Queen of Rambles

• It is a LONG day when the baby doesn’t nap. He finally went down at 7:30 so let’s pray for an all-nighter. What am I going to do with this no nap kid?
• I saw a mention of freezer jam somewhere a few weeks ago. I never knew you could make jam in the freezer. I thought jam was a heinous process of boiling glass jars, sweat and tears. It couldn’t possibly be as simple as stirring some stuff together and tossing it in the freezer.

  I went real grocery shopping instead of computer grocery shopping and happened upon the jam making supplies. In a fit of spotenaity I soon had supplies necessary for a batch of strawberry jam. I came home, figured out it was still sort of painful in the crushing of the berries, and soon had three little containers of strawberry jam. Not bad work!

  I finally tried a bite tonight and was knocked to the floor. This stuff is amazing! You would not believe how the essence of strawberry pops! I’ll never go back to the bought stuff again. This may well be one of the best things I’ve ever tasted! And no boiling of glass jars!

• Our guests left this afternoon for a mini-weekend in Philly. It feels very empty here without them and I’m at loose ends. I am not normally all that social, but it’s been a blast to sit around and chit-chat. We laugh our asses off all night, every night, telling stupid stories and making Erik do silly things. They’ll be back for a couple of days on Sunday, then they are off to Kansas and their home. I’m going to miss having them around. Erik already misses them. He went into their room and started doing his sign for hat (he’s obsessed with Pat’s hat and gets very bossy about making Pat wear his hat) and asking for “Potter.” He has no idea why there are wild peals of laughter when he says Potter, but he sure picked up on our satisfaction quickly and aims to please. Potter! Gotta get a little video of it.
• I think I saw a real life polygamist family at the gym today! I have no idea what they were saying because I had Garth Brooks singing loudly about riding a cowgirl in my ear, but I saw lots of kissing. This guy walked up to two women and kissed one of them on the lips. Ok, they are married or dating, no big deal. Then the woman got up to leave and kissed the other woman ON THE LIPS. Not on the cheek. The lips! Do the French kiss on the lips when they say good-bye? The woman who kissed the man left, the man went and hung out with the other woman, then THEY kissed on the lips. Yes, yes, I realize it was probably nothing, but my days go a lot faster and seem a lot more interesting if I come up with polygamist plot lines for total strangers. If I randomly meet you on the street you too might become the object of my latest wild story. You’ll probably be a serial killer or a bank robber. Maybe you’ll be a spy. Or you’ll just be a polygamist. I haven’t been reading thrillers lately, just watching Big Love and The Closer.

  If only I could have turned down the volume on my iPod I might have been able to overhear an explanation for all the lip action. I don’t like to grope around in my chest in front of people, so Garth drowned out their conversation.

  I’m too cheap to buy one of those iPod arm bands and I think it would feel constrictive, so I just shove the contraption down my bra and hope no one looks too closely at the wires coming out the top of my shirt. I always put the iPod on hold after I start it up, but the other day I forgot to flick the button. I was doing rows, which means I was leaned over a weight bench, making my arm go up and down. Every time my arm would go up the volume would explode in my ear, then when it would go down it would decrease so I couldn’t hear it. Forty times this happened. Forty times I thought I was going insane and my iPod was possessed because of course I flicked the hold button. It couldn’t be me making a mistake! It had to be my iPod despite all evidence to the contrary. My boobs are talented and somehow unflicked that damned switch. Clearly, that’s the only explanation.

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