Territerri of www.intomystic.wordpress.com just gave me the Versatile Bloggers Award. Territeri is special for a couple reasons, the least of which is that she has a repeating name (think John John Kennedy). TT writes about her life in a way that makes me want to grab my coffee cup, pull up a chair, and join in. She’s a very real person. And on the side, she’s also a hero. She gave her dad a kidney. Not many of us could say that. And I have a feeling that if I called her a hero, she wouldn’t know what I was talking about, and she’d rather talk about bowling, anyway.
SinceI got an award, I get to acknowledge another blogger. That’s because I make the rules about this kind of thing. So I’m acknowledging Murr Brewster of www.murrbrewster.blogspot.com. She probably won’t ever see this acknowledgement, because I don’t think she has ever read my blog. And I also don’t think she has ever responded to any of my comments on hers. In fact, she has a lot of followers but she rarely responds to anyone’s comments.
Murr is super smart in that way that some super smart people have of taking any kind of topic and making it seem really important. For example, she has written a lot about animal poop, and she makes poop seem as important as the many political issues she tackles (which she calls political poop). The bottom line is that it doesn’t much matter what Murr writes. I read it, and it all ends up being something that I’m grateful to have read.
Note to readers: I have to use those doofus links because I can’t get the links thing to work. Ah, me.
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The Big News here is that The Pope (JP2) has arrvived. We had a celebratory dinner, and I couldn’t be more pleased.
(Renee’s latest Examiner piece: It’s not your fat. It’s your bones.)
Life in the Boomer Lane 
Tori Nelson
May 31, 2011
I love your super excited face almost as I love that bizarre Pope head drooping over your dinner table 🙂
Versatile indeed!
livelaughloveliquor
May 31, 2011
OMG I am CRACKING UP!!!! Hillarious!
BTW the link didnt work to the other blogger!
Mrs. H.
May 31, 2011
I didn’t know the Pope was a gardener. You’d think he’d have enough manners to remove the gloves before dinner, though.
sunshineinlondon
May 31, 2011
The Pope looks a little like George Bush! Congratulations on the Award, dear friend – sorry I’ve been so scarce around here.
Hugs from London
Sunshine xx
SisterMerryHellish
June 1, 2011
Thank you! Glad I’m not the only one who noticed the uber-creepy Bushiness.
planejaner
May 31, 2011
Renee–
you are going to need more than that one single glass of wine to erase the memory of your night with the Pope…
I pray that’s the only picture you kept. I do NOT want to see these pictures all over the Enquirer. I mean–look how happy he is–was this…you know…before? Or…after?
and, what does NH Dan think about this pale, pasty man sitting at his spot at the table?
big sigh, Renee.
big sigh.
blessings
jane
lifeintheboomerlane
May 31, 2011
Oooh, do you think the Enquirer would be interested? I can see it now: “Pope Returns From the Dead to Woo Boomer Blogger!”
TexasTrailerParkTrash
May 31, 2011
He doesn’t look too bad for a guy who’s just been exhumed.
lifeintheboomerlane
May 31, 2011
Seriously.
judithhb
May 31, 2011
Did the Pope wash his hands before dinner and then put on the gloves?
Carole Marshall
May 31, 2011
AND he cleaned his plate!
The Idiot Speaketh (Mark)
May 31, 2011
Dinner with a deceased Pope…… That’s a great conversation starter! 🙂
lifeintheboomerlane
May 31, 2011
It sure is. But unfortunately, I can’t regale folks with clever things JP2 said. Turns out, he’s the strong silent type. I had to do all the talking.
atticannie
May 31, 2011
I do wish I had a smidgeon of your sense of humor. I’m so glad I found you through Terri Terri. I totally agree with your assessment of her. She’s the type of person I’d love to have as a neighbor just to sit around and drink coffee with, same as you. She’s a gem I found about a year ago.
Connie
May 31, 2011
I can just imagine you laughing your ass off while you set up that little scene .
lifeintheboomerlane
June 1, 2011
And you are exactly right.
kim sisto robinson
May 31, 2011
Congrats! Yeah, that’s George!!!
SisterMerryHellish
June 1, 2011
Renee, TerriTeri and the Pope walk into a bar…
There’s a joke there, I know it!
lifeintheboomerlane
June 1, 2011
I know that joke. It also includes a talking dog and a cigar.
territerri
June 1, 2011
JP2 bears a strong resemblance to George Bush (the first one). I think it’s the blue shirt that does it. Makes him look less papal and more presidential.
Thank you for the shout-out! I got the honor of meeting Tori Nelson because of it, and now I’m going to go check out Murr Brewster.
Kathryn McCullough
June 1, 2011
Okay, this is too damn funny, Renee! Guess who came to dinner!
Kathy
youngamericanwisdom.com
June 1, 2011
I think I just peed my pants! 🙂
Lunar Euphoria
June 1, 2011
I thought it was George Bush too at first glance.
I think he needs his pope-hat.
lifeintheboomerlane
June 1, 2011
He has the little Pope Beanie on but you can’t see it in the photo. But, hey, if they make Bush a saint, we can sell it as him.
Elly Lou
June 1, 2011
I’m never sleeping again. Also? I want that wine. I bet John didn’t even finish his glass. Fucker.
Elly Lou
June 1, 2011
Can you call the Pope a fucker? I should probably go launder my karma.
lifeintheboomerlane
June 1, 2011
Make it a double rinse and use a lot of bleach.
omawarisan
June 1, 2011
Have to add to those who think the pope likes kind of Bushy. It scared me.
It looks like he’s talking to someone else.
lifeintheboomerlane
June 1, 2011
He was listening to an amusing anecdote from another dinner guest, involving Blessed Gratia of Kotor.
k8edid
June 1, 2011
Love it. He does look happy…for a dead Pope.
lifeintheboomerlane
June 2, 2011
Thanks for visiting, and I am so grateful you didn’t say he looks like George Bush!
Walker
June 1, 2011
I see I’m not the only shocked person to think for a moment that George was John! My, my…..
writerwoman61
June 4, 2011
I love Murr…I found her after she commented on your blog! Don’t feel bad…she almost never acknowledges my comments either!
I actually saw the Pope in 1984…I had just moved to Moncton, New Brunswick, and his Popemobile drove past the hotel where we were staying! We had a great view of him from our balcony! He didn’t look anything like Bush that day (I think it’s the shirt he’s wearing at your table that makes people think of Bush).
Did you decide what to do with the big giant head yet?
Wendy
lifeintheboomerlane
June 4, 2011
NHD keeps waiting. If it were up to me, JP2 would be on eBay right now. He’s still sitting (as well as you can sit with mostly everything missing below your clavicle) at the dining room table. I think the house painters were afraid to go near him. Especially when I put a dayglo blue wig on him.