I just finished watching the premiere of Mad Men. I am wearing red lipstick. I am wearing a vintage-y negligee. I made popcorn. I made myself an Old Fashioned, and though I prefer bourbon, I made it with Canadian Club, because that is what Mr. Draper prefers.
(My husband, upon noticing the lipstick just before the episode began: “Jon Hamm can’t see you through the T.V., you know.”)
(Unrelated: do you put on lipstick before particularly nerve-wracking phone calls, or is that just me?) (I recommend Chanel “Samoa” for bill collectors).
Anyhow, the premiere was excellent, and if you have not already watched it in your OWN vintage-y negligee, well, why not? That’s no excuse, whatever it is. The rest of you, feel free to share your Mad Men-related thoughts in the comments. Pete: kind of adorable this episode, with the dorky dance? Don: unaccountably yet MORE attractive? Joan: sad, possibly headed for affair with Moneypenny?
p.s. Simone’s nanny leaves for grad school after this Thursday, and I need to find someone new right away, someone who can work four whole days a week (SOB! MY BABY!) instead of the two I have been needing until now. I am having a palpitation about it. I can’t put Simone in preschool for another year, according to her pulmonologist, but do you know how much an almost-full-time nanny costs? More than I have, that’s how much.
p.p.s. Simone can walk! Hooray, and yet, NO. NO, NO, NO. This is how it begins, you see. She starts by walking away from me, and eventually ends up halfway across the country doing god knows what in college, and never calling home.
p.p.s. I hope to have some book news for you very soon, but not just yet. Please keep your fingers crossed for me a few days longer.
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Canadian Club, and I say this as a Canadian, is absolutely vile stuff. An embarrassment to monarchs and polar bears everywhere.
Even though it is extremely difficuly to button one’s pants with one’s fingers crossed, I will continue to do so for your sake.
Oh, I have a thought: When Sal went back to the hotel for his plane ticket, did you interpret that as I did, wink wink nudge nudge? YAY Sal!
Love Mad Men! Have not yet finished the last season – but have TiVoed tonight’s episode so I can watch immediately after Netflix sends me the last DVD of season 2. I want to be Betty Draper – the dresses, the negligees, the manners, the perfectly coiffed hair – sans all the angst and marital problems and bad parenting, of course.
Hooray for Simone!!! Good luck with the book.
WALKING? *pushes you a la Elaine* GET OUT!
We will be requiring video proof, of course.
Pete’s dance WAS adorable, but his sniveling from that point on was grating. He is a wonderful, weaseley character, though.
Mr. Draper/Whitman/whatever, though, is just so dreamy. In an asshole-ish, dapper way. Did Mrs. Draper’s memory disappear along with her waistline during the pregnancy? What’s with the sweet wifey routine? Maybe we’ll find out the backstory there.
And yay for Simone and the walking!
I just randomly watched the first episode of the first season of Mad Men on a plane and I am HOOKED!! I’m obviously a little behind but excited that I have so many episodes to watch and glad to hear that it only gets better:)
Good luck with the nanny situation…
Do not understand the first part of this at all. Am obviously on wrong continent. I’m understanding that it might be good, yes?
If it weren’t for that precise continental issue, I would have the ambulatory little darling like a shot, whilst Mummy (I hope & trust!) sews her publisher into a watertight and lucrative contract. Literally, if that is what it takes to get your book in my grubby paws.
I feel like it was yesterday my child started to walk and tomorrow i will be taking her down to the DMV to get her driver’s license. It is just so hard to believe!! Soak her in…….I swear you will blink and she will be almost grown.
So what you’re saying is that your husband feels threatened by Jon Hamm, who OF COURSE can see you through the TV. Just like that lady on Romper Room.
Haven’t yet seen the episode, but can I recommend that you consider a nanny share? It’s a great solution for us, and keeps the weekly cost in the $300ish range for 4 days/week.
Not sure if the other kiddo would present a health risk, though…
Oooh…you asked for Mad Men related comments so you got it!!!
I am dense like this so please clarify something for me. Don was not there the night Sally was born, right? I love Joan…want to be her. Have to disagree on Pete. I wish he were the closeted gay one just so he could be subject to (era-appropriate) self-loathing and ridicule. Don is just like Tony Soprano in my book. We want him to redeem himself but he just doesn’t, and we love him anyway. The comment above about Canadian Club reminds me of discussion of “London Fog.” Wonder if Ms. Spit meant it that way?
I keep checking back for book news. I’m anxious to buy it.
Also, Maybe you could try splitting the cost of a full-time nanny. We split the cost of a full-time nanny with some neighbors down the street. They to our house a couple times a week, and my son goes to their house twice a week. Works out great.
“Simone can walk! Hooray, and yet, NO. NO, NO, NO.” That’s exactly right, and you don’t really need to wait until she traipses across the nation to some liberal-arts institution. Rather, for the next year (at least), expect to need to childproof the next 6 (vertical) inches every 2 weeks. At least if you manage childproofing as we did which is to say on a need-to-proof basis.
Crossing my fingers with the others!
“…eventually ends up halfway across the country doing god knows what in college, and never calling home…”
…except to ask you to send money.
Offering you an enthusiastic though muted congratulations on the possibility of a potential book deal. (Don’t want to jinx anything. Will extend full-throated huzzah when it’s a done deal.)
Mad Men. Freaking brilliant. Love.
That is all.
Hooray for the walkies! And Holy Guacamole! She’s walking already???
Are there any local colleges that you can maybe get two nannies from (one who has classes M/W, the other who has classes T/TH?)
I’ve never seen Mad Men, but if you ever want people to weigh in on “Bret v. Jemaine: who’s more lickable?” or “Cast of Lost: nominee for best scowl”, I’d be delighted to contribute.
Hooray for the walking! It’s true that the pitter-patter of little feet is a beautiful thing. But it’s amazing how that changed our entire house…childproofing is a real decor-killer (not that we had much to start with).
I can’t wait to hear news about the book!!!
and right you are……. I just moved my boy into college on Saturday. *sniffle* he has not called, BUT he has friend-ed me on facebook! hahahahah! Hold on tight!
Ann @ Hairy Farmer, Mad Men is a brilliant show done about the world of advertising in its heyday during the 60′s. It has just started its third season on the cable channel AMC to much critical acclaim.
I’m not a lipstick wearer, but I know what you mean; I brush my teeth before conference calls and phone interviews.
Good luck with the nanny search (and fingers crossed for the book news)!
The scene between Salvatore and the bellhop = HOT!! Seriously great job on Bryan Batt’s part(s) in such a short scene.
I also can’t get enough of Mad Men! Can we discuss Trudy’s hat, please? Are you familiar with the hysterically funny Attention Deficit Theatre recaps of each episode? http://www.unboundedition.com/pdp_thinking/2009/aug/19/attention-deficit-theatre-mad-men-season-three-epi/