A rose by any other name smells just as sweet...or something like that

I heart David Letterman…and his non-specific accent.

I think my love of Letterman started when I was a little girl with insomnia. I would occasionally gather up all my courage and crawl down to the end of the hallway where it meets our living room and watch Late Night with David Letterman. What I remember most is seeing my dad laughing…really laughing. My dad is not a big laugher so this was something new to me. Who was this magic man on TV who could make my dad laugh? It was fascinating.

Fast forward to my senior year of high school, I’m still a girl with insomnia but now I have a TV in my own room and watch Letterman every night. His show is on a different station and is called Late Show with David Letterman. One night he had just gotten back from vacation and was trying to talk in the accent of wherever he had been and it didn’t go very well. He responded, “That’s my non-specific accent”. I don’t think he ever said it again but I say it all the time.

I have a terrible habit of imitating people I’m around…and their accents. I, like Letterman, usually am not successful in my imitation. I often say, that is my non-specific accent. People laugh…I credit Letterman…they look confused. Probably because when searching around sites devoted to him and his show I found only ONE reference to the phrase “non-specific accent” and that one was from March, 14, 1994 (my senior year) and is the one I referenced above…at least that site confirms it actually did happen and I didn’t imagine the whole thing!

940314 Mon LateShow#125

Antics: Dave's back from vacationing in the Virgin Islands

Antics: Dave does his `non-specific' accent

Story: A picture from a viewer of a boy scaring Dave with a gun

Roof cam: Antics: Dave has problems with the Roof cam controls

Roof cam: Neighbor: Dave shows us _Insoo Salon_ above _Flashdancers_

Phone call: Neighbor: Dave calls _Insoo Salon_ and requests manicure

for bouncer at _Flashdancers_

Alan King [actor, comedian] interview

Roof cam: Neighbor: bouncer at _Flashdancers_ gets a manacure

Aretha Franklin [soul] song, interview and song `Think'

Roof cam: Neighbor: Appearance: Alan King [actor, comedian] gets a manacure

I don’t know if this is a true explanation of why my blog is called “non-specific” accent but at least now you know where the term came from and when I figure out the why that goes along with it…I’ll let ya know!

Project Baby

I went to the doctor today for my annual physical. I have lots of ailments, anemia (with a B-12 and folic acid deficiency), hypothyroidism, carpal tunnel, tennis elbow, pmdd, morbid obesity (saying it out loud and writing it totally suck), incisional hernia and the list goes on. The point is that I want a baby. I have been married for two years to Sexy Sexy Rockstar (yes that is his blog name but I will often just shorten it to Sexy) it will be three years on 4/22/09. We have full custody of his children from a previous marriage (dd, Sassafras, 8 yrs old and ds, Fighter Pilot, 5 years old). We have discussed having a baby of our own and although he is perfectly content with our family as it is he understands my desire to have a baby and is fine with having another one. So I have decided to commit myself for the next year to getting myself, my finances and my house in order so that I can have a baby.

I typed that and immediately went back to correct to it to "try to have a baby" because I have this gut feeling that I might not be able to have one but I am going to be positive. I'm not even going to worry about that now.

One of my favorite Fighter Pilot stories happened when I asked him what he thought about his daddy and I having a baby…he was 3…and it went something like this:

Accentia (that's me): Fighter Pilot, do you think that Daddy and I should have a baby?

Fighter Pilot: Yes (dramatic pause) me (pointing to his chest)

I mean really does it get any more adorable than that?