Yesterday I stayed home in my jammies and watched Easter Parade, which I had actually TiVoed on Easter, but didn't get around to watching that day.

God, I love that movie. I'd forgotten how funny it is, like Juanita and Hughes' first performance, with the marabou feathers flying everywhere, and Judy Garland just spinning abstractly with Fred Astaire trying desperately to catch her hand.

And there was that whole second restaurant scene, where Judy tells Peter Lawford that she is in love with Fred, and the waiter does that mime with the salad that I have never seen in my life. It's not as though I haven't seen the movie a hundred times, but I guess that you need PBS to see the whole thing uncut.

Boy, Peter Lawford sure had the most stunning profile. He should be etched on a coin. The best thing about these movies is that no matter how old and scary and over-facelifted they get (Ann Miller), or if they die (Fred Astaire), or if they drink too much and take too many drugs and ruin their looks horribly (Judy Garland), they are preserved forever at their most beautiful and charming and alive.

"I have something very important to talk to you about. I've found out what's the matter with our act."
"You did?"
"Yes, you've been trying to be somebody else."
"I've been trying to what?"
"Well, look at you."
"What's the matter with me?"
"O, that dress..."
"Well, I tried explaining it to you..."
"That hat..."
"I knew I wouldn't look good with the..."
"The way you move when you do your numbers."
(icily) "You told me to move like that!"

Also yesterday I took a blue bath.

I figure that if you are a little sad, there would be nothing like a bright blue bath to cheer you up. Not that I was sad, but I figured that the next time I am, I'll go the blue bath routine, because it is so fun and cheerful. And because I am five years old.

Here are the products that I used, in my effort to Use Stuff Up:

Bubble Bath: Jergens Actibath Bath Therapy Moisture Treatment. This is the blue bath stuff. It is like a giant Alka-Seltzer tablet, so it not only turns the water blue, it also fizzes in an extremely entertaining manner.

Also, it turns the water so blue that even when you are like me and keep letting water out and putting in more hot, paying not the slightest attention to the fact that you live with five other people who might want a little hot water at some point, or even that you will need to use the shower to wash your hair with later and you might want there to be some hot water left, it stays blue.

Facial Cleanser: Lush Ultrabland, which should be called Lush Ultragreasy, because I could barely get it off my hands afterwards--it felt as though they were covered with a thin layer of Crisco. My face didn't feel greasy, though, and that's what's important.

Masque: Origins Out of Trouble. I've had this stuff for probably four or five years, and it's really great, like all of Origins products, but I think that it renews itself when I am not looking. There wasn't that much left, and I slathered it on like peanut butter, and yet I couldn't use it up! Perhaps I never will.

Bath Gel: Body Shop Lavender Aromatherapy Bath & Shower Gel. Now, this stuff I really have had forever, I know that I moved with it. I also know that I will never ever use it up, not never not nohow, no matter how I try. It's a really small bottle, too.

Soap: Whatever the hell I've been using from Lush. I have no idea what it is called, but it's orange coloured and spicy smelling and it had scrubby bits in the outside layer. The best thing about it, though, is that it melts away like ice, so I'll be able to open a new bar relatively soon. I am a true consumer, I don't want things to last, I want to use them up as quickly as possible! I am a marketing department's wet dream.

Shampoo: Body Shop Orange Oat Shampoo. I bought a ton of little bottles of this stuff a long time ago, and I am not entirely crazy about it, but I need to use it up, and I had run out of my Reflect.com shampoo and wanted to use the conditioner.

Conditioner: Reflect.com personalized conditioner, actually! It's okay, and I loved the creating part of the whole personalized items thing, but it's not really the best conditioner in the wide world. The shampoo was pretty good, though. But the important part was, I used it up and was able to throw out the bottle!

Products used up: 1
Products just that much closer to being used up: 6

Now that's a day not wasted.

You notice how, since I have caught up, I haven't fallen behind again? I really think that that has alot to do with my reading journals again.

Of course, I would get behind even when I wasn't on Lent, but there is something about reading all this multitude of entries, Lucy's and Mo's and Mimi Smartypants', who writes a minimum of 17 entries per day (my God, does the woman ever sleep?), it's like what Prosody and Perl calls "filling up my Word Bucket," which means that she gets the oomph to write her poetry from reading books.

Well, I have realized that after these nearly six years of writing in here, that I cannot write in a vacuum, that I need the inspiration and the joy of reading all of these other people telling their life stories to make me excited about telling my own story again.

I'm not saying that I won't fall behind again, I'm not saying that I won't fall behind again soon, but sure it won't be this week.

I found a new journal, which was the last thing that I needed, considering all of the Lenten Entries Missed and the new ones on the 40 Days list that I need to read, but I hit it through a link from someone, Mo maybe, and I think she recently dumped her archives, so there wasn't that much to read.

Anyway, it's called Glue, and I think that several incarnations ago she might have been Girl With Glue, which was on my "I Really Must Read This Sometime" list for ages, and even if she wasn't, it's a pretty great read. Not to mention the fact that she is an excellent photographer.

Also, she has the exact same picture of sexy sexy Vince D'Onofrio on her front page as I do on my home computer's wallpaper, so it's fate, you see!

Lenten entries missed:

Gentry bought a new denim skirt, survived Fashion Week, became famous in Germany, became really famous in Germany, became wildly famous in Germany, and appeared on television. In Germany, need I add.

This German story is so fun and great, and you can see the clips from the TV show in the second to last link there. I, of course, appeared on local North Jersey radio while laying in my bed a month or two ago, so I know exactly what she went through in the international superstardom department.

And totally skipping ahead on the whole Lenten Entries thing, congratulations Columbine and Debbie!!

Today's horoscope:
Balance material goods and enjoyment with the reach for meaning and a higher purpose in life. Combine the physical and spiritual.

One year ago today:
"Today is my birthday in March! And I will have cake and blow out that candles and Santa will bring me presents!"

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