Grown-up Stuff

Tomorrow I'm going to a pendente lite hearing for child custody and support. I've been going through documents and receipts all morning, to prepare. It seems sort of unreal, as though I'm preparing for a hearing scene in a movie or a play - I need to be ready, but it doesn't seem like it's happening in the real world.

By the way, my boyfriend and my ex met each other this past Saturday at my girls' birthday party. It was weird, to say the least. My BF didn't like my ex at all, called him scum and drug addict, though not to his face. He's an overreactor, quick to anger; thumbs up. But, the party went very well and my girls had a lot of fun.

Indiana Jones and the Quest for Lost Youth

A couple mornings ago, my girls and I were sitting around the breakfast (lunch, dinner, snack)table, eating cereal and reading the backs of the cereal boxes. One of my girls points of a picture on one of the boxes and asked, "Who's this?" It was Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones. She then said, in disbelief, "THAT'S Indiana Jones?! How come he looks so OLD?" And, you know what, he did look old. But I felt sort of defensive, so I said something like, "Well, in the earlier movies, he was really young and handsome." My girls had stopped listening to me, because, well, I sounded like an old lady at that point. I was actually pretty shocked at how much Indy really had aged. In my mind, Indy was always such a dreamy college professor/archaeologist/action figure/down to earth/hero/rescuer. I guess he still is, but after that cereal box, I tell you, I'm going to have to watch the earlier movies so I can be reminded of his dreaminess.

Horses and Hats

Merriam-Webster defines "yuppie" as a young college-educated adult who is employed in a well-paying profession and who lives and works in or near a large city. One website describes yuppies in this manner:

Dispensing of the social causes of their more passionate parents, yuppies tend
to be 9-5 professional workers. Because of this, some people see them as sellouts. Yuppies tend to value material goods (especially trendy new things). ... Unfortunately, the fast paced pursuit of these material goods has unintended consequences. Usually in a hurry, they seek convenience goods as services. Being "time poor", their family relations can become difficult to sustain. Maintaining their way of life is mentally exhausting.

Wow. Well, that being said, I think I'm going to Preakness next weekend and I need a fancy hat and sundress. Let me know if anyone has either I can borrow, because, while I am not a yuppie because I am poor, I like to play one on tv. I liken myself to the hooker Julia Roberts played in Pretty Woman, who used Richard Gere's credit card to go on a fabulous shopping spree and then went to a polo match in that cute brown polka-dotted dress and brown hat. Except for the hooker part.

Wax on

In anticipation of my trip, I got waxed this afternoon. Yeah, I got the Brazilian, so there'll be no Hanging Gardens of Babylon (google it, if you need to). Holy crap, that burned like a M-F'er. Also, I was naked from the waist down, showing my goods to a total stranger - a common scenario when I was in my early 20's, but not so much these days. That's a joke. Seriously. Don't judge.

I like shiny things

Yesterday, after work, I went to a bar near my house and drank a dirty Grey Goose martini, then went shopping at Loehman's. I love that place.


I bought this lovely patent leather handbag by Kenneth Cole:


I feel fabulous walking down the street with it.