Pretty is as pretty does

Dang

I gotta go see this one.

You know who you are

"You don't appreciate the chaos and absurdity of life on this planet. you don't understand irony, or ethnicity, or eccentricity, or poetry, or the simple joy of being a regular at the diner on your block. i love that. you don't drink coffee or alcohol. you don't over eat. you don't cry when you're alone. you don't understand sarcasm. you plod through life in a neat, colorless, caffeine free, dairy free, conflict free way. i'm bold and angry and tortured and tremendous and i notice when someone has changed their hair part, or when someone is wearing two very distinctly different shades of black or when someone changes the natural temperment of their voice on the phone. i don't give out empty praise. i'm not complacent or well-adjusted. i can't spend fifteen minutes breathing and stretching and getting in touch with myself. i can't spend three minutes finishing an article. i check my answering machine nine times every day and i can't sleep at night because i feel that there is so much to do and fix and change in the world and i wonder every day if i am making a difference and if i will ever express the greatness within me or if i will remain forever paralyzed by muddled madness inside my head. i've wept on every birthday i've ever had because life is huge and fleeting and i hate certain people and certain shoes and i feel that life is terribly unfair and sometimes beautiful and wonderful and extraordinary but also numbing and horrifying and insurmountable and i hate myself a lot of the time. the rest of the time i adore myself and i adore my life in this city and in this world we live in. this huge and wondrous, bewildering, brilliant, horrible world."

It's weird when you're watching deleted scenes from a movie and you hear yourself talking. Nevermind that you're a dork for watching deleted scenes, but whatever.

What goes ON in that head of yours?

Mornin' glories...

Today's report is one of general discombobulation.I'm all moved in, but the outlets in the house don't work, except for in the kitchen, so I have to dry my hair standing at the sink, and I've got a long-assed extension cord running across the living room so I can watch TV.

Other items:

--The towel rod in my bathroom is NOT in reach of the shower, but there IS a WINDOW IN the shower. WTF, man?

--Minnie has made a friend in the neighborhood: a shady looking fellow who peer-pressures her to jump the fence and galavant around the 'hood with him. I'm going to have to buy a fence height extender to keep her from thus consorting with locals.

--The "I'll just put her out the spare room window when she has to pee" plan isn't turning out to work as well as I thought it would. Yesterday's rain made the window sticky, so I think I've pulled something.

--Minnie still prefers to do numbers 1 and 2 in the spare room, as opposed to the yard. Sigh. I need to get a book.

--My kitchen and bedroom are pretty much in order. I have to dresser-hunt this weekend, since Grandaddy's pie safe is now in the kitchen (and looks SWELL with all my vintage Pyrex cookware in it).

--I just bought THIS little beauty on overstock.com. $230, are they friggin' kidding me? I can't wait. My first big-girl bed...

All in all, good digs. Wish there was a back door, and yeah, that window-in-the-shower thing, but there are no steps, the carport rocks, and I've got a SHED!

Till the morrow,

Em

Who is Drum Eatonton?

For you philistines out there who don't have the entire script of Steel Magnolias memorized and who've been asking about the quote at the top of my blog, Drum Eatonton is a character in that movie. The quote is one of Shirley MacLaine's lines:

Clairee: You know, you would be a much more contented, pleasant person if you would find ways to occupy your time.

Ouiser: I am pleasant. Dammit! I saw Drum Eatonton at the Piggly Wiggly this morning, and I smiled at the son of a bitch 'fore I could help myself.

I just assume that everyone else is a freak like me, Kim and Stephanie and goes around spouting southern belle chick flick quotes for no good reason.

You are evil, and you must be destroyed.

Thanks, Ouiser. Nothing like a good piece of ass.

I am happy to report to all of you that I have almost completed the switchover from spring/summer to fall/winter closet. Minnie is trying to help by pulling anything with a strap or tassel or made of any kind of cloth out of the pile and running all over the house with it. Other than that, she's been a relatively good girl. She made friends with a cute little boy named Logan at the vet's office. He let her jump up on him and dance with him. He kept calling her "Buddy" and having her chase him all over the lobby. I need that kid to come over to my house and occupy her while I'm trying to write.

You are too twisted for colah T.V...