{"id":484,"date":"2003-08-25T16:12:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-25T16:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/?p=484"},"modified":"2003-08-25T16:12:00","modified_gmt":"2003-08-25T16:12:00","slug":"healing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2003-08\/484-healing","title":{"rendered":"Healing…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m walking around the office in a bit of a daze today (they don’t give Bereavement Leave when someone’s pet dies… Why not?)<\/font> trying to put the pieces of my heart back together. Fortunately, both of my bosses (one for the company I work for, one for the client I service) are away this week, so if I really needed to I could take off.<\/p>\n

My older brother called me a little while ago to say he had an extra ticket to the baseball game tonight… I think it will help me take my mind of things to get completely out of my normal element (rather than sitting around at home or at Chocoholic<\/b><\/font>‘s house).<\/p>\n

I wanted to go home and check on Orson to see how he’s doing all alone, but I guess a few more hours won’t make too much difference, and I’ll spend some time with him before I go to bed. One thought that came to mind was that this is probably the very first time in his life that he has been ALL ALONE. In the past whenever I went away for the weekend, he still had Ridley there to talk to.<\/p>\n

I’m also hoping this period of lonliness will make him bond with me a bit more; he’s been a bit aloof over the past few months as it is. <\/p>\n

Because Ridley was so old (the best guess life expectancy I could find for budgies was 7-8 years), I’d kind of been preparing myself for the inevitable. It didn’t make it any easier to deal with when it finally happened. Such is Life.<\/p>\n

And Life will go on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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