August 02, 2006

Our New Normal

(Quick Note: If you left a comment on the last entry and it didn't show, it should show now. My comments needed a little "spam wrangling.")

This is what I know about Rabbitch:

Are any of these reason enough to decline an impromptu invitation for a rendezvous this weekend? Hell, no! There’s certainly room in my social circle for an underwear-on-head-wearing, zipper-hating, Canadian-or-maybe-American stranger. Which is a good thing because come noon on Saturday, Rabbitch, Elaine, Leslie, Patti, and I will be ensconced in TMK’s backyard having yet another one of our infamous barbeque knit-ins and watching Frankie steer her tushie in the general direction of the Norma Project.

That’s the thing about blogging. You start out thinking it’s an insufferably stupid hobby which only vain and narcissistic egocentrics would get sucked into. Then you discover that you are, in fact, a vain and narcissistic egocentric and start a blog. And three years later you find yourself running a charity that knits things for children in a country 10,000 miles away, flying to California for the wedding of two people you’ve never met, and blithely inviting into your home a complete stranger who is Canadian, or maybe American, wears underpants on her head and who may, by the time she gets to your house, be frantically fleeing American and Canadian border guards who received an—ahem—"anonymous" tip to be on the lookout for her. Ah, what a ride it's been!

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Think good thoughts for TMK if you have a mo'. Some escapees from Manland will be arriving at her house tomorrow to deliver the rest of what she needs to finish the Norma Project and she will need all the positive "woman energy" she can...Wait. No. Back that thought up. Think, instead, good thoughts for the escapees from Manland. On her turf, if there is a rumble, TMK will win, hands down. (Anyone thinking Sharks, Jets, “West Side Story” now? I am. Although now I have segued on to the Vain and Narcissistic Egocentrics’ national anthem, “I Feel Pretty.”)

Posted by Ryan at August 2, 2006 10:50 AM
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Well, Ryan, you can add another thing to your results of having a blog: influencing other people. As a result of your description of the wedding trip to two people you had never met, I decided to be brave and go to the out-of-state wedding of a friend to his longtime partner, neither of whose last names I knew (try explaining that to the local quilting group). FABULOUS wedding. Blog on, Blog Mistress!

Posted by: daisy on August 2, 2006 11:20 AM

I just have one thing to say about all that:

ROFLMAOWPIMP

Posted by: Norma on August 2, 2006 11:48 AM

Bwahahahaha! I love it!

And the cushion thing is so true. The outdoor chairs at my parents are wide mesh with no cushions, and leave an imprint that I can only describe as waffle ass.

Posted by: Annie on August 2, 2006 12:13 PM

I have no freaking clue what Norma just said. I stopped at the ass part. The pimp part I just don't get.

Rabbitch is from Scotland. This may or may not explain the underwear on the head, as I hear it's nearly illegal to wear it under your kilt.

TMK can do that snapping, stepping down the street thing AND look menacing at the same time? Dude, where the hell was she when I needed to beat the crap out of a doc who wanted to inject me with radioactive iodine, having kind of neglected the little phrase, "anaphlactic shock," on my chart?

And, um, you ARE pretty.

Posted by: Lee Ann on August 2, 2006 12:17 PM

Norma translation: rolling on floor laughing my ass off while peeing in my pants.

That said, I am so jealous you get to meet Rabbitch and she gets to meet you and TMK! Grr! But, then, since the Dallas trip and the harlot sighting, I now have an insatiable need to meet knit bloggers. I am convinced they are the coolest people on earth. Ever.

Also, I feel sorry for the Manland escapees. TMK, go easy on them hon. They're just men. Hee!

Posted by: Stalker Angie on August 2, 2006 12:27 PM

I am send TMK all of the woman energy I can muster and hoping htat the escapees from manland have enough sense to keep their mouths shut and know when it is time to beat a hasty retreat.

Posted by: Emily G on August 2, 2006 12:47 PM

I tend to think that those allowed out into the Real World from Manland have generally been tested and found able to communicate with real people. Think of them as emmissaries. You might not always get them, but in the interest of international relations, you gotta try to be nice. Even if Manland sends you a truck o' schmucks.
Good luck with that.
Have fun with Rabbitch. I hope she commemorates the occasion with a special swear word, just for you.

Posted by: Carrie on August 2, 2006 02:03 PM

In a recent email, Rabbitch said she is actually shy (!) and will most likely spend the lunch under the table, sucking her thumb.

Hands up anyone who believes this.

Posted by: Ryan on August 2, 2006 02:08 PM

If Rabbitch does indeed spend the lunch under the table sucking her thumb, will she be wearing her underwear on her head? If so, please post pictures. And give her a hug for me. (but not if the underwear's on her head. I have my standards.)

TMK, give 'em hell. I may have to go to manland this evening to buy more clamps. Coz it really is true that you can never have enough clamps.

Posted by: Rachel H on August 2, 2006 02:20 PM

now you have me snapping my fingers and whisting. when you're a jet you're a jet all the way.

Posted by: vanessa on August 2, 2006 06:38 PM

Scottish. It explains everything. Well, everything except why I'm in Canada and why I hop over the border so often.

But yeah, apart from that, all is now clear.

Posted by: Rabbitch on August 2, 2006 06:44 PM

Take it easy on the Manland emissaries. I am surrounded by them in my family -- husband, 2 sons -- and really, they're not all that bad. Although sometimes a little dope slap can do wonders to improve their attitude.

Posted by: kmkat on August 2, 2006 08:08 PM

"I’m not sure which, but she seems suspiciously comfortable on both sides of the border."

HAHAHAHAHA. Ask her why I laugh. Ha!

You'll love her. She's a doll.

Posted by: Rachael on August 2, 2006 10:16 PM

Thanks a bunch. Now I've got "I'll Feel Pretty" stuck in my head. You can do a lot a damage with a blog, you know. Well, off to face the world feeling ever so perky.

Posted by: Barbara on August 3, 2006 08:28 AM

Ryan - I, too, feared attached I-cord until I made the little flower petal bib from One Skein by Leigh Radford - it is the nicest finishing detail EVER and so easy, I PROMISE. Even easier than CROCHET! I recommend giving it a shot.

Posted by: Ang on August 3, 2006 11:02 AM
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