy Birthday dad, you've gotten a lot of years on this planet, many more to come, and you've accoplished more than many have in multiple lifetimes:)

for more fun, check his website: http://www.hottips.org/

Well, I managed to make Naketa nearly cry happy tears:)

On saturday, I was able to pull a surprise renewal of the vows, in front of about 30 people from the wedding, with our friend Chris being the priest, as he did at the first wedding:)

Nak was utterly clueless until I was kneeling in front of him and asking, and he said the same thing he did when I asked the first time "You Sweet Son of a B****!"

Amidst much laughter, we re-took our vows, the entire thing catered by a wonderful friend of ours, who even made an orca and dolphin wedding cake!:D

Come today, our official anniversary, he shows up at my work with a dozen roses and strawflowers in a vase, a Happy anniversary balloon, and a sweet card, making me turn blush-red in front of ym manager, two co-workers, and three customers! A little old lady said I must have a very special wife as he was standing there, grinning ear to ear, and I simply nodded and replied I was very lucky *chuckles*

I had every third customer before I clocked out asking me who the flowers were for, and one of my coworkers asked why she can't meet any straight men that romantic *grin* my response was to immediately buy some dark chocolate covered espresso beans, Ghirardali chocolate, and make him all grins:)

And after *that* he picked me up from work and treated me to olive garden! Much laughter, love, and blown kisses sneaked when no-one was looking followed, and we both got the sparkly eyes looking at each other, doing everything we could not to just kiss across the table:)

It's been 10 years we've been mates, 2 years since we've been married, and the magic is even stronger now then when we met. Thank you Gaia, Luna, Helios, and all the stars for my orca, I will never grow tired of him or knowing how lucky I am to have him!:)

Now to just try and turn the sparklies off: they scare the cat:P

Or She'll have a parrot shag your neck:P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T1vfsHYiKY&feature=player_embedded

I'm sorry, this got posted as FA's Link of the day, and I couldn't resist sharing:)

Well, I have to thank the bunch of you who expressed sympathy and warm wishes for my family: they are safely home, house unburnt, though the surroundings hills look like a moonscape. It looks like the worst of the damage is ash covering everything, so they'll have my little sister zoreta slaving away to get it clean: Ah, manual labor;)

On the bright side, We got to get visited by two local phins and friends of ours: Zhwazi and Pyrophin!:) They met us at a club on Saturday afternoon, and we had fun well on till midnight before heading back and showing them the house: they got to sleep in our two big, poofy couches, and we just sat and chittered all the rest of sunday: overall was very good indeed:)

Work is giving me less and less hours, though it's true for *everyone* there.. I'm among the only two non management getting more then 20 hours a week. Add to that, they 'accidently' sent me an extra bonus check, which extra house costs immediately ate, so now I have to pay them back the overage over 4 weeks, which is cutting my income even more. Dang, retail sucks:/

At least I have my orca, our dragon, his mom, and the fabulous fox wynd to keep me laughing;)

*hugs and loves to all*

Well, for those of you who don't read the news or overseas, there are some major, major wildfires(upwards of 18,000 acres) going on within 5 miles of the house where I grew up, where my parents, little sister, and the two dogs we co-owned still live. Yup, shiny CA, where currently there is so much smoke the firefighters can't fly at night due to Zero Visibility: We're talking Desert shield style thick smoke from all the burning trees, brush, and cooked wildlife.

My parents and little sis got Evacuated 2 days ago, and no word yet on if the house survived: thank the heavens, Gods, and Ifni that my family is safe, currently sharing a house with my Aunt and Uncle next to the Rose Bowl. The dogs are okay too.

The fires are getting near Mount Wilson, which is the site for *every* major radio transmitter and repeater covering the LA area. We're not just talking upwards of 5 Billion dollars worth of TV and radio equipment: We're also talking all the radio repeater and Transciever arrays for emergency services in LA. Fire, Police, Ambulance, National Guard. If that mountaintop gets toasted(and the fire is burning on the next mountain over), We're talking a total Radio net collapse for the LA valley. Can you say Rodney King 2.0?

Needless to say, while I am very, very glad that my family is safe, I am utterly scared out of my wits that my family might be in danger if Law and Order goes down. It's highly unlikely, Given the rose bowl is surrounded by some of the nicest neighborhoods to be found in LA, so crime around there is negligible. I'm also scared about the house going: I know it's just a house, but I lived there for 18 years, my first xmas was in there, I still remember my first bike, my first Optimus Prime action figure(which I wish I still had).

So, please, any thoughts, prayers, good wishes, fairy godmothers, anything pleasant and nice, Send it to my parents, Zoreta, and my other little sis. So far, the only fatality has been an old fish, and I hope that's all that gets lost.

*hugs his orca*

Well, we're settling in... work is slowly something I'm getting used to with the new GM, and that's working out well:)

Went to see District 9 on sunday: good flick, good story, some fairly large plot holes, but eh;)

The big reason for this post is that my Mothers B-day was saturday: she is without a doubt one of the most extraordinary women I know, and that's not just the genetics talking. She's raised 3 kids(one still in the house, my sweet little sister Zoreta), Has a doctorate in Clinical *and* CHild psychology, and is looking to set up a practice, fter having spent more than a decade working with battered women and children via the haven house program, to let them find a chance to enjoy life again. She has show more compassion, mercy, and goodheartedness(especially when I told her I was gay and a fur) then many people with their names on newspaper headlines.

But then, that's how she is: she doesn't seek the limelight, she prefers to know she's helping people:) So thoughts, prayers, and many thanks to my mother belatedly, because if good spirits were gold, She'd be worth more than a dragons hoard:)

We are now back online:) the house is mostly built, and several adventures later, we're in Mulberry FL.

*hugs all his family and collapses from exhaustion to wake up for maybe crashing megaplex tommorrow*

Well, tomorrow the cable modem heads off to time warner, and we probably won't be online for a good week, maybe a little longer, so don't take my silence as a bad thing, please:)

*hugs to all* I treasure your good wishes, and thank you all:)

Well, a year of Texas was a learning experience: some really nice furs here(one of which we're dragging back to FLorida with us), but we're moving back to FL, specifically, to mulberry, a lovely place near Lakeland:)

It's been a hoot, but we're packing and I may be out of contact in the next day or two as this compie gets packed up and we head out, so wanted to let you wonderful furs know:)

*hugs to all*