Welcome Friends & Strangers!
I have noticed that many of you keep coming back to visit. and that makes me very happy. I know how hard it is finding good reading material at work – particularly in the bathroom. After all, there are only so many times one can read “Hiney Hiders” on the metal lock before getting bored.
SO. THANK YOU FOR CHOOSING ME! I don’t think enough bloggers are really truly grateful for their audience. Not like me. I am HONORED to be your queen. Knowing you care so much – well, it’s almost like having my own little fan club. Sure, celebrities complain all the time about the intrusion into their personal lives, but for the rest of us it’s just FUN. And I haven’t had to do anything really terrific to earn you. Not like star in a motion picture, or invent something stupendous, or even expose myself. Kudos!
I have noticed recently that several of my online posse (The SASSY LADIES OF BLOGDOM, or the SLOBs) have posted lists detailing heretofore-unbeknownst-details of their personal lives. And I thought WOW. WHAT A FIND. Salacious details. FOR FREE. Not only am I extraordinarily nosy, but I also enjoy knowing other people’s deepest most darkest secrets. Today I would like to share w/ you some stories ALL ABOUT ME. Because, frankly, what else are you here for?
1. Just to break the ice. I do not smoke pot but I am addicted to incense. I light sticks of it all day long. The very best incense I’ve found is made by a small company in Ohio called WILD BERRY. My neighbor has suggested I am a closet pot addict b/c of this tendency. HAHAHAHAHAHHA. No. Everyone who knows me knows I am a wino who abhors smoking. No joke.
2. When I was 4, I saw an Indian pow-wow in my backyard. I was watching through our window. The Indians were wearing feathered headdresses and sitting in a circle. When the Chief looked up and saw me watching, he got up & started coming at me. He looked really angry (presumably b/c I was watching). I remember pulling the curtain back quickly and being worried.. But nothing ever happened. I am still not sure if the Indians were real. or ghosts.
3. My younger daughter just started peeling the sunburned skin off my back. She gets very intent on what she is doing, and insists that I cooperate. Strangely, I like the sensation. It sort of reminds me of my crazy little bird Kiwi. I recently saw a David Attenborough program, Life of Birds, which talks about ox-peckers doing the same thing. They aide their hosts by removing parasites and dead skin – but they also often draw blood by pecking little surface cuts. The ox-pecker will pick pick pick at parasites and then dash back to lick a little off the wound. Kiwi – my crazy ass bird, does this. but Georgia most definitely does not. Thank God.
4. I get very annoyed when I am stopped on the street by people canvassing for politicians, political parties or the environment. Even when I totally agree w/ their agenda. I want to yell at them NO I DON”T HAVE A MINUTE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT. WHY ARE YOU ASKING ME FOR MONEY. YOU KNOW THE $10 BUCKS I COULD GIVE YOU IS JUST PAYING FOR YOU TO STAND THERE. IT’S NOT HELPING ANYTHING. YOU’D BE BETTER OFF PANHANDLING. THEN AT LEAST I’D FEEL SORRY FOR YOU INSTEAD OF JUST FEELING HARASSED.
5. The house I grew up in had a large detached stone garage, with space downstairs for cars and a large loft above with electricity, where we’d store Christmas decorations. Beneath the garage there was a cellar. This cellar was used solely for storing excess firewood, and you could access it from a dark stairwell on the side of the building. This cellar had a name. The Snake Pit. I do not know whether there were any real snakes down there, but the name and reality of the place was more than enough to strike the fear of God into a child. I was never brave enough to go down to the Snake Pit myself, but when i got to high school, my dad used to make my boyfriend go down there to get logs. He’d yell LINC! GO GET SOME WOOD OUT OF THE SNAKE PIT!! And then when Linc left to get the wood, my dad would look at me. and SMILE.
6. My parents had a bus when I was a kid. A converted full-size school bus. It was painted black & white, and had wooden bunk beds in the back. But the damn thing never worked. We tried taking all the kids to the roller rink in it for one of my birthday parties, but we couldn’t get it started, Of course. Talk about a party pooper.
7. Today – August 22nd – marks 11 years since John & I had our very first date. HAPPY ANNIVERSARY BABY!
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY! Woohoo, 100 years! I mean, 11 years! Would you ask John if, pretty please, you could share the details of your first date or how you met or something. I am sure it would be THRILLINGLY romantic.
…Unlike being a S.L.O.B. I can’t believe you chose that acronym, LOL.
