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Friday, October 28, 2005
still life with sanity
(OK, so technically with the moving water it's not a still life. So sue me.)
For a more complete mental image of the scene, you should add the following ingredients:
- half a day in the city
- a daughter who is the poster child for overactive bladder syndrome (just in case you wondered, bathrooms at the dollar store are not the kind of place you want to visit twice in one trip unless you really have to)
- half an hour outside walking along the highway and through the tarweed in the dark, moonless night, looking for a cat who always comes running when you call but can't be found now, but who shows up, after you've envisioned yourself breaking the bad news to the kids, with a purposeful nonchalance that tells you how much she loved waiting until just the right moment to come out and show herself
- a three-layered (three-tiered?) cake to be baked and inexpertly decorated, by you
- a husband who's been sick enough to stay home from work the whole week, poor guy
- a quarter of a bottle of inexpensive shampoo for bubbles
- a specially-made 'bath music' cd playing on the stereo speakers wired into the bathroom by your ever-so-thoughtful husband -- said CD to contain plenty of Enya, Yanni, Austen-movie-adaptation soundtrack bits, Loreena McKennitt, and one heartbreakingly beautiful Puccini aria (hey, I'm not in school anymore; I don't have to restrict my musical tastes to whatever it is the cool kids are liking that year)
- and don't forget the FORTY-FIVE MINUTES OF BLISSFUL SOLITUDE.
Stir ingredients well and simmer until Mom is limp and relaxed as a sleeping baby.
Comments
Man, I keep thinking of like buying a bathtub pillow and some candles and some bubble bath and just hop in, but no matter how much I scrub the thing I still feel that it is icky. I am INSANE, I know. There is just something about laying down in a tub where everyone's feet has been. Especially the two men I live with who think that you only have to shower twice a week.
Posted by: jenn at October 29, 2005 05:04 PM
By the way, I like the new colors and stuff...Very Autumn and cozy!
Posted by: jenn at October 29, 2005 05:04 PM
Oh, my, Rachel - that looks nice!
Posted by: Carol at October 30, 2005 10:50 AM
Wow, what a nice banner-thingy. Did you do that yourself? I really really like it.
Posted by: mary at October 30, 2005 06:08 PM
