This is a brief check-in so you don’t think I’m dead.
*checks*
Nope, not dead.
Maybe MOSTLY dead. But not all the way!
It’s a busy couple of weeks here, which just kicked off on Thursday. I might be running around like a crazyperson until mid-October, so I can’t plan anything (including blogging, sadly.) They’re all good things, and fun things, and things I’m very much looking forward to, but there are a LOT of things.
So, this past week, I reviewed a show (and had a very nice dinner with my friend K., in which we caught up and laughed and ate and solved all the world’s problems. YOU ARE WELCOME, WORLD. Expect my invoice in the mail in the next 2-4 weeks.) The paper I write for is still having technical difficulties, so you can read my review for free. I saw Les Mis. It wasn’t a flawless production (but it wasn’t the worst production I’ve ever seen, either…so not a complete waste of time. I do so enjoy “On My Own.” And hearing “to love another person is to see the face of God” always gives me chills.)
Then Friday, Cousin S. came to visit! We had a weekend of ADVENTURE and TALKING and MORE ADVENTURE. We ate all the food (sushi and popcorn and Cheesecake Factory and waffles!) and toured Albany and saw a movie (Don Jon, which was really very good, if you like naughtiness and Joseph Gordon Levitt, both of which we do) and I introduced her to Veronica Mars (which she loved, yay! Excellent taste, that woman. It must be hereditary.) And we talked and talked and talked. We had many years of talking to catch up with. I think we did that admirably. Then, after she left, I took a three-hour nap. WHO DOES SUCH A THING. It was not planned to be that long. I had a headache and I was like, let’s just curl up for a bit, see if we can get this to back off! and then the next thing I knew, it was dinnertime. What the hell?
I don’t like cheesecake. I got this thing called Blackout Cake. One slice was the size of my damn head. I could not even finish it. True story.
And ALSO, this weekend, I was Freshly Pressed for the second (I KNOW!) time! So the phone went off and off and OFF with comments and likes and reblogs and such and Cousin S. was like YOUR PHONE! IT IS BLOWING UP! and I was like, yes, blogging, it is a strange and demanding mistress. The WordPress people contacted me on Monday to tell me they were Freshly Pressing the blog I wrote last week about meeting up with Josh last weekend, and I could not have been more pleased. What a great post to choose, and what an honor for them to choose me again. So! Some of you are most likely new people. Hello, new people! I am so pleased you are here. Please always feel free to comment, and if you are confused and would like to know what the hell’s going on here (I don’t know what’s going on here a lot of the time, to be honest) you can check out my About page, or the Frequently Asked Questions page. And just a warning, usually I’m goofy. SOMETIMES I’m serious, but seriously, usually I’m very random and goofy. So if you hate such things, no harm, no foul, I suppose.
VERY EXCITING!
This week is INSANE. I’m seeing three plays (and reviewing two), going to dinner with friends, working 6 days, getting a haircut, bringing the car to the garage because I think it’s about to die, and Mom and Dad are coming to visit because I AM ALMOST A YEAR OLDER. Yes! It is true! With the advent of October, it is almost AMY-MONTH! Shush, I totally get a whole month, don’t you get a whole month when it’s YOUR birthday? Well, if you don’t, you should, sheesh. We are officially 8 days from my birthday. This year I sadly have to work on my birthday, because later in the week I’ll be taking six days off to take a trip to Virginia! IT IS ALMOST VIRGINIA-TIME!!!
BIRTHDAY MONTH!!!
Now it is bedtime, because I have a Stephen King book that is crying out “Amy! READ ME!” and you know, I kind of want to do that. This is the longest I’ve gone without having my nose stuck in a new Stephen King book in my whole LIFE. If I don’t hurry up, I just know some internet asshat is going to spoil it for me, and then I will have to go POSTAL on them and who wants THAT to happen? No one. I mean, sincerely.
Happy Monday, all. I hope your weekends were full of adventure and mystery and wonder and joy. If they weren’t, there’s always next weekend, right? Right.
September 30th, 2013 at 12:10 pm
Congratulations on Freshly Pressing! Horrah! Huzzah! And all the other cheery H words! Yay, yay, yay!
I DID have a weekend full of adventure and mystery and wonder and joy. Also time-travel and sadness and discovery.
I cleaned out my storage unit! And it was all of those things and more.
Happy birthday month, Amy. Even if you don’t post much, please do a small birthday post so we can wish you happy on the actual day of your birthday, even if you schedule it ahead. I know (I KNOW) that I am not alone in wanting to be able to do that.
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September 30th, 2013 at 7:00 pm
Thank you! And yay for YOUR weekend!
Oh, I’m sure I’ll go on and on and ON about my birthday. I can’t even help myself. My birthday hits, and I’m like a six-year-old who wants all the attention and balloons and candles. It’s a sickness, really.
