Storytime with Moon

My Beloved Charlie Boy!

My Pretty Bella Girl!

Little Joe: "Though he is little, he be fierce!"

Ooooh, or this one might be even better. It's a little more debonair, AND it's of Austrian singer Falco - how apropos!

I've been looking for a new picture to use for Falco's avatar, finally. This is an early picture of Johnny Cash. What do you think? Moon might get a new avatar, too...tough decisions!

Happy Birthday, Moon!

Alien Abductee says:

Here I am!

Slip Me One Good Sweaty Sailor says:

There you are!!!

Alien Abductee says:

Thank goodness!

Slip Me One Good Sweaty Sailor says:

How was your b=day?

Alien Abductee says:

It was AWESOME!

Alien Abductee says:

(More specifically, the day after was even better)

Slip Me One Good Sweaty Sailor says:

what did you do?

Alien Abductee says:

Do you want the long version or the not-quite-as-long version?

Slip Me One Good Sweaty Sailor says:

I'm up for the long version

Alien Abductee says:

Okay!

Alien Abductee says:

Well, last Thursday I went to the beach

Alien Abductee says:

And I was kinda sorts supposed to come home the next day to go to a work thing, but I didn't

Alien Abductee says:

As the weather was perfect

Alien Abductee says:

And I really didn't want to come home

Slip Me One Good Sweaty Sailor says:

I don't blame you

Alien Abductee says:

And as I knew no one would hassle me for not going to the (semi-optional) work thing

Alien Abductee says:

So then on Sunday, my birthday sort of began a day early

Alien Abductee says:

My mom bought me lunch and new sneakers

Alien Abductee says:

Although she made me follow this diet we were on at the beach, so as birthday lunches go, it was a little lacking

Alien Abductee says:

We went to this place that has REALLY good sourdough bread

Alien Abductee says:

Which I couldn't have

Alien Abductee says:

And cobb-ler so good I can't even order it in any other restaurant anymore

Slip Me One Good Sweaty Sailor says:

oh, no!!!

Alien Abductee says:

Which I also couldn't have

Alien Abductee says:

So then when my mom went to go work out at the club

Alien Abductee says:

(which I declined)

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I went home to see my dad (their house, I mean)

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And told him how she wouldn't let me get bread OR dessert, and THEN

Alien Abductee says:

(with a straight face, mind you)

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told me "This is your birthday lunch, order anything you want!"

Alien Abductee says:

So then my dad, who is also under mom's strict diet orders

Alien Abductee says:

So that the life insurance she wants to buy on his life will be cheaper when his cholesterol goes down (or so she thinks, at least)

Alien Abductee says:

Anyway, he said "Want to go back to Anthony's, and you can have bread and dessert this time?"

Alien Abductee says:

Hee hee hee hee hee

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So we did!

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AND wine!

Slip Me One Good Sweaty Sailor says:

don't you just love daddy????

Alien Abductee says:

YES!

Alien Abductee says:

So that was most of what was significant about Sunday

Alien Abductee says:

except

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That when we got into cell phone range, after leaving the beach

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I called Jim

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And he said that our neighbor was selling her house

Alien Abductee says:

And she has this lot that adjoins ours

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And did we want to buy it?

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(With our no money)

Slip Me One Good Sweaty Sailor says:

wow!!!

Alien Abductee says:

I know!

Alien Abductee says:

It's only a tenth of an acre, but we have a funny --shaped property, so it would join our L to make a rectangle, sort of

Slip Me One Good Sweaty Sailor says:

but, it sounds like you can do a lot with it

Alien Abductee says:

And the people across the driveway from us who built their damn house in what used to be someone else's back yard paid $62,000 for a fifth of an acre

Alien Abductee says:

And we were offered a chance to snatch this tenth of an acre for $8300

Alien Abductee says:

So, a VERY good deal

Slip Me One Good Sweaty Sailor says:

definitely

Slip Me One Good Sweaty Sailor says:

did you take it?

