7/29/19
Day 2 of Summer, July 29, 2019…Is it so wrong that I want to play Scrabble, even in the summer? Sure, it’s beautiful outside but it’s too bloody hot and a girl can only go to so many movies. Matinees. Double features. Triple? Haven’t tried a triple, besides I don’t want to eat that much popcorn. I know, you don’t have to eat popcorn just because you go to the movies; it’s not like an official rule or anything, but why wouldn’t you? Actually, eating popcorn at the movies, is a movie rule. I was just seeing if you were paying attention. Popcorn at the movies is, in fact, mandatory, thank goodness. (Exemptions for people with dietary restrictions, of course). I know that eating movie popcorn is required because recently we had to take out a second mortgage so we could afford to do so. If popcorn isn’t mandatory in your family, I gently suggest that you might need to find a better movie partner. Spouse and I also struggle with the fact that you just can’t eat ice cream every single day of summer either, even if you want to. Even though you want to. And I want to, I really do.
But I can’t eat ice cream every day, I know. I can’t go to the movies every day, either. Therefore, I want to play Scrabble, because I don’t have to spend money to do it. At home I don’t have to eat popcorn, whether playing Scrabble or watching Netflix. (We’ve already established that popcorn eating at the movies, the theater specifically, is mandatory, as it should be). Plus at home, I can stay in my flimsy, comfy, not-quite-ugly-but-you-can’t-tell-for-sure dress. The reason you can’t tell if it’s ugly or not is because it’s loose, baggy loose. It certainly is not flattering but not exactly un-sexy either, because it has a small, flirtatious v right on top of the neckline. Am I dressed up? Am I lounging? It isn’t clear because if were to put it, this confusing, sexy-ugly dress, on with a nice pair of shoes, it seems almost too dressy to wear around the house, but if I wear it barefoot, it’s not completely obvious if it’s a house dress or not. I like it that way, so I wear it often, just in case I need to make a sudden dash to an impromptu ice cream, dinner or to a mandatory popcorn-eating movie.
Speaking of eating (one of my favorite topics) have you ever noticed that strawberries smell like dairy? It sounds weird, but they do. Inexplicably, strawberries smell like dairy, especially when they are deliciously sliced and ready to be eaten right there in the fridge, waiting for you. When you are lucky enough to have sliced strawberries in your fridge, the world is a happier one. Having fresh strawberries in your fridge means one of two things: either you had time to wash and slice them, which is marvelous, or someone else did it, which is even marvelouser. And if you can get past the slight twinge of dairy smell, then you can just eat them and eat them to your heart’s content. Heaven. Further, when you get to eat said strawberries in your aforementioned comfy sexy-ugly house dress, all the better. Just don’t eat them over your Scrabble board.