We interrupt this broadcast of 30 Days of Drabble...

to bring you an update over the past year.

First of all, in case you haven't heard, today the Minnesota Senate approved same-sex marriage! And our governor as flat-out said he's signing it as soon as it hits his desk! So my gay, lesbian and bisexual friends are now able to have their partners be a part of their lives in the way they deserve to! (The reason I chose not to include trans people in that is because most of the folks I know still fall somewhere in the M-F binary, and so they would be considered GLB. Being trans is not a sexuality, so I'm not sure why it's still grouped as if it is. Ah, well.)

And now, to update the historical record.

Last you guys heard, I was taking care of Foxy over the summer. That ended rather well, with her keeping busy with work that helped her perform better in school this year. She got an award for getting a  high score (I believe it was 95%) on her math and reading work. CONvergence and Dragon Con were wonderful. I got to see some wonderful authors at both (Lyda Morehouse is a local author who played with Foxy at CON, and Sherrilyn Kenyon and Alethea Kontis are regulars at Dragon Con, and they, too, got to meet the awesome force of nature that is Foxy.)

After D*Con, I got a paying job as a personal care assistant (PCA). For those who don't know, it's basically a non-medical home health aide position. I was taking care of one of my friends who is disabled, and the more time I spent doing it, the better I felt about the job as a whole. However, my friend got into a bad situation near Halloween and had to move outside of a reasonable drive for me (she moved to a place 30-45 minutes away, one way), and I was, for all intents and purposes, unemployed. I wasn't fired, but without a client, I wasn't getting any hours, so I wasn't making any money. And the service I was working under didn't seem very organized. They didn't keep a list of clients handy, getting a call back on things was hard. Heck, even one of my paychecks bounced.

Also, while all this is going on, I'm seeing a therapist. One of my dear friends, Jaya, helped me find a local place that worked on a very good sliding scale, to the point where, while I was out of work, they just wrote off my sessions. About this time, I was kind of falling into an emotional rut. I wouldn't say I wallowed, but I definitely felt helpless at that point. Then my therapist kind of kicked me in the rear, and I ended up finding a job with another PCA company within 2 weeks. (Usually I don't need a serious butt kicking to get the ball rolling. A light tap on the shoulder tends to suffice.) And with that, I was gainfully employed again.

With the new influx of money, I started trying to get out and socialize, instead of basically being a hermit. One of the very few events I'd been going to was KQT, Kinky Queers and Trans in Minnesota. The mod is this really sweet guy named Caffeina, and they have a wonderful, adorable partner named Shonda. I finally got up the courage to ask them out to hang out one week, and, much to my serious absolute surprise, they agreed. We met up at the Mall of America, where we chatted and were silly, and I decided to do something brave and a) admit I had an interest/crush in both of them, and b) kissed each of them. They seemed to enjoy it, and the rest of the evening went rather splendidly, including the three of us singing in the food court. (Which, for those of you who are poly, the word "monogamy" fits in really well as a replacement for the main words in "Mahna Mahna".) So things with the two of them are started, and suddenly I'm actually practicing polyamory. Wow. What a mind trip. I've been poly in theory for a while.

So that's all going on, and my family (Owner, J, Foxy) are making plans to get 2 cats. Why is this noteworthy? Because that brings the biocat total up to 5. So now we have Echo, River and Kaylee (the sisters) and now Moon and Star (the brothers).

And now, about 2ish weeks ago, I took on a second client at work. Who knows, I may get up to a wage where I can make ends meet on my own?

And now that's the 11:55pm Central Time update. Hopefully I will be posting more drabbles soon, but I wanted to update any lingering readers on what's been going on.