Here Comes Peter Cottontail, Hopping Down the Bunny Trail


Ahhh Springtime, Easter, pretty pastel colors and the Easter Bunny leaving eggs for easter egg hunts for the kids. The Easter Bunny?? And it leaves eggs??? What gives with that? I thought the holiday was a celebration of Christ's resurrection! How did a bunny get associated with that? Where did that darn Easter Bunny come from?! You can check out Cult of Jef for his slant on Easter or I did a little online research being the nosey person I am and found this article:


Easter is the holiest day for Christians, the day celebrating Christ's resurrection on the third day after Good Friday. This time of year is also associated with Passover, the holy Jewish holiday. So why a bunny?


Since ancient times, rabbits have been symbols of Easter, partly due to pagan traditions, partly due to religious symbolism. According to most encyclopedias, a rabbit, in the Christian tradition, symbolizes an innocent, vulnerable creature (much like a lamb), easily taken in by his enemies, and whose only real defense is to run or be saved by his master. Christians say the rabbit may represent man being saved by Christ, or Christ himself, allowing himself to be "taken" as a lamb to the slaughter. The egg, a symbol too, represents the rebirth, as Christ rose on the third day. Even literature gets into the act. The Great Gatsby uses "West Egg" Long Island, New York (not a real town) to represent hope for new life, however fleeting, in F. Scott Fitzgerald's popular novel.


Pagans, on the other hand, have a different explanation of Easter. The pagans worshipped the Anglo-Saxon goddess of fertility: Eostre. Her symbol was the rabbit, and this symbol has reached across many cultures, standing the test of time. The pagans further celebrated spring by painting eggs in spring-like colors. But the Christian missionaries were not about to destroy this pagan tradition and alienate the "lost souls." Christian missionaries were said to celebrate this festival as well, skillfully using the comradeship to minister to them, trying to convert them.


A German lady friend of mine who now lives in Vienna said she remembers being taught that in the 1700s the Germans brought the symbol of the rabbit to America. She is aware of stories of how the German people started to make nests for the Easter bunny the night before. Nowhere, however, can we find why tradition has this Easter Bunny bringing the delicious baskets of chocolate, gifts most of us so anxiously looked forward to as children.


So now we know, at least part of it. I myself am hung up on the chocolate!
Here is a fun place to go for Easter facts-n-funstuff


Listening to 2004 Grammy Winners CD

Poetry in Motion


Another thing I was inspired to write over the past weekend is a love Poem. I am not good at it, here is my first attempt.


Ode to Joe


Early in the mornings
I love my cup o' joe.
Afternoons and evenings,
A Cuban Cortidito.


Carmel Macchiato
Or a Cafe' au lait,
In a hill of coffee beans
Would I love to play.


Give it to me Mocha
On ice or frozen,
With whip cream topping
And the sprinkles I've chosen.


Expresso, Cappaccino
Or a Colada,
With 2 equals and creamer
Yumm! Why I outta,


Go to Starbucks or Caribou
Order Italian or Arabian,
Maybe African, Irish
Cuban or Columbian.


So now I close
I have to go,
Indulge in a cup
Of good ol' joe.


Listening to Hilary Duff.....

It's Raining Men!
well not exactly


Want to know about Moi'?
Then lets check out my desk. I have 2 fox statues, stackable men, artificial flowers, an in box with assorted current projects in it, a pack of vitamins, post it notes of various colors, an external CD Drive hooked up to my laptop, my water glass, my coffee mug, everest gum, phone call pad, 2 folders of issues, my cell phone, a paper clip, and the Essential Desk Reference set, and of course my laptop.


Yes I said I have stackable men. LOL! Here is the story:


My sister and I where shopping in Florida, at a quaint little town of antique shops. I like to pick some little something up to represent everywhere that I visit but don't live. We had been in many stores and found nothing. Now to get the humor in this, you have to know me and my sister. She was the first to find her purchase. A small china cow creamer. We laughed and laughed about "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free!"
My sister bought the cow.
I came across wooden stackable men. We had a good laugh at this one. We laughed and laughed again. What better way to have a man! 6 men in one! They are always dressed nice and don't talk back! How else would you want them?
The cashier just couldn't understand what was so funny. We tried explaining both stories to her. She just didn't get it. But are we suprised she didn't? It takes a special breed to understand my sisters and my humor! (Right 1F?) Anyway turns out they are the wooden Russian dolls. I forget the name, I am sure my sister remembers. Turns out they are Russian Leaders starting with Gorby.
Next time we will explore the drawer I affectionately call Marti-Mart.


Listening to Joss Stone....

I Am Now Dr. Doolittle!
I met an interesting new friend this weekend, a Siamese cat. Her name has Chi-ling. How do I know? She told me so. Let me tell you about us meeting.


There I was on this past fine Saturday morning, minding my own business, having a morning cup o' joe on the back porch. Enjoying a little quiet time if you will, a time when nature is at it's finest. Across the yard is a vacant lot, not yet built on, and a little behind on someone mowing and trimming. The weeds are about 3 feet tall. I noticed something moving out of the corner of my eye and there she was, sneaking across her yard towards the vacant lot. I watched her, she was on a mission, sneaking up on something, I was not sure what. I saw her enter what must be a jungle to her and she disappeared.
In a bit she peeked out of the feline forest and saw me looking at her. She wandered over to where I was sitting.
"Hi! I my name is Chi-ling and I couldn't help but notice you staring at me. See anything that interested you?" She said with a slight laugh.
I looked at my coffee, then at her again, wondering if I had accidently grabbed the Baileys instead of the creamer.
"Yes I am talking to you!" She stated. "What is it with you humans? I had to quit talking to my human. She started walking around the house when I did talk to her with her hands on her ears going la la la la la la."
"I was just noticing you sneaking up on something," I answered with a bit of surprise, "And wondered what you where after."
"Oh, just an annoying lizard. He had been teasing me through the window all night. When my human let me out, pay back was hell buddy!" She said. "He just thought he was safe! He had the nerve to think he was going to disappear into the field! I showed him! I snuck up on him and gave him a good one two. I have him back here, do you want to see?" She started to turn and head back to the field.
"Oh my god no!" I replied, "That is GROSS!"
"Well I think my human will think so too, but I have to do something to get her going. I am going to take it back in my mouth then beg to be let in the house." She laughed as she spoke, "That should start her day well!"
"You where in that field quite a long time," I asked, "What else did you do in there or did it take you that long to beat the lizard?"
"It did not," She said quite indignantly, "I got him in the first few seconds he entered! There were quite a few things to capture my attention while I was in there. I saw the ant farm commune. I never quite get that whole action, all playing follow the leader, single file, one by one. What is the fun in that? I had to pretend I was looking for something I buried and throw a little dirt their way. When I sat the Lizard down, they started coming my way! I was like no way! I did all the hard work, you are NOT getting my lizard! Fend for yourselves!"
"I bet they appreciated that!" I said to Chi-ling. "What else did you see?"
"Well the Dung Beetle family was all up doing their business. Crappy existence if you ask me. What kind of thing to teach your kids, rolling excrement!" She said shaking her head. "Then I saw a snake. He was being rather lazy and sunning himself in a warm spot. The taste of snakes in my mouth disgusts me or I would have been bringing him back to my human," She laughed, "So I just teased him a bit and stalked him in circles, you know they have limited vision and he was rather mad that he had to keep moving his head to watch me. I tired of that rather quickly and I smelled an aroma that my human sometime partakes of, so I was following my nose. That is when I saw you staring at me. Don't you have anything better to do?"
"Well right at this moment no," I said.
"Obviously!. Well I am off to entertain my human," She said as she trotted off. She looked back over her shoulder and yelled, "Hey, by the way, get a life!" Then she started laughing. I could hear her laughing all the way back to the vacant lot. She was mumbling under her breath. I couldn't quite catch what she was saying, but I did hear the words stupid and humans. I watched her disappear into the tall weeds.
What a way to start my day. I don't dare tell anyone. Who would believe me?

Isn't it Ironic, Don't You Think


That I lived in Florida for 3 years and never layed out on the beach, or by the pool, or went to a tanning salon. I got a spray on tan once. I move to North Carolina and now I am a member of a tanning salon...


things that make you go hummmmm.


listening to Alanis Morissette, now that is ironic

TGIF!!!!


When you get a a chance check out teh link to Satan's Laudromat on the left. It is a photo blog from New York. Some of his pictures are really cool. But then we all know M loves New York!!!!


I want to change my blog template a little and need some advice and or direction. I want to do 2 things
1) Add a search window
2) add drop down menus to move my links to. I would like them under my Heading.


I could redo the whole thing but I really like where I have gotten it so far. If you have any nuggets of wisedom, shoot me an e mail at mddcfox at AOL dot com. Please give it a subject heading on the subject line so I don't think it is crap mail and flush it without reading it.


Very inspired by the morning sun this morning. Will try to put it into words later today.


Listening to Hoobustank

So It's April Fools Is it...

Me, myself and I have been trying to team up and think of something to do to my boss today. It is so weird having one that would think that kind of thing was funny. But we are brain dead, at least right now. Maybe we can think better after a second cup o' joe...


A few quotes for this day of fools:


One for the masses;
The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.
Mark Twain


One for the Media;
If a million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Anatole France


One for Politicians;
You don't have to fool all the people all of the time, you just have to fool enough to get elected.
Gerald Barzan


One for the writers in all of us;
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
Frank Lloyd Wright
*note - he is also one of my favorite architects...


