Thursday, May 3, 2007

Hello, non-gift-giver

Have you noticed that I have been prolific this month? I have blogged every day. Okay, it's the 3rd of May. But still. What if I blog every day this month? Will you be proud of me?

Remember that scene at the end of The Sixth Sense (Marvin Gardens got the big secret of that movie like 10 minutes into it, and then he had to tell me and ruin the whole dang thing) where the kid tells his mom he sees dead people and that he sees Grandma all the time? And Grandma said to tell the mom, "You make me proud every day"? Didn't that just rip you to shreds? What about Hallmark commercials? Do you convulse when those come on? Do you wonder how I got off on this tangent? Do you hope to all that is holy and merciful that I do not blog every day this month if this is the kind of crap I am going to pontificate on?

Today I am going to talk about giving gifts, or, rather, not giving them. I know that I have already touched on this subject previously, but now it is getting serious. This month I have the wedding of a dear friend of mine, and also Mother's Day, in which you are supposed to celebrate the fact that your enormous head broke your mother in two. At least that's what my gorilla head did. As you may recall, I practically had a beehive hairdo coming out of the womb. I never DIDN'T have too much hair, not since day one.

My Easter Island head was probably the least of my mother's worries, since I -- how shall we say this? -- made her ass itch at all times. Don't you think I at least owe it to my mother, and Marvin to his, to give a little something-something for Mother's Day? Of course, out of every human in the world, it would be a mother who would say, "I don't need anything. Make me something. Send me a card." You know those phony things moms say.

Now, my mother has suggested that for a Mother's Day gift I actually start calling her "mom," which is ridiculous, since I have been calling her Pam, seeing as it is her name, since I could talk. She could have tried to nip this in the bud in 1967, not now.

Hey, she's the one who decided to be a total hippie and get married in front of a peace sign and to say "Call me Pam" all that. Heavy. Love the one you're with.

And yes, that is an actual photo of my parents and me. Note the desperate attempt to keep my hair reasonable by giving me a masculine haircut. It still looks like my face is in the middle of parentheses.

In a completely unrelated note, which actually deals with maternal instincts, so I do kind of have a theme going, in a sort of bag lady, babbling and waving my hands kind of a way, I read an interesting article about Hello Kitty today. Someone is studying this phenomenon in Japan wherein most of adult society there is obsessed with cute, childlike things, including Hello Kitty. There is even some Japanese-sounding name for the trend, which I could tell you if I felt like going back and looking at the article.

Anyway, some idiot has been studying this trend for years (where do people get jobs like this? "Yes, I study Hello Kitty. It took years of greeting cats to acquire my degree.") and the theory is that Japan has the lowest birthrate, and that these childless adults like these things as their way of satisfying their unmet maternal instincts.

Hmmph. I do not have kids. I have never wanted kids (which, by the way, does not translate to "she hates kids!" which for some reason people love to think). After I read this article, I took a photo of my desk at work:

Okay, so I have a Hello Kitty water cooler, stapler, paper holder, bowl, box of candy and screen saver. What do you mean I have some sort of thwarted maternal instinct? My ass itches.

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

You are freaking hilarious! I am so glad you stopped by my site so now I can go read your archives--

Hello!

~Elizabeth
http://bluepoppy.omworks.com

Anonymous said...

I never said I only wanted a card.

June Cutoff Cash said...

I did not say, "My mother-in-law will say she only wants a card." I know the way you roll, M-i-L.

Anonymous said...

Holy Crap! I think we have the same dad.

Anonymous said...

You have never made my ass itch; and furthermore, your haircut was not masculine. The bangs were a little short, but mostly you had long hair throughout your childhood. And by the way, I really do like it when you make me something. Remember all the funny picture books you've made? I love them.

Anonymous said...

Okay...I was all set to say something smarty-pantsy and then a 5 year old began to yell, "FIRE IN THE HOLE! FIRE IN THE HOLE!" I better see what she is doing.

Your Dad's 'stache was bigger than my Dad's. I bet your Dad didn't burn off all of his chest hair while dumping a can of Budweiser on a grilling steak did he? FIRE IN THE HOLE! FIRE IN THE HOLE! I better go...

FIRE IN THE HOLE???!!! Sounds like my ass is itching...

Anonymous said...

June Carter Cash...you make great books. Remember my boyfriend book? It didn't get any better....

June Cutoff Cash said...

Okay, you are all stuck on the gift thing. Didn't anyone else think I was unbearably funny with "I study Hello Kitty. It took me years of greeting cats to acquire my degree"?

I could not get ENOUGH of myself with that line.

Marc Beaudin said...

Damn, Pam's hot! (But you already suspected I thought so).

Anonymous said...

"my face looks like it is in the middle of parenthesis"

Loved this. Laughed out loud, still laughing acutally.

:) Glad I stopped by!

Jamie

O'Brien said...

Can you BE any cuter?

Anonymous said...

I was still busy dancing with the white dog when you had to talk about hello kitty and parentheses. This is what is called Kwan.

Oh, and the Angels are back from their sandy adventures! Kelly had nude sandy adventures, while mine were slightly more clothed. But I do want to be known for my intellectual prowess rather than my sexiness, even though I'm wont to wearing a name tag necklace.

mynameisgee said...

"In the middle of parentheses" is the best! I laughed and cried and laughed more. Thank you...