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Shipped on 07/22/08.

From director Robert Altman comes this quirky piece of fiction based on the real-life radio program of the same name, with a wry screenplay penned by the show's host, Garrison Keillor. Supported by a high-powered cast that includes Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin, Lindsay Lohan, John C. Reilly, Tommy Lee Jones and Kevin Kline, Keillor also stars in this behind-the-scenes look at the mayhem surrounding the folksy program's final broadcast.

• 09:08 back at work today. hope nobody notices. #
• 09:11 Pics from Chicago trip: flickr.com/photos/hopemcg/tags/chicago/ #
• 09:45 My potential new supervisor is sending me work. wonder if he isn't so potential anymore. Think I'll ignore them until someone informs me. #

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• 11:55 said goodbye to Trish and Kate. q says she wants to go to Iowa too. we are going to the zoo instead. #
• 14:16 leaving for home now. #
• 15:14 indiana border...finally #
• 17:24 indianapolis #
• 19:17 had cracker barrel AGAIN. back go the car. not to ohio yet. phone battery dying. #
• 20:10 ohio border. just busted out the dvds. #
• 22:12 Made it home (oh, and the DVD play died 5 minutes into the movie) #
• 09:07 After going to bed near 11 last night, Q woke up at 8:30. Yeah, I'm going to work today, but I'm not hurrying. #
• 09:36 Who am I kidding? I'm not going to work today. #

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• 13:52 girlstown and hamburger mary this am. driving to ikea #
• 17:31 back at the hotel. exhausted. collapsed on the bed while q practices running with the olympic sprinters #
• 21:13 dinner at cpk. dessert to go from cheesecake factory. decadent stuff. #
• 22:50 kid asleep, dessert devoured in hotel bathroom. time for bed. #

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• 08:48 bad twitterer. sorry having too much fun. will try to be better today. #

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• 13:45 getting antsy to leave...can't concentrate on work... #
• 14:25 @saderman maybe you should pump her for more info?!? #
• 14:29 Megan picking me up in 10 mins. Once we get the kid & all things being goodness and light, we should be arriving at 9 or 10 (their time). #
• 18:16 planned super fast taco hell but they were closed. doing not so fast cracker barrel instead. #
• 18:21 oh yeah. megan reminded me that i should probably mention that we are in indianapolis #
• 20:46 844 eastern time and q still going strong. hopefully her sleepy music will do the trick #

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• 14:17 Just finished my first (hopefully of at least several) felt food patterns for etsy. #
• 14:46 set up my new etsy account with a new email address. it was gmail.com and I said google.com. crap! now I can't log in. #
• 15:45 Just compiled a massive list to send to @meglett and @blondiekate. wondering if it was too much for one message... #
• 08:26 @gypsygrrl Just tea-dye the rest of it. mega trendy! #
• 08:32 Our old daycare that we left in February still hasn't given us our deposit back. Megan "reminded" them and they mailed a check - unsigned. #
• 10:40 @swillard We're leaving for Chicago at 2ish today. #

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• 14:22 I am *not* theivp.com's mamma! (nor am I the judge, jury or executioner!) #
• 14:41 @liljimmi @blondekate Just had to unload a little stress and do a little whining. Feeling better now. No big deal. #
• 08:30 All of the felt food is in for swap #2! Pictures here: flickr.com/photos/hopemcg/tags/swap2/ We'll get the packages out soon! #
• 09:18 Enjoying today's Cake Wreck tinyurl.com/5m5a7l #

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• 14:19 Everyone is complaining about rain. Send it our way! We need rain so badly. #
• 10:49 @blondiekate I'll probably leave work at around the same time, unless Megan wants me to come home at lunch to help pack (will happily do!) #
• 10:50 Studying anatomy this am (bah dum bump). *sigh* Sadly, I really have been. www.studystack.com/category-16 #

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• 11:16 @swillard Hope everything is ok. What time do you go? #
• 11:17 Trying to decide whether to do what is easy and expected or harder and unexpected. Who am I kidding?!? -- lunchtime! #

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• 12:31 heading home. nap time for q and maybe me. up TOO early this am. #
• 16:08 @swillard Dinner sounds good. Q is up from her nap, so we're ready for whatever. Emailed you, but it was your wowway. Call us! #
• 16:10 @gypsygrrl I think you can set it up to watch on your phone. #
• 19:15 on the way home from baja sol and smoothies with the boys #

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• 12:54 @liljimmi Roast Beef Sandwich Au Jus-My biggest regret. They just don't make a faux greasy meat sammy, oh except at that place by your house #
• 12:56 Saw a college friend at lunch. That was nice! #
• 13:14 @swillard Are you using the hi def channels? They are up in the 900s, I think. #
• 16:41 The girls are on their way to pick me up. Hellooooo weekend! #
• 05:25 been awake since 4-something with a migraine and vague chest pains. kid will be up in a half-hour. supposed to go to the zoo today. hmmm #
• 08:45 on the way to the zoo. head better. heart still weird. #
• 11:20 done with the zoo. 2 hour limit. saw goats and prairie dogs. thats it. too much train and playground time. pei wei time. #

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• 12:57 Just had lunch with Megs. She's been to two Marshalls' already, but no luck. #
• 14:13 @twinmomma This picture will tell you everything: tinyurl.com/5k83bn Nothing we NEED, just want. #
• 15:59 going to Culver's tonight for some Reece's Cup frozen custard. Mmmmm.... (hopefully) #
• 08:03 Making plans to see Kate and Trish next weekend. SO excited!!! #

