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March 19, 2004
Dancing and Drag Kings and Maids, oh my!
This will undoubtedly come as a surprise to anyone living in the Northeast, but did you know that tomorrow is the first day of Spring? No shit! As we glance out at the vast steppe of snow which the courtyard has become, we agree that the Equinox is clearly stoned out of its mind. It's criminal that just two weeks from Daylight Savings, Girl-E still has to wear a winter hat, or as you Canadians would call, a "tooke" (took? whatever). Of course this doesn't bother her mother, who as most of you know, thinks Girl-E looks TOO CUTE in hats. And of course this doesn't bother her mother, who lives in Southern California.
This weekend of transition is shaping up to be quite ecclectic indeed. Tonight, Girl-E and The Dude are joining a gaggle of folks for a pool (billiards, obviously-- see snow comment above) party that her friend won from Mr. Tux. We don't try to understand it, we're just going for the beer. Tomorrow, after a rehearsal with the disco band, the NEW CLEANING LADY is coming over for an estimate. Woot woot! Against the formidable foe of The Dude's frugal ways, Girl-E kicked and screamed and whined and pouted her way to a once-a-month once-over by a paid professional. To be honest, it's not just that she's a princess (although she is)-- it's that she is the most inept housekeeper ever to grace a hardwood floor. When she tries to clean she just makes things messier. And her mood afterwards is quite unappealing. So this is a very exciting development indeed. Sunday is also exciting, on which Girl-E is covering a Drag King show for a local weekly. She went to the featured act's rehearsal last night, and it's going to be HOT. You totally need to be there.
Alright, she seems about 30 seconds away from wandering around the building in a stupor looking for something to eat, so we'll see you all later. Happy "Spring".
Posted by The Twins at March 19, 2004 10:08 AM
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ooooh. a cleaining lady. i am green with envy.
Posted by: snowy at March 19, 2004 10:18 AM
i would also be envious if you had a cleaning lady instead of a cleaining lady.
Posted by: snowy at March 19, 2004 10:18 AM
Judging from the title of your post, we should SOOO be friends.
Posted by: Debbie at March 19, 2004 11:38 AM
Oh My God--Is Grace adorable or what?! Tell Eleanor and Bill they get a Gold Star for a job superbly done!
Posted by: Yo Mama at March 19, 2004 03:59 PM
That is the cutest child I've ever seen, with the little hat and the bending and all. And she'll be even cuter when she starts saying "aboot."
Posted by: Jess at March 20, 2004 08:01 AM
I know, huh? That was the baby who was born the first week we were in Turkey. She's cute enough to eat.
Posted by: EV at March 20, 2004 10:45 AM
BTW it's "tuque" or "touque" (or sometimes "toque," but I think that would rhyme with "toke"). And a touque differs from a hat because it's knitted, rolls up at the bottom, and often (though not necessarily) includes a pom-pom on the top. Here, look:
Posted by: Derek at March 20, 2004 11:50 PM
See now, here's the crux of the whole thing-- what you just described is what we in the States call a "winter hat". I've had disagreements with many a Canadian who just cannot accept that what you call a tuque we call a hat. You try desperately to prove that there is a distinction between a tuque and a winter hat, and that a tuque is some uniquely Canadian invention, because you believe there is no way in god's earth that such a contraption could be referred to as a hat by any sane human being. The fact that Derek provided a photo link to pictures of tuques, which are in fact pictures of U.S.-style winter/knit hats, proves this linguistic war of the ages. Don't get me wrong though, some of my best friends are Canadians.
Posted by: EV at March 21, 2004 10:59 AM
Well, of course we have different names for the same thing. It's like "lorry" and "truck" in the U.K. and North America.
I just wanted to point out how it's spelled (well, the various ways it's spelled), and note that, while there is probably a wider range of things that fit "winter hat" in the States (e.g. those Russian-style things with earflaps, perhaps wool sailor-style caps with brims, and so on), a touque really is a pretty specific kind of winter hat.
And in being that, it is a useful word. Just like "grits" is a very specific useful word in the Southern U.S., and we have no idea what the hell it is in most of Canada.
Posted by: Derek at March 23, 2004 06:37 PM