This journal has now been converted to friends only. No reason in particular, other than keeping up with the times, and I may still make public entries from time to time, but I'm putting the past into the archives now. Frankly, I barely post to this thing anymore anyway, and, odds are, if you know me, you're most likely already following me on twitter or something like that where I'm more active these days anyway. (And if you're not, then it's quentincoyote there as well.)

In any case, all of that being said, if you would like to add me here to get to know me, that's cool, just leave a comment here and I will add you. But, it's time to close the doors to the general public a little bit.

Is there anyone still here? Just wondering.

As I've mentioned previously, we will be having a Thanksgiving potluck meet here at our place. The meet will be on Saturday Nov. 19th, starting around noon, until whenever, and we will have crash space for the weekend.

At this point though, I really need a more firm headcount of how many will be coming, so that we have an idea how big a turkey we need to get. (Once again, we'll be providing a turkey with the usual trimmings, but we ask that in the potluck style, everyone please bring at least one thing to share.)

Please note that, while we've got a decent amount of room here, we don't have an infinite amount of space, so if the guest list gets too large, I'll have to start cutting it off. That being the case, the sooner you let me know that you're coming the better, please. :)

At the moment so far, we have:

Myself
Fal
Dexn
Raffadax
Wolfgang
Crimson Wolf
MattFox
Max
Ersis
Bandit
Leash
Tweak
Cody Fox
Syler Husky
Danzer
Turrent
Solusar
Foxwell
Nighteyes
Geistfox
Kojack Coyote

Any updates or corrections, please let me know, and please let me know what you will be bringing for potluck!

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So today (on Mother's Day, of all days, lol), I went into the city to meet with my mother, and try to convince her to meet Rex again.

You may remember some weeks ago, our exchanges about that, and some have wondered about it's progress. Well, there had been no news reported, because there had been none to report, until now.

So, after weeks of running through any number of possilbe scenarios in my mind of how this might go, Rex and I headed on into the city to do the deed. We had made plans beforehand that Rex would wait somewhere a short distance away while my mother and I talked, and while neither of us expected it to really happen, this way we could provide the possiblity that, if things somehow went best case scenario, I might be able to call him up and have him join us, and get this done at last.

Well so anyway, Rex went away, I went to go wait for my mother, and once she arrived, we walked on over to Carl Schutz park along the East River to have our talk. We exchnaged pleasantries for awhile, and caught each other up on our various other goings on, until finally we go down to brass tacks.

Which proceeded as follows:

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( So, this is the letter that I just sent to both of my parents... )

As in like, I sent it, it's sent. No taking it back now.

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I'M FREAKING OUT I'M FREAKING OUT I'M FREAKING OUT I'M FREAKING OUT I'M FREAKING OUT I'M FREAKING OUT I'M FREAKING OUT I'M FREAKING OUT I'M FREAKING OUT I'M FREAKING OUT I'M FREAKING OUT I'M FREAKING OUT I'M FREAKING OUT I'M FREAKING OUT I'M FREAKING OUT I'M FREAKING OUT I'M FREAKING OUT I'M FREAKING OUT I'M FREAKING OUT I'M FREAKING OUT I'M FREAKING OUT I'M FREAKING OUT I'M FREAKING OUT I'M FREAKING OUT I'M FREAKING OUT!!! :-P

Thank you so much to everyone who wished me a happy birthday the other day, I hope everyone is doing well. *hugs all*

And it was a good birthday, indeed! Among other things, Rex actually baked me a for real birthday cake all by himself. Like, with actual home made cake batter, baking, frosting it himself, the whole nine yards! I know I say this a lot lately, but I really am the luckiest coyote in the whole world. :)

So yeah, the weekend was good. And today, I went to go see Coraline with JimmyWolf, JD Puppy, and tabernak, a recent NYC furry transplant from Florida. Despite his questionable past associations, we deem him acceptable to be admitted into the local furry fold. ^.^ Nah, he was a cool guy, and we all had a fun time, I think. He's looking to meet new people in the area, so if you feel so inclined, I'm sure he would like it if any locals said hi, and I'm sure we'll see him at future furmeets from now on.

As for Coraline itself, though... WOW, that was totally amazing! Like, I figured it would be good, but I really wasn't expecting it to be THAT good! Wonderful! Exceptional! I really do think I want to see this one again at least once more before it leaves the theater, and I highly recommend - if you haven't seen it yet, go do so with all speed!

Anyway, that's about it for now. It's late, and I got to get me to bed. I know that there are a lot of folks out there still hurting from recent events. I hope you're all well out there, wherever you are, and I hope to see a lot of you again soon at FWA.

TTFN,
Q.

So, in addition to Thanksgiving, this past weekend was also Rex's 18th birthday. Well so of course, we had to do something extra special, and for the longest time, he had wanted to drive up to Montreal, Quebec for it.

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Oh yes, and P.S. With a hat tip to Snowie and Steph, Dire, Diana, Woody and a few others... SAFE! ;)

So I have had a totally awesome weekend! ^.^ As advertised, Rex and I did indeed go to Bear Mountain, and in fact climbed all the way to the top. Go us! :) I gotta say, I was a little bit daunted at first. We were walking along this paved road, which we thought led to the start of the for real trail you were supposed to use, and it started curving back around *away* from the mountain, and we didn't see any trail at all. So, we basically made a decision to just start climbing up wherever we could, and see how far we could go. It was very steep, and there were a lot of slippery rock faces, but, with just a few breaks here and there, we somehow managed to find the 'missing' trail, maybe about half way up the mountain. By that time, we were like, well if we could make it as far as we did, the way we did, we can surely make it up the rest of the way with the markers!

The mountain's 1300 feet to the top, and all in all, it took us about 2 and a half hours, to make it. At one point, we passed this group of highschoolers coming back down the other way. We asked them if they'd made it to the top, and they said they'd probably gotten like 15 minutes away from it, but then just had to turn back... which means, in restrospect, that we beat them - hah! :) Go team furry! ^.^

Anyway, we finally made it all the way, and then decided to try coming back down a different trail, which was supposed to end up back at the same base camp. Somewhere along the way, that intersected another paved road which also spiraled up the mountain, and somehow there, we lost the markers again, so we just followed the road back down, but that made us have to walk like aaaaaaaaaaalll the way around the thing! :-P We made it back before sundown though. Very tired, but totally fun and awesome! Also very beautiful, too. As promised, I did take lots of pictures.

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Afterwards, we drove back into town, and discovered a totally awesome little mom n' pop barbecue place, for a meal well earned. Definitely a really great day with my husky. :) I think we may just have to come back and do it again in the spring, when everything's blooming again.

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We also saw Madagascar 2, and totally loved it. They way they did it, it really kind of requires that you've seen the first one, cause so many of the jokes require knowledge of things that they set up in the first. But, that aside, I'd say over all it was even better than the first one. Totally hilarious, the whole theater was in stitches the entire time. A definite must see!

And, that's about it. We basically spent the rest of the weekend just lounging around, (though, I'd say we earned that, after our Friday mountain climbing adventure!) Oh yeah, Rex got me flowers again though. For no reason, just because he could. I have the best boyfriend in the whole world. :)