So. Three months and nine days of flailing about and feeling sorry for myself seems to be pretty much the right amount really. Reason 1: we'd be in dire financial straits in about another month if we'd stayed where we were, and now don't have to drown under the universal concerns of rising food costs etc., because, yay, we can afford it. Reason 2: I was getting really bored of myself. Reason 3: I'm sure there would be a third reason, if only I was smart enough to think of it.
Justine wants me, lord knows why, to tell you six things about myself. Unaccustomed as I am to public revelation, what's a weblog for if not a chance to go on and on talk about myself.
- I'm a fantastic cook.
- I have a stomach the size of an elephant in her third year of gestation to prove it.
- I get embarrassed when I tell people I have a blog. Actually, I don't tell people I have a blog. Come to that, I don't even really have that much of a blog.
- I never look at my own teeth in the mirror. What you don't see can't hurt you.
- I cried in the movie Mama Mia! but console myself with the thought that Meryl Streep made me do it.
- My 22 year old nephew thinks Meryl is hot. I think Meryl is hot. A gay Colin Firth, though, is like pouring tomato sauce over lemon meringue pie. Some things are just not meant to be.
ah, thank you.
you have given me quite a chuckle on this rather dull and boring work day... :)
Posted by: kirsten | July 29, 2008 at 05:23 PM
oh, and i KNEW there was a reason NOT to see mamma mia - and your colin firth revelation is it.
i shall remain in mr darcy ignorance, thank you very much.
Posted by: kirsten | July 29, 2008 at 05:24 PM
thanks for sharing :) xx
Posted by: justine | July 29, 2008 at 07:50 PM
Little did I know I had been searching through my bloglines for something of substance and wit. Now I've read yours, I can stop searching.
Posted by: lexi | July 29, 2008 at 07:55 PM
I totally agree about Colin Firth.
And you know what? he married an Italian and his kids have the same names of my first too. It could have been me.
Posted by: monica | July 29, 2008 at 07:56 PM
Oh, I am with you about Colin Firth. I have been in love with him ever since Bridget Jones.
Take care.
Posted by: Tamara | July 29, 2008 at 08:43 PM
I have always thought Colin Firth was a little camp anyway. He doesn't do it for me at all.In fact he spoiled my image of Mr Darcey who I love in the book!
It's Pierce Brosnan's singing that is putting me off seeing the film.A gay Colin Firth I can cope with!
Posted by: Kristy | July 29, 2008 at 09:38 PM
i've missed your voice here megan. glad to find you and your six things this morning. (must get to the movies!)
Posted by: emily | July 30, 2008 at 02:18 AM
Thanks for the heads up on Colin Firth. Nothing pulls me out a slump like watching Colin in Pride and Prejudice. I guess he's trying to expand his horizons. Not acceptable!
Posted by: Rachel | July 30, 2008 at 03:01 AM
What's more wrong is Pierce "007" Brosnan singing?
Posted by: katiecrackernuts | July 30, 2008 at 01:28 PM
The secret is to tell people that you write FOR a blog. This implies that you, because of your wit and exceptional writing ability, have been asked or even employed to contribute. Non Blog people are normally impressed.
Posted by: Alice C | July 30, 2008 at 06:12 PM
Tomato sauce over lemon meringue...ha ha ha! :-) You always have the best analogies. And by the way, the fact that you THINK your blog is not worth mentioning is what makes you so COOL, Megan. Your words are simple, uncluttered and heavy with meaning. Like a poem. ;-)
Posted by: Tanya B. | July 30, 2008 at 07:42 PM
Ha ha about Colin Firth! That was funny wasn't it?
We saw a live Australian production of Mamma Mia in Singapore 3 years ago, and it was wonderful.
But I loved Meryl in the movie too.
She is pretty good for almost 60... actually pretty amazing.
Fun, and it is a tear jerker.
You have a blog, but you don't tell people you know. It's easier that way I think.
Mim
Posted by: Mim | July 31, 2008 at 01:07 AM
I enjoy visiting your blog - substance and wit (as mentioned above) and the magic and mystery in all things ordinary make a pretty convincing double-couple... Best wishes from Berlin, Germany!
Posted by: ger | July 31, 2008 at 07:54 AM
i cried too during Mama Mia...
i wonder what it was that made you cry?
and yes about the tomato sauce
Posted by: Patrice | August 02, 2008 at 04:30 PM
Ah, I wish we could have dinner together one day with our common tendencies of cooking and that elephant stomach thing (gasp)...! Though I hate to think of it that way...
Posted by: Berlinswhimsy | August 05, 2008 at 05:54 PM
yes. yes and again - yes. about colin and lemon pie, about meryl and about teeth. yes about blog shyness.
thank you
thank you
thank you
Posted by: katie | August 06, 2008 at 07:30 PM