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The Exaggerator Strikes Again

1. Periodically throughout my life, I've been utterly freaked out by the concept of fruit flies. Where do they come from? Are they just hiding somewhere all along - like giant robot alien machines, buried secretly and awaiting activation by the proper conditions? Yeeeeeachhhh.

3. I have a lovely little wooden rainbow pinwheel standing in the pot of one of the plants that's sitting on the bookshelf below the window in the room that is my office/sunroom. I must've put it in just the right place last time I dusted or whatever because at the moment, it is a spiiiinnnnnin'! It's really pretty and it makes me smile. What nice sight to wake up to.

4. The reason you haven't heard any whiny laundromat sagas lately is because I've decided to start sending it out. I didn't want to tell you because I was afraid it would make me sound way too bourgie.

5. I'm not - I'm totally not, you have to trust me.

6. I just hate doing laundry with a passion that surpasses logic.

7. I have the busiest two days in the recent history of the known universe coming up.

8. I'd better get my ass movin'.

M

ps. Oh yeah - I saw Batman Begins recently - more on that later ...

Comments

asha said…
Fruitflys are a wonder. One appeared in the terrarium when I was away for a few days. It was as though born from the orange I left as a treat. Amazing.
2:08 pm
Murph said…
I personally think they just sort of zap themselves in from another not too distant dimension.

I am wondering what thought # 2 was.

Cheers.
2:25 pm
Narrator said…
Mayim, fruit flies have always scared me, too.

I've made note of their evolution, too, in that they seem to be getting fatter, BULKIER and generally more stubborn and resilient. That's a frightening thought. I swat at them, but they still hang around. Before they were skittish and would fly away as soon as movement was detected.
3:25 pm
Anonymous said…
I love to do laundry, and I couldn't tell you why. I fold the clothes, and just feel very peaceful. I am the anti-Mayim I guess.

Jimmi jr.
2:10 pm
mayim said…
I do like the folding part. The folding part is very zen. It's sorta like doing dishes - the actual washing of them, hands in warm sudsy water, present in the moment, all that - I love ... It's the sticky gooey getting them ready just getting to them part I hate.

If I could just fold the laundry, and forego the sorting washing sitting waiting transferring, dealing with scuzzy laundromat lurkers part, I would like that I think.

M
2:24 pm
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