Monday Madness

Television

1. Currently, what television commercial is your least favorite?
I don't watch commercials now that I have DVR. I rarely watch "live" tv just so that I don't have to watch commercials. PBS is the only thing I watch "live".

2. And which commercial is your most favorite?


I saw this commercial one day when I was about to start watching something recorded. I think I rewound and watched it about 3 times, LOL. I love it!

3. Of the sitcoms that are on during "prime time" how many do you watch on a regular basis? Please share.
Notes from the Underbelly - ABC
I record "Everybody Hates Chris" (WB)for The Boy, but I don't normally watch it.
I also record "Til Death" (Fox) for The Boy. Sometimes I watch it. But I'm not upset if I miss it, either.

I think that's it? Comedy is not my favorite genre.

4. Is there a television series that you enjoy watching that is ending this season?
Not that I know of... It wouldn't be unusual for me to start watching a TV show once I know it's ending. That's when I started watching "Everybody loves Raymond" and I liked it a lot! (It's on all the time in syndication.)

5. Is there any type of program you'd like to see more of on television?
Absolutely Fabulous. We need another CSI, LOL. CSI:Shreveport... ;-p

6. Is there any type of program you'd like to see less of on television?
ALL of the effing gone without a trace type of stuff. Law & Order.

7. Is there a series that is no longer aired that you wish would come back?
Homefront. But all those people are on various other shows now. One of them is Gabby's fiance on Desperate Housewives. He's cute.

8. Do you watch re-runs of anything on television?
Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Sometimes Bernie Mac. If I see that "Everybody Loves Raymond" is the one when Deborah had PMS, I watch it. :-) 24. I think I missed a season somewhere. So I have to watch until I see that "day".

Saturday Photo Scavenger Hunt 55

Today's theme is Rare. Shockingly, neither TNChick or Sue have their pics up yet, LOL.

**Update** I just found out that TNChick is having some health issues. Stop by and wish her well!

YAY! I beat them both. :-) Insomnia is good for something, LOL.



We rarely get snow in my little corner of the world. If it does snow, it's at 2 AM. It's not enough to accumulate. And it melts before The Boy gets up for school so he never gets to see it, let alone make a snowball. :-(

The last time it snowed enough to have a real snowball fight was about...4 1/2 years ago. I remember because my cousin was still pregnant at the time and Evan told her she looked like a snowman. HA!

The year we (Mommy Dearest and I) moved here from Maryland, it snowed about 6 feet. Everyone said that we had brought our weather with us. I would LOVE that weather now that I don't have to shovel snow anymore.

But last winter (2006) it snowed enough to stick! I think we got about 2 inches, LOL.

And yes, school was cancelled.

When I was 14, in MD, it had snowed about 4 feet by the time I woke up to go to school one day. They didn't even delay school. Of course, it didn't stop snowing and it was noon before the geniuses at the School Board decided to close school. By that time, the roads were all iced over.

We had to drop every kid off at their house instead of the bus stop. I think I got home around 10pm that night.

I wish we'd have a really big snow like that at least once for Evan's sake. He'd love it! :-)

Photo Friday - Before & After

Today's theme at Crazy Hip Blog Mamas is Before & After.

Evan is the easiest b&a to do, LOL.



He's 3 months old in the first picture. And he's the 11 year old linebacker with the massive shoulders in the second. :-)

As I was reading the comments at CHBM, I saw that Adventures in Babywearing is having a contest. They want bloggers to show themselves without makeup and before any retouching and then after.

*gulp*

So here's my entry.



The Before picture is a real smile. All gums. No makeup (obviously. I'm Oprah ugly in that picture) and no retouching. The After is me with makeup (YAY!), Gray contact lenses, a fake smile and some color added to my face.

The weird thing is, I don't usually wear makeup. So the Before is what everyone sees, LOL. I'll have to remember not to smile for real in public...

I have a massive headache

After I picked Evan up at tutoring today, I laid on the heating pad and fell asleep.

I woke up about 30 minutes ago. With the massive headache. Apparently 5 hours of sleep in one stretch is too much for my body to handle.

Post whored at JJHF. (I haven't done that in a while)

Now, just some random stuff that I've wanted to post about for days but I didn't think they each deserved their own post.

I can't remember.

LMFAO!

1. I don't know when showing your roots became acceptable.

We've all seen the women who think they should have been born blonde so they bleach their mahogany colored hair to a fried yellow color. But the other day I saw a woman with 3 inches (3!!!) of gray hair, and then a red that is nowhere in the natural spectrum of color. I've seen the 80 year old women with jet black hair.

Please go to a fucking salon, people. They will tell you that you need to touch up your roots every once in a while. I think the recommended time is 6 weeks. They will also inform you that you will not fool anyone with jet black hair.

Jet black hair doesn't even look natural on me.

I found this out by dyeing my hair jet black.

My hair is dark chocolate, apparently.

2. Some 80s music is still REALLY good.

I listened to it Wednesday night. And I found myself thinking "Wow! This is still an awesome song." Normally I just want to hear one song from that era. But I guess I got distracted doing something else so I listened to quite a lot of it.

Some of those songs could still be hits today.

Others are so incredibly stupid, I realize that I must have been out of my mind when I listened to them at 13, LOL.

I was such a Valley Girl back then. Oh My Gawd. Like, after I moved here to the boonies (gag me with a spoon), we went back for a visit. I, like, called my old friends. They, like said "like" every other word. They, like, sounded soooooooo stupid. I realized I must have sounded like that while I lived there.

That's when I decided to eliminate superfluous words from my conversation.

I don't say "Um" or "uh" in real life. I'm sure I sound 10X more intelligent in real life than I sound on this blog, LOL. If the names on this blog were different, I bet people in this town could read it and not know who this person was.

That's interesting...

There's the Public Angelika, and the At Home Angelika. The Public Angelika is very shy and terrified of looking stupid. So I don't speak ebonics or say "whatever" in public. Only at home or with family/friends.

That's why everyone is intimidated by me. After I get to know someone, they say "I was afraid to talk to you."

Good.

But anyway, it takes me a while to warm up and relax around people.

I've noticed that there's a Public Evan and an At Home Evan too.

In public, or at school, he speaks the same way I do. That's why everyone thinks he's a genius. (Great!) Then he comes home and puts on this fake southern accent.

Whenever he calls his Nana, he speaks to her with that accent.

She mentioned it to me one day. I said "I guess he feels relaxed around you."

The Boy is not one eighth as shy as I am. He'll talk to anyone. Really. But I wonder if he feels tense in public. Why does HE change how he speaks when he's in a relaxed environment? I know why I do it.

