Home Again Home Again
I'm back, and trying to ease myself into normal life. Starting with catching up with all the blogs. I met a lot of new, interesting bloggers (sorry, no linky love; I don't even know where the business cards are yet.) and I can't wait to start adding to my bloglines, but I also really missed everyone who didn't go to BlogHer.
Kate is finally feeling semi-human again, which is awesome. Do you guys know Kate? She was a solo mom out of New Zealand until she got all romantic and took a leap of faith with her best friend. Now they're having a baby and planning a wedding. I'll miss her as a fellow solo mom, but being a small part of her joy in her new life is totally worth it.
And Eden! I go away for four days and Eden goes and makes the national news!!! I totally missed the Bill O'Reilly segment, and am now frantically searching You Tube for it. I imagine it rocks, because she does and if ever there was the perfect woman for this particular crusade--copyright infringement on the internet--it's her. And to think, I knew her when.....
I'm also looking forward to catching up with The Ladies. I really did miss them afterall. I didn't think I would; I thought I'd just revel in the four whole days to myself and come home recharged and refreshed. I didn't expect to miss them. But Friday was the end of swim lessons and I found myself wondering if Diva Girl (finally) passed level 3 and if the Shaolin Preschooler, who tends to unleash her toddler fighting skills in the face of her male instructor, even got in the pool. So I guess I really did miss them. And I think I'm a better mom for the experience.
The other thing that I really missed when I was away was Canada. Don't get me wrong, Chicago was a beautiful city (and so easy to navigate when lost on the South Side! Just follow the big buildings!), and Meijer was delicously cheap, and the Denny's was to die for, but it just wasn't home. I loved the Americans I met; Well, except for the one who loudly expounded that Canada is just like America and really the fifty-first state since what, really would happen if they delcared war on us. I thought she was an ignorant twit and quite frankly the poster child for why Americans get a really bad rap internationally. Thank god she's your problem, not ours. But mostly I wanted to put y'all (I met a lot of Texas bloggers, and anyone who knows the Ontario accent can tell you we absorb Southern like you wouldn't believe) in my pocket and take you home to universal healthcare, gun control, and a reasonable maternity leave. Except for the manifest destiny chick. Her I'd like to send to Iraq. Give her an up close and personal look at what happens when you invade someone's country.
Comments
I am glad you had a super time! I have never been to Canada and I hope to visit soon! I promise I may have some ignorant opinions but about the USA's so-called superiority I DO NOT.
Hey Kimberly! I'm the gal from Scholastic you met and just wanted to say hello and how nice it was to chat with you on the bus and at breakfast Saturday! Please keep in touch -- take care!
I am so glad that I got to meet you and did I mention that I want your nail polish, sexy velvety brown shirt and damn, those pink shoes?
It was wonderful meeting you. Can't wait for next year.
You are my new best friend. Just so you know.
Glad to have met you - what a wild time!
Yeah, I hope that we can all go home to universal healthcare sometime soon...
Hey! Maybe that's what would happen if you invaded us! You would be mesmerized by Peace, Order, and Good Government! Or it would be the War of 1812 redux (hint: we kicked your ass)
Karen, you are totally my new BFF and we are going out soon. Which in Mommytime is September, but still, soon.
landismom, I missed you. I totally want you to come to BlogHer next year. That would rock. But I think Provence was a good consolation prize.
Um, you have a present for me???
Email me! (bubandpie@hotmail.com)
SO glad you commented at Kyla's ... I lost your card and was googling like 10 things trying to figure out your url so I could link to you in all your wonderfulness.
It was so fantastic to meet you!
You are very hard to find. Like a ghost iris or leperosy. (But more like a ghost iris.)
You're fabulous.
It's the www thing. Sometimes I mess up my own url.
You're fabulous too. And I mean it, if Amy Sedaris ever dumps you, I'll be your rebound blogger.
It was so wonderful to hang out and chat, roomie! Someday I'll get to see the Ladies show off their mad bicycle and swimming skillz, and Q can learn to curl. :)
You're welcome back so long as you don't complain about swag or pay per post. :)
I pick up the southern accent like mad when I'm in the states. It's terrible, but fun. And there is ALWAYS one of those chicks around when I'm in the states, who usually are blissfully unaware of any of Canada's roles in contributing to the US economy or the war of 1812.
So HI!
HAHAHA!! The AMERICANS would be the ones that wouldn't know what to do if the Canadians attacked! Not the other way around! We'd all be like, "WTF?! The Canadians are attacking?!" lol
