“I’m never gonna get married. Are you?”
“Hmm…I suppose if the right person came along, I might. Someone with green eyes and a nice laugh, who I could call ‘Pooty Pie’.”
“POOTY PIE?”
“Or bitsy pookums.”
“I think that would affect my stomach a lot more than my heart.”
“Bitsy pookums I’d say. Yes snoogy woogy, she’d reply…”
- from Calvin & Hobbes by Bill Watterson

—- Yes, the last one is me. Me and my green eyes. You can call me Bitsy Pookums. —-

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“Every once in a blue moon, something new comes along that scrambles your preconceptions.” — Anonymous

—- Who saw the 2009 blue moon? —-

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“Behavioral psychology is the science of pulling habits out of rats.” – Douglas Busch

—- And I’m not in the country, so you can’t scream at me that you DON’T LIKE RATS. We’ve had our share of pet ratties, and they’re as loyal and cuddly as dogs. Really. I promise. —-

“The devil himself had probably redesigned Hell in the light of information he had gained from observing airport layouts” — Anthony Price

—- Then back to London, then Chicago, and finally…home for the holidays. Exhaustion? What exhaustion? —-

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“All of us grow up in particular realities – a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we’re brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.” — Chaim Potok

—- Though now in search of a new neighborhood, this one will always have in a special place in my heart. —-

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