Wednesday, February 02, 2005
A certain individual with whom I interact several times a week at her place of employment was recently conspicuously absent for about a week and a half. It wasn't the first time that she had taken an unplanned personal sabbatical. Usually she returns to the job with an improved outlook. This time she returned with a friend that ONLY SHE CAN SEE. Evidently the invisible entity is quite the conversationalist, too. I'm never sure whether to be entertained or alarmed by people who talk to open spaces.
A friend once told me about the oddballs he sometimes encountered while slugging from Northern Virginia into DC. He once rode with a driver who had a puppet on one hand throughout the entire commute. Other than occasionally asking the puppet for lane change advice, the guy seemed perfectly normal.
Whatever it takes to get through the day, I guess.
Intentionally Distracting Pet Photo:
Mmm, fire-roasted slug cat.
It's Official: the Girl Has ALREADY Gone Wild
Speaking of meals, Sophie has been a wee bit iffy in the department of acceptable public dining practices lately. There was the very nervewracking company dinner in December and more recently the intensely mortifying plate throwing incident at the Baltimore Hard Rock Cafe. We're having a family dinner at a rather putting-on-the-dog French restaurant in the High Rent District this weekend and have been waffling on whether Sophie should come along. It's a family event and she'll be missed, but then again the place probably serves on less hardy china than the Hard Rock. Hmm, what to do, what to do... Sophie decided the issue for us tonight while we were at yet another restaurant [that won't allow us to return] by suddenly an inexplicably pointing at the floor and shrieking, "Ew, ew, a mouse RIGHT THERE!" It should be noted that THERE WAS NO MOUSE. Not that that stopped the other patrons from checking.
Also fun this week is the bitter battle waged daily over what Little Miss will and will not wear. Naturally this involves ALL types of garments (WHY OH WHY are there never enough Elmo-emblazoned diapers per package to satisfy the demand?!) and is prone to changing without warning at any given moment. Earlier this week, there was a day when Sophie wouldn't keep a shirt on. Pant, shoes, socks, hair accessories? No problem. Shirt? Pulled off and flung away. Then she put on her beaded necklaces and did some topless dancing to one of her kidsongs CDs.
Because, you know, every day is Mardi Gras here at Cheezleton Manor.
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