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ecause my back is killing me. Possibly, I took walking without the walker a little too far. I don't know.

Evan is back in school as of today. I think we're both happy about that.
My landlord came over to apologize about not giving me the kitchen makeover that he promised. But that's be cause the boy (He's 20 or something) just "up and moved" to live with his mother in the northern US. So he has to find a new maintenance man.

I don't even remember what else has happened the past few days.

But if you haven't gotten drops from me, that is why.

I dropped on my Favorite Entrecard Blogs today. I also tried to update the list with people who have at least posted THIS MONTH, but I left a couple up there that haven't updated in a while. You never know what keeps people from blogging...

Now I'm going to lay on the heating pad.

Um...no?

Your Slogan Should Be

Angelika, the Other White Meat.

The Slogan Generator

I found this on someone else's blog. I think it was Angel...be warned. She has autoplay music. But the player is right at the top so you can stop the music before it even starts, LOL.

Anyway, this test is racist. Do they assume that only white people take these tests?

Pfeh!

Another crazy dream - 4/28/08

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t started with me pulling into a parking space at some university. It was a handicapped space, but it was on a steep incline & it was very far from the entrance.

I went there to see some speech or whatever.

After the speech, as I was walking back to my car, I saw My Favorite Uncle, His Wife & their daughter. We decided to go to the mall to get something to eat before we drove home (it was a drive of several hours.)

While we were waiting to get into the mall, I saw a couple that I'd met when I first came to that university. We recognized each other. I also saw a lady with a stroller full of puppies. They were cute. Not the kind of dog I would want, but all puppies are cute. So I was playing with the puppies.

Then there was this old, ugly dog that kept trying to get me to pet it and it was so ugly that it was grossing me out.

We finally got in. We decided to use the bathroom before we ate. We started standing in a line that was at least 20 deep. When I got to the front, I found that it was a hair salon...

So I found another line that was extremely long. The attendant told us that while we were waiting, we could clean the sinks.

I'm standing there cleaning this disgusting sink with what looked like years of crusted on soap scum & whatnot with a high powered jet of water. Suddenly, I started thinking "Why the hell am I cleaning this sink? This is not my job!"

So I decided to leave & I'd use the bathroom at a fast food restaurant on my way home.

On my way out of the mall, someone offered me a cookie. It was the BEST cookie I'd ever had. I wanted more, but I wanted to get to my car more than I wanted another cookie.

On my way out, some man at a stand said:
Man - You look like you're having a bad day.
Me - I'd be fine if I could find a bathroom that didn't have a line a mile long.
Man - Here, have some cookies.

He gave me a tray of the delicious cookies. Like a cookie sheet tray. It was free. Then he offered me a tray of cake (petit fours) half were chocolate & half were vanilla.

So I walked away very happy.

Got back to my car.

Woke up.

Now, what sense does that make?

Reverend Jeremiah Wright

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id anyone else see this on CNN today? I had just finished watching Big Brother, and I happened to be on CNN (no idea why) and I caught about 20 minutes of his speech.

All I can say is that I'd go to his church! He's funny, engaging and well spoken. I believe I said "Amen" a few times, LOL. Evan liked it too.

I found the whole speech online here.









Watch and discuss!

Song of the Week - Tennessee

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his week's song is for one of my favorite states in America. Tennessee by Arrested Development.

Here are the lyrics from LyricsDepot.com

Lord I've really been real stressed
Down and out, losin ground
Although I am black and proud
Problems got me pessimistic
Brothers and sisters keep messin up
Why does it have to be so damn tuff?
I don't know where I can go
To let these ghosts out of my skull
My grandmas past, my brothers gone
I never at once felt so alone
I know you're supposed to be my steering wheel
Not just my spare tire (home)
But lord I ask you (home)
To be my guiding force and truth (home)
For some strange reason it had to be (home)
He guided me to Tennessee (home)

(Chorus) Take me to another place
Take me to another land
Make me forget all that hurts me
Let me understand your plan


Lord it's obvious we got a relationship
Talkin to each other every night and day
Although you're superior over me
We talk to each other in a friendship way
Then outta nowhere you tell me to break
Outta the country and into more country
Past Dyesburg into Ripley
Where the ghost of childhood haunts me
Walk the roads my forefathers walked
Climbed the trees my forefathers hung from
Ask those trees for all their wisdom
They tell me my ears are so young (home)
Go back to from whence you came (home)
My family tree my family name (home)
For some strange reason it had to be (home)
He guided me to Tennessee (home)

Chorus

Now I see the importance of history
Why people be in the mess that they be
Many journeys to freedom made in vain
By brothers on the corner playin ghetto games
I ask you lord why you enlightened me
Without the enlightment of all my folks
He said cuz I set myself on a quest for truth
And he was there to quench my thirst
But I am still thirsty...
The lord allowed me to drink some more
He said what I am searchin for are
The answers to all which are in front of me
The ultimate truth started to get blurry
For some strange reason it had to be
It was all a dream about Tennessee

Chorus

My Celebrity Dog would be...

Evan's would be:

Because I'm American, Dur.

You are 16% Aussie!

 

You really stuffed that one up mate! You obviously have much more to learn about the Aussie way of life. Perhaps visit the country or join a chat room and make some new aussie friends.

How Aussie are you?
Make Your Own Quiz

What mental disorder do you have? Your Result: OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) You have odd obsessions that you cannot seem to control. You may even perform rituals to make you feel better. Counting and continuously obsessing over things happens frequently.
Manic Depressive
Paranoia
GAD (Generalized Anxiety Disorder)
ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder)
What mental disorder do you have?

