Holy cow, is it ever boring around these parts lately. AE has been with my parents all week so it has been really quiet at our house (save for Miss T’s incessant jabbering, of course). I’ve been borderline sick most of the week and haven’t felt like drinking wine (travesty!) or watching movies and therefore have nothing to review. And I have very little going on at work. Add all that up and you get BIG FAT NOTHING to write about. Fortunately, it is Friday so I can be lazy and random. (Like I need extra incentive to do that.)
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We’re supposed to go to The Swamp tomorrow. N and I have been invited to two parties Saturday evening. They overlap so we’ll have to leave one early and arrive at the other late. The problem is that they are both themed parties. We’re supposed to dress in tropical attire for the first one and black and white for the second (to go with the James Bond/Casino Royale theme). I fail to see how we can appropriately dress for both parties without having to change clothes. I’m at a loss.
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Our eighth wedding anniversary is Monday. I completely did not realize this until today. I mean, I know that our anniversary is June 15th but I guess I didn’t realize that the 15th was upon us. I think this happens to me every year. I”m the worst wife ever.
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Lately Miss T is very big on putting her “babies” down for naps. Stuffed animals, baby dolls, a bottle of Thomas the Tank Engine bubble bath, whatever she deems worthy of nurturing gets covered by a blanket. See?
She covers them carefully and then pat-pat-pats them to sleep. Often simultaneously while squatting between them. It is very funny. And sometimes she will demand that people submit to her naptime routine also:
If she is putting you down for a nap and you dare to lift your head, she’ll point to the floor and chatter while giving you Angry Eyes.  The point is clear – IT IS TIME FOR BED. She’s very strict.
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There’s this lady at my office whose cubicle is fairly close to mine. She seems to be a nice lady, although I don’t know her beyond the occasional “hello”. My knowledge of this woman is limited to three things: 1) She is at least 60 years old, 2) she wears turtlenecks when it is 100+ degrees outside, and 3) she is a very sloooooooooow talker. (I know this because I can hear all of her phone conversations.) ANYWAY, all of this to say that she forgot to turn off the ringer on her cell phone the other morning and so I could clearly hear when it started to ring. And I nearly fell out of my chair laughing. Because the ringtone? Justin Timberlake’s SexyBack. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA *dies*
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My parents are busily packing up their house in The Swamp. They close the sale on June 25, I think, but negotiated with the buyers to have until that Saturday night to be out of the house. I think we’ll be going down the remaining weekends this month to help them pack up, and also so that I can spend as much time as possible in the house they’ve lived in since I was in the eighth grade. I’m not a sentimental type, but I have to admit, I’m a little verklempt. When I moved out of that house over a decade ago, I never gave any thought to when my parents would move out of it too. I guess I thought they would be there forever.
The good news is that they’ll still be in The Swamp for the next year at least. It is working out quite nicely, actually – some good friends of theirs had moved out of their house last year (right before Hurricane Ike) and due to damage from the storm had yet to put it on the market. So now, instead of selling it, they are just going to lease it to my parents until they retire next May. It may not be MY childhood home we’ll be staying in when we visit them, but at least it is a house I remember from my childhood. That helps to soften the blow. Next summer, though, they’ll leave the area for good. Then all bets are off. GAH.
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That’s all I’ve got. This post is over. Miss T says “Hooray!”
