who does this

Ok, I was having a perfectly fine day at work when all of a sudden I hear a handle jiggling down the hall.  I look in front of me, patients are entering, patients are leaving and patients are interacting with the front desk.  (Que time slow down) I think to myself, everyone is where they should be….who would be back there?  Maybe the painters came by to see what they have to do tomorrow……(back to real time)  door opens…….. Patient walks out!

(Let me set this up for you.  In efforts to make the whole place look semi normal for patients, the employee only area is stacked with boxes, dirty, and just finished construction on a bathroom door.)

So instead of being cool and finishing walking a patient out of the lobby and then finding out why the patient was in the back area……I blurt out really loud…..Why is (patient name) coming  out from the back area?  (I have no idea what happened to my filter at that moment) Immediately patients start getting uncomfortable and saying “I didn’t tell her to go back there!”

Here’s the conversation that followed….  ”How did you end up behind the scenes?”  ”Well I needed to go to the bathroom and a patient said that it was down the hall!  I turned the light on in the hall and found the bathroom.  I realized it was your bathroom but I had to go, so I went.  You didn’t have any soap or towels in there so I went into your kitchen to wash my hands.”

Ok….now that my head is about to explode….can I vent for a moment?  As soon as I opened a door to a dark hall, filled with boxes, I would immediately think “oops, wrong door”  nope, she kept going.  Then you try every closed door until you get to a bathroom still torn apart from just completed construction and you decide “this is the place for me!”  Now you have the balls to complain that there is no soap or towels in the bathroom you clearly are not supposed to be in, so you go into another doorway full of boxes, step over the tool box and mop bucket and wash your hands in my kitchen sink!  I think I just blew a blood vessel!!  My ears are ringing!!!!  Ok…so her defense was…”you didn’t have a sign that said not to go back there!”  Well  she is sort of correct, it wasn’t on the door yet, it was one of the things she stepped over to get to MY BATHROOM AND KITCHEN SINK!!!!

(shakes head)

eeeeeee!

(squirm, wiggle, tap, tap)  Sitting here waiting for the Grey Gardens movie to start.  Oh, I hope they do a good job!

one last little edie clip…..funkdified!

absolutely terrific, honestly

Ok, I have shared a few racoon videos with you in a build-up to my unveiling an obsession that I have had for about a year or so now.  I am talking about it now because this Saturday on HBO the new movie “Grey Gardens”.  This movie is an additional look at the lives of Big and Little Edie Beale, the aunt and cousin to Jackie Kennedy Onasis.

The first look at the Beales was in 1976 in a documentary entitled “Grey Gardens” by David and Albert Maysles, brothers that shot incredible footage of the Beales over a 6 week period of time.

In 2006 they released another dvd with all of the footage that didn’t make it in the original called “The Beales of Grey Gardens”.

In 2006, Christine Ebersol and Mary Louise Wilson portrayed the Beales on Broadway and won Tonys for their incredible performances.

So lets do a little comparison….we will go from the real Beales, then to the Broadway show, and then to the HBO movie.

The real Little Edie

Now Christine Ebersol performing on the Tony’s

There are a few clips from the HBO special that highlight both Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore.  I can’t get the darn things to show up on my page, so you will have to go to HBO yourself!  Aaargh!  I get mad at the internets sometimes!

I absolutely love Little Edie Beale!  Watching the documentary is a must!!  Here are some additional clips from the original and from the broadway show!!  Enjoy!!

oh! tom kha pak!

This is quite possibly the best soup in all the land! (sigh)

yikes

This video is the first in my series (ok, maybe not series as much as a group, a small cluster, ok a couple, well fine, I may never talk about it again) leading up to a new movie that is coming this month on HBO.  All will be revealed about my obsession soon, but in the meantime enjoy the lead-ins!

what the world needs

This clip combines several things that I love….Julie Andrews, the Sound of Music,  large train/subway depots, and the willingness of a group to spread joy and happiness!  And honestly, who doesn’t need a little more spontaneous eruption of song and dance in their lives?  Oh, to have been there!!!