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Amelia: What is that you are watching there on your high falutin' picture box.
Jodi: It's my fireplace dvd. It's good background for when I am writing.
Amelia: What, you don't have a real fireplace.
Jodi: We can't afford one. So I turn on the dvd and light a candle for an aromatic touch.
Amelia: Which is why your fire smells like coconut chocolate mousse?
Jodi: Yes. Earlier it smelled of mangos and tangerines.
Amelia: Refreshing! You realize you are only talking to me to waste time, right?
Jodi: Yes. I'm stuck. I'm blocked. I don't know what to do next. The body has been discovered, the police have been called. All the stuff I came up with last year when I planned this story has been written.
Amelia: You just do it. You just write.
Jodi: Easy for you to say, but write what?
Amelia: My god, girl, quit your crying, get on that plane and fly it already. Oh, and name a character after me.
Jodi: Consider it done.

Just because she's been quiet, doesn't mean she's gone.

Of course she's been quiet so long, a great portion of people who read my blog now probably don't realize I talk to a poster of Amelia Earhart.

You might be wondering where exactly Amelia has been lately. Why she's been so quiet. For a long time I have wanted to get her framed. She's been through a lot and has a lot of wear and tear. I wanted to get her in a frame before anymore damage occurred. She is, technically, a collector's item.

Last December, before Christmas, I took her into Michael's, along with the Jim Henson/ Kermit Think Different poster and two NaNoWriMo posters, to be framed. They were having a 50% off sale, and I wanted something nice. And oh man were they helpful. We probably spent about an hour and half, choosing matting and frames. The NaNo posters were especially difficult, colorwise. It took 3 frame dept people to figure it out, with much debate. Finally, we had everything spec'd out and he started to write up the estimate. That is something he maybe should have done after the first poster, I could have saved us all a lot of time. The Think Different posters are 24 x 36, the NaNo posters 18 x 24, and really, that is quite large for a custom frame job. Each poster had a relatively inexpensive frame, but three levels of matting. It was so nice.It really made a difference.

When he added up the total for just Amelia, I almost passed out. I was expecting it to be less than that at 100%. At 50% it was ridunculously expensive. Let me put it this way, I could have framed all prints as planned, or I could have bought my husband a black MacBook with an extra gig of ram for Christmas with that kind of money. If I had that kind of money lying about. Which I did not.

I decided to go ahead and have Amelia framed. We tried reducing the cost by removing some of the matting, but it just looked so much better the way we planned it out. It hurt me to pay that much, believe me. It was extortion. I don't even have Jim and Kermit on the wall because I couldn't bare to have them look all naked and plain next to Amelia.

The picture does not do it justice. She really does look fabulous.

Amelia: Hey.. look at me!
Me: You look good.
Amelia: I look FANTASTIC. My posture has never been better. Can you hear me from behind the glass?
Me: Loud and clear.
Amelia: Sweet. Do you think you can wipe off that fingerprint in the lower right corner? I don't want to look smudgy.
Me: I'm on it.

Canadians love facebook. I think I read somewhere that it's more popular here than in the states, but I might be making that up. I swear I read it. I think that facebook is ten times more pleasant than myspace. It doesn't hurt my eyes the way myspace does. I don't have many facebook friends. If you have a facebook page and want to be my friend, leave me a comment and I will email you the url to my page and we can be BFF!! Wil has 197 thousand or something. I have 11. And half of them are people that I met through Wil, so we share them. He's reconnected with lots of old high school friends and is having a blast with the facebook. Found a picture of himself with his first girlfriend, when he was 17, that is ADORABLE. To me, at least. He changes his profile picture on a regular basis. This one is my favorite, for obvious reasons.

Me: Amelia, are you making time with my bf?
Amelia: Girl, we were just hanging out... no worries.
Me: 'kay
Amelia: Girl, your house is a mess!
Me: Don't call me "girl"
Amelia: almost as bad as your cube used to be.
Me: I know, ok. I've been busy.
Amelia: Busy? Is that what they call "sitting around watching home decorating shows on tv" these days?
Me: Maybe
Amelia: You're a lousy housewife.
Me: Oh yeah? Well you're.... TWO DIMENSIONAL!
Amelia: Ouch! That was hurtful.
Me: Sorry.
Amelia: Nobody likes to be told they are flat, Jodi.

Amelia: I'm baaaack. My neck is stiff.
Me: You've been rolled up for a few months.
Amelia: Where is this?
Me: Canada.
Amelia: Girl, what are you doing down there?
Me: This is my life now. I'm scrubbing chili off the front of the oven.
Amelia: How did you get chili on the front of the oven?
Me: I don't know. It was there when I got back from the states. The rumor is the kittens did it.
Amelia: The kittens eat chili?
Me: Well, I did find an empty chili can under the kitchen sink, next to the cat food.

Amelia: Hey, what happened.. .it's dark. I can't see.
Me: it's ok.
Amelia: I feel funny.
Me: It's ok... you are rolled up.
Amelia: Rolled up?
Me: Yeah, we're leaving. We're taking off.
Amelia: We are? Are we going to go exploring?
Me: Yeah
Amelia: Sweet! You know I'm a bit of an adventurer, don't you?
Me: I've heard that about you.
Amelia: So where are we off to now?
Me: How do you feel about... Canada?
Amelia: Beauty, eh!
Me: Precisely.

Goodbye, P.O.E. I will miss you. You are the best company I've ever worked for in my life, truly world class. You've been very good to me. And I hope that I, at least the majority of the time, have been good to you.

The ants were very very busy over the holiday weekend. They've completely buried the test tube, except for the opening. They seem to be hanging out in it. We think it might be their break room or lounge.

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strong>: Hey... hey... HEY!
Jodi: What?
Amelia: What's going on here?
Jodi: We are moving stuff around... I'm going to turn this desk over this way and turn..
Amelia: That's not all you are doing.
Jodi: Oh, yeah, I cleaned.
Amelia: Your cube is clean.
Jodi: I know... it's unnerving. I hope no one in my family sees it, or they will expect the same thing in my house.
Amelia: Well, I'm totally shocked. How long do you think it will last?
Jodi: Not long, probably.
Amelia: You have a new neighbor.
Jodi: Yes, KK and Paco switched places. This is a girls corner now. It's our cubeplex.
Amelia: Girl power!
Jodi: You said it, Flighty Spice. We are going to decorate. We are planning to buy a nice little throw rug.
Amelia: Oh! It will be pink won't it? Please say it will be pink!
Jodi: Oh, it will be pink. Trust me.
Amelia: I like it!

It's true, my cube is all clean, you can see the top of my desk, and I've thrown a lot of stuff away. Or put it on a shelf. It's weird.