Moving up the Ranks

Ah, yes... another weekend has passed by and here I sit. Close to 7pm and relaxed, reflective and just plain mindful.  Do you ever have that sensation that something is going to happen? Like there is something Great on the cusp of tomorrow or even the next day? Perhaps what im feeling is a sense of release and more importantly, relief.  There is a sense of uncertainity, fear and calm that travel up and down my body at a constant rate; sort of like electrical currents. Sometiems my toes curl like the best orgasm ever and other times, the tears roll down my cheeks and the feeling overwhelms me. I sound manic. This happened today as I watched the movie, 'WE ARE FINE'. I think that was the name. With Robert DeNiro as the dad and Drew Barrymore etc. It made me miss my dad. Sometimes you have to breathe and cleanse and it comes from nowhere and everwhere in a moment's notice. There i was: eating my spicy panang curry and it was just streaming like a river; like it was yesterday. 

I spent the weekend on Bainbridge.  One of my dearest friends Vanessa lives there adn I definitely dont get over there enough.  She has decided to do the Tri with me in Sept so she asked me to go with her and try her local lap pool...help her with her stroke and just get started. Of course, I said yes and Zen and I headed over on the 930am Ferry Saturday morning. I have to tell you that I love taking ferries. Driving my car on and just being on the water. water is my solace and everytime im around/in/on it.. I find a calm washes over me. Even on a ferry.  What was funny was that I got on the early ferry but was planning on the 1030am one. I thought it would be a bit early to hit Vanessa's so when I landed at 10am on the island I told her I was on the 1030 ferry anyhow. It gave me sometime to drive around and explore. Zen was very excited .. she gets this way when she knows we are going on a new adventure.  I was able to drive around for about 25 minutes dreaming of living on that island in one of the romantic big houses or small cottages on an acre...with gorgeous gardens and lawn for miles... sometimes I feel a bit robbed of things. Like that is my calling. To live someplace quaint and have a garden and a vegetable garden a few dogs and 2 lil' ones running around... I actually got sort of sad... and envious of those that have all that. its just me and my dog...driving.... dreaming.... wanting....

She was really anxious to get out of the car and I still had 30 min to go so I decided to go up to the high school down the street from Van's house and let her run on the lawn. Um. BIG FAT MISTAKE!! There was another black lab w/ a man and his two sons. he was from the bay as well and really ruggedly handsome...his sons were so cute and we were chatting as our dogs played... He was kinda my type.. a family man... friendly and down to earth.... I wasnt paying much attention to Zen or his pup until he burst into laughter and I turned around to see what he was laughing at. I should of known. ZEN.

I sometimes think I have MARLEY when it comes to my yellow lab.  She had found an OLD DEEP mud puddle and was proceeding to roll around like a pig and cover her entire body in smelly detrious MUD. her face and everything was BLACK. I had tears rolling down my face as did the guy i was talking to. His dog hadnt committed to the puddle was eventually he DID take a 'dip' and did the same thing!!

I was slightly freaked out because i had to goto vanessa's house. I had NO hose....no way to wash her dead smelling body off. The guy felt so bad for me and offered to take her to his house but he was late getting his kids to soccer practice... I thanked him for his concern and tried to dry off as much of the mud as I could. I even emptied every water bottle I had on her. now the smell was something else ENTIRELY.  um. it smelled like rotting human flesh. Dead animals, rotting food and shit. I was trying not to vomit while I toweled her off and I didnt know what the hell to do... So, iloaded her into the back seat and decided to drive to the gas station...I had to pee so bad and i figured they probably had water there. I had no way to get down to the sound to let her go swimming so this was my only option. 

I pulled into the Chevron and it was a blessing from God.  They were having a church car wash. I walked over and asked instead of my car if they would wash my dog for $5 bucks. they totally laughed and I brought her black, smelly self over to the kids...one scrubbed her with the lamb's wool mit while the other sprayed her. They were laughing and having so much fun...I was personally mortified I had sunk to this level. My life is a novel at times!

People that were getting gas were laughing hysterically at this sight. I was slpattered with mud droplets from Zen shaking on me, soaked from the hose and I smelled from the stench; as did my car. I couldnt ride in the car without all the windows down. I kept gagging. Of course, Zen loved it! She was happier than a pig in Shit....Literally! 

We got to vanessa's house and I called her on her cell and told her we had a bit of a 'problem'. By the time the carwash was over she was pretty much back to yellow but th stench was rancid still. V said we should take her over to her dad's house on the beach and let her swim in te salt water... that was teh plan. We loaded zen back into the car and off we went. She played fetch for about an hour and then we gave her a bath with Frutise shampoo on Vanessa's dads front lawn...this gorgeious cape cod style home...suds over taking the lawn, an obnxious lab and 2 soaked gurls trying to wash the dog...a scene to be sure!

we got her pretty clean and headed back to V's for drinks. God knows we needed them.  We had a drink and then headed to the pool... she got into the water and we worked on her stroke and comfort level in the pool ... then, headed back for more drinks. We were a bit bored so we decided to head out to the casino. We had another drink there, I played some GREAT WALL game and won $11 bucks!! or, rather...came out 11 bucks ahead... we headed back after about an hour, bbq'd a great salmon, ate and watched a movie. Like a bunch of old people, we hit the bed at 930pm...saturnday nite. LOL...

I left Sunday morning around 930 to get home and proceeded to fall into a coma for 4 hours. Ordered in some Thai and watched the movie.... and now, here I sit.

DC is planning on flying into Reno in July for our yearly family weekend. he's never been to Nevada. This outta be interesting! Its so wierd because I dont know if we are officially dating? still 'friends'? I have no idea. Of course, we havent slept together so I really dont consider us anything BUT friends at this moment.  We kissed and whatever but hell, ive kissed guys on dates and never seen them again!


its time to do some laundry... wash away the weekend and curl up and check out some tv...

oh yea. TOMORROW?? Swimming is BACK ON! COACH, here I come! er, Cum...