You CAN go home.

In which Pooh packs up the U-Haul and heads back home exhausted, but still takes the time to talk more about the neighborhood.

I am home in my own house.
Ahhhhhh!!! Dirty dishes and stacks of electronic and computer junk everywhere never felt so good. And...wait what's that noise??? Bwahahahahahaha!!! THERE IS NO NOISE...IT IS BLISSFULLY QUIET!!! As of today, my Sister in-law is done with school teaching for the summer.

Meso nosa hafta babysittee forsa leasta fewsa days-o boy-o.

Oh-Boyo!!!

(Can you tell I have been around 5 and 8 and 10 year olds too much lately?)
I have been away from the house for almost a month. (With occasional stop in's for mail etc.)

So besides the mice taking over my second story with some kind of marathon head banging cheese rave, and a rather disconcerting odor for which I cannot find the source, all is now right with the world. Rick is doing better everyday and as he has been going, so have the rest of my family and I been going.

Sooooo, I am going to try for a little more normalcy in my days.

(Me? Normal?? Bwahahahaha), But that means no more neglecting my blog. And so without further ado, back to the party, and it's guests.

Irish-Girl and Jeremy were there. I have already blogged in the past about these two quite a bit individually. You can go look up my feelings about them if you want to. I will paraphrase though and tell you this. They are both amazing people that I feel privileged to call my friends. Although being a couple defines only a small part of what they are, everyone I know who knows them, (with myself at the top of the list) thinks and hopes they are destined for great things together.

That leaves Mopsa and MJ to round out the party roster.

What can I say about Mopsa? First, like a number of my favorite bloggers I was introduced to her via Irish-Girl. Of all the new people I was going to meet at this party, I was probably the most excited to meet Mopsa. I have been reading her blog almost since I started blogging and I was really looking forward to meeting her. Her writing is warm and funny and something you don't often see on the web. It has an unguarded, vulnerable feel to it.... happy, sad, political, bitchy, irreverent, it all makes it to her pages. I find I connect to many of the things she writes about so much that I end up blogging about them. I find myself hoping we really hit it off together, as she is someone that I think would be wonderful to have as a friend.

Something else...Now I don't use the word hate very often. It is a narrow, brutal and dark word that gets used way to often in my opinion. But I hate people who, when they are on their own and away from their husbands, wives or significant others, trash or say disparaging things about them. It is dishonest, classless, unloyal and unloving. You know what I am talking about, it happens all the time. Conversely, for me the opposite is also true. I greatly admire those that praise or brag about the person in their lives when that partner is not there and will not know or hear about it. It is done not to score points or flatter. It is done out of love and a real appreciation for the person in their lives. Mopsa lit up when talking about the love in her life. I love that.

There are SO many subtle little things you can see in a person when you are sitting right next to them. I know we had a couple of real moments when we were sitting on the couch together. At one point, our eyes met and I knew what she was thinking and I thought there was an understanding that passed between us. If you are reading this Mopsa, I know you know what I am talking about. It was for me, a remarkably honest moment.
Now that my life has quieted a bit I really hope we will get together again soon.

Mj was a bit of an enigma. I had been reading her for only a short time so I knew very little about her. We talked Macs and music. Both of which she loves. If I were to say the names Charlie, Miles and Steven her answer would NOT be Sheen, Lord and Baldwin, but Parker, Davis and Jobs so of course I think she is a genius.

So that about wraps up the dish for the event now known as "The Party"

Great fun, great food, and the chance to spend time with great people...does it get any better than that?

It is a new day and I am going to spend it making lists for all the things I need to do to get caught back up with my life. I should be done in about 4 years so I'll check in with you all then...in the meantime ...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Posted by Jack at June 18, 2003 08:50 AM