guilty pleasures....

I feel like a zombie…. I had a weird hive episode yesterday and ended up having to take my prescription which always knocks me out when I haven’t taken it in a while… so I’m just gonna ease into the week kind of lazily....

I stumbled onto a new blog a couple days ago…. the creator of which wasted no time at all in tagging me

so… Snow White, because you’ve waited (rather impatiently) hehehe - for me to post SOMETHING since Friday morning…. and because I just love being tagged… no really I DO!! it makes me think about ME which is something I have a hard time getting myself to do…. here ya go….

five of my guilty pleasures:


5. this idiot box… I spend far too much time sitting here when I should be doing other things!!

4. nutella - who could resist its creamy chocolatey hazelnutty goodness?!?!! sure it’s great made into a dip … or baked into things but it’s also great right out of the jar!! how could something that’s clearly so wonderful be a GUILTY pleasure? because if I have it I’ll eat the whole jar!!! same goes for canned frosting – either white or chocolate, it doesn’t matter - I don't know how many times I've bought frosting for a cake and ended up eating it before I made the cake and had to buy another can!!

3. people watching/critiquing…. guilty because I’d REALLY rather not be critical of people… even if they do dress or behave like idiots… I mean really – who the hell am I?

2. crappy tv…. I absolutely LOVE The OC, Gilmore Girls, Dawson’s Creek…. all that junk

and because I’m just a small town girl living in a lonely world - my NUMBER ONE guilty pleasure is…. crappy music…. stuff like REO Speedwagon, Foreigner, Billy Squier, J. Geils, STYX – and Journey of course hehehe I just LOVE all that stuff!!

because I’m bored and being lazy today…. and I'm just in a weird kinda mood - if you get here before I come to my senses and delete this part.... here are 5 of my more naughty guilty pleasures!!

5. girl/girl porn – since I’m not into chicks at all this makes no sense to me… I chalk it up to the fact that there’s very little spitting – I HATE all the spitting in porn these days!!

4. rape fantasies – I suppose I should make it clear that I have no desire to actually BE raped… although you’d think that would be obvious haaaa

3. being totally stretched out/overstuffed

2. orgasm control – if you’re not quite sure what that means read THIS

1. toothpaste – just a little dab… you know where…. if you’re a chick that’s somehow followed my trail here and you’ve never tried this – you should!!! you’d probably like it haaaa

so there you have it TEN guilty pleasures for the price of 5 hehehe

go on and tag yourselves if you wish

busy busy busy....

I’ve been kinda neglecting this place for a few days but I’ve been getting some other stuff done this week and that’s a good thing.... so all I really have to say today is that I changed the song of the week (over there at the right) – I’ve been looking for this cd for MONTHS and just thought to ask Sam if he knew where it was haaaa

luckily he DID!! YAY!!!

anyway this is one of my very favoritest songs ever – it reminds me of Sam – it makes me teary and smiley all at the same time hehehe

I gave up posting lyrics a while ago but for some reason I feel like posting these today…. and since I don’t really have time this morning to say much more.... on with the song

Stone Temple Pilots ~ Still Remains

our bed we live, our bed we sleep
making love and I become you
flesh is warm with naked feet
stabbing thorns and you become me...
oh, I'd beg for you, oh you know I'll beg for you.

pick a song and sing a yellow nectarine
take a bath, I'll drink the water that you leave
if you should die before me
ask if you could bring a friend
pick a flower, hold your breath
and drift away...

she holds my hand we share a laugh,
sipping orange blossom breezes
love is still and sweat remains
a cherished gift unselfish feeling...
oh, I'd beg for you, oh you know I'll beg for you.

pick a song and sing a yellow nectarine
take a bath, I'll drink the water that you leave
if you should die before me
ask if you could bring a friend
pick a flower, hold your breath
and drift away...

she tells me things, I listen well
drink the wine and save the water
skin is smooth, I steal a glance
dragon flies ‘er’ gliding over...
oh, I'd beg for you - you know I'd beg for you

pick a song and sing a yellow nectarine
take a bath, I'll drink the water that you leave
if you should die before me
ask if you could bring a friend
pick a flower, hold your breath
and drift away...