Soooo...
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
Mark Twain


Listening to the Bob and Sheri show........AGAIN!!!

Don't Fear the Reefer - (oopsies i mean reaper) -


Today T, W and I went to a head shop at lunch and I got a gold belly button ring. T said it was the cheapest place in town. And the term ring is kind of misleading as I wear belly bar bell... so anyway.. gotta change that out tonight. WOO HOO.
Head shop. That name could mean many things ;-) (Chinese dialect) Mister, you wannie some head? Five dolla', five dolla', me love you long time. Or (uptown dialect) Today I think I will purchase a new head. I am tired of this one, it is getting a little wrinkled. Or (valley dude dialect) I need some new head(ers) for my hotrod dude...totally.
When I was young a head shop was a place to score drug paraphernalia and if you where of the type drugs also. I wasn't of the type but the majority of my friends were, I mean come on, I was a teen of the 70's. I won't lie and tell you that I never tried anything. One of the big drugs of the times was marijuana, or as many called it mary jane, pot, reefer, weed, bud, smoke, joints. (The other big drugs where anything in the uppers or the downers group, lol ) So anyway, all my friends smoked mary jane. Columbian was the "weed" of choice at the time. They ranged at my school from the honor student to the football players and cheerleaders to the worst kid in class. One of my friend's parents, in the group I hung out with, had a place at the lake. We used to go out there and hang on the weekends and in the summer. It was the place of choice where my group smoked. They were always asking me if I wanted to try. I always said no. Until one day, that little devil was sitting on my shoulder and she poked me one to many times with her pitchfork. Damn her. So I inhaled, (unlike Clinton) and I got nothing, nadda, zero, zilch out of it. Never felt the urge again. I didn't bug my friends about doing it, they didn't bug me about not doing it.
So I just got way off track about today's adventure.
Now a head shop is all incense, body jewelry, discount clothes (uh huh, I SAW the purple men's dress slacks, and they hurt my eyes. I was blinded.) The shop was run by Samirh, he hates Americans. I get told this after I bought this belly button ring/barbell. I think I wanna kick T's butt for not telling me that pre-purchase. (insert politically incorrect profiling comment here) So now I have running thru my mind all the things he could have done to it. I am not so sure I want it anymore!!! OMG what if it has anthrax? Or is self-destructing based on the warmth of a human body!! This bellybutton ring will self-destruct in 20 seconds, 19, 18, 17..LOL.
In celebration I eat only the red M&Ms today...

Raindrops Keep Fallin' on my Head


hummmm. My window is open and I can see that it's a rainy day. I can sure think of a lot of places I would rather be than at work. Like snuggled up with my honey, unfortunately, Uncle Sam, nor the electric company have the same thoughts I do. So back to the grind.


listening to Macy Grey

Wait a Minute Mr. Postman...
My blog has also being visited by some people in foreign countries. Let me give a shout out to:
Canada - Hey!
UK - Hello
Germany - Guten Tag
Australia - Good Day Mate
Poland - Dzien dobry
Kuwait - Gowa Marheba
Malaysia- Salama
Barbados - Bonjour
Italy - Buon giorno
Japan - Moshi moshi
For this reason I broke down and added a guestmap. SOOOOO PLEASE go to the top left, view my map and mark your place on it!!!
Tell me who you are! give me a shout out!

Listening to Los Lonely Boys..........

Everybody Thinks they are a Poet!
including me hahahaha!

Ever since B2K had written the Haiku poem about me, I have been intrigued and reading up on Haiku. I am not Chinese, nor am I sure I get it, but here is goes;


My Cat(s)


The human is home
Let me walk away,
See me turn my head, act indignant.


Here she comes
Talking kitty talk,
I do not see you, but I hear you.


OH! Scratch me there
Little higher,
See my butt in the air!


She is typing, working,
Lets see her work
With me sitting on her hand.


My human is being smothered
by a magazine
Let me rescue her!


She has gone to bed
Lights are out,
Time for tag kitty! Race ya!


I think I will bathe,
something's in my throat,
cough, cough, look a present for the human!


Morning time!
shhhh let's watch,
My toy mouse is in the shower!


OK enough already
your face looks fine,
Feed me stupid human!


She goes to work
I must sleep,
and prepare for tonights games!


Listening to Toby Lightman

HUMMM


Is it just me or does anyone else find it amazing that our government can track a cow born in Canada almost three years ago, right to the stall where she sleeps in the state of Washington. Also they track her calves to their stalls. But they are unable to locate 11 million illegal aliens wandering around our country.

The solution is to give every illegal alien a cow.

Random Thoughts for Today

(8:23) Why do I STILL cry at the end of "Youve Got Mail"? It isnt like I don't know what is going to happen.
(9:57) S passed her drivers test today.
(10:53) lalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalala
(12:46) Why am I getting those funny symbols when I use quotation marks or appostrophe? Any one have any ideas? Samples don't or He said "Stop"! OMG it didn't do it... nevermind
(1:34) If a woodchuck could chuck wood, Would a woodchuck chuck wood? And why do I care?
(mltpl X's) The weekend won't get here soon enough for me.
(2:13) I have to run to Greensboro after work and get my enlargements. My pictures, not body parts, those are big enough.
(2:14) Speaking off frontal appendages, mine match my hair after being a weiner yesterday. Look! I am color coordinated! My Skin matches my hair!
(3:44) Oracle SUCKS!
(4:28) And I am serious about this one,
I think I can answer people problem questions as well as Dr Phil. have you listened to that guy? Sheeesh!
Let's test me, e-mail me your questions, lets see how I do.

Today I went to the NCDMV
Sounds like a social disease doesnt it. Or a really big shot for one.


Might as well have gotten a shot. I was a nervous as if I was going to the doctor, (or pick you own analogy here, I can think of many). Several of the girls at work had been telling me about how they didnt pass the test and having to go 2 and 3 times. I just knew I was joining that elite group. Dont ask why.
To transfer your license here you have to take a test on road signs and a written test. Dont ask why…
S and I where there early and first in line. Some lady tried to cut in line but I fixed her! I get called by Mr Sign In Man and told to sit here. There Mr Computer Man takes all my information and starts typing into the computer. He would pause and look at me, then type some more. Then he did the one raised eyebrow thing, looked at me and then the screen. He makes a face like OH I saw what you did.
I am thinking, that is it, I am going to jail. He sees something about me in there! Dont ask why, I dont know. I must be feeling guilty for something lol.
He looks at my hair, goes uh huh red, types that in…
He looks at my eyes, goes uh huh blue, types that in.
He looks at my license, goes 5 foot 4, you look taller than that, types that in.
I didnt dare say I think I am closer to 5 foot 6. Maybe if they do show up to arrest me I can say that is not me, I am 5 foot 6, and get off on a technicality.
He tells me to switch chairs and read the last line in the little vision machine.
Now I have my mono-vision contacts in and I had to shut one eye but I guess I passed. Then he switches the screen and says read the road signs. I do. I pass that part Whew! Actually it was a no-brainer as they all said what they were. Now he moves me over to the computer area, gets me set up to take the written portion. 25 questions, you have to get 20 or more right to pass. And actually it is a touch screen test.


So I am tooling along answering the questions, I am up to 10 and have missed one. Ok I am thinking, I can get this. I get up to 15 and I have 2 wrong. OK, I am thinking, take your time, you can do this. I get to 20 and I have 3 wrong. I am thinking what is wrong with me? I am a total dumbass! This shit reminds me of Algebra, what use in life does it really have??? I get to 25 and I have 4 wrong. 83% WooHoo! So get shifted to a new chair and told to wait again. Dont ask me why as 3 of them are standing in a group and talking. NOT about the DMV that was for sure.


Ok, one of the Mr Official Man calls me over to HIS chair and tells me he can help me. I move to his area, sit down, and he continues his conversation for like 5 more minutes with the group. Finally he takes all my info AGAIN. Dont ask me why. I am thinking, the other dude already did all that. He enters everything in AGAIN. Asks me about Texas (snicker!!!) and tells me about the area here, where I should go, what I should see, etc. AND he keeps my Texas license, my last true proof I was a Texan once. (sigh) Oh and he asks me if I know I have to wear my contacts when I drive. DUH!!!! STOP, Dont ask.. Then I get told to go to another chair and wait to have my picture made. Remember this a room about the size of your living room. I can see all of them and they can see me.


So now Mr Photo Man is on the phone and waves me over. (Look! Mr Photo Man has 2 jobs. He is also Mr Sign In Man!) I go over and he hands me a pen, while still talking to his sweetie on the phone, and points to a slip of paper that says sign name here. So I do. He gets off the phone, tells me to sit back in the chair and smile. I asked him if I could make a face. He looks at me with a scowl. (OH OH, I have dared to be funny at the DMV). He tells me no I cant make a face, that I should smile. His gruff return actually made me laugh. Flash I get my picture taken. That’s a good one he says, then guess what. He tells me to take yet another chair and wait for my license. There I get to hear some random dude bitch about having to wait and it was not his fault, blah blah. I must have looked like I cared. Dont ask me why. In a few the Mr Photo Man brings me my license. I like him now cause I can can get away from Mr. Bitchy man. And that is pretty cool that I got my license right then and there. Llast time I got my license in Texas it took 2 weeks to get it in the mail, today I left with it.


