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25 June 2007
Entice me! Sometimes I like to fantasize about running away from home. (You know you do it, too!) Tell me why I should come stay with you.
Sorry. There are no words available in the dictionary to describe my life in such a way that it would entice anyone to come and join. Really.
However, I would love to join you in running away. Yes! Thelma and Louise type of thing?! Oooh. Cross country road trip? Beer, sex, maps and sightseeing. Hm?
I just cleaned out the study so guests can sleep comfortably there.
The study is where we keep the bar.
When I walk through my neighborhood at sunset, all the eaves and widow's walks and shingled roof peaks jut jauntily against the rose-and-fire-tinted sky. It's very painterly.
The brick oven pizzeria opening two blocks away is named after a chimpanzee.
We can stroll (I can walk now!) to my town's well-known tourist area, which not only boasts a zillion tourist-trap shops and activities, but also has cool little boutiques, coffehouses, brasseries, and an art-house theater.
We can stroll five minutes to the Wednesday farmer's market to buy greens and basil and flowers and seedlings.
It's safe to walk around at night. We can walk to clubs and restaurants and the local art museum, which is open (and free!) on Friday night.
My fella will bring home a stack of movies and a six-pack every night, in case you feel like staying in.
I've just perfected my baking-powder biscuit recipe.
Walk on the beach on the spectacular Oregon Coast. Clean white sand interspersed with lava rock. On the way back, stop at one of many world-class Pinot Noir wineries in a Tuscany-like setting of rolling green hills.
Or hike amongst glacier-studded volcanoes and pristine forests in the Cascades.
Or just hang out on one of my decks, under 3 huge cedar trees, eating passably good meals and drinking the above-mentioned wine or local microbrews.
Or take a free bus to here for a day. (I'll pass but newbies to this area are usually enthralled.)
Plus, (creepy voice)I'm your FRIEND. I'm not like the others.(/creepy voice)
Hi! You can visit jonmc (drink his beer) and thepinksuperhero (pet her dog) easily from where I'm at. We live near a "park" and have a fold out bed in our tiny apartment that you can use (if you don't mind the cats). All that and one bag of chips on arrival, as they say.
Yes, yes, yes! So very tempting! And I'm totally up for a sidekick, carmina. (I'm supposed to be in Ithaca right this very minute, but couldn't bring myself to leave a baby so young for so long. Just getting there was going to take 2 days.)
That is, if you two don't mind sharing the flopped-down futon pad in the tiny study. (Again, the study is where we keep the bar. Plenty of Maker's Mark should make up for the lack of space. )
(I'm all giddy at the notion of guests because an old friend is coming to stay this weekend. We haven't visited in six years. I've been getting the study ready and planning menus and tidying and I Am So Excited.)
I love Maine! We've vacationed there twice on a little cabin near Blue Hill and it was fabulous. And my best friend from high school lives in Portland. I'm up for a Maine visit anytime (and the bar helps.)
Hugh, that looks so luxurious that I'm assuming I'll have to put out. Which I totally would.
Whiskey. Every sort of food delivery until the very wee hours. Hookah bar is stumbling distance. You can see sailboats out of my living room and dining room windows. I am tidy and I smell good.
I have an RPG I've been saving to shoot off on a special occasion and I think we have some ice cubes. Plenty of kosher salt, I know that. We have a Wii and you could put your name on the list to use it a little when me and the kid beat Zelda, assuming you haven't left because you are tired of sleeping in the car or on the couch under some cats. So when do I pick you up from the airport?
Unfortunately, running away to stay with me would be going from the frying pan into the fire kids-wise (and that's obviously why you want to run away. Duh). But I could get behind a group road-trip, if only there were roads connecting us. Geography sucks ;-(
It's ridiculously hot here, and the couch is mighty uncomfortable until we get our sofa bed. We have jumping spiders in the house - and the other night I saw two humongous cockroaches outside, and there's pretty much no barrier to entry if they feel like coming inside.
But! All the cheap wine you can drink! I'll make gumbo! More history than you can shake a stick at! (though why you would want to shake a stick at history, I don't know. You weirdo.) Plus, I'm lots and lots of fun, and the husband will be home next weekend, and he's, like, the best person ever, whom you will love totally, and be all BFF.
Plus, since I can see I'm up against some pretty stiff competition here, I'm assuming I'll have to put out. Which I totally would.
I don't have much to offer, but to say if you're thinking about doing it, do it. Something tells me we would make an awesome team at charades. We could go pro.
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