Hello to All Your Pink Parts

Helllooo, my lovelies!

Oh how I have missed thee... Did you miss me? Did you lay awake at night, quivering in your bed thinking of me as I did you?

No? Too far?

It's been (regrettably) awhile since we have seen each other, but I am now back in that third-dimension cybertown, having been out of the area for awhile. So before we move on, get back into the comfy swing and swish of our relationship, let's picture ourselves having a lovely post-trip coffee date in cybertown. We self consciously order our coffee, make a few weak jokes, sit down, and before we can behave as we once did, we must get through the "what's new?"s.

So here's what you missed....



1. I am melting. Much like the witch in the Wizard of Oz, but instead of a sickly green I started out a sickly, pale white and am now a sickly, bloated red.

I spend each and every day running from my air-conditioned apartment, to an air-conditioned car, into whatever air-conditioned destination the day brings, and back again. I am a less graceful, chubby vampire (are there chubby vampires?) fleeing as best as I can and yet the sun finds me. It loves me. It craves me. I can go a week running errands during the day, running from shade to shade, the only sun exposure being my elbow ever-briefly out of my car window so I can smoke, and inevitably, every cashier at every establishment will ask "so, did you get burnt at the beach this weekend, or what?"



2. My Mother's surgery went swimmingly.

I picked Mr. Bub up after work, and we drove down to San Diego (listening to Michael Jackson the whole way), and joined my Mom & sister in a residential hotel, Dog in tow. It was her first real road trip involving a hotel with Mommy & Daddy, and she did surprisingly well with the exception of repeatedly trying to get up onto my Mom's (who is not an animal lover) bed.

We checked her in for the surgery, and then spent the 3 hours it took doing things in 30 minute cycles - smoking, sitting in the cafeteria eating, sitting in the waiting room, sitting in the cafeteria chatting, smoking. When she was all done, the Doctor came out and said that to him, it did not look like cancer. We are still waiting for the official-official results, which should be coming shortly.


3. Bub came back to L.A. to work, and I stayed at my Mom's for several days. I drove her crazy, she drove me crazy - but in a loving way, you see. She is one of those women that tries to do everything herself - so caring for her mainly consisted of trying not to go to the bathroom unless she was sleeping, for fear I would emmerge with my empty bladder to find her trying to re-arrange living room furniture.



4. I am one of those people, if you can tell, that was floored by Michael Jackson dying.. Signed up for tickets to the memorial, to no avail. It was the day that we left for San Diego, though, and Bub was late for work because we were watching the hearse driving down the highway. ::sigh::

Oh, and I will judge you for making fun of people who took it hard. Bill Maher, who I normally enjoy, came back to his show after a break and mercilessly made fun of him and everyone that was upset. He then made a joke about how he peaked 20 years ago for moon walking... In my opinion, all that does is make him (or anyone who decides to poke fun at people within the first month) appear unbelievably egotistical... As successful as he is, to have the audacity to make fun of the lack of accomplishments of Michael fucking Jackson.. Wow. Kudos, Bill Maher, for being fancier than he was?


5. I am moving, bitches. In the last few months Bub & I (especially Bub) have figured out every G-d awful boring detail about credit history and pre-qualifying for a loan. Woohoo of all woohoos, we are now pre-qualified for a damn good loan.. And this week, we found a few houses online that look promising - fingerscrossedfingerscrossedfingerscrossed.



6. Last Wednesday we've been married for 3 years. Insane. He took me out to a fancy restaurant, and then I put out.




Tomorrow I am coming to all of your blogs to see what's new with you and catch up... Wear something sexy.

Pictures of our Sign!

Hi kids -

I am running to San Diego this evening, but this morning while the funeral was taking over Los Angeles, I snuck to the Jackson home ( probably 20 minutes before they were there) to put up our sign...

Going to share more photos that I took that are Jackson-related later, but I wanted to show you the proof, as promised!




In the middle, I just put "Thank you for the Music, Forever in our Hearts"




























So it's all in the same handwriting - but it's up! And you'll be happy to know that the Jackson family gets all of these... I was there the first time as they were having someone bring the stuff in in shifts.

So yay! Glad I could get something in for people who couldn't be here...


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So I'm running away to San Diego this evening, and (don't think I mentioned who this was before) my mom is having surgery tomorrow morning... I'll be busy helping out until the end of this weekend.. And if all goes according to plan ( which I'm sure it will) I will be back to normal-life (and blogging) this time next week. So bear (bare?) with me just a little bit longer...

Please keep myself and my Mother in your prayers!

Do you all want to leave something for Michael?

Hi again kids..

In the middle of insanity, relative-surgery on Tuesday.

And Bub and I, on a whim, have decided to go to the MJ 'public viewing' (although I can't imagine it will be an actual viewing.. Although that's what they're saying) on Friday.

So I think Meagan had an excellent idea...

Since we're close by and can go to these things, do you all want to make a sign?

And by that I mean - I can take a poster board, and you tell me what to write and who to sign.. Then in the next few days I can leave it ( and take a picture for evidence) either by the star, by the house, or up in Neverland Ranch...

I can't promise which place it will be - but I can definitely take it to one of the above.

Is that a good idea?

If you want to leave something for him and take advantage of me living here - just give me a (short) sentence if you want and/or just the name you want signed...

Trying to figure out the logistics of getting up to Neverland Ranch for the public service. Feels like we should take advantage of being close by, pay our respects, say we were there, etc.