Anticipation can end in joy and some times not

We were soooooooooooo excited for Flamingo Fest West. Possessed..as I get, I made these flamingo shirts with bleach and black sharpie! Friday night we were beside ourselves with all our preparation, hats and shirts...we were sure it was going to be a hit.

Saturday we did chores all day and napped to insure we were pumped for the evening's goings on. So with shirts and hats donned we showed up at 7...and yes foreshadowing should have clued us in, when the volunteer took our tickets and miscommunication started....can you imagine asking some one in a pink flamingo shirt, wearing a flamingo hat, having paid $65 a ticket if this was your "first time" to see them??? Yeah, not and that was really what we contributed to our disappointment for the affair. The goal was the taping not the audience, since it was their videotaping for a video! So we get some familiar songs, some new and a couple of flubs. Antsy's intent is artistic but not in front of an audience stuff...by 11 we threw in the towel...those 60 to 70 years olds hung in there but for us to be out after 11:00, on a Saturday, was too much...they still had another set to go...OY. Think I'm a bit depressed, as my intent with my choices for entertainment seem to miss the mark more that make it! Oh well...Rich has agreed to make adventure choices for the future! Enjoy the pictures...we love the band, and know seeing a show again would be fun but sometimes you just can't go back to the initial magic.

Flamingo Fest West preparations

This Saturday we are going to the Flamingo Fest West, one of our fav bands are doing a video taping with fans and we got our tickets. We are trying to ride the wave of having plans and following through, these days....so in Kris style, I like to plan ahead. I thought, ok....what do we wear to a event to support the Trailer Park Troubadour's???? Thank goodness for Ebay....what do you think??? and for the record, we had Nelson, our neighbor friend come over for another rousing Sushi night. Nelson and I were reprimanded for eating too much...Rich has created a monster!!!!

No pictures but sentiment

Glad to have my man back, all glowing and tan...plus he shaved all his hair off. I think that says something of a person who adventures out of their "comfort zone" returns to reality and shaves his head. To me it was a statement, "I'm me...love it or frack you" and ya know what ....Love it! Are being apart was good time for both of us to reassess whats important to us as individuals. He remembered that its o-k to be alone and I remembered what its like to be Jelly. While he was gone I had a list of "To Do's" and they were both chores and things that I just needed to do for myself. So although the house wasn't sparkling when he returned, I was! My heart was full, full of missing him and also happy with who I am (gawd I just had a Doogie Howser moment) Its good to love your life and the direction its taking. Its good to be quiet with your thoughts and although you may still not know what you want to be when you grow up, you still like the direction that you are traveling. I attended a Jewelry Class today to revisit my silversmithing skills. The class was from 9 to 5, leaving Rich alone at home. He was able to defuse and reacclimate...his way in the home alone. He red the paper, went to Frys, found a tech problem to dechiper and I happily fracked up some silver to the point, after 8 hours the instructor took my piece from me and said, ya know, you've worked on this soooooo long and its totallly broken (again) but let me fix it and I'll get it back to you later. thus no pictures. but we went to the vet with the furry fam yesterday and the synopsis on Tig is she's fine now and we'll just keeping on. And thats life! Keep making the decisions to live and love life until you just can't do it any more. Love you all! K

Vacation 101

What makes a great vacation? Good food , friends, beautiful weather unbelievable location. Well I have been blessed by all those things and more. Slept in till 9 and love it. Yesterday I took a bike ride through the Nicene Marks Park with Chris and did a bit of geocaching. After a few false starts we finally found one that looked like a drain cleanout near a rest stop. But since there was no plumbing at that location it had to be a cache. All for all I think we went 3 for 5, not bad in satellite confounding deep woods. Thanks again for the hospitality and the delish turkey sandwich, Chris.

Then off to the beach and a swim in tha pacific,,,yumm salty goodness. Embarrassed myself on the drumming game in the arcsde..

