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My boy

I am posting this from my iPhone that the boy just bought me.... I have wanted one for forever, one because it's a sweet device and two, I am a crazy OCD freak who desparately wants all her info and lists and obsessions in one place... the fact that I can also search the internets for my compulsions is even better. Sure it might not be "healthy" to have a sleek OCD machine, but damn am I happy!!!

PS again I am not making light of OCD by using it as an adjective- I really have it and the iPhone really is magic for me...

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The Wide, Blue Yonder

I tend to mix rants with personal diary here on this ole' blog, but today is a bit of both. One of my BFFs, Sara, just came to DC to visit and it was A-M-A-Z-I-N-G to see her! She is home-based in ATL as of late, so I'm lucky that her job brings her to my neck of the woods at least once a year so I can kiss her lovely face and color on tables and drink copious amounts of alcohol. And tonight, one of my other BFFs, monkeyhead Allison, is flying in for a mutual friend's 30th birthday. So, two of my favorite lovelies in less than a fortnight! Yay! Yay! Yay! Not to mention that one of my other BFF cuddleheads was up with one of her friends in Jan for the Inauguration, and though we didn't get too much one-on-one time because it wasn't really a visit to see me, it was a visit to experience history, it was great to see her, for whatever reason, for any amount of time, Amen.

So, when Sara left yesterday, it occurred to me that, although my best friend since forever, the Divine Ms. Em, lives a 15-minute walk from me, and I have oodles and gobs of great friends here in DC, some of my favorite people live very far away from me. And the only way to see them is for them to fly to see me or me to fly to see them or us both fly to somewhere to see each other... My family is in Arkansas, so I already have to balance friend visits with family visits, especially since the nephew entered the world and he's my favorite thing EVER... plus I only have so much vacation time... and I only have so much money (read: none... at least that's expendable). Luckily, I have a partner that understands that part of what makes me "me" are these friends and the experiences I have with them, so he's so great about me traveling off to other places without him and spending money on airline tickets, if we have it. I mean, sure he wants some time just the two of us as well, so there's always trying to figure out if he's just being supportive or if he means it, but still, he's awesome about it. Regardless, when you add all those factors up, the actual fact is that I very rarely have the time or the money to see people. They are so great and come to me, usually tacked onto work or a conference or something like that, which rocks. But it's not near as often as I'd like and it seems like it's getting rarer and rarer with work and the house and everything pulling at me at once.

And that makes me sad. 'Cause you far-away friends out there, I want you to know that I love you. You are some of my favorite people in the world. And I would see you EVERY DAY if I could.

But I can't. So... I promise to keep checking cheap airline tickets and working credit time so I can get some 3 day weekends here and there to come see you. And I promise to keep offering to pay for part of flights out to see me if money is really the only issue. I swear that if it doesn't work out because of life on either side, it's okay--I know that you love me and I love you! Finally, I promise to make sure that you know that I miss you and how much I value our friendship, in person or not.

Thanks, friends! You make my world go round! No matter where you live in it...

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Yay Friday!!!!

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