I Know Exactly How She Does It and I Don’t Want to See a Movie About It
posted Monday September 19th, 2011
I called my sister from the parking lot at CVS yesterday. Sophie fought me for the iPhone, but I managed to get in a short conversation before she grabbed it away.
“Where are you?” my sister asked.
“The parking lot at CVS,” I said. “We were just at Walgreens, picking up Sophie’s thyroid pills, but she says the paintbrushes are better at CVS so we came here, too.”
(In case you didn’t know, Sophie is obsessed with paintbrushes.)
My sister thought that was hilarious, which I though was a little nerve-y after she explained that she had to go because her kid had begged her to buy the tie-dye frosting/rainbow sprinkle cupcake mix at the grocery store but upon seeing the mix itself now wanted only tie-dye frosting and no rainbow sprinkles.
“I better go,” she said. “I either need to find some vanilla cupcake mix or get out the tweezers.”
“OK,” I said, batting Sophie’s hand away, as my sister yelled at her own kids to give her a minute. “Sophie’s dying to either get those paintbrushes or get on the phone with you. Talk to you later.”
The saddest part? That was a long conversation for my sister and me. Before we hung up, we agreed that neither of us has much interest in seeing the new Sarah Jessica Parker movie, and not just because it’s getting such crappy reviews. We are living our own technicolor versions — and it’s not pretty.
I read the book years ago (when I had one small infant) and it was just ok.
I agree totally. I read the book and hated the ending. Actually, when she started flirting with the american is when the book lost me. I barely have time to flirt with my husband! It pretty much concluded that being a mom is a full time job. I think we all know that.
Be careful, Amy. The Techicolor people are very protective of their trademark.
Even when one spells it correctly.