Boston night life...

Dinner out on the town last night with my sister, Kari and her boyfriend Paul! In the Prudential Building on the 52nd floor you'll find dinning that is out of this world! You can see for miles!!! Of course that meant giving up watching the Patriot's play last night but I knew they were going to win!

Kari and Paul are on their way back to Virginia! I think now that Kari has been home and experiencing some of the cold weather, she's excited to get back to her 70 degree town house! So what if she has to suffer through two or three months of 109 degrees!

It's warm here today...almost 40 degrees! Yeah! I'm going to put together the Hoover Floormate that David (landlord) gave me money to purchase!!! I'll wash the kitchen floor upstairs and the hardwood floor in my apartment!

Have a sunny day!

Merry Christmas!

Here is Miss Gabby & I in her new "Tent" House that my parents got her for Christmas. I was held hostage here for a long time. She's got a lot of energy that little girl. She had me in there with all of her other animals. We even ate Christmas brunch inside the new "house". Christmas Eve was priceless. She was asked by my mother if she wanted any scooby snacks (a sweet mix that my sister put together) and Gabby said, "No thank you Nanny, I've had enough sugar for one day". Ha, ha, ha!

I had a wonderful time with my family. My mother managed to put together a quilt. She asked me after Thanksgiving, what I wanted for a "tuck" gift. Leave it to me...I had a tall order. I asked for a quilt to match my red couch. Mind you, there are orders that people have had in for months...this showed up on Christmas morning and it's BEAUTIFUL. The pictured doesn't really do it much justice but it gives you an idea of the beauty! :-)

As always, there is never enough hours in a day to see everyone so Christmas will continue into the new year with the rest of my friends.

So, to all of my friends and family, peace and love!

A Tribute to Yukon... Peace & Love

Hey Tonya,

Tuesday was one of my hardest , sadest days of my life...I had to put Yukon down, it happened overnight. All of sudden he was acting wierd and the next morning Mark went home to check on him and called me at work to tell me that he had gotten worse and wouldn't get up.

I left work, took him immediately to the vets' by strecher. She (Vet) said his gums were white, and that it's usually bleeding... he probably had a tumor that ruptured and possibly bleeding internally. So they did blood work and xrays...the xrays showed gray in t helungs which means fluid of some sort. They withdrew the fluid, if it was clear they could have helped him but it was blood filling his lungs, and there was nothing they could do. So, I spent time with him, then held his face in my hands while they gave him the fatal shot and watched his eyes fade. I told him I would see him on the other side. It tore me up inside but he went peacefully. He was just so exhausted...it was time to let go.

He was my baby since I was 23, he was 14 1/2 years old! I knew this day was coming but he was pretty fine untill 2 nights ago...just quite an unexpected blow...he didn't really ever grow "old".

I was looking through old picts yesterday at home to help. I hold his collar to hear it jingle

I miss him...

Talk to you soon nic

I got this from Nikki a couple weeks ago and everytime I went to post a tribute to Yukon I got really emotional. I know the sadness of losing a pet and it's taken me 8 years to finally get rid of Loki's cat bowls. My sister will get them Christmas morning.... Anyway, Nikki, I wanted to add him and your note to my blog because it is so real.

Peace & Love Yukon!

Fat Boy...

This is Shadow, my grandmother's 25lb orange cat. He's a knock off of Morris the Cat. Today, he decided that he was going to create a spot in the sun on my grandmother's puzzle. He knocked pieces off onto the floor, in the heating vent to create space to lay down. He's a crack! We don't know how much longer he'll be in this world...he recently had a tumor removed that was in between his eyes. The vet thinks it will come back. He's still a terror though so who knows!!! We can only pray for the best. He's definitely the love of my grandmother's life and if anything ever happens to him I think it will be very sad.

Well, it's been nice having some time off...at least to catch up with my blog and to relax. My sister, Kari, is up from VA visiting so I've been spending time with her too!

Anyway...it's time for bed! Goodnight world!

Tis the Season...

So, it's been a while since I've posted! Well, my computer crashed and everything had to be brought to factory specs. I've also been really busy with work and year end. Here are my pathetic Christmas trees! I had to be creative because I didn't really bring many ornaments to Massachussetts with me! One tree...the smallest one was never dismantled so all of my Rudolph pieces are on it! :-)

Here's the group of us, including Nikki (taking the picture) at Susan's famous "Wreath Party". This was a "private" one of sorts because Leslie and I were not going to be able to go to the set date that Susan has during Thanksgiving weekend.

Nikki and I decided to pose as "Olan Mills" Models for Leslie! We had quite a laugh over it!

I also got to spend some much needed time with the twins! They are growing up! I can't believe how the years pass! I had a wonderful weekend and now it's Christmas!!!! Yeah!!!! :-)

Merry Christmas to all of the people in my life! I wish you peace, love and happiness in the New Year! Love to you all!