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Catchup...vacation, a loss, other stuff.

It's been a long month I guess...so much has happened and while some was good...some not so much. First...we have a new addition. The poochlet called "Bunny" is doing well. She's a prissy little diva...likes only 1 type of wet food (apparently it needs to be Cesar Chicken and cheese and if it's from the fridge needs to be warmed)...and is still learning where to pee and poo (though it's not totally her fault...the new neighbors have two monster dogs who beyond barking at night like to bark at my little foo foo poochlet when she's trying to go and she gets anxiety.). Still for all that...she's become 100% my dog. She loves Deb...no doubts...but her choice would always be to hang with me. It's kinda new to me as animals have always seemed to like other people I was living with. Though she's trying (now she's starting to think about chasing the cats...in fact as I write this she just went after Monty and I put her in her cage and she's ...

"No it's ok...I'mma let you finish"...my own uncle "Kanye'ed me...at a funeral.

Oye. Forgive the bluntness of this. I find I can process emotion better writing and to be honest...I need to vent. I was asked by a family member to officiate over a funeral for his mother. I prepared a message...prayed on it...tried to commit as much as I could to memory...and was honored to be asked. The service went ok for the most part...until my time came to speak. I spoke for ten minutes about comfort, mourning and the like. I was about 2 minutes from wrapping up...when a member of my family decides to 'Kanye' me...my uncle comes down the main aisle with a friend of his...calls me boring and then proceeds to 'shuck and jive' for about 10 minutes until my cousin called a stop to it rather humourously. At that point I closed up...and things went as they were going to. We spoke afterward and I told him that I felt that he had disrespected me...and he did apologize. I do forgive him...but man I can't say I'm not hurt today. This uncle and I have had a real lon...