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It’s Friday! Friday’s are BUTTON Friday’s here at Mean Marie. Let’s go look into Mama’s Button Bowl.
Can’t wait to see what we pull out of this bowl today!
*plunges hand into bowl*
A HA!
How. Unusual. Wait. Wait. It looks sorta like an albino PacMan. Albino PacMan
PacMan
I can TOTALLY work with that!
I played PacMan once. I was never rich enough to go to arcades. Also. I have no eye hand coordination. I bet you played tons of PacMan. Richie Rich! You may or may not know about my love for all thinks beauty. By beauty I mean make-up, hair, skin…you know. All thinks vain and ridiculous in the greater scheme of the universe. I’m sorta vain and totally ridiculous. Ok. I’m totally vain AND totally ridiculous. Happy now? Anyway. I found a really good deal on make-up brushes that I thought might interest you. Cause maybe. Just MAYBE. You might be a little, tiny, wee bit vain too. If you aren’t, I will weep for you knowing you weep for me. It’ll be a mutual weep fest. So. Here is how the brushes are stored.
A compact pleather bundle of beauty essentials! It unrolls to THIS:
So many brushes!
Too many for just one picture. There’s MORE!
EVEN MORE!
Nice huh? It’s only $35.98 at Amazon. Click below to order a set for yourself!
Mama’s cat Punch is a sweet kitty. Mostly. She is very affectionate. Most of the time. If you sit down, Punch will jump up into your lap for pets. But be aware. Punch loves pets. She loves pets so much. So MUCH! To show how much Punch loves pets, she MUNCHES on your fingers. Punch Munches. It starts out innocently. EVERY TIME.
Just a few pets and Punch is sniffing the fingers.
See her eyes? See the look in Punch’s eyes? Punch is preparing to Munch.
There is NO escape when Punch decides to MUNCH!
MUNCH!
Now that Punch has gotten her Munch she’s done with me.
Remember Mama’s cat that looks JUST LIKE ME? I showed him to you yesterday? The fact that he’s a HE is distressing. Almost as distressing as the fact that we favor. His name is Wilbur. He’s named after Wilbur Wright. Unlike Wilbur Wright, Wilbur the cat will not be first in flight. He won’t be first in anything BUT these two things: First to the food bowl. Wilbur and I look EXACTLY ALIKE.
Wilbur’s even flirty. LIKE ME.
Wilbur sleeps A LOT. Just LIKE ME!
Because of his girth, it’s hard to realize Wilbur is giving us the ‘talk to the paw’. He is. LIKE ME! (Except I use my hand. I don’t have paws. Or DO I?)
Wilbur and I look EXACTLY alike. So much so, Mama often confuses him with me. Yesterday he got pancakes for breakfast with bacon. I got Purina Cat Chow. You know how they say pets & their owners sometimes resemble each other? That’s not the case with me and Kitty Chesney. We don’t favor at all. Mama doesn’t resemble any of her pets either. However. (This is where it gets spooky. Not spooky like ghosty but spooky like weird.) Mama has a cat that looks JUST LIKE ME. It’s TRUE. And WORSE? It’s a MALE cat. Sure. He’s been neutered. BUT STILL. He is a BOY. AND a CAT. We look so much alike, we could be twins. Spookiest thing EVER. Check him out. Check him out and tell me we don’t look JUST alike.
If it’s Friday, it’s time to dig into one of Mama’s Button Bowls.
Which one will I pull out today?
*digs in*
Is it a space ship? Nope.
Not a space ship. It’s. It’s. It’s.
It’s Nancy Reagan! What is Nancy doing in my mama’s button bowl? KIDDING! It’s actually a button. Not Nancy Reagan.
However. This button has an APB (ALL POINTS BULLETIN) out on it. The 80′s want it back. Dead or alive. KIDDING! Again! I bet this button once graced a tweed power blazer with shoulder pads. What? I had 4 tweed power blazers. With shoulder pads. I was very powerful in the 80′s. I was still a teen. A teen in a power blazer. With shoulder pads. I blame Nancy Reagan. She should have taught us to ‘Just Say No’ to more than drugs. I have 2 boho Maxi Dresses ready made and For Sale! They fit women’s size 20/22 These dresses have black jersey bodices with a lightweight satin skirt. The skirts have a jersey lining that isn’t full length but does extend to the knee. These dresses are perfect for every day or can be dressed up for special occasion. If anyone is interested, leave a comment or email me. Rounded Black Bodice with Black and White Paisley Swirls:
Veed Black Bodice and Fitted Waist with Leopard Print Skirt.