Or maybe I'm just manufacturing things to worry about?

Probably.

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Advil has finally kicked in! Now I can watch all the shit that taped while I slept. :-)

3. or Whatever. I don't do well with lists.

I practically shaved my head. I cut it off to 1/4 of an inch with the clippers. I had been trying to grow it out enough to braid it again for the summer. It got to about 3 inches. But it was soooooooooo big with the afro. It disturbed me. I turned my head and the hair wouldn't move, LMAO! I didn't want to perm it because I KNOW I will not keep up with the touch ups like I should and it's too short to be able to just comb the top hair over all the kinky hair underneath until I can get it done.

Anyway, I can feel my scalp again!!!!

But every time I go to the bathroom and see myself, I look like my brother. Which is ok. He's cute too. But he's a boy man. I don't want to look like a man.

I'll put some makeup on one day and take a picture. It will have to be soon because my hair grows fast. Especially when the weather is hot. Which is why I should have braided it, LOL.

Pfeh!

I'll get a wig. Like Britney. *hurl*

I can't remember anything else I had intended to write about.

But since I won't be sleeping anymore for the next 24 hours (if history is any indication), I might come back and amend this post.

:-)

Top Champ has been interviewed.

See her post here.

13 Songs I loved in the 80s

First I have to say that I'm not entirely sure these are all in the 80s, LOL. I'm listening to my 80s playlist right now. But if you're that anal about when the songs were released, you're on the wrong blog.

1. Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel
2. Kyrie - Mr. Mister
3. Pour Some Sugar on Me - Def Leopard
4. Come on Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners
5. Let's Go All the Way - Sly Foxx
6. Jesse's Girl - Rick Springfield
7. Wishing Well - Terence Trent D'arby
8. Oh Sherry - Journey
9. I Think We're Alone Now - Tiffany (shut up)
10. Everything she wants - Wham!
11. I Like It - El Debarge
12. I'm Just a Gigolo - David Lee Roth
13. If you don't know me by now - Simply Red

It was hard to only pick 13. Maybe I should have done 113. ;-)

The last 2 days

Well after I tried getting the smell out of the microwave, Mommy Dearest came over at 3:30 (right after I realized that Evan hadn't gotten off the school bus) and told me that he stayed for tutoring (he needs help with math) and to pick him up in back of the school at 4:10.

Fine.

I did. On the way home, I remembered to get a newspaper to stuff in the microwave. (It worked pretty well! A LOT of the smell is gone. I still have more newspaper left so I'm going to stuff it again tonight and see if it gets the last of the smell out.)

Then she came back at 4:30 and scared us both to death by knocking on the sliding glass door like she was the fucking police.

She asked us if we wanted to go out to dinner. So we did.

I ate a big salad with broccoli and carrots & hardboiled egg and sunflower kernels. (I've been craving salad lately) & They had these "rolls" that tasted like a fried canned biscuit to me. I stuffed it with peaches from the salad bar and that was my dessert, LOL.

Then we went to wal-mart and she bought a cell phone *thud*. She thinks she needs it for emergencies. She wanted me to bring it home and charge it up and make sure it was activated.

Me - No. I don't want to open that plastic. And if I do it and tell you about it, you'll never remember and be asking me constantly how to use your phone.
She - FINE!

I think that's all.

My back hurt sooooooooo bad. And I was itching. I made Evan scratch my back. I put some lotion on my back and while I was doing that, I found a tender spot right above my crack, LOL. It felt swollen? I haven't fallen lately. I popped a Lortab. (one of the ones from Candyman) I don't remember anything else after that.

Except at about 1 am I started watching all the shit the DVR had taped. I didn't watch House until 5 am!! I almost forgot about it! (I save a couple of episodes of House at all times, so I didn't immediately notice that a new one had taped.)

Then I fell asleep again at about 8 am. Woke up at one. Got on and found Foto Pherret. I was doing a layout when Mommy Dearest came over again. *sigh*

That was about 2:30. She had only come to watch Al. But I finished my layout while she watched QVC and kept telling me to write down numbers of shit she wanted to buy.

I gave her a pen.

I finished the layout, coincidentally, just as Evan got off the school bus. Then I let her watch AL.

She just left. That's 3 1/2 gee dee hours.

Luckily I was asleep most of the time, LOL.

I only woke up when Evan made her listen to one of Martin's songs (Sue's husband). He made her listen to the whole song. Then he was going to make her listen to another one and she started screaming that she was leaving.

I'll have to remember that for the next time she comes over, LOL. She likes Al Green & Gospel. Justin Timberlake and Prince. That's about it.

Oh! While I was doing my layout, she was telling me that she went to the bank and asked them if they had any 'favors' other than calendars. She got a whole bunch of shit, I don't remember. But then she said "Now see, they only give that stuff to white people. If I hadn't asked, I wouldn't have gotten it."

Me - It's not the sixties anymore you know. Not EVERY white person is prejudice. I'm sure they're not handing out shit to every white person that walks in the door. You probably just have to ASK.

She - *shutting up*.

I hate that kind of talk. She acts like a goddamned victim. Like "the man" is trying to keep her from getting anything. I especially hate it when she talks like that around Evan. He's bi-racial. WTF is she thinking???

Foto Pherrets - Music

I was looking for something to post about today. I found Foto Pherrets. The theme this week is Music.

So here's my photo.



These were photos taken at the Discovery Museum in Chattanooga, TN. The sidewalk is downtown Chatt.

Tackle it Tuesday - 4/24/07

I don't have any pictures. But my tackle, that I did at about 1 am, was cleaning the microwave.

I buy TV dinners for when I don't feel like cooking. Evan does all the microwave cooking. He is the Microwave Master.

Yesterday I decided to microwave a burrito. In gladware.

I read the directions. They said, for a frozen burrito, cook time was 4-6 minutes. So I put it in there for 6 minutes because whenever I cook stuff for the shortest amount of time it's not hot enough.

So I was sitting down watching Charmed (or something) when the microwave beeped. I figured it was about time for a commercial, so I decided to wait to go get the burrito.

I started smelling smoke.

So I got up and went to the microwave. The kitchen had some smoke. When I opened the microwave, 150 cubic feet of smoke poured out. I slammed it shut. Then I got a potholder and got the gladware out of the microwave and put it in the sink of soapy water.

It was all melted. LOL. Funny how I always tell Evan to "be sure to use a ceramic plate" when he's microwave cooking, but I forget.

I had to open the back door and turn on the fan above the stove to try and get the smoke out.

Anyway.

When Evan got home from school, he smelled the burnt smell. He asked what happened.

