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Thursday, December 13, 2007

Friday Mitten Fairy

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Rick,

Because I heart you
Another online profile
Friday blue mittens

Take the subway, four
War brigadier general
busy underpass

walk up the hill
look right at the busy top
old aqueduct

graffiti, ugly
Old NYU on your right
look behind old building

Maggie,

You, Magdelena
have mittens in heather gray
west side train, horray

Crazy busy place,
made of marble, ugly, gray
exit, and get some air

linger east four treats
miracle on movie street
mitts with man I know

Enter Tractor Feed's
college of grad school learning
Tell man at the desk

Nina made gray mittens
They are for glorious me
hand them over, please

7 comments:

country roads said...: This is the coolest game.; December 14, 2007 at 9:56 AM
Woodrow said...: Be very thankful
That I am not in New York
I would steal them all; December 14, 2007 at 10:24 AM
Maggie said...: NO!
Mine mine mine!

You would not betray an expat New Yorker her mitteny happiness, would you Woodrow? Wood you?; December 14, 2007 at 2:29 PM
LizLSB said...: Nina, you should click the link to Charlene's blog on my site. She's a friend and former coworker of mine, who happens to be a cool, intelligent, NY-dwelling, crafty chick like you. I think she even knits. Haha! She isn't a prolific blogger, but I think you would like her sense of humor.

And btw, did you agree to swap mittens for something yummy and homegrown from my garden? If so, I will send my address.; December 14, 2007 at 6:08 PM
Nina said...: CR, if you were near NYC you could play too. But you need no mittens in Texas, huh?

Woodrow, beautiful haiku. Also please note Maggie's sassy comment to you. Get the homynym joke? HM?

LizB, yes! I will gobble up anything you can send me from your garden and I will be thrilled that it came from you. Color of mittens for you? Would you prefer a cotton blend since it's warmer down there? Or chunky wools?; December 14, 2007 at 10:40 PM
EmmaL said...: This is so fun! I wish I lived in New York!; December 15, 2007 at 3:29 PM
Newsy said...: two mittens oh no
I lost one again please help
three mittens next time; December 17, 2007 at 4:43 PM

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Who are these people?

Bibi - God bless the guy who gets Bee. I can't even think of anything obnoxious to say about her. She can eat pasta without gaining weight, she can run the ridges at Gertrude's Nose with no fear, and she is by miles the best climber of all of us. She's going to Kili with us. Hell, she'll be leading.
Buzz Elder Brother. Cross me at your peril.
Jib computer wizard, entrepreneur, stand-up comedian, stand-up guy I can count on to catch a movie and hold hands in the dark without it having any meaning whatosever. Every woman needs a man like Jib.
Joe - locquacious, flirtatious, 40-something hiking buddy - also, ex-manfriend of Pax.
Larry, WPITW - climber, hiker, badass (not in the good way, either). At a given moment, at least half of us are not speaking to him.
Liam - My nephew, whose favorite words are "noing," "Bobby," "dumptruck," "job-site" and "Daddy." He also says "obstreperous" "pulchritudinous" and "Nina" upon request.
Merry - Australian BFF spends the summers on a yacht, nannying for a celebrity couple with two children. She lives in a brownstone and she has a chauffeur. And we have no idea who she works for.
Newsy has been my friend for about 22,000 hours. Or more. I don't have a calculator. She has about 3423% more professional and personal commitments than I do, and yet she still finds time to think about me. I find this astonishing. If you knew her, you'd be astonished, too.
Pax - climber, hiker, corporate warrior, used to date Joe. Sticks by Larry in spite of his horribleness. None of us understands this.
Skatey- he rides a skateboard. He can dance. He can throw a frisbee and he's not bad at karaoke, either.
Sri - Bengali princess who, aside from kicking my ass at climbing, and aside from being a smokin' hiker, brought down the evil empire of Larry and also once told me that "even girls' are turned on my breasts." Also never turns down "one more round."
Supajewie - Long distance drinking buddy, just about the only person I know who "gets it". And no, she's not Jewish. It's a long story.
Tex - is what happens when you take a normal man, add alcohol, subtract common sense and tact, and then buy him another drink.

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