Marrying George Clooney

does anyone share this experience with me?
please, raise your hands, or better yet… comment, write in!!!!!
ken is retired. i’m sure those of you who read my blog know that by now.
he retired on january 1st.
and i just feel compelled to share this with those of you who read me daily.
i am on the phone, chatting, laughing… sharing… with my friend kristine who lives across the country, we’re chit chatting, this that the other. a good twenty minutes of girl talk. she asks me something about ken, and so, i tell her, and we talk about life at home now, with a husband retired.
let me give you an insight at what that looks like:
150/48 — that’s what, on some weeks, honest to goodness… it feels like.
there is no more, “hey baby how was your day?” because on some days i am his day.
i know i exaggerate. i’m just a good part of his day. a good good good part of his day. but for whatever reason today TODAY feels like that. it does. today feels just a bit too close.
anyway, i digress.
i hang up the phone and no sooner do i do that… ken asks:
hey baby who were you just talking to.
i say kristine.
he says, huh… and her husband did the photography on the bookjacket?
and i say …uh, yes.
and he says, i like cameraman, not camera-person.
and i say, huh… whatdya mean?
and he says … you now, it sounds better, i was a cameraman.

i have no privacy.
none.

does anyone have a job for me?

having just finished watching PRECIOUS, which truly deeply took my breath away, i of course play this game sometime late at night… the what if scenario:
what if: two films were really one film.

example: NO COUNTRY FOR A FISH CALLED WANDA

i know, i know, silly, childish  (such fun) … but still, when you’re up at 6 am, and your husband is sleeping soundly next to you, childish is more than okay with me.
so here goes:

“It’s Precious”

The story of one middle aged overweight, under-loved, undervalued, teetering on the verge of midlife insanity – smack dab in a massive crisis – not to mention living in a tiny crammed apartment, in dire need of a new/renovated kitchen.  looking desperately for a contractor to remodel her small kitchen, juggling a few complicated balls in the air, going back to school to get her GED, a family that gives new meaning to truly being fucked up and horrific; she’s straddled with two babies, an over-bearing completely self absorbed evil mother. Working double shifts, going back to school, all so she can get a job working @ Target for Issac Mizrahi.
Throw in a couple of lesbians, sexual awakening, bad men, kids that need pre-school and diapers, a great social worker and the added eye candy of a (sexually unavailable) contractor who looks exactly like Lenny Kravitz and sings like Lenny Kravitz…
throw that all together ….
and you’ve got one major, complicated, humungous midlife crisis.
IT’S PRECIOUS
starring M’onique & Meryl Streep, Lenny Kravitz, Mariah Carey, Jack Nicholson as Issac Mizrahi

and Daniel Day Lewis as… Precious.