No this isn't me, I wish! It's my mother when she was
a
dancer. Just for fun!
The time got away from me yesterday so I'm making up for now. I
know, I
promised I'd write every day for a year but give a girl a
break, there's a
lot going on!
Here's yesterday:
DAY 15:
Things started out a little slow, it takes time to
pull those covers back on some days,
ya know?
The weather has been miserable and rainy, actually our wettest
October on record; I suppose that means since someone of any
consequence started keeping records
of things like rain, sunshine, snow fall, floods, earthquakes,
etc., etc.. So, I got myself
up, threw the bathrobe on and turned the heat up a smidge while I
made some hot
tea and checked my email. You know, all those thrilling little
things we do in the
morning when we're hoping with all our hearts that some
fabulous email will come
our way and make us laugh out loud, touch our hearts in some
special way or just
be something that knocks our slippers off. You're expecting me
to say I got one of
those? Nope. hey, I can't make these things up. So, I'm
deciding what to do and I
send out reminders about my Pizza Party for Gifts for the Troops, I
make a few
phone calls and everyone seems to have crawled into a cubby hole
for the day.
There must be something I can do beside sit inside,
watch it rain and re-play all my
TIVO stuff, so I look at the movies to see if that film about
relationships with Vince
Vaughn is still playing somewhere and it is. It's the one about
the Couples Retreat,
right? It looked funny to me so I'm getting my bod dressed and
rain or no rain,
I'm going to see it. I know I should forgo the lunch beforehand
because of the
weight I'm gaining back that took me two years to lose but no,
I go have lunch
first anyway; however, and I'm proud of this particular fact, I
did not get popcorn
and diet coke while watching the movie. Anyone who thinks that
eating a huge
bag of popcorn with butter and salt accompanied by an extra large
diet coke
with ten times as much salt or sodium which makes it sound
less threatening,
is dead wrong. That stuff will put weight on you; make you nervous
as hell from
the caffeine and its hell getting those kernels out of your teeth
too!
Okay, so I have lunch but no movie snacks and I settle in for a
good movie about
semi-mature couples on a couple's retreat. It was actually a
cute film and it made
me laugh out loud several times, but the irritating part of it was
these women
looked like they were 25 (if they were a day) and they're
talking about how
they're getting older or their relationships have changed over
the years with
their husbands and they need some excitement in their lives. Okay,
ladies,
they really needed to cast a few women in these roles that knew
what "getting
a little excitement back in their lives" really means!
It's always been a pet peeve
of mine to see these old guys in movies playing opposite a chick 20
years their
junior, what happened to all those great actresses after they
turned 40? I think
there are only 3 or 4 of them still making films and then they are
usually
somebody's mom or "ex-wife". I did see a new film
advertised though with
Meryl Streep as the love interest of both her ex-husband and her
new boyfriend,
Steve Martin; thank Goddess for Meryl Streep,
huh?
Anyway, these four couples go to this fabulous
Tahitian island retreat that in reality
costs over a grand a night plus airfare, no one I know could afford
this place but
these guys with kids and one of them who is supposedly
"broke", all go there
on a week's notice. They have gorgeous villas over amazing
emerald green
water, with everything and anything a person could possibly dream
of and they
are all still trying to sort out they're marriage problems. So
it made for a few
laughs and an afternoon looking at sunny skies and beautiful
beaches before
heading out to my car in the cold rain. Escapism!
As soon as I got back I started working on the pizza
party again, sending out new
reminders and doing the guilt trip thing that it must be my fault
that I don't have
more people lined up to come to this fun evening out. Well, I do
that, I'm one of
those women!
To be honest, I can't tell you how many things I
get invited to and no matter how
good a cause it is I just don't want to do the
"ritual" thing to get ready and actually
go, but I am getting better about that lately,
honest.
So there's nothing on television right now but
re-runs, all the new shows come one
and go off so quickly it seems. Just when one starts getting
interesting you see it
has two more episodes till the end of the season. Oh, I
did work a little on the new
play too so two things that give me purpose were on my agenda.
I'm supposed
to be trying to think of a costume for a Halloween Party I'm
attending on Friday
but I still want to be Cleopatra and I look more like Queen
Elizabeth, so
that's a problem. I'll think of
something.
Okay, back to work, oh and for out Handbook:
Don't Do # 15
Don't go to a costume store with your grandkids
when trying on Cleopatra costumes, they're
kids so they won't run outside, they'll stand right there
and laugh out loud in front of everybody! Oy!
To be continued....