Me - I burned a burrito
He - How long did you put it in there for?
Me - 6 minutes.
He - 6 MINUTES?!?! You're supposed to put it on 60 seconds for one burrito
Me - But it was frozen
He - Obviously not that frozen
Me - Shut up, Mr. Smarty Pants.

The inside of the microwave looked coffee colored. So last night/this morning while I was up I bleached the heck out of it and used some baking soda & stuff. I didn't want to use BAM! or anything more 'toxic' because we heat food in there, you know?

Now it's lightly tea colored.

I tried boiling some lemon water in there because it still smells like smoke. It didn't work. I think I'll have to park some baking soda in there, when it's not in use, until the smell is gone.

But that is my Tackle it story for this Tuesday.

*Update* I've found this site that had suggestions for removing microwave smells. The lemon didn't work for me, but I'm off to try vinegar. I'll let you know if it works.

*Update 2* The vinegar didn't work. It got a little cleaner, (the sponge I was using to wipe it out kept getting dirty), but the smell is still there. So, since I don't have any newspaper (follow the link above...), I've stuffed it with crumpled printer paper and I'll leave it in there overnight. I don't think it will work completely as the paper is less porous than newspaper, butI hope that at least helps!!! I might have to go buy a paper tomorrow, LOL.

New tags

I was looking at some of my old tags and decided to create a 'credit card' for my current "home".



It makes me hungry.

So then I made one of Hugh.



It makes me hungry too...

Music Meme

The Cynic tagged me. I think he's getting me back for interviewing him...

What's your 'desert island' album?
I hate that question. How the hell would I end up on a desert island anyway? I only go to Wal-mart. But I'd take Prince - The Hits. Is there electricity on a desert island? How would I listen to the CD???

What's your favorite album/song title? (the *title* which is your fav, not the actual album or song)
Irresistible Bitch

What's your favorite album art (include an image of it if you can)?


Under the Cherry Moon. Because I can remember looking at the collage while I listened to the album. I don't pay attention to CD cover art anymore. I buy, import it to i-tunes, and never look at it again.

Ideal choice for a karaoke song?
I've never done, nor will I EVER do, karaoke. I don't get that drunk in public.

But if I had to do one, I'd do that song "Loving You" by Minnie Riperton because I still remember the time that transvestite did it on the Arsenio Hall show and it was hilarious!

Song you don't like that WILL NOT LEAVE YOUR HEAD if you hear it?
What What (In the Butt) by Samwell.

Which is cooler? -- Vinyl? CD? Cassette? 8-track?
CD. I can't play Vinyl in my car. Cassettes take too long to rewind or ff through songs. I've never actually used 8 tracks. I'm sure Mommy Dearest still has some around though. Even if she doesn't have the player. You forgot Reel to Reel...

Bloggers I'd like to tag?
Becky. Because I think she might actually do it, LOL.

I changed my blog

The BG images are different, which you probably wouldn't notice.

And I changed my header.

I futzed with the picture of me. Adding a little more color to my face because I have a sucky webcam and I look very pale & washed out in any photos I take with it.

Now I look so hot in that pic, I'd do myself.

:-)

You know that contest I won

Over at Sue's Blog?

Well, the prize was one of her husband's CDs.

I was afeered! I thought it was going to be some dude like Ross Geller (remember when Ross was playing his 'music' for his friends on Friends?). I didn't know what I'd say to her, LOL.

But it's GOOD! I've been listening to it on my i-tunes. I especially like the songs called "Kept on Raining" and "Puff".

*whew*

I'm going to send him a clip of my singing and see if he'll use me on one of his tracks...

Not.

I only torture Evan with my singing voice, LOL.

**UPDATE**

Evan likes it too. :-)

The Cynic has been interviewed.

See it HERE.

Wheeee - It's all about me

LOL.

Not really.

Sue asked to be interviewed so I sent her 5 questions. Look at her post here.

She was also having a contest and I won! *thud* I never win anything anymore since I stopped listening to the radio & being caller # 97.

Photo Hunt - Steps

Today's Theme: Steps

I was interviewed

Because I'm such a celebrity in the blogosphere.

OR

Because I asked to be, LOL.

I was visiting Why Are You Stalking Me? and I read this post. At the end, she said to comment if you wanted to be interviewed.

So I did. Because I'm a dork.

1. Name your favorite food and why? Crab legs. Because they're good. Something about having to work to get to the meat makes it taste so much better.

2. What is your favorite book of all time? Why? Of all time...Wolves of Calla from the Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. Because I've probably re-read the entire series more than any other series of books that I have and because I don't have ONE favorite book of all time. I re-read most of my Stephen Kings, most of my Anne Rices, and every time a new Harry Potter book comes out, I re-read all the others in order.

3. What is the freakiest thing you've done for money? (you thought it was a sex question didn't ya?) I do freaky shit for fun, not profit. And that is a sex answer. :-)

4. Describe the perfect date, including partner, place and content. Blech. Ice Cube shows up at my door & we have really kinky sex where he slaps my ass, pulls my hair, and calls me "Bitch". Then we go to some Soul Food restaurant in 'the hood' and have stuffed pork chops. We have to eat AFTER the sex because all that heavy food might impair his performance...

5. If you could be anything in the world, money were no object, what would it be and why? I would be what I am now, but in my own house (with a pool), a better computer, and a kickass stereo system that made the walls shake. :-)

If you want to continue, here are the rules:
1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I will respond by emailing you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. You will update your blog with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.

So I was surfing

And I found this post from a link on Jenn's blog. You have to read it. Especially if you're the mother of a pre-pubescent boy.

:-)

Friday Fifteen

15 things I swear I'll never do

1. Bungee Jump
2. Kill my mother
3. Hire a hitman to kill my mother
4. Have another child
5. Skydive
6. Have my body frozen until they find a cure for MS
7. Go to Africa
8. Go on the Pamplona Bull Run
9. Snowboard
10. Solve a Rubik's Cube without taking it apart first
11. Go on Jerry Springer
12. Get a tattoo
13. Go to Egypt
14. Read a tabloid
15. Stop procrastinating

This is the part!

My favorite part from Madea Goes to Jail.

Evan and I have been having a Madeathon today. :-)



Make sure you watch Part 2!

What color should your blog be?

Your Blog Should Be Yellow

You're a cheerful, upbeat blogger who tends to make everyone laugh. You are a great storyteller, and the first to post the latest funny link. You're also friendly and welcoming to everyone who comments on your blog.

What Color Should Your Blog or Journal Be?

HA! LMAO @ the explanation. Cheerful?

Thursday Thirteen - Cancelled TV Shows

This is a list of TV shows that I liked that have been cancelled. In no particular order.