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• 12:41 @Chicory Do those have gelatin in the icing? I hate that the regular ones do! #
• 14:32 Got a big project out of my hands at work. It'll be back soon, but I'm riding the wave. #
• 08:24 We went to the State Fair again last night. This time we didn't lose all of our pictures. Deep-friend oreo pictures to come! #
• 08:26 @emmagrl96 I know where Megan will be today... #

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• 15:00 @saderman You are a stronger woman than I #
• 15:02 @mamajoan They always are. Too early to expect pics? I'll have to go peruse. #
• 15:05 Long meeting has been reduced to a day + change. Speaking of change, I need to call the Off of the Chief Inspector about my stolen coin jar #
• 07:43 @saderman That started here a couple of weeks ago, too! #
• 07:55 Just started using friendfeed.com, wondering if this has good IVP people-watching potential #

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this past sunday we went to the ohio state fair, very much looking forward to quinn's first year attending it when she actually can have fun.  well, she did have some fun last year:
 
but the year before, in 2006, she was more along the lines of "what am i doing in this here apple?"


so 2008 fair.  one of the key things on our to-do list was to to visit the petting zoo.  for a mere dollar, you get a cup of carrot slices and a good 15 minutes of toddler happiness.  we fed the goats.  and the llamas.  and the yak.  and more goats.  damn, those goats are bottomless pits!  so we were just hanging out when a woman starts walking toward me, saying my name.  i went into a full on internal panic because i had absolutely NO IDEA who she was, and clearly, she knew me.  in about 2 seconds, my brain raced through the possibilities of how she knew me--former student? (no, even when i can't remember their name, i'm usually pretty good about at least recognizing them.  even if sometimes i do then try to avoid them)  former library co-worker? (no, she was even ringing the 'hey-i've-seen-you-around-the-library-system-even-though-we-don't-work-together bell)  former library customer who would know my name? (no, that would just creep me out)  someone who works in a restaurant i frequent?  someone from school?  arrghhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!

so by now said woman is in front of me, and i'm agreeing that yes, i am megan, and then i had no choice but to look like an idiot when instead of saying, "oh, hi so-and-so!!" i just stood there.  Thankfully she was socially adept and realized i had no fucking idea who she was.  so she offered, "it's L!"  and immediately my panic fell to absolute dread.  but not because L. was any form of horror.  but because my first thought was "ohmyfuckinggod, what ARE the chances that this is happening?" 

L. is a friend of raesflamingo, and we all went to junior high and high school together (but L. and Rae were a year ahead of me).  surely i have not seen her since, er, about 1991.  she wasn't (obviously) a good friend of mine, but certainly someone i'd say hi to in the hallway or whatever.  seeing L. herself wasn't really the issue--i mean, i kinda hate silly chit chat that ensues in these kinds of situations, but i think i'm pretty okay at it.  no, the issue was that L. was wearing a baby.  her baby.  her baby that had the same due date as LE.  and i know that because waaaaaaay back in october or early november of last year, she messaged me at fertility.friend because she'd seen pics of me in our sig/avatar since we were posting in the "June '08 due date" buddy group.  and she (whoa!) recognized me from the pics (and our real names are listed in our sig, so maybe that helped, too).  so she wanted to say "hey, small world!" and we wrote back and forth a few times and that was that.  Then we had the bad u/s and then the worse u/s, and no way could i go back to the due date buddy group.  just couldn't.  i know some folks who've had a loss like to check in with their due date people, but to me, that was self-induced agony.  i didn't want to read about how pregnant people were when the same was no longer true for us; i didn't want to see the milestones passed; i didn't want to see ultrasound pictures or newborn announcements.  i didn't feel weird not saying "see you later" to L., since we weren't super close or anything.

so immediately after my brain processed that L. was that L. from FF, i also processed that the baby she was wearing was (give or take) how big the LE would have been had we been able to take her to the 2008 fair.  and my heart felt a little ripped out and i just sort of tuned out.  i felt badly for not engaging more (i.e., i didn't ask ANYTHING about the baby and didn't even really acknowledge him when L. said, "oh, and this is NewBabyName") but i was just so dumbfounded.

seriously.  a little under 1 million people attend the fair each year.  it runs about 12 days.  so let's say, on average, about 80,000 people attend each day.  and out of EIGHTY THOUSAND people, we run into someone i haven't seen in over 15 years, whose baby was due the same day as our Not-To-Be baby?????

sometimes odds are a funny, funny thing.  <insert eyeroll here> 

• 13:19 @kiddoo28 snort! #
• 17:50 Anyone in Fishertonville want to join my fishing party? apps.facebook.com/fishwrangler/profile/555787577 #
• 09:56 In week-long meetings that are teh suking votex o deth. Worrying about a GM that isn't even mine. #

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Some pics and such from Saturday to Monday.  I don't know if people want to be labeled, so I won't.

 

 

 



  

A video of the toddlers at the park. The decapitated waving man is Don.



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MUCH MUCH love to The Family L for hosting us!

Some of you have heard me mention co-worker Tracy. Here we are at the park with her kids.

A video of Connor and Quinn serving up chocolate burgers:



Connor and Quinn




Caden

Here are a couple attempts at the alphabet.