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June 23, 2007
Friday(ish) Shuffle - The Dots That Keep Me From Posting Edition
You know this is a busy time, right? Here's how much so:
- My new modem's crap. I don't think I've ever signed up for internet service and gotten a good modem the first time 'round. B. and I have spent a lot of time on the phone with our ISP, who have actually been nice and easy to deal with. New modem's on its way. In the meantime, the internet, she comes and she goes.
- Can't stop listening to Icky Thump long enough to form coherent sentences.
- When not listening to Icky Thump, life has been taken over by Little Steven's Underground Garage, which plays 24/7 on our satellite system. This show gave me that moment even mother dreams of: the moment when she walks into the living room to find her daughter, naked from the waist down, pogoing and screaming along to "High School" by the MC5.
- Speaking of naked from the waist-down, Clara Jane's feeling right at home in Prettytown. Comfortable enough to stand in the front window of a local coffee and ice cream establishment, bend over, and drop trou. You can take the girl out of the Redneck Jungle ...
- There are two - two!! - competing farmer's markets in this town. This morning I bought all my favorite veggies: broccoli picked this morning, zukes, sweet corn, green tomatoes, gooseberry pie, and strawberry jelly roll.
- I'm far too busy buying used furniture in East St. Louis to post.
- All that motherfucking unpacking.
- Planning a fundraiser-gone-amok for The Cuz that might lead to one of us sporting bright pink hair and the other sporting no hair at all, if all goes well.
- Wasting my time "auditioning" for a job with a large internet company called clusterfuck.com. Not their real name, but it's just about appropriate, all things considered. When you want to quit the job before you've landed the job, that's not a good sign.
Would you like to see some photos of the new house in its current horrible state?
I bought this to house all those vintage cocktail glasses I bought a few weeks ago. The Styrofoam under the leg will be replaced with a caster just as soon as we get time, around Clara Jane's junior year of college.
This is the one organized area in my house.
I just want to sit here and knit. But not until the unpacking's done. And not until the chains are fixed so I don't face-plant into the brick wall every time I sit down.
At least we don't have piles of our personal belongings in the front yard anymore, thanks to one of our nice neighbors.
Again, the important parts of the house are in order.
"Hey B.? Did you remember to unpack Clara Jane? I can't find a damn thing in her room."
B. can't find his heel cream (it's in that plastic box right there, but he has no problem finding the 3-year-old bag of masdoor dal on his dresser. Again, priorities.
Oh good. She's unpacked and lounging in the formal living room. You can tell it's formal because there are only eight boxes in it instead of the 156 each of our casual rooms contain.
See that bag of potato chips on the dining room table? Until today's farmer's market run, that was the most nutritious thing any of us had eaten in over a week.But this is pretty:
And so is this:
PKB gave me that turquoise cake safe. She found it at a yard sale nearly seven years ago while driving to work. I'm required by law to tell people that. Seriously. She somehow had a law passed that my ass goes to the slammer if I don't tell people she's responsible for that cake safe, and that it's my favorite.
You know what happens when you unearth a St. Joe who's been buried for six months? You find yourself with a St. Joe full of dead earthworms. Had I known that when I took this photo, I would have cried. He lives on my kitchen window ledge, along with an illegal German Elvis and the naked lady vase, where they shuffle the day away in Prettytown delight.
1. Coal to Diamonds - The Gossip
2. I Can't Feel You Anymore - Loretta Lynn
3. Bird on a Wire - Johnny Cash
4. English Civil War - The Clash
5. Crazy Love - Van Morrison
6. Breakdown - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
7. Dumb Blonde - Dolly Parton
8. I Can Love You Better - Dixie Chicks
9. 10 A.M. Automatic - Black Keys
10. Holiday in Cambodia - Dead KennedysPosted by Robin at June 23, 2007 09:30 PM
Comments
I have the yellow version of that cake safe. Love it! What I am most impressed with is the row of colorful pitchers within toddler's reach. Clara is a very well behaved girl to resist all those pretty pitchers.
Posted by: christine in portland at June 23, 2007 10:35 PM
It's beautiful. I pretty much figured you were going to be too busy packing and unpacking and moving to deal with a crappy paying article for an obscure magazine for rich farmers, but next time--oh next time--you're writing! (I hope that's ok--I just didnt want to add to the list of crap you had to deal with ..)
Posted by: m at June 24, 2007 03:14 AM
I'm playing with the idea of signing up for XM radio just for Little Steven's Underground Garage.
You always have the best Friday shuffle playlists.
Posted by: Kathy at June 24, 2007 05:05 AM
Great to see more photos!! :)
Posted by: Exena at June 24, 2007 07:47 AM
I lurve that cocktail glass holder! I wonder what it would look like refinished. My folks refinished a piece of furniture oh, say, 25 years after they bought it, and discovered it was 2 types of beautiful wood underneath.
Not that that's a priority, though.
Farmer's markets, eh? No more TGM for you? :(Posted by: allison at June 24, 2007 09:58 AM
Oh those openings on either side of your cocktail glass holder are begging for a pair of retro glass cocktail shakers - the ones with cocktail reciped on them! My mom went through a phase where she collected them - she had a munch of them. Sadly when we emptied her home I had to give most of them away. But you can find them fairly easily in garage sales and flea markets.
Posted by: Hilda at June 24, 2007 10:52 AM
It's looking great! And I wish I were on that porch swing knitting right along with you.
Crazy Love! That's one of B's and my songs!
Posted by: Dixie at June 24, 2007 03:14 PM
I have a yellow cake safe like that too - hmmmmm.
And your house? SUPER pretty. I want it!
Posted by: Lynsalyns at June 24, 2007 04:35 PM
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