Ok. I'm not OCD. But I do prefer even numbers when I'm eating candy like m&ms or skittles.

Which Positive Quality Are You? Your Result: Friendship You are Friendship. Friends are those who can be counted upon in times of need. Friends are those who share in your joys and your sorrows. Friendship unites us with others beyond family and brings happiness and comfort to our lives. "Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies."
Courage
Faith
Love
Peace
Charity
Which Positive Quality Are You?

Whatever.

What type of person do you attract? Your Result: You attract geeks! Your stunning intellect and love of sci-fi and video games allures the geeks like nothing else. Maybe it is the sparkle in your eye that makes them want to text you, who knows. Geeks make good partners, but tend to be arguementative. If you are a TRUE geek magnet, you will know if that was spelled correctly, and actually care. If it is a bad-boy/bad-girl you are seeking, you are barking up the wrong tree, unless they are just 'bad' behind a PS2 console.
You attract models!
You attract rednecks!
You attract Yuppies!
You attract artsy people!
You attract unstable people!
What type of person do you attract? Quizzes for MySpace

That would be so fine if it were true. I attract Rednecks. Exclusively.

I already live in the Country

And I LOVE IT!

You Should Live in the Country

You are laid back, calm, and good at entertaining yourself. You don't need an expensive big city to keep you busy. You'll take the peaceful life over the stressful life any day of the week.

Where Should You Live?

Testing out my new Firefox Add-on

Image via WikipediaYesterday, Hugh Laurie was on The Tonight Show. He talked about what he did during the writer's strike (nothing), his new movie "Street Kings" and some other crap.

It wasn't as good as some of the interviews I've seen him give to Jay, but I look forward to his appearance next week on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. I love them both. Hugh always seems more relaxed when he's talking to Craig.

Speaking of Craig, he's hosting the White House Correspondent's Dinner tonight. It's supposed to be on C-Span. It's not on the program guide, but I'm taping C-Span from 8-11pm in hopes of catching it.

Ok.

The new add-on is Zemanta. While you're typing, it finds relevant links & photos for you to include in your post. Then you can click "Apply All" (or whatever) and you don't have to do any of the formatting yourself.



It's all right. I mean, I enjoy not having to look up all the sites and then manually link to them (including target=_blank), but a) I can think of other Hugh Laurie pics I'd rather have & b) I wouldn't send everybody to imdb.com for every fricking link (except the one that's pointing to Wikipedia...)

I can't see using this very often... I suppose we shall see.

High Five Friday - 4/25/08

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ere they are. I'm expecting MD to come over any second to bring Evan some chicken soup (NO, I am not joking. She came over earlier to ask me if I wanted to go to the Chinese restaurant & Evan answered the door and told her he'd been home since Wednesday. I was asleep, so when I woke up I called her and she said she'd bring some over after her soap opera...)

Bubbles for her Funny Warning Labels post and her Dumb Questions post..

Shannon for her post about the Greatest Name on Earth.

Chris for this post.

JDonuts for this post.

Karlonia for English Lesson #6. :-)

Slacker Heaven for this post.

Ada for giving me An Award! :-)

Must...have...internet

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h my gawd, y'all. My internet was not working yesterday!!!! I'd rather not have cable than not have internet! I was going to go to the freaking lieberry today if it wasn't back on! (And yes, I will be calling them for a credit for the 36 hours it was not working!!)

Evan is still home.

We went to the Dr. yesterday. Before we left, he said:
"Dear Baby Jesus, please let the doctor say that I don't have to go to school tomorrow."

So he got a shot, some steroids, 2 inhalers (one for school) & I told the doctor to tell him that he has to take a shower after he comes in from playing outside, which he did.

I also told him that the xanax actually IS helping my motor function. Which he could see because I WASN'T USING MY WALKER.

Hello.

:-)

It was a decent day. Besides having to listen to Evan cough like he's about to die & making sure he takes breathing treatments every 4 hours, we played Mario Party (that's what I'm addicted to these days.)

He'd BETTER be better by Monday. Or my head really will explode.

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I Love being tagged.

Can you smell the sarcasm?

Lisa C tagged me.

The Rules:

*Link the person who tagged you.
*Mention the rules in your blog.
*The fun part ~ Tell about 6 unspectacular quirks about yourself.
*Tag 6 other bloggers and link them.
*Leave a comment letting them know you tagged them and that's it!

1. I don't roll over when I sleep.
2. The nails on my left hand are 5mm long (I'm guessing), all the ones on the right hand keep breaking off even though I'm LEFT handed.
3. I don't like my feet. But I have a foot fetish.
4. I love cleaning my ears. It's almost as good as sex.
5. I wonder about stupid things. Like why they call cocaine "blow" when they sniff it?
6. I hate being tagged.

I'm not tagging anyone. If you want to do it, do it.

I usually do the tags from people who tag me because they actually comment on my blog because I appreciate their comments.

But I got over tagging people when I started getting tagged all the damned time & didn't feel right about tagging the same 5 people over and over. Also, it seems like all my blog friends go to the same blogs I do so it would be redundant all over again. (That was a joke. Redundant. All over again. Get it?)

I'm going to watch Top Chef.

Night!

GUESS WHAT I JUST DID!

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ope.

Uh uh.

You'll never guess.

Earlier I said I was going to move the car so they could mow the grass.

But I went out there & she said that she was about to quit before she died of heat stroke & that she'd probably cut my grass this evening when it got cooler.

So I didn't actually move the car when I said I was going to.

Sue me.

(I DID eat the blueberry Nutrigrain bar, in case you were wondering.)

Entyway, now that I'm ready to get in bed I decided I'd better move the car or I'll fall asleep & they'd either wake me up or just not cut the grass around where I park (like they did last time).

