Like a mental patient on a mountain top

To day Carl and I went to Arlington, MA to Penzey's where we picked up some things we were out of and I got my friend, Christine, some spices for Chistmas and I got my Dad and Donna a gift set that I think Dad will like (Donna really doesn't cook).

I found out that Google's directions there were needlessly convoluted. We got home a completely different wasy that kept us on just one road.

Carl has a terrible cold. I'm looking for ways to help him. He's working tonight because he promised he'd go into work. I'm sure that being up and about isn't helping him. I don't think I'll let him leave the house tomorrow, even thought I really want to buy a Christmas tree.

Oh, I had an odd thought today that I blurted out in the car on the way home. I'm beginning to think I'm nuts because my brain just thinks its own stuff sometimes. I thought, "If Lucifer, The Light, was banished from Heaven, than there is little wonder that the world has been cast into darkness." I think I just need more sleep.

Well, be good, all.

To the Tune of Hark, The Harald Angels Sing:

Loo loo looo, loo looo loo loo-loo...

I used to love the movie Trust. If you've never seen it, you should. Adrienne Shelly was wonderful in it. At least I thought she was.

However, she learned the hard way not to complain about the noise that construction workers make in her building. What a way to die. I'm just glad that her death wasn't just written off as a suicide.

The world is a mess. That's all I had to say.

There will be TWO more Pee-Wee movies!!!!!! Yay!

1. What is your favorite photo?
2. Who took the photo?
3. If you could photograph anything or anyone what/who would it be?
4. What makes a good photo?
5. Which do you prefer: digital or print?

1. My sister, Gina, at Easter, 1997. Gina is wearing a pink skirt suit with a white camisole blouse. Her hair is perfectly coiffed, and she is wearing makeup. She is holding my niece who is yanking at Gina’s earring and hair. My nephew is standing beside Gina, tugging at my sister’s sleeve. The look on Gina’s face says it all. She looks like she’s calling for help with her eyes. She really looks tired. She’s too thin. He smile is forced. I love it because it looks so innocent and funny on the surface, but it’s really a cry for help. I don’t want people to think I wish bad things on my sister, because I don’t, it’s just very true to life, especially for her.
2. My mother.
3. It would be my father, holding my child. And I don’t have one yet.
4. One that speaks volumes, no matter who is looking at it.
5. I liked my photographs printed on paper. What was used to take said photograph is irrelevant.

1. Do you like chicken? Love it.

2. What is 1 food you can't live without? Literally, salt. I think humans would die without it.

3. Are you an early bird or a night owl? Kind of a middle of the day person. Too late and I’m wired or cranky; too early, and I can’t function normally due to extreme slowness.

4. Chocolate or vanilla? Vanilla, usually; though I do love a good chocolate here and there.

5. Are you more of a cat person or a dog person? Cat, but I like dogs to a point.

The Boob Tube, The Silver Screen, & You

1) When you were little what was your favorite TV show?
2) What was your favorite movie?
3) What is your favorite TV show currently?
4) What is the best movie you have seen so far this year?
5) If someone was going to make a movie or TV show about your life, who would play you?

1. I loved Sesame Street when I was little. I also liked The Muppet Show.
2. The Neverending Story. I also liked Splash, funny enough.
3. Right now, I'm big into House.
4. Monster. I'm a little behind the times.
5. Sean Connery will play you in the movie version! LOL Actually, I think the girl that played Cherita in Donnie Darko could pull it off. She's prettier than I am, but that's the Hollywood thing, isn't it. :)

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Spend some time today doing something worthwhile. Read this. It's from my buddy Anakin.

http://stormsdotter.livejournal.com/90361.html

This is utter madness and it has to stop.

1) Of the various cultures, ethnicities or nationalities you belong to, which most strongly do you consider yourself?

Uh, American. I think I’d make a really bad anything else. My family likes to think of themselves as French and Portuguese (they don’t mention the Asian or Jewish because they don’t look Asian and they don’t worship as Jews), but I think they’re not at all like people from those places. We’re American, at this point.

2) Is there a culture you cannot claim heritage from but which you feel quite close to?

No, sadly. I used to be really into the early Spanish settlers of California. The early American settlers were fascinating, too, especially in the American south.

3) What's one language you wish you knew fluently?

That’s easy. Gaelic. Scottish or Irish, but most likely Scottish.

4) If you could move anywhere in the world and be guaranteed a job, etc., where would you go?

Canada or Cologne, France.

5) If you had a time machine, and could witness any one event without altering or disturbing it, what would you want to see?

