A woman came up to me in the grocery store the other day, pointed to the big bleach splatter on my T-shirt, and said, “Honey, that’s why *I* wear an apron.”

I bit my tongue. HARD. Because my karma is cruddy enough as it is without cussing out old ladies in the produce aisle.

Grey Goose? Gray Goose? I can’t spell it, I just drink it. I actually prefer the UK spelling of Grey. Looks prettier.

I don’t do vodka – in fact I don’t do spirirts at all – just beer.

I used to spend my time in London ( in my late twenties) with a large vodka and a couple of lines of coke for breakfast.

No more thank God.

(He always was a problem child!).

How come I’m telling you this all of a sudden ? It’ll spoil the autobiography completely. Now I guess I need a new blog too.

Maybe something “Jim Morrison” ? “The Lizard King” or “Weird Scenes In The Goldmine” ?

Suggestions welcome.

M.

When you buy the orange or lemon oil, use only one teaspoon in say a 22 oz spray bottle with a few drops of soap and you can use this on any wood flooring or wood furniture/molding/cabinets, etc.

What is funny is that you were right on about the Gray Goose although there are cheaper vodkas….Vodka is considered a green product and makes one of the best all-purpose and glass cleaners. You really could be a happy cleaner!

Do you remember how to make sure your baking soda is fresh? Add 1 tablespoon to 1/4 cup vinegar. If it fizzes it is fresh. If it doesn’t then throw it out.

I clean my toilets with a half can of coca cola. Pour a half can into each toilet, let it sit for several hours. Then just wipe and flush.

I use toothpaste for my stainless steel sinks and fixtures.

I use activated charcoal (you can get it at a pet store..it’s what one uses in fish tanks) in small glass flower type vases or jars and set them in corners of a room…even at the office. It takes out any odor. I keep 2 by the kitty litter box alone.

And I saw Blow. Apparently I forgot too much of it.

El Padrone probably translates as The Master. He appears in the film “Blow”.

The Master is also one of my favourite recent novels : Colm Toiban’s semi-biography of Henry James (or is is William James: I always confuse the two).

Echoes of lost love and repressed homosexuality ( no – I’m not) and a wonderful sense of claustrophobia and his fucked-up affair (and subsequent suicide) of Ms Fennimore Cooper if my memory serves me well – or indeed at all.

Very Merlinesque.

Smooches,

M.

Drinking and staying up late are fine. And there is only one impossible situation to fall in love, as far as I’m concerned. “Desperado” is a fantastic song. You’re such a romantic. Though you have to define “El Padrone” for me.

There’s an ancient Greek theory (shared loosely by Buddhists) that every 7 years or so we have to re-invent ourselves.

This happens to me : I feel the need to shed my skin and turn into someone (or somthing else).

I’m not sure how I feel about this incarnation yet. He’s much darker and deeper than before. He drinks ; he stays up late.

He needs a new woman ; he fell in love in Belgium (in an impossible situation).

He’s turning into “El Padrone”. I might get to like him.

The lyrics to “Desperado” keep coming to mind.

Only time will tell.

M xx