And not just the Fonz and Marlon Brando, but a real estate agent for
the house Bossy was buying on a hill in Portland Maine—a house with floor to ceiling windows and a front door left ajar, allowing snow to drift inside the tiled vestibule.
The thing Bossy noticed about the Fonz was that he was fussy. His story was entertaining, but his hair was clearly blown dry, and Bossy’s mother whispered that she most definitely heard the Fonz refer to his wife as a seasick betch.
The Fonz was also fussy in the way he corrected the mostly quiet Marlon Brandon halfway through dinner. “Work out where you want to go and then go there!” Fonz bristled, as Marlon Brando crawled around under the banquet, pausing to surrender to his smell fetish.
That’s right: smell fetish, and Bossy didn’t know what that was either, but apparently Marlon Brando likes to sniff things. For instance the pant leg belonging to the husband of the Portland real estate agent—and in Bossy’s dream, the husband of the Portland real estate agent was Bob Newhart.
In actual news: this weekend Bossy reached down her throat with a pair of sharp scissors and extricated her own spleen in a sterile surgical theater known as her bed. Fine—it wasn’t her spleen, it was an ingrown toenail. But the part about the sharp scissors and the indescribable pain—that’s all true.
Gah, you’re thinking, is this worthy of a mention? And Bossy understands, because if you thought that, you are probably the type of person who enjoys poking sharp instruments under tender toenails.
In other actual news, Bossy’s Kimberly Clark/Scott paper contest will end tonight at 10 p.m. EST. If you have not yet entered the contest, you have until 10 p.m. EST, which is a coincidence considering the contest also ends at 10 p.m.
Have an excellent Monday.
Avitable says
September 29, 2008 at 9:48 amSit on it!
Gayle says
September 29, 2008 at 10:00 amIck. It’s too early to hear about ingrown toenails being pulled out of a throat!
junebug says
September 29, 2008 at 10:04 amWhat a dream! I have been having strange dreams lately. Last night my dream had Charles Manson in it. I had been kidnapped by him and I finally escaped. Details were bizarre. So glad to wake up!
All Adither says
September 29, 2008 at 10:05 amI always suspected Henry was fussy.
Kerry says
September 29, 2008 at 10:11 amIf only the daytime Bossy was buying a house in Portland…then she would only be an hour away. But don’t buy a house with snow inside…for there is plenty of snow OUTSIDE where it belongs!
Miss Wisabus says
September 29, 2008 at 10:13 amYou have subtlety down to an art, really.
Ingrown toenails are dadgum painful critters. Did BOSSY know they are hereditary?
andrea says
September 29, 2008 at 10:18 amBob Newhart is my dad and when I say he’s my dad I mean the two are identical in appearance, talk exactly the same way, and were both accountants at one point. Only differences: Newhart’s jokes get more laughs than my father’s jokes do and my dad actually lives in Vermont in real life.
Amanda says
September 29, 2008 at 10:23 amMy dream consisted of leaving my ex in a very ANGRY way. It’s been over 10 years, apparently I’m not over the anger. I only think about it when I’m sleeping.
kidsmom says
September 29, 2008 at 11:06 amWhut?
Little Miss Sunshine State says
September 29, 2008 at 11:27 amDid Bossy eat some weird food before bedtime to have such a weird dream?
My sister has you beat on the self-surgery thing. She’s a nurse and took out her own stitches after her C-sections. Sent shivers up my spine.
Sewmouse says
September 29, 2008 at 11:29 amFonzie, Marlon and Bob sounds a lot better than mine with Gene Rayburn, the guy who did the Raymond J Johnson “you can call me ray, or you can call me J” schtick, and one of my former bosses.
Bossy gets the fun dreams.
feefifoto says
September 29, 2008 at 12:10 pmAnd did Bossy wake up in bed next to Suzanne Pleshette?
The Domestic Goddess says
September 29, 2008 at 12:52 pmThat’s some dream!
Momo Fali says
September 29, 2008 at 1:12 pmOw.
Camille says
September 29, 2008 at 1:27 pmI have stones in my gallbladder. Stones. In my gallbladder.
I’m twenty two.
Happy Monday to you, too, Bossy.
dgm says
September 29, 2008 at 1:35 pmAaaaaaaaay!
Cindy Z says
September 29, 2008 at 2:01 pmIngrown anything hurts,don’t ask how I know 🙂
Bean says
September 29, 2008 at 2:12 pmMy husband knows that when I say I am “performing surgery”, that I am digging out an ingrown toenail with a sharp instrument – usually a bobby pin with the little plastic bulb on the end pulled off. Sometimes my toe spasms after hitting the nerve endings. Ew.
Domestic Goddess (In Training) says
September 29, 2008 at 3:00 pmI have a nasty ingrown nail myself. Do you do housecalls?
Michelle says
September 29, 2008 at 3:45 pmI, fortunately, have never had an ingrown toenail.
My sister has had several. And as a result, no longer has either of her big toenails.
Jami says
September 29, 2008 at 5:33 pmDouble-you tee eff?
Sandy_Shoes says
September 29, 2008 at 5:45 pmAnd just what did you smoke over the weekend?
Mr Farty says
September 29, 2008 at 6:01 pmFour-cheese pizza for supper? Not a great idea.
annie u. says
September 29, 2008 at 6:08 pmWas the Portland house overlooking the ocean? If so, buy it!!
Chesapeake Bay Woman says
September 29, 2008 at 6:46 pmCelebrities, fetishes, extravagant homes, mystery and intrigue, all are the makings for a good soap opera.
Bossy could write for a soap opera (and a comedy and a news program and an entertainment magazine and anything she wants, but let’s focus on the soaps, if it is possible to focus at all). The Bold and the Bossy. The Young and the Bossy. General Bossiness. As the World Gets Bossed. Bossy’s Hope. All my Bossy. The Edge of Bossy. And so on.
Dara says
September 29, 2008 at 8:56 pmHa! You should write that up as a screenplay. I for one would like to see a “Bossy Barbie Production” of that!!!
edgy kay says
September 29, 2008 at 8:57 pmMy dreams lately have involved lots of vomiting. That must be a sign.
A bad one.
MamaMo says
September 29, 2008 at 10:52 pmWHAT?!!?! I know I’ve been off-line for a while, but, WHAT?!! 🙂
Rhea says
September 30, 2008 at 7:46 amApparently intense ingrown toenail pain causes bizarre dreams. quite a correlation there. Impressive.
Dorothy Stahlnecker says
September 30, 2008 at 9:19 pmI wish I could remember my dreams. I always lay in bed trying to remember them so when I get out of bed I will….however, to no avail…in the end they’re gone..makes me crazy..
Dorothy from grammology
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