The Fame

In Sex and the City: The Movie, the Girls go to Christie's Auction House and see this flower ring that Samantha is planning to buy. She says, "When I saw it in the catalog, I said to Smith, 'This flower ring is the essence of me. One of a kind, full of fire." Carrie adds, "And a little too much."

Danielle sent me to Goodwill today to drop off some comforters. Against my better judgement, instead of just leaving, I decided to browse. I found this coat that I had to have! This coat is the essence of me-cheap, tacky, full of fire (some might say I'm a (make an air-quotes gesture) "flamer," and this ugly coat should be set on fire. Haha)

It was cheap in the price sense, $5, and cheap in the quality sense. It was made of some sort of awful, fuzzy fabric, in a giraffe print. The underside of the collar was this cheap shiny black that was the same as the lining. It was fabulous! My initial thought was that I had toyed with the idea of going as Fran Drescher for this past Halloween. The Nanny get it? Haha. So it would be perfect for next year. But the more I thought about it I imagined rocking it all over town, I could so pull it off! It would compliment any ensemble! I was thinking how I could accessorize it with wearing my black studded belt outside of the coat instead of with my jeans. Its too big for my waist anyway and the studs make it heavy, so it doesn't hold my jeans up, it pulls them down haha. I left it because I figured that Goodwill doesn't take plastic, but I didn't ask. I wanted badly to go back, but I tried my best to distract myself until it was time to pick up the kids.

After naps and some Spongebob I took the kids to the playground. When we arrived it was deserted and we had everything to ourselves which I thought was such a novelty. After a few minutes a group of some teenagers meandered into the park. They started climbing on the equipment and stuff. We were at the wooden playground that is like Timbertown. I don't remember what its called. I talked about on here before. Anyway.

At one point, Jacob went down a slide. It was one of the cylindrical ones so you can't see the bottom from the top because the "roof" part is blocking the view. I was up on the equipment close by to the slide, and I watched Jacob go down, Olivia right behind. I could see the bottom from my vantage point but I didn't look til Jacob came to the end and a gallon of water shot out around him. There was a big thunderstorm last night and it rained. There was no puddle at the bottom of the slide on the ground, where I would have noticed, but there was an ocean of collected water at the end on the bottom of the slide itself. He was drenched, the back of his pants were like 10 shades darker than the front. He started crying immediately, but he stopped when I said we should go home. He wanted to stay instead of changing. Olivia got some of the left over water on the bottoms of her pant legs but Jacob was the worst.

So these teenagers were on the equipment at the other end of the playground. Jacob and Olivia were running through on that side and they didn't mind them. Then they started to take positions and I saw a kid not on the equipment had a camera. So I told the children to come back to the other end where I still was to get out of the way of the picture. There were two boys and three girls in the group. One boy had the camera, and the other boy started talking to me.

He asked if I wanted to be in a "techno dance movie." Techno? Dancing? Movie? All of these are right up my alley! But no, thank you, I couldn't possibly. (wink-wink.) He said that they were doing it for school and please could I be in it? The girls were all like yeah pleassseee? I asked, "What, with no music?" And he said no, just random movements and he demonstrated haha. I said that I simply had to have music, I can't dance without music. Wouldn't you know, they procured a laptop. Ta-dah! He waved it at me, "look we have music!"

Well, they had met my prima donna demands, and I do so love to exhibit my dancing prowess, so what the heck. True to form, I was center stage, ever the diva. I don't know what the project was or why but I have nothing to do with it, yet I am the star of the show.

Danielle asked if I kept it PG or if I "porned it up a little?" I didn't drop it down as low as I normally would, I was behind a railing so I would have just disappeared. Haha. I did shake my bootie tho, I think high enough to get into the shot.

They all thanked me profusely and said that Mr. or Mrs. So and So would looove it! I loved it. I'm famous! Well, more famous! I texted a bunch of people because it was too funny! Maybe I won't get fame from it necessarily, but I hope for infamy within their class, maybe the school! If not at least they'll remember it. I hope they get an A+ and extra credit for having me in there. I wish I could somehow see the finished product. But just the experience was so funny. I should have written about it right after the fact, I feel like I thought of phrases and how I would word things when I wrote about it but I forgot them, and the story seems watered down.

So there are all these branches in the backyard that fell during the t-storm. When I let amber out this morning this branch was sticking straight out of the ground like in this picture, I solemnly swear that I did not do this! It must have fallen from the tree so hard and just went in like that. It looks like a little tree, but its a branch. Luckily no one was standing there... Eek.

xoxo, Travvy