EJ Feb. 18, 2003

 

1205Re: Ohh fuuuuck

 

 

Feb. 18, 2003

 

 

Kaleon to me:
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 22:51:06 +0800
Subject: Re: hey!
Hey hon

Not sure when you are due back into town, I have an atrocious memory.
Wanted to email you and tell you how much the valentine's gift meant,
specially after the drama of the night before with Skye. Let's just
say that it was a hard choice whether it was worth it or not. I have
lots tot alk to you bout so email me when you get back into town and
let me know when we can get together. :)

J
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Me to J:
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 10:55:01 -0800 (PST) Top of Form 1 &
Subject: Re: hey!

I meant to call you on my cell phone, but the time
just got away from me this weekend--I had a really
great visit w/my mom. New Mexico is so beautiful. I
didn't expect it to be so pretty. We had fun.

How does Tomorrow after work look for you? We can
maybe grab a bite, drink, or whatever, just sit &
talk.

I am supposedly getting together later this afternoon
with Andrea/Skye for lunch, shopping, whatever. I am
not going to ask her how her visit went. If she brings
it up, fine, but I am hoping for a nice calm
afternoon. And then I need to get to bed EARLY because
I got up at 4 this a.m. (5 our time) and I have to go
to evil awful work tomorrow!

For now, I think I'm going to get a short nap, then
shower and get ready to go hang with the Sis-in-law

XO!

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J to me:
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 03:07:06 +0800 Bottom of Form 1
Subject: Re: hey!

Yeah, goodluck with lunch thing. Skye was pretty platant at the
meeting about fingering her new 'collar' and she wants to join GWNN
now. I hope she doesn't think it will hurt me or some such, because I
am just afraid she's going to get hurt, cause she couldn't even
refrain from insulting marcus like she does me and eric while talking
to her online sat afternoon. I feel bad for the entire trio, i guess
kinda like everyone did for us while i was the third maybe. Anyway, I
will wait to talk more until we are together, so as not to say
anything you might misinterpret. talk to you tomorrow:)

j
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1206Re: Ohh fuuuuck

 

Feb. 18, 2003

 

 

J to me:
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 22:52:14 +0800
Subject: Re: hey!

Hey hon

How's that evil thing called work? My plurasy is running rampant
today
and only got an hour of sleep lastnight due to it, fun fun. Hope you
got enough sleep. ::hugs::

J
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my reply:
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 07:01:20 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: hey!

Work is OK; I'm being productive, anyway.

Andrea cancelled on me yesterday--she said her friend
Phyllis was feeling bad so she was going to go visit
her instead.

If you'd rather get home & get to bed early tonight,
we can get together & talk another time. Just let me
know! I am dreadfully curious about Thursday & I want
to get caucht up...but I will restrain myself if need
be. Your health & well-being are more important than
my nosey curiousity :)

XO!

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Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 23:09:18 +0800
Subject: Re: hey!

I ain't too sick to go out, besides if I stay home I will be online
and Skye will want to talk, kinda want to get out since I didn't
lastnight.

GWNN kinky happy hour is tonight if you'd like to go. It's at a place
called Love Joy's? Not sure how nosey it will be but it sounds like
it's fairly quiet. Just let me know when you get off work and we'll
work something out. I need someone to talk to bout thursday too. Did
you get my icq message lastnight?

J
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Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 07:22:23 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: hey!

I didn't go online after about 2:30 pm yesterday, so I
didn't get your ICQ. :(

I know where Lovejoy's is, it's right off of 6th St. I
get home from work around 5, if you wanted to go to
Lovejoy's kind of early (6:30-7, maybe?) that would be
cool. I don't remember whose turn it is to drive :)
But I could come by your place & we can go from there,
if that works for you?

XO!

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1207Re: Ohh fuuuuck (me & Jen)

 

Feb. 18, 2003

 

 

 

--- Jen wrote:

I like to call it "trickle up economics."

