Call me easy, I don't mind.

[constance]

I'm kind of an idiot savant in that I can be minding my own business when suddenly something little and insignificant happens and I am transported by its sheer loveliness. Mostly I keep this sort of thing--my transports, I mean--under strict control, because now I am writing about it, you are likely thinking that this trait is either stupid and Pollyannish or rather charming--or possibly both--but if you were, like, to let me in line in front of you at Target because you had a cartload of stuff and I just had a gift card, and I were to, like, suddenly burst into tears of sheer pleasure because I thought what you had done was some sort of miraculously beautiful act, you'd be completely freaked out, wouldn't you? I mean, I certainly would be. So. Control is key.

As it happens, however, I have been given license to freak you out, because I have been invited (not specifically, it is true, but in a general sense) by various members of my friendslist to share ten moments of joy with you. Here are ten from today, not counting the Target moment which I will give you for free. Tomorrow's will be entirely different.

Pay careful attention. You will be quizzed later.

1. When Olive the Cat wants attention, she throws herself belly-up on top of my feet, no matter that I happen to be moving from one place to another. Trust me, when a cat throws herself at your feet while you are walking, it is impossible not to feel that you are impetuously loved in the most unequivocal way.



2. This morning when I was putting on my shoes--which happen, incidentally, to match my toenails, although this was a happy accident--I thought about my New Orleans days, wearing proper skirts and twinsets and pantyhose to work even in the sweltering tropical summer heat. And then I thought about my current outfit. Today, I wore jeans and a t-shirt and a pair of pink-striped red-soled flip-flops to work. Need I say more?



3. I saw this moment of CatCF:


Grandma Josephine: What a beastly girl!
Grandma Georgina: Despicable.
Grandpa George: You don't know what we're talking about.
Grandma Georgina: ...Dragonflies?


4. My boss, who is normally the most sensible of creatures, spent the whole morning spinning giddily in her office chair and giggling over it. I have no idea what was up with her, but I approve.



5. I read this post, and most especially the response by kon (which is the last one, as I write this). ♥ !



6. A letter! In the mail! REAL MAIL! From my friend D from Baton Rouge. She is the best letter-writer, kind of scatter-brained and magpie-ish. But even if she weren't: a letter! In the mail! REAL MAIL!



7. Today on my iPod, The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy's "Big Saturday" came up. It is a song from deep in my youth, and I had a huge crush on its lead singer, spent lots of money on imported records and cheap music-club concert tickets. I listened to the song today and googled the band and found their website, which I spent a little time poking around. It makes me sad, a little, that the site seems so little trafficked, but by God, it delights me to learn that I am not wrong to have loved him so. He is entirely wonderful, I tell you. Plus there are songs to download.
   
   On a related note, I share with a friend a sort of secret code, a quote from "Big Saturday" which we use to wish each other well, and I discovered on the site that after quoting for twenty years, we are wrong! Coco! It is not "Hey, kid," it is "Hey, King," and it is a remark to fellow Conspiracy member and Woodentops frontman Rolo McGinty. :o To keep to a theme you began: I like it better our way, don't you?



8. Also on my iPod, I heard Wilco's "Via Chicago". It's not my favorite song from Summerteeth, by any means, but today I was struck by the word embarcadero, which I have been rolling around in my mouth for the last hour or so, like Eli Cash on drugs in The Royal Tenenbaums, mumbling "Wiiiiildcat" over and over. Embarcadero. Embarcadeeerrrro. It has a rollicking, swashbuckling sound. Mmmmm, embarcaderrr-r-r-r-o.



9. I stopped off at the drugstore on my way home to buy a green tea with ginseng and honey, because it is a current guilty pleasure of mine, and lo! They had very silly, super-tall cans on sale, two for the price of one. Also two for the price of one, in my cavalcade of earthly delights: the tea, and the CVS sale. What a bargain, for all of us.



10. I read this for the 427th time (and it never stops being funny):
    
    Twing Village Hall,
    Friday, December 23rd,
    Richard Little
    presents
    A New and Original Revue
    Entitled
    What Ho, Twing!!
    Book by
    Richard Little
    Lyrics by
    Richard Little
    Music by
    Richard Little
    With the Full Twing Juvenile
    Company and Chorus.
    Scenic Effects by
    Richard Little
    Produced by
    Richard Little

Comments

from an AIM conversation I just had:

[kickthebeat.livejournal.com]

onthecontrary: http://www.livejournal.com/users/woodyinvincible/63175.html?style=mine
lavenderoracle: OH MY GOD
lavenderoracle: I HATE IT WHEN YOU DO THAT
onthecontrary: what?
lavenderoracle: I AM GOING TO HAVE NIGHTMARES FOR MONTHS NOW
onthecontrary: *slaps thigh*
lavenderoracle: Give me DISTURBING LINKS
lavenderoracle: NO SERIOUSLY
onthecontrary: *DEAD*
lavenderoracle: ET SCARED ME SO BAD WHEN I WAS CHILD I'VE NEVER SEEN THE END
lavenderoracle: And if I see anything that looks like ET? I freak.
onthecontrary: it creeped me out as well, I must say
lavenderoracle: *cries*

Re: from an AIM conversation I just had:

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaowiujqoifg

It totally scared the shit out of me. I still thought kon's response was completely perfect in every possible way, though.

Re: from an AIM conversation I just had:

[woodyinvincible.livejournal.com]

Am I the only person who thinks that picture is hella cute?

[somniesperus.livejournal.com]

Grandma Georgina: ...Dragonflies?

*gleeful applause*

Also!

[somniesperus.livejournal.com]

If you close your eyes, you can imagine that I know how to use italics tags.

[laurelwood.livejournal.com]

Haha! I love it when I get my way and the people whose happy lists I most want to see oblige me and do them!

1. I want to meet this cat. I've never seen one that has good enough aim to actually make it onto someone's feet, but it does make my day when I encounter cats who throw themselves belly-up across my path when I'm out walking, like a "Pet me or ELSE!" drawbridge.

3. Grandma George and Grandma Georgina were my favorite characters in this version of the film. In a perfect world, they would have been allowed to go with Charlie to the factory.

Also, that dog is kind of cute. Think how much easier it would be to brush canine teeth in a mouth like that!

Re: from an AIM conversation I just had:

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Yes, I do believe that you are.

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Man, just something about the way she says it! It just delights me, every single time I see it. I think it probably always will.

Re: from an AIM conversation I just had:

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Wait, you're not! laurelwood thinks he's cute too!

[tofty.livejournal.com]

woodyinvincible will be pleased to hear that you thought that dog was cute--I think he was maybe a little bewildered by all the fear and hostility!

1. You come visit me, and I will arrange an introduction. Luckily, Olive is the braver of my cats; you'll only have to visit me for a day or so for her to come out from under the kitchen sink and say hello. (But you will have to stay for a block of time, at least overnight; last night a friend of mine who's been to my house several times asked, "so do you have one cat or two? Because I've never actually seen them or anything and so I forget.")

2. I LOVE both of them. In the books they weren't nearly so delightful--just background noise--but in the movie, they steal every single scene they're in. I want them to sleep in a big bed in front of my fireplace.

[somniesperus.livejournal.com]

Then this (http://www.sky.com/showbiz/article/0,,50001-1191048,00.html) should delight you as well! >:D

[tofty.livejournal.com]

ahahahahahaha, I saw that, on Defamer or Gawker or someplace like that! I LOVED THAT STORY. I am glad she chose that part, too. No one could possibly have done a better job.