I grew up just outside of Helen, GA.. Separating me and Helen was The Valley. The Valley is not THAT Valley. It’s the Sautee Nacoochee Valley. Two valleys actually although I consider them one. You can click Sautee Nacoochee to read the Wiki page about Sautee Nacoohcee. The ‘Origin of Names’ tab is very interesting. The Sautee Nacoochee Valley has a Native American history. Growing up, we would hunt for and find arrowheads in the soil of the bottoms after it was tilled. (Not telling which bottoms. We weren’t supposed to be there!) Here is a picture my husband took of the Nacoochee Indian Mound:
It has a marker and everything:
There is also the Old Sautee Store. I love their farmer’s cheese on ginger snaps. It’s the simple things, ya know?
They have a deli.
My husband recommends their hummus sandwich. I recommend their cookies. The Valley has culture too. LOTS of culture. There is the Folk Pottery Museum.
The Folk Pottery Museum attaches to the Sautee Nacoochee Center. The Sautee Nacoochee Center has a Theatre, Gallery, Art Studio, Dance Studio, History Museum, Heritage Site, Nature Preserve, Environmental Studies Room and Conference Facilities. Everything a center SHOULD have. You can read about them if you click SNCA The Valley also houses the church where I married my dear husband. The window above the door was designed and made by my dear friend Gloria Brown. I love her and miss her. Very much.
It reads: “Let the words of our mouths, and the meditations of our hearts, be acceptable in thy sight, oh Lord, our strength and our redeemer,”
Also in The Valley? Cows. My cows. Well. Mine and my husbands. Mostly his I suppose since he sweats and toils with them.
The Valley is a magical and beautiful place.
You should come visit. I’ll show you around. Well have a hummus sandwich, take in a show and look at the cows. I want to start off by saying titles are hard for me. You should try it sometime. It’s not too hard coming up with 20 titles. Try 200. Hard. Really hard. But I digress. Mama grew a jabillion cantaloupe this year. They were absolutely delish! Every now and then one would rot before she could eat it/give it away. Those and the peels were enjoyed by the chickens and the composter. Last week, Mama asked me to take some cantaloupe to the chickens. You know how chickens scare me, right? Mama is so mean sometimes. She said she isn’t mean. She’s just toughening me up. I keep telling her Oil of Olay is working non-stop trying to SOFTEN me up. Clearly, I am tough enough. Mama just handed the container of cantaloupe parts to me and pointed toward the screen door.
I can handle two fowl. It’s just TWINKIE and the Rooster. I can’t believe I just said that. TWINKIE is scary and Rooster is a rooster and roosters are floggers. I’m totally brave. Totally!
Uh oh.
Ahhh. *gurgle* Eeeeek TWINKIE’S bff has an ENTOURAGE! Notice, the new distance between me and the chickens. We call that Strategic Retreat. Write that down. You may need it someday. Woah! A streak of orange!
It’s Agent Orange. He’s never far from my feet since The Mackerel Incident of March 2010.
Oh Agent Orange! You silly cat! I’m feeding the chickens cantaloupe. Cats don’t eat cantaloupe!
Uh Agent Orange? Did you hear me? Cats. Don’t. Eat. Cantaloupe.
Huh. Agent Orange is eating cantaloupe. Cat’s don’t eat cantaloupe. Agent Orange is a cat. Isn’t he?
Woah HO! Agent Orange is SERIOUS about his cantaloupe. He just bitch slapped that chicken for daring to ‘share’ his cantaloupe. I’m sure the chicken is as confused as I am. We both know that Cat’s Don’t Eat Cantaloupe!
Weeeell. I think I’ll just leave old Agent Orange (the cat who may not be a cat) with the flock to enjoy their cantaloupe. This many chickens in one place makes me nervous.
Being adored by a cat that may not be a cat makes me nervous. I think I’ll go inside now.
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