This photo was taken of me, in my mid-20's, at one of those "Glamour Shots" stores in a Michigan mall. I look at this now and think, "DAMN BABY, YOUZE WUZ HAWT!!" But I didn't FEEL "hawt" at all.
So there's another "useless trivia" moment that I'll add to the list. I was wearing white gloves, white pearls, and a backless dress with high heels...back in the day when I could WEAR high heels. SIGH. They did make me FEEL a little "glamorous," so I got my money's worth I suppose. Nowadays, Pete tells me I'm "hot" and "gorgeous," and all that jazz, but I think he's just getting old and his eyesight is failing! (He's 53).
Let's see...what else can I add to this silly list, just to keep you entertained?
* I loathe domestic housework, and cooking, but I can do it if I have to. Laundry is the worst, simply because I have to do it in a nasty basement that I hate. I asked Pete to hire a maid, so he went out and bought a Betty Boop statue, wearing a maid outfit (he collects Betty Boops), and said, "There ya go." (insert annoyed look on my face). In fact, I have a picture frame that says, "The only domestic thing about me is that I live in a house!" And I have a wooden sign that says, "I kiss better than I cook!"
* I have always had two jobs, at the same time, most of my life. I would work full time during the day doing secretarial stuff, and then work somewhere "fun" part-time in the evenings, like Michaels craft store, or Barnes and Noble bookstore. During college, one summer I had 3 jobs, and no car. I rode my mountain bike everywhere! It has been 2.5 years since I
* If you go into the Holocaust Museum in DC, (where I used to work) and make your way down to the 3rd floor *(in the Permanent Exhibition, you start at the top, 4th floor and walk your way downward through a chronological history of the Holocaust from 1933 to 1945, which symbolizes the "downward spiral of mankind")* before you get to the "Warsaw Ghetto Uprising" area, with Mordecai Anielwicz (I think that's how you spell his last name) as the 20-something Jew who headed a huge month-long resistance movement to avoid having the ghetto being liquidated by the Nazis, you'll see a huge wall with "Babi Yar" on it---and a poem, with raised letters, describing the horrendous mass grave they found there. If you look closely at the S's in the poem, you'll notice that one part of the S is smaller than the other...and the smaller part should be on the TOP curve, not the bottom. But, there are THREE S's that are UPSIDE DOWN in that damned poem, and it drove me crazy. The Exhibitions Department said they would "put it on their list" but "they would have to remove the whole poem, then paint the WHOLE WALL and then there's "no guarantee" that when they put the letters back on, they won't be upside down again." To this day, Stephen, those damned S's are STILL upside down. ARGGHHH!!!
The point of this particular "useless trivia" tidbit is that I seem to be the ONLY PERSON on this earth who notices stupid shit like that. All the time. Everywhere I go. I hate misspellings on signs, I can't STAND the "whole nuther" grammar tragedy that people make all the damned time, and my favorite word---if I were to sit down with James Lipton---is "flibbidy-jibbit." I heard it in an old movie, meaning something like, "She's a hum-dinger." (Flibberdeejibbit?) I don't know how to spell it really, but I just like the syllables and how they roll off the tongue.
* Favorite old movies of mine...(I've got about a bazillion of 'em)...
The Diary of Anne Frank (the original) but I also like the remake with Ben Kingsley in it
The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand, starring Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal
Robinhood with Erroll Flynn and Olivia de Haviland (love her love her love her)!!
The Best Years of Our Lives, with Myrna Loy and Frederick March
The Quiet Man, John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara (she's awesome)
How Green Was My Valley with Maureen O'Hara and a young Roddy Mc'Dowell
The Hunchback of Notre Dame with Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Hara
I love just about EVERY movie with Claude Rains in it...he's so magnificent...truly amazing.
The Thin Man Series with William Powell and Myrna Loy
You Can't Take It With You with Jimmy Stewart & Lionel Barrymore
(I love Billy Wilder's movies...pretty much all of 'em.) Ditto for James Stewart movies. Love him!
