Push It

I told Chris the song I want played during labor & delivery is Salt 'N Pepa's Push It. "Oh baby baby.. push it real good! ... Better make it fast or I'm gonna get pissed!" Seems appropriate.

Anyway I am apparently not the first person to have this idea because they played it during an episode of the reality TV show "Scott Baio is 46... and Pregnant". For those not familiar with the show (as I'm sure you all are), Scott Baio played Chachi on the 1970s sitcom Happy Days. This is his 2nd reality show, following "Scott Baio is 45.. and Single." At the end of that one, his girlfriend announces she's pregnant and he decides to marry her.

In the followup series, he attempts to accept the realities of baby and marriage but doesn't do a very good job. He always talks about how his life will be completely over when the baby arrives. He'll never see his friends again, never have time to himself, never play golf. Um, dude? Who are you playing golf with right now--your friends with kids!

Anyway it's very annoying. I am a strong believer that not everyone should have kids--if you don't want to, don't. It's not like the world's population is in decline.

Push it!

Postcards

Recently the San Francisco Chronicle had an article about the demise of the postcard. It says that with the advent of email and camera phones, and the decline of letter-writing, postcard sending on the way out.

This makes me sad. I love postcards, both receiving and sending them. Being a sentimental packrat, I have kept every postcard that's ever been sent to me. I have a letter-holder from Thailand hanging near the kitchen and I store most of them there. (When I first get a postcard, it lives on the fridge for a while, then gets moved into the letter holder.) I also have a postcard mobile my friend Margaret gave me, which is hanging in the study and holding postcards from Ecaudor, England, Romania, Hawaii, Scotland, Yellowstone and China.

I like sending them as well. Any time I go out of town, I send one to my grandmother and Chris's parents. On longer trips I send them to other friends and family.

I'm not sure what is so appealing to me about postcards. I guess it's a combination of getting a surprise in the mail from friends or family, getting a glimpse of places around the world they've travelled to, and seeing what short message they've chosen to write. Vive le postcard!