Alien Abductee says:

So I told my mom

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And SHE said

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I happen to have cash right now (what are the odds) from moving things out of an IRA, maybe I should just buy it as an investment

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Alien Abductee says:

So it's a done deal!

Slip Me One Good Sweaty Sailor says:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

Alien Abductee says:

I know!

Alien Abductee says:

Except it's not really mine

Alien Abductee says:

But close enough!

Slip Me One Good Sweaty Sailor says:

what are you, er, I mean your mom, going to do with it?

Slip Me One Good Sweaty Sailor says:

build on it?

Alien Abductee says:

Hee hee hee hee hee

Alien Abductee says:

Well, we might not do anything except leave it as a buffer of trees, unlike those dorks across from us, but we might build on it, for which there are three choices

Alien Abductee says:

1. build out on our existing house to remodel into the house we want it to be

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2. build a house for my parents to move into later when I have a baby so they can be on-call nannies

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And rent it in the mean time

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Or 3. build and sell for profit

Slip Me One Good Sweaty Sailor says:

I say build on to your existing house

Alien Abductee says:

Bainbridge Island was just written about in Money magazine as the #2 place to live in the whole US, so we're hot around here, which we already were, so hotter I mean

Alien Abductee says:

Well, even if we build and sell, we could prolly still build onto ours.

Alien Abductee says:

But what's great is, we can just take our time to decide

Alien Abductee says:

And in the meantime, I am going to plan on getting my feng shui teacher out to advise me

Slip Me One Good Sweaty Sailor says:

that's a gread idea

Alien Abductee says:

I don't think I do the best feng shui on myself - not enough objectivity

Alien Abductee says:

And I don't think we've had the best health, luck, joy, etc. so far in this house

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So if he says, don't bother, just move

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Or, build your own house on the other lot and sell this one

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(that would be possibility #4, I guess)

Alien Abductee says:

then I would take him very seriously

Alien Abductee says:

Anyway, Monday my actual birthday was kind of taken up with online research with mom about the parcels and such, as well as with getting up early to drive up here from there, dropping the car off in Bremerton for service on the way

Alien Abductee says:

Which was not really what I call birthday-like

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But it was worth it to get the land stuff all decided

Slip Me One Good Sweaty Sailor says:

I bet it was

Alien Abductee says:

And I picked up this fused glass plate I made, which was VERY exctiting

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And also Jim gave me a present for a change

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Which I am looking at right now, seeing as it's a flat screen monitor!!!!!!!

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And he even took me to the Olive Garden, which was big of him as he doesn't like it

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So that was all fine and dandy

Alien Abductee says:

But the very best day was the next day

Slip Me One Good Sweaty Sailor says:

Wow! That's great of him

Alien Abductee says:

(told you, this is the loooooong version!)

Alien Abductee says:

My friend Melissa in Tacoma invited me down for a surprise day

Alien Abductee says:

Did I tell you about this and the dream I had?

Slip Me One Good Sweaty Sailor says:

no, you haven't told me

Alien Abductee says:

Oh dear, okay

Alien Abductee says:

Well, she invited me down, and we made plans for 11-3

Slip Me One Good Sweaty Sailor says:

*story just got longer*

Alien Abductee says:

*yes it did*

Slip Me One Good Sweaty Sailor says:

hee

Alien Abductee says:

Anyhow, it was to be a surprise

Alien Abductee says:

And I was sooooooooooooo excited

Alien Abductee says:

Because that's a total fantasy come true, someone planning a whole day for your birthday without even being asked or anything!

Slip Me One Good Sweaty Sailor says:

Yes it is!!!!

Alien Abductee says:

She told me about this a couple of weeks ago

Alien Abductee says:

And that same night, my dad said, "How about if we come up tomorrow and spend the weekend with you doing whatever it takes for you the finish your reports?"