So I decided to move it.

And after I parked it, I looked at my walker in the backseat & thought about how much trouble it is to get it in and out of the car and how much effing space it takes up if I don't fold it up.

It's a nuisance.

When I go to Wal-mart or whatever, I just tell Evan to get me a cart instead of pulling my walker out of the car.

Whatever.

I WALKED DOWN THE HILL WITHOUT MY WALKER AND I DIDN'T FALL!

It's been YEARS, literally, since I've walked without a cane or a walker with any kind of confidence. Especially going downhill. Even with the walker, I sometimes trip & would fall flat on my face if not for the walker.

My Doc told me, when he gave me the xanax, that it might improve my muscle function. I didn't expect it to.

But OH MY FLIPPING GOD!!!!!!!!!

I just walked down a hill.

With nothing to "catch myself" if I tripped.

And I didn't trip.

Wheeeeeeeeeeeee!

Now I'm really going to take a nap.

Right after Evan turns off the loud ass nebulizer (2nd breathing treatment since he got home.)

I am loved...

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y Drop yours and win!, at least. He gave me 100 Entrecard credits with the message "Because I love you all!" :-)

Odd. That's it. Just Odd.

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o last night I got a message on Entrecard from a blogger who shall remain nameless.

The picture on the Entrecard is of a woman, so I assumed it was a she. Basically she asked me if I was crazy because my Entrecard looks like my head is about to explode, but the picture when I comment is of me smiling.

I told her that to my knowledge, I am not crazy, but I do like the avatar better than seeing my face all over the place.

We exchanged a few messages.

"She" started talking about a dog. And a man. Confused the hell out of me. I went to bed.

This morning I got another message again asking me to tell a little more about myself & explain if I'm schizo or what. (I wish I hadn't deleted all the messages so you could see for yourself how ODD they were.)

Oh, I just found my sent messages. You can get at least one side of the conversation. I will try to fill in what I think she or he or the dog said. (?? stands for blogger of unknown species or sex)

?? - Sorry it took me so long to reply to your comment on my blog. Are you Angelika2 as well?
#1 - Thanks for sending me a message. Yes, Angelika2 is me too. :-)
?? - Are you schizophrenic? Because your Entrecard is screaming at me but your comment photo is smiling.
#2 - LMFAO! Not that I know of, LOL.
?? - Well I am confused. I want to know the real you. I'd be interested in why you have that screaming face as your avatar. Are you the nice person who commented or the crazy person I'm looking at now?
#3 - I just like the avatar on my Entrecard.

I get tired of seeing my actual face all over the place (my blog, my profile, entrecard, mybloglog, & all the networking sites).

And I feel like sometimes I rant/go a little crazy on my blog so the psycho avatar fits, LOL.

But I do try to be nice when I'm commenting on other people's blogs. It's a bit like going to someone's house and then being rude. I don't like it when it's done to me, so I try not to do it to other people.

?? - Please answer me. The dog wants to understand.

#4 - What ARE you talking about? I gave you the answer to your question!

?? - **Actual reply**

"Yes. Of course you had answered me already.

Was only trying to get to know the lady a little better. She seemed so intriguing to him. Potential new friend. But too clumsy, that silliness. Sorry.

No stalk. Nothing to see on her blog that tells him anything about her anyway.

Leaving now. Hope she comes again sometime, though. :)

Perhaps if she comes again she will find and read his blog's list of author-contributors and feel somewhat safer with that knowledge.

Thanks again."

I think the Unnamed Blogger is a bit schizto him or her or it's self. Or is it just me?

BRB - I have to move the car so they can cut the grass...

I'm back.

Did you miss me?

Anyway, about an hour ago, MD came over to tell me that the school nurse had called her because Evan was having an asthma attack.

So I packed up his nebulizer & went to school. He & the nurse met me outside, I didn't even have to get out. I told her that I had brought his nebulizer so he could take his treatment & stay at school, but she was too tentative & said I'd have to bring him back after he'd had his treatment.

*sigh*

If I take him to the doctor, they will give him the same treatment I could have given him at school. Why should I pay for that?

And I'm not going BACK. I've had to go out every day for the past 5 fucking days and I'm sick of it. I just want to lay on my bed & watch "Silence of the Lambs" or read "Cross" & then nap.

I think the fact that I've had to spend so much money on my geedee car & I've had to go somewhere every effing day instead of staying home being my usual lazy self is negating the effects of my anti depressant. I am in a constant state of pissosity. I feel like I have PMS, but I don't. :-(

Evan just asked me if I was mad that I had to pick him up at the school.

Me - No, I'm not mad.
Evan - At least I didn't stay there and they had to call an ambulance or something.
Me - Yeah. I'm glad you're not dead, baby.

I AM irritated that he refuses to take his effing allergy pills in the morning (he says they make him sleepy) which causes him to react so violently to the pollen in the air.

If he'd just -

*woosah*

Whatever.

I'm going to eat a Blueberry Nutrigrain bar & watch "The Riches".

Bye.

Ok, sure.

Monaco tagged me with this viral linking thing.

I have randomly selected 5 of you below to be tagged and I hope that you will similarly publish this post in your blog. You have to tag 5 other bloggers and just keep adding on to the list. It’s really easy! Tag others and see your Technorati Authority increase exponentially!

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I do not tag people. If you want to join, copy the list & post it on your blog. :-)

Omah's Birthday was yesterday!

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he turned 88. I have to post this or I'll forget next year. (Both the date & her age.)

