The coats came today

It was too hot to wear them home, so I stopped off at the no-really-we-mean-it-this-time-we're-really-going-out-of-business rug store next door and picked up a telephone table. (The logic was inescapable, but would take too long to spell out.) The new table fits neatly in the niche in my kitchen, and, since it doesn't go with anything else in the place, fits right in.


Today's acquisitions:
- 2 coats
- 1 whatnot

Today's earrings: monkeys, fish

Bedtime reading: Cockatiels at Seven, Donna Andrews

After work

I took myself to Stacey's, where I picked up the new Donna Andrews. Inspired by the title, I took myself to Fancy Restaurant for a drink and some dinner. The maitre d' dude promptly handed me a copy of Salinger's Nine Stories and talked Salinger while I drank my cocktail and ate my spring rolls. Then he wandered off to do work and I read Salinger and ate my burger.

My dinner came with a reading assignment.


Today's earrings: bees, typewriter keys

Bedtime reading: Cockatiels at Seven, Donna Andrews

Another excellent brunch

Yummy, yummy, yummy
I've got eggs in my tummy


Today's earrings: coffee cups, green eggs

Bedtime reading: Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett

Actual phone call

- Hello
[gap]
- - Hello
- Hello?
- - Hello, is this Mrs. John?*
- Who's calling, please?
- - This is Name, from Pseudo-Patriotic Group, and I'm calling to talk about the ACLU's latest threat to America.
- [Draws breath to point out that the real threat to America comes from the people who brought us the FISA bill.]
- - May I speak to Elton?**
- [Burst of laughter]
- - Uhm...
- Elton John? You're calling for Elton John? [laughter] I've never met him, though I do admire his songwriting.
- - Oh, I guess I have the wrong number. Sorry. [click]

I'm trying to figure out whether that was 100% prank call, or whether some bizarre chain of events led to a Pseudo-Patriotic Group getting my phone number with Elton John's name attached and then handing that section of their call list to someone for whom the name "Elton John" rang no bells.

It's good to start the day with a laugh.

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*Not quite my surname.
**Not my name, at all.

What do you want for your birthday?

Inquiring relatives want to know.


Today's earrings: spiders, crows

Bedtime reading: Good Omens, Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett

Rise & Shine

Woke up this morning with "rise, and shine, and give God your glory, glory; rise, and shine, and give God your glory, glory" running through my head.


Today's earrings: coffee cups, suns

Bedtime reading: Good Omens, Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett

Reunited

To recap: I abandoned my coat at the lake. K, being an excellent sister, put my coat in the mail.


Time passed.


I decided that the Post Office had eaten my coat. Yesterday, CC came virtual shopping with me and helped me pick out a new coat. Two, actually, what with the sale...

This morning, our receptionist appeared at my desk with a battered box that had arrived by US Mail. (Did you know that $2 stamps have tigers on them? So cute.) Inside the box: my coat.

Now I shall have coats for all occasions.


Today's earrings: compasses

Bedtime reading: Good Omens, Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett