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on vacation! finally. of course, i haven't posted anything in over a month, so that was also a vacation [from here, anyway] of sorts. a couple of stories that i need to tell from the past few weeks, which i'll get to later today or tomorrow, but wanted to put up a picture that adequately sums up my vacation plans:
eat fries. lots and lots of fries.
rainy today, so no beach, but plenty of other fun and exciting happenings to keep us occupied and out of trouble.
also, just wanted to say a huge and excited CONGRATULATIONS to katie & ben on their recent engagement. love, love, love. their world is brimming with it. in a year full of maddening, devastating and often confusing events, this news brings some much needed joy. xoxo
i don't know why i find this so hilarious.it makes me laugh every time.
sometimes i forget that i have a blog. it's strange.saturday was free cone day at friendly's. i have never, nor will i ever, passed up free ice cream. or non-free ice cream. ice cream and i go way back. there used to be an ice cream shop [ye olde ice cream shoppe? no -- it was called the emporium.] a few blocks from my house and, when i was a kid, my mom and i used to walk there during the summer for ice cream cones. the emporium was wonderful for three reasons: the giant, perry's ice cream sign [you know the one -- in the shape of a giant ice cream cone] that signaled its presence; the red, padded stools at the counter; the ice cream. i'm a perry's kid, through and through. yes, i will eat just about any brand of ice cream [and obviously i have a strong connection to abbotts, being from rochester] but i think perry's is my favorite of the store-boughts. my mom and i would always order strawberry in a cone -- there was never any contemplation necessary. i don't remember when the emporium closed, but to this day its absence makes me sad.anyway. free cone day.butter crunch [exclusive to friendly's! actually, that might not be true. but whatever.] is one of my all-time favorite flavors, and generally what i order when i go to friendly's, so it was a natural choice for free cone day.here's the cone:
and here is my happiness after finishing said cone:
bliss!also: i would be remiss if i didn't tell you that i went to friendly's on sunday, too, with my mom and my sister. we split one strawberry cone and one butter crunch cone. best of both worlds. [um, ok. i also had ice cream from cold stone creamery with joni & melissa on friday. thankfully the above picture hides my cone-created chins.]
y'all, i have been wanting a thermos for a long time now. i love my travel mug, but some days [most days...] it doesn't hold quite enough coffee to get me through the day [or morning.] i could, conceivably, make coffee at work, but i drink decaf [or at least a split of decaf and regular] and i'm pretty sure my co-workers would notice [...and riot.] for about two months i'd been using a sleek, stainless-steel coffee thermos from home, but it held just barely more than my regular coffee mug [confession: i would take both the thermos AND my travel mug to work. like a bag lady, with mugs.]
all that has changed.my lovely sister kept promising me that she had an old thermos in the basement [i'm really hoping said thermos did not come with the house. although, really, who am i kidding: i'd use it anyway.] for weeks upon weeks she taunted me with dreams of the stanley thermos, in its green, steel-sided glory...complete with handle. 
greeting me this morning as i left for work [in addition to the adorableness that is my neice and nephew, having breakfast in their pajamas] was none other than the thermos. filled with coffee. so shiny. so beautiful. i felt prepared to conquer the world...or at least remain upright at my desk for more than two consecutive hours.thank you, foo foo. you've made my friday bearable.xoxox
it's nice of mrs. freshley to offer up a snack with only 100 calories.those of us who still eat food appropriate for third-graders are most appreciative.
i do, however, think she has an awful lot of faith in the consumer, seeing as how it's 100 calories, per roll, but two rolls come packaged together.
she is sneaky, that mrs. freshley.sneaky indeed.[yes. i ate them both.]
oh, lordy.so. i don't particularly care for birds. they tend to make me a little nervous. and uncomfortable. thankfully, i don't live in an area overpopulated by birds [i.e. near the beach.] although, maybe i'd be used to them a bit more of they were around more [note: i do not actually believe this, nor do i wish to test this theory.]this morning, a bird [pigeon, i would guess] flew into my office window. twice. he has since decided to camp out on the ledge of said window. he's just chilling out. hanging around. WATCHING ME. blinking.
birds blink a lot.i. am. not. pleased.in fact, i'm feeling a wee bit queasy.i'm a little worried that he's injured [although, i did look at him through the window and found no visible sign of blood, etc.] which will result in about 247853 of his bird friends coming to his bird aid to help him out. unless he's a loner. which sort of makes me sad. although, i'd prefer it to having an army of birds camped out on the ledge, nursing him back to health.if ever there was a moment where i've felt my life has become a hitchcock movie, this would certainly be it.UPDATE:he just flew away. i think he sensed that he wasn't wanted. either that, or he's pissed because i won the staring contest.
dear ed,it's really nice to hear that you are no longer in debt. that you owe nothing, at the moment, to anyone. i'm glad that you're going to visit your grandchildren for a month and that, following that trip, you'll be going to north carolina to visit your OTHER grandchildren for a month. it's also heartening, in this day and age rife with divorce and infidelity, to learn that you're taking your wife of 43 years to europe toward the end of the year. i couldn't be happier for you. i mean that sincerely. but if you don't get off the phone and fix the copier, we're going to have some serious problems. sincerely,the cranky lady in the next roomp.s.kicking the machine doesn't help...
trust me.