Anyway, a couple of Christmases ago I made her a t-shirt with The Rock's picture on it. She still wears it even though I bought it a size too large. Even though The Rock's face is fading. But she thinks he's so cute. I made her a picture a long time ago for her & gave it to her. She still has it hanging up over her tv.



OMG. The picture was 4 years ago. Evan still looks basically the same to me so it would be hard to tell you when it was if the picture didn't have the date on it.

Anyway.

I usually only see my grandmother on holidays. I used to go there every week on my way to the library (when I was between computers & had nothing better to do & could still walk without a walker) but for the past couple of years I rarely go out to see her. If I'm going out & she's outside, I'll stop for a minute to chat, but I don't go in.

Because her house is always 90°. Always. Summer or winter. Yesterday, when it was 84° she was wearing 2 shirts.

Blah blah.

I decided that I needed to actually go in to see her. I know she's "old" and that one day she won't be here, but it's really hard to imagine. She is so energetic. She's so active. I refuse to believe that she will die before I have grandchildren (which had better not be for another 20 years).

This year, I made her a word search shirt with all the names that we call her. She loves word searches. If she's ever sitting down, you will see her with one of those books doing a word search. So it was kind of cute. I think all of her grandchildren call her something different. Since I was born in Germany, I call her Omah. Her own children call her "Mother", people at her church call her "Miss Firstname". I think it was a cute idea. :-)

Of course she gushed over it. (I had all of her names already circled in red).

Evan's card to her said:
Outside - Happy Birthday. That's it. Nothing else. Just Happy Birthday.
Inside - What are you looking in here for?

My card (with Maxine) said:
Outside - After all of these years, people want to know. Are they real or are they fake?
Inside - Just don't let them touch your teeth.

HA!

When she saw Maxine, she said "Oh Angelika, you didn't get me one of those cards." I think she thought it was going to be sexual. AS IF. (If I get her started on the subject of sex she'll never stop.)

She laughed at both of them. She enjoyed her shirt. I usually give her something I've made (like the crocheted afghan), something she can wear, or something she can eat because she tells us all that she doesn't need "any more shit to dust".

She's a mess.

While we were there, my Oldest Uncle showed up. He is practically deaf (like his mother) but won't get a hearing aid (like his mother).

So the entire time he's there, Omah is saying things like "He can't hear shit." to Evan & rolling her eyes. So Evan's trying to keep a straight face & not let on that OU's mother is talking about him.

OU - So, Evan, are you driving yet?
Evan - I'm 12.
Omah - He can't hear shit. Shout it at him!
Evan - I'M ONLY 12.
OU - I didn't ask if you had a license, I asked if you were driving. When I was 12...

*sigh*

We got to hear all about the farm chores he had to do when he was Evan's age. How the stuff that passes for chicken these days has no flavor. How we wouldn't know what to do if we got a "real" country egg (He forgets that Omah's neighbor had chickens until the day he died so we've had those extremely yellow country eggs before.) How we take just going & turning on the tap to get water for granted. Blahdee effing blah.

He always says "I've got to go." but then starts telling something else which takes 15 minutes because we have to keep repeating our replies to him. That man talks more than any other man I've ever met.

I'm getting tired just thinking about it.

I'm going back to bed. :-)






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Now playing: The Isley Brothers - Who's That Lady
via FoxyTunes

????

I

have gotten several messages today on Spicypage.com (along with an e-mail notification that I'd won the lottery in England):

(maryxxxxxxxx@yahoo.com)
My name is Mary lastname . i went through your profile today and became intrested ,i will also like to know you the more,and i want you to send me an email to my email address so i tell you more about myself and a picture for you to know whom i am,Here is my email(maryxxxxxxxx@yahoo.com) i believe we can move from here!I am waiting for your mail to my email address above,(Remeber the distance or colour does not matter but love matters alot in life)hoping to read from you,. (maryxxxxxxxx@yahoo.com)
Miss Mary

Message #2:

Hello Dear,
My name is Sweeny ,i read about you in www.spicypage.com and i decide to contact you hoping that you will accept my request,if you accept my request ,please reply to my email address (sweenyxxxxxx@yahoo.com)NOT ON THE SITE, so that i will send you my photos and more about me,i believe we can make good friends,let distance not be a barrier but lets love connect,because love is a bridge connect far distance to be close
from sweeny.

Um...is anybody under the impression that 1) I am a lesbian or b) I am looking for love? If you are, you are wrong. Just so you know. Not that there's anything wrong with that....

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Now playing: Georgia Sattelites - Keep Your Hands To Yourself
via FoxyTunes

Heads or Tails - 4/22/08

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his week's prompt is Direction.

So here's a photo Evan took on the interstate giving "directions" about which way to go. :-)

Song of the Week - Moonlight Serenade

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thought it was time for something different for the song of the week. No rap/hip hop, no 80s, just something totally unexpected, LOL.

I picked Moonlight Serenade because every time I heard it (usually in Stephen King movies), I said "I like that song" but I'd forget to try & find out who it was.

The last time I heard it, I think it was on that Room ??? movie with John Cusack & Samuel L. Jackson. We had the captions on. Evan told me the name of it. So I looked it up online & finally found out. YAY!

After I finish watching all the crap I taped last night (and watching Craig Ferguson on The View), I'll tell you about yesterday. :-)

Thank you, Dumbasses

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've decided to delete my fridge. You can thank the dumbass spammers who thought that the fridge was a place to advertise their sites or call me immature names.

That is why I got rid of the thing that allowed people to add their own links in my sidebar.

Some people just can't be trusted. And I can't be here all day every day to police the damned fridge to make sure nothing inappropriate is going on.

Congratulations, you fucking idiots.

