Champagne-Room Barbie

Champagne-Room Barbie,
originally uploaded by beckybumblefuck.

Tonight *could* have been a historical BBFK moment in a disastrous,

likely unprecedented way. I was doing my usual jog around the

neighborhood street, pushing a stroller full of Noel, when I noticed a

smallish, cat-like animal in the middle of the road blocking my path.

My instinctual alarms went off, but I was bullheaded and determined

not to break my stride (mostly because once I do, there is only a 50%

chance that I'll start up again). When I was 2 feet away I noticed

that the entire animal was black, with the exception of a bit of white

on his or her tail.... I then recalled the heinous smell that wafted

through my window the previous night. Fortunately, the skunk chose to

skitter-off instead of spraying me and my poor, unsuspecting, asleep,

3 year old.



So, the associated pictures were taken on the ferry-trip to Long

Island this past weekend. It was lovely, I'd like to report (and

thanks for asking darling, Rebekah). The food was good, no cars were

towed, and my friends were delighted to find a garage sale chock-full

of plastic goods to feed their barbie fetish (I'll have you know, Noel

and I escaped Barbie-free. *happy sigh*) Did you know that there

exists a champagne-room barbie van, complete with revolving bar stools

and a disco ball? My friends stopped themselves from buying that even

for a bargain 5 dollar price and went with the barbie VW bus, instead.



Anyways, I'd like to make a public apology to anyone that I owe an

email to. I still dig you, but the 1000-word days that I've been

putting in at work, have sucked all the email and blog life out of

me...well most of it anyways. For those of you who've received an

email in the last three days, you've gotten the star treatment; any

people with an email from me in the last week is on my special list;

anyone who hasn't heard from me in the last month shouldn't despair

yet, and if you've heard from me in the last 24 hours then you must be

my sweetheart, Lever. ;)