Laurie wrote...
> I also know men
> who have spotless houses. They make me fidgety - I'm a hopelessly inept
> housekeeper

Oh!  You've met my husband.  
We both run a pretty tight ship on cleanliness.  Although, he doesn't make
the bed & I will go three weeks without dusting something.

> I thought it was shifting away from that. You have so many normal
> looking women being regarded as beautiful nowadays - Queen Latifah (Long
> Live the Queen!) Camryn Manheim (not the skinny blonde Cameron Diaz, the
> shapely brunette)

No Cameron Diaz for me.  not not not cute.

> Oh, I know.  It's just, as I said, I know a few people who take
> themselves to be failures as women when they have to drop in a
> frozen lasagna in order to have had time to deal with work, the
> kids, clean up, and generally live their lives.

That's me sometimes.  I feel like I should be crafty, creative, charming,
and clean at all times while still employed, and married.  Aie.

> What I loathe about Martha is that she thinks she's wonderful. She
> thinks she's perfect. Not only that but she's sneering of everyone on
> the planet who isn't as perfect as she thinks she is - which, by the
> look of it, is everyone.

Do you think she really thinks that?

> that cost Marie Antoinette her head, and Charles II of England his head,
> and got the Roumanian dictator shot (pronounced chowcheskue but I can't

Korescu?

emily, (mis)spelling, insouciant grunion
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