For all you Tyler Perry Fans

H

e is one of the finalists to be one of Time Magazines 100 most influential people of 2008.

You can vote for him HERE.

There are other people too, of course, like Oprah. I voted her least influential even though, unfortunately, she'll probably end up in the top 10 or some shit.

You can vote as many times as you want!

Check out the entire list if you have the patience, I DO NOT so I only clicked until I saw Mr. Perry.

That is all.

**Update 4/21/08** - I noticed a lot of spam comments on Time's site when I was looking for TP. I guess if Time Magazine isn't immune to the occasional idiot, I should consider myself lucky that I haven't had more spam.

Friday High Fives on Saturday

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o we took MD to pick up her car. The mechanic is a dude who, with the exception of missing half of his teeth, reminds me of the rednecks I usually date. She could not understand him. She blames it on the whistling from his missing teeth (every other front tooth is gone). I understood him perfectly.

Anyway, as I waited for her to move her car (he pulled it too close to his truck tire flower planter for me to get to it with my walker) we chatted.

Dude - I guess I made a boo boo, pulling it too close.
Me - Just a little.
Dude - Well I didn't want anybody to pull in and hit that car. I'd have to work a month to pay for it.
Me - I'm glad no one hit it, because when she gets tired of it, it's mine. After I pay for it of course.
Dude - That's a nice car!
Me - I know. That one *pointing to my hoopty* was hers before she got this one. She waited until it was about to fall apart to sell it to me.
Dude - Well, I hope she don't wait too long to get tired of this one!
Me - Just long enough for me to be able to afford it, LOL.

So my car is with the toothless mechanic and should be done early enough for us (Evan) to do the laundry tomorrow.

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Now playing: Sheila E - The Glamorous Life
via FoxyTunes

Anyway, after we got in her car:

MD - Did y'all eat?
Evan - I did.
MD - Oh, well I was going to take you to McDonald's *winking furiously at me* if you hadn't eaten.
Me - He ate a long time ago. It was breakfast time.
Evan - I could eat.
MD - Ok, we'll go to McDonalds's. I'm craving a Big Mac. *winking again*
Me - I want a quarter pounder with cheese.
MD - Well, that's all I'm buying. Big Macs & a Quarter Pounder.
Me - Evan eats chicken.
MD - And a chicken sandwich. We'll drink WATER.
Me - We know how you are.
MD - What does that mean?
Me - Whenever you take us out to eat, we drink water (I ask for lots of lemon & then add Sweet & Low so I'm really drinking lemonade).

She took us to the new Chinese restaurant with the sushi & Hibachi grill.

It was good. The coconut chicken was nasty. First & last time I'll ever eat that. Did not taste of coconut AT ALL. It tasted like salty ass.

Yeah...Gross.

On to the High Fives.

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Now playing: Jordan Knight - Give It To You
via FoxyTunes

The first one is for Mik because I just happened to read his post before I started posting this & I think it's sweet and funny.

Redkinoko because this post about Awesome Names amused me.

Tumawa K Kabayan because this doorbell is da bomb! :-)

Ada for this post because it's so cute! I remember when Evan used to sleep like that, LOL.

Best of Stupid for this post and this post.

Bobo for this story. :-)

Bubbles for these Hilarious Kid Quotes.

Thomas for his post about Why Old People Rock.

My Sense & Sensibility for this post.

Deb for this post. This is one area of Chattanooga that I haven't seen a million times, LOL.

Predator Press for this post. :-) (Sadly funny, but true.)

JDonuts because this made me laugh out loud, LOL.

Maria. I'm so glad I don't live where she lives. But her rules for drivers are awesome! :-)

Brittany because her post amused me.

And finally, Jillian, for this post. I think I finally found someone who is more twisted than I!!

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All week I've been sleepy

I

just realized that I forgot to put up my High Fives yesterday. Maybe because I went to sleep right after Dr. Who and before that I was taking MD to the dude who fixed her car.

I'm about to take my car to him to get a new (to me) radiator for $90. So I will once again be car-less. He said he'll have it finished tomorrow. I'll believe it when I get it.

So all together, I've spent $230 on my hoopty this month. That is not including $30 to fill up the effing gas tank. :-(

I'll have my Saturday High Fives up later.

I watched the Obama-Clinton Debate

O

n DVR, obviously. I couldn't sit for 2 hours straight watching commercials.

Clinton demonstrated that she does have more experience campaigning. She was very well rehearsed prepared.

Obama seemed much less comfortable & fluent answering the questions than he does when he gives a speech. It was interesting. And I finally 'got' the impression that they do of him on Saturday Night Live with the stilted speaking. He did not come across well in that respect, IMO.

But he did come across as more truthful than Clinton.

She kept referring to "The '90s". What she really meant was "When my husband was president." Interesting how she tries to distance herself from Bill at the same time as use the "Clinton Legacy" to her advantage.

Look, I think she's a liar.

I'm not even talking about how she was "under sniper fire" when she went to Bosnia.

I'm talking about that Tom Cruise smile of hers. Like when Stephanopoulos (or Gibson?) asked her if she'd be willing to use Dubya's advice during her administration. She did the 'Cruise Smile' and said she'd have to think about it.

C'mon Hilary, I think even George HW Bush would admit that his son is an idjit & he wouldn't ask him for any advice on running an effing country.

Whatever.

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I think both candidates tried to inform us of the other's short comings sling a little mud. But neither lost their cool.

I have to admire Obama for not rolling his eyes and saying "Look, I've answered this effing question before. Can we move on?"

The hosts (what are they called? Referees?) of the debate, Charles Gibson & George Stephanopoulos did NOT go easy on Obama. (I didn't watch any other debates, I only know what I saw on SNL about them going easy on him.) They didn't go easy on Clinton either, for that matter. They were both kind of adversarial.

