Cleaning

I may have mentioned I have been cleaning the basement for a few days.

I hate to do it and I love to do it.

I have a need to put things in categories and have them all in one place.

It makes me feel better about life in general.

I think it has major psychological benefits. It's good to know where my stuff is and that I can put my hands on it if I want to.

I will evolve spiritually one day and not need half as much stuff. I promise.

For now, I am happy to weed and toss and decide what to keep and rediscover a few cool things and put other cool things in storage.

I have also mentioned that my Mom recently died.

She was a pack rat. More than a pack rat. she was a Rat King pack rat.

I have been going through her things along with my things in the basement.

It is emotional and weird.

She kept my childhood with her in her house. So I am sorting her life and my past.

I actually am surprised I am coherent.

Once you feel it's finished though, it's a good good feeling.

More on this story as it develops.

MF: 3

This makes no sense to me whatsoever. I am beginning to believe she is a robot created by Maxim Magazine to think like a frat boy and look like a Real Doll.

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Says Megan: "Olivia Wilde is so sexy she makes me want to strangle a mountain ox with my bare hands."

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Megan Fox. Keep talking, dear.

She's At It Again

Transformers beauty Megan Fox is attracted to women as well as men - but would never consider dating another bisexual female because she wouldn't want a male's "dirty" leftovers.

The actress - who has an on/off relationship with former Beverly Hills, 90210 actorBrian Austin Green - admits she is drawn to sexy women but would only sleep with a lesbian.

She tells Esquire magazine, "I have no question in my mind about being bisexual.

"But I'm also a hypocrite: I would never date a girl who was bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that I'd never want to sleep with a girl who had slept with a man."

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Megan Fox is just so captivating!

I wish I'd said this. Evey one's repeating it down at the club.*

Whatta gal. Beauty and brains too!

(*I copped that from Groucho Marx.)

MF

(This excerpt is taken from MSNBC.com)

-- She's a staple in men's magazines and was named FHM's Sexiest Woman in the World for 2008. But Megan Fox says she doesn't know how to deal with the attention.

"If you know how to take control of (being a sex symbol), then it can be powerful," the actress, 22, tells Esquire in its June issue. "But I have no idea how to handle it yet, how to deal with it."

Still, the "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" star, who graces the magazine's cover flashing a black garter belt, says she has a plan — and knows exactly what she's not going to do.

"I don't want to have to be like a Scarlett Johansson — who I have nothing against," she says, "but I don't want to have to go on talk shows and pull out every single SAT word I've ever learned to prove, like, 'Take me seriously, I am intelligent, I can speak.' I don't want to have to do that. I resent having to prove that I'm not a retard — but I do. And part of it is my own fault.

"I'm just really confident sexually, and I think that sort of oozes out of my pores," she adds. "It's just there. It's something I don't have to turn on."

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There are so many of us who can relate to this, so many of us women, spelled W-O-M-A-N, and if you are one who relates, then you know who you are...I can understand why Megan Fox is such a popular figure. I'm eagerly awaiting her write-up in next month's Ms, and the bio they will surely do of her in Discover. Not to mention The Economist.

Her sensitivity to the developmentally challenged is second to none, and that is admirable.

Which of us hasn't hated it when we feel we are forced to used big words around people to express ourselves? I know I am.

Listen, the sexuality oozing...? It's a problem. Spilling out all over, hindering people trying to get a good look at her cerebellum...We can relate, Megan. We feel your automatic sexiness. Use the handicapped ramp if it'll help. Anything to make it a little easier for you to get through the days. The long sexy intellectual out-of-control garter belted days.

That's why Megan Fox is my Friday Feckwit.

Writing Prompts

Here are some writing prompts to stimulate your imagination:

(I get credit if a novel comes out of one of these!)

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Uncle Ed will never know, she thought, about the box of entrails I keep in the closet....

It was a bright and surprisingly clear night....

Stephen King? Why would Stephen King be calling me? Here?

As she wrenched the pencil sharpener off the classroom wall, she felt a strength she had never known...

The dog glared at him.

Living. Loving. She's just a woman.

Into each life some duds do stroll...

How could a toilet, a common house commode, have followed me here? Where did it get the address?

This is not for me, Sister Clarissa thought, as she began the tumbling routine from the top...

I sat and sat and sat and still Monday Night Football did not come on. Then I remembered it was Saturday.

My dear girl, he quipped wryly, did you not notice the noose when you walked onto the lanai?

How many times could one person win Wimbledon? The years bore him out.

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Use these at the start of a story, in the middle, as a last line even!

Share your (short short) stories in the comments!

Writing is fun.

Basement tapes

Cleaning out the basement today!

Hey, what could be more fun? A LOT of video tapes and cassette tapes...a lot of memories.

I always always start out strong, and get a headache, and have unpleasant feelings associated with childhood memories, and want to quit. But I don't.

We made a big dent. Plan to do more tomorrow.

To be continued....