Here is a step-by-step:

1. Rent/buy a new place.

2. Go to your favorite stores, especially those you
usually window-shop, but tend not to buy things in.

3. Buy things. Real-life examples: Ralph Lauren
sheets (on sale), Pierre Deux lampshade, napkins,
and tastevin (if you are a wine nerd), Crabtree &
Evelyn drawer liners, room spray, and new bath poufy
since old one is scrotty, Williams-Sonoma stainless
steel dishrack and draining mat.

4. My research has indicated that step 3 can
usually be accomplished in an hour or less. While
no studies indicate that those particular purchases
stimulated the economy, our theory is that the
aggregate of total purchases of on individual can
make a difference.

5. Taking the theory further, if other individuals
follow this simple plan, the resulting impact on the
economy will be exponentially greater.


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Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 07:18:22 -0800 (PST)
me to Jen:


You are too funny :) What an awesome idea. Shop for
the good of America! Wave that flag! Wave that cash!
Whee!

I'm still so sleepy today...but Kaleon & I are getting
together to dish UB dirt, so I'm staying awake for
that. His last email said that she was very 'blatant'
about showing off her new collar...so maybe she's
decided she's not a Domme anymore. I always thought
she was a frustrated submissive who just hadn't found
a Dom/Domme yet. So it would be interesting to see
that theory bear fruit. J's last email also said
she wanted to join the Group with No Name (GWNN) that
I introduced him & Max to.

She & I were supposed to meet up yesterday afternoon
but she cancelled on me due to having to visit a sick
friend. She emailed me to say she wouldn't be coming
over & her email said she planned on going to Pagan
Night Out & GWNN frequently in the future. J is
all worried, but I know she talks about doing stuff
alot and never follows through, so I am not going to
worry about it. Plus she is jobless (& so is Eric, so
she can't dun him for $$) & lives 50 miles from
Austin, so how often can she really afford to drive
in? haha.

Anyhoo...back to the salt mines. So glad it's a 4 day
week this week. AND I have phone duty Thursday so I
get to either come in late or leave early if I want :)

I want to hear all about your new place!

XO!

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Jen's reply:
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 09:11:03 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: My Economic Stimulus Plan.

I agree with ya - no way is A going to get her act together enough
to come to Austin regularly. She is a dilletante, for lack of a less
elegant word, and will never commit to anything that requires that
much effort. Besides, I have a suspicion that she thinks the
infrequency/inconstancy of her appearances makes her rare, mysterious
and desirable.

I am glad it is a 4-day week, too.

1208New Mexico/visit w/ Mom

Feb. 18, 2003

 

 

I had such a faboo weekend! On Friday, my plane got delayed in
Austin, then in St Louis, and I didn't get in to Albuquerque until
like 3 a.m. but my mom was there, and it was great.

I met a couple of cutie-pie boys on the plane. Austin to StL was a
civil engineer who was into Fight Club (he commented on the 'safety
card' as the stewardess was giving the demo, so I *knew* where he got
it from, and he ended up telling me I was the most
interesting "single serving friend" he'd met). He was flying to StL
to propose to his GF on Valentine's Day. Aww!! He was a recent
college grad and she's still got 1.5 yrs in school, so I hope they
believe in long engagements. So young to be making such big choices!
I tried not to lecture in "obnoxious older sister" mode, but I may
have failed. He told me his big sis is gonna be 30 this year, and I
told him she's a lucky gal, gave my '30's are the Goddess Years'
spiel....yeah....obnoxious. But it was nice to talk to someone on the
plane & spend time interacting with intelligent humans for a change.

StL to Albuquerque, I sat next to an ABQ native who lives in Boston &
works for Pepsi. He was a doll--tall, big blue eyes, strawberry
blonde, great smile...*sigh* He was precious. I gave him gum. We
mostly slept on that flight. I asked him what I should do while I'm
here and he said "there's so much, but definitely ride the tram."

