Adventures with Dr. Lady Cutie Troublemaker

Tonight I was lucky enough to have joined in on the Blogger Bash at Cafe Francisco. Lots of local Memphis bloggers in attendance. Aaron joined me and was ridiculed enough by the other guests to actually post on his nearly dead blog!

Above are Mark and Brock

Me with my BLT (oddly, the price of tomatoes is so high that the T on my BLT cost an extra 75 cents!)

Here we have Peggy and Mick, who brought all of us party favors! I got a yo-yo!

Brock ‘n’ Mike (who is actually on a blogging hiatus at present)

Here’s the host of this thing, Eric, who wore a Blogger sweatshirt so we could identify the group!

And here’s me, plugging Tribe.net like it’s Amway, or at least Quixtar!

I apologize for not sharing pictures of everyone. The one I have of Len looks kind of like the pictures of people in The Ring after they watch that video and hear the phone ring. Sadly, Rachel was a no-show. Maybe next time. Aaron was there, but he was holding the camera, and the only picture of him was in that same one with the Ring Len one! Phil was there, too, but the pictures of him turned out really blurry. Maybe I need to get over my fear of flash photography.

Folks, I’d say more, but it’s been a helluva day of scoring assessments, dissertating, updating my CV, writing cover letters, and hanging out IRL with the blogfolk. It’s midnight, and the alarm’s going off at 6:30am… well, maybe 7am. I’ve gotta amscray to edbay. Witticisms will have to wait until tomorrow.

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Well, it was an exhausting week. I was exhausted when it started, but it was a different kind of overworked exhaustion. As silly as it sounds, I was really happy to tire myself in a different way. At least I saw people I love. At least I had some really great meals. Maybe there was a lot of socializing and not much down time, but lately, there’s been too much work and not much down time. I am sitting here realizing that I have to do all of my shopping and a LOT of job search work in the next few weeks. Lots to do and not nearly enough time to do it, but I guess that’s kind of par for the course.

Regarding the details of Thanksgiving, many of us spent the morning at Elfo’s chopping and prepping for the meal. David is my parents’ friend Mary Ann’s son, and the head chef. He is also mellow as can be… not at all like the chefs they show on TV who bark orders at all of their underlings.

The chopping scene on Thanksgiving morning.

The Thanksgiving group watches The 2004 Kennel Club of Philadelphia Dog Show with great interest!

David and company quietly made a large tasty meal for about 30 people. We ate it in Elfo’s, which was closed for the day. It was tasty stuff.

Mom models the new backpack and dumps the old fanny pack. Yay!

Look! Actual people in my apartment!

The rest of the week involved lots of restaurants, a nice walk on the Mississippi, a trip to the National Ornamental Metal Museum, and general hanging out with the family. My plans to make little snowmen out of mints never quite materialized, but I think I’ve recovered!

Aaron gains wisdom from Dad outside the bookstore.

At least Aaron and I got a little decorating done around here:

Purty!

Miss Maggie just loves lying under the Christmas tree, real or fake! (Sadly, it’s a fake this year. I’m going to be gone for 10 days, so it’s not really worth the expense and effort to get a real one.) 🙁

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Thanksgiving morning walk along the Mighty Mississip!

It was a lovely day with great food and great people. No family strife, and I got a particularly nice gift in that mom loved the new purse Aaron and I picked out for her and ditched the old fanny pack "purse" she’d had just a little too long. Stylin’ pictures soon to follow! 😀

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The www.sorryeverybody web site is so overwhelmed that it isn’t taking any more submissions, but it still matters that people are making these. Here’s my mom’s. Notice the Cutie Gear!

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Well, Jeep is just fine. There is absolutely nothing wrong with her. I think the tootache hypothesis wasn’t far from wrong, though. This past weekend, I found a nearly whole vomited-up toy kitty ball on the sofa. I, of course, assumed it was Maggie’s doing, as Maggie is prone to eat inedible things, then throw them up later. There was yet another portion (the rest?) of the ball vomited on to the sofa yesterday. I think this is what was causing Jeep grief. Her appetite is completely normal, as is her blood test. But in order to take her blood, they shaved her neck, so she looks just a little bit stupid!

Baldy, or “Garibaldi,” as I’ve been calling her.

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