Magic Holly Darla Hank Yoda MClaine, & Truth Without Pants

[Teresa]

Smeared thoughts on this rainy dull morning:  

1) Buff sweaty men air-fucking in the movie I saw last night, "Magic Mike"...yawn...friend's birthday request...nothing tingly except when Mike confesses to a girl he respects, then dances for himself. 

 

2) Shy sparkless Holly Abernathy, a fifth grader, undoubtedly self-conscious about his name, first boy to ask freckled and gap-toothed me to be his girlfriend on a Boulevard Baptist church bus in 1975, my Yes for unconscious reasons, holding hands for twenty minutes then breaking up with him.

 

3) Whether or not during their two-year "serious" relationship Darla Roach, a good-girl blond cheerleader who sat behind me in Mrs. Stephen's eighth grade biology class, ever "did it" with strong-jawed jock boyfriend who was also president of student council and will probably pop up in politics elsewhere, Hank Lukeman.

 

4)  How I can't go back to the every Tuesday/Thursday-frequented Black-Eyed Pea -- which is conveniently located near my son's speech therapy -- because I can't deal with the hot and spicy young-enough-to-be-my-son waiter (serves us no matter where we sit) who asked me out with feigned confidence -- "You think about it, okay?" -- just seconds after my six year old said in her wise Yoda voice, "He's trying to be perfect for you." 

 

5) Shirley MClaine's response to a People Magazine question about falling in love with co-stars, "There's nothing on this earth more attractive than 'telling the truth' to a handsome man while he's doing the same to you."

 

6) My five year old son wearing nothing but a t-shirt this morning, winking at himself in the mirror.

 

 

 

 

 

[Robert Crisman]

I liked number one especially, though I feel for poor Holly. That's less time than it usually takes Kim Kardashian. Good on Yoda girl, meanwhile, and vast props for Julian winking at himself in the mirror. Hell, who needs pants anyway?

[Cita]

Loving me some Yoda girl, and the title of this piece, and all of it for sure.  Faved.  

[Angela]

Who could resist a title like that?  You should have 2000 comments.

All of them are great musings.  I enjoy these kinds of streaming posts from you.

You are making me late for a funeral

[Teresa]

Thanks guys/gals.  Black-Eyed Pea boy was a complete shock.  Disappointing more than flattering, though yes, flattering.  Maybe I should go back, but next time I'll take my 22 yr old with me and ask if the boys want to go outside and play ball.

[Judy Thompson]

oh yeah, #4;  you want to, you know you want to, but you can't. 

and I can just hear your Yoda daughter.  Such insight, at 6:  lord help the world by the time she turns 20.

[Mike Handley]

LOVE this, T. Are you trying to be perfect for us? Because it's working.

[Scarlett Rose]

"Truth without pants" made me read this, not going to lie. Oh, and also because you wrote it. Nice tag too!

[Joey Delgado]

So nunplussed by Magic Mike!! Love it.

This was a joy to read, Teresa. Thanks. :)

[bolton carley]

could anyone keep up with that mind of yours?  no.  but we love that you share it with us.  5 - made me smile.  4 made me think you can't blame the guy.  3 is the exact stuff i would love to have answered for me even though i can't remember where i parked my car yesterday but that stuff i remember, and 6 makes me laugh because all men have it, even when they're young. lol.

[Gita]

Oh darling Yoda girl, how intuitive and honest she is. Watch her carefully, won't you please, for signs of second sight? Precious precious.