y'all eat turkey?

we had a pre-thanksgiving dinner and it was really wonderful and filled with goodness and joy and lots of wine and jazz music and wonderful food and thanks for coming if you came i am sure you had a lovely time.
xo

are you smarter than a 2 year old?

apparently i am not that smart. for example, i have to spell check my blog or else about 68% of these words would be mis-spelled.
i always thought that i knew things about this and that a little bit of this and a little bit of that.
well i guess i don't. i can't name 3 countries that border Germany, and I don't know my pre 1950's American presidents, i don't know 4 battles from the Civil War, i can never win a game of Connect 4 or Uno. I also thought that a Warewolf was the long name for a Regular Wolf. And forget math or science, i mean obviously i don't know anything about those.
so what do i know? i know that the inside, leathery part of a bats wing is called the "membrane" (thanks to the 7 year old I babysit, George Newberry). I know a little bit of French (mais oui!). I know that if you cross the street when you have a red hand you will probably get hit by a car. i know that in order for a caterpillar to become a butterfly it has to weave a cocoon. i know the proper use of your you're there their then than. i know how to cook a couple things, i know which cupcakes to order at sugar sweet sunshine, i know how to make little kids laugh and i know a lot about Jackie O and Andy Warhol and that's about it.
Awesome Possum.

and i thought i was bored

just when i thought i was the one getting so bored with people and places and things (nouns, mostly) i saw a woman on the subway this morning reading:

A PHONE BOOK

so casually like it was totally normal to be reading a phone book on the subway.

i would have taken a picture with my Not iphone/Blackberry but that would have been Pretty Rude and i am really trying to have Good Behaviour lately.

seriously, i didn't know people even still owned phone books. maybe i will start to get into those too.

xx

party party

we had a party and i want to thank everyone in the world who came, even the kids that stole my shit, so thanks everyone except for jerrrrr of course.

things i want to get into

-using pay phones (i know everyone says they are dirty but so is the air that you breathe, plus you can use them underground in the subway and last time i checked even your really cool i-phone couldn't do that)

- Mix Tapes (not only do they look cool but i am pretty sure that they sound cool too)

and in that case

-walkmans (who even thought of that name? walkmans????)

-type writers (if I'm going to send text mexs all day i might ask well start typing on a type writer and sending snail mail. that never went out of style as far as i am concerned)

xo

rememememebering

i was just remememebering that today when i was shopping in the humid disgusting weather in soho and i was in kate's paperie that the girl at the check out counter (who, btw by the way had a MUSTACHE, gross) kept saying "thank you" to me for every little thing. like when i brought my stuff up and put it on the counter she was thanking me. then she gave me the total and i said "ok" and she proceeded to thank me again. and again. i gave her my card "thank you, thank you", i signed the slip "oh thank you miss, thank you" she offered me a large bag and i said "fine" "thank you, thank you" oh and of course to top it all off "thank you, have a nice night, thank you".
wow. i do beleive in manners, but seriously the line has to be drawn SOMEWHERE>
LOL LOLearcoaster ( i feel i am entitled to these words bc now i have blog) i was also remememebering when i was on the subway and it was crowded of course, and i stepped on this girls foot and i turned around to say sorry she said "OUCH OUCH that hurt" so loud and for some reason i thought it was hilarious and couldn't stop laughing. bad manners and Bad Behaviour. oopps. xoxo

newspapers

i think i want to start getting into subscribing/reading newpapers. so i have narrowed it down to The Post and The Daily News (because the Beastie Boys rap about it, naturally- "Read it in the Post and the Daily News, Listen everybody lets show improve.")

i have a FANTASY to go down early in the morning (it would be interesting to see if i can get up "early") and go down-stairs in my bathrobe with a cup of tea and pick up the paper to read at the kitchen table while eating toast and eggs with a cute little dog sitting on my lap.

i don't know how to decide which one though. perhaps i will buy each one for a week straight and see which is more appealing. but its really all about the FANTASY, of course. xoxo