Visiting friends is always fun, visiting friends on their birthdays is always a blast, but when one has a young, newly neutered dog along for the ride, well we’ll just say there will always be a few surprises. Him deciding that the carpet in her hallway looked like a toilet when he became too excited, well, that was the worst of it. Still, we had fun after we’d taken him out for a quick walk.
Somehow it’s almost scary to think that I have friends who I’ve known for nearly seven years and we’re as close now as we were when we met. Today was just one of those days when I realised, however, that we’ve changed a lot, both in our way of thinking and our way of handling things, both positive and negative. I realised that the Birthday Girl had grown up a great deal more during the past few years than I myself have. Where she has progressed I’ve regressed. Still, admitting it is the first step in taking charge of it, right?

In other news, I’ll finally be able to play piano again! A few years ago I gave away my Baby Grand because I didn’t really bother playing it. As the days turned into months, months into years, however, it dawned on me that I really did miss it and oddly enough, my prayers were answered just a couple of days ago when an acquaintance of mine decided that she was getting rid of hers and said that “If you can take it out of here, you can have it”, so of course I said I’d take it.
Now comes the real problem, though… finding strong arms to help me.