{"id":7825,"date":"2008-03-07T11:11:04","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T16:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7825"},"modified":"2024-10-27T15:33:08","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T19:33:08","slug":"dear-kelvin-this-is-for-your-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7825","title":{"rendered":"Dear Kelvin:  this is for your records:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Ann Marie came and picked me up after she was done with work &#8211; and we drove to Logan Square where she lives.  I got to see her and Rick&#8217;s house &#8211; which was such a treat.  Gorgeous!!  I fell in love with one suede chair in particular.  It was so nice to see Ann Marie in her environment &#8211; it&#8217;s a beautifully done house.  Then we drove to a local Mexican restaurant, and had a lovely time, sitting at the bar upstairs, having a little nosh, and catching up like crazy.  So much to discuss!  From family issues to <i>Project Runway<\/i> &#8230; we covered it all.  We also discussed my blog, in depth &#8211; which always just cracks me up.  She was like, &#8220;So tell me about THIS commenter &#8230; here is what I picture this person is &#8230;&#8221;  We talked about our jobs, our lives &#8230; it was really wonderful to re-connect with her.  She&#8217;s got one of the best faces I know: kind, funny, beautiful, dimples for days, and she&#8217;s an awesome listener.  One of my dearest friends and I totally don&#8217;t see her enough.  When she dropped me off, I said, &#8220;Now remind me &#8211; you and Rick are coming to New York soon, right?&#8221;  &#8220;Well, August, actually.&#8221;  &#8220;Oh. Okay.  That&#8217;s not soon at all.&#8221;  But still &#8211; I hope to be coming back this way soon, it&#8217;s been really really good for me to be in the bosom of all of these dear friends (not that I don&#8217;t have dear friends in New York &#8230; but it&#8217;s been a long time since I&#8217;ve seen Ann Marie &#8211; so it was really special to me to see her in her new digs, and hang out.)<\/p>\n<p>Great night!  Then I came home and Mitchell and I lay in bed watching <i>Crimes and Misdemeanors<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight?  A night out with the gays.  But before then?  A long walking tour of all my old haunts.  To the lake.  To Belmont.  To Addison and Clark.  It&#8217;s freezing today, but I&#8217;m looking forward to my wandering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Ann Marie came and picked me up after she was done with work &#8211; and we drove to Logan Square where she lives. I got to see her and Rick&#8217;s house &#8211; which was such a treat. Gorgeous!! I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7825\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[600],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7825"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7825"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23385,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7825\/revisions\/23385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}