Dear Chris....

well It’s been 17 years!! I can’t believe you would be 34 today!! holy shit!!

we still think about you – we still talk about you – we still miss you
wherever you are (probably fucking your way through the afterlife haaa) watching us and laughing your ass off at what boring adults we’ve all become!! I hope you know that!!

since one of my favorite memories of you is the look you had on your face at that maiden concert, like you had died and gone to heaven!! (and there wasn't even a chick in your lap!!) this one’s for you...

Iron Maiden - running free

winter wonderland....

in my continued efforts to wow you with my mad photography skillz or rather bore you to tears with my lame picture taking ability.... and because my only alternative today is to complain about how crappy I feel and I figured even THIS would be better than that.... and because Jack Frost delivered such a fine example yesterday.... I thought I’d show you what January is supposed to look like in kittyville (as opposed to the weird weather we WERE having)

so here are pictures of my back yard WOO HOO - I know it's exciting but PLEASE try to contain yourselves!!! I can't handle the thought of causing any of you to go into cardiac arrest because you got so wound up over the utter magnificence of winter in kittyville!!

here we have a picture of a tree, taken from my kitchen window.... I'm not sure what kind of tree - blue spruce perhaps? it's a good guess anyway.... everything here is either a blue spruce or a maple tree - except for the pile of sticks in front of it that used to be a tree.... THAT tree was a hickory



here we have ANOTHER tree - this one truly is a mystery to me... it has tiny little pine cones on it so I'm pretty sure it's NOT a blue spruce.... it's also not very tall.... it's also right next to a giant sink hole so I'm not getting anywhere near it to investigate, for fear of being sucked into the earth - I don't think I'd like that very much!!!



here is a northern view of the stream



and here is a view to the south.... the water level has gone down a bit... you can actually see a bit of snow on the ROCK



that concludes todays slide show.... at this point I'm sure you'd all like to sneak in when I'm not looking and smash my new camera to bits.... but that just wouldn't be very nice - besides I'm sure the novelty will wear off.... eventually

until then... humor me.... I don't feel good :(

happy pill....

even though (after I asked if I should) and Sam told me not to... instead of doing what I was supposed to do on Saturday (cleaning - cleaning and more cleaning) I decided to go out with my sister and niece…. I’m glad I did, for a couple reasons

one my niece is the cutest thing ever created!! even cuter than ME – which I thought was impossible!! - AND she said my name….kinda hehehe

and two, we went by the thing I saw the other day which I was kicking myself for not having my camera with me for because I thought it was so funny!!

confession time: I knew she'd be in the vicinity of this thing so I took my chances on blowing my whole day just to get a picture of it!!

there now you all know how TRULY pathetic I am!!

I found this a couple towns away, just on this side of an intersection in this weird little part of town.... there is this area that goes by another name and if you blink you’ll miss it

what do they call that when a tiny (like 1 mile section) of a town goes by a different name?

anyway everyone there appears to be kind of odd - especially THIS person… who seems to have obtained the worlds largest propane tank(??) and turned it into a GIANT prozac!!! as you can see it sits right beside their house at the edge of their yard - just feet from the road....

wanna see it bigger?
give it a little clickeroo
go on.... do it!!!

there... now wasn't that worth defying my husband and risking my sanity.... not to mention my life, by hanging out the car window to snap that picture as another car was speeding through the intersection right toward us?

ahh do you see great lengths I go to just to show you a glimpse of my world?

the one without a title....

for the last few days I’ve been like a zombie…. I’ve been having a hard time dragging my butt out of bed and all day long I just kinda shuffle through the day

I’ve been overly lazy and it shows!! the house is a huge mess!! I think it was all that rain.... seems like a good thing to blame it on right? but since the clouds broke....