Studio 60 - Starring Matthew Perry

Me and the boys - Starring Steve Harvey

Homefront - Starring Kyle Chandler and Mimi Kennedy

Dark Angel - Starring Jessica Alba

Dead Like Me - Starring Jasmine Guy and Mandy Patinkin

Any Day Now - Starring Annie Potts and Lorraine Toussaint

Angel - Starring David Boreanaz

Charmed - Starring Holly Marie Combs & Alyssa Milano

The X-files - Starring David Duchovny

John Doe - Starring Dominic Purcell

The Practice - Starring Dylan McDermott

Daybreak - Starring Taye Diggs

My So-Called Life - Starring Clare Danes

I really liked Studio 60. It makes me so mad that they (NBC in this case) would rather have game shows or idiotic reality shows instead of a SMART & funny dramedy show. It didn't get a fair chance.

I LOVED Homefront. It was cancelled in '91. They briefly showed it on one of those other networks, like Lifetime or something, but then they didn't even keep that up. :-( It was set in the 1940s, so there wasn't all the sex & violence that are on shows these days. It was sweet. :-)

Dead Like Me was on HBO, so I never saw it until it came on Sci-fi in syndication, but I think it's hilarious! I haven't seen it lately, so I hope Sci-fi brings it back.

Any Day Now was about 2 girls (one black & one white) who grew up as friends in the 50s or 60s. They showed the women as they were in present day, and then flashbacked to them as children. This is another show I didn't get into until I saw it in syndication. I think they had it on lifetime, but I haven't seen it lately.

Charmed was a big part of my Sunday Nights. Towards the end, they started repeating themselves, but it was still a good show. I was really into it when Julian McMahon was on there, LOL. Plus I can watch it in syndication on TNT. :-)

Angel is another show that had probably run it's course, but I still miss it. I loved the relationship between Angel & Spike. Again, I can watch it on TNT so it's all good. :-)

That is all. I'm too tired to get into each and every show.

Technorati Favorites

So I was visiting all the other Wordless Wednesday peeps, and I found this blog. DoshDosh is having a Technorati Favorites Exchange. The benefits of this experiment are increasing your ranking on Technorati. You favorite all the people in the favorites list, and then add new links to the list. Copy this post as a new post on your blog. Change the wording, add some different keywords, then go favoriting.

I'm going to try it and see how it works. :-)

***Copy from Here to the Bottom:***

Follow these rules below:

1) "Favorite" all the blogs listed in this post on Technorati.

2) Write a new introduction of how you found this list, and include a link to this post or this blog as being the referrer to this list.

3) COPY the Rules and ENTIRE List below and paste it in your new post. To avoid duplicate content and increase the amount of keywords, change up the title and some of the language in the post. Don’t just change the links of the blog.

4) Take all of the “My New Faves” from the post that linked you and cut and paste to the “Original Faves” below in your new post.

5) Add five or less faves to your “My New Faves” List along with a link to fave them. (You can just copy and paste the urls from the originals below so you don’t have to hunt down each blog ID on Technorati.)

My New Faves

The Freelance Cynic - Fave the Site


The Original Faves

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PollywogsPond-Fave the Site
MyViewofIt-Fave the Site
ComedyPlus-Fave the Site
Shadowscope-Fave the Site
theapp.net-Fave the Site
Miles Business Blog-Fave the Site
The Pond-Fave the Site
ah ok lah - blogosphere and life-Fave the Site
CoolAdzine for Marketers-Fave the Site

Digital Nomads-Fave the Site
Soho Quest-Fave the Site
The Sovereign Journey-Fave the Site
Internet Serious Business-Fave the Site

Stephen Fung - Fave the Site (Add him to your favorites and he will donate to charity)
Ed Lau - Fave the Site
QMusings - Fave the Site

Gary Lee - Fave the Site
Dosh Dosh - Fave the Site
Nate Whitehill - Fave the Site

Ms. Danielle - Fave the Site
Jeff Kee - Fave the Site
Scribble on the Wall - Fave the Site

ChaCha - Fave the Site
Jon Lee - Fave the Site
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Eat Drink & Be Merry - Fave the Site
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Hannes Johnson - Fave the Site
My Dandelion Patch - Fave the Site

Nathan Drach - Fave the Site
SiteLogic - Fave the Site
Julies Journal - Fave the Site
***Stop Copying Here***

Just Stuff

VA Tech

I've often felt there was something wrong with me internally.

Because I react differently to situations than it seems like everyone else in the world does.

Like Virginia Tech. I think it's crazy. I think it's sad. But...bad shit happens.

Jenn wrote a post about it on her blog. A lot of people have. And there's, apparently, going to be a day of silence in the blogoshpere on 4/30 in honor (I don't think that's the right word) of the tragedy.

I think there's something wrong with me because I didn't feel compelled to write about it. I really didn't feel anything. I don't know any of those people. I don't know anyone who does know those people.

I'm sure millions (not that millions of people read this blog) of people would tell me "But don't you feel empathy/sympathy for all the people who were affected?"

I guess, in the abstract. But it won't change my life in any way.

Same with Hurricane Katrina. It was sad, but I didn't know anyone personally affected by it. It didn't occupy my thoughts....

That's why I think there's something wrong with me. Something missing in my makeup.

I just have too much shit to deal with in my own life to get worked up over any and everybody else's shit.

If I had the opportunity to add that missing component called "sympathy" to my personality, I'm not sure I would. I can't handle anything else at the moment.

American Idol


FINALLY voted off American Idol. Good. It was way past time.

Life
It feels like Friday since Evan isn't here. He usually only spends the night with his Nana on Fridays. I keep waiting for "Best Week Ever" to come on, LOL. So odd.

My back hurts soooooooo bad. Like I'm trying to think who I know that has some Vicodin so that I don't have to pay for an ER visit bad.

I'm pissed off. Not about anything specific, just pissed.

Wordfilled Wednesday - Frustrated

This is how I feel right now.

Wooooosah.

Evan is spending the night with my mother tonight.

Usually when he spends the night, she picks him up after 5 pm. Because she doesn't like to cook. So if she picks him up after dinner, she only has to cook breakfast the next day.

So I decide to go to Wal-mart to do some grocery shopping. At 3:30. Evan called my mother before we left to ask exactly when she was going to pick him up. No answer. He left a message.

We did the grocery shopping and got home at about 4:45. I checked my messages. She left me a long ass rambling message that I deleted before I'd listened to the whole thing (I tend to delete all of her messages as soon as I hear her voice because she doesn't understand the concept of "Clear and Concise" messages). She drove over here twice to pick him up. Once before we called, and then again right after she got our message.

