(I dare you to find Part I.)

 

From last night's show . . .

 

Setlist:

open
fascination street
a strange day
alt.end
the walk
the end of the world
lovesong
kyoto song
pictures of you
lullaby
maybe someday
the perfect boy
from the edge of the deep green sea
the only one
push
how beautiful you are
in between days
just like heaven
primary
never enough
wrong number
one hundred years
end

Encore:

if only tonight we could sleep
the kiss


Encore 2:

freak show
close to me
why can't i be you?


Encore 3:

three imaginary boys
fire in cairo
boys don't cry
jumping someone else's train
grinding halt
10:15 saturday night
killing an arab
 

My husband lost another one of my hubcaps.  You know how I am with hubcaps.  The hubcap anxiety dreams will start soon.  They finally just started to go away!

 

So, if you see a blue Passat Wagon cruising through your town with (1) cracked windshield, and (2) a missing hubcap, yes, that is me.  Honk if you like what you see. 

To write about how I had to call the cops on my bitch neighbor the other day because she created a neighborhood disturbance with the lawn maintenance guy next door for creating a mess of dirt and leaves on the road in front of her house which resulted in her being assaulted with a leaf blower.

They love their acronyms, forms, and videos.  If I am subjected to one more of any of the aforementioned, I am liable to stab myself with my highlighter.

This new wife, 'Fleur,' who the hell is she?

 

Turns out, no one seems to have any that the two were an item let alone to wed.  On top of that, no one seems to have any idea who she is?  Is she a nobody?  

 

Wow.  Crazy.  Wow.

 

I.  Just.  Don't.  Get.  It. 

How the fuck did I not know that 1) Ben Folds separated and ultimately divorced Frally, and 2) remarried some woman named 'Fleur'?  What?  Where in the hell have I been?  Didn't he and Frally just marry in like 2001?  What?  This is so bizarre.  Absolutely bizarre.  I can't wrap my head around this.  I need to go Wiki.

 

Personal life

Folds has been married four times, and divorced three times. From 1987 to 1992, he was married to Anna Goodman, who co-wrote the lyrics to several of his songs, including "Alice Childress" (the character in the song is someone in a mental institution who threw mop water on Anna), "The Last Polka" from the album Ben Folds Five, "Smoke" and "Kate" from Whatever and Ever Amen, and "Lullabye" from The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner.

Folds met his second wife, Kate Rosen, in December 1995, and married her in December 1996. She was a lighting operator for Ben Folds Five while they toured. They divorced in December 1997.

He married his third wife, Australian photographer Frally Hynes, in May 1999. The former couple had two children, Louis Frances and Gracie Scott. Hynes has recorded several of Folds's music videos, including "Still Fighting It" which also starred the couple's son Louis, and directed the video for "Landed." Hynes sang back-up vocals on the song "Gone" from Rockin' the Suburbs, contributed to "Root to This" on Fear of Pop: Volume 1, and can be heard on the end of the track "Dog" on 2003's Speed Graphic (EP). She is also featured on the cover to Ben Folds' EP Super D, released in 2004. They divorced in April of 2007.

Ben's fouth wife, is named Fluer and she hails from the UK.

 This is just so odd!  They divorced in April of 2007?  And in April of 2008 remarried?  Ooh, I'd be pissed if I was Frally.  Fourth wife?  Really?  My word.  Is he really that awful to be married to?  Four wives?  All over the world?  What is the matter with him?  Really?  Wow.  I just can't seem to wrap my head around all of this.  For two reasons.  1) Four wives?  Really?  and, 2) how did I not know?

Wow. 

 

I love plants and flowers, but I still kill them.

 

I have not been able to grow one thing in my life.  I finally broke down and started growing this little pot of clovers I bought for a dollar at Target.  And those suckers grew like crazy!  I was so proud of them.  They were getting so big.  Until Hubby dumped them in the sink.  And they died.

 

So, I bought myself a few more little pots.  This time of flowers.  Zinnia, daisies, and sunflowers, I believe.  I don't even remember.  Anyway, I think I covered them with too  much dirt.  I saw one starting to poke through the dirt and it had dirt spewed all over my kitchen sink.  Like it really had to work its muscles just to pop through the surface.  I think that might be the sunflower, I didn't label them, but I think sunflowers are the hardiest of the three.  The other two are just sitting there, not doing anything.  I'm worried.

 

 

I just wanted to update that as of last night, I have lost a total of twenty-seven and two-tenths pounds since January.  Last week I lost three and four-tenths pounds.  (I know mathematically speaking that I should have reduced to lowest common denominator, which would be two-fifths, but Weight Watchers calculates in tenths.)

 

Here's a picture of my progress.

 

 

I first received the keychain a few weeks ago for losing ten percent of my body weight, then last night I received the clapping hands for attending my sixteenth week of Weight Watchers, and also the round disc is for losing twenty-five pounds. 

I would like to thank Ryan Seacrest for, during last night's broadcast of American Idol,' his appropriate use of the word 'parenthetical.'  This happens to be both one of my favorite words and one that goes far too often unused anywhere other than college level writing classes.