Aw mookie <3
aw sandbox <3
i wish i didn’t live so far away from you all.
estela, maybe you won’t always <3
mookieproof, the sandbox <3s you back
ruby, i never got a new drawing from you
now i got it. you don’t suck!! <3
when I heard maurice sendak had died, I thought about jergins right away. that sendak nutcracker was a major thing for me as a kid!
aw <3 teh.
we used to do our own re-enactments in the living room using the raised hearth of our fireplace as a stage. no giant puppets, though!
u better not have come to nyc ms. nxy (although u should have)
i think you are addressing me and if so, nono, no nyc this time. will most certainly let you know when we are there... unless you’re living in seawa by then. which you should.
<3
mookie when are you moving to seawa?
when someone gives me a job there?
lxy and yerginz were in my dream last night, and i gave them some smashed pineapple lumps.
dreams can come true!
it is raining for the first time since late july and it is not very convincing.
i should have posted that to lxy and jergins’ board because i could.
the downside of spring rain is giant australian spiders sneaking indoors for shelter, it is quite a significant downside.
it’s raining.
it’s raining and i heard lxy’s favorite taylor swift song at the gym. i deadlifted 115 lbs.
that song is STILL in my head (i nearly typed heart which is kind of lol but mostly true)
someone was telling me a story about a cat they had many years ago who required dramatic lifesaving surgery after being hit by a car and it was in the days before vets had respirators so the vet nurse had spent the entire four hours of surgery gently blowing air into the cat’s lungs using a drinking straw and i fervently wished jergins was there so he could hear this and i could see his facial expression.
haha i do too!
i wish you all could see this tiny little duffer of a superman who turned up at our house trick or treating. he was too little to have any idea of what was going on and he was so short you could barely see him toddling along behind his witch big sisters and the candy handover confused him but he seemed happy.
estela did u dress up
no, i don’t like to dress up.
ok
I’m now staying with my parents and I chased a bug out of my room and it went into their bedroom instead and it’s in there whizzing about.
i am certain they are extremely surprised by this
imaginary pet
kinda struggling with estela having parents? i’d envisioned more of a pallas athena scenario
Otm
imaginary pest
It’s ice raining. Bad day to learn your coat is more water resistant than waterproof..
it has been extremely hot and humid here, ice rain sounds like a sweet fresh dream.
hello from arusha tanzania
hello<3
it is even more disgustingly hot here today, i was not meant for this.
it’s disgustingly cold here. can you send postcards from tanzania or are you on a safari?
i will when we get to zanzibar next week. send your address, yo!
where in the world is
lxy of the sandbox
rim of ngorongoro crater, for now. tomorrow, serengeti plain. in four days, ras nungewi zanzibar.
still time for postcards if you send your address! connectivity has been pretty good.
emailed u
got it!!
Neighborhood is exploding like crazy! Happy 2013 sandbox! The century is a teenager now :)
happy new year, sb<3
got a postcard from paris today<3
i still have the shanghai one on the refrigerator door, it’s held on by an old ratbag of a troll magnet with flaming vertical orange hair and smudged chimney sweep cheeks.
hurray from zanzibar!
today we walked (trudged dispiritedly in the heat and humidity along a dusty road — the long way because we were told there were packs of loose dogs on the short road) through town (a collection of falling-down shanties and huts with infants sitting in the dirt outside, and a bunch of shops called “shop” that had for sale fruit, potatoes, used clothing and shoes), to the tourist beach (a beautiful expanse of white sand fronting a turquoise sea, peopled with europeans in speedos and thong bikinis, zanzibari boys telling us how the beach is dangerous further down — why? it’s not clear — and gangs of little girls in pretty dresses shouting JAMBO! and offering seashells for sale — one of whom hit me with a piece of flotsam rope when i pleasantly declined.
it’s hard to be here. we’re staying at a 5-star resort on the northern tip of unguja island, surrounded by barbed wire topped walls beyond which is squalor and poverty. so while we have all the comforts (along with the over-attentiveness that seems to imply comfort), it is difficult and unpleasant to leave, and stifling to stay.
plus it’s superfucking hot. and we just spent 7 days on safari, which was its own brand of difficulty and unpleasantness.
we have seen a billion wild animals and some incredible scenery. tanzania is very beautiful and we’ve met some very nice people. but to be quite honest, i am ready to go home. but i’ll be sure to send postcards before i do.
Paris postcard arrived today <3<3<3
I miss you guys and will be very glad when you are back home.
that does not sound like the right climate or soil for you to flower in, miss lxy.
I love reading your accounts. They are so visual, i feel can see you there!
got my paris postcard today! <3
daerest lxy,
merci pour le cafe!
<3
<3, everyone, from schiphol. i did not get the tz cards mailed :(
i feel completely insane.
<3 godspeed home dear one, are you on your way? it’s seems ike you’ve been gone for such a long time!
the only time i was in schipol my bag was pulled aside for a search. i was there with a friend who was returning to the states after several years in the peace corps in west africa, so i was carrying some of his excess stuff — fortunately the long cylindrical item that caught security’s eye was not a marital aid but a bike pump.
in the course of the search the woman noticed that i’d forgotten to mail my postcards and offered to do it for me. and she did! <3 the dutch
estela have you and f been to an abl game?
home. thank god. 30+ hours in transit is tooo long. we flew business class the last leg, which was a great surprise.
hakuna matata, everyone.