When I dropped him off, she said, with much attitude, "Where were you people? I've been over there twice already."
Me - *Instantly pissed off* WHY have you been there twice? Normally when you pick him up, you do it AFTER dinner because you don't like to cook, right?
She - *nothing*
Me - So when we weren't there the first time, WHY would you go over there a second time AFTER you'd gotten the message asking when you were picking him up? WHY wouldn't you wait for us to call again???
She - *nothing*
Me - NORMALLY, you wouldn't get out of your damned recliner to drive over here TWICE without KNOWING that we're at home!
She - Well...I tried to call, but you didn't answer the phone.
Me - Exactly, which is why you shouldn't have driven back over there before you spoke to us!
She - Well you don't always answer your phone you know.
Me - That's because I have caller ID. Whatever. You're right, I'm wrong.
She - Well I don't know who's right or wrong -
Me - I don't CARE who's right or wrong. My back is killing me and I want to go home. I'm tired of this conversation.
She - Leave then.
Me - *Leaving without another word*

What frustrates me so much is that I allow her to push all my fucking buttons. Almost every time I see her it's like I'm sixteen again feeling FULL HATRED for her.I wish I had the fortitude to IGNORE THE FUCKING SPAWN OF SATAN ALL THE TIME.

On top of HER, I'm cutting back on my smoking.

Which leaves me in a permanent state of Pissosity.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

I'm out.

Tackle it Tuesday - Part 2

I did it.

It was hard, LOL.

I didn't get to sleep until almost 10 this morning. Well, YESTERDAY, technically. But then I woke up every effing hour to go to the bathroom. Then Mommy Dearest came over today at 12 to take Evan out to lunch. (He has Spring Break this week).

Then I couldn't get back to sleep.

So I finished about half the book. Fell asleep. Started having the weirdest dream that Evan had come home and I couldn't answer him. In the dream, I was SCREAMING in my head but all that came out was "mmmmmm" (Sometimes people with Multiple Sclerosis have something that's like paralysis where they can't react visually/audibly to the people around them. I forget what it's called. It usually happens when they get overheated. I've had so many times when I'm TRYING to speak or move and nothing happens. And of course that gets you upset, which doesn't help. But that's a story for another day.) Anyway, when I finally got my eyes open, it had only been about 10 minutes, LOL.

I got up, ate breakfast, and read some more.

Then my mother brought The Boy back at 7pm and stayed until 8.... *sigh* (Totally cutting into my reading time, irked me to no end. I was a woman on a mission!! I thought he was going to spend the night he was gone for so long...)

Whatever.

I LOVED the book. It's a sequel (of sorts) to Odd Thomas.

Odd Thomas, the main character's name, is a youngish (I think he's in his 20s) guy who sees dead people. One of the ghosts that he sees regularly is Elvis.

Anywhoo, one day the father of his BFF (Danny) shows up in his bedroom. So Odd assumes that he's dead (the father, not the BFF). He goes to the Danny's house, finds the father dead and his BFF missing and he sets out on a mission to find him. His BFF has that "Brittle Bone" condition, Osteogenesis Imperfecta. So of course Odd's worried about him.

That's where he meets Datura. She is described as "... a syphilitic suicide bomber with mad cow disease." HA! I think that's an accurate description of Datura. She's a crazy woman who thinks she's an Invincible Supernatural Adept (or something). Seriously sociopathic. More insane than Jeffrey Dahmer.

One of the things about Dean Koontz (and Stephen King) that I love is that he can totally gross me out in one sentence, and then have me laughing out loud the next.

At one point, Odd is hiding from the bad guys in a storm drain. He starts imagining really horrible ghosties/apparitions are coming for him. He writes:

"...my imagination spins into vortexes darker than any yours has ever visited.

Don't get me wrong. I'm sure you've got a fabulously dark, twisted, and perhaps even deeply sick imagination. I'm not trying to devalue the dementedness of your imagination and do not mean to diminish your pride in it."

LOL! Because, really, I was thinking "He doesn't know how twisted my mind is..." and then I read that. :-)

Thank you, Mr. Koontz, for not trying to diminish the pride I have in my sick and twisted imagination, LMAO!

I have to give this book 5 out of 5 stars because:
1. I can
2. Dean Koontz is a great thriller writer
3. There's a great M. Night Shyamalan "twist" at the end of the book that I wasn't expecting AT ALL. :-)

I recommend this book to thriller/mystery lovers whole heartedly.

Now I'm off to go visit the other Tackle it Tuesday participants.

Tackle it Tuesday - 4/17/07

Today, I'm going to read an entire book.

Before I had this computer, I went to the library every Monday and checked out 7 books. I'd read a book a day, and then return them and check new ones out the next Monday.

It took me since December to read "Inkheart". I'm ashamed, LOL. I've read whole Harry Potter books (which are HUGE) in 12 hours.

So, I WILL NOT get back on this computer until I finish an entire book.

Last year sometime, I got several books from Amazon. I think I've read 2 of them. One was The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie (probably why I finished it the day after I got it). And something else.

I still have about 5 I haven't read.

So I'm going to read Forever Odd by Dean Koontz.

I'll visit all the other Tackle it Tuesday blogs after I'm done.

See you later. :-)

SoyJoy Bars

In the mail today I got a picture of my future Daughter in Law, Hannah (thanks Becky!) and a free sample of SoyJoy Bars.



They're made of soy & dried fruit. I got mango/coconut, berry and apple.

I tried the Mango one. It had the texture of carboard, but it tasted really good! I ate the whole thing. It has 0g Trans Fat, 140 calories, 4g Protien and it's Gluten Free.

So I just ate something good for me. DAMN DAMN DAMN.

I gave the Apple to Evan. He took one bite and spit it out. I haven't tried it yet.

When I got the sample, I promised to give 2 bars to my friends. Evan counts as one. I don't know if I'll give the last one to Mommy Dearest or not. She's not my friend.

And I think advertising on my blog is worth giving a bar to a friend, don't you?

Plus giving it to someone else would require that I leave the house...

Yippie Skippie!

My Scrapbook Freebie is up at Luckybug!



Get it here.

You can get other freebies there too. I'm partial to Pillowgirl. :-)



click & comment monday

Madea

I LOVE Madea.

Anyway, I just re-watched that video clip from The Money Pit (previous post) and decided to search for Madea.

Here's one I found.



I've never seen a Tyler Perry Play that didn't have that speech from "The Color Purple in it somewhere. It woudln't be Madea if he couldn't fit it into The Black Movie awards somewhere. (he was hosting)



I think this is my favorite Tyler Perry Play. "Madea's Class Reunion"


I often wonder if people who aren't black get all of the pop culture references in his plays. Comment if you don't know WTF he's doing/talking about when he's talking to the chick on the settee, please.

