First of all, I want to say I MISS TCS SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm not back regularly - yet. Gary and I are still working evening and weekend jobs to pay the bills while doing our analyst thing (which isn't paying right now). But interviews seem to be going well (knock wood), and one firm that was at the reference-checking stage called to say everything checked out GREAT and we have a call with the President of the firm Monday evening. Our lives might get back to normal again if we get his job offer. We may have to move to Florida (Boca Raton), but I can live with that. Although... we've only been in this house a little over a year, and I will be so sorry to say good-bye to it. But we'd have our life back, and that's what counts. !!!
Second of all, I want to let everyone who followed the Tuxie story know that he is doing GREAT! He's down to a long-acting steroid shot (depomedril - sp?) that he went from getting every two weeks to now every six weeks! He's almost Rudolph-like his nose is so red these days! (Tuxie had severe anemia caused by an unkown autoimmune problem, and it took two years to get under control and docs gave up hope of saving his life twice).
Third, we're still in touch with Naomi, who's still on the move. It's hard to get a straight story out of her, so we have no idea if she's clean or not. She says she is, but we totally doubt it. We don't really know where she is, other than the New York area. She says she's going to head to Mexico, but she's been saying that for a while. She's always welcome home when she's spent some time in rehab, gets her meds straight, and participates in family counseling. But she's not there yet. (We adopted a teenage daughter last year. She had fallen out of the foster care system and was on the streets. She went through detox and some rehab, but was subsequently diagnosed as schitzophrenic, bipolar and manic depressive. She wouldn't take all the meds, and ran away from home this past summer).
Finally - I just want to say I hope everyone is doing great, I know I'll NEVER catch up, so I won't try- but I will try to pop by more often.
TCS Rocks and I miss everyone!
I've got pics I've got to post at some point - Flowerbelle is just as cute as ever, and Ming Loy is SUCH a character! Thank GOD we adopted her - now that Tuxie's been feeling like his old self, she's the only one that puts up with him (he has SO MUCH energy - and he's the only one that puts up with her), and I just thank God every day they've got each other to beat up on and romp around with, lol!
