Portable Izzie, originally uploaded by krisalis903.

I’ll be heading down to Houston this weekend to visit Jabari so Izzie will be staying with my coworker, his wife, and they’re 3 unbelievably awesome dogs (a border collie, westie, and blue tick coon hound). I brought her over to their house this evening and at first she didn’t know what to do with so many unfamiliar dogs in an unfamiliar place, but after being there for a couple hours, everyone sniffed everything they needed to and were now settling down.

The really funny thing is I think Izzie now has a new boyfriend. Tuffy, the westie, was so smitten with her. He kept following her EVERYWHERE. Occasionally he would bark at her and want to play. She hadn’t warmed up to him just yet, often avoiding his advances. But I figure by the end of the weekend, she would be in love too.

Anyway, this is a picture of portable Izzie (aka Farley) who I’ll be taking with me. Since coming home to an empty apartment this evening, I’ve been feeling so lonely, I’ve kept Farley nearby to help make the sadness of Izzie’s absence a bit easier to bear. He reminds me of her