So now I am official here in NC. And valid thru my birthdate in 2010. WOO HOO

To celebrate for lunch I was a wiener. (see Monday March 15th)

Oh and my picture that he said was a good one? I look like I have been on a 3 day drunk, we WILL NOT be showing that one around.

I Thought of You Today


It was large, dark.
As I placed a small part of it in my mouth.
Its taste made me smile and feel warm all over.
It sent waves of pleasure though my senses.
I hold it there, in my mouth, letting it warm up.
Melting on my tongue.
Ahhh the powers of Dark Chocolate.


What did YOU think I meant?

Not to copy Spam Poetry, but I thought the way these 3 spam mails came into my mail box is just 2 funny
1) Maximum Strength Johnson Stretcher
2) CIO rated out preform
3) Massive profits are easy

OH and check out butt flies. They made me LMAO

For the Captain

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Spring has Sprung!
and been dug up by myself and my partner in crime


Or I am going to Flower Hell
S and I walk almost every night. We had been noticing a lot on our walk that has been recently bull dozed. It is an ugly sight, muddy wth downed trees. The land torn up by bulldozers' track wheels.
But
Yes there is that preverbial but...
Right at the edge is a row of daffodils that survived.
So S and I where like hummm. They are just gonna be destroyed anyway. So, we make plans to gather at 9 Friday night, take my truck, a shovel, a bucket and give them a loving home.
9 PM comes, I hear my doorbell ring and open the door thinking it is S. No one is there. Weird. I hear S. and I ask her if she rang my door bell. She says no she just got outside, but she did hit her door bell whens he was coming out with the shovel and bucket. She goes back and rings hers again (she lives next door), her door bell goes off and my doorbell goes off. We laugh our a**es off. We are cursed by the flower spirit!
But it does not stop us. So off we go. Right past the lot, is a vacant home. We decide to descretely park there. S is armed with the shovel, I have the bucket and flashlight and off we go. It was DA-ARK as there are no street lights there. We walk up to the flowers, I spot them with the flashlight, put the bucket down at my side and will be damned if I don't hear a car! I turn the flashlight off right quick and say what was that? (original I know), but it was a false alarm. I hear S slice the ground with the shovel and a thunk noise. The bucket at my feet shakes. I turn the flashlight back on and S has already gotten a big spade ful of the flowers and chunked it in the bucket. I was like DAMN GIRL!! We walk the line of flowers and fill the bucket. When we are done, we both grab a side of the bucket and start running back to the the truck laughing hysterically. (And yes, I even snorted). I have the flashlight on and it is making wild patterns as I try to balance my half of the bucket weight. We would not make good thieves, but it will make for a good memory!

A Day at my Job


I work in the lively world of accounting. Yes I am a numbers pusher. I push them from one side of my desk, then back. And yes I make the little motor noises too!
I was having a really good day today until the multi number crash. The number ten, (and we all know how number ten is, rounding things up by tenths), ran into the back of number seven while trying to get on the stapler expressway. Number seven went to spinning like a lucky pull at a slot machine in Vegas, and spun right into number 44. They ended up in front of the Tape Dispenser truck stop. After that I lost count of the damages as the numbers kept adding and adding into the carnage. It reminded me of the day my adder paper hung in the calculator, it was absolute mayhem.
Then I had to call an ambulance and things went downhill from there. The ambulance had a hard time getting to the site for all the numbers over 70 driving slow in the fast lane. (Freakin old numbers, they need to stay home!) Then the ambulance could not get close for all the numerical bystanders and gawkers. Why would you want to look at the multiple numeric gore? I just dont get it. They need to subtract themselves, and get out of the way.
Divide and conquer! I heard the ambulance driver yell while trying to part the crowd. . As the emergency workers walked up to the scene all I could hear was a banged up number one yelling Me first, me first! I would like to kick him in his fraction.
Needless to say things have not gone well the rest of the day. I have not gotten one percent of my work done.


Listening to Beyonce - Me, Myself and I

Political Commentary from a Middle of the Roader


I try to keep things light here in my blog but there was a story on the local news last night that really disturbs me. It is about Billy Yow a local official.
Last spring, yes last spring mind you, he had a run in with the NAACP. They asked for his resignation blah blah (read the story, you gotta read the story). Now apparently this guy, this elected official, is holding a grudge. How good can this be? I saw him on TV. he is dead serious about all this. There has been a t-shirt made with a little white guy holding a confederate flag, and peeing on the logo of the NAACP. And he wants to say, here a year later, and re-election time, that this was not a publicity ploy? Come on, how stupid does he think we are? And that is even an open-ended question, as 1/3 of the population here never completed high school. To even add to those worries, the company that made the shirt is selling them as far off as California. Are we supposed to give him credit as he supported a black man, Willie Best, who is not in the NAACP to Guilford County Manager? Is he not doing the same thing he thinks the NAACP is doing to him? What happened to best man for the job?
Now do not get me wrong. I do not agree with everything the NAACP does. But do I have too? Do you have too? I think not.
I also don’t agree with everything the republicans are about, or the democrats, the Baptists, the Methodists or Malcolm X to name a few. I also agree with very little our current president is about and I am from Texas.
I agree with NOTHING the KKK is about.
Hell I dont even agree with everything my friends think and I do not expect you to agree with everything I think. Diversity is what this free world is all about. You dont see me making t-shirts of a little guy peeing on any of the aforementioned organizations.
At times like these I feel like John Stossel.
Give me a break!
Except I want to shout out,
Grow up!
now gotta go lock my door and load my gun in case anyone from around these parts reads this. lol

spatial (spa'shel) adj. - Of or pertaining to space
lol

So OK I fell for it. I took an IQ test on tickle.com


PHD test, equivalent to the Mensa type tests it says. Blah Blah
I said to myself
self, what the hay!!!
I had to think, it was not easy. they say the average score is 100
here is what I scored - with some notes -
131
We also compared your answers with others who have taken the test, and according to the sorts of questions you got correct, we can tell your Intellectual Type is an Insightful Linguist.

This means you are highly intelligent and have the natural fluency of a writer and the visual and spatial strengths of an artist. Those skills contribute to your creative and expressive mind. And that's just some of what we know about you from your test results.

Insightful Linquist – Charles Dickens
Now for 9.95 I can get the full 15 page report. WHAT??aww now come on.
what good did I do? 131 might as well be a 1 and who knows it could be...
but guess what. I fell for it again. I took 4 more tests!
So who had the last laugh here?

Top O the mornin to ya


Today I am going to annoy everyone and speak with an Irish accent. A brogue if you will. And I am going to introduce myself as Patty O Clover.
I can not drink green beer as I live in a dry town, so to compensate I am going to drink green tea. Think that counts? I am going to wear green, break out my claddagh, and look for my 4-leaf clover, and eat cabbage and corned beef. I know, some of those are not true Irish traditions.


If you feel so inclined here is a few web sights for ya
St Patricks Day in Ireland (has St. Patricks Day e-cards…)
History of St Patrick
claddagh symbol


And an Irish Joke for your amusement.


An Irishman who had a little too much to drink is driving home from the city one night and, of course, his car is weaving violently all over the road. A cop pulls him over.
So, says the cop to the driver, where have you been?
Why I have been to the pub of course, slurs the drunk.
Well, says the cop, it looks like you have had quite a few drinks this evening.
I did alright, the drunk says with a smile.
Did you know, says the cop, standing straight and folding his arms across his chest, that a few intersections back, your wife fell out of your car?
Oh thank goodness, sighs the drunk, for a minute there, I thought I had gone deaf!


So cheers to all things Irish! And let us not forget… Luck O the Irish to ya.

My day in a Nursery Rhyme

Buzz buzz buzz
What is that buzz in my head?
Buzz buzz buzz!
But I like my bed!


Stupid alarm clock!


I can not see!
What can it be?
I need my contacts
To see me!


Oh there I am!


My face is on
Then I start to dress
I am done! Complete!
Let me leave this mess!


Where are my keys!!


I arrive at work
Settle into my office
Glass of water
And some coffee


(what rhymes with office?)


I push numbers all day
I look for my money,
If you can not get it with meanness
Get it with honey..


Yeah I am full of it!


Look! Oh Look!
It’s 5 O clock
Of staying much after
I try not to take stock


I come in at 7 and usually work thru lunch..,OK!!!!


The office has a gym
And there I work out,
Lost 2 more pounds
Hear me shout!


Off to home I go
Via errands and such
Shower , internet and
try not to do much


so there you have it
in a nut shell
what else do I do?
Only time will tell!

Hot Dogs, Armor Hot dogs, what kind of kids eat Armor Hot Dogs

Today I was a weiner. Not physically mind you.
I decided to re-enter to world of tanning via machinery. It reminds me of the little cookers we used when I was in fast food to prepare wieners. Lay wieners in, turn on, lid down, quick cook. Viola! Hot wieners ready to be consumed.
I decided to do this as I would really like to wear shorts this summer and not freak everyone out with my white sheath we shall call my skin. (Look out! Turn your head! Put on your shades! Here she comes!) Do not even attempt to lie, everyone looks better with a little color we all know that. My Irish definitely shows in my skin.
I started slow. 10 minutes. I purchased the required tanning bed safe accelerator lotion stuff, slathered up and I turn it in, in I go, lid down and I cook! Viola I am ready for human consumption. Oh wait, I am not a hot dog, I am not a hot dog. OK better. Alas, right now I am feeling a little burn this evening. And we are not talking about my workout after work. My butt is tingling right now, my tummy is pink and I would kill to be able to put some lotion on my back. Ok let me say put it on my back easily. I can contort myself as I am double jointed but your appendages just do not work as well when they are in un-natural positions. (There is another thought, I should blog about my double-jointed adventures in life.)
Ahhh the things we to look good.

