Implore

The Word of the Day for October 4 is "implore."

Implore: (verb) Call upon in supplication; entreat.

Synonyms: Beg, pray

Usage: Once more I implore you not to waste so much money upon me.

Relevance to My Life: I implored him not to leave me, to remember his promise that he would never ask for a divorce, but he remained firm in his wishes, bought himself a new house and moved out.

The War of the Roses trailer

The end of a marriage can be Hell.










She-Devil Ruth Blows Up the House

Extreme, but I bet Ruth felt satisfied.











Meryl Streep in SheDevil

She is absolutely hilarious in this movie, one of my guilty pleasure favorites.










Scene from She-Devil

The bit at the end where she says "I said MOVE!" always gets me laughing.

Accession

The Word of the Day for March 25 is "accession."

accession: (noun) The attainment of a dignity or rank.

Synonym: attainment, addition, inheritance,

Usage: The circumstance which chiefly availed was the marriage of his daughter with a man of fortune and consequence, which took place in the course of the summer -- an accession of dignity that threw him into a fit of good humour, from which he did not recover till after Eleanor had obtained his forgiveness of Henry, and his permission for him "to be a fool if he liked it."

Relevance to my life: Few events have affected me as profoundly as my accession to the rank of Bitter Divorcée To Be: in this change I have lost money, stability, friends and the more elusive creature, my self-esteem.

You Don't Own Me
Aww, aren't these gals spunky? They make it look so easy.








The War of the Roses
Isn't this closer to the truth? Ok, maybe not the details, but the hate.









The Break Up
After only two years together? How much hate and resentment could possibly have built up after only two yeras?







Death Becomes Her
Oh my. This is so funny and yet... so not funny.

Studious

The Word of the day for March 17 is "studious"

studious (adjective) Characterized by diligent study and fondness for reading.


Synonym: bookish


Usage: She was a quiet, studious child and always had her nose in a book.


Relevance to my life: In high school, many of my peers who did not know me well mistook my smart and studious exterior for stuck up and snotty. My friends knew better, but this did not change the relative inactivity of my social life.

In over twenty years, I still have not made it back to any of hte high school reunions. I had been planning to go to my 20th, but I changed my mind because that was the weekend my husband was moving out of my house. I didn't relish explaining why I was attending solo only to see triumphant looks on some people's faces, "Ah, husband's leaving her, so she still is a loser! I knew it! Some things never change."

"They" say that the best revenge is living well.

Sure.

I am not there yet.

Perhaps by the time the 25th reunion rolls around, I'll be in a better place. Until then, I suppose that I can always fake it, like Romy and Michele.




"Businesswomen"

Sometimes clothes do make the part, but only if you know what your business is.








Formula for Glue
Ok, you know that this is a movie, because who really looks like that at a 10-year reunion?
Oh, it's a dream sequence!








Part of the reunion clip from the movie
Romy to Heather Mooney "I bet in high school, everyone made somebody's life hell."