Annoyed and Other Moods.

Well I have tried for 30 minutes to get on the internet at freaking Starbucks, and shortly I have to go……foiled. Poo. Just got done with a movie : Love and Other Drugs. Lovely young nubile actors all full of heart and soul and charm and snark. Romantic comedy no doubt. Perfect winter tonic. The critic in me is mildly cheesed off, but the romantic in me had a little tear in the corner of her eye, placed there also by my own vanity and narcissism. The giant looming ego in my brain: "omg I had a claw foot tub just like that when I was 27 and artistic in a falling down flat with holes in the walls and paint splashes on the floor! Back when the world was soooo f-ing wide open only I did not realize time was slipping away but oh gee our heroine does! She has that disease and although young and beautiful she feels the clock ticking so keenly, brave girl. Awe. Sigh." Don't get me started on the drug company angle of the movie…they do a broad strokes humorous treatment of the complexity of the issues between the corps and the docs and the sick people, enough that anyone can see it is a tough problem where everyone is just trying to do their best. Echem. Yes, well.

Since I don't drive much or work in an office I forget, until I am in a grocery store or something, how much I hate pop music. That one, the Hey-Twister-Soul-Sister-Mr.-Mister one Jesus it makes me want to slit my wrists, or someone's. Then I take some deep breaths, and realize, relish the fact I remember: that it is not for me, that song. Relief.
The other realization today in my short adventures out in the world is that I am destined to be one of those decently-dressed but slightly disheveled wild-grey-haired ladies who pinches her nose as she walks briskly through the grocery store perfume department talking to herself loudly and dramatically "Oh my God!! Pee-euw! This place stinks!" Some days it is all I can do to keep my eminent eccentricities at bay. Not even sure why I hold them back at all but for some reason it seems appropriate to try to wait another decade.

Songs used to evoke the late 90s in that movie were fairly spot on..the story reminded me of this one too! :)