it’s been absolutely BEAUTIFUL!!! it’s back to being chilly again but I can deal with that

yesterday I had a touch of cabin fever I guess…. since it was finally nice out again… and not icy or snowy I just wanted to be outside!!! so when Natalie called and asked me to go out with her I pounced like a starving man on a pork chop!!

we went to the fabric store and I got this AWESOME furry fleece I just COULDN'T resist!!! it sheds like crazy and I’m not exactly sure what I’m gonna do with it yet… but I want to make something soft and fluffy for my niece for her birthday – I almost got it for 1/3 off but my stupid honesty policy forced me to bring the piece of fabric missing from the slip to their attention…. grrrr

however all that honesty was a huge waste because later I secured myself a nice hot seat in hell by playing a mental version of THE WALMART GAME

it was all great fun untillll.... while I marveled at the vast array of cheap frozen crap, I caught a glimpse of myself in the smudgy glass doors and realized that someone could check ME off their list….

that’s right I have vomit beard… there, my secret is out!!

on the way home I saw the most funniest thing ever and I was kicking myself for not having my camera with me!! but with any luck I’ll get Sam to bring me back there over the weekend – I MUST have that picture!! of course if you're all not very good girls and boys I'll be forced to share it with you too

at about a dozen different spots I kicked myself again because the sunset was just absolutely gorgeous all the way home… but I WAS able to get this shot of what was left of it from our bedroom window while I rushed to get dinner ready….



I wish I could have gotten a couple of the shots I saw on the way home though :(

anyway I'm gonna be a good girl and go take care of my neglected house - I have big plans to get lots done between today and tomorrow.... and if I don't wind up with the cold I think I might be getting I'm gonna make a big dent in my growing to-do list.... I hope you all have a really GREAT weekend!!!

do you think I'll start growing gills?!?!?

so I’m making my daily ‘to-do’ list and I’m trying to figure out what I should be doing? should I build and Ark? go bathing suit shopping? go into the closet and swap out the winter clothes and boots for my shorts and flip flops? I dunno it’s starting to look more like I’ll be needing FLIPPERS not flip flops!!! perhaps I should sign up for scuba lessons!! I may need that skill if I ever plan to get out my front door again!!!

here it is January 18th…. according to weather.com it’s 63º here in kittyville right now, I don’t have any heat on, which is nice considering the insane price of propane!! but I think the temperature should normally be closer to 30º this time of year, maybe even colder….

yesterday me & chonga were outside playing in the snow…. and this morning when I woke up there was almost no snow left at all!!

not sure what melted it first, the freakishly warm weather or the never ending rain!! we don’t usually get THIS much rain in April or May, never mind JANUARY!! they say we could get about another inch or so today!! we had to have gotten a good amount of rain last night as well to melt as much snow as it did!! not to mention all the rain we’ve gotten in the last month or two!!

a good gauge of the water situation is if we can see the stream out back from my mother’s kitchen window (something that usually only happens in the spring)

but you can see it now and her basement has flooded at least twice already this winter, which means it’s almost February, and the ground hasn’t even quite frozen yet!!

if you go down the road a bit there is a little bridge over the stream…. I noticed when we drove past it a couple days ago that the water was only maybe 2½ or 3 feet from the bottom of the bridge… and that was BEFORE all the new snow melted and the current rain came!!

I thought I’d go out and see what the stream was looking like this morning – it’s pretty high… I could see it had been higher because of the washed down grass on the bank but it’s still pretty high….

to put it into perspective I dug out a picture of what the stream should look like about now:



see that rock there? normally you can walk out and sit on it….

don't believe me? here are two people with leaf heads sitting on it - with room to spare:



here it is now:



the big red X indicates the general vicinity of that rock - so that gives you some kind of an idea of how high the water is….

it’s also VERY windy!! – when I went out to take that picture I was afraid a tree was gonna fall on my head!!

look…. it blew the lid right off our burn can!!!



