Mother's Little Helper



VALLEY OF THE DOLLS
 click HERE if you like 1960's movie kitsch

I love Science. I love Drugs.

If it weren't for drugs I wouldn't be here writing this and you might not be out there reading it.

Yikes!

This is an actual drawer in my bathroom. It is my personal drawer.

No, I do not live in the Chelsea Hotel.

But wouldn't that be fun?

Janis Joplin in front of the Chelsea Hotel, NYC, 1969 (by David Gahr)

Over the past year I have taken at least one pill and in most cases all of the pills in every single one of these prescription bottles. They have ALL been legally prescribed to lil' ol' me. Anti-inflammatory, anti-nausea, anti-spasmodic, anti-anxiety, anti-biotics, pain KILLERS, the list goes on...

I am happy that I had them, though. These dolls picked me up from the bottom of the ocean and kept me afloat on the surface until I was strong enough to swim on my own.

Although recently I noticed that I was spending more time with Sheldon, Penny and Raj then I was with my ACTUAL real-life friends. I pretty much lived in sweat pants and my son's cast-off skateboarding shirts. Not a pretty picture. And I seemed to have lost my bloggin' mojo. Oh No!

So with permission from my pushers, I mean, my doctors, I am slowly detoxing from all of my little frenemies.  I am also cleaning up my act by embarking on a gluten-free, dairy-free, sugar-free, alcohol-free, FUN-free diet.

 So I'm hanging with my daughter while she's home temporarily.We're bonding over "American Horror Story ~ Coven" hence her "bloody" manicure.

Doing a little shopping.

Yummy antique blouses

Do we need a stone squirrel? Maybe...

Awesome doll chandelier

Equally awesome butterfly chandelier

Cupcakes! Just looking....

More awesomeness

And adorableness

Super adorableness

We didn't buy this little kitty hat. Tooooooo expensive! Meow!

In fact, we didn't buy Anything. But we had a blast. Swim swim swim.

  I'm spending my money HERE instead of at the pharmacy.

Sorry Pharamceutical Company Executives. Somebody else is going to have to pay for your children's fancy private school education.

  

Serenity Now

Seinfeldians click HERE.



All The World Is Love





Alfred Eisenstaedt's "Parisian Children Riding a Merry Go Round In a Playground"

 

What is the name of that affliction from which I suffer?

All one has to do is mention a Word or a Phrase and suddenly I'm Singing a Song.

It's more than an Earworm.

It's actually quite pleasant...for me anyway. I'm sure it drives everyone near me cray cray..

 I choose from the playlist in my brain and sing the song around and around and around in my head until another song comes along.

Does that ever happen to you?

Please tell me that it does.

Really. I'm not insane. My mother had me tested. Click here

 

Click Here to Look & Listen

 

All that the adorable Jane from Flight Platform Living had to do was mention Carousel and I started singing along with the Hollies. Round and round and round and round.... 

And since I'm feeling rather 60's and the temperatures are in the 80's

This is what I'm wearing:

1960's model pose

 

 1960's model pose

 



Made from this pattern. Copyright 1963.

Fabric purchased here

 

Turquoise earrings from a hippie store in Ventura, California
Orthopedic sandals by Easy Spirit
Prescription sunglasses by Marc Jacobs

 

Riding along on the CAROUSEL at Shiny T Tuesday.

See how I did that?

 I'm also Showing My Style for Canadian Thanksgiving with the Belle Ariane at

Style Sud-Est