sarahcentric

I am so overdue for a new blog post that I think I’m going to get blog detention. Or I could lose my blog parking privileges. Don’t worry, my mom wrote a blog excuse.

Dear Principal of Blog High,

Please excuse Sarah’s blog tardiness. In order to accommodate life’s new appointments these past two weeks, I thought it would be alright for Sarah to stay home from Blog school and skip her weekly posts in order to take it all in.

Sarah is currently with her sister for the Covered Bridges half-marathon, kicking off in Quechee, Vermont tomorrow morning. She’s looking forward to the exhaustion and exhilaration of her fifth half-marathon, and the inappropriate amounts of Vermont sage cheddar cheese she plans on eating immediately following. (Sarah tells me it is one of the most delicious things on the planet. I have never sampled this myself, but I am inclined to believe her since she’s so right on about so many other things! And she has such great taste! And she’s so funny! And she’s so smart! I mean, how could she possibly be wrong?! Oh, just a Blog Mom’s bias, I guess…hahahaha.)

But no need to worry! Life has sent her Blog assignments home with friends and I’ve made certain she’s keeping up on all her Blog homework; taking copious notes on all life has to offer. I took a look at her journal today, (BlogMom’s Rights), and I think you’ll be very pleased with her work. Here is a sample of some of the hard work Sarah’s been doing…

-When Sarah moved to a new office location for her day job at Comedy Central, she made a conscious choice to embrace the change as opposed to rejecting it…or “having a freaking thrombosis” about it as is her usual custom.

-Sarah invited at least three more people into the Oreo Cakester Fan Club. There’s plenty of new meeting space at her office and she’s looking forward to a weekly OCFC meeting. As part of their work, Sarah and one of the new members sampled the newest treat in the Cakester family, the ‘Nilla Cakester. They were not impressed. “I don’t know, I just thought it would be like the most kick-ass Twinkie ever…it doesn’t even taste like anything!”

-Sarah has taken much advantage of the beautiful warm weather, going back to her hippie roots. After all she’s half-white too and is “saying yes to everything” these days. This research is very thorough, including participation at a Bob Dylan-fest at her hometown winery, a day long shoot for work outdoors and the ultimate Green experience of a long weekend in Vermont. It has made her very nostalgic for her upstate NY childhood and WAY upstate college education. Sarah has done all of these things while re-reading her man Barack Obama’s book, “Dreams of My Father”. Sarah has found great inspiration and insight in what both she and Barack both have in common, but she is feeling a little guilty about comparing her life questions and struggles to his. No one knows what her book will end up being about, but Sarah does know this entry is included somewhere, “I want to be back in the country someday but the fact is I must never see a tick on my skin. There’s no way…because I will be so grossed out I’ll probably die right there on the spot. And if I do actually see it, that means it has taken so much of my blood that’s it’s probably a vampire and I am now the living dead. Look, the city may smell like crap 80% of the time and a gallon of milk costs 23 bucks. But at least a tick will never bite me at a bodega!”

-Sarah is most excited to finish her entry about Plumpy’nut fundraising with the good people of Comedy Central. She plans on blowing that entry OUT in order to kick-start a fundraising drive right here from sarahcentric. In fact, you can get to plumpy’nut purchasing right now! Click on Project Peanut Butter on her blogroll, buy ONE jar of plumpy’nut for $15 and add “sarahcentric” to the field which asks how you heard about the organization. We’re trying to keep a good record of how much plumpy’nutting is going on for corporate sponsor purposes later. But if you’re not in the mood now, you will be after reading Visions of Plumpy’nut Dance in my Head, Part II. Sarah says, “I told y’all I’m going to blow that out, sun!” But why not read the first entry in the meantime right here.

-But by far, Sarah is most intrigued by the new challenges her cranky train ride home after a looooong shoot presented. Sarah was stewing on the awful rush hour train being a VERY bad Buddhist, when she looked back and saw two Buddhist Monks who she spent a week with at a New Year’s meditation retreat! Just seeing their faces and a quick hello lined a lot of stuff up for Sarah and she was able to leave some of the baggage that was definitely not necessary right there on the train.

Sarah will be back at her Blog desk no later than Tuesday, June 3. If you have any questions, comments or assignments for her to catch up on, please feel free to pass them along. I don’t want Sarah thinking that just because she’s not going to Blog School, she gets to sit around in her pajamas, eating ice cream and watching Ducktales all day.

Thank you so much for your understanding, Blog Principal.

Sincerely,
BlogMom

Sweeeet! Now I can cut and go to Friendly’s with my friends and drive around and stuff!

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