I'm just so sick of this. No more debates. No more polls. Let everybody have their primaries next Tuesday so we know who the Democratic nominee is, please.

Here's an interesting link to one reporter's opinion of the debate.

That is all.

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Thank you!

I

have big fat Thank You for Blue Stem Winery for letting me know that I had misspelled the word Insomniac on my header.



I don't even know how long it's been up there like that.

But the rest of y'all suck for not noticing.

;-p

HA! Me. The Spelling & Grammar Nazi. Having a glaring mistake like that & no one calls me on it? I'm slipping...

My Special Leg Part Deux

S

o today my special leg is doing the "nervous" thing. I remembered to record it.

You're welcome.




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I've been tagged

W

ith yet another random meme by Becky from Beeker's Words

*sigh*

Fine. I'll list 8 random facts because she gave me some link love when she tagged me, LOL.

1. I'm really sleepy right now, even though I took a nap from about 6-9 today.
2. I taped the Obama/Clinton debate & I will probably fall asleep watching it.
3. I seriously have a crush on Craig Ferguson. He's just so insane, he cracks me up. I used to only watch him when Hugh was on, but with the writer's strike and no new House episodes, my crush on Craig has intensified.
4. When I was in my 20's, I had a crush on Richard Branson. Yes, the Virgin airlines or whatever CEO. I like big teeth on men. I don't normally find myself attracted to blondes, but something about him turned me on. He looks like a lion. RAHR!
5. I have an adam's apple fetish. I like big adam's apples. I don't know why...I just do.
6. I can eat the same meal at every meal for weeks at a time & not get sick of it. Sometimes it's sardines every day, sometimes it's a rare steak, sometimes it's a particular cereal (right now it's Chocolate Honey Bunches of Oats). As I've gotten older, I've realized that eating steak all day for a month isn't necessarily the best idea, so I try to round out my meals. But I'll usually have at least some of whatever I'm addicted to at the moment every day until I get on another food fixation.
7. I'm thinking about taking all of Evan's old jeans/shorts & making myself a patchwork quilt. I just don't enjoy the thought of cutting out all of those squares.
8. I actually read 75% of the blogs on which I drop. I just don't comment on all of them. I am online entirely too much.

That is all.

DON'T TAG ME! I like to steal my memes, not have them thrust upon me, LOL.

That is all. I'm going to fall asleep to the debate now. :-)

Mommy Dearest came over yesterday

S

he needed me to add some minutes to her phone.

I was asleep. (I feel like I slept all day yesterday. Until 3 am when I woke up every hour...)

All I know is that I was asleep, ear plugs in, pillow over my head (to block the light) and the next thing I know Evan's pulling out my ear plug and saying:

Evan - Nana's here. She needs you to add some minutes to her phone.
Me - Does it need to be done today?
Evan - She needs it before the 17th.
Me - I'll go over there tomorrow and do it.

Then, of course, I couldn't get back to sleep. No idea why I was so tired yesterday.

But after waking up every hour last night, I was so ready for Evan to get the hell out this morning & stop waking me up to ask if I wanted him to wear a coat or delete Rob & Big or whatever else he said. @ 7:01 I was like "GET OUT! Take your saxophone!"

So I gave up trying to sleep at about 9 this morning. Still kept waking up every effing hour.

So I called MD.

MD - Hello?
Me - Helloooooeeeerrrrrr, are you home?
MD - No, I'm at Wal-mart.
Me - Well, I was going to add minutes to your phone, but if you're not there then I guess I can't.
MD - How could I answer my home phone if I wasn't at home?
Me - I was joking.
MD - I was too.
Me - Well I'll be there in 5 minutes.

So I went to her house & added the minutes.

If you have a Net10 phone, you're familiar with the computer voice (CV). (It's a rather nice male voice)

CV - Before we get started, I need to know your birth date.
Me - Why?
CV - *pause* Ok, now we're ready to add minutes to your phone.

Why do they need anyone's birth date? Let's say I bought the phone. And I bought the card to add more minutes. Why do they need my birth date? I know it's probably some marketing research, but I just don't feel the need to tell any and all of my (or MD's) information no questions asked. Screw you. Just add the geedee minutes so I can hang up already.

So after that, I was about to leave.

MD - You're leaving me already?
Me - You said you have a sinus headache. I only came because I said I would.
MD - Well sit down, because I have some stuff for Evan.

He'd left his shampoo & some underwear over there last time he spent the night (in 2007), she bought him a new shirt that says "Most of the people who drive me crazy are my family."

MD - I was going to buy one for myself too & the next time we go out together we could both wear them.

Yes. It's kind of odd, but most of the time when we all go out together, one of us is wearing the same color that she is. I don't know why. Sometimes Evan & I happen to be wearing red or green and then when MD shows up, she is too.

She also bought a U of A hat just like his so when they go out together, they have matching hats.

When I was a kid, she used to sew & she would make matching outfits for me & my sister (She was still my sister then) even though my sister is 9 years older than I am.

She's all in to matchy matchy.

Whatever.

So we talked about Deion & Pilar, Big Brother, some other crap, and I was finally able to leave at about 1 pm.

Then I came home, dropped some cards, found a blog that had links to free screensavers & now my screensaver is FIRE (I'm a pyromaniac) instead of the star field that it was before.



It even has the crackling fireplace noises! But I had to turn off the lame Enya music that they played along with it. You have the option to play your own music if you want to, but I don't want anything playing, I just need the screensaver. I like the way it just sets whatever is on your desktop on fire.

