MILLION QUEEN MARCH TIME!
Posted February 9th, 2009 by Jill Conner BrowneWe are in Full Parade Mode here. My Precious Darlin’ George, the HEAD Wannabe, came over Saturday and we laboriously went through ALL the big giant tubs in my garage that contain the mountains of SPQ garb–in order to determine what critical pieces are missing from each SPQ’s tub. Keeping Up with Their Crap is a full-time job. It doesn’t matter what we do–what procedure we outline for Getting All the Crap Back in the Tubs every year–every year, on Parade Day, SOMEbody ain’t got no tights or they ain’t got no boots or they ain’t got their travel hair cause it ain’t in their tub, where it is SUPPOSED to LIVE–and the Mad Scramble ensues.
Big Mystery as yet unsolved: how does Pippa manage to tear up her boots? We literally wear them ONCE A YEAR–for a FEW HOURS–on the back of a float–it’s not like we’re out hiking in the swamp in ‘em–and yet…PIPPA has managed to destroy TWO pairs of boots. Everybody else still has their same original pair of boots, that we have been painting and repainting and wearing every year for, mercy, 15 or more years? And with scarcely a visible sign of wear.
But PIPPA, in some way unfathomable to us, has managed to cause the entire sole of TWO pairs of boots to come unstitched and flap freely from the rest of the boot.
The destruction is not restricted to her boots either. ALL the other outfits are in pristine condition–they look like the first day we wore them. Except for Pippa’s–which has trimming hanging loose off every part of it, as if she tried to shimmy up a pine tree while wearing her outfit. I’m thinking that, for the preservation of her boots and outfit, she may have to be relegated to a SEATED position, with her hands folded in her lap, for the duration of the Parade.
And NO, I am NOT EVEN THINKING of letting her NEAR MY THRONE. We are going to repair her stuff ONE MORE TIME–if she’s in shambles again this year–she’ll be SITTING next year! bwahahaha!
11 Responses to “MILLION QUEEN MARCH TIME!”
February 9th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
Yes indeed keeping the flocks under control is a BIG job… a question [I don't believe I have seen answered yet in your FAQ's, don't beat me with your scepter]is if a group wants to dance for their 2 minutes in front of the bucketheads how do we get the music playing for our performance? Do we need to carry our own sound systems..haha, a big ghettoblaster on our shoulders? whats the drill?
February 9th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
Yes, you have to carry your own music but you have to dance as you go by–if you stop they will kill you. There are about 803,000 of us marching–and THEN all the floats–imagine if every group stopped, for even 30 seconds! So be sure you have a routine you can do that is in constant forward motion!
February 9th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
But, you have to remember Pippa IS The Bad Seed!! LOL
Love her anyway!! And you, of course!!
February 9th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
As IF I could EVER forget THAT!
February 9th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
LOL!!
February 11th, 2009 at 6:42 pm
HRH Phyllis and I will be holdin’ off on our batton twirlin’ routine until we can march and twirl at the same time. Right now we are workin’ on the marching…
February 12th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
Well, maybe that big ole outfit is difficult for our own tinyhiney to keep up. She is “oh so petite” ya know. I’m sure she can’t very well help it. Even IF(I mean) Though she is the bad seed… I’m sure she ain’t tearing things up on purpose. She wouldn’t do a thing like that, would she?
Although.. telling her that if she tears’em up again that she’ll be sitten… sounds like it might be “encouragement” for her to do it. I’m just sayin.
February 15th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
Pippa’s boots and clothes are kinda like paint and Cynthia…..nuttins safe. I think it has sumpin to do with cute and petite. Not sure ????
February 17th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
Or maybe all the gyrations that tiny little hiney does. You know in keeping up with HRH being so tall and statuesque, she probably has to move twice as fast and twice as many steps to appear the same, shakin all that trimmin loose and wearing out her boots? This sounds like a petite mystery of which I know nothing about!
February 26th, 2009 at 10:56 am
I KNOW for a fact I’ve seen her tap dancing in those boots. She must just scuff them up and rip off the soles in the process. (For some reason, I can’t picture her sitting with her hands folded for the duration of the parade – I don’t know why!)
February 3rd, 2010 at 4:47 pm
I’ve read it in everyone of Jill’s books, but we just moved, books are in boxes, and I need to know WHAT TOWN the peeraid is in. If I’m gonna haul my “stuff” all the way from Michigan, I need to know when to stop the car. HELP!
WAPV Tammy Wally