Bubbleland: Same face, different name

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Same face, different name

Went to the Social Security office today and, I must say, it was not the nightmare that I expected! The name change is official. Now, I've only got my driver's license, cards, bills, pretty much anything with my name on it, to go. Yayyyyy! And boooo. What an exhausting process.

No new Top Chef last night. Double-boo! (Boo-boo, you might say.) The Fabio hosted dinner was just not the same. Oh, well. Project Runway tonight!

Not much new. It's been a pretty quiet week. I'm going grocery shopping this weekend though so I'm sure there will be tons of fun to come.

Stay classy, Internet. Otherwise, you will be out. Auf wiedersehn!

PS – Because she's gotten zero face time (and Sugarbear has gotten a TON) here's Claudette Roberts. (Pronounced Row-bear. She's French. And she's keeping her name.) She's not much for holding still for pictures because she's always looking over her shoulder for incoming puppy love. The invisible cat. And the loudest invisible cat EVER –

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Mary EllaNovember 5, 2009 at 9:15 PM
Its official. You're a JOHNSON! Hope the name treats you well. Can't say I miss it too much but I can know say that we are somehow related. Yes!
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Beka Roberts JohnsonNovember 6, 2009 at 10:59 AM
Heh, I'm moving up in the alphabet!
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The Origins of Bubbleland

Once upon a time there was a little girl that lived in a land of imagination. Much like Willy Wonka. But with way less chocolate. Well, really, no sweets to speak of. But it was a happy place where she sat in the cool earth under huge hydrangea bushes and read books. Fed Eggos to her dog, Sam. (Even though she wasn’t supposed to and, in retrospect, it probably made him sick.) And she watched Mr. Rogers with her Dad.

One day, the little girl and her father see an episode that was a special “Mr. Rogers Opera”...

In it, a news team promises "There's never any trouble here in Bubbleland." What they don't know is that a windstorm is approaching. It's the by-product of a chemical company's aerosol spray. While all the residents are worried about their many bubbles, Hildegarde Hummingbird strives to protect the people from the giant wind.

One of the songs from The Opera – “There's Never Any Trouble In Bubbleland” – stayed with the girl.

(Perhaps long after it should. Cuz that’s a little weird. Or charming? The line is very fine...)

But here, on the interweb super-information highway, the girl found her place...

Bubbleland.

For there’s never any trouble here in Bubbleland.