Monday, November 21, 2005
About Me
- Name: Aunt B
- Location: Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Like Donnell Alexander says, "It's about completing the task of living with enough spontaneity to splurge some of it on bystanders, to share with others working through their own travails a little of your bonus life." But, it's mostly the kind of place that folks looking for "girls and cars" stumble across by accident.
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WHERE TO DIRECT YOUR HATE MAIL AND LOVE LETTERS
ALL PROCEEDS GO TO BEER
THINGS I SAID RECENTLY
- Catching Up Over Burritos
- What you can get me for Christmas
- What's the Problem with Liberal Men?
- Settling In
- Lunch with the recalcitrant brother
- "I'm going away just to wear you off my mind"
- Okay, yes, I'm grouchy
- Diet Dr Pepper
- Trying to Alleviate Boredom
- The Wayward Boy Scout
THE CAST OF CHARACTERS
Aunt B.--Your kind host.The Butcher--My youngest brother, who lives with me and works as, you guessed it, a butcher. He knows everyone in town.
The Recalcitrant Brother--Our middle brother, who lives in rural Georgia and has a kind of movie star life, if that movie star is Burt Reynolds in Deliverance.
The Reverend--Our Dad, a Methodist minister, perpetually three years from retirement.
Mom--Our Mom. She doesn't get a funny nickname because our mom will not stand for funny nicknames.
Mrs. Wigglebottom--My dog. She's got terrible manners.
The Corporate Shill--Or The Shill, as we call her. My friend from college who was constantly getting me into trouble and going to parties she neglected to tell me about where cute boys would ask her "Where's Aunt B.?"
The Legal Eagle--The Shill's husband.
The Super Genius--She lived next door to me my freshman year of college and we've been friends ever since my first day on the floor.
Miss J.--My first adult friend, meaning the first lasting friendship I made after college. She was my roommate in grad school.
Her Lover--Her Husband.
The Divine Ms. B.--Miss J.'s sister and one of my heroes, because she's brave and funny and mystic and fearless.
JR--My oldest friend. I've known her since I was in the second grade.
Elias--JR's husband and the person who's musical tastes have most strongly affected my own. Oh, how I long to be cooler than him!
The Professor--My closest friend here in Nashville. She's a genius, but she'll never tell you that.
The Man from GM--I've known him since I was 16 and he still hasn't forgiven me for telling him I was a vegetarian when I wasn't.
The Redheaded Kid--No one knows where he comes from or where he goes when he leaves here. I assume he's the Butcher's friend. The Butcher assumes he's mine.
7 Comments:
I don't mean to be simple, but have you tried DranO? That crap works on anything.
I also have long, thick hair, and I have to pull nasty wads of hair out of my tub drain from time to time. Do you have a pair of needle nose pliers? A lot of times, I'll use those to pull the hair wads out, since the pliers can get a bit deeper than my fingers, and that means less hair I've gotta touch.
The other thing I sometimes use is chopsticks. Just make sure you're pulling that shit out, not pushing it farther back in. If worse comes to worse, you might have to buy a plumber's snake. As I recall, they're not cheap. I only had it come to needing a snake once, and I just stole one from St. Mark.
Home Depot has a tool that costs about $2. It's a piece of plastic, about 2 feet long, thin and flexible, with plastic barbs along the edges.
You cram this thing down your drain and yank it back out and it brings all the hair out with it.
It's usually hanging in the bathroom or plumbing isles.
I'm a big fan of the Home Depot Hair Killer Tool of which Exador speaks. Both my kids have incredibly thick, curly hair, and I have saved a bunch on Mr. Roto Rooter (the last resort) with that gizmo. Good luck!
If his name is Furry, he probably doesn't notice problems with his girl's hair in the tub.
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Ooo. I'm excited about the Home Depot hair thingy. I can't wait until I have my car and can go get it.
Besides the fact that this home depot tool does what everyone says it will, it is also wonderful becuase you can admire the awesome grossness of all the hair crud you pull out of your drain. I recommend doing it when someone else is around if at all possible so you can share the grossness.
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