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5 Things That Were Good About Today

1. Lined up some people to read the novel (still looking for a couple more)
2. New The Closer. I love that show more than is probably healthy. THANK YOU.
3. Chair dancing to 80's #1 hits. When I figure out how to chairdance Thriller, I'll let you know.
4. Exchanged a series of emails with an awesome new friend
5. One day left 'til Florida

3 Things I Did Well

1. Took a long walk, despite humidity/heat, to work off an indulgence of pasta at lunch
2. Did the dishes
3. I have paper journaled pretty consistently. I have not given up on embodiment completely yet.

2 Things I Look Forward To

1. Flying on Jet Blue. Because they have TVs on the backs of the chairs and THEY GET ALL MY CHANNELS. Oh, and blue potato chips.
2. Seeing my family (and my furbabies. I have missed my dogs THIS MUCH).

Connecticut was fabulous as always. I got my much needed fuzzy fix, and confirmed that indeed, the Boy's family is made of pure awesome.

I don't know that there could be a better family for me to be marrying into.

We got the usual goodies at the various places we like to frequent (ham and cheese loaf! ZOMG!). I also got a ridiculous amount of writing accomplished, and was used as a trampoline by a cat. It was awesome.

Saw two movies. The Simpsons Movie was awesome. That's a duh. The Harry Potter movie was a waste of film if you asked me, and has completely departed from the books and devolved into an excuse to have the trio running around, dimly lit and angsty.

Andrew's mom (Mrs. Awesome herself) not only got me a CD from the music festival she was at, but let me rip a CD of hers that also is incredible.

I'm a little sad to be away from the critters, and of course I love spending time with Andrew's family, but they're close. We'll see them soon.

Now, I just have to deal with my family. I can already hear the Drama Llama coming. I swear, I cannot wait until this is all over. At least we have our passports now. There's that.

The passports for me and The Boy haven't arrived yet. We applied for them in March, and still, nothing.

My sister's wedding is the first week in August, so you can see how we're in a bind.

Apparently the trick to getting your passports through the system are to write to your congressman or contact their office. Apparently they can help expedite things along.

Well, I'm sure they don't personally do it. I'm sure that their office staff takes care of it and stamps the congressperson's name on it. But still. They're the go-to guys for passport help.

So I just called my congressman (Anthony Weiner), and the people at his office were really, really nice. I guess I wouldn't expect them to be rude, although when I called Congresswoman Velazquez's office (by mistake), the person who first answered the phone sounded like they were chewing on something and angry at the same time. Huh.

Anyway, the very helpful, perky people at Mr. Weiner's office said to mail and/or fax them the details and they'd see what they could do. So that's done.

So I took a peak around at my congressman's website and discovered three things.

1) Damn. We have a kinda good lookin' Congressman. (Yes I am shallow).

2) I really, really like his politics. No to guns, yes to pro-choice, yes to the environment.

3) I will probably be voting for this guy next election. I need to register to vote in New York. I've been afraid because I don't know if it'll screw up my taxes or not. And I don't want to get pulled for jury duty. Jury duty scares me. Still, I need to vote.

*sigh*

Maybe I'll get Jury Duty on one of the days they're filming Law & Order and I'll get to see Jesse L. Martin.