I just thought of two more things to add to the to-do list:

* make tin foil rain bonnet

* gather animals two by two

weekend update #572

I did absolutely NOTHING productive this weekend!! wait I take that back…. I got yet another lesson in why I shouldn’t eat like shit!! but I’ll save that for later….

dinner with Hitler:

Saturday night we had Sam’s friend Brandon, his wife and their son over for dinner. Not that I have even the slightest problem with it but it does seem somewhat odd to me that they bring their kid with them every time they come to dinner. You’d think they’d enjoy some time away from him. Fortunately he’s a GREAT kid!! the most well behaved 7 year old I think I’ve ever met!!!

He pretty much played with our old Nintendo all night… Sam broke off and hung out with Brandon, which left me to entertain his wife….

Don’t get me wrong, she’s ok but we have absolutely NOTHING in common (except for a love of John Cusack movies) – we clearly have MANY opposing political viewpoints!! Nothing wrong with that… I’m used to dealing with that, most of my family is the same way.

also though… in the past she’s made vague reference to the fact that she has a problem with homosexuality and ‘blacks’

I just kept my mouth shut… not really sure why…. didn’t wanna waste my time I guess…. I know her type and there’s usually no talking to them!

at one point on Saturday she was telling me about this woman she knows who’s had 3 babies who were all born addicted to drugs, yet somehow she still has custody of them. we got to talking about people who seem to just keep having baby after baby as if they don’t know what causes it.

and she said ‘honestly I don’t know why they don’t just sterilize people like that!!’

after I realized she wasn’t kidding, and was able to pick my jaw up off the floor I attempted to give her a reason or two why it would be bad for the government to have that kind of control…. but alas the roads were getting icy and they had to leave. just as well I really wasn’t in the mood for a debate….

I know it won’t be long before we’re invited over to their house in this endless chain of dinner invites…. the question is… how much longer can I keep my cool?

FREE movies:

Sam had a bug up his butt to see The Patriot.... again…. next time I see it on sale for a good price I think I’ll buy it

anyway…. we haven’t been renting movies much lately because our video store went from 7 day rentals to 5 days and that really just doesn’t work for us because they’re in the exact opposite direction of Sam’s job, we only end up in the vicinity of the video store on his days off (which are 7 days apart) hehehe

this is a fascinating story isn’t it?

he’s been squawking about wanting to see the patriot for a couple weeks now and we just happened to be near the video store so he went in to get it and what did he find?

on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays you can get a ‘gallery rental’ (anything that isn’t a new release or porn) for FREE!!!! You can keep it for the 5 days OR you can bring it back the next day for another FREE movie

go there Friday get a free movie, bring it back Saturday and return it for another, bring that one back on Sunday for another free movie!!!

NOT rent one get one free…. JUST FREE!!!

I’m so fucking excited I think I could cry!!!!

I don’t know how long this will last, but I fully intend to take complete advantage of it while it does!!

when we brought back the patriot, Sam said the next movie was my pick. I asked him what he was in the mood for (yes I can pick but I don’t wanna pick horror when he’s in the mood for comedy… I don’t want to torture him)

or do I?

what he said immediately brought to mind - FLASHDANCE…. he’s told me a million times he’d never seen it before and I’ve been meaning for years to make him watch it (hey he made me watch RAMBO)

this seemed like my perfect opportunity hehehe besides that movie is full of half naked girls!! It would at least be mildly entertaining to him just for the titty factor…. so flashdance it was

I don’t think he was impressed… he spent the rest of the weekend teasing me about it hehehe

I can hardly wait to see what kind of cinematic torture he puts me through next weekend!!

tastes just like chicken:

Sam has also had another bug up his butt for a while…. to shave me
I guess I get the appeal since pelt wise he closely resembles a yeti and I’m always having to ummm…. stop what I’m doing to clear a hair from my throat!!

however… as I mentioned before his eyes aren’t the greatest and with his nystagmus I worry that his jiggly eyes might trick him and he’ll end up slicing off vital parts!!

but I can’t be bothered shaving myself so if I’m going to be hairless it’s up to him to do the work hehehe besides it’s always so much fun when he does it…. and this time was certainly no exception!!!

