I love my God Children. I am the proud God-mother to two daughters and two sons and they are my LIFE!!! They have each in their way supported me through many a dark nite. Milyn Satterfield, my eldest, lived with me in New York immediately after my divorce so she came in for some of the bleakest, anxiety-laden, angst-ridden moments and she gave me a Christmas present that I still treasure and I read it again today. It is a Bound Book with my name as the engraved gilt title-and here are her entries (I have given up smoking thanks to Nicorette but those early days had me off the nicotine wagon but I DIGRESS). This present saw me through a Christmas when i scrounged up change to get Anabelle a gift and got a free tree from a kind florist and decorated it with candy from the CVS. I was at the nadir of my despair and it was my first climb out of the abyss of my own fear.
Page 1- Marcia Sherrill The Handbook
Page 2- She is listed in the Yellow Pages under "Psychology and Intervention Specialist."
Page 3- No, she is not sick, She is just self-medicating with Thera-Flu (It's the perfect KLONOPIN chaser).
Page 4- When she is having a meltdown, no need to worry, one hug and she's cured.
Page 5-Don't panic if she bolts away from you when you are walking down the street, in heels of course, and in between taxis and emits a shrill cry of "I HAVE ONE". This is Marcia's simplistic homage to the French bulldog.
Page 6- You can tell the aproximate time of her departure from the apartment by how many of her footprints have DRIED. A Marcia Trademark.
Page 7- Yes, she is eating Rembrandt Toothpaste and a tube is nestled in her bra.
Page 8- There's a magnet under her skin which pulls all of the Janovic Plaza painters in.
Page 9-Her friends are either crazy, drunk or stoned as coots (or my favorite ALL OF THE ABOVE)-EDITORS COMMENT-They aren't all crazy-there is Deenie and there were a couple of fellow divorcees with a predilection for Xanax
Page 10-Black is her signature color (it goes with her Top Hats and Hasidum Hats).
Page 11- She tis at McDonalds.......she always claimed she did and I have witnessed her in action-she says it makes them feel like they are in the service industries and she is right
Page 12- If all taxis are off duty she will stick out a leg and both arms and this is the official Ghetto Cab flag-down.
Page 13-Her ideal moment of happiness is being with the Belle and me and takes place on the subway when a mariachi bands is bustin' out on the platform.
Page 14-Her stalkers (she has many) consist of 95% of all phone calls. The rest is business & possible a call or two from the OLDEST 9 year old you'll ever know.
Page 15- Anabelle let your Mother put on her make-up in Peace...in the subway, at the dinner table, in the taxi, at the D & D Building, at your school, at the doctors, at Tepper Galleries, at the park, at the orthodontist, on the toilet, on the phone, at the concert.....
Page 16- Dennis Leary and Tommy Lee . Say no more MMMMMMM....
Page 17- She works like a bit*h. More like a hustler really.
Page 18-Open to all religions...Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Kabbalah, The Ministry of Cars.
Page 19- I assure you it is nothing you said...Marcia always thinks she has cancer...
Page 20- And she is always quitting smoking....
Page 21- Yet somehow is cancer-less and still smoking...
Page 22- Pellegrino with LEMON thanks!
Page 23- Patience of a Saint. Schedule of a Vampire.
Page 24- Hard to believe she is not a high-dollar hooker. Hard to believe I know, but she is a prude. I SWEAR!
Page 25- Smokes Old Lady Cigarettes. So does Dennis Leary. is it fate with the Marlboro 100's man???
Page 26- The best MOM ever!
Page 27-And best God Mother-( Well, thats a GIVEN)
Page 28- Why go all the way to the Library when Marcia's room is next door?
Page 29- She claims she is always early but I've noticed she always 30 minutes to an hour early-she thinks being late is dissing
Page 30- Shes's certainly got a thing for the geezers.
Page 31- She WILL get IT photographed-Whatever IT may be.
Page 32- She never eats and says she is a Chia Pet and lives on air.
Page 33- She always sleeps with earplugs and then the dog, Noel, sh*ts them out.
Page 34- Christmas stockings are always hung by the chimney with care-in AUGUST.
Page 35- Codename? Swifferella
Page 36- The worlds oldest backup singer.
Page 37- Welcome, you've got mail-17,536 new messages and she checks it everyday!.
Page 38- No, she just didn't do a line-she is just like that.
Page 39- Yep, she's read it!
Page 40- Wash clothes with cascade in event of no detergent (then light your hair on fire with the stove....Marcia Trademark).