Drama Queen's Bday

Drama Queen turned 10 this last week and we ended up having a birthday party at the house for her. She had called me the week Sniper was leaving (from Jedi's house) and I was going down to San Diego to ask for a birthday party at the house. Jedi would take care of everything, I just needed to provide the house. Being in the not so right frame of mind, I said ok, whatever. She ended up inviting her whole class. Jedi, invited his whole family. Saturday, only 4 girls from her class showed up. Thank god for family. There was a ton of kids between our two families. Yep, Jedi, his wife (butterfly) & I do things as a family together. In this day and age, it is strange to have us get along, but we wouldn't have it any other way. Butterfly did a wonderful job on the party. She did it all. I just had to clean the house, before and after. During the party, my mom called me and their car broke down after they left my house. She needed me to come pick them up and take them home. My mom has 2002 Camery and for it to break down, was not normal. I was gone a total of a hour and a half, during the party. Drama Queen was so good about it. She told me to go take care of grandma, she would be fine. I left my house, with my ex and all his family here. That was strange. Drama Queen was a little disappointed that very few of her friends showed up. The problem I saw with it all, she is in a year around school and this month they are off track. Most parent's forget. We did have one of her friends, that couldn't stay, show up before the party and drop off her a gift. I thought that was very sweet. Drama Queen's best gift......a frickin' hamster. My parent's and I talked it over and Drama Queen really wanted one. I can't stand hamsters. They rank with mice, rats and snakes in my book. Hell no!!!! I lost. I told that damn thing what I thought of it and if it so muches as looks at me wrong, I would put it up with the rats in the attic (I still need to get an exterminator out here asap). Also, we haven't had a pet in the house in awhile and quiet frankly, I didn't want anything else to take care of. At one point we had 3 gecko lizards, numerous fish and our American Bull Dog "Trouble." I killed the lizards and fish, not intentionally. I would just forget to feed the damn things. Trouble, ended up staying with Jack Ass when we moved. All of us miss her so much. She wasn't a dog, she was part of our family. At times we had to remind her she was a dog. She followed me around and went everywhere we went. She slept in my bed with me, on top of me. Damn dog, I loved her so much. I just didn't want any of us to get attached to anything again for awhile. As you can see, Trouble doesn't know she is anything, but human. She loved to swim with the kids. If we weren't careful, she would drown or drown you. We couldn't keep her out of the pool. Oh well, Happy 10th Birthday my sweet baby girl!! dyzgoneby