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The Story continues...

So we went on about last summer, unintentionally getting closer and closer. Well, unintentionally for me. Jason swears up and down that at the beginning, even though he had had a crush on me for ages, that he was still abiding by the whole guy's rule of "you never date the best friend's sister".

At one point he told his good friend Sam that I was the kinda girl that you married, and if he ever did manage to get me to date him he would make sure that it lasted. Sam, of course, told him to dream on.

So he kept coming over to play World of Warcraft. He and Justin managed to get me playing quite a bit last year. We would all play as a group, but Jase would haul his computer over to our house, hook it up on the table next to mine for a "lan party". Steven and Sam mostly just played from their respective houses.

We all went camping together at Ink's lake. They invited.... no wait, JASON invited me to go. I was the only girl. I got there a night late because we had a kickball game on Saturday in Austin. So I stayed with my sister Friday night then drove over after the game on my motorcycle.

I dropped it that morning, knocking the rear mirror off and spilling some gasoline, and embarrassing myself, though none of the guys saw it. We had a good time! Rented a boat, drove around on the lake trying to knock each other off the intertube and Jason and I talking on the bow about relationships with other people.

He and Justin and I shared a tent that night and all the guys piled in for talks until we were all ready to head to bed. That was the first night we shared a room, lol. And both of us thinking, what if the other one rolled over and we woke up wrapped in each other's arms. What would they think?

Hehe...

So needless to say he started coming over more often after that. Playing WOW with me to catch up to Justin who was always levels ahead and waiting for us. But he never made a move. When we were alone and I would let my knee touch his, he would pull away. LOL! Talk about mixed signals.

Then one day he asked me if he could join me for jogging. I was jogging almost every night at that point. He said Aurelio used to be his partner but their shifts had gotten out of whack and he needed someone to keep him motivated. So I said sure.

He came over in his indecent, black underarmor spandex jogging outfit and while I tried not to pay attention/laugh at his immodesty we headed out. Again, I was jogging a LOT last summer. He valiantly kept up with me though it almost killed him.

You see, he has never been a jogger. Always suffered from asthma. He had open heart surgery as a very small infant and the doctors didn't know if he would make his first birthday (like the kid in the picture). Now he has an awsome scar (Why sometimes I call him Shark-bait). But he kept up.

We got home, to my father's incredulous "are-you-purposefully-trying-to-kill-me" look. Which I shrugged and grinned and went inside. We both had a glass of water, sat and talked about odds and ends. Scorpions and how I hate them, among other bits of trivia....

The end of this beginning is yet to come....

To Be Continued:.....

On another note: Current update

First: My dogs and I went jogging today. 2.25miles. Hard for my eldest, Sammy to keep up sometimes, but he did well tonight. For those who don't know, he has mouth cancer which seems to be making its way into his lungs. He has mostly good days still, with a few bad thrown in. We hope he will make it a good nother year and prove the doctor's that statistics don't mean much when you want to live. But really just every day is a blessing to me. Its sometimes a challenge getting the young ones to understand the concept of healing. And sometimes its the old ones that do the worst job! They are so used to living in the country and being able to jog freely! The little ones need so much more socialization. Leo thinks he can take on other dogs and strangers. He doesn't realize if he just keeps jogging they will ignore him too. Here are a few pics of all the hot panting happy kids!

Second: I am buying a buggy tomorrow! Its for my wedding entrance. It needs a few touch-er-ups but it was a fabulous price for one so nice and much more than I was expecting. I kinda thought that all I would be able to afford was a little 2 wheel easy entry style cart like:

But instead, for just an extra $100 I got this one:

I am so very excited! Its a great investment. If Six does really well and I change the buggy around just a little, I can sell my services as carriage and driver to a couple brides and pay for the whole thing.

Lastly for the evening. My father had an excellent idea. I should use my brand new, beautiful, state of the art camera to blog about some of my patients. I thought I would start with the few I have at my house at the moment.

So tonight it will be Chevy: hspca-doc.blogspot.com

Good night!