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I have officially leapt into the world of advanced knitting.... it's no longer pouring out of me like magic. I now have to think about every stitch I do so I don't screw up the whole piece! But I'm doing much more impressive work, and will have some happy recipients come christmastime. Will you be one of them??? Maybe so, maybe no. Haha! Only 5 days til Election Day! I wonder how long it will take to figure out the "real" winner this time? Care to put in guesses? I was watching 60 Minutes last night, and they were talking about all the potential problems and issues with the new electronic voting, and since California gets to choose paper or plastic, so to speak.... i'm definitely choosing paper. I suggest you do the same. I feel like the Election is more like a reality show where someone gets voted off... hopefully it won't be too manipulated. LL

Because it was a little wet on the roads last night, not even raining, it took me 2.5 hours to get home last night!!!! That is ridiculous. I'm gonna try a different route home tonight to avoid the freeways. Wish me luck. I have a Halloween party to go to on Saturday night, yay! So, my Snow White alterego will be unveiled in California for the first time. LL

So, I gave Beth a custom made hoodie for her bday, with NOLA written on it, for New Orleans, LA... but anyway, I digress... the guy who packed it at the company wrote a limerick about it in honor of me. There once was a hoodie named NOLA, As Fresh as a new Coca Cola. Wherever she went, An elegant gent, Showed up with a pint of shinola. Hilarious! I love my name. LL

God, Apple is always improving their shit. My piddly little 10GB ipod is soooooo out of date now. Have you seen these new color screen music and PHOTO ipods??? And they also have this special edition U2 themed ipod, i guess for big U2 fans... it's black and red and has signatures on the back.... check out these fab new mac goodies at www.apple.com... the 40GB photo ipod is now a must have for me.... but since it's 500 bucks and i have many other financial obligations with cars, etc, it may be a while, and by that time, they'll have improved it again i'm sure!! Anyway... if anyone wins the lottery, I would like the new 60GB ipod as my xmas present. Hee hee. LL Oh, and it's supposed to rain again the next two days in LA. What is going on?

I am now officially closer to age 29 than to 28. Oh boy. Why has hardly anyone done my questionaire posted below? Do it people! It's imperative to my survival as your friend. Whitney and Angela were here this weekend, which provided a great distraction from my grandfather. We went all over the place! Angela's brother and his roommate from San Diego also came up, so if you were wondering how many people could sleep in my one room apartment, the answer is 5! It can be done. We went to the Gavin Degraw/ michael Tolcher concert at the House of Blues, which was good. Not the kind of music i would listen to regularly, but really good live. And that Michael is one fine southern boy. Yummy. Come back girls! You're welcome anytime. But it's good to have a break from guests for a couple of weeks. LL

So, my grandfather died on Friday. I am very sad. luckily, I had some distractions this weekend. I am upset that he will never get to meet Elle, cause he loved animals and the family pets so much. My love of animals definitely came from him. The days of geese, swans, chickens, ducks, peacocks, etc are officially over. Those were the days. I remember staying with them in the summers and trying to teach my chickens to talk so i could take them on Johnny Carson. I thought I was gonna be the next Dr Doolittle. Granddaddy was a mailman for many many years. He fought in the war, and was a funny wiseass, like Bugs Bunny. I loved him so much. It probably won't seem real that he's gone until I go home for either a service or xmas... that will be hard.

Okay, so I'm bored... Questionnaire from me to you for you to send to me after I have sent it to you…. Feel free to not answer or elaborate on anything you wish! Let’s start with the basics: Name: Date of Birth: Current City of Residence: Siblings: Birthplace: Astrological sign: Parents divorced?: Democratic, Republican, or Neither?: Favorite color: Car: Usual bedtime: Now on to the more interesting questions that you may not usually be asked by these stupid things… Coke or Pepsi?: Kermit or Fozzie?: NYC or LA?: Whipped Cream or Ice Cream?: UNC or Duke?: North or South?: Mac or PC?: Dog or Cat?: Coffee or Tea?: Chocolate or Fruit?: Beach or Mountains?: CD or MP3?: Bikini or One piece?: M&Ms or Reese’s Pieces?: Email or Phone?: To Wax or Not to Wax?: Salt or Pepper?: Sneakers or sandals?: Tevas or Birks?: Zoo or museum?: Christmas, Hanukkah, or Kwanzaa?: Sleep or eat?: America or Europe?: Roller Coasters or kiddie rides? Su...

