Almost legal!!!

Just wanted to write and say wooohooooooo!!! My social security card came through today!!! YAYYY!!!! That means I can do all the fun stuff like get insurance, a license, a yankee credit card, work, etc. My work authorisation card had already come through while I was in Oz, but couldn't be used until the social security had been processed. And now it has, happy happy joy joy!!!

Jimmy and I bought a china cabinet the other day. We'd been searching for weeks for just the right thing, hoping to slip it in between two of the doors leading out to our balcony, but those dimentions really limited our choice of what was out there. So we decided instead to put it behind our dining room table against the back wall, where there's more space, it just means the the table has to come forward and it hides our funky blue wall with the wicked Getty Museum poster. Oh well. The cabinet came today and is now set up on that wall and looks fab!!

As some of you know, Jimmy and I are now the proud parents of a couple of birds. We originally had Aussie, a cute little female cockatiel that we got together in February. Aussie was learning to be friendly and whistle and talk, and we decided to get her a companion. We bought a little male cockatiel, and thought he seemed more of a larrakin so named him Aussie and changed the original Aussie's name to Harriet. All was good until last week, when we came home one night after going out for dinner. We walked into the house and saw feathers all over the floor, everywhere, and bits of blood here and there. Soooo sad. We still have no idea what happened, but somehow our little Harriet, formerly known as Aussie, met Jimmy's dog, Roxy.... :'( We don't know if Harriet got out or if Roxy got in, but amidst all the feathers we found her little body lying next to the coffee table. Aussie was okay, he was still in his cage, in shock, missing a few feathers and bleeding a little, but he has healed up quite well. We've never had any trouble with our birds and cats before, but I guess dogs might be different. RIP little Harriet.

To leave on a happier note, we've been invited to Phyllis Diller's 90th birthday party next month on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Oooh la la! Should be fun, if we can go!