The 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair. Either that, or I’d like to have been a fly on the wall for the Jack the Ripper murders, to end the controversy once and for all.

1) 10 years ago what did you think you would be doing now?
2) Where do you think you will be in 5 years from now?
3) Do you live life one day at a time or look to the future.
4) Do you wish you could go back in time and undo something in your life?
5) If you could send a message back in time and give a younger version of yourself some advice, what would it be?


1) I had no idea. I was lost and waiting for something really big to happen. It never did.
2) In MA or NH. ;) You never can tell, though.
3) One day at a time. No use in betting on an uncertain future.
4) No, but there are things I'd wished I'd said to certain people. If I'd said them, things would be very, very different.
5) Yup. You're right.

If you have half a brain. 

This, kids, is why I don't eat sushi. That, and it carries disease. Oh, and it's squishy, raw fish. The rice part, I'm okay with. It's the raw fish part I can't take. It gives me the willies.

Be good.

1. Who was your favorite all time teacher(s)?
2. What did they teach?
3. What is your best memory from that class?
4. Did you ever have a crush on a teacher and if so who?
5. What is the craziest/wildest/weirdest thing you (or someone you know) ever did at school?

1. Trenouth! Enough said.
2. English and life lessons.
3. It's a toss-up. Right before graduation he was going on about how important commencement was, blah, blah. Then he was talking about the tassles on our caps. He just interjected, "And, if you can get the tassles going in opposite directions, you're really good." I got it. Most people didn't. The other thing I remember was him reading Alice In Wonderland. At the end, he told us all, "May you find your right size, and may you find your garden."
4. Nope. But a former Playboy bunny worked at my high school. I don't like women, and she was not too good looking when I went to school there...
5. My father, who went to my high school as a lad, was sick of one teacher who used to have the heater on year-round, no matter what the temperature outside. One day, Dad and a friend (who has since passed away in Vietnam) were sick of the heater being on, and on a Spring day, they cut up comic books into 1 in. by 1 in. squares and stuffed them into the heater vents before class. When the teacher came in, the class was mostly full. The teacher closed the windows, turned on the heater, and, for about 5 minutes squares of paper shot out of the heater vents. The teacher just sat there in stunned silence, watching paper litter the room. The students laughed hysterically. Dad and his friend were never found out.

My uncle John threw a whole tomato at a teacher in the lunchroom. No one ever figured out where the tomato came from, since he hadn't brought it to school and the cafeteria had no tomatoes in the kitchen that day.

My high school used to decorate the halls for school spirit week. Each grade was assigned a hallway. The seniors, one year, were particularly angry with one English teacher who was failing everyone's papers. No one knew why she was doing it, but many seniors were going to fail Senior English. So, they took their failed papers, with that teacher's writing all over them (most of which ended in a little note stating somethign like, "This paper is crap. F"), and put them up on the wall on black paper. The called their hallway theme "Senior Hell." The prinicpal made them take down the papers when he saw the teacher crying. Then, he read the failing papers. She wasn't fired because she had tenure, but she was removed from ever teaching Senior English ever again. She was also watched like a hawk for the next couple of years. The student's papers were regraded fairly, and the teacher was held accountable for why she made the remarks she had made. She had to write apology letters to a bunch of students. It was bizarre.

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Jim says there's no TotalCon in the cards for him (scheduling error?) as far as CoC is concerned, so he's cancelled working on it with Carl. Too bad, they had a great concept going.

That means Carl and I are free this weekend and next.

My buddy from work wants to go to Rick's with us next weekend. I don't know who will be around to go, besides us. I'll have to make some calls. Maybe it will be the three of us goofing off all night.

Just for kicks, I went to the TotalCon website. It's...um...broken. I found a dead/broken link. I couldn't register from the registration page if I wanted to because there's no way to do that. Trying the "Contact Us" link on the front page brings you back to...you guessed it...the front page!

If I didn't actually know people that were involved in it, I'd assume that three bored 15 year olds from Menden were running the con, based on the web page (I'm not harshing, it's the impression that I get). The truth is far from that, I know. Weird. I just thought the site ran smoother last year.

(Interested and have no idea what I'm talking about? The website is REMOVED, AT LYNN'S REQUEST)

At any rate, in case I don't get to post again, have a lovely weekend.
Be safe. Don't go overboard buying new cars.

You are Fluffy Mackerel Pudding!! You somehow
manage to combine seafood and dessert into
your wonderfully fluffy world. We should all
be as tolerant of New Taste Sensations. And
of big-yolked eggs.

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Rachel's cookies rocked! They're like crack! I couldn't stop! I had three for the road, and not a one made it out the door.

That's all for now!