Now I have to eat something. I'm debating whether I want an omelette or shrimp noodles. Maybe I'll make a shrimp omelette.

Not really.

Just the thought of that makes me want to hurl.

Bye!



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I stole this from someone

who stole it from Feels Like Corn.

New Voice Comment!

I

got a new Voice Comment from Elizabeth today. I was dropping cards & happened across her blog.

I saw the Snapvine widget & was listening to her introduction when Mariah Carey started playing.

You know how I feel about autoplay music. I left her a comment. I guess I was nice, because she didn't seem bitchy when she replied, LOL. YAY!

One more voice comment & one less autoplay music blog! Today was a good day. :-)

Deion & Pilar

T

onight was the premier episode of Deion & Pilar on the Oxygen Network.

Deion being the former pro football corner back (?) and baseball player, Deion "Prime Time" Sanders. Pilar being his wife, a former model and now a stay at home mom of 5 (3 with Deion & 2 from his former relationship.)

So the show starts with Pilar asking Deion to help her make up the bed. He refuses. He says he has to get ready to "work" (Picking winning teams for the weekend football games.) She makes a bet with him that she can do what he does & if she wins, he has to help her make the bed for a whole week.

Also in the episode was his older daughter Deiondra's first date.

Pilar won the bet. She picked 70% winners & Deion picked about 60% winners. He said he wasn't making the bed. One of the funniest moments on the show was when they were at the Rickey Smiley Radio Show:

Radio Person - Don't tell me you're reneging on the bet
Deion - I'm not reneging, I never neged.

HA! (BTW, Deion ended up making 70% of the bed. He left the last 30 for Pilar to make because he said 70% is all he sleeps on since he never rolls over...)

Another funny part was when Deiondra's date showed up. Deion met the poor boy at the door with a bat in his hand. Told the boy to have her back by 9 pm. Then before they left, he prayed. "...and Lord, I know this boy knows right from wrong" *as he sways the bat back and forth in the air*

It's a cute show. Deion is funny. I don't know much about the kids yet. They aren't "Run's House" or "Snoop Dogg's Fatherhood" (although I think Deion does the theme song rap).

I went to the website and it showed 9 minutes of the first episode. Not in the order that it aired, but you can get a decent representation of the show from it.

The only thing I don't get is why Deion needs to ride a Hoverround in his house. Is it really that big? Is he really that out of shape? (Doesn't look like it.)

Whatever.

I'm going to watch the season premier of "Work Out" now.

Sure, whatever

Your Birthdate: October 10

Independent and dominant, you tend to be the alpha dog in most situations. You're very confident, and hardly anything ever shakes you. Mundane tasks tend to drain you - you prefer to be making great plans. You are quite original. When people don't "get" you, it bothers you a lot. Your strength: Your ability to gain respect Your weakness: Caring too much what others think Your power color: Orange-red Your power symbol: Letter X Your power month: October

What Does Your Birth Date Mean?

Entrecard encourages child abuse!

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ot literally. Obviously. I don't condone or encourage child abuse in any form or fashion (unless the child in question tries to steal your chocolate when you're PMSing. Then feel free to smack said child upside the back of the head with an open hand...)

But...um...a few times I've made The Boy drop cards for me.

Evan - Can I go to Neopets?
Me - If you drop on all those sites I have open first.
Evan - How about no?
Me - Then NO!
Evan - FINE!

Or

Me - Go to bed.
Evan - I'm not even sleepy!
Me - I'll let you stay up if you drop cards on all the sites I have open now.
Evan - I don't want to.
Me - Goodnight.
Evan - *sigh* FINE!

That's not bad though, I read a blog today where she(?) had to pay her niece to drop for her.

HA!

No pay.

I'm not breaking any laws if the child I make work for me is my own, right?

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Guru gave me a recommendation

U

m, thanks? LMAO!

"Oddly compulsive reading. I find myself coming back here more than I'd like too."

I guess my blog is taking time away from his pole sitting & enlightenment.

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2048?

I

don't think my blog is worth 2048 credits per day. I was happy when I was getting 400 per day.

Don't get me wrong, thank you to all the people who advertise on my site, and I know you didn't pay 2048, I just don't understand what happened. I guess several people who've advertised previously all tried to get an ad at the same time so the price jumped up dramatically. (I have my adverts set so that people I've approved before will be approved automatically.)



Those are the people lined up to be displayed on my widget. Now everybody has to wait 3 or 4 days to buy an ad. But then they might not because it's so expensive, so it will go down like a crackhead for an extra $5 or something & then it will jump back up again....

I still don't like this new system....


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Things that make you go hmmm...

I had forgotten all about the Song of the Week until I realized 2 new ways to make Mommy Dearest leave faster without being a bitch:

1. Tell her I'm on my period.
2. Lay down, put my ear plugs in & pretend I'm going to sleep.

These things work because she always assumes that when I'm on my period I'm going to be extra "mean" to her and she knows how much trouble I had last year trying to sleep so she doesn't want to wake me up.

HA!

Too bad I can only use excuse #1 once a month, LOL.

What I watched on TV this weekend

It may be hard to believe, but I'd never watched "The Godfather" series before. I LOVE gangster movies. Casino, Donnie Brasco, Goodfellas & some other ones I'm sure I'm forgetting. I don't know why I never watched The Godfather before. Maybe just because it was so old?

Speaking of old, I saw on the info that the movie was made in 1972. I actually had to think about how old it was...

I too was made in 1972. You'd think I'd know instantly that it's 36 years old. But no. I didn't. I'm brilliant like that.

They showed parts I & II. Is there a III? Because I remember Pacino saying something like "Every time I try to get out, they just keep pulling me back in!" or is that from Scarface? Idunoh..

