I keep deleting stuff from my profile trying not to be too chatty and then I just sound really boring I just don't know exactly what to tell you! Let's see....Should be retired but am not--work at home. Second marriage (oh, bliss). Grown kids. Other women my age have hair that's turned gray but mine turned red. I don't spend much time studying my navel and don't figure you want to either. I enjoy reading anything that's well written, but tend to most enjoy writers who are long dead. I am often nostaglic for times and places I have never known.
Things that make me happy (if you care to know):
Well, yeah, books.
Meg Ryan's bad plastic surgery
Driving around looking at stuff
Great shoes (mine or someone else's)
Good conversation (this can and usually does include what the smarmies call "small talk"--who the hell always has a pronouncement to hand?)
Dancing
Junk jewelry
Yorkshire Gold tea
Travel
James Fallows
The back of George Bush (oh, joy of joys)
Things I (generally) loathe:
Braggarts
Stinginess
The child sitting behind me in the restaurant who is always A) shrieking or B) drooling into my hair
Prince
People who talk about their pets all the time. Or their kids. Or grandkids. Or some tiresome sport (i.e. any sport)
People who try to convert me
Hazelnut coffee (no known antidote)
Raspberry anything (Yeah, I know everyone else loves it)
Shelfarians who make friends with you just so you'll read their inevitably sucky book
Drunks
Shelfarians who abbreviate to the point where it looks like caveman-speak. This is really becoming an issue for me! Is it so hard to type "them" instead of "dem?" Are we gangstahs here?
Things I don't understand:
Math
Bottled water
Having your cat's teeth cleaned
Emilio Estevez
Wine
McMansions
Drum solos
Why my hair always looks best the day before my appointment to get it cut.
Those little bits on the back of the toilet where the seat hinges--are our necks decomposing?
How a man who can't pronounce "nuclear" got to be president.
Why guys are always spitting.
Oh--and some of the books on my shelf are the wrong editions because I almost never have the patience to find the right ones.
"One, two, three buckle my shoe."
--Robert Benchley (I'm pretty sure)
"....she was one of those popular queens who don't meet the people, who think them either comic or boring or vulgar or selfish, or any of the things which they so often are."
--Molly Keane
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