If There's A Smile On My Face

Another fine Tuesday.

There’s all kinds of things swirling around in my head, ideas and things and good things and things I’m working on and things John and I working on and I’m just amazed how things change so fast and the words “this too shall pass” are just….the wisest words ever on earth.

We watched The Edge last night; David Mamet wrote it, Alec Baldwin (of course) and Anthony Hopkins star, it is so much fun. I love Mamet anyway, I think he’s a joy and of course handsome Alec and steely-eyed Hopkins. I definitely recommend it, and although there’s some definite repetition, the movie is not so stylistically Mamet, if he happens to annoy you, there’s not quite that same half beat-beat-half beat-say the same thing five different ways scenario that happens in his plays.

This afternoon I have requested off a touch early.

I’m going with our “minster”, the man who is going to marry me and John, to pick out a kitty cat. He’s one of my dearest friends, he’s a boss of mine from when I used to work at The Improv Comedy Club on Wells. He and I used to sit in the box office and laugh all day, literally, all day. We’d stop to go over to Rock n’ Roll McDonalds for a burger sometimes, but other than that, all day.

He saw me through so many heartaches. And consistent with my family, The Improv was all men, and they care very little for heartache, so they would just tease me endlessly, until I saw how stupid I was being and then I would laugh too. I fell in love with a guy who worked there too, he went to clown school before he came to the Improv and we had a very tumultuous relationship, off and on, very dramatic as things tend to be when you’re 23 and John and my other bosses would sing “tears of a clown” to me through every breakup….I would just walk upstairs and they’d be humming it, or playing it on the radio…its hard to stay upset when that happens.

Anyway, he’s been going back and forth so long on the damn cat I told him I’m just going to take him, get the first visit out of the way. A cat can solve loneliness problems; I know this for a fact.

So we’re going cat shopping and then to dinner, that’s the best way to spend an afternoon ever.

So things are good, really good right now, my melancholy is gone, my beyonce is an extraordinary human being, wedding things are going fine, friends are good, weather is good, but I’m no dummy, I know….this too shall pass.