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September 30th, 2013 at 12:29 pm
You are a busy woman. But I love that kind of busy!
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September 30th, 2013 at 6:59 pm
It really is all good things, but I also need about 5 more hours in each day in order to nap. Sigh.
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September 30th, 2013 at 12:30 pm
Now. Blackout Cake. I want some.
What else? Ten says that we need a ‘safe word’ about the whole Pirate Kidnap Scenario in case you are bluffing. (With a knife at your throat)
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September 30th, 2013 at 6:58 pm
It was DELICIOUS. Maybe when you come to the Merka, you can HAVE some!
Hee, Ten. Ten is one of my favorite internettians. He makes me laugh. Wait, if I say my safeword here, will it no longer be valid since the whole internet knows it?
Eh, who cares.
IT SHALL BE SUCCOTASH.
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September 30th, 2013 at 7:48 pm
Oh no! My safe word is Murgatroid!
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October 1st, 2013 at 2:43 am
LOL, He thought you’d say DOUCHECANOE.
Congrats on all the readingpeople. TWO freshly presseds! Nice work, lady!
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October 1st, 2013 at 11:10 pm
I keep feeling like they’re going to realize they’ve made a mistake and take them away. “WHAT? We didn’t mean YOUR blog. Silly lady. YANK!”
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October 2nd, 2013 at 9:35 am
HA! But if that were so you’d have still snagged ALL THE READERS so there!
Anyway, it was a good post, worthy of attention, as was the last one. They obviously employ more than just robots to spot the goodies.
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October 2nd, 2013 at 10:27 pm
Aw, you. Thank you so much. Come to my New York soon, so I can show you tall buildings and buy you an egg cream. I want to talk to your face.
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October 3rd, 2013 at 3:04 am
I don’t know what an egg cream is, but I bet I’d like it.
Also the buildings and the face talking.
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October 3rd, 2013 at 7:54 am
An egg cream is a New York City drink that doesn’t taste as good anywhere else, and EVERYONE likes it. You would, too. I know it.
BUILDINGS! FACE-TALKING! EGG CREAMS!
This is a thing that must happen someday.
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September 30th, 2013 at 1:13 pm
happy birthday month and we’ll see you when we see you )
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September 30th, 2013 at 6:57 pm
Thank you!
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September 30th, 2013 at 8:58 pm
I totally get a whole birthday month, too. And my hubby came from a family that did NOT fuss about birthdays, so he doesn’t GET IT. Maybe it’s because he was the last of 5 kids and his family was all birthdayed out by then.
But my family is all YAY! YOU WERE BORN AND IT WAS MAGNIFICENT! so I get a birthday month and hubby is learning about the joy of birthdays.
And VERONICA MARS! See, if I didn’t all ready <3 you, that would put it right over the top.
I don't know if I can read the new Stephen King because if the beginning of the book is about what sj said it was, I just cannot. And that makes me sad.
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September 30th, 2013 at 10:04 pm
My family’s pretty happy about it, too. I don’t know that they give me a whole MONTH – but I take one, anyway.
Oh, Veronica Mars and I are besties. Now that I watched 4 eps with my cousin I want to watch the whole series all over again. Sigh.
The beginning’s tough – but that hasn’t come back since. And I’m really loving it.
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September 30th, 2013 at 11:41 pm
I’ve never really gotten into Veronica Mars. But then again, I’ve only ever watched half an episode here and there.
Anyway, glad you had such a good weekend. You should have good weekends more often.
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October 1st, 2013 at 1:08 pm
You have to watch from the beginning and the first season is the BEST.
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October 1st, 2013 at 11:11 pm
If you got into it, I think you’d love it. And we could TALK about it!
Thank you! I know, I’d really like more good weekends. Hard when you work half your weekend away. But I have more good weekends coming up soon!
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October 5th, 2013 at 10:47 pm
OK, I’m behind on my reading, so this may no longer apply … but on your way to (or from) Virginia, as you pass by/through Philadelphia, look to the west and wave — I’ll wave back ;-)
Hope you have a great birthday and a great trip!
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October 5th, 2013 at 10:52 pm
I will do so! (It still applies – I leave veeeeery early Friday morning!)
Thank you! Birthday’s coming up quickly and then it’s time for an OUT OF STATE ADVENTURE! Eeeee!
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October 5th, 2013 at 11:51 pm
YAY!!! I haven’t missed it!
So veeeeery early Friday morning, probably translates to my looking for your wave between 9 & 10 am ;-)
I hope you have unmitigated success in your OUT OF STATE ADVENTURE!
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October 6th, 2013 at 9:30 am
Thank you! I will wave in a most queenly way! :)
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