So today's the big day... Wet Cleanup turns THREE years old. I can't believe it: she's growing so fast. Heh. Any day now, she'll take that thumb out of her mouth and spew forth a couple of coherent sentences. Maybe like: "Mama, me want cookie." More likely, something like: "Mama, me want coffee."
Three years. Gee-zuz.
I have to say, with the advent of LiveJournal.com, Wet Cleanup has ceased to really impress me much anymore. Hell, EVERYBODY'S got an online journal; the internet is flooded with them. Of the 15 or 20 people who live on my floor, at least three have online journals. Nonetheless, there are a couple of things that still really please me about Wet Cleanup. One, I do almost all my own HTML (yeah, I'm serious!); two, I don't rip off other people's stupid graphics; and three... well, what the hell... I like Wet Cleanup 'cause she's mine. In the same way that, if your infant child looks like a boxing glove, you still think it's cute because it's yours, I still think Wet Cleanup is pretty neat.
So! Wet Cleanup gets a party! Or not. It's a little difficult to organize these things virtually. Hell, it's a little difficult to organize anything virtually, as evidenced by the fact that not ONE of you emailed me the last time I asked for assistance (shame, shame! no birthday cake for you!). I suppose, instead, we'll carry on a little tradition and make this entry into a "best-of-last-year" catalogue...
"Stick around, Snow White - this is gonna be FUN!" --Neil.
Helena Thomas and Wet Cleanup in the Produce Section present:
BEST OF WET CLEANUP, FEB 2001 - FEB 2002
01 March 2001 ~ Quake... [Helena feels the earth move under her feet.]
10 March 2002 ~ Still Lifes For Karen... [There are no such things as still lifes.]
01 May 2001 ~ Lyndon B. Johnson, Postmaster General... [Duh. just duh...]
25 May 2001 ~ A ribbon at a time... [Love letter]
23 June 2001 ~ The pros and cons of Radiohead and the dreariness of being a legitimate Big Kid... [Disgust, I say, and complacency!]
23 August 2001 ~ Helena's pet pigeon... [Seriously, though, seriously, you should never take a dead bird to get tested for chlamydia...]
03 September 2001 ~ Helena is a success... [The abnormally lucid Labor Day gripe.]
02 October 2001 ~ The boy who gave birth, and the girl who gave him a can of Coke... [An old Santa Fe tale.]
04 October 2001 ~ Fast food and evolution... [Horror stories of Burger King]
15 October 2001 ~ New York, and my dear Neil... [One of the best weekends of Helena's life.]
08 December 2001 ~ You have seen some unbelievable things... [For Rachel]
09 January 2002 ~ Daydreams, your gaze, and catching up... [Helena loves Norman]
30 January 2002 ~ Who killed my woodpecker? [I know this is mostly incoherent, but I happen to fucking love this entry...]
Enjoy, kids! Don't let any of this get you into too much trouble! Safety first, as the little Cali-kids say... Here's to another year!
Love,
~Helena*