Showing posts with label Dear Diary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dear Diary. Show all posts

Throwback Thursday: 1974

Throwback Thursday: 1974 I had this blue dress when I was four. I hated that dress so hard, I needed all five senses to hate it with, and maybe another half a sense I made up during a tantrum. The color reminded me of something gag-reflexingly bad, but I don't remember what that was, exactly. I wonder if maybe I associated the sky blue hue with those "wedding almonds" that my grandma Maggie always had, for some reason, in a bowl in her house. Revolting, y…

Operation: Organize

Operation: Organize Alright everyone. We have reached the final frontier. Today it's time to go deep into my studio.  What it lacks in size, it makes up for in volume. I've had bags and boxes Tetris 'ed in here for years, and I've just hauled everything out and now you can't see the living room anymore. Cover me, I'm goin' in...∎ 🎮 Here, let me Google that for you...

A Bitch In Time

A Bitch In Time I need to sew up some holes in stuff I like. Cuz this is charming.

The Great Purge: The Monday After

The Great Purge: The Monday After Monday. Today I woke up late, ate a buttery English muffin, dropped a whole thing of iced coffee all over the kitchen floor (same floor I'd just washed yesterday, natch) and then I did nothing of any value to anyone the whole rest of the day. Except for cleaning up the spilled iced coffee. If I'd put the coffee into my body instead of onto the floor, maybe I'd have gotten more done today. But here's what I've been doing all …

If It Weren't For My Horse

If It Weren't For My Horse There should be a word for what happens to your brain when you overhear a stranger say something so incomprehensible that it lodges in there, like a sliver of dumbness you can't extract. You and this person pass each other on your way through your lives, they drop an enigmatic nugget on you and keep right on going, and then you think of that person. Like, forever.

Generation X Problems

When I was little I demanded to know why Goofy wears clothes and talks, but Pluto goes bare and makes dog sounds. Can you DO that? Can you have two dogs in one franchise and only one is anthropomorphic? Were they ever in a scene together? What does Goofy have to say to Pluto?