“Manning the brooms behind the Trumpian elephant”

I was texting with my BFF Sam this evening and we were having so much fun that I put off doing my blahg. I wasn’t sure what I was gonna blahg about anyway so we texted for something like an hour.

So how do you meet your best friend? I met my bestie Helen when I was a baby because her mom and my mom were pretty good besties. I met my bestie Laurie because our moms pushed us together in kindergarten. We kinda ruled the neighborhood throughout grade school. Mostly Laurie ruled it.

I met my bestie Sam on Radical Betty’s back deck (which is unsafe nowadays so don’t even try to sit there or climb the staircase). I was 20-something then and my cousin Jay knew Sam at our beloved Moo-U and brought her to the moominbeach to meet our family. I liked Sam a lot but didn’t really foresee that we would end up being best friends. Because who would know? I was struggling with my life at that time and…

Somehow I got to know Sam and her family and their house south of the Moo-U campus where we both went to school and her dad was a PHD botanist. We had a lot in common since both our families have roots in both the lower and upper peninsulas of the Great Lake State. We have the moomincabin on Lake Superior and she has the Green Cabin on Manistique Lake.

Anyway, although I didn’t really know it, I needed a Sam fix today and I soooo got one 🧡🧡🧡

And so here we go into another f*cking COVID xmas. We are not planning any big get-togethers and we are armed with home antigen tests. We are (I am) still nervous.

I am kind of not listening to the news much lately but I was schlepping laundry through the chitchen when the elephant brooms thing flew by. Yes. My exact feelings about The Former Guy. Shitola.

2 Responses to ““Manning the brooms behind the Trumpian elephant””

  1. Margaret Says:

    Here we go again…and I’m SO tired of it all. 🙁 I don’t have a best friend although I have a number of close friends. (fewer than I used to though, that’s for sure) Covid has narrowed my circle substantially.

  2. Pam J. Says:

    ” I was schlepping laundry through the chitchen when the elephant brooms thing flew by. Yes. My exact feelings about The Former Guy. Shitola.”
    Explain please. I get the idea of wanting to whisk away TFG, but what does the above sentence mean? You were walking through your kitchen and saw what exactly? Is there something on that car stuck in the snow that explains it?
    I too can enjoy long texting visits with friends. Seems odd when I could simply call them but texting is more relaxing for some reason.