I liked them. All 8 hours (with commercials). Evan was GONE.

Since his BFF/C (Best friend/cousin) moved back in, he's been over there until dark.

He came back @ around 3 yesterday & asked if he could go with them to get something to eat & I said "Sure."

When it started getting dark I thought "That sure is a long meal. Maybe I should open the front door & see if they're back yet."

But I didn't.

At about 7:30, Evan opens the door & says "Are you decent?" My favorite cousin (MFC) came in after he hold her I was decent.

MFC - Do you even care about where your son was? You don't know if I was mistreating him or anything!
Me - I thought about looking outside, but I didn't feel like getting up. I figured you'd send him home when you got tired of him.
MFC - Well, he said he had to go home when the streetlights came on, but I decided to walk him over here.
Me - All the way across the parking lot? Good, I don't know if he could have made it by himself...

Later I heard:

MFC - Now that I'm back, I have a babysitter. (She has 2 kids. 11 & 5)
Me - No you don't!
MFC - What I meant was that YOU have a babysitter so that you can get a break sometimes.
Me - Oh! Cause my babysitting days are over.
Evan - She would kill us.
Me - No I wouldn't! I'd just duct tape all of you and shove you into a closet.
MFC - LOL! I was telling some of my classmates about you. They say I'm "Bold" (I can't remember the exact word she used.) I tell them that they need to meet my cousin. Like that time we went to Wal-mart & the lady forgot to give you your change and she asked if you would just wait until she rang up the next customer & then she'd give you your change & you said "No."
Me - Well it wasn't my fault that she'd forgotten to give me my change! Why the hell should I have to wait for her to ring someone else up??
MFC - I know! I'm just saying the way you just said "No" and stood there looking at her. She had to flick her light so that manager would come over. People were lining up waiting.
Me - I don't care!
MFC - That's what I'm saying. You just say what you want and don't care what people think.
Me - Because it would have bothered me later. I'd have gotten home and started thinking about waiting for that woman to ring up someone else so that I could get my damned change. It would have bothered me for a looooooooong time. I just have to speak up right away if I want to sleep at night. I can't do that "Just be nice" shit anymore like your aunt (My mother. She came of age in the 60s so I understand if she feels "shy" about speaking up for herself to white people. I, however, did not. I will tell you in a second if I feel like you're ignoring/mistreating/taking advantage of me.)

Tangent - Everyone who is related to my mother & talks about her when she's not there says "YOUR sister" or "Your Daughter" or whatever, LOL. No one wants to claim her. It's only strangers who only see her "Public Face" that don't realize how mean/vindictive/narcissistic she is. Everyone who isn't related to her loves her to death, LOL.

Anyway, I watched yesterday's special Eli Stone [only one more episode left. :-(] Have I mentioned before that every episode is named after a George Michael song? I just noticed that.

CBS is pissing me the eff off. For the last few weeks, everything on Sunday night has been coming on at least 30 minutes late. I didn't realize that I hadn't gotten the whole episode of Dexter until there were only 15 minutes left. So I saw the first 15 minutes, and the last 15 minutes. They piss me OFF. Why do they have to show 60 minutes when some game ran over? Who watches that??? Why can't they just start where they should be in the programming?

I caught about 15 minutes of Big Brother. It's a good thing that I read the blogs about BB or I wouldn't know who won HOH or who got nominated. And I would only have gotten the first 15 minutes of Dexter.

Bastards.

That is all.

I'm effing freezing over here even though I'm wearing fleece sleep pants, a shirt & a sweatshirt.

Ta!

I can spell!

Your Spelling is Perfect

You got 10/10 correct. Your spelling is excellent. You also have a great memory and eye for detail.

How's Your Spelling?

Really weird dream

I

t was actually almost 24 hours since I had the dream, but I think I remember enough of it to tell you.

I dreamed that we (Evan & I) went to MD's house for something. For some unusual reason, her garage was open. There was all kinds of stuff in there. Like she couldn't park her car because of all the junk in there.

I had to use the bathroom (she has one in the laundry room, which is where the door coming from the garage opens in to.)

Have I mentioned that in my dreams I'm always walking? Like pre-"Special Leg" walking.

Anyway, I go into the bathroom, pull down my pants & undies, sit down...

That's when I realize that there is no side or back wall.

MD has decided that she needed to expand her house.

In the back yard I see ALL of my relatives. I mean people that I haven't seen since I was a child.

Since EVERYONE could see me sitting on the toilet (if they just looked in my direction) I got a magazine rack (one that MD hasn't had for years) to block the "front view" and something else to block the side view.

Then my SIL comes over & starts looking through the magazines.

Me - HELLO!?!??
Sil - Oh, hey.
Me - Could you not remove any magazines from the rack while I'm trying to use the bathroom?
Sil - Oh, girl. Ain't nobody looking at you. You remember SomeDude?

Yes.

She was introducing, or re-introducing me to my cousin.

People kept stopping by to say hello. No one seemed phased by the fact that I was sitting on a toilet with my pants around my knees.

I've never had a shy bladder IRL. But when I thought about urinating with an actual audience & then having to wipe...I just couldn't do it.

I had to go really bad. Like it felt like my bladder was going to burst bad.

Then I woke up.

And I had to tinkle really bad.

I'm glad I didn't dream that I had actually used the bathroom or I might have wet my bed, LOL.

How crazy is that?



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Evan is UPSTAIRS.

See how loud he is?

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He bought some "Sizzle magnets" the other day. I want to play with them. He hid them from me because he is evil. So I must torture him until he tells me where they are, LOL.

I'm so mature...