SHE WROTE: Memory Lane

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20345174.post-1167410834615067062006-12-29T11:46:00.000-05:002006-12-29T11:50:40.180-05:00SHE WROTE: Memory LaneWe're looking back over the posts because at one time we were going to make them into a book. Remember that, way back in the beginning? Then the year overwhelmed us. From: Bob Mayer To: Jenny Crusie the glorious lives of best-selling authors sorta pathetic but good From: Jenny Crusie To: Bob Mayer Been reading the blog have you? I am, too. How did we survive? From: Bob Mayer To: Jenny Crusie Fortitude From: Jenny Crusie To: Bob Mayer Ignorance. If we'd known, we'd have run screaming like babies. From: Bob Mayer To: Jenny Crusie Nope. I thrive on challenges But I've been reading them again and you know, they just might make a book. Especially if we added some of the missing information, some even-more-behind-the-scenes info. Not all of it, we have some boundaries, but some of it was, in retrospect, pretty illuminating. Like some of the fun things you missed. Remember when Bob fell in love with chocolate machine in Boston? <blockquote>"The neatest thing so far on the tour has been this machine on the 7th floor of the hotel where you push this button and put this packet in and it makes hot chocolate. I am so addicted I think I broke it the first day making so many cups but they fixed it. Thank you SMP. I went up in the middle of Jenny's talk and made two cups and brought them back down. I got the hot chocolate jones. Also the machine is cool. You punch this button and the front slides open and you put this packet in, and it slides shut, then you push another and various lights blink and then it tells you the hot chocolate is done. Basically a gadget."</blockquote>I got him that for his birthday. Broke down and gave it to him early as I recall. And he got me this amazing tapestry scarf and whenever I wear it, women cluster around and say, "Where did you GET that?" and I say, "Bob gave it to me," and I can see their eyes glaze over. He's a terrific writer, a dynamic teacher, he's funny, he's cute, AND he can pick out scarves. Then I say, "And he's been in a relationship for fifteen years." It's like throwing cold water on kittens, it's awful. But the scarf is amazing and he really did pick it out. And the T-shirt. I cut it up with scissors in a hotel lobby in a white hot rage. That was bad. But he went off the rails a couple of times, too. We both had many minor transgressions. I think he lost the lizard socks. He seems definitely to have lost Moot. (Wait'll he gets a load of Flamingo Jill. It will be impossible to lose Flamingo Jill.) The worst of all was the time at the beginning of August that we ended the collaboration. You missed that part. We didn't want to traumatize you. I think it lasted about a week. That was a very bad week. Bad enough that we're pretty sure we don't want to go there again. Now we stick with time outs. Like "I'll talk to you again in ten years." But we're already planning on the Living the Dream 2007 Tour, not that SMP has said they're touring us. Bob wants to do it by boat (I want him to buy the new MacPro 17" laptop so I can justify buying one, but he's insisting on the boat). He found a great used one for $5000 or "will trade." So we e-mailed: From: Jenny Crusie To: Bob Mayer Maybe they'll trade it for the Explorer. And $4950. From: Bob Mayer To: Jenny Crusie The Explorer runs very well, thank you. I'm putting bunks in the back for the 2007 book tour From: Jenny Crusie To: Bob Mayer Excellent idea. We need more alone time in a small space with a lot of carbon dioxide leakage. From: Bob Mayer To: Jenny Crusie You know I could tax deduct the boat if we did a book tour up the Intracoastal. Think SMP would go for it? From: Jenny Crusie To: Bob Mayer I don't know, but I would. A lot of Agnes is on boats. We should have put more of it on. You've got the master. Write it in. From: Bob Mayer To: Jenny Crusie email me from your new computer and I'll be on my sinking boat From: Jenny Crusie To: Bob Mayer We don't need no sinkin' boat. From: Jenny Crusie To: Bob Mayer I crack myself up. And then we went back to work on Agnes because the rewrite WILL be in to SMP on Jan 1 if it kills us both. Which it won't. Because judging from this blog, if 2006 and each other didn't kill us, we're indestructible.Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01052212035933667253noreply@blogger.com