Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Approbation Me Baby
First, some gratuitous photos of the Pookies, just because they are just so darn tootin' cute!
Mr. Zimmerman is too sexy for the cat-walk.
And Princess Sassy-Face using the Cute Factor to stay out of trouble.
So, Ken and I are going to a Wilco show tonight, I'll write my story up, but you all won't get it tonight. But don't forget....Wilco will love you baby.
Word of the Day Monday, February 08, 2010
approbation
\ap-ruh-BAY-shuhn\ , noun;
1. The act of approving; formal or official approval.
2. Praise; commendation.
At first the envelope startled her, being sent from the Federal Government and all, and right before tax season. A thin manilla envelope. Then she saw a second letter from the same office and her stomach did an involuntary flip, because Christ, TWO letters? It was starting to look like some serious shit. Then she reread the title of the office where the letters were actually sent from, already mentally building her case of innocence, and started to vaguely recall writing a check out to the Department of State recently. What was that? And then with a magicians crack the smoky realization of what was in the envelope appeared before her.
She quickly tore the envelope open and slid the little blue passport booklet out into her hand.
She riffled her thumb through the crisp, new pages in awe of the freedom it bestowed upon her. This feeling was quickly followed by an intense urge to get the brand, sparkling, new book dirtied up a little with stamps, airport grime, and exotic dirt from far away lands. Her first thought was to call Leonard up and blurt out what she was now the proud owner of, hungry for his approbation on this particular matter. She figured the only reason she had the passport to begin with was because of him, he should be the first person to know about it.
However, she had actually never told him she had applied for the passport in the first place. She knew that he had invited her to Africa, almost begged her to come, but after that first invitation he had never mentioned her and the trip together again. Now, she wasn't quite sure how to broach the topic again.
Definitely a celebration of some sort, because hell, she was on her way to Africa.
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