September 11

Do you remember all that nonsense we spouted last Friday about how Amylynn couldn’t get in for a hair appointment and her head looked horrible and people were reluctant to be seen with her in public? Well, except her husband but then he barely notices that she has hair. Did we ever tell you about the time Amylynn accidentally dyed her hair BLACK instead of the usual red and her husband never noticed. Never. Seriously. That’s another blog for another time. Anyway, Ava pled Amylynn’s case in a very dramatic fashion when she was at the salon yesterday evening and LO! an appointment spot opened right up. Thank the old gods and the new! We managed to find some other stuff of interest this week. Here you go.

1. Shogun! We’ve met our friend Pumpkin at this Japanese restaurant several times and we’ve always enjoyed ourselves thoroughly. There are many things to recommend the place – the fabulous booths that are more like snug little cubbies, the proximity to our office allowing us more time to chat because there’s no drive time, and the food. The thing that makes the three of us giggle though is the menu. The lunch fare is excellent for the most part, but don’t fall in love with anything in particular because even though you can order two items from the lunch special, they may not be the same thing. So no matter how good that sesame chicken is, you can’t have two of them unless you can convince Pumpkin to order one and you’ll order the other thing she loves and then you can pull a switch. It’s all very complicated.

2. Tiny tigers. Sigfried and Roy apparently never learn and that’s what the Sisters find commendable. It’s like we’re kindred spirits who would dearly love the opportunity to learn from our mistakes. Sadly no one will let us have a tiger so we can. We don’t know how we’re supposed to grow as individuals, but whatever. Anyway, the Sigfried and Roy foundation SARMOTI will be putting four tiny, perfect tigers on display at the Mirage in Las Vegas. It just so happens that the Sisters will be in Las Vegas in November. This seems like a recipe for something, doesn’t it? We don’t expect the tigers will be small enough to put in our pockets, but they’ll fit right into a shopping bag. The

It’s dark here so you can’t see how dirty these people are from camping

Sisters love shopping. The best part? We’re driving so we won’t even have to worry about those horrible, nosey TSA agents.

3. Boys camping. This seems to be a thing. Last week The Boy Who Lives at Ava’s House went camping and this weekend Amylynn’s Honey and The Bandit are going with the Boy Scouts. This gives the girls lots of time to do girl stuff. Sassy and Amylynn are probably going to go to a movie. We’d like to see some cute boys on screen without getting that look from our boys. Maybe we’ll do some shopping for makeup. And sit in a Starbucks for a couple of hours and goof around. And eat waffles for dinner. This is going to rock!

4. Adventures in Parking Lots. Ava made Amylynn eat at Chipotle again. Gah. It was worse than normal. The parking lot was all cordoned off for repaving – who does that on a Friday? Everybody and their mother seemed to be basically abandoning their cars in the driveway all for the opportunity to scowl down at a stupid burrito bowl. Anyway, in order to fulfill Ava’s wishes and eat at the wretched place, we had to park 67 miles away and walk. The only thing that made the whole thing tolerable was that we parked right outside a Cold Stone Creamery. You know that means ICE CREAM for dessert. We hope they’re still paving next week!

5. Lefties! Did you know Kermit the Frog is a left-handed amphibian? We didn’t either, but, as Ava will tell you, all the best people are.