Do you ever sift through your blog “drafts”? You really should because you never know what gems of fabulous-ness you may find. I was digging through the archives of my own insanity this morning and came across this funny, yet random, bit of drivel that I obviously wrote last year on my way to BlogWorld Expo 2010. I wonder why I never published it? Why didn’t this silly bantering make the cut… or at least warrant editing? And why did I feel an exclamation point was necessary in the title? Hmm, you tell me. Enjoy…..
Here I sit in the most fabtastic airport, DIA, where the girls are pretty and the WiFi is free. I’m headed to Las Vegas for Blogworld Expo 2010 … Vegas Baby! Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on how you look at it, my flight is delayed by a few hours. Like any responsible blonde mommy blogger, I headed to the nearest wall outlet and am now gadget charging and diligently writing….
Sadly, DIA is a Pepsi-sphere and there isn’t a Diet Coke to be seen so I made my usual stop at the news shop for the most important travel necessities-skittles and water. I usually like to grab a magazine like Runner’s World but today I was stopped short as I perused the rack. There, right in front of me, was the most beautiful picture of Rob Lowe! I snatched up the magazine and actually giggled when I realized that it was a copy of Architectural Digest. What? I’m not exactly a regular reader of this particular genre of magazine. I’d love to be someone who could dress a room and match colors but I was not blessed with an ounce of decorator talent.
I’m a total dork when it comes to digging deep for more information on anything that strikes me as curious or interesting. So, of course, I Googled around and found out that this People & Places edition of Architectural Digest, will serve as the last under the direction of the magazine’s editor in chief since 1971, Paige Rense Noland. What a gift she has given her successor by transitioning with Rob Lowe! Out with a BANG!
I’m sure celebrities are not a rarity on the cover of this particular publication, but to choose Rob Lowe as your final cover gift is brilliant! I’m almost 40, I’m aging, my children are old enough to wipe their own bottoms (although, Lord knows when they’ll be coordinated enough to aim accurately and remember to flush) – the timing for this cover is perfect! I picked up the magazine because I wanted to touch Rob Lowe but I’ll actually read it because I’m interested in turning my house into a home. This mag is filled with pictures of home libraries decorated with couches that just scream “Come on in, put your feet up and read a good book.” Of course, it also look like nobody has set foot in any of the rooms. Nobody has dropped a granola bar wrapper on the floor, there’s no science book with yesterday’s math homework crammed into it-propped open by a lone sock ….
It’s OK though, because we’re finally past the stage of family-hood where safety gates grace every doorway and 4-ply bumper pads protect every possible exposed corner of death. I’m free! We’re free! Free to have glass tables and WHITE furniture… well, maybe I’m a little premature with the white….
Head to Architectural Digest to see more photos of Rob’s home and read the article. There’s also a tour of director Oliver Stone’s Manhattan apartment, Las Vegas mogul Steve Wynn’s new duplex villa, Yankee pitcher C.C. Sabathia’s New Jersey residence, oil legend T. Boone Pickens’s Texas ranch, hotelier Jason Pomeranc’s renovated midcentury LA home, and more.
lol – other than waiting in an airport to go to BlogWorld, I could have written that post. That is exactly me! Almost 40 – old enough to remember when Rob Lowe was a hot ticket item – and he IS beautiful. No question there. And yet, I may be drawn in by the pretty face, but would be kept looking for the actual architecture and home decorating pictures. A nearly 40 year old version of a picture book.
And white? I don’t think I’ll ever outgrow the need for easily cleanable, spill hiding furniture. Maybe, some day, my kids will outgrow the need to spill everything everywhere? But by then I’ll be old and decrepit and spilling and drooling myself. I imagine anyway.
Fun post. I’m glad you retrieved it from the draft bin.
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Fiona Bryan Reply:
April 13th, 2011 at 7:31 pm
He’s still pretty HAWT…. I suppose the cycle of life gets ya, if your kids aren’t in diapers or drooling you are half way there-no white furniture in my future!
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Rob Lowe sprawling the cover AND inside Architectural Digest? That would be my big O. Hope my local library can deliver the goods, since you dug this post out of the drafts pile. Drafts pile? Really? Oh, lawd. And you want me to blog?
And just so you know…hush up young thangs. Until you’ve jumped over that 40′s hedge and gotten pricked by the thorny bushes, no whining aloud. Crossing that perfectly groomed hedge is not for sissies.
Great post, Fiona. I think I’ll share.
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