2004-09-20

Say!!!

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Attention, Weiner lovers (hee!) – Jennifer Weiner, that is. She’s going to be on the Jane Pauley show on Wednesday. Just thought I’d let y’all know, in case you might be interested and hadn’t read her blog recently. I just re-read Little Earthquakes yesterday, and it’s even better the second time around. “This book makes me want to have a baby!” I said to Fred when I was about halfway through the book. “Let’s have a baby!” He wouldn’t go for it. He also wouldn’t go for it when I allowed that I’d happily settle for a new kitten. Bastard.
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I left the house Saturday a few minutes before noon to drive out into the country to buy tomatoes. About five minutes from home, it occurred to me that there were an awful lot of people standing and sitting by the side of the road, some of them waving american flags. “Hmmm, odd,” I said to myself. “I know the Trail of Tears is coming through town, but I thought they’d be on the other end of town…” I shrugged, kept driving, and bought my tomatoes. I got back on the road headed toward home, drove about three miles, and then traffic came to a standstill. For twenty-five minutes I sat in the same place in my Jeep and watched hundreds and hundreds of people on motorcycles drive by, going in the other direction. Good thing I had a full tank of gas. No, I wasn’t pissed off, because what’s the point of that? I knew the Trail of Tears was coming through town, so it would have behooved me to check out the map before I left home. I didn’t, so who was to blame? Yep, me. It was pretty cool to see all those motorcycles going by. Almost made me want to get my own motorcycle (bahahaha! Oh, the mind reels at the very thought of Klutzerella trying to ride a motorcycle.) and ride in it next year.
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D�tente.
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Two: Hey, I talked about Jennifer Weiner in that entry, too. Three: I think you know what I’m thinkin’. Four: “I’d like to return to my regularly scheduled life, please.”]]>

10 thoughts on “2004-09-20”

  1. Yup. You get all misty and think you might want another baby, because they coo and they’re soooo darling and their heads smell so good, and then you remember.
    They become teenagers.
    Oh, the horror!

  3. After reading on Tallulah’s biography, I am not sure I see the connection between the Spud and her. Though you should be glad I don’t. HEE! What a lady!
    If you really want another cat you could gently remind Fred that you have only got one new cat in the past year and have lost two.
    HEH. I am so evil……seriously you are a stronger woman than I. I could not work at the no kill shelter and not take a kitten home every week. Couldn’t do it. Nope.

  4. Kay – Tallulah was a drama queen of the highest order. 🙂 I’ve pulled the “we lost two cats and only took in one! We’re down one cat!” thing with Fred, but he’s not going for it. Hmph!

  5. I think you should get that sassy kitten whose name I cannot now remember or the Fancypants lookalike kitten…how could he resist?

  6. Robyn,
    Fred’s not a bastard. He’s a MEAN BASTARD! He is supposed to say “Yes Dear, another kitten no problem” I’ll have someone else to take yawny pictures to post on your website.
    Val

  9. Man!! Poo looks terrible in that picture, like she just came back from the war. I kinda chuckled cuz I’m mean like that. lol

  10. Isn’t it weird that a year goes by, and you talk about the exact same thing? I know that this past weekend was the balloon festival; but for three years in a row, on the exact same day, I mentioned it. Weird!

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