Seriously, though, I love being 30. I love having enough confidence &
not-caring to talk to attractive young strangers and not get all
flustered or stupid about it. It's awesome.

So, New Mexico. *sigh* It's gorgeous. I want to go back. Albuquerque
has the best water--it's like San Antonio water was before they
messed it up by fluoridating it. All clean and tasteless, except for
a bit of 'hard mineral' crispness. yum yum!

Saturday morning, I slept in a little, and then we got up and had
breakfast at my mom's house. The space is so 'her'. It's this cool
adobe house and she has left it very uncluttered, with her altars
here and there. She does Feng Shui in her house. It feels very 'home'
to me. She has really cool birds that come to her birdfeeder, little
finch-y things, some odd-colored pinkish sparrow-things, and
Stellar's Jays and Red Wing Blackbirds. Then we went and saw
petroglyphs. The 'Smoking Weasel' was the best--it made us laugh.
(I'll post pictures one of these days)

We had lunch at the Route 66 Diner, which was awesome. They didn't
have any local beers on the menu, so I got a Shiner Bock. I was
worried about the altitude messing with my alcohol tolerance, but it
didn't. Of course, I didn't test this by drinking too much, but it
seemed normal. Matter of fact, I didn't notice any effects from
altitude. Hm. Maybe I have Andean-Indian in my bloodline somewhere...

We went into Old Town Albuquerque, which was cool. I saw the sun set
and the moon rising over the old town square, which was just awesome.
San Felipe de Neri church is just beautiful. It was very cool.

We parked on a side street a block or 2 from Old Town, right across
the street from Casas de Suenos, which has a very strange
architectural feature up front, this tile and glass sculpture that
looks sort of like a seashell and sort of like....a UFO, I guess.
Very cool.

Then we just kind of drove around Albuquerque a bit, and then went on
home & went to bed early-ish.

Sunday, we went to the Tram, and saw snow at the peak. The clouds
were really low, so we didn't see much of anything else. But it was
still gorgeous. We hiked around in the snow for maybe 45 minutes or
so, then went inside the High Finance restaurant & had a light lunch.
I tried an Albuquerque Amber, a nice local beer. It was yummy. The
clouds cleared a couple of times and the view was incredible. I
cried. It was great.

Then we drove up to the Jemez valley, stopped and tasted wine at
Ponderosa Winery and went to the hot springs. That was so awesome.
The bath house had these big stone & cement bathtubs, with two taps,
one of the hot spring water & one of cooled spring water, so you
could adjust your bath temperature. They had home-made shampoo/soap
to use, and when you got out there was a table of lotions & body
sprays, some home-made & some commerical, that you could put on. We
soaked for 1/2 an hour & just felt GREAT afterwards. All of their
services were so reasonably-priced, and it was just very simple &
homey in the bath house. It was cool. Mom's going to take my stepdad
there when he comes to visit for Spring Break--they'll probably
reserve the outdoor cedar tub and soak together. cool!

On the way through Albuquerque, I saw billboards for the Albuquerque
Isotopes! I laughed and laughed! Life Imitates The Simpsons! I wanted
to find a T-shirt for my sweetie, but I never did. The grocery store
we stopped at for dinner fixin's had baseball caps with the logo, but
Sweetie doesn't really wear caps. I wanted to get him something he'd
actually use.

Anyway, we got olives & artichoke hearts & cheese to have with Indian
bread for dinner. It was yummy. I also got pate, but it was not
yummy. We fed it to the porch cats.

Then I packed & we watched The 13th Warrior. It was cool. Got to bed
around midnight & got up at 4 to go to the airport.

It was a great weekend. Not nearly long enough. Mom & I had a good
visit--everything is kind of far apart so we talked & drove quite a
bit. I wasn't sure I'd like New Mexico, but it was really beautiful &
there was plenty to see & do. I could live in Albuquerque.

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