Let’s see. First, my workplace is not quite fancy enough to have internet kiosks in the loo. And although your stuff is just like pure gold, I’m a little too environmentally conscious print it out just so I can read it in the lav. Sorry to let you down.
re:
1. I don’t like smokey things
2. This “window.” Did it have knobs and an antenna?
3. You have heard about the little cleaner fish? There’s a spa in North Carolina that uses them for pedicures and foot treatments.
4. Ditto, even though they’re so earnest. I’m always “late for a bus” or “rushing back to work” or am coincidentally (and distractedly) crossing to the other side of the street just before I get to them.
5.Dads are always creepy to their daughters’ boyfriends.
6. Did your friends call you The Partridge Family?
7. Big congratulations!
actually you’re not my queen, I see you more as my Yoko Ono, cheers.
i want to be someone’s yoko ono. instead, i just have a crazy mob of people who wear casts for fun stalking me. (this is true.)
thank you for all the interesting tidbits. i especially enjoyed the bit about the bus. we only had a chevy…how lame.
congrats on the anniversary…and i look forward to learning more about you soon.
ps. i REFUSE to partake in SLOB. SL-T, yes, SLOB no.
I’ll be a slob if you like. It’s better than SWAB (Silly Women Around Blogs), or a PIG (People I Google), or many other acronyms you could choose. Those facts about you were… interesting! My mom used to take us to the park and make us listen to politicians so we could eat the free hot dogs with a clear conscience. It is true, dads ARE creepy to their daughter’s boyfriends! I’m trying to decide what I can get away with around my sons’ girlfriends! Happy Anniversary!
@tim, CyWyGy
Reminds me of the song by the a capella group The Bobs. Be My Yoko
do-over:
Be My Yoko
Thanks Hayden! And what a lovely anniversary weekend we had. For the short version of how John & I met, scroll down to the bottom of THIS POST. PS: I KNOW you all secretly LOVE being SLOBs! Don’t try to deny it.
Panny baby, That museum of yours needs to step up to the 21st century and get some of those pull-down laptops in the employee bathrooms. Like the rest of us. THINK OF THE PRODUCTIVITY BOOST! To answer your questions:
1.Me too. except for incense.
2. HAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHHAHAH!! No.
3. YES, I have seen these featured on a couple nature specials, but have never used them personally. I think my bird would be way jealous. And my younger daughter too.
4. DO NOT GET ME STARTED ON THIS ONE AGAIN.
5. Def. agree, though my dad has always been AMAZING to my husband.
6. HAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAH!! No.
7. Many thanks!!
Tim, thank you for your honesty. PS: Watch out for my husband if you ever come to Philly.
Curly babe, you are loved by thousands! And remember, Those cast-wearers make wonderful stalkers. You’ll always hear them coming! Glad you enjoyed the post and many thanks for the Congrats. You know I milked a night of sushi out of that one. 🙂 PS: SLOB SLOB SLOB, you know you love it!
Trace, THANK YOU for your support. I’m so glad someone else enjoys being a SLOB as much as I do. Takes all the pressure off a person. They don’t have the free hot dog presentations up here, but in the last mayoral campaign they did have free pancake breakfasts. I thought that sounded pretty good, but we did not partake. I fear it would be hard remaining independent w/ a belly fully of pancakes. I am sure you will be lovely as usual to all the girlfriends. Unless you do not like them. And then I am sure we will all be reading about it! HAHAHAHAHA. Just joking. Many thanks for the well wishes!
Panny – Is this the same song as the one by the Barenaked Ladies? Be My Yoko Ono??
PS: IS anyone else’s internet jacked up or is it just me?? I got 172 emails this morning labeled UNDELIVERABLE MAIL. And now all my windows are whacked out. Anyone?
I would comment if I could quit laughing!
You “reign” over this blog in such a delightful way and your “legions” are hilarious!
Don’t know, but I can certainly see those wacky Canadians covering The Bobs. re:#4 Conversely, I almost always take the pamphlets and handouts from the disbursers on the sidewalks. It’s solidarity. I passed out those things for my stepfather’s restaurant one frigid February long ago. Let me tell you, no one wants to take their hands out of their pockets in February.
I read that entry! I even commented!! Somehow I was distracting by discussing the merits of chapstick.
That is terribly romantic. The only way it could be MORE romantic is if he helped you rent “Kate & Leopold” and you guys kept joking about ‘kismetic inevitability’.