My mom called this morn to let me know that my grandfather is in the hospital... looks bad, but hope for the best. I hope i don't have any unexpected Charlotte trips between now and xmas. It's raining cats and dogs out here. Yes, literally. One pooped on my shoulder today. LL

Katie is having a girl... Eliza Ann.... Yay! Wish I could go to her shower Nov 13th... i'll have to knit something special for my niece. A lot of knitting projects in the pipeline... dog sweater for Elle, bikini for me, etc... Set up my craft table and sewing machine last night... so exciting! And craft club resumes this thursday. Yay! Gotta churn out the xmas presents. Anyway... gotta go pluck my eyebrows! LL

I made the weekend horrible for Scott. And i'm soooo sorry. Long story. Anyway... It has been raining for the past three days in LA!!! What is going on? Well, it's good or my car i guess. She never gets a natural bath. I have decided that me and Elle will indeed go to Clt for xmas. My family wants to meet her really bad! And that means i'll get to see Wayne in Charlotte, and maybe other people as well! I'll at least have thanksgiving in LA. Not alone i hope. I've already bought and MADE a lot of xmas presents!! I'm so on the ball, (or ornament?) I finally watched Nightmare Before Xmas, and I LOVE it! See it now if you haven't. I've been singing the What's This song for days. If I had seen it before I'd gotten Elle, I may have named her Zero. Elle is tied up to a desk right now cause she was bad and pooped in my coworker's office. Bad girl! It's Monopoly time at Mcdonalds. Uh oh. LL

So, me and Scott dined at El Conquisador last night. A first for me. the decor was cool, but the food was so-so. We did eat right beside Lily Tomlin though... And she's in that new movie, I Heart Huckabees... gotta see that, whatever it's about. Dropped off Scott this morning at the Museum of Natural History... hope he has fun learning. They have an insect zoo!!!! I love insect zoos. Except for the spiders of course, but they shouldn't have spiders in an insect zoo, because they aren't really insects, right? Anyway... Starting to rethink not going home for xmas... better start researching tix to clt, it's only 2 months away! I got my new craft/ sewing table yesterday, so can't wait to get that put together and loaded with all my supplies! I'll be a craft diva before you know it. Happy Friday. Love, LL

Since I have to work, I dropped off Scott for the day at the zoo and the Museum of the West... hope he has fun... unfortunately i had to drop him off an hour before they even opened, cause i had to get going to the craphole i call work. anyway, i guess we'll have mexican food or something. may try somewhere new, maybe not. i could never get sick of my favorite Alegria, where i took Wayne, but i should venture out some. Plus, I'd like to keep that memory separate! Since i failed to do laundry after wayne left, my pile is like 5 ft high! HAVE to do it before the gals come next week. Today is Beth's Bday!! Happy 28th Beth!! I love you. Your present still hasn't come. I ordered it but not here yet... I had a dream last night that Katie was gonna have triplets. Weird. LL

So Scott is here and is getting along with Elle swimmingly. She is such a ho. Just like her mommy. Haha. Don't know what we'll be doing the next few days, cause I have to work during the day tomorrow and friday. Scott is sitting here bored with me at work while we speak. Poor guy. I'm afraid i'm not a good hostess. I hope Scott's not too disappointed. We'll see... Stay tuned... LL By the way, I hate LAX airport.