Butt-burningly,

red right now on more than the head!

TGIF !
going to work on getting out of my creative dry spell this weekend...


in the interim.. check out some new links on the left I have. First there is Cooking with Amy. An interesting blog on cooking and things related. I have added a photo album and posted some of my photography. And of course it is great! lol
Also are links for fun stuff and the alligator farm.
Fun stuff will get you our horoscope and interesting mindless stuff
alligator farm is a REALLY cool place if you ever visit the St. Augustine area you have to see.. It also has a web cam of the aviary section in real time..
And please check in on Cult of Jef. His writing is really getting good!


Oh and need a good mindless timeconsuming thing to do while you while away your Friday at work? don't we all! Check out Workhates posting for staplers.. visit the site and staple your heart out... it has stapler poetry and letters... funny! I myself like the big silver stapler..


I am going exploring this weekend in the area, particularly Sunday, and hope to be inspired by natures beauty.. that should get the creative ( ok my sarcastic humor) back!!! Been needing a thinkless adventure...

listening to (sorta) the Bob and Sheri show...........

This is the dawning of the age of aquarius.. the age of aquarius
I like to read my horoscope. I take it all quite in stride that is is for humor mostly. But I find the majority of the description of a particular sign to actually be pretty close to right. weird isn't it!
I am a Cancer. so here it goes.


It's easy to spot a Cancer by their round faces. That physical characteristic reflects the soft, affectionate nature of this sign.
Whaddaya saying that I am fat? Come here let me kiss ya
Cancers are very much about home and security and nurture.
If this where true I would work for ADT
The crab can be a bit of a packrat, because he or she may attach emotional value to things others may consider junk.
Anyone been to my house?
They can be overly emotional, and they tend to fantasize about the past and what it meant for them.
Jeez! I am not! And my past is my past. Oh if only I had not done that when I was young I would not be where I am today, oh wait
Cancers are incredibly loyal as mates, but don't ever tell them what to do.
The sun rises and falls at your feet but tell me what to do and I will tell you where to go.
Sometimes Cancer is very sociable, but sometimes they need their alone time.
Wanna plan a party? Get the hell away from me
This sign is very giving, but has a tough time receiving the generosity of others.
I would give you anything, (well almost - minds people!), including the shirt off my back..
Because of their nurturing qualities, they are great at jobs in which they take care of others, such as nursing.
No way this is true. I can not stand the sight of blood..
Cancers are prone to all sorts of illness, but female crabs should pay special attention to their reproductive systems.
illness I refuse to believe this is so! brb gotta make a doctor appointment
Famous Cancers include Princess Diana, Nelson Mandela and Mike Tyson.
I am a beautiful neurotic, ear biting, freedom fighter! Look out world!
Listening to Toby Lightman and yes again!

Too funny not to share

A three year old boy in his bath examined his testicles and asked,

"Mommy, are these my brains?"

Mom said, "Not yet, honey."

That is what Astroglide is for

I have done a lot of things in my life but tonight I had a first. One of my friends from Florida has been waiting to be a grandmother. Tonight, I "sat" on IM with her while she awaited the news. She goes to bed early as she rises early. I am doing my best to keep her awake. When the news finally comes.. well, here is an exerpt:

K: I'm trying very hard not to SIT!
K: I Am now a grandma!!!!!!!!!
Me: OMG
Me: Congrats
Me: are they on the phone?
K: Yep!
K: 7 pounds 7 oz.
K: 20-1/4 inches long
Me: awwwwwwww
K: long fingers, long feet
Me: your a granny
K: no hair!

then we went back to our usual conversation on republicans, dumb people, and the many uses for our word of the night. Oh what she has to teach that child...
They are sending her video via the web. Isn't that amazing. I remember when I was little we watched black and white TV. I remember the first TV show to be in color? Do You?
right as she signed off I got this:
K: OMG
Me: what
K: I'm a grandma!
K: hahahahaha
K: OLD BITCH!

Grandmothers, aren't they grand!!!

Listening to Toby Lightman

Somebody loose their mummy?

Can you imagine being in a place where there is no more room for mummies? So in peru, finding mega mummies is normal. ordinary.

interesting.

and so is this bit of news... what they think her stepping down is going to help the company? anything with her name on now is doomed. why? has her quality in towels gone down now that she is going to the big house? has her ability to decorate and accentuate changed? I don't think so. To me she just has a new challenge to make black white and orange exciting! Rumor has it she is a bitch and is demanding. Now she has been convicted of insider trading. DAMN HER! I think i will go undo any bit of decorating I have done with a glue gun and some pine cones.

Listening to me shredding all my copies of Martha's Magazines

Belly Buttons Explained

Q: How do babies get their belly buttons?

A: When God finishes making little babies, He lines them all up in a row. Then he walks along in front of them. He pokes each one in the tummy with His finger and says, You are done and you are done and you are done"

I prefer the theory my grandfather explained to me when I was little.. "That is where the indian shot ya." He used to say. I believed him. Grandfathers are God when you are little. My grandfather also used to show me how his ears could wiggle and pull quarters out of my ears.
listening to Six Feet under

Jailhouse Rock
Wonder what goes with black and white stripes? Guess we are fixing to find out!

I like Kosher Dills
Oh and check out my link to pickle juice on the left. My kinda gal.
Funny, sarcatic, witty.. and she has linked to me...
I am honored..
oh yeah I am at work I gotta go
go work on my blog lol

It's a beautiful day...
I am hearing strong rumblings that the man who dealt me so much misery earlier this week is no longer with the company.
Dare I pray that it is true? If it is announced I am going home and digging out my rockem sockem robots and guess who the loser is!!

Well i am branded. or tattoo'd if you will.
He did a really good job. As soon as I can I will have t take a picture and post it. So if any of my family looses me, or I forget who I am and am found wandering. I will be identifiable. I can see it now on the news. Found wandering a very white woman with red hair and stars on her ass. If this human is yours please call 333-323-4567. News at 11..... lol

I took longer than he said. mainly because we where all talking. I found out a little more about him than I wanted to know though. He likes to suck his girlfriends toes and has a foot fetish. There are just somethings about some people you don't want to know. (Right J?) Like my tattoo artist sucks toes. He told T to go home and tell her husband, "Suck my toes damn it". And he said you have to say damn it.

We also had a conversation about judging people. He feels he gets judged all the time. He is pretty much tattoo'd all over and has those big thiings in his ears that make your lobes bigger. He also had a piercing thru his nose up by his eyes. He was very nice though. He said he hates meeting parents. I can imagine! T said she would like to think she wouldn't be taht way but if she thought about it, and she had a daughter, she probably would be judgemental. I offered no opinion. I would like to think I wouldn't be either. I have raised my son to be very open to all people. I don't know...

What is your first reaction when you see someone like that? Do you have a quick mental minute of OMG? Do you think, gotta be on drugs? Do you think, there's a nice looking young man or woman with quarter size holes in their ears?

Enough of being philosophical...

Did I say he did a really good job? lol
I tipped him...

I have to go doctor my new "Art" now...with vaseline and saran wrap
HUmmmm now that sounds like fun!!

Listening to Princess Diana the secret tapes....

adventures in Assboro

Today we locked the keys in the car. At the cemetery. Before you go "what!!" we went there to walk..a lot of people walk there. what else are you going to do here besides visit the dead..lol I had quite the conversation with some of them they were just dying to get out of Assboro...yes I went there....So there we are. New kids in town. my phone locked in her car. my keys locked in her car.... two sets of people pull up. One in front of us and one behind. she goes one way and i go the other in search of hanger. I got lucky.. ( i mean getting a hanger...hello! minds out of the gutter please!) Oh and did I meantion that her car does not have the kind of locks that you can grab with a hanger.. but i thought i would entertain her.
But she nor I had any luck. The couple that gave us the hanger had made one loop and asked us if we wanted to use their phone and call someone.. we both looked at each other. we don't know anyone to call, we are new here. and i am sure by now they think we are a "couple". So they say we are going to make another round and will check back with you. Isn't that nice. a benefit to a small town.
She goes to the offic at the cemetery to call triple a. that was a joke. there is no triple a in assboro. but the secretary tried to sell her a plot. Now that is useful when you are locked out of your car. Why yes thank you, since I can't leave sell me a place that I can call home here.
Anyway while she is inside placing her order for a small (very small) strip of land the caretakers come over hand try their hand at it. I am scared. they got in! but never you mind!
Off I drive her car to get her.
Got to go and get some things done so I can watch Carmen and Daves wedding...

Oh and countdown to the tattoo. this time tomorrow I will be done!
and double OH, the couple didn't want their hanger back. hummmmwonder why? lol

watching kingdom hospital

Oh the shark babe, has such teeth dear And he shows them pearly white

that should have been yesterdays blog title..

