Five Good Things: Arnold Palmer Edition
1. I wrote four hundred useless words yesterday. Today I hope to write two hundred useful ones.
2. We watched Public Enemies last night, which was unbearably glamorous, AND Tom let me stop it halfway through so I could watch Bones. (Tom: “So, Bones is your new show, huh?” Me: “I guess so…what makes you say that?” Tom: “Uh….you’ve been talking about it kind of a lot.”) (Also from Tom: “It’s good you’re a writer, Kate. There is…a lot happening in your brain.” ) (This was after I told him I thought I had developed Stigmata on the back of my knee.) (Also, to any other Catholic School girls out there: did any of you used to worry you’d randomly get pregnant like the Virgin Mary and no one would believe you? Was that just me?)
3. We’re going yard-sailing tomorrow. We need supplies to finish turning the deck into a tropical paradise so I can show it to you guys. And we need them cheap. Also on the agenda: baseball and an iCarly marathon with my ten-year-old buddy, and baked goods. And that’s pretty much it.
4. My mom left me a voicemail last night to tell me how much she liked that Ukelele kid, which made me glad I posted that video and not the R-rated dub of the Shamwow commercial. Although I suspect she would have liked that one, too.
5. “Stories happen, like thunderstorms or murders. We should all take heart.” (T.C.Boyle)
Happy Weekend.
April 23, 2010 @ 2:27 pm
Dear Katie,
I effing LOVE your blog and I’m so glad you started putting links of FB so that I remember it exists.
1) I also loved the Ukulele kid. He reminded me of a way more talented version of my half Japanese second cousin. Yo. So cute.
2) I TOTALLY had the pregnant virgin fear. So much so that that made me bust a gut. For the longest time I thought about that. And I, too, was worried no one would believe me, but I’d be the unfortunate *chosen* one.
Come to think of it, though, why did anyone ever believe Mary? I mean really. Think about it.
3) A few rules to live by:
-Mixing up the use of ‘a part’ and ‘apart’ is bad, mmmkay?
– Whenever coffee is brewing, your cup should want to be a part of that experience. It should not want to be apart from it.
-Cups can totally be personified when java is involved.
April 23, 2010 @ 8:10 pm
Maybe Tom and I can hang while you and Alex watch Bones. I proved my love to her last night by switching from the Project Runway finale…during judging mind you…to watch Bones. But this season is all they are getting from her, or so she says. End of season, if they don’t show the love, they are losing ours.
Happy weekend.
April 23, 2010 @ 9:44 pm
I totally had nightmares that I was randomly pregnant like the Virgin Mary and that no one would ever believe me. I sometimes still have the dreams, even though now in real life my parents would be delighted with ANY (mostly? partially?) human grandchild, even a suspiciously fatherless one from their stubbornly unwed daughter. In fact, the unexplained pregnancy has always been one of my top fears, along with being burned alive and accidentally killing someone I loved (usually my younger brother, who, to be honest, mostly would have deserved it). Catholic much? Hm.