Week of December 19-25 (belated)

[mrissa]

Dear Person-in-my-Life:

markgritter is not a band, nor is he a multiple personality. Therefore, addressing a Christmas card to "The Mark Gritters" is stupid and wrong. Marrying the man did not make me into another of him.

Love,
me

Three rejections, no acceptances, no other writing news.

But other than that, and other than a wee bit of uncertainty about whether the dishwasher will hold up for the in-laws' visit, and other than a usually-reasonable local chain restaurant really sucking, it's been good to be home. It was good to be in Omaha, too. Lots of good stuff, really.

The good thing about the trip to Omaha for Christmas was that it featured lots of stress-free family time. The bad thing is that most of the non-family people I wanted to see came in later than I did, and we left pretty early, so I didn't get to see anybody outside my family for more than maybe half an hour solo time, plus a few hours of group time. greykev and scottjames and Mike and Tom came over last night. That was good. Would have liked more time, but isn't that the story of my life.

Oh, and I got good baby-time with Kari's Noah, who is muchly cute but was more interested in Mark than in me. (I had taken off my shiny sparkly necklace, and I have no glasses and no beard. Therefore I am boring.)

(Since I am so boring, I'm going to go do something else.)

Comments

[zunger.livejournal.com]

You misunderstand. Mark's off-hours have been spent working on some biology experiments - the card was addressed to the whole set of results, the Mark Gritters. Last time I checked they were up to about half a dozen of them... but the thirteen Jenns may be a bit more up-to-date on that than I am, they spend more time in the lab than I do.

Umm, make that "we do."

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

"Mark's off-hours." Oh, ho ho. Oh, hee hee. Such a funny Yony.

[careswen.livejournal.com]

Marrying the man did not make me into another of him.

This drives me batty as well. My mother always addresses mail to us as "Mr. and Mrs. Michael Merriam." I realize it's just old-fashioned, but hello! I have my own name! She should know, she gave it to me.

[timprov.livejournal.com]

Maybe she's just grown fond of alliteration.

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

You could start a bad, though. Clone Mark a bunch of times, and then start up "Mrissa Lingen and the Mark Gritters".

Or something.

[zunger.livejournal.com]

Hmm... come to think of it, in that context "Mark Gritter" sounds like a job title. I'm not quite sure what it would involve, but from the sounds of it I would guess it involves mixing sand into something.

[apis-mellifera.livejournal.com]

How are Mike & Tom? I haven't talked to them in a really long time.

[wilfulcait.livejournal.com]

Similarly, when they call my house looking for Mrs. Peters, I tell them my mother is in Virginia. But I don't give them her number.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

They seem well. Mike should finish his degree sometime this year, so they don't know where they'll be next.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

This is how I discovered I am a Ms. Because in proper etiquette terms, "Mrs. Marissa Gritter" means I legally ditched him, and I didn't, and I am clearly not just Mrs. Him. Therefore I am a Ms., and then I get to keep the same title for both names and all is well.

[apis-mellifera.livejournal.com]

Last time I talked to Tom (back in August), he was making noises about possibly coming back to the Midwest. I was thinking of him last week when I was watching Auntie Mame.