Welcome home! I hope you can just relax in your house with all your stuff, listening to quiet familiar sounds and just breathing in the air of home.
happy new year at home!
so welcome<3
mookie, we’ve never to an abl game but f. has very recently been reading up on it. also the dodgers/diamondbacks are supposedly going to play in sydney next year, he is more interested in that but it will no doubt be ludicrously expensive.
it’s snowing!
no it isn’t!
licorice bullets!
raspberry licorice bullets!
jaffas!
giant jaffas!
maggi onion soup but no reduced cream bc mum put it in her carry-on luggage ;_;
(this is the load of food mum and dad brought over last weekend for me)
mealmates. you lucky thing!
ty for the postcard!! <3
Iceland has really cool stamps!!
I am in an airport.
:-)
Mountains! And trees!! <3
weak beer tho
lol, seriously!
Apparently they can get kegs for this place that are better than what can be sold in bottles. Didn’t matter cause i had wine!
I used my tiny bit of free time to go on a hike to a waterfall :)
i saw a license plate that said SANDBOX
xxxxooooxxxx
it’s raining
hey also, i somehow accidentally added seattle to my favorite cities on weather.com when i visited the first time, and it’s stuck there and keeps telling me about your wonderful, non-oppressive weather!
I am sunburnt and there is vegetation in my hair from being outside in our weather. Sunshine just makes me suspicious these days.
I was just tonight thinking about how much i wished i was in Seattle because every time i walk the dog the heat/humidity combo makes me feel like i need a shower/change of clothes. I don’t want to live where you can’t wear jeans!!!
Also i think the Seattle weather makes it easier to go jogging.
I am going to be an aunt today! :)))))))
ohohohohoh that’s wonderful, friend! i think you will love it. <3
Lil sis and i are in the waiting room imagining sitcom labor scenarios...getting very ~auntsy~ so excited!
is it official by now??!
As of 9:31 pm! I have a niece!!!! She is sooo perfect <3
so wonderful. what a good auntie you will be!
aw thank you, dear lxy!
i liked that post, i was in the waiting room when our niece arrived and it was some ridiculous instant <3
it’s not fair you have a perfect niece and a perfect dog!
So wonderful! Aunt Tza!
<3
Harbl, i don’t have a house!!!!
nieces are the best kind of people
it’s 67 degrees. it’s wonderful!
k-otm
what a wonderful morning
i nearly wept
― mookieproof, Thursday, July 25, 2013 10:47 AM (Yesterday)
i drove through upper marlboro today
!! we were just talkng about how when we go to visit you we can tour around my old neighborhood !!
i was on my way to la plata to go to the weirdest jail where the inmates where stripes and my client had her hand chained to the wall the whole time. i was surprised at how rural upper marlboro was, and how many old motels it had.
inmates *wore* stripes
yah, super rural considering how close it is to DC. i don’t remember the old motels though. maybe they weren’t old when i lived there, lol.
that hand chaining sounds awful.
i might have been in waldorf, it was such a long drive it was all a blur. la plata was ugly.
when i saw the motels. somewhere between UM and waldorf.
I like davidsonville. It is very pretty btw.
oh yeah some people i work with live there
It’s raining. And thundering!
sooo thundery wasn’t it??! exciting!!
i am in an airport. Eating a Terrible sandwich :(
terrbl
it’s ice raining.
i keep seeing people who remind me of lxy
i keep seeing people who remind me of tza
tonight on my way home I saw a lady sitting on her stoop reading and I really felt like fixing her a lxy drink but more so I wished she was lxy.
i need to be doing some drinkreading on my porch in this weather. i might go to work both today AND saturday though :(
i meant sunday. i just decided not to go to work today, saturday.
You should decide not to go tomorrow, too!
i’m at work lol
i saw another lxy yesterday
i’m starting to worry this is some sort of orphan black scenario
i’m going to buy some rum to make some lxy drinks with my dinner
darlings, i bought a bottle of mount gay today, first time in ages. think i might have a couple drinks before long.
<3
hit 84°f here today, and when i stepped outside for lunch, something — the heat, or the angle of light, or a forgotten smell — for a split second very intensely gave me the same feeling i had when i knew i was about to win a particular competition back in high school times
anyway, that was a good feeling; too bad it departed just as instantly
i put some plants in my stupid little garden and i’m having a lxy drink
xoxo
lxy drink
it’s raining.
it is indeed raining
i had a dream, a very vivid one, that i moved to australia. jergins was already there. we were part of the same program that allowed us to live rent-free for a year if we agreed to be test subjects for a new anti-seizure drug? wtf.
pfft more likely you got seized in an anti-drug test and were sent to Australia imo
haha. forgot about that.
saw a guy panhandling with sign that had something dumb like TOO UGLY FOR PROSTITUTION and was thinking that’s not even funny, it’s like a thing that no one even believes is funny but it has the expectation of funny like a radio commercial why doesn’t he have a sign that says
more fun every day
<3