Hambone is born

31 minutes

11:48 PM me: hey y'all never told me what you thought of my brilliant trail name: sistas of the square navel: on the quest for the whole a-trail

11:51 PM Elizabeth: ok, that was a funny moment

the first time i read it i totally didn't get the allusion and i was reading it and thinking, devon's imagination is waaay healthier than mine

11:52 PM i have this way of skim-reading things, it leads to some funny moments in my head

me: that will never, ever be the case

11:53 PM Elizabeth: i was trying to figure out why we had square navels and if somehow that was our quest (to find out why)

and that seemed pretty interesting, but didn't make much sense

but then i said it 10 times fast and went "ahhhhhhhhh"

11:54 PM me: okay. too much of a stretch. it was late

11:55 PM Elizabeth: but it certainly gets points for length and complexity

i haven't even come up w a name yet, so who am i to criticize!

i mean, mine might well be much stretchier

11:57 PM me: streeeetttcchhyyy

11:59 PM Elizabeth: to be honest the first idea i had was a vague sense that flippy and hambone had to play some role, but then i thought perhaps i'd just listened to your voicemail message too many times...

12:00 AM me: those would be excellent names if there were just two of us. actually, i might take hambone either way

5 minutes

12:06 AM Elizabeth: because you obviously like dolphins more

me: obviously

12:08 AM Elizabeth: we could have, say uncle cave man and baby duck hat- but that is getting a little out there and no longer superquadrafaragalistic and also uncle cave man turns out to be a bear and i don't think we want to encourage any one of us to identify with bears. it might get confusing if we actually met a bear.

12:12 AM me: um, girl, you are amazing

i didn't know you were such a jack handey connasseur

12:13 AM but i disagree that those are not superquadrafragilistic

the question is just who is whom

we can save uncle cave man for the bear we meet

5 minutes

12:19 AM me: aight, the devon must end these convos. josh wants to use the puter.

12:20 AM Elizabeth: oooooo

well, ok, i'll keep trying to come up w more handy handles for us

;0 ;) ;*

12:21 AM ok, the two on either end got in a fight and their heads are on sideways

anyway, i miss you!

me: yikes.

you make me smile

Elizabeth: and i'm (finally) getting into shane claiborne

me: love and stranglicious hugs

Elizabeth: NOSE EMBRACE***

12:22 AM me: haha. gnight and sweet dreams

Elizabeth: love you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

me: FOREVER!!!!!!