I read one time this hilarious thing some guy wrote all about ‘shaved beavers’ man I wish I could find it…. it was SO FUNNY!!! in it he mentioned how he thinks it just looks like a cold piece of raw chicken… ever since then I can’t get that image out of my head!!! haaaa

so here I sit…. on a piece of raw chicken – appetizing ain’t it?

oh well I guess that concludes yet another snore inducing installment of the weekend update…. tune in tomorrow for the story of how I’m starting to get itchy ‘down there’

see ya then.... SAME BAT TIME.… SAME BAT CHANNEL!!!

rules to live by....

I used to read Dear Abby and Ann Landers…. because I’m a dork!!!

no, because I was bored off my ass and occasionally they said something useful

like one day I remember there was a big debate over whether you should hang your paper towels/toilet paper so it rolls over or under…. personally I think you should have it coming over the top….

here are my reasons:

1. if it’s under you have to scrape your knuckles against the wall to rip it off
2. if it’s got a print on it at all, having it roll under makes the print backwards
3. it’s just WRONG to have it under

my best friend Natalie always kept her toilet paper so it rolled under, whenever I’d be at her house I’d change it to the RIGHT way… when we were younger and actually got to get together more often she would change it to the right way when she knew I was coming over… just to mess with me

I guess I’ll have to reveal a little secret about me…. I’m one of those people who doesn’t like to put the new roll on if I used the last of the paper

I’ll grab a new roll and just place it on top of the roller… if it was up to me the toilet paper would just sit on a shelf within easy reaching distance….

this drives my poor husband crazy!! to teach me a lesson, when I don’t put the toilet paper on the thingy, he does it for me…. only he puts it on backward!!!

THIS drives ME crazy!!!

just one of those funny little quirks about life at our house….

I’ll yell out from the bathroom “ACK!!”

and he’ll say “what’s wrong?” fully aware of what I’m ACKing about!!

“the toilet paper is backwards!!”

“well I guess YOU should have put it on then huh?”

GRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

speaking of toilet paper….

my husband seems to be under the impression that we’re about to have a nation wide TP shortage or something…. whenever he’s in the room with me when I’m peeing he gawks at me like I’m single handedly destroying the rain forests!!!

personally I think I use a totally normal sized wad of paper (I don’t want to poke through ya know?)

apparently his philosophy is that one square is perfectly sufficient… unless of course you have diarrhea, in which case three squares is acceptable

I understand not wanting to be wasteful…. and I try to do my part… really I do!! but I have to draw the line somewhere hehehe

this morning I was making him his lunch and I asked him to get me some foil to wrap his sammiches in… he pulls out a piece the size of a postage stamp and asks if that’s enough….

no dear these are BIG manly sammiches not tiny little watercress tea sandwiches…. so he proceeds to pull another 1/3 of an inch off the roll

I was busy putting the finishing touches on his lunch…. a sprinkling of ‘love’ here a dab of ‘hugs & kisses’ there…. a couple of boogers for some chewy texture

when I grabbed the piece of foil he left me - I looked at it… I looked at the sammiches… then back at the foil…. I turned and looked over my shoulder at Sam with one eyebrow raised…. I placed the sammiches on the foil and TRIED to wrap them up… I said ‘ya know honey, I’m gonna have to squoosh these things in order to cover them with this scrap of foil’

“that’s ok”

GRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

how much ya wanna bet he brings the foil home for me to wrap tomorrows lunch in?!

