I have a stunning inability to buy a toothbrush that will fit in the ceramic holder in my bathroom.
(Not that it has anything to do with anything. It’s just hella annoying. I also lose my keys at least twice a day. That’s annoying too, but I am quite accustomed to it. It only irritates other people now.)
I switched out Sheryl Crow this morning for disc one of Aretha’s Thirty Greatest. Somewhere between Second and Third Avenues, a big ole smile crossed my face. A bar called Siberia. The coldest night of the year. I wore a black leather jacket, belted R-E-S-P-E-C-T with Brian, and then we disco-twirled.
Later, somewhere underground between 59th Street and Grand Central Station, another song, and another feeling entirely. That Aretha… who knew she could get a girl all hot n’ bothered? Seriously, some of those songs are just anthems for a good romp in the hay.
I sobered up fairly quickly, though, just now when I got to work and read an email from my sister. You know, one of those emails you read twice, the second time with your hand over your mouth, thinking, “Oh. My. God.”
What time is it in San Francisco? 6 AM? I’m waiting to call. The email specifically said she really needed some sleep.
My tummy feels funny.
Now my tummy feels funny… hope everything’s ok…
Hope all is well!
Aretha definitely had a hot lovelife going on when those songs were recorded! I should get that CD – I would love to run with it – have to wait for an mp3 player. Hope nothing is seriously wrong with your sister.
weird about the toothbrush, my partner was lamenting about the EXACT same problem this am.
i hope everything is ok
The toothbrush issue was covered in the Wall Street Journal once, I believe.
Did something happen to the elephant?
Or maybe she made it onto Survivor?
What would be ultimate cool would be if she was on Survivor and you were on The Apprentice. Not that you would want to, it would just be really cool.
The toohbrush holder was designed in 1911 NOT to hold toothbrushes. No one now alive knows why, but the too-small-to-be-useful design has succeeded marvelously ever since.
Hope the West Coast remains afloat.
My toothbrush never fits either…Then I have to put it on one of the nasty shelves in our medicine cabinet. I can’t believe I put that think in my mouth every day.
That disco spin was stuff of legend…legend I tell you! LEGEND!!!
Toothbrushes:
you ABSOLUTELY must go down to the the container store at 6th ave and 18th street, and go buy a toothbrush holder. I have a little green hippopotomus that a suction cup holds onto the wall (next to the useless “toothbrush holder” built into the wall) and he holds my toothbrush, with air holes so the brush can dry.
(it’s not on the website, but it’s in the store.)
I’ve heard others lament the toothbrush issue as well. My mom complained about it last time I visited and shortly thereafter I happened upon a newspaper article about the same problem. What has become of this world … when we have toothbrushes too enormous for the toothbrush holders? Help!!
That was a great time. We need to return, Frankenstein or not.
i hope all is well