I light a candle every night, hoping the man you wouldn't be comes home

On Sunday, Frubs, Bro bro, Girlfran, The Boy, and I went to the Denver Zoo. We woke up, girlfran made Allen and herself coffee while I did not do anything as nice for Frubs, I just yelled at him and bossed him around a whole bunch and told him he had to drive. But the drive was fun, and the zoo was incredible. I saw my snow leopards, cried as expected, and took lots and lots of photos. See? Lookit!

 I have no idea what kind of bird this is, but I was in serious danger of getting shit on while taking this shot. Girlfran was in the tropical bird room with me as I bitched about the intense heat and humidity, but it was super worth it. I think this is my favorite shot of the day.

 I will say this again later, but there is something immensely sad about the bigger primates. Orangutans and gorillas break my fucking heart.

 There were tiny, itty bitty bunnies jumping all over the fucking zoo, and it made me so god damn happy. Clearly. I spent ten minutes snapping pictures of this little guy, and I was delighted the entire time. It wasn't until someone walked by me saying, "there are all kinds of animals here, That rabbit aint shit." that I realized I was being judged. But fuck them, this rabbit is adorable. He would have fit right into my pants pocket!!!

 There was a gorgeous cactus patch on top of one of the rocks in the zoo. I really loved the fat one I focused on. Who knows why. This is how I roll, though. I find one thing and love it intensely, forsaking all other things. Sorry, cacti. Our short-lived romance was beautiful, though.

 This dude wanted my drink cup SO HARD. And I would have let him have it, if he had come up and grabbed it from me, like the lorikeets did.

 I LOVED these flowers! It was like looking at a Dr. Seuss fever dream.

 FLAMINGOS!!!! I fucking LOVE flamingos. They're so fucking cool!

 I got you, fam.

 Yeah, it's just a common grackle, but he's so fluffed up! And the tree was so green!

 Everybody has a hippo photo just like this.

 His waggy eye is all rolling at me, like, UGH. Another bitch with a camera. Fucking PLEASE.

 When I was a little girl, I, like many children, couldn't pronounce things, so I had my own language that only my family understood. For some reason, I couldn't say the words "kitty" or "sleep", so when I saw a cat sleeping, I would grab onto my mom or dad and scream excitedly, "Look! LOOK! De keekee feebitz!!!! HE FEEBITZ, MOMMY!!" I thought about this as I took the pictures of the tigers. I even sent my mom a photo over text and told her that the keekee was feebitzing.

 Here is de keekee again, feebitzing, but different.

 This Kingfisher is incredibly handsome, but I couldn't get my camera to focus past the tiny scratch in the glass, so he's blurry, and I'm unhappy about it.

 Look at that. Fucking GORGEOUS.

 Lorikeet!!!! He stole my lorikeet juice!! But he looks like an eighties glam rock star, so I can't be TOO mad at him.

 They're either nuzzling and it's adorable, or this here is picture evidence that lorikeet one murdered lorikeet two.

 It's a mandarin goby! I used to have one in my saltwater aquarium when I lived in California. I named him Cirque. For Cirque Du Soleil. Because I am in love with my own cleverness.

 I couldn't remember the name of this monkey, so I called him the McDonald's monkey. The shot is blurry, and his fingers are cut off, and I'm upset about it. I had an even better pose, with him yawning, but it was even blurrier than this one.

 I've been having trouble remembering the names of things lately. While recounting my fear that this peacock was going to bum rush me and peck my eyes out, I called it a pelican. Consequently, asll of the peacock picture files are a pelican name of some sort. This one is simply "PELICAN!!"

 Pelican feathers!

 MOAR PELICAN!!!!!!!

 A tiny bloom in a big, big world.

 Allen is currently writing a story about this picture, and I'm getting ready to paint it. They look so alien, don't they?

How can you look at that face and those eyes and not want to tear your own heart out? It makes me ache, but he's just so god damn handsome.

And that was my trip to the zoo.

In other news, I am fucking FEELING Blank Space right now. I've listened to that song on repeat all fucking day today.