Then a bike ride to Pacific ave for sushi at Shogun,,, very good but a tad stiff..come on guys laugh a little.

All in all a great day.

Writing this at the Beach St Cafe while eating eggs benedict...What makes a great vacation.....MAGIC.

VACATION!!!!

Outa Sac................
Santa Cruz for a few days..
Thanks to Brian and Chris for the hospitality...
Go Celtics

The day started with a 5am wake up call. Tiger was doing well enough that we kept our plans to kayak Tomales bay with our Baja friends.

Vicki and Richard were willing to risk it, whether we were going to make it today or not. They had 3 friends coming too! We drove down early to meet them at 9am. We crossed the bay, explored the coves and layed out in the sun, once it broke through the fog. The most fun about being with Vicki and Richard is the banter, all with Richard's dry British humor. We shared stories of our Baja kayak trip that Richard's friend have never heard them. He countered with Monkey stories, they can be quite mean, flinging poo and the red butts...did you know that monkey muscle is twice as strong as human muscle?

The kayak is always fun going out but the trip back, what with the wind and all was a bit painful. Little whitecaps and FHW. We got back only to appreciate the amazing trip that we survived.

Then off to Nick's Cove, Clams, squid and french fries...yummy. We enjoyed more stories, banter and talking shi T.

Either way fun to be had and I got some ocean time. I love rockin in the boat...I feel more comfortable on the water than on land. So even though we were taking the sweep position with Eve...all it meant was more time in the ocean. Tiger is here next to us, smiling and eating ice cubes...so the day was a success. ps. who's toes are th, with polish on???? Richard????ppss.video to follow with our Mentos and diet coke experiment. KM

Tig's still with us, happy to report

Her seisure is probably a sign of her future but she's doing better. We are just thrilled to spend every minute with her. We opted to proceed with Rich's birthday plans tonight: Sushi Masters. Its a sushi competition and tasting. We met up at home, all excited, dressed for a night on the town only to be delighted by sneeking into the VIP tasting...free beer but even there the sushi sampling was below average. The major catch of the day was freakin bag of rice, oh did I say this function was sponsored by the California Rice board??? The Taiko drumming was kinda cool but for 65 bucks a ticket, dry sushi, total disorganization and poor execution...our night to celiebrate Rich's birthday was bust. You know its bad when the crowd is "with you" making fun of how bad it is. Rich picked up a few tips but thats it. If anyone wants to see a master, freakin see Rich...and his results are delectible! Oh well, another instance of ... at least we can say we tried!!! Read "burning man" hello!

Pet of my heart!

We caught up with friends at Taro's last night to celiebrate Rich's upcoming birthday! It was great, sushi and Anna, Rachael, Tavo, Menki, Daniel and JOHNNY. Rich even was able to do the Birthday game (early) and won a Taro's hat. But all the attempts to remind myself of that fun are dashed after this morning.

Tiger Lily, the pet of my heart...had a seizure or a stroke this morning. Rich saw her go down and went to her because we knew immediately something was much more serious. I hadn't posted that she was diagnosed with cancer recently cuz I'm was in denial. The tumor changes in size and I just wanted, so hard, to believe...it wasn't "that" serious. Coincidently we had a vet appt. at 10am and at 9:40...blubbering I called and told them where we were at...she couldn't walk, shaking and drooling and they said it was time to make some hard decisions. Did I want her to pass at home or at the clinic...and I said we'll just stay home...more like bubbled it out between tears. She seemed to get a little better through the day, we canceled all plans and have laid on the floor with her and all the pets all days. She definetly has more control over her facilities but enevitibility of her situation is with us every minute. She is getting every treat she desires. I have never loved any being the way I love Tiger, I know if I met her as a human we would be dear friends...its just chemical...we are a Match. I will enjoy every minute I have remaining with her. Her body is just giving out, but her sparkle in her eyes and devilish grin remains....her legs may not work...but her nose and tummy still are ticking right along...hugs K