Like many dog owners, FD & I have given Bleu various cutesy nicknames: baby dogbert, Bleu-ser, boo-boo-tron.
In addition to these nicknames, we have others. Ones that represent the various other animals Bleu embodies:
A Bear: He stands on his hind legs and tries to dance with us like a circus bear.
A Lion: Sometimes he has a mane. And his jaw is huge.
A Shark: He surfs a counter like a shark surfs a crowed beach.
A Pig: The way he eats and waddles and rolls around in mug makes us think he was a pig in a previous life.
This is just a sampling. The list could on much longer than my lunch break.
What animals does your dog or cat remind you of?
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Once Forgotten
While rocking out to my Twilight mix (of course, made for each book, chapter by chapter--in some cases paragraph by paragraph--if you want a copy, let me know!) and prepping goodies for my cook-ahead, Slow Cooker Chicken Enchilada Casserole, I heard a song I haven't really heard in ages: "Have You Forgotten" by Red House Painters.
When I first heard that song was in my in-between-years as manager of the Saks Off-Fifth Women's Department at Aurora Farms in Aurora, Ohio, when I wanted to study poetry in a MFA program but more importantly I wanted to find myself. I listened to the song many times during many late nights doing stupid shit (there's no other way to put it) with my then (and still) bestees: Gattozzi, PL, & Stokes.
My most vivid memory with "Have You Forgotten" is in Grad School, though. I had wandered down to Falstaff's on my way home from teaching one Friday evening--early on in my Grad career, my first semester. This was my fav bar which happened to be the best burger joint in town: in Grad School my two favorite things comboed in one.
The owner and cook, John, knew me by name. (Yes, it was a Cheers moment every time I walked in.) I was in there one night sipping my Jack & Coke and devouring my cheeseburger and fries after a rough week when I heard "Have You Forgotten."
John was an avid indie radio supporter, and the song was most likely playing on the college radio station. I don't remember. But what I remember was in a bar the size of any good college bar with glossed oak wood counters and four pool tables, it was just me and John listening to "Have You Forgotten."
No one else was in the bar.
That was the loneliest moment of my life.
I missed my brother, my sister, my parents, my Stokey, my Gattozzi, my PL, my Alice, my life in Kent, my job with designer clothes perks, the love of my life (wherever he was), and myself.
What's weird is I never remembered that specific emotional state until tonight. I've heard that song countless times since then, but never with any emotional potency.
What made tonight so special? The smell of onions browning in a non-stick LeCruest skillet?
Food and memory are intrinsically linked...
At first I thought to include this memory in a private letter to my friend PL with a stack of CD burns I've been promising to send him since December, but for some reason that didn't seem to be enough.
This past weekend my sister-in-law Suz told me I needed to update my blog. That she missed it. That she enjoyed reading it.
I thought to myself, "For real? My blog is a joke."
I complain. I whine. I rant.
But the smell of onions reminded me:
I share.
I remember.
I appreciate.
That's good enough by me.
What else are blogs for?
When I first heard that song was in my in-between-years as manager of the Saks Off-Fifth Women's Department at Aurora Farms in Aurora, Ohio, when I wanted to study poetry in a MFA program but more importantly I wanted to find myself. I listened to the song many times during many late nights doing stupid shit (there's no other way to put it) with my then (and still) bestees: Gattozzi, PL, & Stokes.
My most vivid memory with "Have You Forgotten" is in Grad School, though. I had wandered down to Falstaff's on my way home from teaching one Friday evening--early on in my Grad career, my first semester. This was my fav bar which happened to be the best burger joint in town: in Grad School my two favorite things comboed in one.
The owner and cook, John, knew me by name. (Yes, it was a Cheers moment every time I walked in.) I was in there one night sipping my Jack & Coke and devouring my cheeseburger and fries after a rough week when I heard "Have You Forgotten."
John was an avid indie radio supporter, and the song was most likely playing on the college radio station. I don't remember. But what I remember was in a bar the size of any good college bar with glossed oak wood counters and four pool tables, it was just me and John listening to "Have You Forgotten."
No one else was in the bar.
That was the loneliest moment of my life.
I missed my brother, my sister, my parents, my Stokey, my Gattozzi, my PL, my Alice, my life in Kent, my job with designer clothes perks, the love of my life (wherever he was), and myself.
What's weird is I never remembered that specific emotional state until tonight. I've heard that song countless times since then, but never with any emotional potency.
What made tonight so special? The smell of onions browning in a non-stick LeCruest skillet?
Food and memory are intrinsically linked...
At first I thought to include this memory in a private letter to my friend PL with a stack of CD burns I've been promising to send him since December, but for some reason that didn't seem to be enough.
This past weekend my sister-in-law Suz told me I needed to update my blog. That she missed it. That she enjoyed reading it.
I thought to myself, "For real? My blog is a joke."
I complain. I whine. I rant.
But the smell of onions reminded me:
I share.
I remember.
I appreciate.
That's good enough by me.
What else are blogs for?
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