So been doing some interesting reading. Seems there aren't a lot of "bloggers" out there in the total scheme of things. We are a rare breed..lol

And If you so choose, check out 100 things about me linked below archives. I uh ummm "borrowed" that idea from ac. thanks dude! It was interesting. I did the majority of them in about an hour....till about the last 8..OMG! that was hard.

Went today to check out the tattoo parlor. It is clean and pretty cool. Have my appointment Thursday at 5:30.....tick tick tick.....lol going with the one i drew with a few minor changes.....

listening to........nothing.........imagine!

Don't you know I got hheartburn, burnin in my soul
alicia keyes
I don't think my day could have been worse. the unprofessionalism at this place never ceases to amaze me.
OK it could have been worse. I could still be under you know who....
eeeeewwwww there was a visual yuck lol
so needless to say i am not to blog worthy today.
listening to the Bob and Sheri show...

What if god was one of us, just a slob like one of us, just a stranger on a bus, trying to make his way home
Last night was a weird night.
First, we had light snow during the day. that was cool. but we had thundersnow in the forecast and got it. if kinda screws with your senses. Lightning, thunder and way heavy snow!
Then as I got ready for bed
And layed the pillow 'neath my head...
my mind went to running ten thousand thoughts a minute, rapid fire succesion - one after the other - one extreme to the other - wonder if I can get to work in the morning - oh i forgot to send the cash report - umm remember when (grin) ....- i forgot to get gas - i gotta have that key made - the girls trip to ny should be fun - i need to call tldc - i need to get NC tags - OMG make it stop!
I tried focusing
nope
I tried counting my favorite man (you know who you are) jumping over my bed
nope
I turned the TV on a infomercial
nope
Finally I had to set up in the bed and hollar (yes hollar, I am learning) stop!
times like that I am glad I am single
but also wish I wasn't
wouldn't it have been nice to curl up next to someone you care about, put your arm around them and be lulled to sleep by the warmth and steady breathing? I find that very calming.
So I had glass of wine instead.
NOW on to today.
I have spoken of my new office before in previous blogs. Well I have a key and I keep it locked. When I got to work this AM there was a feather in the floor. hummm. much like a quill feather, a deep charcoal color, fluffy and soft.
That lead to a major wtf?
who was here? why did they have a feather? what were they doing with that feather? which lead to a quick were had that feather been? i certianly haven't been having any fun in my office and by god no one else was going to either! at least before me..lol but it looks like i was to late.
I picked up the feather and marched into my boss's office. You can guess the look on his face when I walked in. "Someone has violated my office!' I stated sternly.
"uhmm" he replied, "the cleaning crew was here last night."
"oh" i said, "just as long as they weren't having fun."
and returned to my office.
I know he thinks I am really strange now
listening to my immortal - evenesence

I'm on the Highway to Hell
for sure if I don't change my ways!!!

First I want to give a shout out to my blog buddies Jef and B2K... I have had people say they read my comments just to see what you guys write....
sa -lute!
Second, check out the link to "AC my son's friend" on the links menu..

Now, I want to talk about NC.. We all know I just moved here... I am sorta catching on to the twang...I am gonna post the rules as I learn them.
Today's rule... if you thought your name ended with an "a" you are wrong.
Example: Rebecca = Rebeccer
Your name really ends in an "er" Now gonna use that observation in a sentence..
I recently moved to North Caroliner.
OH OH and I bet you thought a whale was a mammal..and one syllable.. oh no contrare
sentence
Wha-ale, I am glad you moved to North Caroliner!

Deep thought for this week:
I bet the main reason the police keep people away from a plane crash is they don't want anybody walking in and lying down in the crash stuff, then, when somebody comes up, act like they just woke up and go, "What was THAT?!"

Listening to Gary Jules - Mad World

Torture Me
Hey to all, Thanks for all the comments on my tattoo! I want meet Etienne! lol
I am looking forward to getting it!
I am however constantly amazed at all the places people get peirced and things for your peircings. Did you know they have vibrating tongue rings? OMG!!!
I have started walking again and tonight used the company gym. I did 15 minutes on some kind of machine that I am sure a sadist invented and i won't be able to walk tomorrow!
I also hit the free weights and the treadmill. Damn good thing the weights were free! cruel bastards! I have never been big in working out but used to do it more often. Getting back into some of that.
going for now!
listening to (and singing along with) Alicia Keyes

Markings of the flesh

Alrighty then...
i have already said I am getting a new tattoo. I have been looking around for what I want. can't find it. so I drew this.
Comments please! I am getting it on my lower back next week. Let me know what you think..it is permanent you know!
And artists usually sign their work... My initials are MF....hummm
that's a MF ass!!! lol

Doctor asks: "Do you swallow?" Samantha says "Only when surprised!"
great Samantha line

"It was a mercy fuck, he only had one ball"
great miranda line

"It was jackrabit sex, you know pound pound pound pound pound"
great carrie line

"Oh look it's pink for girls!"
great charlotte line

Carrie: "Oh, did you want to come up?" Mr. Big, "Absofuckinglutly"
great mr. big line

Life is a bowl of Cherries
I read this on an online news article:
Native American folklore says that the first question we ask upon dying is, "Why was I so serious?"

Life today is full of reasons to scowl, frown, sputter and fume, but you know what? That's just plain defeatism and it only makes you look and feel old. Find things that make you laugh and surround yourself with them.

Set laughter goals: laughing to tears daily; falling-down, rolling, pants-wetting hilarity once a week perhaps. Laughter is your tether to youth, an instant facelift, and the purest appreciation for what a cool ride this really is.
Again I say, Life is short, live it to the fullest. Do what makes you happy. I try to laugh about something every day, and for me I can laugh at myself a lot!
Listening to (and watching) Joan of Arcadia

Today was a good day! I am all excited as I have found someone to go with me to get my next tattoo! I will be going week after next.. yeah baby!

Deep Thoughts

If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is "Probably because of something you did."

and if you know me you know it is something I would do!
I like kids, when they are someone else's. there was a time in my life i wanted more kids. that time is not now. been there, done that, read the book. Now small children are OK when they are in their place. mcdonalds, the park, etc... not next to me in a adult restaurant. Especially when they have liberal parents. I was in outback one night with one of my girl friends and a older couple was seated next to us with a young child. about 6 i guess.. they obviously had this child late in life as they were not young. at all. this spawn of satan proceeded to ruin my dinner and that of the partron's seated around me. he yelled, threw colors, screamed at the top of his lungs because he wanted something to eat that this place didn't have. it was so bad the waiters and waitresses where coming out of the kitchen to see what could cause such a commotion. finally dad drug him to the bathroom, with a not so sincere threat of a "spanking". the satan child knocked the salt, pepper and sugar off the table while looking at mom going "mom, mom, what are you going to do about this?" dad drags him off. we can hear them in the bathroom...damn..the manager comes over and offers to move us, but it is crowded, i have my food so we decide not to move. after their food comes, they finally come out of the bathroom. dad looks worse for wear than the, dare I call it this, child. major pout on his face and dad is pushing him along the way to the table. remember i said he knocked that stuff off the table? well somewhere along the way he lost his shoes and he stepped on a sweet and low packet with only his socks on.. horrors!!!
I hear "ouch, ouch that hurt" and he looks at me with evil satan eyes. I look right back, put on my "i am a bitch don't fuck with me buddy" look and said "I eat small children" with a growl and thru my clenched teeth. I think I scared him more than dad did! About freaking time. And if I had let the manager move me I wouldn't have gotten the pleasure of giving that child a nightmare!
listening to Joss Stone...

what!!!!no sex in the city????
Sex and the city has been something I have looked forward to and even planned around for the last several years. I have lived vicariously through Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda. haven't some of you? Now it is coming to an end, what is the world coming to? my friends and I have compared ourselves to them, sort of a which one are you, what would you do kind of thing. Charlotte, uptight uptown girl. Miranda, neurotic and sarcastic funny. Samantha, well what can you say about samantha! head stong and sex driven! Carrie, incurable romantic addicted to shoes. I guess if I had to pick I would say I am a version of Carrie, even if i have the hair of miranda. I am neither neurotic, nor headstrong lol Although I would rather make my living with photography than journalism. It was also funny how many times that week's show hit home for one or all of us.
So what are you hoping for, in the spectacular ending? Will carrie stay in paris with the russian or will she succumb to mr. big? I myself hope carrie goes with mr. big. Samantha has her young stud and is happy. miranda and steve have re-united and married. Charlotte is getting babies of the puppy kind...so what better fairy tale ending could there be? and what would be wrong with a fairy tale ending, huh??
Now what do we have to choose from? reality TV? The bachelorette? next top model? the surreal life? Celebrity mole? or worse even the littlest bachelor? (now that show calls for a definite WTF!!!)
All I can hope for is to buy it on DVD from season 1... I know, I need to get a life!
listening to Maroon 5
and let's not forget this weeks drink of choice....yummmmmm!

a moment of waxing poetic
I woke up to snow this morning.
Not a heavy snow. light small flakes. snow always reminds me of things fresh and new. As I gaze out the window and daydream a bit, you just can't help but think all things are right with the world. at least for a short, peaceful few minutes.
for now I am enjoying the cold weather. next year i may hate it, but now it is nice to have some change in the weather. a little cold. i have missed that.
wax on, wax off
back to reality now!
listening to hoobustank...............

