October 3, 2008

• It’s nice to know

  

  This has been a bittersweet week.  In some ways, it has been the best
  week I have had in a very long time and it was wonderful.  But, it also
  reminded me of the life I was sure I was going to live.

  

  After years in court, millions of dollars spent on legal fees and PR
  firms, several restraining orders, a statewide ballot initiative,
  Lulu, my little Googie dog, was given to me on a custody week.  It was
  my first time to have her by myself, and it was fun.  She really helped
  me at work.  Here she is helping to repair a medium-pressure hydraulic
  mast-return line hose leak.  I could not believe the noises she made as she saw me for the first time in several months.  It almost sounded like she was in pain, it had been so long since we had seen each other.

  And now, the many sides of Lulu:

  
  

  Sleepy Googie

  
  

  Anticipatory Googie

  

  Hard-at-work Googie (helping Kevin)

  

  I love A/C Googie

  

  Googie cooling down

  

  Googie warming up

  

  Playful Googie (with Greg a.k.a. No Show a.k.a. Ray Ray)

  
  

  Baked Googie

  

  Googie: The fierce predator (of jerky)

  

  Satisfied Googie (for about 3 seconds)

  

  And last but not least, the why-the-hell-are-we-up-this-late Googie.  Lulu is used to her 8 hours of beauty sleep, and she got little of that with me.

  

  All in all, I loved it, though now she is back in Cedar City, and I am sad.  I had not been able to really love anything in so long until I had her again… it was good and strange for me.  On our last night, she had another seizure.  She gets these now and again, and she will be taken to a vet soon.  As I held her, trying to comfort her in the middle of the night, I really felt needed.  There are times when all of us need to be hugged or protected, and I was glad I could do that for her then, just as others had done for me in the past.  If that’s not love, what is?

  Hopefully, I will get to see her sooner than later.

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