Hug, kick, hug, tomato.

[mrissa]

Everyone should have a ksumnersmith. Happily for the rest of you, I'm perfectly willing to share the one I found. She is not, of course, the only one of my friends who can make me square my shoulders and set my chin and dig in to keep going, because this writing thing is a long, long haul. But she's the one who did it this week, and I am most extremely grateful.

Everybody needs a hug sometimes. Everybody needs a kick in the butt sometimes. It is an awfully good thing to have friends who can do both, in series or in parallel. It is how we stay human, I think.

Well, that and taking the neighbors baked goods and fresh tomatoes. I'll be doing that, too, now that we have new neighbors to the north. They will think I'm a nice person, and I will have fewer tomatoes. It's all part of the evil scheme.

Also, we have the wiring completed on the hot tub! The Strange Disturbing Monkeys have left Ista's domain, and she is having a nap to recuperate from her stressful morning. (As opposed to most days at this time, when she is having a nap to recuperate from her relaxing morning.) Additional Strange, Disturbing Monkeys will be out later to start the thing up with us and to bring the step they didn't bring before but should have. And there was much rejoicing. No, really. Much.

Also I am reading Farthing, and I love it, but it's one of the books that makes me feel extremely quiet inside. Good thing I had no firm social plans for the rest of the weekend, because I think it has all just been declared quiet time. (Quiet time is a good thing.)

I'd better get back to work while the hug-kick-hug sequence is still in effect.

Comments

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

Everybody needs a hug sometimes. Everybody needs a kick in the butt sometimes. It is an awfully good thing to have friends who can do both, in series or in parallel.

Doing that in parallel would seem to require rather a lot of flexibility.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Doesn't have to be a frontal hug. It can be the "affectionate headlock" value of hug.

Of course, making them both metaphors makes it all much easier to manage from Toronto, I would think, but as we all know, those are bad for you.

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

Not hard, if you sort of hook one leg around huggee and kick with the heel.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

*cough* That can get a bit more, uh, personal than ksumnersmith's and my hugs are likely to be.

We're friends, not friends or "friends."

[ksumnersmith.livejournal.com]

Um, yes. Quite.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

Doesn't have to be a frontal hug. It can be the "affectionate headlock" value of hug.

Still think it takes more flexible legs than I got issued with.

Of course, making them both metaphors makes it all much easier to manage from Toronto, I would think, but as we all know, those are bad for you.

ObMontrealSnark: Just as well so little is managed from Toronto, then.

[dolphin--girl.livejournal.com]

Happily for the rest of you, I'm perfectly willing to share the one I found.

Good thing, too, or I think I'd have to fight you for her. :o) But yes, she is the awesome.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

No fighting. Just appreciations.

You can share my porphyrin, too, as long as I'm sharing your ksumnersmith, because that's as near as I can make the analogy go.

[columbina.livejournal.com]

The problem is accurately judging where one's friend is in the hug/kick cycle so that one does not apply the wrong prescription.

I am not always good at this, so mostly I avoid hugs and kicks alike.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

It's not the duty of every friend, to be sure.

[redbird]

I wish I was close enough for the tomatoes. I chanced buying what seemed like good tomatoes from a farmer's market yesterday, and when I sliced one for dinner, it was pale-tasting (though the color was right).

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I would give you some. Truly. A bomber bar, too.

[ksumnersmith.livejournal.com]

Oh my. You're very welcome.

Everybody needs a hug sometimes. Everybody needs a kick in the butt sometimes.

So true! Glad I could do both this week. :)

[mkille.livejournal.com]

Someone from Longmont First Congregational (http://www.ucclongmont.org/welcome/announce/) brought us some kind of yummy fruity sweet bread tonight. (We got a letter earlier this week, but it was not nearly as tasty).

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Bread, I'm tellin' ya. Forget duct tape. Bread is like the Force.

[mkille.livejournal.com]

Yeastichlorians?