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I was today years old when I discovered that the word for popcorn in Spanish means "little doves" and I will be forever calling it that, and imagining little delicate papery doves taking off in bursts and flurries out of the popcorn maker :)
Popcorn is one of my favorite foods. I was raised on it. For a time I was eating it almost daily, and had to limit myself to one day a week, as I generally devour a bowl twice the size of my own head in one sitting.
Sundays are popcorn day. Or, "little doves" day :D
Popcorn is "popcorn" in French. Listening to Josh work on the pronunciation of this was adorable.
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It's August, and normally I am elated but it's been such a stressful three days that I am just... embracing the fact that there are already Halloween decorations in the stores and dreaming of pumpkin spice. Not like me, but that's where I am, today. I sat down with my giant bowl of little doves, topped with fresh chopped rosemary and nutritional yeast, and re-watched Edward Scissorhands in its entirety.
I have avoided doing so for many years for the heartbreaking sadness and over the top silliness of the film, but tonight, those aspects were maybe my favorite. I just needed something not serious and profoundly sad. Like life. I loved Dianne Wiest so much, I relate to her more than to Kim, at this point (I was fifteen when that movie came out!), I feel like an Avon Lady at times, she was 42 at the time but that meant something different in 1990, and I'd forgotten how fun it was to watch Edward do topiary and dog grooming and hair styling.
I glanced at Johnny Depp's bio and my goodness, to come from a blue collar broken family that moved all the time, to drop out of high school and have the principal literally tell him not to come back, at age 16, to pursue his dreams of being a musician, and to create such a beautiful catalog of work from such a rocky start is so impressive. Some people are just able to do ten times what I could ever accomplish in a lifetime, even if they don't get dealt the best hand to start with. That said, his step dad was Robert Palmer, which inspired him to pursue music, which is how he got into acting, so I guess he had that going for him, ha.
Popcorn is one of my favorite foods. I was raised on it. For a time I was eating it almost daily, and had to limit myself to one day a week, as I generally devour a bowl twice the size of my own head in one sitting.
Sundays are popcorn day. Or, "little doves" day :D
Popcorn is "popcorn" in French. Listening to Josh work on the pronunciation of this was adorable.
...
It's August, and normally I am elated but it's been such a stressful three days that I am just... embracing the fact that there are already Halloween decorations in the stores and dreaming of pumpkin spice. Not like me, but that's where I am, today. I sat down with my giant bowl of little doves, topped with fresh chopped rosemary and nutritional yeast, and re-watched Edward Scissorhands in its entirety.
I have avoided doing so for many years for the heartbreaking sadness and over the top silliness of the film, but tonight, those aspects were maybe my favorite. I just needed something not serious and profoundly sad. Like life. I loved Dianne Wiest so much, I relate to her more than to Kim, at this point (I was fifteen when that movie came out!), I feel like an Avon Lady at times, she was 42 at the time but that meant something different in 1990, and I'd forgotten how fun it was to watch Edward do topiary and dog grooming and hair styling.
I glanced at Johnny Depp's bio and my goodness, to come from a blue collar broken family that moved all the time, to drop out of high school and have the principal literally tell him not to come back, at age 16, to pursue his dreams of being a musician, and to create such a beautiful catalog of work from such a rocky start is so impressive. Some people are just able to do ten times what I could ever accomplish in a lifetime, even if they don't get dealt the best hand to start with. That said, his step dad was Robert Palmer, which inspired him to pursue music, which is how he got into acting, so I guess he had that going for him, ha.