From "Why did I get married?"


From "Madea goes to jail". This is the first time we (the audience) had ever heard Tyler Perry sing. Usually I FF through the songs in his plays, because they're religious and/or stuff that's before my time. But in this play there's a scene where everybody sings (not all at the same time) and those are songs that I know and can sing along to. :-) This clip is just Madea singing, though.


THIS is why I watch Tyler Perry plays. There's always has a lesson in there. I still haven't accepted the "Forgiveness" lesson, but I'm working on it.

Movie Meme

I searched for Movie Memes on Google and I found this one. I'll try to stick to naming just one movie. :-)

Also, none of my blog posts seem to be showing up as Technorati tags, so I'm tagging the shit out of this one to see if that helps, LOL.

1.Name a movie that you have seen more than 10 times. The Rundown

2.Name a movie that you’ve seen multiple times in the theater. There isn't one. Why the hell would I pay to see a movie over and over in the theater when I can buy it on DVD?

3.Name an actor who would make you more inclined to see a movie. Morgan Freeman

4.Name an actor who would make you less likely to see a movie. Halle Berry

5.Name a movie that you can and do quote from. Harlem Nights I often say "Now I got to cut you" to The Boy when he's getting on my nerves.

6.Name a movie musical that you know all of the lyrics to all of the songs. Purple Rain In general, I don't like musicals. Exceptions are Purple Rain, Grease and The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

7.Name a movie that you have been known to sing along with. The Rocky Horror Picture Show. I was such a fan when I was younger my roommates got me got me the VHS tape & a book about the movie, LOL. I dragged them to see it live once. :-)

8.Name a movie that you would recommend everyone see. That's a hard one... I'll say Imitation of Life because I can't think of anything else, and it's one of the few movies that's ever made me cry. I've cried more than once watching that.

9.Name a movie that you own. Just one? *sigh* The One, LMAO!

10.Name an actor that launched his/her entertainment career in another medium but surprised you with his/her acting chops. Another hard one. Donnie Wahlberg He started out in New Kids on the Block. I've seen him in several movies. The one that surprised me the most was The Sixth Sense because I didn't even recognize him! OMG! I was just looking at his fimlmography and he was in Dreamcatcher too! He played Duddits. I didn't know that until JUST NOW. I knew the actor looked familiar, but I could never figure out who he was. I guess I never read the credits.

11.Have you ever seen a movie in a drive-in? If so, what? No

12.Ever made out in a movie? Yes. The movie was Falling Down. I couldn't have told you what the movie was about right after seeing it, LOL. I still can't, really. I know that I've seen it since and I know that it sucked. That's all.

13.Name a movie that you keep meaning to see but just haven’t yet gotten around to it. I don't know. There are movies that I haven't seen because they don't interest me, but they're "classics" so I feel like I should see them. Like The Godfather. But I really don't want to see it, LOL.

14.Ever walked out of a movie? No, but I should have. Robin Hood Men in Tights. My SIL STILL owes me $3.75 for that piece of offal. She recommended it. ???

15.Name a movie that made you cry in the theater. Beloved. I have to explain why I saw that movie. Everybody knows that I hate Oprah. But when the movie was first released she had a contest and said if you went to see the piece of crap on opening weekend and sent her an e-mail, you might get to be on the show where she talked to viewers of the movie at a dinner party or whatever. Like a book club dinner. I sent a scathing e-mail. Needless to say, I was not on that show, LOL.

What made me cry is the scene where Sethe had tried to kill all of her kids and then she swung the baby at this other dude. I couldn't believe a mother would do that to her own kids. I mean, I understood her reasons for doing it, but it still had me sobbing in the theater.

16.What’s the last movie you saw in the theater? Batman Begins or Star Wars III. I think we saw them both the same day.

17.What’s your favorite/preferred genre of movie? Suspense

18.What’s the first movie you remember seeing in the theater? ET. I was 10. My dad took me and a friend to see it. HE cried, LMAO! He cried at The Color Purple too, or so my mother has said.

19.What movie do you wish you had never seen? Pootietang.

20.What is the weirdest movie you enjoyed? I don't know. Define wierd. Snatch I guess.

21.What is the scariest movie you’ve seen? Movies don't scare me.

22.What is the funniest movie you’ve seen? I can't quantify that! Some movies make me LMAO the first time I see them (like Jackass), but then never again. Some movies make me laugh EVERY time I see them. The scene that always makes me laugh is in The Money Pit. When Tom Hanks' character has carried all those buckets of water up the stairs and after he dumps the last one in, the tub falls through the floor. He goes into this hysterical laugh, LOL. I just re-watched the clip on youtube. It made me laugh so hard my stomach is cramping now. Or maybe the cramps are from the 3 cups of hot sauce I had on my hot wings...

Random

First, I was going to mess around with some pics of Evan.

I found these 4 pictures.



That's what happens, apparently, when I'm in another room. The boy decides to be GI Joe on the Webcam.

LMAO!

He's insane.

I found this site where you can become an M&M.

Here's me



I don't have dreadlocks. But I do wear my glasses at home. She is a "Domestic Goddess".

Here's Evan



They didn't have any hair that looked good, IMO. And I don't know why I couldn't change his shell color. :-(

What else?

OH! I made a few Hugh stamps. :-)



I think that's all...

Oh! Someone commented that I should be sure to let you know how Elliot Yamin's Album is.

After listening to it for 12 days, I find that I'm happy whenever his songs play. I do a chair dance, LOL. I especially love Alright (HE spelled it that way, not me), Movin On, Find a Way, or Free comes on.

If you like his voice, you should definitely buy the CD.

You MUST read Cynic today!

LMFAO!

I love this guy. :-)

Here's the post.

Photo Hunt

Today's theme is Hobby.



I have a lot of hobbies. Probably because I don't have a job/life. LMAO!

Blogging.
Obviously.

Reading.
Believe it or not. When I'm not online or watching TV, I read. Sometimes I HAVE to read. I go on a binge and read a book a day.

I use my books for decoration around my house. I'm really not into knick-knacks or whatever other people call those dust catchers they put in every available space in their houses. Could be that I still have bad memories from Mommy Dearest waking me up at 7 o'fuckingclock every geedee Saturday to dust ALL of her crap.

She - You have to MOVE stuff to dust!
Me - Why??? The dust is around the stuff, not under it!

HEH.