Check out a new link on the left called fanfuckintastic. Some of her stuff makes me laugh

listening to .........Stevie wonder

Over the river and thru the woods
My sister came to visit! It was a rather spur of the moment thing. She drove up friday last night. we both needed it in our own ways. She needed to get away from all her issues at home and I needed adult companionship and a break from work stuff. I work to much. this i know, but it is just in me to do that and i don't know what to do about it....I am working on it but anyway.....
Saturday we went to G'boro to do some of my errands. My sister makes me laugh....read her blog...then understand earlier in the day when I told her I wanted to go to priscillas, she was like "is it a sex shop?"
I was like "i don't know haven't been there before and what do you mean by sex shop?"
She said, "You know, do they sell toys?"
Me, "I am not sure."
She " Cause I could sure use one of those!"
Then we get there, they do sell toys and she is all embarrased cause she is with me....lmao
But a good day was had by all. Oh and my shopping list was for things in the house, reguardless of what my sister says!!!lol. I bought glasses and silverware. Couldn't find a bathroom shower curtian to suit moi, nor dishes....
Today we planned on taking in a movie, but thanks to the weather, that didn't happen...calling for 3 - 5 inches of snow..
So she left early and I made stew (yummmm) and burned CDs...
Listening to.................... staind

hear me singing....i'm alright, i'm alright - it only hurts when i breathe...
i love melissa ethridge

which reminds me of a time when my son was younger. he was with his dad and step mom in small town america. I get a call...
son "mom L (the stepmom) took away my melissa etheridge cd!"
me "why on earth would she do that?"
son "she said melissa is a lesbian and i can't listen to that it might influence me."
This is hilarious, two fold:
One that my son, obviuosly male, could be influenced to be a lesbian...
Two if you where a lesbian you would like women and not just for their "fashion sense"
OK, laughing my ass of at small town small mindedness. But wait, i just said i love melissa etheridge, omg i must be a lesbian!!!
LMAO

re-organizing this page
I could call it under construction, but it is already constructed. I could call it remodeling, but everyone is remodeling something these days, their house, their image, their body... so i pick reorganizing as I have had lot's of practice at that at my job. We re-org, don't give it time to take effect, then re-org again!

my contribution to all my friends and family for valentines day, with a large nod to http://youyesyou.net....

pick a card of your choosing and send to someone you love, like or hate!

for the hiker
for the dog lover
for the metro rider
metro rider v2
for the molesters
for the lame brains
for the needy
for the obsessed
for the pervs
for the vindictive
for the scanks

drove to work in snow today! wooohoooo
listening to the radio..................

me today, no me this week!!
lol

and I am sharing this with my family and friends, thanks to b2k, if you haven't seen this it is just to good not to view at least once!
charlie brown and outkast - hey ya
Check out a new link called work hate...take the time to read it over! i especially like their description of
Promotion
Pay increase and title elevation bestowed on office spies.
OMG that is soooooo true!! at least where I work...


listening to American Idol .... Fantasia is cool!!! and from near here!

Oh the powers of Chocolate

... found this online...I always thought it just raised your endorphins and made you happy!! ha ha..
Dark chocolate is the chocolate of choice. "Milk chocolate is for kids. Dark chocolate is for lovers," says Weinstein, who explains that dark chocolate has a higher percentage of cocoa, which means it has more phenylethylamine, a chemical that mimics the feeling you have when you're in love. wonder if they really know what it does?

and this is toooo funny! Hope you have sound!

Listening to the grammys....actually a pretty good show this time

is this the truth or is it fiction?
you decide
When I was young my mom and step dad used to roll their own cigarettes. this was a special, relaxing time for them. I always knew when they where going to. They would head into the living room and out would come the Iron Butterfly album. Mom would call me in and tell me I needed to go get my sister and we needed to "play nicely, it was quiet time for the adults". (play nicely? Maybe she was remembering when I knocked my sister off the barstool, but that is another story.) My sister and I would settle in playing Barbies somewhere. In the background I could hear "ina-godda-da-vita baby.... don't you know that I luh-uh-uh-uv you" Mom and her man would always be in such a good mood after a while! Do you know how long it took to to realize that they where smoking marijuana, wacky weed, grass!!!!!????
now fast forward to many years later...
Mom was claustrophobic and had to have a MRI. she was especially nervous and wanted her 2 daughters to go with her and be with her. naturally we agreed. Pre-mri time we are in the hall outside the mri room waiting our turn. the waiting seemed to make it worse on mom. so my sister and i decided to entertain her. we starting singing "ina-godda-da-vita" to her making the bass noises, playing a little air guitar and all. then we added a little dance.. all the while mom going "shut up, shut up, your embarrasing me!" we just looked at her and said "got your mind off it didn't we!". we ended up embarrasing ourselves in the mri room. ever been in one with that thing running? damn it's loud! in there we started making up songs to the beat of the thumping. little did we know all the techs in the glassed in room could hear us... oh well!!!

and by the way seaster... that is my dawn doll!!!! lol
so do you think this is the truth?

my brain wheels need a greasin'


WOW, this week has been busy, work at work, take work home and work! I have done that 3 nights this week. I will not do this forever!!! So needless to say I am brain dead ..
I need a fun break!
I did see a report on Primtime last night that rather disturbed me, will talk about that later..
only inspiration I have today is a deep thought
deep thought
It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.
Listening to Beyonce - me myself and i...

one day my prince will come
he has to be computer literate!! (joking)
actually one day I will figure out how to make my blog 3 columns. but until then I will post these here randomly
Deep thoughts
Wouldn't it be cool if you could buy a voodoo globe so that you could make the world spin real fast and freak everybody out?
and
I think a good gift for the President would be a chocolate revolver. and since he is so busy, you'd probably have to run up to him real quick and give it to him.
are you laughing yet?
If not, you either 1) are thinking to much about your work or issues
2) don't have a sense of humor... so get one! lol
I lmao last night about these...but then I am warped!!!
listening to talk radio...don't ask why, I hate talk radio

I'm gonna get you naked by the end of this song
Seems the big news today about the superbowl was not the game or how close it was but that janet jackson's boob got exposed. I myself missed it, don't ask me how as I was sitting here, or if I care, but I got sent and or directed to many pics about it today. the big delimma is was it staged or not. take at look at this pic, click here, and tell me if you think it was staged or not. If i had seen it, would I have run from the room screaming "a boob, i have been blinded and i am going to hell"?
If it wasn't staged would you have something on your nip? I don't think so.
if your nips are covered are they really "exposed"? some strippers at some strip joints have to wear pasties.
just what the hell is that on her boob anyway? some sort of silver sunburst torture thingy?
and is it me or does her boob look awfully white in that pic..hummm, just a whiter shade of pale - re brother Michael Jackson. my apologies to Procol Harum.
well she paid enough for em, might as well show em.
and omg i am sooo excited! P diddy and fifty cent can do magic! they can sing with out moving their mouths! insert redhead sarcasm here. I myself was offended by the lipsyncing. or shall we say lack of.. At an event of this magnitude, wouldn't you think the performers would "do it live"? oh wait, maybe they really can't sing...it's all a farce...got it! If I had paid what it cost to go to the superbowl and have good seats, I would be pissed!!!!
Listening to train....

and the beat goes on
OK what was your favorite add? I liked 2 especially..
The first one was on early and had the coach yelling at his team ruthlessly..question was, how did he get this way..
next scene it showed his wife yelling at him about bills, the house, the car etc...
The scond was the bud light commercial with the dogs. One well bred dog fetched the beer out of the cooler, his owner all cocky...asked the second guy what his scruffy dog could do...I lmao!!!

never underestimate the power of chocolate
and I am out!

15 million women are predicted to watch the super bowl. 1 of them is me. humm wonder what the odds of that are?? lol..... ya think 1 in 15 million? I made sure my surround sound was hooked up so I can watch and feel like I am in a stadium. next best thing to being there

I want this click here
I need it...
really!
stop laughing, I am serious!
donations accepted...and appreciated!

I have to wear real work clothes tomorrow...you know "professional"...better go pick them out...

listening to the superbowl on TV

i am an unpacking fool!

yes.....
I am both unpacking
and a fool! lol
made a major dent. why is it easier to unpack that pack? i don't get that..

I have to add to my walmart adventures. the one I went to the other day, land o' the unisex mullet, was in a (very) close neighboring town. so close it might as well be the same town. anyway today I went to the "official" assboro wally world. I did see more mullets there, BUT...
I was standing in line behind a young couple with 3 kids. a set of twin girls and a son. the girls where good, at least at that moment, but the boy would be a good advertisement for birth control... i have a very low tolerance of small screaming children......remind me to tell you about the screaming kid i encountered in outback one night...
anyway, I was being friendly (as everyone here is friendly) and the young couple and I where visiting while standing in line. I noticed they were purchasing a set of walkie talkies. S had purchased her a set before our move to assboro and we used them on the drive up. S refuses to come into the 21st century and get a cell phone.. so, I was telling them how well they worked, blah blah... and then the female laughed.....OMG....her teeth.....ouch...I tried not to get one of those surprised looks on my face....and don't get me wrong, I am not someone who judges people...they were really nice...but her teeth hurt me..... or shall i say the lack of teeth. obviously he must like it.. and that is as far as I am going with that one...

