taxes and chandeliers: sic transit gloria

have you done yours yet?

you know.

Taxes.

gulp.

we went today.

but They weren’t there.

at the place we said we would be – at 9AM – holding a (very small) bran muffin and a (not-so-small) coffee.

so we went somewhere else (thank goodness for national Chains of Accountancy Firms) and tried not to get cross or frustrated or realized we were now Late for something else by the time it was Done and *sighs* with a Parking Ticket (grrrrrrr).

but now it’s done.

for another year.

and in a way it was saying goodbye to 2012 and new york and other stuff that we don’t really like to go into here.

thank goodness for roses and chandeliers and tea and airmail-letters-from-berlin-with-butterfly-cut-outs-inside.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA viewer-2 viewerbest quote of last night (in silver lake):

so I saw this sign downtown that said “Use Your Inside Voice Outside” – so very L.A ;-)

actually I heard a better one the other day.

really? do. tell.

“Use Your Spa Voice”.

oh. that Is Good.

and that’s what we’ll be doing at 6PM – using our Spa Voice – because we’ll be at The Spa – the taxes and the 2012 goodbyes and Everything have made us Terribly Tense.

but the roses and the tea and the chandeliers and the airmail-from-berlin-with-cutout-butterflies Truly Helped.

thank you.

btw (as the Young people say) – we have Definitely started something with the #weadoreachandelier - most of the ones below have been either taken by yours Truly or tagged with @teamgloria so we can visit it and get deliciously excited and tag it #weadoreachandelier – BUT – recently – we’ve Noticed that some people are tagging Their chandeliers independently *raisedeyebrow* – it’s ALIVE.

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yes! That Sam McKnight……#blimey.

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Screen shot 2013-03-05 at 4.14.39 PMoh you pretty things. 

*sighs*

who cares about financial stresses when one can gaze into the twinkling splendo(u)r of a chandelier.

and get to use one’s Spa Voice too.

About teamgloria

I used to make my living from writing. And then it all stopped and so I went and did something else, part of which entailed a whole new look from Brooks Brothers (it wasn’t really me, but it was necessary). But a decade later I started to write again (during nights and weekends and frustrated lunch-times and long haul business travel) and one of the things I wrote (or came to me – as I do believe in the whole Muse concept) was a character called Gloria. Gloria was a trainee angel and sat “up there” waiting for her first assignment. To occupy the hours she should have been studying humans and their foibles, she spent her time enjoying the new celestial movies-on-demand channel and became obsessed by Doris Day. So you can imagine the drama that unfolded when she came to Earth. Quite a shock to the system. But Gloria was determined to see Manhattan through the eyes of a vintage Doris Day movie and something magical started to happen – to me too. Because I started to do the same thing and life became easier (and then I got Tobias the tumor which changed the trajectory, for now). There are a lot of glorious people, places & things that help me get through my day – they make my life great – and so I call them “team gloria” (although they don’t usually know that). So I thought I’d start documenting them, and looking out for new people, places & things on a daily basis, and sharing them with you (whomever you are – do say hello. Oh, and tell me who your team gloria is :-)
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13 Responses to taxes and chandeliers: sic transit gloria

  1. Jenna says:

    Your hashtags are simply too perfect not to be adopted by the stylish! So flattered to see my chandelier photo up there. ;) Also, I wish I could tag ALL of my photos with #laviecashmere. That one should be a book or a luxe soapy drama on a cable channel. Magic, I say.

    Enjoy your day at the spa—you deserve it!

  2. julia says:

    lovely photos! (and good to see the butterflies so happy in their new home)
    and yes… #weadoreachandelier truly has started to take a life of its own.
    beautiful.

  3. So happy for you Miss for spreading the joy of the lustre (come on, you have to love that word in French, much more profound)…Bravo! Ooh there can be good karma for material objects if they do good I believe…

  4. 1904 says:

    You’ve created a meme. Just the beginning. And terribly exciting. XXXXXX

  5. Such a trend setter x

  6. Did you have to mention the “T” word? (My blood pressure just spiked again… Thank goodness there were roses and chandaliers-a-plenty to offset the stress… *sigh*)

    I was thinking of chandeliers this morning, which of course had me thinking of you…

  7. stickybeak says:

    OK I think I said that “you have arrived for some other groovey thing but I REALLY think you’ve arrived with the Sam McKnight thing #someonewhoporesoverbritishvogue

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