(And Tom Hanks is like our present-day version of Jimmy Stewart, he can play any kind of character).
Wizard of Oz (of course...isn't it a law that you have to love that film?)
Casablanca (ditto) Who doesn't love Bogart & Bacall?? I mean seriously??
Gone With The Wind (of course...)
It Happened One Night, with Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable - cute
Arsenic and Old Lace, Cary Grant (funny!)
North by Northwest - I absolutely ADORE Alfred Hitchcock movies!!
I love nearly every movie with Cary Grant, Gregory Peck, Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn, and even John Wayne to some extent.
Citizen Kane (awesome)
Metropolis (classic)
Charlie Chaplain movies...Three Stooges...and the Marx Brothers...LOVE 'EM ALL!!
The Day the Earth Stood Still (original) with Patricia Neal
Meet Me In St. Louis, Judy Garland (LOVE HER TOO, DEFINITELY)!
To Kill A Mockingbird, Gregory Peck
Roman Holiday, Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn
(Are you bored yet)?! Ah well, there are probably a million or two more that I could add, but I'm getting tired. I'm pretty much an addict to TCM movies, I watch it as often as I possibly can. My favorite channel. (I like HGTV too though).
Other useless trivia about me:
* I ran with a popsicle stick when I was a kid, tripped and fell, and it went through my bottom lip. I have a tiny white scar on my lip, but you can't see it if I'm wearing lipstick.
* When I was 12, I had a "sty" on my right eyelid, and my dad pulled it off--(hurt like a BEYOTCH and even bled a little), and to this day, I am missing some of my eyelashes. It's not noticeable it if I'm wearing mascara though.
* When I was a kid, a tiny little fly suddenly flew into my EAR, and I could hear it BUZZING, and I cried and cried because my mom couldn't get it out for HOURS...until the doctor told her to "drown it" by pouring water over and over in my ears until it floated out. To this day, I freak out if a bug gets anywhere near me for any reason. GROSS.
* I'm allergic to bee stings, pollen, and any form of "cillan" drug---penicillan, amoxycillan, etc.
* I love 80's bands like REO Speedwagon, Foreigner, Bon Jovi, Motley Crue, Def Leppard, Styx, etc...I also love Enigma music, Rammstein, Rob Zombie (met him once), Disturbed, Godsmack, Fiona Apple, Allanis Morrisette, ETTA JAMES, Josh Groban, (we're taking Florence to see him in concert this fall for her 90th birthday because she ADORES him), and don't freak out, but I've even enjoyed a little bit of the Yanni---shhhh, don't tell anybody. It's my mom's fault. She loves him & made me listen to him a lot. I like a lot of variety in music, but those are some that come to mind. (I also love oldies, R&B, jazz and Motown). I even took a jazz class in college, which was fascinating.
* I have played the flute and piccolo since the 5th grade, when I was 10 years old. Still play now and then. Used to be in Pep Band, Symphonic Band, and Marching Band. I miss it a lot.
* I used to grab a stick of butter, and eat it like a popsicle when I was a kid. LOVE BUTTER. MMM!
* I was 8 years old when I saw my first "children are starving" t.v. commercial. My mom yelled at me out the door, as I was putting canned goods in our mailbox, "What the hell are you doing?" And I yelled back, "How do you spell ETHIOPIA?"
* I told my 1st grade teacher, Mrs. Treat, that I didn't write my name on the school wall, my "twin sister" did, and we "took turns" going to school every other day---the truth is, I don't HAVE a twin sister---but she actually believed me!! She called my MOM to find out!! I had to scrub that damned wall too. SIGH. But I've always had that "innocent believable and honest face," which comes in handy, because I can STILL get away with all sorts of fun shit like that!! (I love to mess with people).
Okay, I think that's it for now. Hope you have a great evening. Sleep well, have good dreams, and I'll be back to entertain you tomorrow.
Love, Rebecca
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