Who do you love?

Yesterday was a full day. Much of it involved work and the task of buying clothing and accessories for the shop. It's coming up on market time when all of the suppliers get all their samples in for NEXT SPRING and invite all the buyers to come and have a look and place orders. It's fun and exhausting but it's also frustrating because we buy two full seasons ahead, that means we are buying for Spring 2009. I think it's a tough way to do things and I wish we could buy one season ahead instead so we could stay a little closer to reality, but that's how it's done here on the West Coast.
After a full day of that I rushed home to recieve a visit from my sister-in-law and my niece and nephew. They were in town for the day visiting the Aquarium. Turns out we had about an hour to see each other as I was rushing off to a band practice after dinner. It was so great to see them, the kids are 8 and 5 and we enjoy them so much. We hung out for a while, Jacob played some x-box and rachel tormented her Uncle Superman. That kid LOVES her Uncle SM, she can not leave him alone. She sits on his lap and pulls his ears and hits him over the head with pillows, steals his hat and then hides it and makes him look for it. She looks him in the eye and says, "I am starting a club, the secret password is Boys Drool, Girls Rule!" I love watching the two of them together, makes me laugh. Jacob is getting so big, he turns on the x-box the minute he comes in the door and plugs in Kill All Humans. "Dude", "I wasted that guy".
We find both kids adorable, and extremely funny. It was so good to see them even if it was a short visit. It meant a lot to us.

Where in the nursery rhyme does it say humpty dumpty is an egg?

I just checked my facebook and there is an acquaintance on there who asked the question "Mr. Humorless Fuck*....wonders why any woman with a gram of intelligence/integrity would claim to relate to any of the characters in Sex in the City."

*not his real name.

Really! Do we have to defend everything we enjoy? How does relating to TV characters make us less intelligent or have anything to do with integrity?? I haven't seen the new movie yet but I am totally looking forward to it. Do I relate to any of the characters? Damn straight. Let's see, I live in a major city, I work in the fashion industry so I do actually get the fashion angle and yes I have spent way more than I should on shoes, drank too many martinis in an over priced bar and made poor decisions when it comes to men. I have a group of very close girlfriends, any one I could call right now and get the time of day about almost any issue I might have. Yes, we do talk about sex sometimes but recently found ourselves discussing how we work the household money when there are two of us and we don't bring home the same amount on our pay cheques. In the last little while we have also spent a lot of time discussing cancer, death, marriage, having babies, not having babies, fitness, depression, money, etc. Sometimes we are dressed up nicely when we discuss these things and sometimes we are in our track pants, or pajamas but if we were doing it on TV we would probably dress up more. We spend a lot of time laughing when we are together and as we get older we cry more too. The issues get heavier and more real and the shoes get less important. One thing for sure is we all have integrity and we all are intelligent people who may or may not enjoy Sex in The City but between all of the characters there is something almost anybody can relate too. Sure some of it is shallow and materialistic but so what. Intelligent women can tell the difference. As for Mr. Humorless Fuck, give us a break and stop taking yourself soooo fucking seriously. Don't worry, when we get together we're NOT talking about you. is that what really worries you?

I think statements like that really show a lack of respect for women and just reinforce the idea that beauty=stupid. And that TV shows are real.

You can be attracted to a woman who takes care of herself and puts some effort into her looks and also feel like she's lacking in integrity because she cares about how she looks. Or maybe you're hoping she's too stupid to notice that you are kind of a jerk.

Bah!

I mean, have a great day!!

Alright, just for spite I have to ask- Which one of the characters from Sex in The City do you relate to the most?