I made an expensive purchase last week as many of you know from facebook, and as I am here updating this blog sitting in a half frozen piece of crap health department patrol car, a 14 year old iguana put things in perspective, even if only for a moment before I get sidetracked and think about how I truly despise my job and the majority of people I work with. Sweetpea is frannie's oldest "daughter" she got her as a little cute 7 inch lizard at a street festival in her neighborhood. Her dad spent so much money trying to win the damn thing but just couldn't. He ended up buying sweetpea for a discount because the damn carnie felt bad for him. Frannie took Sweetpea home and the cute small little lizard grew, and grew, and grew, to what she is now at 4 feet and counting. Think of all the things that have happened in the past 14 or 15 years, the terrorist attacks, the elections, the wars, the price of gas, movies, milk... So much has happened in that time, and through it all Sweetpea has just been there fat and happy, enjoying her broccoli rabe, grapes, figs and occasional pasta.
So much has happened in our personal lives, high school, college, turning 21, our mid 2o's, starting families, careers, having children...buying houses. We're all almost 30. THIRTY. all these years Sweetpea hasn't changed, she's as lovable as any iguana I've ever met, in fact she's the most tame one I've ever handled. She still loves baths, and she still manages to find me after I let her roam the house after her bath so she can snuggle up next to me or at least use me as a pin cushion on her way to sitting on my shoulder, or the ever popular top of my head. For as long as I've known her and she's been part of my family, she's always been like this.
I guess I've changed over the years, adult life does that. But I wish I could be like Sweetpea, never changing, the sweet loyal lizard she was 14 years ago is still the same lizard we have today albeit a few feet longer and a bit heavier. I hope as even more time passes, I'll still be that guy everyone loves, not just because I'm easy to get along with but because I've never lost my ideals and given in to what life dictates should be done. 30 years from now, I hope I'm still funny and amusing...still playing video games, still listening to hip hop even though I have no business knowing about 60 percent of lil wayne's last album. I hope i still manage to say something poignant when it counts.. But that's me. I guess as I am freezing my butt off at work I've come to realize that I should go with the flow but never lose myself.
Sweetpea isn't doing too well. She's been through countless habitat changes, but after we moved back to SI, Her color has been off, she hasn't been eating properly and has been sluggish. She has been long overdue for a new, proper "house" and frannie and I decided it was worth it to try and make her as comfortable as we could now that she's a senior citizen. 2 grand crazy for a glorified lizard cage? Not really...that lizard's worth every penny, for the past 14 years she has been teaching us how to roll with the changes without losing ourselves....
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