I’ve mentioned once or twice, or one hundred times, that I spend a lot of time with my cat. He helped me find this super awesome necklace on Etsy on Saturday night while we were watching the world premiere of a Lifetime movie. Yes, we planned our weekend around a Lifetime movie. Yes, my cat and I are a “we.” A girl has to keep her priorities in check! I have dreams of becoming the Dooce of Cat Blogs.
Then my new almost-real-friend suggested we meet up for a drink so we can become friends for realsies. He is aware that I currently have a strict no dating rule in effect, so he proposed we keep conversation strictly to which Golden Girl we’d sleep with, kill, or marry. I have a theory developed about this but can’t write about it publicly until the almost-real-friend and I iron out the details after he’s tricked me into a date disguised as a non-date-friend date.
The gloves are off. I am officially obsessed. I found myself singing the Golden Girls theme song for the better part of yesterday. And I sort of spent an unhealthy amount of time searching youtube for Golden Girls video clips.
Things I Have In Common With the Golden Girls
- We all have vaginas.
- I said this exact phrase to my sister today!
- They’re living my dream! I plan to spend my twilight years in the company of my BFF and her sister.
- They live someplace without a hideous winter. Someday, I hope to live someplace without a hideous winter!
- I’m not afraid to buy condoms (not that I need condoms, since rejoining Club Celibacy) but I had something similar happen to me once buying a six-pack of beer and some KY. Good to know I’m not the only one, thank you Golden Girls. Thank you for being my friend!
Confession: the Golden Girls them song once made me cry.
Traveled down the road and back again
Your heart is true you’re a pal and a confidant.
And if you through a party
Invited everyone you ever knew
You would see the biggest gift would be from me
And the card attached would say thank you for being a friend.
Also, I think this song would make the best karaoke song ever.
Just think-you,me and Kim.I’ll be an obsessive chain smoker and say “Fuck” a lot,Kim will be the soap opera addict,and you can be the cranky cat lady.
Not only will I be the cranky cat lady, I’m going to be a senior citizen stoner. It’ll be the best!
I love it! My gay ex is also a huge Golden Girls fan. Shocking, I know.
Before I met my beau, I was trying to meet a lot of new people through myspace, some to date, some just to be friends. One guy expressly said he wasn’t dating anybody because he was still smarting over a divorce. That’s cool. So we got together as friends for coffee, and after this “not-date” he said he couldn’t tell whether I liked him or not. And I was like, “uh, I thought this wasn’t a date.” Sometimes people say they don’t want to date but really do.
I think it’s great to take time for yourself though. I was always the type to run out and look for flings after a breakup and then one of the flings would turn into a relationship, and the cycle would repeat. If I broke up with my boyfriend now, I would honestly just want time to myself to reclaim my identity as an individual. Sometimes you gotta fall in love with yourself before you can fall in love with someone else.
I read something in a music mag recently that Rob Halford, the lead singer of Judas Priest, his favorite TV show of all time is The Golden Girls. I just think that Betty White is dreamy.
The Golden Girls are great…Now I’m singing the Theme Song too!
In my heart, you are already the Dooce of Cat Blogs!
Trickery?! Smoke and mirrors?! Slight of hand!? Be careful. I think all this guy really wanted was to get a near mention in your blog and become almost famous.
It makes my tiny black heart glad that Quentin Tarantino wrote for this show, and Betty White is fabulous, although I love her best as the alligator-mama in “Lake Placid.” “If I had a dick, this is when I’d tell you to suck it!”
Oops! My bad… Quentin was on the show, not a writer.
I love it! I used to want to BE one of the golden girls when I was younger. I watched that show all the time..now I’ll have to see when it is on so I can catch it again.
Good luck on the non-date. I went out with my husband the first time because I didn’t want a boyfriend and he was leaving for college soon after I met him so there was no fear he would want any kind of committment. Something went wrong (or right!) and I ended up marrying him. Not to suggest that will happen here, just sharing.
a couple of years ago i had surgery on my eyes and my best friend volunteered to take care of me so i wouldn’t walk into any walls or accidentally make out with several latin men at once and i accepted and then i realized she was only doing it so she could subject me to hours and hours of golden girls DVDs audio and i could do nothing about it. she did it to torture me, but her plan backfired and i actually kinda like them now. where’d ya get that necklace? i want to get her one!
however, the theme song is kind of an asshole. i mean, the biggest gift?? is that really how you measure friendship?? what if i made my friend a card from my heart and some other person thinks she’s a better friend because she shows up with an oven??? no ma’am. no fucking ma’am.
ok! i’m dumb. found the link to the necklace!
I’ve always loved the name Blanche.
Now I need to go see if the Golden Girls is on TV. I love that show.
Sofi,
Love me the GG! Now I’m mad I didn’t think to buy that necklace.
Sra,
I like taking time off. True, I need time to heal and shit before I can get back out there.
The Grunt,
I love that GG is Rob Halford’s favorite TV show of all time!
Betty White? But she’s so prissy! I think it’s all about Blanche. Or the tiny Estelle.
Rachel,
Me too!
punchlinewalking,
That just made my day!
Porty,
If I had a nickel for every guy that’s tried to become famous in my blog I’d like have one whole nickel.
J.,
I need to keep an eye out for Quentin on GG!
radioactive girl,
It really is super. I forgot how funny it is.
Crystal,
If having surgery meant I could make out with seven Latin men at once I’d go back under the knife in a second. Wait. No I wouldn’t! We don’t have Latin men here.
egan,
Blanche is a total playa.
Sizzle,
I think it’s on the Oxygen network.
Holy Moses do I have a belated Valentine for YOU!
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I love the Golden Girls. It totally reminds me of my grandmother. Not because she acts like them (damn!), but because we used to watch it together.
I still think you need that necklace!
I was glued to Lifetime when I was on maternity leave. I’d watch Fraiser re-runs, which were preceded by GG. I’d find myself watching it more often than not.
My godfather reminds me of Bea Arthur. They have the same inflection in their voices. It’s funny and odd at the same time.
I need a feline friend that helps me pick out jewelry. jealous!
Damn, love the new profile picture. You look like you’ve conquered some native tribe or something. That or you’re in front of a blue screen on the set of a western.
sprizee,
Oh my gawd, I LOVE IT!!!!!
Sarah,
I ache for that necklace.
Curly Glamour Girlie,
Lifetime is some good shit!
Suzanne,
I’d bring Jack over to help you shop but he’s a little crazy…however, I would love to come help you! I miss you, when you having a housewarming party???
egan,
Thanks Egan! It was taken in Snow Canyon State Park, in Southern Utah. Super pretty. It’s really neat how radically the landscape changes so quickly there. We didn’t see any but they have turtles, which fascinates me. Hopefully we’ll some during our next visit.
Now I remember why my very strict, very Catholic mother didn’t let me watch The Golden Girls growing up. (Don’t worry; I’ve caught plenty of episodes in reruns anyway.)
My favorite moment is when Blanche and Rose are nuns in The Sound of Music when Dorothy’s priest uncle visits and thinks they are the real deal and Dorothy begs them not to blow their cover.
Seeing Blanche’s pile of naughty lingerie on the table she stammers that she is “Collecting underwear for needy sexy people”.
HEE HEE!