I was dial switching last night and came across one of the local stations that is all ads for local clubs and events. I was like cool, let's see what is out there.
looking to join a church? Asheboro african episcopal church...
have a problem? is it related to drugs? come to blah blah baptist church and we will help you..
mom's day out, sponsored my blah blah methodist, children welcome...what????
you get the drift
only non church related ad was one for a chess club...yeah right..... I am gonna run to check that one out..NOT

Listening to train on the tv.......lead singer is a hottie!!!

all good things come to those who wait

i am tired of waiting!!!

sorry, i needed to vent...........

listening to Fuel

God gave me this perm

That is my standard answer to the few people who see my hair in it's natural state. My hair is very curly...and red. When they see me, I always get.."oh! were did you get that perm?"
insert my title here
then it's "well i would gladly pay good money for that!"
well I would pay good money not to have it so curly...
think I am gonna grow it out again though. Now that I am in a not so humid climate, it will be easier to take care of. and it is less curly when it gets longer.
I was born bald. bald till I was 2. Old wives tale says if you are born bald your hair will be curly. ta-da!
Mom used to tape bows on my head. She said even when she dressed me in a dress, a pink dress even, someone(s) would always say "oh what a cute little boy!" I think that was the start to all my complexes!!! lol!!!! and I was in high school in the 70's...era of stick straight hair. I chemically straightened it once.. it lasted one day.
I want to be PC here, so I hope no one takes this wrong but...someone in my family history had to be "of color"...had to be.

Listening to Justin Timberlake - Justified shhhhhhh don't tell anyone

took off work early today to runs some moving type errands. Water put in my name, trash set up, buy food....
Buying food is always good! lol
for ease sue and i went to the local super walmart. killing many birds with one stone so to speak.
also a good opportunity to view the natives in their own habitat.
biggest thing i noticed where the "hockey" hair cuts... on men and women... WOW!
everyone is really nice though!

Hey to friends and familyl!
Well I am here. Saw a ton of trees down thru South Carolina...tried to make a pit stop but no one had power!
My belongings got unloaded yesterday and I actually can get around in my new place...click on link and check out thesnow!.... Issue: My Living room furniture is to big for my living room....hummm what to do?
My office (2nd BR) is a wreck, but hey, i can close the door. I missed my cable installation appt due to the weather, now they can't come until tomorrow, bumming a dial up (eeewww) from sue...i am such a loser!!! But I have become so internet dependant! Shopping, bill paying, research, etc...
Made it in to work today. Will be working sporaticly today and tomorrow. My office here is cold..thinking of typing in gloves...but that's OK I am not complaining!
I am confused though. I am supposed to be in an AT&T area...new area...but my cell is on roam. Good thing it is my work cell! Friends and family you know the number, I will have it for a week or 2....
listening to my radio while I dial random stations trying to find a new listening channel of choice......

My furniture is beating me to NC so I should have been a trucker.
I'm stuck in po-dunk-ville ain't that a f#@*%r!
There is no Walmart. I did find the liquor store!
We went to Dicks Wings, then went back for more.
Found the outlet mall. did a little shopping
now we are drinking in the hotel room and keeping things a hoppin"
weird statements huh!!
Sounds likea country song...hummmm! idea!
listening to No Doubt - the singles

Neither rain, snow or black of night.....

OK but ice will keep me from delivering the mail...oops.. I mean getting to where I want to go. lol. hey this is par for me and the saying "if it weren't for bad luck I'd have no luck at all" is true for me. (did you hear the gang on Hee haw singing when i said that? I did!)
When I moved to Florida, I got held up in Tallahasee for an extra day due to a hurricane.
Now today:
1) The mover lady called on my cell today and said the moving truck was stuck somewhere near Atlanta due to ice and road closures. they hope to be at the office in assboro tomorrow.
2) We hit a wreck on 75 in Florida and it took us over 1 hour to go 3 miles.
3) It is icing in South Carolina, which is where I go next on my continuing trek north.
4) they keep extending the bad weather forcast. They need to stop it!

At least I have a bed tonight, here in Nowhereville, Georgia and this is a really good thing as I like to sleep on my stomach and the floor for the past few days has been hard on....well ......my chest. My boobs will be thanking me. This hoppin' joint has free hbo, local calls and dial up!!! OMG do you know how long it has been since I have had to use dial up? I might even get the pleasure of 2 nights here thanks to the weather!
Listening to the weather on tv...

Shhhhhhh -be vewy vewy qwuiet! -
or I drank.... I smoked

Planning for this night 3 of my friends and I got a room at the Pink Shell on the beach.. good thing we did!
First we went to Parrot Key. All of us wondered why we hadn't dicovered this place sooner. It was a cold night for Florida and this was an outdoor bar. BUT they had outdoor heaters. It was great! Plan was to start there, have a few drinks then move on to the putt putt course, but that was not to be. Good times where being had by all, and Stoli's was on happy hour, yeah for me! so needless to say we didn't leave for a while. I shocked a few when i bummed a cig. but hey, i do what i can!
as usual, people straggled in bit by bit, and I was anxiously awaiting A and her mans arrival as she is my shot partner. My friend Ivette from Miami came over and had an interesting trip over, she didn't get there till 10, but by then the party was just beginning. Parrot Key closed at 11, we thought that was a little strange. After closing that place we moved on down to the beach. We got checked into the hotel and piled into 1 car. Off to the Top O'mast we went. We had heard this was a happenin' joint. Well it wasn't so "happenin" but we still had a blast. My friend P and I had set a goal earlier in the day to see who could get the drunkest. So off we start. Oh and let me say I had a head start on her as she didn't arrive until right before ivette. Rum Runners were the drink of choice and you got to keep the glass! as i drink i sing. my friends tell me i really can sing. i won't sing around you though unless a) i have known you a while or b) I drink....
We where all girls except for a's boyfriend and I think we finally succeeded in embarrassing him with our conversation and tales of things we had done in the past. (not expounding on that here, but i am sure you have a good imagination).
Not sure, but I think I had 4 rum runners. I succeeded in getting drunk and so did p, and everyone else. we laughed our arses off. (literally) Good thing both P and I are happy drunks! We closed that joint also. i am sure P and I where funny to watch but that night I thought we were doing rather well. we crawled back into the car for the short drive down the beach to the hotel via a stop at the 7-11. imagine, they wouldn't sell us anymore liquor as it was after 2AM...what gives with that?? The walk to the hotel from the parking lot was crooked. I could have swore the sidewalk was straight when we arrived! P and I ended up on the bathroom floor for some reason, laughing all the way. eventually we made it to bed.
Needless to say P and myself have headeaches today and for some reason everyone keeps yelling when they are talking to me!! go figure....but i have 2 great glasses to remember it all by.
Good friends, good times, a great story to tell about my last day. I am going to miss my friends.. gotta go get busy so i don't dwell on that tonight..
listening to my head pound........

heard in a recent conversation: "I have a butt-load of t-shirts."
What exactly is a butt-load?
visual is grossing me out!!
lol

- I am addicted - computer voyeurism

Who would have ever thunk it. me a computer nerd. when i was in high school i hated typing. i was just a wee bit rebellious through out my high school years and relating to this particular story, i refused to try in typing class. here is why... my stepmom said, "all girls should learn to type, a secretary is a good career to fall back on" the wall went up for me. i didn't want to be like everyone else (remember i am a child of the 60's). i was going to make great strides in the world, not be someone's lackey! i wanted my own lackey! so to put it mildly, I sucked in typing. i didn't try. ya think maybe i am a little hard headed?? who would have ever thought I would spend this much time at work and at home on a computer...typing. go figure.
Now I put my personal life out there (to some degree) for all to see and i enjoy reading and keeping up with other people. Why is that so addicting? I don't know these people. but every morning, while having my first cup o joe, i catch up on those blogs of whom i read. samplings: b2k's partner's grandmother fell and is in the hospital, he sings Karaoke, and is a teacher. Belle de jour is a london call girl with a witty/sarcastic sense of humor. She tells us Anal is the new black, describes nicely what some of her "meetings" are like, how hard it is to have a boyfriend and be in the business ..... well i think you get the picture. it's all little "peep shows" into their lives and mine.
maybe we are all closet voyeurs.

well it's official
I am semi homeless. OK fully furniture-less... but not electronic-less. i have my tv/vcr combo, my cable/internet, and DVD, my computer....hey, i have my priorities right! wait.... stop.... i want to back out of the move to assboro...not!!.
i am moving all of my stuff into one room and making it all nice and neat. things have been so cluttered for so long..shouldn't be hard to do that, nor take long to do that..ha ha

I did find my Delta credit.. good for me!!!. got $250 to $300 or something like that. only gotta use it, or lose by March 6th. I am not sure but I think as long as I have booked something by that date i am OK..
mental note to self.....call and find out
anyway, I Took a flight on Delta and can not explain to you how many things went wrong, and their excuses where even better.. made me feel safe......not!. hear the overhead "this is your captian speaking, we currently are trying to repair our problem. we think if we beat on it with a screwdriver it will fix. We will keepyou posted." Warm fuzzy for me how about you? I was nice, I didn't bitch and waited out the 12 our wait until we finally got to take off....and waaa laaa I got a letter and a credit in the mail. Guess that was a small price for Delta to pay. coulda been worse if we had crashed. and the letter is personally stamped also! ohhhhhhh
So, I better get to planning! I will NOT lose it! raise of hands of who wants a visitor! lol

the cats are freaking a little now. not used to an empty house. hummm think they know something is up? they were all running around smelling the floor and such. That has apparently exhausted them as they are all napping now.
still haven't found a home for rascal. this could be interesting!
listening to my clock radio....hey it is electronics!!!

