Lucky daze

You might remember that several weeks ago I tossed a bottle into the ocean [otherwise known as posting a message here] with this basic message: "I am lonely and blue. Please help." And damned if J didn't come winging in from Jacksonville!!!! And anyone who comes to Houston in July willingly is a FRIEND of all FRIENDS!

[Now I am thinking, hey, what if I write, "I want to go to Paris." Will someone take me there? I am clicking my heels three times right now: I WANT TO GO TO PARIS or anywhere else where there is no laundry or lawns to water.]

Besides herself, she brought me books! Extremely loud & incredibly close by Jonathan Safran Foer and City of Thieves by David Benioff [which will be covered in my July book report]. And She-Monkey, which I made for J last year, which she brought along all dressed-up.



I took her to the TAODA doll artist club meeting, I took her to the Heights (19th St.) for some of my favorite things: Jubilee and Crickets Creamery and Colina's for pizza. We almost went to Phantom of the Opera, but instead we bought gouda cheese and wine (Verget Macon Villages 2007 - $15 at Specs) and watched, I am ashamed to say, Ultimate Fight Club and Jackass 2 late into the night.



If anyone told me that me and my school chum (and Husband1, two offspring and dogs) would be watching a guy put a sock on his banana and stick it in a hole for a snake to bite, I woulda said, "I think we have better things to do, thank you very much" but it happened. Husband1 posing next to his Ultimate Fight Club hero.





Thankfully Wayne did not eat her underwear or pee in her duffel bag. Harley was almost downright friendly and Sally was her usual wary self. And the girls weren't bad either.


Husband1 demonstrated his dog training methods. Here he is singing, "I Gotta Dog His Name is Blue," while Wayne floats alongside. In this way, he hopes to teach Wayne not to jump up on people.

We are now monogramming towels with J's initials and holding a spot at the kitchen table for her NEXT visit, which is bound to be very soon indeed.


After J left, I shipped She-Monkey off to Rhode Island as my stand-in for the real reunion. Hope they have fun but not that much fun.