I don't know if it's just me, or it's a general outage, but I can't access Live Messenger with either of my accounts. I can access Hotmail just fine, though.

Not that it matters, though. I got well wishes through forum threads and emails. People usually just message me to ask for favors (not really. There are a couple of persons who talk to me on a regular basis, though one of them just types away and it's hard for me to get a word through), and the one person who made a real impact in my life and with whom I used to talk in a daily basis decided to lock herself in self-pity, refused to talk first and everything I said would only get one word answers.

I've been waiting since September and will probably keep waiting.

Yesterday was Blackie's day, the day yours truly was born in the hour of the Dragon, in the month of the Rabbit, in a Year of the Rabbit. Which may or may not have influenced my liking of rabbits in general. I share birthdays (in month and day, not year) with Doris Day, Marlon Brando, King Henry IV and Eddie Murphy.

I've seen several historical and personal events that literally were the end of the world as I knew it. I've had my ups and downs, and lived through them with support others and my own realization. I somehow avoided the trappings of my generation, perhaps caused by my gender-role free childhood (outside influences made my father attempt to impose those on me when I was a teenager. It didn't work). I refuse to act my age. I went through a short lived cutting phase. Mended relationships with my parents. Survived depression and self-boycott. Literally woke up one day saying "Blackie... what the hell are you doing to yourself?". I wanted to be a firewoman, a paleontologist, a veterinary doctor, an astronaut, an archeologist, a soldier. I've been in more than one way an artist, a singer, a soldier, a friend, a lover. I've seen life and death. I'm an introvert and proud of it.

If success is determined by everything experienced in life, I would say that with the good and bad I'm pretty successful.

Didn't bother me at all that yesterday I had a frigging cold. Though I complained about it most of the day, I did enjoy the day. I asked that my March overtime be given to me yesterday, so I left work two hours earlier, which I used to run some errands before returning to wait for my mom.

Have I mentioned that my mom is working again? In the same account as I. Heck, we're even in the same team! How cool is that?

In any case, yesterday was nice. We had dinner at El Zocalo. Though a chocolate death seems imminent:

The chocolate bunny was from Marie, the tablet from my brother, and the bunny shaped box full of chocolates was from my mom. And yes, that's Paul's body.

I wanted to use t-shirt transfer paper to outline Paul's face on the felt, but the blasted thing is so expensive... at least in the store I checked today. Maybe I should check Office Depot...

Tomorrow I have lunch with my dad. Hopefully it will be a simple reunion.

In the meantime, there's a fly that's annoying me and Arashi. I haven't killed it because the bedroom lizard has been trying to hunt it the whole afternoon. Stupid fly doesn't stay put long enough to be eaten. Actually, that would make it a smart fly.

And I was finally able to photograph Arashi's dead bunny flop!

 The ultimate sign of a relaxed bunny.

I admit that the first time I saw him doing it, he scared the hell out of me. I though he had suddenly died. I had rabbits before, when I was a child, but back then we never thought pet rabbits could be house-trained, so they lived a large pen in the garden. So I had never seen the dead bunny flop before Arashi did it.

He's such a happy bunny. He's... what? 8-years-old? I think he was just a couple of months old when Saito gave him to me. So tiny I could hold him in a cupped hand. According to the House Rabbit Society, house rabbits live between 8 to 12 years. He doesn't seem like the Lapine equivalent of a venerable old man when he starts doing the bunny love dance when he sees me with a potencial treat in hand.

My head's starting to hurt again. Stupid cold....

Feeling: ill

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