Sweet kitty

My sister's cat brought me a wonderful present the other day; a large Desert Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus magister). it was about 7 inches long, plus another 4 inches of tail. She trotted into the kitchen with it in her mouth, set it at my feet and sat back, looking at me. Such a sweet kitty. I thanked her graciously for the gift, but explained that I'd already had a snack ;-) I then picked up the lil fella who was unharmed, albeit a bit startled, grabbed my camera and took him outside in the sunlight for a quick photo shoot. He got very squirmy as I tried to get a picture of him, but I did manage to capture beautiful blue/green scales on his belly before setting the squirrely bugger down (when the cat wasn't looking). He scurried off into the grass, to continue his lizard life.

Yesterday I saw my therapist for the second time. The session went well, we're still in the getting-to-know-you phase. We laughed, I cried, then we laughed some more. I really do like her...great sense of humor (she gets all my sarcastic jokes). At our first meeting she asked what I hoped to gain from our time together. I made some snarky remark about her waving a magic wand to fix it all. Without missing a beat, she stood up, grabbed a long clear plastic tube filled with liquid, glitter and little stars from her desk and began waving it around. I was laughing so hard. Gotta love it. The session did wear me out though, and I spent most of that afternoon lying in bed to recover.

Also, my friend was able to identify that mystery bug I posted about on May 8, 2009. It is an Iron Cross Blister Beetle. Cool!

Lizard - take two

OK, so much for going to bed early. It's almost 2am here and I'm not able to sleep yet. The pain in my legs and hips is keeping me awake. So, I thought I'd get up, take some ibuprofen and put another shot of that cool lizard in here ;-)

Overwhelmed

Last night I heard some disturbing news about my uncle who passed away 23 years ago. He is now being investigated in connection with an out off state murder and I'm trying to process it. Also having a painful conflict with a good friend of mine and not sure how it's going to turn out. I cried on and off all night and most of the day today. I've tried to stay busy and distract myself between sobs, but it has been hard.

I sat outside in the shade for a while and that helped. Meows and Mojo (cat and dog) were out with me as I sat by the palm tree and watched the soda can pinwheels spin in the breeze. Meows caught a lizard tho and I had to rescue it. The poor fella came out ok except for missing the tip of his tail. I picked him up...he was feisty!... almost jumped right out of my hand. I snapped a pic before letting him go on the other side of the fence while the cat wasn't looking.

All the crying and mixed emotions have worn me out. I feel very weak and drained, and will likely go to bed early.