Alien Abductee says:

So I had these two AMAZING offers in one night!

Slip Me One Good Sweaty Sailor says:

Sounds like you couldn't ask for anything more

Alien Abductee says:

And it happened to be the night of the end of the first three days of the class I am taking, which is all about creating possibility in your life

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!!!!!!!

Alien Abductee says:

So that night, I dreamt Melissa waslaying out papers that were about the surprise, and I could see them

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And I was sort of surprised she was showing me

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But I could see two pictures of VW bugs, the new ones, one yellow and one ue

Alien Abductee says:

b-lue

Alien Abductee says:

I eman

Slip Me One Good Sweaty Sailor says:

after all, it's supposed to be a surprise

Alien Abductee says:

mean

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I know!

Alien Abductee says:

So I was amazed, of course, that she was letting me see, and that she was giving me a car

Alien Abductee says:

Because that's a pretty big darn present

Alien Abductee says:

Especially for your massage therapist friend to give you

Alien Abductee says:

Then (still in the dream)

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While I am thinking about how she's laying those pages out so I can choose the color

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My dad calls and says "Your mother and I just bought a car, and it's all picked out, except for the color and some of the features........."

Alien Abductee says:

So I go "Ohhhhhhhhhh"

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As in, my parents are paying, but Melissa is helping, and they are all pretending that it's other things going on, but really I am picking out the color and so on

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(Like they wouldn't all know I would pick Blue!!!!!!!!)

Alien Abductee says:

That's the gist of the dream

Slip Me One Good Sweaty Sailor says:

how silly of them

Alien Abductee says:

I know!!!!!

Alien Abductee says:

So I interpreted it thusly:

Alien Abductee says:

1. Both of them offered me significant gifts in real life, the stature of which was huge to me, like getting a car as a gift

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2. Cars give you freedom to go places, and being freed up from those damn reports would set me free for the rest of the summer

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Etc.

Slip Me One Good Sweaty Sailor says:

very good interpretation

Alien Abductee says:

Thank you, thank you! *bows*

Alien Abductee says:

So on Tuesday when I drove down to see Melissa

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She gave me a gift of a bracelet she knew I wanted and......

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of course..........

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a little toy bug

Slip Me One Good Sweaty Sailor says:

wow!!!!

Alien Abductee says:

Now, she could only find yellow

Alien Abductee says:

(I had told her about the dream)

Alien Abductee says:

And yellow would have been significant, as it was still in the dream

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BUT

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She painted it metallic Blue with nail polish

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Is that true friendship, or what?!

Slip Me One Good Sweaty Sailor says:

really?

Alien Abductee says:

REally!

Slip Me One Good Sweaty Sailor says:

but she already knew about the dream, right?

Alien Abductee says:

Yes, she did

Slip Me One Good Sweaty Sailor says:

that's really sweet of her

Alien Abductee says:

I know!

Slip Me One Good Sweaty Sailor says:

especially to go to such trouble to make the yellow bug blue

Alien Abductee says:

I know!

Alien Abductee says:

Then she proceeded to take me to her mom's to do my nails

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(Her mom has a whole manicure set-up for doing people's nails at her house)

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Then to Starbucks for a drink and pastry

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Then to the nail salon for pedicures for both of us

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Then to lunch at the place of my choice

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Then to the drugstore for hair color

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Then to Fred Meyer's for me to buy Jim an anniversary present (long tangential story, which we won't explore here)

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Then home to her house to color my hair and wax my eyebrows and such

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And it was a glorious, glorious day!

Alien Abductee says:

But it still wasn't over!

Slip Me One Good Sweaty Sailor says:

Sounds like you got he Royal Treatment

Alien Abductee says:

I did!

Slip Me One Good Sweaty Sailor says:

there's more???

Alien Abductee says:

There is!!!!!

Slip Me One Good Sweaty Sailor says:

how could it possibly get any better?

