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Lost Toby?

Oh my god.
We just had the worst scare we’ve ever had together.
We were sitting here watching TV and all of the sudden we realized we hadn’t seen Toby in a while… We looked all over the apartment and couldn’t find him — I swear, we looked everywhere, even in places we knew he couldn’t fit in. Sean had gone out to check the mail a little earlier, so we thought maybe he had gotten into the hallway. I went all the way up to the fire escape door on the roof, but still couldn’t find him. So Sean went outside, and I searched the basement of the building (which connects our line to five other lines/buildings). Still no Toby.
We came back to the apartment, by this time I was sobbing and Sean was ready to cry as well. We started turning the entire kitchen and living room upside down, and still couldn’t find him.
Then, I turned around, and there he was, standing in the hallway, in our apartment, looking at me like I was crazy.
I hugged that cat longer than I’ve ever hugged him before.

I still can’t catch my breath.
He’s just sitting in the chair cleaning himself where I cried on him.

Back in NY

Well, we’re back in New York. We got back at 4:45a, and were home by 6:45a or so (had to wait for bags, etc.).
The kitties are the happiest to be back. They’ve been running around like crazy and sniffing everything, cuddling up in the big chair and laying on the windowsills.
Sean and I fell asleep at 11a or so and slept until 8p… which is not good, because we have to be up early tomorrow morning for registration. Oh well, we’ll be fine. We’ll probably be up all night, but… oh well.

I’m in paaaaaain… My shoulders and upper back have been hurting all night, since I woke up… I think it’s from crashing into waves with Miana on the beach yesterday. It also gave me a bit of a sunburn on my nose and cheeks.
Also, recently, my knee has been acting up… I’ll sit with it bent for a little while, and then when I go to move it I’ll have an intense pain underneath my kneecap… It’s almost like it’s grinding or something, or like the muscle is way too tight. I’m going to make an appointment with Health Services for sometime in the next couple of weeks — I need to make one anyway for my pills — to see if they can figure out what’s going on with my knee. I haven’t done anything to injure it or anything, but it’s been acting up for the last week or so. Hopefully it’s nothing too serious/chronic.

I’m still not entirely looking forward to getting back to school, but I definitely don’t have any other choice… I suppose the good thing is that I won’t be too horribly busy this first week. Just registration and interviews for classes, which shouldn’t be too bad. I have a couple of meetings and things to do as well… an informational meeting for WSLC, a concert hosted by WSLC… and Emily said I can come and work in Academic Computing as well, if I want, so I might go in there and get some easy hours in. All I’ll be doing is answering phones and helping people get their computer stuff back in working order, no big deal.

So… it seems that so far being back in New York hasn’t been quite as bad as I expected… I got off to a shaky start at first, but that was mostly because I was cranky and tired.

We’ll see how it goes, I suppose.

In Lianhua-related news, I’m going to be working on a new layout in the next few days/weeks, as well as a membership feature (as seen on HerMama.com). The membership feature will allow me to assign/give out logins for private entries… and the first few people to get one will be the people on my Email Notification list… so if you want to save yourself the trouble, sign up!

Last Hours in LA

Technically, I’m WE’RE supposed to be packing right now… Sean’s mom asked him to take a look at her computer, though, like three hours ago, and its given him nothing but hell since then… And I don’t want to pack alone, so I’ve been sitting/napping in the office and listening to/watching him try to figure out what’s going on and how to fix it.

We leave for New York tomorrow evening… I’m really not looking forward to it, and definitely not happy about it. I don’t want to get back in to the swing of things at all. I just want to stay right here in Los Angeles, blissfully unaware of and unconcerned with anything happening on that side of the country at all.
But that’s apparently not how life works.

Yesterday Sean’s mom and Miana got back from China… I missed them, especially playing with Miana. This house is way too big and too quiet without her running around in it.

I don’t really have anything to write about. I’m kind of in a funk, for obvious reasons.

Tomorrow we’re going to breakfast with Kelly and Sarah, then going to the beach with Sean’s mom and Miana, then taking the car back to Sean’s stepmom… and then leaving.