Reader: Prelude to a Mitten Heist

Thursday, December 13, 2007

Prelude to a Mitten Heist

Magdalena Kennedy, Grand Duchess of Boston Internet Excellence, will be in New York City this weekend, prompting me to declare tomorrow double mitten fairy day. So there will be TWO sets of haiku clues tomorrow. Two sets of mittens. Two targets. One goal: mitteny happiness.*

Others who have expressed a desire for mittens: I have not forgotten you. If you are local (Fauxhawk, Ryan, Mayor Bloomberg, etc) please note that your time will come. Keep checking your blog and mine to see when your Friday comes. Non-locals, just send me an address and I send you some mittens.

* PS if you don't cick on that link, I will be most seriously displeased. Go now and click it. Click. It.

2 comments:

Maggie said...: Nina!

Yay!

I'm not even on the train yet, let alone anywhere near finding my mittens, and yet you have already achieved mitteny happiness on the Boston front!

I only hope that my New York awareness helps me find them, but I think I know where they are...

Thank you thank you!; December 14, 2007 at 2:27 PM
Nina said...: No problemo. I have loved making them, hiding them, rehiding them. Just need to know your schedule and neighborhoods you frequent, and we're all set.; December 14, 2007 at 10:37 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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