Home again, home again. *jiggety-jigs*

[constance]

I'm back! Hello! Hello! I missed you, all of you, because I am not used to going days without internet fixes, and I forget how little like the rest of my family I am, and by gosh, I am glad to be back among my people. People who may be as surprised by the following revelations as I am:

(1) There were approximately 7,324 college football season openers played this past weekend. All were televised and staggered so that between regular TV and Tivo it was possible to watch two football games at a time, screen-in-screen-style, all goddamned weekend long.

(2) It is not necessarily an ideal traveling experience to ride in the back of an RV for four days out of seven.

(3) It is not necessarily an ideal traveling experience to ride with an old married couple in said RV for four days out of seven.

(4) There are a lot of pink baby dresses in the world. (And my sister-in-law now owns them all.)

(5) It is possible to be in a large party (especially, I would think, in Texas), be one of six left-handers, three natural redheads, four fortyish spinsters, and still be the only liberal in the house.

On the other hand, the food was delicious, the weather not too excruciatingly hot, the babies soft and well-behaved and gratifyingly fond of me (who am equally soft), the people nice (even the Republicans). And Peter Wimsey still rocks my socks in spite of the innate snobbery, and if I spent way more time in the company of others than I normally do, at least the company was friendly and easygoing.

In other words, it wasn't an ideal vacation, but it could have been so much worse. And I am ever so happy to be home again.

:::

After a week without my dogs, I went to pick them up from the vet's office yesterday afternoon, and it was a shock to me to realize how beautiful Leory has grown since I got him. It's happened so gradually over the past months that I forgot to pay attention, but from the underfed, mangy-looking, wormy thing he was four months ago, he's turned into a glossy-fluffy stunner who totally seduced the vets' assistants who cared for him.

I've tried to take a couple of pictures to show you, but Leory takes camera sessions as invitations to frolic, and I'm not so great at taking pictures of frolics (#1: Leory's left eye; #2: a black blur that could be a dog or a flying bedspread; #3: an appetizing view of his butt), but I'll keep trying, because a dog this gorgeous needs to be shared with the world. :D

[ETA: picture accomplished!]

Comments

[aubrem.livejournal.com]

Welcome back! : )

However many pink baby dresses there are in the world, there still are not enough.

Please keep trying with the Leory pics - I'd love to see him. : )

[tofty.livejournal.com]

My unborn niece will turn out to be either the most ridiculously girly child on the planet or else the most rebelliously tomboyish; I see no possible middle ground on this. But you're right, those baby dresses were wondrous to behold, smocked and embroidered and beribboned as they were. :D

[imkalena.livejournal.com]

Welcome home! All the pink will probably turn your niece into a Goth. :)

I'd love to see your dog when you get a picture!

[tofty.livejournal.com]

As I am a former wannabe Goth myself, I feel embarrassed that I left this option out of my comment to aubrem. Since it is also the option likeliest to drive my personable yet highly republican brother wild, maybe I should start subliminal Goth messaging to make sure this happens. One must do one's humble best, I feel, as the Cool Aunt.

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

Your icon fills me with glee.

And I have a difficult time when I'm the only liberal in the house.

[tofty.livejournal.com]

I would have had a difficult time if politics had been widely discussed, but they weren't. It was a baby-theme weekend, and a lot of us didn't really know each other, and let us by no means forget the opening of the college football season and the last bits of baseball before postseason, and with all those things to discuss, politics were neglected, and I can't help but feel that that was a lucky, lucky thing.

And ha! I like my icon too. *uses it again, just because*

[soliloquia.livejournal.com]

And she comes riding on a wave!

Good to see you again!

[tofty.livejournal.com]

*surfs gracefully into shore*

Good to be home, man. Your smiling face is a boon to me. :)

[laurelwood.livejournal.com]

Oh, hurray, you're back! I missed you terribly.

I've only come as close to #2 and #3 as to spend 4 days in a mobile home with an old married couple, but I think it might be nearly the same, minus any potential motion sickness. :)

Regarding Leory, is there any chance you could sneak up on him while he's sleeping? I know the resulting pictures wouldn't show off his glossy, sparkling-eyed zest for life to full advantage, but at least the picture would be in focus. Or maybe what he needs is video footage!

[tofty.livejournal.com]

I missed you too! I missed you enough to dream about you, did you see?

Yes, I think mobile homes would offer an equivalent experience, as long as the mobile home was small enough to ensure that no one could ever be alone in it at any given time! And that every morning was spent nagging each other about things the other might conceivable have forgotten even though they had not been forgotten on the last fifteen days. :D

And ha! I discovered a temporary solution for the Leory situation, which was to photgraph him praticing his finely-honed Skills of Sit, and though I'd love to have an action shot of him gleefully chasing bumblebees in the yard, this will have to do for now:

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

EEEE PUPPY!

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Isn't he fabulous??? :D:D:D I am such a proud mama.

[laurelwood.livejournal.com]

He really is resplendent, isn't he? He looks as though he's been meticulously groomed and cared for his whole life. What a fabulous dog rehabilitator you are!

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Man, I never knew I had a talent for this! I suspect that really dogs are just incredibly resilient, but I feel that he is a credit to his family, no matter whose doing his recovery is.

[kickthebeat.livejournal.com]

that is one pretty puppy you have there, lady. ♥

[tofty.livejournal.com]

*pets you both*

He asks about you all the time. "That Keri, she was going to visit, right? What happened to her?"

[tinderblast.livejournal.com]

O Leory, just you wait till I kidnap you. Then we can be together!

[tofty.livejournal.com]

I will send him to you for a visit, okay? :D

[tinderblast.livejournal.com]

That would be lovely.