hello mrs. fingerbottom!
who watches ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT? it is one of my most favorite(st) shows. it is hilarious!! please check it out. do it! now!
i did a tattoo today and then went to joann’s in search of organizational equipment. to no avail. i made a huge mistake. gabe came with me. he picked up about 30 items, apparently making up prices as he went along, got to the register and when presented with the total was shocked and dismayed. after about a half an hour, i was sweated, felt unwell and was very, very irritated. he made her void about 25 of the items, one at a time, because they were 99 cents, not 50, or was 3.99, not 1.99. the horror. the cashier was amazingly nice about it. do i seem mean? i think i am. and i can’t remember how to spell anything this evening.
in other news, we had dinner with the in-laws and told them about the master plan to ditch the shop and become a yarn mega star! yeah!!
my awesome secret pal, the one that send me stuff, that is, voted for little hands for the brand name, and sent me this e.e.cummings poem that has those words in it….
somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
any experience, your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near
your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose
or if your wish be to close me, i and
my life will shut very beautifully,suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility: whose texture
compels me with the colour of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing
(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands
i really like it. but when i googled the words small hands and all this jesus stuff, jesus/angel stuff, or little kid stuff came up. so maybe, la pee la is the better way to go. why does it worry me that people might think i have a christian business, you ask? as mark rothko said, “yarn has no one god! fiber forever blessed be!” you know? i think you do.
oh, 48 hours later, a world record, the boutique called and set up and appointment for the owner to meet with me, you know in the first week of september, you know, because she doesn’t work and lives, um, about 10 minutes away. so. yeah. and if i am lucky, they won’t like most of what i make. rock!
oh, this card over here, i found in the garbage of the antique store. i am allowed to look in there. i swear it! anyway, i found it really really strange. i thought i would share it with you. and what the fuck is a spinach party? anyone?