An excerpt from texts shared today with my friend Wren (who is as devoted to her pets as I am to Tyler):
Me: Going to get "Complete Idiot's Guide To Edible Weeds" and go live in the wilderness.
Wren: I'm down with running away to live in the woods ... except for the coming winter. And it's hard to find dog food in the wild. At least dog food a Shih Tzu will eat.
Me: Bah. We go south to warmer climes, and let the dogs revel in their wild side - they can hunt.
Me: Wait - a Shih Tzu and a blind cockapoo hunting ... what? Old moles? Might catch a turtle.
Wren: Shih Tzu don't hunt. They sidle up to other animals that have brought down prey and give them moo-moo eyes until they give them something.
Me: I can see Tyler stalking the wild Big Mac.
(then we talked about the fact that I'm recovering from being sick, and how bad colds are going around just now) ...
Me: The cough from hell is what I've got. Sounds like I have consumption. Or the plague.
Wren: Consumption is cooler. The plague is kind of historically nerdy.
Me: Consumption is kind of intellectual - I'm surprised how many people don't know what it is. Apparently you have to have eclectic reading taste to have run across the term.
Wren: Well, or have seen the movie Tombstone.
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Wren: There are online support groups for people who suffer depression because they don't live in the movie Avatar. But none for Middle Earth. Why is that?
Me: Freaks. Avatar-land is just a made-up place, but everyone knows Middle Earth is real.
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Wren: Weird, I have my MP3 on shuffle and it played all my celtic drinking songs in a row, now it's moved on to Christmas.
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Just wanted to share.
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