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maggie and the thing
I recall hearing this interview on NPR a couple years ago and being charmed by the concept. What started off as a book about people and their treasured but threadbare “dirty wow wow(s)”, has morphed into a newer book about our four legged friends and their beloved pals.
The pictures and stories are charming. I think I need this book.
dear pal,
i CANNOT wait for your arrival! we are going to totally have the best time! and i promise to NOT say “totally” the entire time you are here!
when you arrive on friday, i will be there to pick you up. you are going to stay in my room, whilst mags and i slumber in the guest suite (aka maggie’ room). that way you can have the whole bath to yourself and privacy as well. now, i did move any kind of TV out of the master in an effort to aid my sleeping abilities. however, worst case scenario, i do have my little 13″ and a cable jack in the room… also, i’ve got product (shampoo/conditioner, lotion, hair gunk – even a potential product trial for L&L wating for you in the halls). pack a toothbrush and some mascara…
saturday, not sure how early you will or will want to wake up! this can be our mellow day, just hang out, want to show you around were i live, take you out to the beach! i think you might enjoy sharing the seafood appetizer from catch 31 (aka “the tower of terror”) that i like to take my favorite peeps to enjoy when they visit!
eli says "two big claws up!"
trace's visit
included on saturday will be, hopefully, nice weather (nights not below 50 and days in the 70’s-80’s?) and a couple of nice walks with the magpie and a trip or two for coffee! let’s play it by ear, i know the time change is a bi-otch..
sunday is the go for broke day! i think i misspoke a bit when i said it was 2 hours to DC. i google mapped it today at work, and that says 3 ish hours. but i know we can make under 3 with timing. it would be best to leave as early as you can stand to (you can snooze in the car!). not sure yet exactly where will be the best place to park, but once in the city, we can walk and/or ride the metro to grab a quick, yummy and healthy lunch at one of the 8, 000,000 cosi’s around the city! the washington mall is cool – all the memorials and museums (we can see julia child’s kitchen!!) and a walk to the white house (maggie wants a picture of bo). still not sure where to find the bobble heads…. 
i”ll be driving back home (i actually registered the thought “i wonder what side of the road they drive on in canada?” running thru my brain – don’t be afraid!). we shall sleep.
monday we will attend the super neato lecture for which you are flying cross country. in my mind, i will ask the speaker’s “people” for a brief interview – i know my podcast listeners would totally dig it – but that scares the SHIT out of me! instead, i look forward to a great afternoon, hopefully some great weather and time spen with a new/old friend.
tuesday i will take you to the airport, sending you on your safe journey back home… oh, and don’t think you are getting off without an interview for MY podcast, a plea for advice on recording equipment and, by the way, i need to know what size T shirts the whole fam wears… and KA too. oh, and i have wireless but i know realize i don’t know the “password” to my signal that i had the nerd herd set up for me. so just use mine? its not a mac. sorry 
xoxoxo,
your pal from the interwebz
*in the millennium, pen pal = internetz
- just got back from a kickin’ vacation
- now it’s time to prepare for a friends visit! i can’t wait – just over a week to shower, shampoo and shine this place up! woot!
- the bunny project? all the peeps wuz gone this morning…. sigh
- maggie went to the doctor this morning for her annual physical and immunizations…. clean bill of health, more clomicalm and a bill more than me and the guy spent at a fancy dinner the other night. with me drinking wine!!!
- back on weight watchers as of yesterday. i felt like a huge, funky cow all during my trip… sigh. though that is kind of an insult to cows! haha! seriously, i was uncomfortable and all my summer clothes were tight. arg! so here’s to making changes and gettin’ back to my fightin’ weight!
i was recently told by a co-worker (during one of the group discussions about politics and how the new president totally sucks and in which my mostly right wing colleagues – who i like – try to get me riled up about some such political issue), that my bumpersticker was offensive to him:
the bumper sticker was a gift from a good, san fransiscan pal. mind you, i live in an area in which “mccain/palin” bumper stickers STILL predominate. i was pleased to park behind this car today -
and instead of saying “you can suck it” to those that have a differing philosophical opinion of government then myself (which is what i believe they have said to me for the last 8 long years, and which seems VERY blatantly racially loaded) i think i will defer to this recent john stewart rant.. (thanks meggy!!)
so, is my bumper sticker offensive?
the only part i regret about being out of town the next week is not seeing first hand what happens after i left all these tonite!
peeptacular!
peeptastic!
some peeps!
what's that dark bit on the bottom stair anyway?
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