Happy Friday, y'all. Help yourself to some ice cream. You deserve it. Take your shoes off, grab a pillow, and get comfy. We have a fabulous blog featured here today.
Did you know that today's featured blogger has her own kingdom? Yes, She rules it with a fair hand and it's a pretty nice place. She has many skills. She can see the future without a crystal ball. She speaks Angst, one of the languages of her people. She's an A-Lister. Best of all? She's got a hot twin brother.
She looks out over her land, and says "Good Day Regular People". And they call her The Empress.
I asked The Empress: "If there was a movie made of your life, who would play you and why?"
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A Lifetime Movie Network Original
by The Empress
DramaMama asks, "If there was a movie made of your life, who would play you and why?"
The answer is the 2008 Lifetime Original Movie "Through the Eyes of the World: The Greatest Singer in the World: Celine Dion!!!"
Sad to say, as much as I'd like to ask for Sophia Loren to play my life, in "Nevus," the story of a small Italian town's temptress, I couldn't honestly give that answer.
All evidence points to me having to be played by Celine Dion, and end that sentence complete with a rolling hands bow.
I have been told more times than I can possible recount, that I look EXACTLY like Celine Dion. And not as in, "wow, you are so beautiful, you look like Celine" and not as in "Oh, you are so tall, you look like Celine," but as in "wow...your face is so long, you look like Celine," and "your mouth and chin and lips are really weird, like Celine Dion."
The eery similarities continue. We begin with the impersonable facial resemblance, and move on to me standing in front of any mirror, at age 12, the same age as Celine was, holding a hairbrush for a microphone, pretending I'm saying "maman! It's me...on the radio!" and I commence to belt out a haunting, melancholy dirge. I was forever holding diva concerts in the bathroom, the more heartwrenching the song, the better.
Celine's life and mine paralled each others throughout highschool, also. Like her, I was often "without the shoes and always losing the boyfriends." The boys would tell me, as they told her, "but you are too skinny, and flat," but I, like her, knew I was beautiful. I, like her, "felt the beauty I had ...here...inside..." And we'd both beat our chests and stare out ferociously with that declaration.
Like Celine, you can make me cry--like that! Snap! "And the tears...they come to my eyes." Just to hear my son say, "maman! and I am in tears." It is too hauntingly beautiful, the name...the name! of maman!
I end, with these undeniable identical occurrences in our lives:
*Celine's husband paid for her braces, mine paid for my retainers
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*She often publicly states that her life, her life, it is like a dream!! I often feel myself walking through my day in a foglike dream state, also.
*I am really skinny.
* I want to be a Canadian.
*She has hit the longest, highest note on record. My neighborhood hears me hit some pretty good ones here at home, when the windows are open for the summer.
*She has been known to burst into tears, at the thought of the happiness that surrounds her. I, too, have been known to burst into tears when I look around and see what surrounds me at home.
And, finally, like Celine, my children will tell you that I am "here, there, wherEVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR they are...I, will be there with them, too................" seeing what they're up to, and what mess has to be swept up next, and finding out who is eating in their bedrooms....
Because, I am Celine Dion, the greatest mother! in the world!
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The Empress has left her kingdom under my care (for the next 8 days) and has ordered me to fling poop on anyone's door who dares not leave a comment. (Just kidding, of course, but Baby E will be very upset to come back to empty walls. You wouldn't want to upset Baby E, would you?)
She'll be back tomorrow with a fabulous guest post, as well.
By the way, my comments had an accident and spent some time in recovery, so please feel free to go back and try again on yesterday's 2 Truths & a Lie post.
I missed hearing your voices.
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