reading: Don’t Cry Now, by Joy Fielding.
Finished last night: Otherwise Engaged, by Eileen Goudge. Not a bad book, but by the middle, you pretty much know exactly how it’s going to end.
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I went to the dentist yesterday and not only did it NOT hurt, but my gums have improved enough so that I only have to go every four months instead of every three.
It’s a miracle what following a regular brushing-and-flossing schedule will do for you, isn’t it?
The Aleve I took before the appointment – I woke up with a shoulder hurting so badly it made me grunt and groan and moan and bitch ’cause it hurt so bad to turn over and get out of bed – may have helped stave off the usual pain from the poking. But she had to do a lot less scraping and gum-poking than she has in the past, so I’m going to say that the regular brushing and flossing had to help at least a little.
And it only took me 30 years to figure out that Mom wasn’t just being a pain in the ass when she insisted that I brush and floss regularly.
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There’s a scene in the movie
A Time to Kill, a courtroom scene where lawyer Jake Tyler Brigance is questioning the witness Deputy Dwayne Powell Looney. Deputy Looney was caught in the crossfire when Brigance’s client, Carl Lee, shot and killed the two men who raped his 10 year-old daughter. At Carl Lee’s urging, Brigance asks Deputy Looney whether he thought Carl Lee intended to shoot Deputy Looney. Deputy Looney says that it was unintentional and he holds no ill will toward the man. Deputy Looney goes on to say “I mean, I don’t blame him for what he did. Those boys raped his little girl.”
At this point, naturally, the D.A. objects.
Brigance’s response to this objection is the sentence “Your Honor, I believe Deputy Looney has earned the right to speak here today.”
It’s a good line, but it’s an utterly ridiculous legal argument, and yet the judge agrees with it and overrules the objection.
It’s been 9 years since we first watched that movie, and ever since when we’re watching TV and someone is about to do or say something utterly ridiculous, Fred will yell out Brigance’s response to the objection, substituting the character’s name and what they’re about to do. Like such:
“Your Honor, I think Deputy Julia has
earned the right to remove the skin from that dead person!”
And it always, always makes me laugh.
In the movie
Face/Off, Nicholas Cage has a line where he says “I want to take his face… off.”, and accompanying the line is a gesture where he holds his hand in front of his face and then, as he says “off”, he pulls his hand away from his face, to demonstrate the idea of taking someone’s face… off.
So the other night as we were watching
Nip/Tuck, a few minutes after Fred said “Your Honor, I think Deputy Julia has earned the right to remove the skin from that dead person!”, he was able to follow it up with “She took the skin… off!”, and we both performed the correct accompanying gesture.
It’s the little things that amuse us, obviously.
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Dear Mother Nature:
A little sunshine? Please? For the love of god, this isn’t Seattle, I need some damn SUNSHINE to get me through my PMS.
xo,
Robyn
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The small bed I have on the right side of my desk is getting to the point where it’s really too small for Tom Cullen and Sugarbutt to share. But if I put a big bed over there, they tend to slide off the side of my desk onto the floor. I think the solution is obvious.
I need a bigger desk.
They sure do piss me off when I’m trying to print something and they go running over and bat at the paper coming out of the printer. It always ends up jamming, and I have to dig out the paper and restart the printing process. And I yell at them, but they just look up at me like “What, Mom? We’re not supposed to do that? No one told US!”
You bet your ass there was some smackin’ going on when Miz Poo woke up and realized she was snuggling with That Damn Interloper.
The too-small bed in question. They can’t really both fit unless one of them is lying partially on top of the other.
And then they get hot and melt out of the bed.
All of today’s uploaded pictures (the ones above, and more) can be seen
here.
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