I’m not wasting any time writing about Charlotte until I’m home but here’s a link to the few pictures I took. I forgot my camera and had to use Susan’s “back up” crappy camera, since she dropped her good one in the Catawba River.  Excuse the blurriness.  I got to freak her children out, eat far too much, binge on chocolate, burn through Susan’s gasoline rations, see my old friend Mike Hillier and generally act obnoxiously while around her.  High points include buying her husband Eddie an air freshener that simply says “I Love My Penis”, which will be awesome when he parks his car in the Microsoft employee lot and it’s hanging from his rearview mirror.  Susan received a fabulous high-quality magnet with a 1950’s housewife pushing a shopping cart with two children in it.  It says:  “This is so ICKY and wrong.”  We both peed our pants laughing at that one. 

I’ve been crying off and on tonight because I don’t want to leave Charlotte and Susan, and so far my pleas to move to Richmond have fallen on her deaf ears.

On another note, her dog that she had when we lived together - Delilah’s partner in crime - is still alive because she is much nicer than me and refuses to put Megan the Dog to sleep.  We came home tonight to an empty 1/2 pound bag of M&Ms and dog poo and barf everywhere.  Right then I was glad Delilah went to the great gazebo in the sky.  I’m really over cleaning up poo, pee and vomit.