And subtle, too.

[mrissa]

1. I am sneaky.

2. At least one of you will enjoy my sneakiness. I hope several will.

3. This is entirely personal sneakiness and has nothing whatsoever to do with my professional life.

4. Obligatory thirtysomething-in-a-stable-marriage disclaimer: no, I am not pregnant. It is much smaller-scale sneakiness than that.

5. I have three Partners In Sneakiness who are reading this right now and know who they are. At least two more will be recruited before my sneakiness comes to fruition.

6. Muwahaha. Muwahaetc.

Comments

[pentacon.livejournal.com]

It is good to know that I am safe from any sneakyness.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

OR SO YOU THINK!

Um. You think correctly, Jerry: you are in fact safe from this sneakiness. But this is the last time I will confirm anyone's safety from sneakiness on this post; if anybody else posts a similar comment, I will neither confirm nor deny their safety from sneakiness.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

I approve.

[daharyn.livejournal.com]

I think sneakiness is very much to the good, in general.

[pnkrokhockeymom.livejournal.com]

It's very, very cute that you are so gleeful in your sneakiness.

Are there squid involved?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

There weren't before. Now I don't know.

[mechaieh.livejournal.com]

One should not underestimate the power of bubble tea and dried squid to fuel mayhem.

(I'm not saying you've committed any sort of underestimating. This is just me wishing I wasn't out of dried squid at the moment.)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I have been out of dried squid for my entire adult lifetime.

Hmmm.

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

Mrischief! I've never read the title on that icon before. Brilliant.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I thought, "I'm somehow missing an icon for gleeful," but then this one seemed like it would do just fine.

[callunav.livejournal.com]

I'm already enjoying your sneakiness.

[jenett]

Sneakiness of this kind makes me happy. Whoever it's aimed at. Because conspiracies to commit cool things to neat people just *are* good.

[ellameena.livejournal.com]

Oh, you devil!

[redbird]

This is a fine thing.

I don't actually think that you being pregnant would count as sneakiness. (Coming back from a trip to Finland with a two-year-old child that none of you had previously mentioned would be sneaky.)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I don't think it would, either, but at this point in my life I feel like I have to append "and no, I'm not pregnant" to half the things I say to the world at large. It's been a little better with the vertigo -- apparently a lot of people recognize that "I fall down a lot" is not the safest slogan for a pregnant lady -- but still, combination of my age and my marital status and the fact that I do want a kid at some point means that it's on some people's minds a lot.

[ellameena.livejournal.com]

I can't wait for you to embark on that phase of your life, but I would be vaguely dismayed if you did so right now. Morning sickness and fatigue would mix poorly with your current symptoms. I think you should have at least one perfect day before getting preggers. (But not very many more than that. :-)

But just you wait...I am very good at identifying people's pregnancies before they are ready to share. It's my superpower.

[ellameena.livejournal.com]

By the way, I am checking in on the sneakiness. So much fun, isn't it?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Ifwhen the time comes, I hope you use your superpower in a clandestine fashion as is the superhero way.

[ellameena.livejournal.com]

Of course!

[pabba.livejournal.com]

This post is sneakilicious.

[gaaneden.livejournal.com]

Such a tease! Sounds like fun.

[moiread]

Hee! I hope we get told the story after it's all come to fruition.

[profrobert.livejournal.com]

Muwahaetc was the Incan god of laughter, right?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

We've told you about the Aztec snack food kiosk timprov wants to open in malls across America, right? Pretzelcoatl.

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

Pretzelcoatl.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh

[falls over, twitching]

[careswen.livejournal.com]

Seconded.

[columbina.livejournal.com]

I had already heard the Pretzelcoatl one, but I do like "mrischief."

I trust you are remembering to use your vast cosmic powers only for good. Or mostly only for good.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Are my minor auxiliary powers under similar constraints?

[columbina.livejournal.com]

No, but by definition you can only do minor auxiliary mayhem with them.

[sethb.livejournal.com]

That's where the sneaky comes in.

Big aches from little toe corns grow. (Or something like that.)

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

You are as sneaky as a sneaky thing!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Possibly sneakier!

[anne-mommy.livejournal.com]

The "I'm not pregnant" thing really is necessary, huh. I know it's the first thing I thought of. And I was totally prepared to be downright giddy on your behalf.

You took away my fun. Harumph.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I hope to bring you giddy fun later, when I'm not falling down quite so much. Falling down the stairs when not pregnant or holding a newborn is enough fun all by itself.

[anne-mommy.livejournal.com]

I'll be waiting. ;-)

[careswen.livejournal.com]

I am vastly amused, and hope to witness the results. Or at least hear second-hand.

[ellameena.livejournal.com]

Hey, what happened with the sneaky?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

You underestimate the length of sneaky. I will be crawling sneakily along under the radar for quite some time now before the sneaky comes to fruition.

[ellameena.livejournal.com]

Oh, noes! You are sneaking so sneakily!