and then she said....

enjoy a photo of my sweet boo Calib (my 3 yr old holland lop who is VERY chubby) he does tricks like this one...he stands up so he can then get a cranberry.
:)

today was a wonderful day! i slept til 2pm ("oh what a feelin!") got some of my many errands done and then got a phone call from one of my favorite people in the whole wide world...my marji called me! :D
we've been friends since high school and we danced together as well as plotted and schemed many a time. so after the usual catching up and highly animated storytelling or two or three we got down to business...analyzing life and people, as only we do best...uh...yeah...well it was while she was explaining her brother's frustration with a girl and how people contradict themselves that she gave me the best example ive heard of in a long time...."its like if you had a beautiful vacation home in iraq, great! but what's the point?! its not like you can go visit it right now!"
she then began to retell a story that only made me realize how similar she and my friend amy are...apparently lately marji has had a rather twitchy stomach muscle that causes her to get hiccups frequently. she proceeded to give a great mental picture when she told me that when they start up she tries to ignore them in the hopes that they will magically go away and or that her officemates wont notice and that by doing so it actually makes them louder and much worse. (to get the full picture you have to understand that marji is typically very animated and enthusiastic so for her to sit at her desk trying to be quiet and non-attention getting while nervously looking around with a grin on her face while hiccuping loudly...well like most of my stories i guess you have to be there) at anyrate because of her twitchy stomach her officemates and to her dismay even her boss has taken to telling her when they are or have "pulled a marji", typically during the most inopportune times. i guess the best part is that like amy has decided to do marji takes it in stride and tries to find the humor in the fact that the people she works with now regularly tell her that they think of her during embarrassing moments and feel a need to share them with her.
now dont get me wrong i dont have two friends that go through life hiccuping like crazy...i just have one, my marji, amy on the other hand is much more like me in the fact that no matter how hard we try we just cant seem to walk without tripping, stumbling, bumping into people or tables or chairs or other inadament objects, or wobbling. i mean we dont fall all the time, we just seem to do it often and most often when lots of other people are around. though unfortunately the last time i fell was not amonst friends...well actually i guess it was...here amy tells it better anyway... my fabulous chilis trip