Coming out of the shower this morning, I realized that right now, my house smells like a perfect combination of freshly brewed coffee and puppy. What more can you ask for?
Somehow that made me think of: drivin' home this evenin', coulda sworn we had it all worked out.
Mostly what that woman did in that video was stare blankly.
Wait, I've emulated it for you. Little music video for your viewing pleasure.
This is how men want us. Hot and blank. Like my coffee. Do you remember that friend of mine, The Other June, who I haven't seen in ages, who came over once and I offered her coffee, and I said, "Do you take anything in it?"
"Oh, no," she said, "just cream and sugar."
That has haunted me. It's haunted me all this time. That must have been seven years ago. Oh, no. Just cream and sugar.
WHAT ELSE IS THERE?
Yes. I take abandoned toys and corkscrews in my coffee. You got any?
I love a cabana boy in my coffee.
Oh no. Just cream and sugar.
IT HAUNTS.
It's like that story I know I've told you, where I ran that marathon in Chicago. It was a fundraiser for AIDS Project Los Angeles, where we raised money for them and they flew us to Chicago and put us up in a swank hotel and we all ran the Chicago marathon. As opposed to flying to Chicago and running the Madrid marathon.
Anyway, there was a little party after. Whichever asshole planned the party said, Hey! I know! Let's have everyone run 26.2 miles, then after they've showered and gotten stiff, we'll have a party you have to access by climbing many many many stairs!
You've never seen so many people go upstairs sideways, like crabs.
The point is, once we were up there, mawing on snacks like we'd never seen snacks before, or like we'd, oh, run 26.2 miles that day, one guy said, "Weren't the showers at our hotel fantastic?"
They really were. It was a lovely hotel. The morning of the marathon, I had to get up at like 4:30 or some godawful time that even thinking about it now makes me ill, and I was filling my little running pack with dried fruit and stuff, and I looked out the window. Across the courtyard were so many other lights on, and I knew everyone in them was also running the marathon, and it was so thrilling. It was like Rear Window, but it was more Run Window.
Dear June, Try to at least make sense. Love, Reader.
OH MY GOD ANYWAY. Gay guy at party. Loved the showers. We agreed the showers were good.
"That was the second-most refreshing shower I've ever had," he said.
HAUNTED.
WHAT ELSE HAS HE DONE that there would ever be a shower, anywhere ever, more refreshing than the one you take after running
TWENTY-SIX
POINT
TWO
miles? What? Did he mud wrestle an elephant? Was he abandoned in a rainforest for a week?
WHAT?
I'll never know. I've thought of calling AIDS Project LA, asking for the entire roster of everyone who ran the 2000 Chicago marathon, and calling every man who ran it to ask WERE YOU THE ONE WHO TOOK THE SECOND-MOST REFRESHING SHOWER?
Also, who ranks their showers?
In completely unrelated news, the elusive two-headed cat came to feast at my dwelling.
Yesterday, I took the day off and ended up working in my lavender nightgown all day. "Oh, I'll just do this a minute," I said, opening my laptop. I closed it at 6:00. "Can I, like, get a refund on my day?" I emailed my boss. She said yes.
So that was relaxing. And then as soon as I took off my sexy nightgown and got on my workout clothes, I got a migraine. I did half of Tracy Gold workout until my head threatened to kill me, and then I lay prone and moaning all evening.
All in all, a fun day. Second-most fun day of my life. No, just cream and sugar.
While I've been writing you this impressive tome, I looked behind me and noticed this. This is nice. Now they have a window to the stars. It rained like the dickens last night, it rained sad orphans, and as a result the dogs tracked in ALL THE MUD. I mean, there is no more mud out there. They tracked in people's adobes, and mud huts--which are probably the same as adobes--and basically all the earth is here. Clean, is what my floors are.
I wash my floor almost every day now. It's like I'm a clean freak without the clean part.
Believe it or not, this important post must come to an end, and I know it cuts like a knife. I know you wanted more from me. No, not really. Just cream and sugar.
IT HAUNTS.
Luff,
June