A Totally Frivolous Post
1) Condi looked amazing good in today's footage of her arrival in the Middle East. Her helmut hair seemed to have been coiffed in a new textured style with a fringey bang and her hair now looks like it could actually move in a breeze. She looked great, now let's hope she can do something great while she's there.
2) You gotta love Ned Lamont's ad - the one with the dark screen, omenous music and the statement: Ned Lamont makes bad coffee. Ned Lamont is a bad singer. Ned Lamont has a messy desk. Then Lamont comes on and says (paraphrased as I can't quite remember) : Senator Lieberman let's stick to the issues and pledge to support the Democratic winner.
3) I'm having my MIL for dinner and I dread it. Husband made all the food yesterday, so it isn't the work of the meal, it's the time spent listening to her brag about her daughter and her daughter's children that gets me sick. Although I don't talk about them here on this blog, I have pretty nice children myself -- not that they get many kudos from MIL.
4) We have a new cat on our street. Must have come with the new owners of a house recently sold. This guy has his testicles, mondo testicles that are visible from 50 feet -- which isn't good as my poor boy, although he'll attack my ass, doesn't have any and is really quite a pussy in all ways. Worse, the new Tom in town wears a pink flea collar so he has a definite ax to grind.
5) To reiterate what I read recently in the paper, I'm all for a constitutional amendment to ban marriage. If we did that, we'd all be equal and I wouldn't have to buy any more presents for people I barely know, wouldn't recognize in a police line-up or worse, dislike.
1) Condi looked amazing good in today's footage of her arrival in the Middle East. Her helmut hair seemed to have been coiffed in a new textured style with a fringey bang and her hair now looks like it could actually move in a breeze. She looked great, now let's hope she can do something great while she's there.
2) You gotta love Ned Lamont's ad - the one with the dark screen, omenous music and the statement: Ned Lamont makes bad coffee. Ned Lamont is a bad singer. Ned Lamont has a messy desk. Then Lamont comes on and says (paraphrased as I can't quite remember) : Senator Lieberman let's stick to the issues and pledge to support the Democratic winner.
3) I'm having my MIL for dinner and I dread it. Husband made all the food yesterday, so it isn't the work of the meal, it's the time spent listening to her brag about her daughter and her daughter's children that gets me sick. Although I don't talk about them here on this blog, I have pretty nice children myself -- not that they get many kudos from MIL.
4) We have a new cat on our street. Must have come with the new owners of a house recently sold. This guy has his testicles, mondo testicles that are visible from 50 feet -- which isn't good as my poor boy, although he'll attack my ass, doesn't have any and is really quite a pussy in all ways. Worse, the new Tom in town wears a pink flea collar so he has a definite ax to grind.
5) To reiterate what I read recently in the paper, I'm all for a constitutional amendment to ban marriage. If we did that, we'd all be equal and I wouldn't have to buy any more presents for people I barely know, wouldn't recognize in a police line-up or worse, dislike.
posted by mary bishop | 11:10 AM
14 Comments:
Wow that cat must be forced to be comfortable with his sexuality. :) I wonder how many neuters' butts he'll kick in retaliation.
Ned Lamont's ad sounds like a trip - too bad i'm not iN CT i'd consider voting for him.
The MIL - sorry it's stressful. In a vaguely similar situation, my dad once he remarried inherited a couple of kids that get more attention, praise, etc than my brother and I ever did. I wasn't invited to her shower or anything like that just the wedding itself. She was invited to all my 'stuff' - and he's sweet and I like my step sister, but the rest involved tend to ignore us. I think the Key indicator was "hey dad, guess what? i got engaged." "that's great sweetie, your sister just got engaged too and we're doing blah blah blah..."
That story with your MIL sounds extremely familiar, as someone I know is going through EXACTLY the same thing, word for word. People tell me it's because women who have two or more children, usually feel closer to their daughters, but there HAS to be more than that to explain the preferential treatment.
Ilanna and Irina, I don't get it. I do not understand why it is some people old enough to know better show such preferential treatment to some kids and crap on others.
Yes, Irina, I agree that mil's do feel closer to daughters than daughters-in-law which is very reasonable...but to be so mean, to spend more money on daughter's kids than son's kids, to do exactly what Ilanna says at the bottom of her comment -- well that's just spiteful and nasty. And I don't get it.
(Started this comment and ended it still not getting it!)
Good thing in 19 and dont have to deal with in-laws yet. And you never need to get people wedding gifts unless they are your good friends or family. If you dont knew them very well in the first place then it shouldnt matter if you get them something or not.
heheh nate - just you wait.
