"Amazing Grace" and the Curmudgeonette

Last night I went to Berkeley Repertory Theater to see "One Man, Two Guvners," which was funny, clever, imaginative, and entertaining--all the things you want on a Friday night when your spouse is off counting butterflies in the Sierra and teaching people how to differentiate moth genitalia.

Except!  The quite tall woman sitting next to me--since when did theater designers take a page from the airlines and make seats way too narrow for comfort?--irritated me every few minutes by spinning the screw top off a Mason jar full of water, taking a swallow,  and then screwing the top back on and leaning forward to put the jar (clink!)  back on the floor.  Plus!  She was wearing a leather jacket which squeaked every time she moved.  Close to two dozen times she did this.

What was she thinking?

Is it my English side (mother and three grandparents) that makes me an elbows-in kind of gal in places like theaters and waiting rooms?  Am I uptight or was this woman oblivious?  Please vote.

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I went to Berk Rep with three friends from West Marin, one of whom told me that she was tired of "looking at lemons," the photo with my last post, and when was I going to write another post?

I know what she means because I follow blogs, too, and it annoys me no end when the blogger doesn't have anything new for me to read.  This includes one beleaguered woman who just had her fifth baby and had to move to Florida two weeks later because of her husband's job.  I mean, so what?  Where's the new post?

More important, where are the baby pictures? 

Which brings me to my next point:

1.  I have no grandchildren, therefore no pictures/stories of adorable babies to showcase.
2.  I'm not traveling (most of the time) and coming up with new adventures every day.
3.  I'm a generalist in this life--not a specialist in much of anything but being a curmudgeonette. Is that a draw?

 Found this in a bookcase recently; someone gave it to me for my 40th birthday. 

It's a bit of a dilemma.  

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And now for some good news, as opposed to angst:

1.  Thank God for Justice Kennedy!  What an eloquent opinion he wrote on gay marriage.  On the other hand, as one of my friends put it, "Scalia's head has exploded."  Does he have any more mean-spirited snideness left in him?


2.  SCOTUS and the Affordable Care Act!  Hurray!
 
3.  What a President!  He SINGS!  How eloquent he is, how in-your-face he's becoming.  Go for it, Barack!  Nothing to lose.  We are the beneficiaries of grace that he is our President.

 Have a good weekend, if you read this before Monday.  And thanks for the push, Gayanne.