So, my weekend was fun with Wayne! He is definitely the best guest i've had so far this fall. I feel pretty wellrested now surprisingly. I was so tired from Vegas that I spent a lot of time in bed this weekend, making poor Wayne very bored I'm sure. Oh well. I need my beauty sleep after all. We went to a lot of my favorite restaurants, and I showed him ALL the sites! I know my city better now than ever before. It's so nice to just drive around. California is crazy. Anyway, Disneyland rocked, except for the fact that several good things were closed for renovations, i mean innoventions. Ha. That innoventions place sucked. Where's my pop-up kitchen? I took my pic with Pluto to add to my collection of dorky Leslie and the Disney characters. Elle and Wayne fell in love, even though she's a lesbian. Who I am kidding? She's a ho. Monday, we met a couple of neighbors named Bob and Candy. They were really cool, but I forgot to find out exactly where t...

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Wayne comes tonight. Yay! Elle's been running around naked all day in anticipation. So, Sunday, the last day in Vegas... the family was finally gone, leaving me and Leigh to our own devices. We slept late again, and went for a pretty sucky buffet brunch at the Alladin. Then we met up with mark and Beth to say goodbye, and we headed up to the Stratosphere for what we thought would be good gambling. Well, Leigh lost 120 bucks right away. Left there, and went uptown. I had to start paying for everything, cause Leigh had no more moolah left on her, but she gave me 100 later... anyway... DOWNTOWN was fucking awesome. Should have been there the whole time. So old school with the lights and all that. Went to all the different casinos: 4 Queens, Golden Nugget, Binion's Horseshoe, and Fitzgerald's... Fitzgerald's had a Limerick's Steakhouse. Leigh took some pics of the sign. When it got dark, we went to find a good place to take pics of the lights and I gave 2 bucks...

So, Saturday in Vegas turned us to a different path. We weren't really winning money anymore, and trying desparately to hold on to our previous winnings. We slept pretty late, and finally rose at about noon. I thought Leigh should see the Venetian, so we went up there for lunch. We were ravenous, and ate like a loaf of bread. Sorry Dr Atkins. But we were never that close. After lunch, we met up with everybody and then went with Dad to the Bonanza gift shop. A basic place to buy all your cheap Vegas crap. I spent 60 dollars. Then, we went for a drink at the Sahara, and watched an Elvis impersonator for a while. I took a short nap, and then we met Dan and Wendy at the Bellagio for a pre-O snack. Then, I finally got to see all of O. It was good, but weird. Amazing what they can do with their bodies. Freaks. Then, me and Leigh stayed up til about 4 again at the Excalibur, which is the cheesiest Strip casino, by the way. But we didn't want to go too far away. Stay tu...

So went to bed at 7pm last night, slept thru my alarm for 2 hrs this morning, and woke up at 10! I am temporarily revived. That means maybe I'll be alive while Wayne is here this weekend. Of course I'll probably be worn out again after! So, On to the most interesting day of my Vegas trip, Friday. Woke up really early. like 7am. I think all the east coasters were rubbing off. So, then we all, including Mark and Beth had breakfast at Mandalay Bay. MMMM, yummy french toast. Then, my uncle Dan went nuts. We got a 40 ft white SUV limo for the day, with leopard plush and the whole deal. That's my second limo in a week! First place we went was THE GUN STORE. That's right. An indoor shooting range. I, Leslie Limerick, have shot my first and probably only machine gun. An MP5 or something. It was fun. Crazy. I got to keep my target. I kicked it's ass. So, after that, we went to the Liberace Museum. Hilarious. Rhinestone encrusted everything. Cars, pianos, and my pe...

Can't wait to get home, see my baby, and go to sleep. I almost fell asleep driving to work today. Had to come straight from the airport. But anyway, Vegas was loads of fun, despite some family obstacles along the way. Overall, a great time. In fact, I had such a great time that I will recount each day on this blog. But I am too tired to do it all at once, so today I will start with Thursday. Oh, and by the way, when I got into the office, my latest paycheck was waiting for me... amazing. I went and actually opened up a savings account. SO- Thurs afternoon I arrived in Vegas, met Leigh at our hotel room, and then we went and surprised Dad, while they were eating lunch at Caesar's. He was completely floored. He couldn't speak for 5 minutes! It was great. He even teared up a little. Very sweet. And it was so good to see my aunt and uncle. Hadn't seen them for about 2 years. Then, in the Caesar's casino, I won 300 bucks in a slot machine. Amazing! (Of co...