I used to think "i never get to go to weddings" the next thing I knew - I had 5 in one year. Heck, i've got 3 between august and november alone. :) plus my 1 year anniversary in the middle. I would normally have 4 but the 4th one decided to run away instead. :)
now more on topic - i'm very close wiht my mother, and my brother is not married, but he is also close with her. We both talk to her every day, go shopping with her etc. And my mother LOVES my husband, so idon't see that happening in my family - but I've always counted myself VERy lucky. My husband has no sisters, just brother and brother in law and I know my MIL and SIL don't get along very well unfortunately, but that's for extenuating circumstances. :)
p.s. mary - i just posted something new, would like your input :)
Nate...enjoy being of the age you don't have to go to weddings if you don't want to. But, soon enough you'll have siblings or cousins or friends getting married and not only will you have to go -- you'll end up being asked to be a best man or usher!
Ilanna...I think you're in good shape with husband having no sisters. I'm glad I like you too much to think of what might come in the future for you if you had to listen to a MIL fawning over a do-nothing daughter! I'm coming over now...
hehehe - you are welcome anytime you choose to drive through DE. You can come hang with hubby and I and the 4 footed monsters.. :) I even LOVE to cook for company. (and myself sometimes) for instance.. tonight is lambchops :) mmmmm:)
But yeah - i'm lucky with the sisters thing... i wish my brother the best of luck in whomever he ends up marrying, i tell you that much :)
1. Condi's wierd
2. Lamont is AWESOME! (At least it would appear...
3. MIL's can be quite a burden. I'm lucky to have no such beast. Sorry MB. Kvetch with us tomorrow. You'll feel better.
4. Funny comment. I wonder if Pinkey is friends with Lewis. Lewis is famous. He was in People Magazine the other day. Free Lewis.
5. Why can't we just leave the constitution alone? Is it me or is this administration the most amendment-y of them all?
love...
I thought Lieberman shot himself in the foot when he got so sanctimonious and preachy over BC and the Lewinsky affair...so now BC is stumping for him? WHY?
Why not BC for Lamont?
Please explain!
Ilanna...I must hang my head in shame...MIL was a doll tonight -- not one bad word, complaint or mention of "daughter" or her spawn...hurray! I am sorry for all the bad things I said about her today.
Pithy LB...great comments...so nice to see you here at Tchotchkes! Your post today was very thought provoking...or could be just provoking...;-)
Madame Ovary...I prefer to use your full name...Lamont is still only a Dem primary *challenger*. So good Dems are always willing to stump for the incumbant...but when Joe Lieberman loses, they will go with the Dem winner and not "Connecticut for Lieberman" Independant party.
The buzz in CT is Joe's out for: a) supporting Bush in the war, b) supporting Bush on the Schiavo disaster, c) becoming a religionist d) his comment about rape victims being able to go to another hospital other than a Catholic hospital for the morning after Rape pill and for basically playing holier than thou while making sure he runs and runs and runs because he's addicted to power and forgot his grass roots while he becomes more pious with each passing day...pious and pompous.
I love the idea of banning marriage as a way to make us all equal.
I think Condi has a pink cat collar and gimundo balls. God help us.
Michelle, that was a side-splitting comment...i'm dying here...trying not to wake sleeping husband but it struck me that funny...what a Condi vision!
Condi sort of gets a free pass from me on a lot of stuff. I tend to forget she's an integral part of a larger BAD, because she can be so ... harmless looking. Yeah, like a testicle-draggin' cat in a pink collar.
No need to apologize for anticipating bad behaviour when history informs the expectation. The fact that she didn't behave badly this time doesn't excuse previous acts nor preclude future ones.
My MIL is in a nursing home with fairly advanced Alzheimer's - she's nearly catatonic most of the time, but we still go up to visit when we're home. My idiot F-I-L does this thing where he challenges her: "You remember who this is? Come on, you must remember her! Or him! Who's this?" It's agonizing.
On the last visit, she stared blankly out into the room as he went through his routine, not acknowledging anyone. Until he pointed to me and said "Remember this guy?"
She looked up at me and spit out, "Stupid ass."
Awww. She remembered ...
... bitch.
El G --Condi should be a Democrat. I don't know how she ended up Republican...
Nilbo - your comment "Yeah, like a testicle-draggin' cat in a pink collar" is responsible for the sticky keys I now have on my keyboard after an uncontrollable laugh from a mouth that hadn't swallowed all the coffee inside of it...thanks sweetie!
Your account of your MIL in the nursing home would have elicited the same spray but after doing it once, I read the rest of your comment with my coffee cup far away from my keyboard!
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