Alien Abductee says:

I know!

Alien Abductee says:

But I was only done at Melissa's at that point, you see.

Alien Abductee says:

So we said goodbye, and then I drove up here

Alien Abductee says:

Where my colleagues were having a party

Alien Abductee says:

Which wasn't supposed to be for me, at first, but I horned in

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Christiane had told me a couple weeks ago that she was having a party for Kerry's 50th birthday (which was the 30th)

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On the second

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So I felt oBligated to tell her my birthday was the first and that she had better include me, too

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Which she did

Slip Me One Good Sweaty Sailor says:

I would have done the same

Alien Abductee says:

Yes, because otherwise I would have felt neglected

Slip Me One Good Sweaty Sailor says:

and we can't have that

Alien Abductee says:

And it probaBly would have come up in conversation

Alien Abductee says:

No, we most certainly can't!

Alien Abductee says:

So this was mostly colleagues from school, out in her really pretty back yard with yummy food and so many desserts I never even tried them all

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And wine and champagne

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And fellowship and laughing

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And I felt like, "Wow, I think I have friends!"

Alien Abductee says:

Oh, and get this!

Slip Me One Good Sweaty Sailor says:

what a great feeling

Slip Me One Good Sweaty Sailor says:

yes???

Alien Abductee says:

People even gave me presents!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Alien Abductee says:

Slip Me One Good Sweaty Sailor says:

yay!!!

Alien Abductee says:

I am all about presents!

Slip Me One Good Sweaty Sailor says:

me, too

Slip Me One Good Sweaty Sailor says:

I love presents

Alien Abductee says:

So, it was a great three days, and I don't even really mind being *gasp* 36

Slip Me One Good Sweaty Sailor says:

If I were a Sesame Street character, I'd be the Present Monster

Alien Abductee says:

ME TOO!

Alien Abductee says:

We could be the present monster twins!

Slip Me One Good Sweaty Sailor says:

Okay!!!!

Alien Abductee says:

Okay!!!!!

Alien Abductee says:

"Me want presents!"

Alien Abductee says:

"Me LOVES presents!"

Alien Abductee says:

*finds this character strangely easy to slip into*

Slip Me One Good Sweaty Sailor says:

*Noticed*

Alien Abductee says:

Hee!

Alien Abductee says:

So, how are things with you?

Alien Abductee says:

*points to end of long story*

Slip Me One Good Sweaty Sailor says:

Going really good

Alien Abductee says:

YAY!

Slip Me One Good Sweaty Sailor says:

*loved the long story*

Alien Abductee says:

More yay!

Disgruntled, Disillusioned & Disenfranchised

Dear Moonshh, I write to you on this here day of Saturday 29th January 2005 with some important information I think you must immediatly know: SLEUTH IS A STUPID GAME! I was merrily partaking in a hunt for the delightful faction that is the Order of the Socrates, breezing through the first two favours to find that my Barber was up next. My first encountered hurdle involved finding three right handed notes and one left at the scene. But, remembering life is never easy, I lifted my head and went powering ahead. However, hurdle number two involved all the suspects being totally uncreative knob jockeys who all apparently used their right hand. Again, I've always quite fancied going to heaven and thought this was just another of God's tests so picked up my spirits and carried on. Then, hurdle number three: the stupid wanker, sorry banker, only wanted to answer ONE question. I wasn't put out by this, oh no. I realised maybe it was another of God's little fun games, a test of faith. So off I went and tried my luck. Maybe I should have realised after five years of playing the lottery with no fortune to show for it, my luck in this case would have been no better. It wasn't. I am now off to lift some spirits, the kind you find in the off license. This game has not only turned me into a reclusive computer freak, but now has driven me to drink, an activity I rarely before cared for. I will be writing to my soliciter to file for compensation as soon as I find a pen and some paper. I will be writing it with my right hand. Thankyou for your time. Kind regards Miss. N. Annoyed