"No Wire Hangers!"

There are some sayings and names that when I say them in my head I say them in the way I originally heard them, if that makes any sense!! When I say my high school, Cabrini High, in my head, I say as if I am singing our Alma Mater; stressing "high" in a very high pitch. When I say "wire hangers" I think of the movie Mommy Dearest and I can see Faye Dunaway yelling "No wire hangers!!" as she plays Joan Crawford!!

Now, you are probably thinking, why in the hell is Amy blogging about wire hangers?! Well, I get a note home from Jay's teacher yesterday saying that they need to bring in a wire hanger by Friday so that they can make a bubble wand! A bubble wand!! I never would have thought that!! So, last night I go looking through my closet to see if I have any wire hangers. And as I was shuffling through the clothes I realized I really don't have but maybe a few and I start to think back to college.

My college roommate, best friend, maid of honor, Ann, and I lived together most of our time at LSU. Even our first year there when she lived in the dorm and I in my apartment, we were with each other CONSTANTLY. If someone saw Ann, they asked where I was, if someone saw me, they asked where she was. Even though we were so close, we were so different, and still are. Opposites do attract though.

When I say different, I mean different. She was so neat and I'm sure she still is! As for me, I was a complete mess! I have gotten so much better over the years, especially with having children, but in college, I was just everywhere and so was my stuff!! About once a month Ann would come into my room and say, "Amy, we are cleaning this room and going through your closet!" Ann's closet was always so neat and perfect. She had her shirts hung up by color, her t-shirts rolled in her drawers, and there were NO wire hangers! She had these thick, ORANGE, plastic hangers! I was so envious of this capability of being neat!

One of the many times that Ann was helping me clean up my closet she realized how many wire hangers I had. She was like, "Amy! No wire hangers!" She did a great rendition of Ms. Dunaway here!! If you are unsure of this movie, Phoebe , from Friends, did a scene like this!! From that moment on, I always bought plastic hangers. To me, that was my first step to trying not to be "a mess."

So, as I sat in my closet last night I became a bit nostalgic. I didn't realize that such a small request from Jay's teacher would make me think back! I thought about the great times in college and in high school and how far I have come from my wire hangers!! Thanks Ann and thanks Faye Dunaway, or should I say Joan Crawford?!