After much consideration, I've decided to take my leave for now. I guess that this is, in fact, a flounce. I'm not telling anyone for attention. I'm telling everyone so that you can consider this a Facebook invitation. Come friend me. I'm happy to see you all there. PM me and I will send you the address. 

I'm sorry, but I cannot seem to avoid the arguments. It would be nice if they were all labeled well, so that they could be avoided, but alas, they are not. People here either believe there is some psychic connection to their emails to each other which is broadcast here and so everyone has infinite knowledge or they deliberately do not include the pertinent information of "oh yes. This post is actually a stab at someone else. If you post, you'll get to be included in that argument and it will be assumed you're on my side." I can no longer do it. I do not like feeling like a rube or a patsy, but I do feel like one because I have had this situation happen to me over and over again over the last few months. 

For the record, I have not, nor would I ever, call someone a name that disparaged them. Well, I might call someone an asshole, but that's pretty much the extent of my namecalling extravanganza, and mostly it's in mutual humor. And I'd do it to his or her face. I do not appreciate being roped into having accidentally called anyone a name. This happened on Facebook recently, and I am very very VERY angry about it. Consider yourself de-friended. I mean it. That was very manipulative. I don't like that. Although I don't like it when ANYONE does it. Hello? Not anyone. (For those of you who don't know to what I am referring, if you post here, you are not participating in any way. There are no 'sides.' Only me here.)

If you do friend me on Facebook and pull that crap, you will be de-friended faster than you can say "jack robinson." That wasn't right, and now, because it is clear my innocence in this matter is not really believed, I have to deal with that fact, one which might very well affect my friendships with other people here. It bothers me, and I don't like it. Any of it. 

So, I have to quit for awhile. Maybe I'll come back. If I do, it won't be as an alter. (I DON'T HAVE AN ALTER. WHO THE FUCK HAS TIME FOR THAT?)

I know many of you won't care. I know some of you will feel I'm wanting to be asked to stay. (I'm not.) I just cannot be someone else's cannon fodder for his or her own personal vendettas. I do not need ego-soothing either. My ego is okay, although I feel a little humiliated for not catching on very quickly to some things. I do hate feeling like a stupid idiot even when I am one. Today is my birthday. I'm going to go enjoy it. I'll check comments for a few days and emails for some time after that. If you say something mean, I'll erase it, so you know, even here as I leave, I'm the dictator of my blog. Don't like it. Tough shit. 

For everyone else, I've really enjoyed it here except for this manipulative bullshit. I'm leaving up my old posts. Maybe I'll roll back this way when I'm not so angry or so cynical or so furious. But my reputation, as small and as insignificant as it is, and as anonymous, means something to me. And it's just too much trouble to wade through it all right now. 

 And finally, here is HWIH. He is still not fully well from his cancer experience, but I know jane wanted to see him. So, she gets to do that because she's a good friend.

His tail is shorter, and he is annoyed with the photography. But He is still handsome.