Crush
I used to have a ginormous crush on Raychel Ray from the Food Network, but it was back when she was new and fresh. Now that she’s all corporate and, well, married, not crushing quite so much. I like the idea behind her meals, and now and again I watch her show, but she used to be so darn awesome.
I get my perv on with Paula Deen (seriously, have you ever seen Paula’s Party? It’s like a rolling sexual harassment wagon.) and Alton Brown makes me tingly. Good times on the Food Network, yo. Plus, if they make Giada’s shirts any more “scoop” neck, we’re going to be able to see her navel. Not that there’s anything wrong with rack that.
I was musing earlier about crushes. Many of my crushes on men are on older men with wicked, depreciating senses of humor. One in RL who was very kind to me when letting me down (though I still quail in horror at that particular Life Moment), and my massive crushes on a number of television actors. The one in RL was twenty two years older than I was, and an excellent man. Very aloof, hardly anyone at work knew anything about him, but I smiled at him one day and said hello. Next thing I know we were having coffee breaks together and having great talks. He was also nursing a broken heart (divorce) and missed his kids a lot. It wouldn’t have worked, but my youth and stupidity cost me a friend in the end. I feel pretty bad about that, but at least I can think of him now without being completely crushed.
Randomly, that led me to thinking of a girl I knew in high school. I think it’s because both Older!RL man and she have these amazing, piercing blue eyes. She had the most astonishing pale and clear complexion I’ve ever seen on another human being. Pale, milky skin with these rosy lips and cheeks…she was beautiful. She was also a bigger nerd than I was, which if you’d known me then is well nigh impossible, but it’s true. I think the fact she had a mathematically inclined mind tipped the geek scales in her favor. I wonder what happened to her, but my google-fu, it fails me. I’d check the spelling of her name, but that would require pulling out my high school yearbook, and there’s no way in hell THAT’s going to happen tonight.
Strangely enough, the blue of my crushes eyes are reflected in the scarf I’ve been working on because it’s so mindless. I’ve gone four entire days with some knitting, and it’s awesome! Lame? Maybe. But it’s exciting when I haven’t had a chance to do any consistent knitting for months.
So far today I’ve managed to resist buying a Journey Wheel, a book charkha, and ordering either a Columbine or a Majacraft Alpaca. Good thing too, because I’m getting up early tomorrow morning to try to get tickets for a thing in August. More about that later, I hope.
Congrats for surviving the first potential work week of January, to anyone who is reading! :D