A Little Bit of This, a Little Bit of That
Aug 17th 2010Julia LondonJulia London
I’ve had so much going on lately that I can’t decide what to blog about. Do you ever have those weeks/months/years where you have stuff on your mind and you are in danger of blurting it to total strangers? My friend Sherri Erwin was talking about Krispy Kremes yesterday, and when a random clerk asked me how I was today, I almost announced I want a donut. NOW.
Here’s a smattering of things that have been on my mind recently. Feel free to chime in or ignore me.
1. Have you seen the Real Housewives of DC? Just when you thought these privileged women couldn’t get any snottier, DC rolled in to show us they could.
2. Bachelor Pad: Why? And why am I watching?
3. Did you hear about the guy who tried twice to friend his ex on Facebook and got slapped with violating a protective order? Do people seriously think the internet doesn’t count? Makes me think of how anonymously rude some people can be on the internet. But even if no one knows it was you who left that comment on that blog (speaking figuratively here), doesn’t it still matter that you said something rude?
4. Jack London has moved to Phoenix and he did NOT take the chewed up coffee table. He refused! What am I supposed to do with it now? That wrecks my plan for new living room furniture. (Jack London starts classes today!)
5. My sister and I had a discussion about why you get those splitting headaches when its super super hot like it has been. Is it a lack of water (we both drink tons)? Is it food? (she doesn’t eat, I eat all the time)? What is it?
6. Moose, my six month old moose-like puppy, is being neutered today. I am a responsible pet owner but I still hate doing it.
7. When is it going to cool down?
8. If I paint my bedroom, what color should I paint it? And should I get a new bed cover, or go with what I’ve got?
9. I won a copy of The Red Queen by Phillipa Gregory from goodreads.com. They suggested I read the White Queen first. Do I have to? The Red Queen is sitting right there with such a great cover and I am dying to read it.
10. Do you know how hard it is to find pictures to fit some of these blogs? These pictures are as meaningless as my blog today

These are just a few things that are front and center at the moment. What’s on your mind? if you could walk into a room of goddesses and have the floor, what would you say? What are the little niggling things bugging you? And if you are living in a 70-degree summer day area, you better not say it here. You better not.
Today is a big day in the London household. Jack London is packing his little U-Haul and, together with his father and oldest son, is driving one thousand miles across the southwest desert–IN AUGUST–to go to law school. Jack, you rock! It’s a whole new beginning, and I am so proud that he had the balls to do it at this point in his life.
What a great week of blogging! Our guest bloggers have been so thoughtful and interesting and I am having follow-up anxiety. It’s like American Idol–I feel like my name is Pat Lester and I am following Adam Lambert. Great job all the way around!

I really loathe this time of year because it is soooo hot. We are not experiencing record heat here in Texas, just regular old Texas heat, which is still miserable. We hover right around 100 every day. This is usually the point I go and join a gym just so I can run on a treadmill. But I can only do that for so long because I get bored.
You had a great aunt named Eldagirt Wirt. That is no lie, I did. I also had a great aunt named Clyde. Her real name was Jean, but but for reasons I will never know, everyone called her Clyde. Clyde was really funny, tossing out one liners like a true stand-up comic before there were such people. She had jet black hair and chain-smoked, and she was married four times. I have these very vague memories of her standing at the head of my grandmother’s dining room table (we had a formal meal every Sunday after church) and all the adults just bent over laughing. To me, she looked like the crones in the fairy tale books. But you know what? I would give anything to have one of those Sunday dinners back so I could know how funny she was. I would ask her why everyone called her Clyde. I would get her to talk about her four husbands and why none of them worked, and why she moved to California and never came back.
Remember I told you Jack London is going to law school and I’m not? Claudia asked me yesterday how the big Move To Law School is going. I told her it was like a divorce: we are slowly putting all the junky stuff in the garage for him to furnish his apartment, and I am keeping all the good stuff.

I have wavy hair. Why did I ever believe I needed a perm? I regret a couple of late night adventures and the mornings after. Men! Yes, I definitely regret a few men along the way. One (and he knows who he is, but alas, will never see this) was a lying, cheating snake from the moment he walked up to me. Hope he likes being roasted on a spit, because I have a feeling that’s where he’ll end up one of these days. I regret that I wasn’t smarter and didn’t see through him. 













