Getting Complacent

There are no pictures for April 18th. I'm getting complacent. We both are to some degree. We simply enjoy having Cassie around. I'm gone and she hangs out with Maxine. Maxine's gone right now and I can see Cassie laying in the area just beyond my office.

I told her earlier today while I was laying on the floor with her that she's been my companion for 11 2/3rds years now. And I don't want that to end any time soon.

Maxine and I have scaled down our involvement with the world. I've got an invitation to a beer event (with Bruce B) next Wednesday, but I've emailed to cancel. I'll be arriving home that afternoon after having been gone for 3 days, Maxine will have headed out of town, and I cannot leave Cassie alone that night. It sounds ridiculous, I told Maxine that last night, but if you look at it in the right way, it's completely rational. We don't have children. We're both independent people. Thus, no one relies on us. Except Cassie. And since it seems that she needs us now, we're putting large portions of our life on hold to be with her....

Minimally, we will have a very rich set of last memories with her...