Miami
what can I say. A whole different breed of people. Wouldn't want to live there.
I got a check.. woo hoo. But not till after I was told I would just have to wait on the one they sent me that didn't show up.
yeah, whatever..I left with a check.
Had a great visit with I. She wants to start planning anothers girls weekend. Last year we went to Montana. We have open options (who knows where), possible Japan, possible Russia. Possible England. I one day want to go to Ireland since I am a quarter Irish. ( I am also a quarter English, and the rest is a little of this, a little of that.)
Anyway, we had a blast in Montana. To long for this post but good for another one....
I cooked Sunday. I don't do that much anymore. No fun to cook for one and I work to much...soo
Our Corporate office has moved. we have the top 2 floors of a fairly new building in the Gables outside Miami. Swank. Our stock sucks though... guess someone has their priorities set...a weeee bit off.
Training went OK. Basicly a refresher course. Only thing is we where "refreshed" by an IT programmer who doesn't use the system daily. He just didn't get some of our questions. Oh well.
Listening to the TV on some random station...

I am packed as packed can be. Will probably have the usual last minute things on Monday night and Tuesday night, but hey..
So I celebrated last night with good music, a drink and a long soak in the tub while pondering lifes mysteries. (While wishing I either had a big old claw foot tub or a garden tub). I pondered a while and didn't solve any of them! lol.
Once the movers come and go, I can give the house a good cleaning and relax. All my friends are like, where you going to sleep? my reply "On the floor."
They are taken aback. They all say one version or the other of "Oh you can't do that, come stay with me." What they never went camping? What is so wrong with that?
My paycheck didn't come. Imagine. First thing Monday I will be talking to payroll.
I am leaving in a few to head to Miami. I have training for my new job on Monday at our Corp office. Gonna spend the night with one of my friends from there. She has a great house. Good food, a little wine...great conversation! Can't wait.
Not looking forward to the drive back on Monday evening. At least till I get out of Miami. Miami trafiic is the PITS! But hey once out of town it is a breeze. Just boring. Ever drove across alligator alley? Lot's of birds and gators to see, but that is it and Monday it will be dark or getting dark as I head back.
Listening to VH1 top 20 countdown. and the rain......

Lunch with the new boss was pretty cool. He doesn't have a cable background. Maybe that is why he seems so nice..ha ha.
He couldn't really tell me what he wanted me to do yet. We discussed a few things and came to this conclusion...at my request....When he wants me to do something he will tell me, when I screw up, he will tell me.
My check is supposed to be in the mail. Haven't we all heard that! lol Fed Ex Priority Overnight...So we will see..
My goal is to finish packing today. At least as far as I can get seeing as I will b here a few days after the movers. So going back to that now!

Later!

Today I get to go to lunch with my new boss. He has been down for the week, and might be back next week. I am a little scared, he seems nice, hope it isn't a facade, or wear off! But I am going to think positive!!
I am not to happy right now though. This is my first check since I started with the new office. Well I guess I should say this should be my first check. The bank begs to differ. So right now I am not a happy a camper. I will however try to avoid that conversation at lunch. He is new also and this isn't his fault.
well I guess I should go back to work. not really in the mood though for some reason....hmmmm
Think I will look at my slides I got last night instead!
listening to... my group play what if....
1) you where stranded on an island
2) you won the lotto
etc

yeah yeah yeah I haven't blogged in days
recap
Tuesday, packing
Wednesday, packing
Thursday - packing
Friday - will be packing
How boring is my life....
ever listened to the words of Marvin Gaye's song "Sexual Healing"?
listening to Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing..

Did you know pack is a four letter word! wanna really piss me off? Say it to me! Just don't say it close to me, I will retaliate! I packed all day Saturday, kitchen, bathroom, office, living room attic..... And I love Christmas, but Sunday as I pulled the lights off the house I kept asking myself, what in the hell where you thinking? I actually got a lot done these last 2 days, but I need a reprieve, a break. Don't think it is going to happen... and still more to do...OMG
So I stopped. I turned on the game (Phillies vs. Packers if you haven't a clue) and watched it and then sex in the city. What a combo huh! The game was good although I would rather see sports live. Give me a good ball game, or drag races! Nothing like it. I would go to the drag races any day of the week! That and the Mud Drags....That is when the real redneck in me comes out I guess. What I like about those are the people, I love to watch how people react with the game and each other. Best football game I ever went to was Dallas vs Cincinnati in Dallas. Good Times! I will say though that baseball is boring live or on TV.

Listening to Alicia Keyes - the Diary of Alicia Keys

i had an old friend who shared my like of chinese food. her thing was the fortune cookies. she always said when you read your fortune add on "in bed" to the end...
well my fortune cookie for today was
"Practice makes perfect" ........add on if you wish

Ok I took one of B2K's quiz's and this one is what kind of kisser are you. interesting results...


You have a mysterious kiss. Your partner never
knows what you're going to come up with next;
this creates great excitement and arousal never
knowing what to expect. And it's sure to end
in a kiss as great as your mystery.


What kind of kiss are you?
brought to you by Quizilla

The VS run is done!!! good purchases had by all! Well not p...
Today is Ana's last day..bummer, but that of course means drinks tonight! more good times to be had by all. going to a bar that has kareoke...that should be interesting.
Jeremy quit, bummer, but good for him!!! he wouldn't settle for less that he wanted. First time that has happened here.
My new boss from Assboro is here today. He seems cool.
We are also planning my last day party for the 23rd. gonna be fun. starting out with drinks, then gonna go play putt putt, then going for dinner and more drinks! I figure Putt Putt will be lots more fun after a drink or 2.
Listening to all of us singing the "oldies".

Ok don't mention victoria's secret semi annual sale at work!! p, t and myself are going friday at lunch!
and as my sister so eloquently reminds me, I have gift card!

picture this
p, t and myself listening to 70's and 80's music on the radio and doing the bump...

let's see....
i have to get all my stuff packed....
victorias secret semi annual sale......
hummmmm

QESG quotable quote:
"life is to short to drink cheap liquor"
fits right in for me!!

Britney Spears gets married.....
did she think she had to do that to have sex????

You know, the little things mean a lot. I can be having a not so great day and get a call, a note, or something from someone in my group of friends and/or family and the whole day gets better. So remember that you can make someone's day in an easy way!

M had a party Saturday night. it was nice. good food, good atmosphere, good friends. She opened her new house and had it outside by the pool and it is January... more reasons I will miss Florida. But as soon as weather is warm enough in assboro i am going to have one on my new deck....ideas are running around in my head now!

spent most of the day on Sunday packing. what fun! (see sarcasm here) I felt like i was getting nowhere.... the movers are loading my stuff the 21st so countdown is on!! I am still amazed at what I have collected, and what i threw away!

ah!! the return of sex in the city!! gotta love it! it was the highlight of my sunday evening, and that episode hit close to home...If i had to pick which one was my match i guess i would be a carrie. I am not quite as "free with the love" as samantha. Not quite as "uptown" as Charlotte. Not quite as nerotic as Miranda, (although I match her white skin and red hair) ......which one would you be?

Listening to Coldplay Live 2003 CD

What is it about me and the ocean? I am cancer, the sign of the crab and by all those horoscope-y charts, I am supposed to be attracted to it. I don't believe a lot of horoscope stuff but they got that one right. I love the water. I love the sound of it. I can be all tense, and go to the beach and life becomes good. I know I was meant to be near it... guess in asheboro the shower will have to do.
New Years Eve 3 of us went to the beach to listen to a band. (they sucked). so we left and walked the beach. I could stay there forever.
Last week while I was still sick mi familia and myself went to the beach. I felt better when we left!
Yesterday K and I went to ding darling to take pics. it is right off the ocean...It was sooooo peaceful.
When I win the lottery I know what I am doing with part of the money!!!
I know I am boring today...well better to make tomorrow more exciting!
Listening to Clay Aiken - If I Where Invisible..

new years eve.... i like it, i hate it...
K. P and I decided to have a slumber party. yes we are a little old for that. but are you ever really to old?
anyway, we could drink, eat, all that girl stuff and not have to worry about anyone drinking and driving.
pre party we went to the beach to listen to a band or 2. we went to the Lani Kai. whent he band finally got their stuff together, they opened with a typical beach song, with a jamacian beat. Then they played Chicago, the beatles, and a few other artists....all with a jamacian beat. it just didn't fit, chicago? jamacian? NOT! the singer sucked, and some ho kept doing the dirty dance with him even though he didn't participate back. her boyfriend was none to happy. but he must have been a woose as every time he tried to get her to stop, she jerked back and went right back to what she was doing and he just stood there. I kept waiting for the fight, never happened.
anyway, we got a few laughs out of the "rent a cops" that where there, then we walked the beach a bit and headed back to town and watched Dick Clark on TV. wooo-hoooo!
new years day is K's birthday. she wanted to go to ding darling to take pics and as I have been sick i didn't get up early with her. anyway, i tried to make it a good day for her. she was having a bit of a hard time with her age. so we went to a movie and back out to ding darling to keep her mind off of it. and ended with a celibatory piece of key lime pie.
listening to HBO on the TV