Listening to music
Music is SUCH a huge part of my life. I played clarinet when I was younger. My parents bought be a keyboard and electric guitar too. (When I was 13 I was going to learn every instrument possible and then go meet Prince and be a part of the Revolution.)

When I'm on the computer, I'm listening to music. When I'm in the car, I'm listening to music. Sometimes I have the TV on one of the music stations.

I couldn't live without music.

Watching TV
What else am I supposed to do when I'm up all frigging night? OMG! It's 5:06 am. *cries*

PSPing
Paintshop Pro. That's what I used to make that collage. Because I'm AWAKE. *sigh*

I'm off to try to sleep before The Boy wakes up at 7 freaking 30 and starts watching cartoons so loud that they can hear them in the next county.

How bored am I???

I decided to play around with changing my blog template.

Here's what I came up with.

But of course, I hate it, LOL.

I like the papers (background images) that I have here.

But I'm bored.

If I hadn't already cut off all my hair I'd be doing that.

*sigh*

Stuff

In case you didn't notice (and you probably didn't because it seems like no one pays attention to my sidebar). I've added 2 new links.

One is Hits & Mythses. It's a really funny blog. I found that blog voting in Battle of Blogs. You should definitely check it out.

Anyway, look:



LMAO! A closet fan? Mmmmmk.

I was just thinking something about something else I wanted to post and I've forgotten it already.

Anyway, the other one is "Why are you stalking me". She's deliciously sarcastic. I love it. Go there too.

Blog Explosion is pissing me off. I can't rent my blog because I can't accept any bids. I've noticed, though, that no one else is able to either. FIX THIS PROBLEM.

This is what happens when sites get a new server. Everything is fucked up for a while.

What WAS I going to say??? I'll probably remember after I finally go to bed tonight (meaning tomorrow morning). I hate that.

12:18 am, April 14

I remembered! LOL.

Last night I was browsing blogs and I found a tutorial about adding a rainbow gradient to a picture. I'd tell you where it was if I remembered but I don't.

Anyway, I played with the tutorial and I added a brown gradient to a pic of my face. I also messed with it in other ways. Just bored, I reckon.

So I posted the new pic as my new profile pic.

Every time I look at it, it looks so odd to me, LOL.

I think it's a pretty good tut for making yourself look better in pics. If you're vain like me. :-)



That's what I couldn't remember until I posted a comment. :-)

Handmade

Today's Photo Friday theme is: Handmade



These are a pair of pajama pants I made for Evan. I made him about 5 pair. He picked the fabrics.



I made these curtains for my bathroom. Wasn't much to that project, LOL. Just hems.



I didn't make this. But after a couple of years on the door, everything had faded. So I repainted it and added a "The Lastnames" plaque to it. :-)

What I did on Thursday

After Evan got home, we went to Wal-Mart.

I never go anywhere else, LOL.

We bought the double feature Bad Boys & Bad Boys II. I didn't like the first one. But since I haven't seen it since it was first released on VHS, I might feel differently about it.

Then I was creating a paper pack (scrabooking stuff) and when I was done, I turned on the TV.

The good thing about DVR is that it has a memory. I saw the last 30 seconds of a new show "Notes from the Underbelly" and I liked it, so I recorded that episode. Then I watched it. I liked all of it. It was funny. So I have a new series I'll be watching for a while. Provided that it isn't canceled after 3 episodes. (I think my next Thursday 13 will be canceled TV shows that I liked.)

What else did I do?

I don't remember.

Fried some chicken for dinner. I don't put any batter or whatever on it. I just fry it naked. Then drown it in Texas Pete. It's the closest thing I can get to the good Hot Wings I used to get when I lived in Tuscaloosa,AL.

The Boy fell asleep at 7:30 or something!!! I kept yelling "Are you asleep?" and he'd say "No"

See, I tape a lot of crap on DVR. Mainly so that I can watch TV when I'm up until 5 am, or when nothing else is on TV. One of the shows I tape now is "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". I used to tape Angel, but I've seen every episode twice so I started taping Buffy. Anyway, he saw one episode and since then he's been saying "Don't delete it until I watch it." *sigh*

So when he gets home, after homework, I make him watch the shows he doesn't want me to delete. Right now that's Buffy and Bernie Mac. So he was falling asleep during Buffy, but he wouldn't admit it. I KNEW he was asleep when Buffy & Angel kissed and he didn't say anything.

I told him to go to bed.

At 8:42. He didn't even argue.

He usually HAS to stay down here until it's 9:00 on the dot. Like he's being cheated out of something really good if he misses 2 minutes of commercials.

I wonder what he did at school to make him so tired today?

That is all.

Thursday Thirteen

13 things I have said today.

I don't think I've said 13 things yet. Do posts count?

1. Make sure you turn the water all the way off after you take a shower!

2. Good God, you stink.

3. What do you want to watch?

4. Turn the TV off before you leave.

5. Make sure you've turned off the air.

6. Check and make sure the water is OFF. I pay for that water. (And it STILL wasn't all the way off?!?!?!)

I haven't said anything else yet, LOL.

But here's what I predict.

7. Check the mail.

8. Do you have any homework?

9. Don't take your shoes off, we're going to Wal-mart.

10. Go see if they have a cart on the other side.

11. Go get some skim milk.

12. I don't have McDonald's money.

13. Make sure you put ALL the frozen stuff in the freezer.



thursday thirteen

Makoto Nagano

He is so fucking hot.

He's on "Ninja Warrior" on the G4 network. He's only the second man to EVER complete all four stages (on the ones I've seen).

Ninja Warrior is all about upper body strength. If you watch the show, you'll see how much he kicks ass. On the one we saw today, he completed the first stage in 49.3 seconds. Most people take at least 60 seconds, if they finish at all.

Today, my admiration for Nagano turned to a full on crush.

Evan and I started watching Ninja Warrior last year sometime. It's exciting. And I really admire the way all the competitors seem to root for each other. Which is odd to me. If I were competing, I would root for everyone else to suck, LOL.

Since I know it gets on Evan's nerves/grosses him out, I started saying stuff

Me - There's my man!
He - Shut up
Me - He's so hotttttt.
He - He's probably shorter than you (He is. I just checked. He's 5'3".)
Me - Did you see the way he pulled himself up that rope? With just his arms? He went so fast it's like they were pulling him up!
He - SHUT UP.
Me - They should just have a Makoto Nagano show. With him climbling ropes with his shirt off.
He - GROSS!
Me - It makes me happy just looking at him.
He - So if you got your leg cut off, and then you saw him, would it make you happy?
Me - It would probably make me forget about the pain.
He - What if I died.
Me - It would probably make me forget my grief.
He - 2 minutes after I died?
Me - *Sigh* It's not likely that I'll lose my leg and my son AND see Makoto Nagano all within a few minutes, Evan.
He - I thought you liked House
Me - They're in different countries! They don't have to know about each other!
He - Neither one of them even know you exist.
Me - Shut up.

