Category: Amuse Me

Kymberlie posted for 24 hours yesterday for Project Blog in order to raise money for Heifer International. She called us mid-afternoon to ask us for inspiration on what to post. Unfortunately – we were short on inspiration at the time. She finally found her niche though and offered up a ton of mp3s and delightful little stories to go with them. (It’s not too late to sponsor her, by the way. Just visit her site.)

At one point, she wrote about the Peta “Bad Cats” – which always causes me to laugh like a crazed fool. (Please spay or neuter your cats. Overpopulation is a problem that can be fixed.)

It also brought back memories of when AdCritic was still free and we would watch the Bill Clinton video over and over again. I couldn’t help but make my request, and in no time at all she found it for me. Clinton made the “Lame Duck” short for the 2000 White House Correspondents Dinner. I laughed so hard I cried when I watched it again. Ah, the good ol’ days…

“Hello, White House … hold please… Hello, White House, please hold…”

I was just thinking about them the other day. Jellies. The fantabulous summer shoes of the 80s. I think I had two or three pairs – I had to match them with my clothes, of course! I’m almost tempted to order some just to relive the memories!

Last year, I wrote a post about The 9th of November, riding bikes, and Amy Legris, my best friend when I was young and lived in Kankakee, Illinois – whose birthday is November 9th.

I was looking through my sidebar tonight to double check my posts that were recently commented on. It is the little thing I do to try to catch the spam posts, and meanwhile to find the most recent comments. I see the post in the list, and I assume that it’s going to be spam.

But it isn’t.

It is a comment … from Amy. And I can assume it is from the real Amy, because she calls me “Chris” in the comment. I was Chris for many years, but when we moved to Houston I decided it was time to be Christine. Call me Chris now and I will go carnival freak crazy on you, unless you knew me prior to 1985.

Dude. She found my blog, and she left a comment. I have her e-mail address now, after all these years. Last time I located her was at least 15 years ago – and now, thanks to a blog post, I know how to find her.

Excuse me while I go freak out.

“It was like a rhino in quicksand… I just couldn’t get away.”

It’s been nothing short of amusing, to say the least. And the cake turned out well, in spite of our sad decorating skills. (It looked cute when we were done with it!) Really, it’s all about how it tastes anyways, and it was mighty good!

I’m at Emily’s house. I baked a cake for Sarah’s birthday earlier today, and I brought it here to frost it. She just wrote “Happy Birthday” on it for me. It’s crooked, but it’s so obviously homemade, Sarah will just have to know how much we loooooove her. Now it’s time for the Tiara Happy Hour, and we’re going to celebrate!

This weekend, I promise … Disco Mike. For now, I have a tiara on my head and a party to attend!