30 January 2006

Glamour Puss


The other day, I came by a little white cat mucking her way across the muddy road that runs by my apartment. She was wearing a rhinestone-studded collar. She couldn’t have weighed more than 6 pounds - I think the collar must’ve weighed 2. But she looked like she was born to bear it.

Picking her way daintily through the sludge, she looked like she was wearing four muddy little boots. With each step, she shook her tiny paws with such prissy annoyance, that I couldn’t help laughing out loud at the site of her. And when I did, she stopped mid-step for maybe a second. But then continued with her trek without even looking back at me…and I could swear she stiffened her back.

14 January 2006

From the Alphabet Series: E


Take it from me:
There is no glee
greater for thee
than missing your knees
when stopping to pee
behind a tree,
where no one can see
your naked wee weee.

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(I hereby offer my apologies to the blog gods for any part I might have played in the current shortage of EEEEEs...)

11 January 2006

agged-Tay

I've been volutarily tagged by Isay...

FOUR JOBS YOU'VE HAD IN YOUR LIFE:
1) Garden Shop salesgirl
2) Soldier
3) Short-order Cook
4) RN First Assistant (OR)

FOUR MOVIES YOU WOULD WATCH OVER AND OVER:
1) Murphy's Romance
2) Fools Rush In
3) Thunderheart
4) Excalibur

FOUR PLACES YOU HAVE LIVED:
1) Misawa AFB, Japan
2) Camp LeJeune, North Carolina
3) Fort Gordon, Georgia
4) Fort Drum, New York

FOUR TV SHOWS YOU LOVE TO WATCH:
1) Monarch of the Glen
2) Lost
3) Bones (David Boreanaz)
4) As Time Goes By

FOUR PLACES YOU'VE SPENT YOUR VACATION:
1) Laundromat
2) Grocer's
3) Delivery Room
4) Under the beds with a damp rag...

FOUR OF YOUR FAVORITE FOODS:
1) Chili Relleno
2) Lasagna
3) Fried Prawn
4) Chocolate-Dipped 6-foot hairy-chested men.

FOUR PLACES YOU WOULD RATHER BE RIGHT NOW:
1) Vancouver, BC
2) Sitka, AK
3) Winifred, MT
4) Right here in Missoula, twenty years ago.

going to tag
Sandy, Jimbo, Daysspring, and any one of my illustrating friends who might wanna volunteer to be tagged. No requirement to pass it on...

Ahh.
onclejohann has gallantly volunteered. Thank you, good man.

09 January 2006

First Kiss

Love! Love, love, love, love. You want to be in love.
That's right. You want to feel that first kiss again.
Because that's the only real kiss in a relationship, is the first kiss.
All the rest of the kisses are just protocol.
Every other kiss is protocol. Just routine.
"Hey, you was gone, you back."
"Hey, we're having sex."
"Hey, I miss you."
The first kiss is the only real one.

---Chris Rock













I practically had to force myself on Tom, the first time we kissed. I went more than half way, and still he demured. I'd spent the entire evening giving him every come hither signal I could think of...incidental touching; sitting thigh to thigh; ignoring every other guy at the party; joining him out on the patio when he went for a smoke. And even as I closed in on his lips, he stood wooden. I had to do everything!

He told me much later that I'd been drinking, and he didn't think I would've wanted him if I'd been sober. Oh please!