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and so immature.  i came up with a nickname for avraham a few years back that was just for my use, and a few friends who heard it adopted it.  that occassionally bothered me, but mostly i let it slide.  then a friend started using the same nickname for her boyfriend.  and quite honestly, it's annoying.  mostly because it's my own sweet nickname for my husband, but partly because when the four of us are together and she's calling someone else by his name (by choice!) it's no longer special.  i feel a little robbed.  i didn't think it would bother me because i rarely see them, but it really does.  part of that, most likely, is that the boyfriend didn't know that i had come up with the nickname and thought i was weird when i said somehting about her stealing it.

this is what happens when i don't sleep.  i lie in bed and think about stupid things.  if i were writing a book or a movie, by the way, this would be the point at which the crazy friend (me) decides that the easiest solution is to lose the friendship, and therefore maintain the illusion that the name is special again.

ok, but really, she should have asked me before she co-opted it.  everyone else who calls avraham by it asked first.  is that what bothers me?  i don't know.  too hard to tell.

anyhow, an exterminator came by yesterday and fumigated our place (our summer place, that is, no one has yet had need to spray anything in our real apartment thank GOD).  we slept on the other side of the house last night becase A and Y were in manhattan and graciously offered us their guest room.  the weird thing about this whole summer setup is how to share these spaces (because each is so small, and we're constantly in and out of each other's homes) while still respecting one another's space.  i.e. i don't want to get overly familiar with their home because it is after all theirs and they should always feel that they have their own area.  i keep thinking about how one could construst a pass-through from one side of the house to the other.  i actually was designing one in my mind last night til i remembered that i'd need to see blueprints or layout plans to see where the wires are, and then realized that there probably are no official plans for the wall they threw up in the middle of the house.  so, i'm not going to take a hammer or saw to the wall, but i'm now very curious to see if i could research enough to find out how to do it.

ok, i have to get moving and put on clean clothes and make phone calls and start my day!  it's only 11 am, after all.