Why's he such a drag? Why can't he just let me crush on men without trying to burst my bubble?

Here's a video of when Nagano won Ninja Warrior. It's in Japanese. No subtitles. His hair is NOT hot in this video, but whatever.



HOLY SHIT
They haven't started showing this in America yet. This is, apparently, the new second stage for 2007. WOW. I can't WAIT to see this here.

In this video, you can really see how the competitors are rooting for each other. How disappointed they are when one of their friends doesn't make it.

The guy in the orange pants is a fireman. I can't remember his name. But fisherman Makoto Nagano looks like he was patting him on the butt before the fireman's turn. It's ok. I still lust for him, LOL. (I can't wait to hear what Evan has to say after he sees this tomorrow.)

No Longer Available. :-(

This one shows how fast my man is. He's going against "Mr. Ninja Warrior". I don't know why they call him that since he's never won.

No Longer Available. :-(

Update: 3/25/08 Apparently, the original videos I posted are no longer available, so I've added a "Tribute" fan vid & links something else. :-)



Nagano on Viking

Part 1

Part 2
Part 3

Political Correctness

*Sigh*

Where to begin?

First of all, it pisses me off.

There was a thread today in JJHF talking about the whole Don Imus situation (He apparently called some girls' basketball team 'nappy headed hos'). I don't watch/listen to Imus, so I don't know what he said.

But then it got into political correctness.

I saw Ralphie May on Comedy Central the other day. One of his jokes was that people get upset when you call someone "Retarded" vs "Mentally Challenged" or whatever. Then he said "The retarded people aren't getting upset!"

And it's true.

Political Correctness has gone way too far.

Retarded people KNOW that they're different. But I don't know if they think the word "Retarded" is, according to the PC people, offensive.

re·tard·ed
–adjective
1. characterized by retardation: a retarded child.
–noun
2. (used with a plural verb) mentally retarded persons collectively (usually prec. by the): new schools for the retarded.

n.

1. A slowing down or hindering of progress; a delay.

Retarded means, simply put, "slow".

The word, in and of itself, is not offensive. It's just stating a fact.

Any word can be offensive if people CHOOSE to see it as such.

I am offended by the term "African American". I am not African. No one in my family (for the past several generations) is African. I did not just get off the boat.

I'm an American. I happen to be black.

If you're going to try to label me as an "African" American, you need to label every other American too. But, let's be honest, most of us are Hybrids. Or Composites. Even if both of your parents consider themselves Italian, it doesn't mean you don't have some Black, German, Asian or Latino somewhere in the mix.

Which is why it's stupid.

I think everyone knows that not all black people are BLACK. Strictly speaking, white people aren't white. They're pinkish peachy people. But if you have to put a label on what they are, everyone knows what a white person is.

How much farther will this go?

Like hate crimes.

If 2 men get into a fight, it's a fight. If one of the men is gay, it's a hate crime.

????

What if the gay guy is kicking the straight guy's ass? Is it a hate crime then? Maybe he hates heterosexuals.

*sigh*

Whatever.

I am only politically correct when I am being facetious.

I don't see that changing in the future.

Easter, Free HBO, & Jury Duty

On Easter we were supposed to go to my mother's house for lunch.

I had the backdoor trots.

And the only Pepto I had had frozen or something so it separated. No matter how much I shook it, the solids stayed at the bottom of the bottle. I took some anyway. 3 times, LOL. It didn't work.

I called her and canceled. She came over later and brought some spiral ham, mac & cheese, sweet potato casserole and I don't know what else because I still haven't looked at the plate.

So...Easter was not a good day physically.

BUT I saw a lot of movies that I hadn't been willing to rent on the free HBO that we have until the 11th.

I saw Pride & Prejudice. I liked it. But Kiera Knightley & Judi Dench NEED makeup, LMAO. Really bad. Like Oprah bad... I never noticed how much like a man Kiera looks. Or how WIDE her jaw is. Poor girl.

I saw Madagascar. I liked that too. I might buy it for Evan.

I saw Monster in Law. We had already seen that, but I liked it so I taped it and watched it again.

I saw Walk the Line. Johnny Cash had a lot in common with Ray Charles. They both lost brothers when they were kids. They were both whores. They were both on drugs. It was a lot better than I thought it would be. Juaquin was actually looking kind of sexy to me, LOL. EW. I don't know why. Because he's not attractive. But anyway, it was a good moviefilm.

I've taped Brokeback Mountain. Haven't watched it yet. I should watch it while Evan's at school. If I don't fall asleep.

So today was Jury Duty. I wrote a letter trying to get out of it. Never got a response. So I dragged my happy ass out of bed at 7am and got ready to go. I've never had jury duty before, so I don't know what kind of questions they ask during voir dire. But I was prepared to give the most outrageous answers to whatever they asked to get excused ASAP.

Got to the courthouse on time. Sat in the geedee courtroom reading a book.

Strange Woman - It's cold in here, innit?
Me - *acting deaf*
SW - It's cold in here, huh?
Me - I don't know
SW - Man I hate courtrooms! I hate coming here.
Me - Oh *raising my book to cover my face so she'd stop talking to me*

After 30 minutes, some guy comes in.

Some guy - How many people are here for Jury Duty?
Me - *raising my hand*
SG - *Looks around* Only 2?
Me - *thinking that all the other people in there were criminals!!!!!!!!!!!!!*
SG - Well, it's been canceled. We sent out letters Wednesday, but I guess you didn't get them. But we thank you for coming, blah blah jury system blah blah without people like you willing to serve. I can take you down to where you need to go to get work excuses
Me - *standing up*
SG - Ma'am, do you feel like walking down there?
Me - I don't really have any choice, do I?
SG - Well I can get it and bring it to you
Me - Can you get my car up the elevator? Because that's where I'm going.
SG - Oh. *nervous laugh*

Fuckers.

I drove 60 miles (round trip) for nothing. Wasted my damned gas. Didn't get my post "Getting Evan off to school" nap.

Bastards.

My back hurts.

I am soooooooooo tired. Of course I didn't get to sleep until 5 am. In spite of the Tylenol PMs I took at 10 pm last night to TRY and get some sleep.

I drove to Wal-mart because I need some more blank CDs. Sat in the car for a minute, decided the CDs could wait and drove home.

Now I'm here.

Obviously.

I don't even want to get up to go to bed, LOL.