Twas Brillig

All you need to do is become extremely ill, puke constantly, eat nothing, and spend the entire day in bed. Yup! Just like magic.

What I wanna know is, why couldn’t I have done this LAST weekend–you know, before I met all sorts of blog friends! Why couldn’t I have had my fabulous new figure THEN?

See, this past Wednesday, I had the enormous pleasure of meeting Kimberly, DeDee, and Amber for dinner. I’d never met any of these girls, but I’ve been reading Kimberly and DeDee’s blogs for some time now (and you better believe that I’m reading Amber’s now too!) Seriously, we had such a blast. These girls are absolutely delightful and it was so fun to meet them “in person.” We stayed in the restaurant for FOUR HOURS. Yeah… After dinner we went to Walmart, of course, and divided up into teams and went shopping for gifts for each other–spending a dollar each. Yes, you can imagine the beautiful treasures we ended up with. The gift they gave me was a little patch that said, “I know right from wrong, I just prefer wrong.” They said that it suited me so well. Hahaha. Somehow, prudy little Brillig gave off the impression of “bad girl.” Hilarious.

The next day, I met up with Kimberly and DeDee at Temple Square in Salt Lake City (with kids in tow) where we eventually ran into K and Tirzah, both of whom I would have loved to get to know a little better, but in the chaos all I really got to know is that they’re cool and I’ll be reading their blogs now too.

Then, that night, I met up with a different group of bloggers–but these are girls that I’ve known for, oh, twelve years or so. In fact, they’re the ladies who got me into blogging in the first place. And they are probably the most gorgeous and intimidating group of women you’ll ever meet. They are Kate, Jewels, Hannah, and Sheila (who prefers not to be linked to). These girls are hilarious and delightful and when the conversation turned to sex tapes, p0rn, buying girly mags for your spouse, and a few other snippets that I can’t even bring myself to list, it was clear that I was not just the ugly fatso, but also DEFINITELY the prude of this group–as opposed to the other bloggy group who considered me the bad girl! (Kinda funny, since in high school and college I was certainly the bad girl of this group. Crazy what a little mission and a temple marriage and a hubby who’s at least as big of a prude as I am will do to you!) So, the group of us went to dinner at Los Hermanos in Provo and then we went to see Hairspray. Oh. Mygosh. LOVED HAIRSPRAY!!!!! I told the girls that I kinda wish that I were 15 so that I could put a picture of that boy up in my locker.

Wait a minute. I’m not 15, and I don’t have a locker, but I do have a blog… and YouTube.

Hi-frickin-larious, right? Anyway, after the movie we went back to Kate’s and chatted into the wee hours of the morning. It was so good to see everyone.

Still, though, couldn’t I have gotten sick BEFORE this? Shown off my fabulous new figure? Alas, no.

As for me, I’m still sick, but getting better. I mean, this morning I ate three cheeries (dry, from a kiddie snack container) and I haven’t puked them up yet! Woohoo! And they completely filled me up. Hahaha. Now that’s what I call a balanced meal! I love to think that by the end of this bout of ickiness I’ll be scrawny and gorgeous–even if it comes at a hefty price.