Ugly Betty’s In Barbie? I’m In!!

I’m so annoyed when someone uses the word “woke” to disparage something they just don’t like. If people don’t like a movie, like “Barbie,” why don’t they just say what they didn’t like about it instead of just saying it’s “woke” and that’s it? Lazy, lazy, lazy.

Anyway, it’s Tuesday, July 25, 2023 and this is my – let’s see – 17th day and counting of writing 750 words every day at the new 750 words dot com! And if there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that if you write out url names like that, one word at a time, instead of putting them all together properly, like this – new.750words.com – it really ups your word count! And you gotta have at least 750 pieces of flair er, words!

So here we are at my wonderful web site (not just website, that’s one word and I need more words!), 50 by 60 dot com, although at the moment it’s actually 50 by 60 dot wordpress dot com, because I was too much of a cheapskate to shell out 60 hard-earned bucks for the privilege of having the website domain name. I may change my mind if things start looking up around here, though. By which I mean, if I get more eyeballs on what I’m writing. Which conjures up an interesting mental image.

Anyway, it’s Tuesday (did I already say that? word count!) and I’m already exhausted because I got up early, 5:30, to the sound of Pumpkin giving us her early morning “yowl I’m awake feed me yowl” alarm clock. I had to get up and pour some dry food in her bowl (one of her bowls, I should say) and then while she sat there crunching it with gustatory lip-smacking sounds, I got back into bed for a good, oh, hour before I got the next wakeup call.

This one was more of a psychic call. Buddy, our older cat, rarely does the morning – wake up – feed me meowing any more. No, what he does, I’m convinced, is infiltrate my dreams, like Freddie or Groundskeeper Willie, and let me know he’s waiting.

So I got up, dumped some wet food onto HIS bowl, took it outside and, while waiting for him to decide where exactly he wanted me to put it, enjoyed the (relative) coolness of the morning. Although it was already starting to feel pretty steamy out there.

Yes, we’re still right smack dab in the middle of our heat wave. Imagine, a heat wave in July, right? But this one is actually pretty bad. Still, nowhere near as bad as in Arizona, where apparently one-third of the people in the burn units right now got there from just tripping and falling onto the asphalt! Hey — I trip and fall sometimes! That could be me!

Thank God I’m not in Phoenix (a sentence I repeat often, ad nauseam). That’s gotta be the worst place for accident-prone folks to live, so you’d think it would be a lot cheaper. Wrong-o! As my niece will tell you, rental prices are still out of reach of the average working stiff.

But back to the whole “woke” thing! This morning I visited Facebook, as is my wont. And isn’t that a cool word, “wont”? Misguided spell checking software used to mark it as an error, or suggest I meant “won’t,” till AI took over and smoothed everything out. Thanks, AI!

Anyway, I visited Facebook and found that someone in my Friends list (still a friend, although after they see this they may not be, nyuk nyuk!!) was complaining that the new “Barbie” movie was “woke.”

Which really annoyed me because first of all, none of the people who use that word derogatorily seem to actually know what it means; second, it’s way overused and pretty much a cliche at this point, and C), last night I read a wonderful article about America Ferreira’s speech in the movie, and I didn’t even know she was in it and I LOVE her in Ugly Betty, which my husband and I have been binging and we’re just at the episode where she gets her braces off! Go Betty!

Anyway, if SHE’S in it, that’s enough of an incentive for me to want to see it as soon as it hits one of the Big Three* (Hulu, Netflix, or Prime)! *(Which reminds me that I’m definitely old enough to remember when the Big Three were ABC, CBS, and NBC, till that interloper PBS came along, and then of course we all got UHF and the world went to heck in a handbasket!

And I just went over my 750 words, so I’m outta here! See you again soon! (and let me know if you’ve seen “Barbie”! Is it worth going out of the house for?)