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One hit wonder

April 25, 2006 By pia

Today is Patriotic Cowgirl’s 25th birthday. Hope it’s a wonderful day

You feel agitated, angry, irrational as you had in the worst of PMS days. Despite the color coded warnings your friends dispersed long before the terrorist warning, you knew your mood would change within two weeks and you could perform behavior modification on yourself.

Now you’re beginning to wonder if you’re just agitated, angry and irrational, a combination that you couldn’t dare live with. Or maybe it’s something else entirely, an inability to enjoy blogging because you just can’t write fresh material five days a week, work on your book, do the hated organizational aspects of your blog, proofing the oldest posts that were written pre-Google spell check, and categorizing all of them, commenting on other blogs, thinking about blogging, having blogger attached to your name.

What’s that other thing? The way you make your living? Right, your investments, the ones you have been ignoring because of some kind of weird theory that the money you’re losing in income, you’re making in stocks.

It makes no sense, but between taking your blog on vacations, living at the dentists office, and having a social life, you have deluded yourself into thinking that the heavy metal band in your mouth alone, is insurance for your future. You just better not die before you outlive the costs of your soon to be perfect mouth. The small lips you have always hated will be slightly enlarged. Nobody ever really knew that you had a small mouth as you began wearing lipstick at eleven. You thank your mother for that.

The few lines above your mouth and below your nose will probably be eradicated. You have taut skin so the rest of your face doesn’t need any work. The dental work will probably end in June exactly two years after it began. You just don’t know if you can make it to the finish line. Do you have a choice?

Having a social life can be defined in many ways. You choose to define it losely as in: you see friends twice a week, and family for holidays and special events such as your niece in Annie this Sunday. Really should have gotten her a Coach something before Katie left for her new job. Your niece’s wallpaper on her cell is the Coach pattern. You could have used a Coach bag.

You’ll probably get another pair of MBT sneakers and sandals as you have discovered that they’re key to living your life. You’re no longer just sitting at the computer but exercising your legs, and you can run all over the city with them and while your legs may feel as if they’ve been worked out, they never feel tired or become blistered.

You had too much publicity in two weeks and feel drained. You wonder if people think of you as a one hit wonder, not that you ever had a hit.

You have always been hard on yourself, and you have to stop that if you want to get anything done. You wonder how you can do that when there’s never a feeling that you’re about to cross the finish line, that you’re not even a fifth there. Maybe you would be happy as a fact checker or a clerk at B&N.

No, you just have to keep going.

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Comments

  1. Cowgirl says

    April 25, 2006 at 9:51 pm

    Thank you for the birthday wishes. And you are a far cry from being a one hit wonder.

    Have a beautiful day beautiful.

  2. jacob says

    April 25, 2006 at 10:22 pm

    One hit? Doubt it.

  3. Emmet says

    April 25, 2006 at 10:41 pm

    Happy 25th B-Day. May it be a fun and exciting day for you. It only comes along once as tomorrow will only come around once. But today is special to you! Enjoy….

  4. Cowgirl says

    April 25, 2006 at 10:45 pm

    Thank you for the birthday wishes! I am feeling the love! Pia, you have amazing readers, my dear.

  5. Brian says

    April 26, 2006 at 1:00 am

    So much work
    so little time
    to fit it in
    I’ve lost my mind!
    Fame is fleeting
    so is told
    can’t stop blogging
    I must go!

    I like your blog, keep writing in that quintesential New York style.

  6. Brian says

    April 26, 2006 at 1:32 am

    Thanks Pia,
    I’ve only been in blogworld for two weeks and I’m realy kind of shy, but I also love to read the many incredible writers out there. I’m glad you liked my posts and look forward to seeing you again.

  7. Ruth Dynamite says

    April 26, 2006 at 2:04 am

    You’re no one hit wonder. You write a very honest blog, and people trust what you say because you’re being you. So keep saying whatever it is you feel like saying, and your readers will be right there with you.

  8. Miz BoheMia says

    April 26, 2006 at 2:05 am

    One hit wonder! Never!

    Blogging is hard, hard work! Keeping up with everyone, writing pieces that satisfy you, making the rounds, staying abreast of it all while tending to your life and nothing ever stops, or pauses, there is constant motion and sometimes I just want to sit…

    My way of saying I understand my dear Pia! Rest up and take a break! You owe it to yourself and as for us… we are not going anywhere!

  9. Susan says

    April 26, 2006 at 3:56 am

    What a great post and tribute to your friend.

  10. Doug says

    April 26, 2006 at 4:29 am

    HAVING A SOCIAL LIFE, adv. Owning dogs and a blog.

  11. EsotericWombat says

    April 26, 2006 at 5:22 am

    5 posts a week not mandatory. I think I speak for all of us when I say that I’d just as soon recieve a less regular dose of a happier Pia.

    No one hit wonder, you

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I live in the South, not South Florida, a few blocks from the ocean, and two blocks from the main street. It's called Main Street. Amazes me too.

I'm from New York. I mostly lived in the Mid-Upper East Side, and the heart of the Upper West Side. It amazes me when people talk about how scared they were of Times Square in the 1970's and 1980's.

As my mother said: "know the streets, look out and you'll be fine."

What was scary was the invasion of the crack dens into "good buildings in good 'hoods." And the greedy landlords who did everything they could to get good tenants out of buildings.

I'm a Long Island girl, and proud of it now.
Then I hated everything about the suburbs. Yet somehow I lived in a few great Long Island Sound towns after high school.

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