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Sound; Back Fat is making me listen to Paula Coles
"I don't want to wait". Deliver me.
Sight;
No fucking flowers arriving for me, again.
Taste;
Bagel called the Cobbie, Cape Cod chips and a cherry coke. Try it
at an Einstein Brother's near you.
Touch;
Jeans so tight I have a camel toe.
Smell;
Patch Oil.
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February
14, 2000
Happy VD. Back Fat. Casa. Yo Momma. Groupies and Polls. Oh my.
One thing that endears me
to my husband is this picture of he and I four years ago. We were floating
down the Itchycoochie (Chattahoochie, I don't know how to spell it)
just after a rain storm of hot wet drops into the freezing cold water
of the river. The result was not being about to see 10 feet in front
of you because of the fog.
The beer had it's own innertube
that was tied to another persons. We kept singing the National Geograhpic
theme everytime something of interest happened, with a whispered commentary
from Josh with a Cockney accent, following the rednecks through their
wildlife adventure. I had a glorious time. There's my nod to love for
the day. Now for the trash.
Good afternoon, my groupies, all 7 of you, I'm writing after just having
unbuttoned my top button because my little belly pooch belly held such
POWER that it could no longer be restrained by puny denim and brass.
I fell asleep last night while Adam was out fetching ice cream sandwiches,
around midnight, during a storm, a bad storm, a tornado watch. That
boy is determined to get his sweets after his smokes. You'd think he'd
weigh more than me by the amount that he eats, but alas, he can wear
my panties.
Where am I, where was I? Back Fat took Thursday and Friday off
last week, I could almost feel the average total body fat of our staff
rise and soar. She has taken to wearing a jacket that carries an undeniable
old woman smell. Not that cookies and milk with a little hint of vanilla
and Benson and Hedges, OH NO! This is bacon grease and Marlboros, this
is fried fish and tuna melt, this is house dust and body odor, but most
of all, most of all it's this indescribable enveloping unhappy old woman
smell.
Because I sit so close to her, I am privy to her every thought and phone
call. I think a few weeks ago she met someone online (I think that's
where she meets most of her men) and they've been very much in love
ever since. They talk on the phone and it's nothing but sexual innuendo
and ooooooooh baby's. I've taken to eating in the lunch room if she's
talking to him. This was up until last week, when she went crazy on
him with a half hour of therapy madness and broke it off with him. This
was the day after I heard her bragging on the phone about her kids saying
their prayers and saying "thank you for bringing Charlie into our lives".
I felt my heart break for those kids. Those poor over medicated children.
They'll probably forget they ever met him soon, pills will do that to
you.I realize now why she and Casa get to sit right next to each
other. They are both perverts, and have nothing more constructive to
do than make sexual jokes.
Please, please, please, don't get me wrong. I savor a filthy joke. I
like talking about sex. It's just that these people in particular make
it seem like a subject coated in slime, only to be spoken about with
leers plastered across their faces.
Ever since the last time I had to be blunt with Casa, we've been
great. I'm not someone to completely back off of an acquaintance that
I HAVE to spend time around (I don't make the fucking seating decisions
around here, I think they need someone with a degree for something like
that). Nothing has changed between he and I, except that I made it clear
that I loved my husband, and was not attracted to him. I even picked
his weight gain whey bars up for him for christsake.
So, last week, this man poked his head around the corner and had the
huge goddamned brass balls to ask me...
Hey, you want to grab some martinis and then watch some movies?"
Me: Sorry, I'm going to see the baby after work.
I completely lost my shit and had to leave because it was too funny,
I couldn't stop laughing once I had a safe distance. Martini's and then
watch some movies? Why didn't he just ask me to drop trough and bend
over my ergonomically correct chair?
I regaled Holly Hobby with the tale and she told me exactly what
I knew.
HH: This whole time he probably thought he was wearing down your resistance,
priming you for the pump."
Which caused another fit of laughter.
What a piece of shit he is. Anyone with that much disregard for my marriage
shouldn't have the nerve to look me in the eye. He might as well come
spit on the picture of Adam I keep on my desk.
(This just happens to be my favorite insult in the world, I'll sue if
you steal it, but not really.)
The best part of him ran down his mother's leg.
But still, I refuse to change my behavior. I, in no way, prompt this.
None whatsoever. I don't find myself attracted to him at all. He said
he felt the chemistry between us (he also just walked behind me!), I
had no clue, no fucking clue what he was referring to. Why should I
have to be a different person because he's unable accept the fact that
not every woman wants his attention? I'm not, and that 's all there
is to it.
Last night, after updating, I returned to "The Divine Secrets of the
Ya Ya Sisterhood" to finish the last 15-20 pages. Oh how I envy those
with control over their red river hormones. Not me, uh uh. You see,
my mother had given me the copy of this book and the basis of this novel
is the relationship between Sidda and her mother. As I got closer to
the end, there was a short paragraph that had been marked by my mother,
for me. I can't quote it now because I'm toiling away, pretending to
work, I'll return with that later. But it slapped me upside the face
that this is what my mother thought she needed to communicate with me.
I dropped the book and sobbed and sobbed and Adam got me a tissue because
I needed to blow my nose. I never, ever, let people sniffle around me,
nor snort. If you have snot, get it the hell out of your body. I told
him I didn't want to blow my nose, and he nagged me like I relentlessly
nag others. It's a pain in the ass to taste your own medicine.
Proofreading that made Adam seem insensitive. Quite the contrary, he's
exactly what I need at any given moment. I blew my nose.
Onto the bigger and better. Also, less hormone intensive.
My mother is giving me a domain name for Valentine's Day. I'm at a loss,
can't think. I need...........a poll!
Talk to me. Let me know what I should do, god knows I can't think for
myself.
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