Life
I know I've been MIA for almost a year now... Livejournal was the place that I came to moon over Prison Break, which changed gradually. Even as it all ended I had slipped into full on lurk-dom. Then life just got crazy.
Over the summer we traveled to Spain (to see my husband's family) which was heavenly. I finally got to visit Seville, Cordoba, Rhonda, and went back to Madrid, which is by far my favorite City in Spain. We also spent time on the Costa del Sol with family, and in Zaragoza, where my sister-in-law and her husband and our nephew live... Good times with the Sangria and the Paella, let me tell you...
After coming back to the states my husband went back to work and I went to spend some time with my family in California - only a week - so I didn't even have time to see any of my friends :(
In July I celebrated my 34th birthday, while at the same time my husband had a monumental freak-out about married life. Lovely. Truth be told, we are performing artists, so drama is what we do, but still, it was a little over the top. The good thing is that we went to marital counseling which was actually a really positive experience for both of us. After 11 years together (7 years of marriage), he is family to me. I cannot say enough good things about going for counseling when the going gets tough. Actually we are still going, just not as much.
Just when I thought all the drama was settling down, we found out that our long time friends and mutual co-workers were being deported. What a mess. They are South African and Armenian, married, with a house and a child, and jobs that they have been successful in for 16 years (combined)... Her green card was denied, and the INS gave them about a month to get out of the country... It was awful. While all this was happening, the wife, who was easily my closest friend in Tulsa just stopped speaking to me - for reasons unknown - then didn't invite us to their child's first birthday which was celebrated in the midst of all the chaos. I had been the one to give her a baby shower, so it was all kind of unspeakably awful. The whole thing broke my heart. I tried everything to reach her, but she just wouldn't engage with me. To this day, months after they were forced to leave, I still don't know what I did wrong. It was an impossible situation, knowing they were going through hell, and trying simultaneously to navigate the mine-field of a touchy disintegrating friendship...
What else? In August we went with the ballet company on tour to NYC, and performed for a week at the Joyce theater. It was the third time in my performing career to perform in the city. It was exhausting but fun :) I was mentioned in the a nice review in Dance Magazine, and photographed the 'Style' section of the New York Times :))
Two weeks ago, after what I thought would be a routine visit to the veterinarian, we found out our beautiful 16-yr-old boy kitty, Douglas has Cancer :( I spent nearly a week moping about it, then took him to the Veterinary Oncologist, who said he maybe only has weeks left but that surgery might be his only real option. The whole thing just really threw me, I felt so beat down by life in general, by the passage of time... You know how that hits so hard sometimes. In the end, I found myself reaching for that place in the sun, for the sort of selfless humanity that I know he needs right now. We decided on a non-invasive steroidal treatment, which is not great for his organs in the long run, but might offer his only comfort in the short term. He's doing so well so far, and just started on a herbal supplement that is supposed to work miracles for cats with cancer. I'm crossing my fingers and hoping for the best. He keeps surprising me every day with his energy and joy for life. So far he just seems to be flourishing within a cloud of grace...
And then there is New Moon. I'll leave that post for another day :)
Over the summer we traveled to Spain (to see my husband's family) which was heavenly. I finally got to visit Seville, Cordoba, Rhonda, and went back to Madrid, which is by far my favorite City in Spain. We also spent time on the Costa del Sol with family, and in Zaragoza, where my sister-in-law and her husband and our nephew live... Good times with the Sangria and the Paella, let me tell you...
After coming back to the states my husband went back to work and I went to spend some time with my family in California - only a week - so I didn't even have time to see any of my friends :(
In July I celebrated my 34th birthday, while at the same time my husband had a monumental freak-out about married life. Lovely. Truth be told, we are performing artists, so drama is what we do, but still, it was a little over the top. The good thing is that we went to marital counseling which was actually a really positive experience for both of us. After 11 years together (7 years of marriage), he is family to me. I cannot say enough good things about going for counseling when the going gets tough. Actually we are still going, just not as much.
Just when I thought all the drama was settling down, we found out that our long time friends and mutual co-workers were being deported. What a mess. They are South African and Armenian, married, with a house and a child, and jobs that they have been successful in for 16 years (combined)... Her green card was denied, and the INS gave them about a month to get out of the country... It was awful. While all this was happening, the wife, who was easily my closest friend in Tulsa just stopped speaking to me - for reasons unknown - then didn't invite us to their child's first birthday which was celebrated in the midst of all the chaos. I had been the one to give her a baby shower, so it was all kind of unspeakably awful. The whole thing broke my heart. I tried everything to reach her, but she just wouldn't engage with me. To this day, months after they were forced to leave, I still don't know what I did wrong. It was an impossible situation, knowing they were going through hell, and trying simultaneously to navigate the mine-field of a touchy disintegrating friendship...
What else? In August we went with the ballet company on tour to NYC, and performed for a week at the Joyce theater. It was the third time in my performing career to perform in the city. It was exhausting but fun :) I was mentioned in the a nice review in Dance Magazine, and photographed the 'Style' section of the New York Times :))
Two weeks ago, after what I thought would be a routine visit to the veterinarian, we found out our beautiful 16-yr-old boy kitty, Douglas has Cancer :( I spent nearly a week moping about it, then took him to the Veterinary Oncologist, who said he maybe only has weeks left but that surgery might be his only real option. The whole thing just really threw me, I felt so beat down by life in general, by the passage of time... You know how that hits so hard sometimes. In the end, I found myself reaching for that place in the sun, for the sort of selfless humanity that I know he needs right now. We decided on a non-invasive steroidal treatment, which is not great for his organs in the long run, but might offer his only comfort in the short term. He's doing so well so far, and just started on a herbal supplement that is supposed to work miracles for cats with cancer. I'm crossing my fingers and hoping for the best. He keeps surprising me every day with his energy and joy for life. So far he just seems to be flourishing within a cloud of grace...
And then there is New Moon. I'll leave that post for another day :)