IN MEMORIAM - John Lawrence Oliver White »

June 23, 2006

EXCUSE ME?

Me? Move? You cannot be serious?

What is it about the orange boys? This one is BAD, I tell you. I found a chicken drum bone under the table this morning. Yesterday — olive pips. Day before — cluster of wet melon seeds. Day before that — green pepper. Lincoln has taught Brunswick how to open the garbage cupboard and NOW WE ARE DOOMED! We have a junkyard cat … and he’s not even one year old!

My Path: Rainbow, Meadow Park

My Distance: 45:47 mins — a tough one today.

My Music: I’m a Believer — Shrek 1. When I got my first request for a full manuscript from Silhouette, this was playing on the radio. I’d just come from the post office where we had a box, and I opened the letter in the car — hands trembling. Yes, really. It was December, and snowing heavily. I turned up the volume — loud – and drove home through thick swirling flakes with this track blaring and the biggest smile you can ever imagine on my face. Yeah, that day I was a believer — and I’ll never forget that memory capsule I still get a punch from that song.

(Was one my all-time favorite movies, too)

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4 Responses to “EXCUSE ME?”

On June 24th, 2006 at 7:11 am
Meretta Says:

I’m a believer, too! I believe, believe, believe!

Brunswick definitely has cat-titude. DD’s say hello to him!
On June 24th, 2006 at 3:00 pm
Bailey Stewart Says:

Tell him that all of that stuff is off limits while in bear treeing training. LOL

Bailey (the cat, not me) is a toilet paper shredder. We had to buy something to put the toilet paper in. Egads.

Love that song (well, I’m an original The Monkees person). What a wonderful memory. And I’d rather have that song stuck in my head than the ones I’ve been dealing with.
On June 25th, 2006 at 7:38 pm
Toni Anderson Says:

Only a year old? Wooo he’s big I love Shrek too!! And that song is great!!
On June 25th, 2006 at 11:32 pm
Loreth Says:

Hah .. Lincoln is the toilet paper (and manuscript shredder)! He just pretends Brunswick did it.

And yeah .. Shrek is soooo romantic — and back-to-front. I adore it.

Lord muck says hello to DDs, Meretta

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