I think in a past life he struggled through the depression or something!!

anyway I’m sure he has PLENTY of things to goof on me with….

like how I never replace the toilet paper… or how I never hang the shower head back on it’s hook…. or how I sometimes go 2 weeks without folding the laundry and it just sits in the big laundry bag getting all wrinkly

but ya just have to laugh at these things, ya know? life is too short to get angry over such insignificant junk!!

anyway this all kinda reminds me of something else I got from one of the advice twins… which I clipped and ‘laminated’ (my poor white trash version of laminating anyway, which was to tape it to a piece of poster paper and wrap it in clear packing tape hehehe)

I called it “rules to live by” and I’ve kept it in my purse for years, I use it as a bookmark in this little copy of The Canterbury Tales I like to pull them both out and read them when I get bored in the car or something.

it goes like this:

“You are responsible for your own happiness.

No one can diminish your self-esteem unless you give them permission to do so.

People won’t stay mad at you long if you can say “I blew it, and I’ll try to make amends”

When something is troubling you, tell people you trust instead of trying to cover it up. You’ll be surprised to learn that they’ve been through something similar.

Don’t pass up an opportunity to tell people you care about them. you may never get another chance.

Reserve judgment until you know all the facts. Even then, keep your mouth shut if no useful purpose is served by adding your two cents’ worth.

Be grateful for your good health, and the health of those you love. Be aware that without health, wealth and success mean little.

If you enjoy your work and your life, you are rich. If you aren’t happy with either, how can money help?

If you’re having a rotten day, don’t take it out on others. Simply say, “this is a rotten day. tomorrow is sure to be better.” This attitude can save a lot of relationships.

Don’t be afraid to try something you think you can’t do.

There’s no such thing as the perfect man or woman. Look for the best overall package of ambition, kindness, consideration, self-esteem and intelligence. Otherwise you’ll spend your life alone.

Spend time with your children.

You can respect and learn from people even if you don’t like them. You can learn something from everyone – because every person in the world knows SOMETHING that you don’t”

I know it sounds kind of goofy but usually when I most need it I just happen to stumble upon it and it’s helped me remember what’s important in life….

I had cleaned out my purse a while back and misplaced my little book and my poorly laminated, yellowing life rules.... but I’ve been trying to organize my house (see I'm working on that new years resolution hehehe) and I came across it again – YAY!!

so I just thought I’d share it with you

and in case you didn’t know it, I thought I'd take this opportunity to tell you guys I care about you…. and I hope you all have a really GREAT weekend!!!!

show & tell....

well since I haven’t been tagged in the last 24 hours – I guess I have to come up with something to say all on my own….

we’ve been on a bit of a spending frenzy lately… I guess all our Christmas and birthday money was burning holes in our pockets

first I bought this camera – I was sick of being ripped off for crappy prints of pictures it turned out I didn’t even want – so far I’ve been pretty happy…. the buyers remorse has pretty much completely worn off

the best part is I can use it to take ridiculously boring pictures to torture you with!!

for example here’s one of my sneakers….



nice huh?

the weather has been abnormally warm here in kittyville recently…. in fact it’s 50º today!!! FIFTY!!

but with the snow we’ve had so far (which is almost completely gone!!) and the rain we’ve been getting it’s been a muddy mess around here…. especially right outside our front door!!



as a result my floors looked like this:



but my aunt got me a gift card for target so I bought this:



and now my floors look a whole lot better… see?



another thing I’ve been wanting for a while is window shades!!! our front windows let a lot of light in, which is nice – unless you’re trying to watch tv or use the computer….

I had to improvise…. in the living room I had a horrible plaid flannel sheet hanging up under the curtains to keep the light out so I could watch tv without squinting – the problem with that is a. it looked like crap!! and 2. it was up all the time because it was a pain to put up and take down

it looked like this....



on the other window (next to the computer) I had hung this fuzzy brown fabric (which when I bought it years ago the lady at the store thought I was making the worlds largest bear costume) ‘no ma’am I’m making drapes’ I think she thought I was nuts….

anyway here is what the fuzzy brown fabric looked like blocking out the sun from my window



that picture actually doesn’t look as bad as it did in real life…. but you can imagine how a huge ugly plaid flannel sheet looked *puke*

they’re odd sized windows and we were having a hard time finding exactly what I wanted to fit…. but then we stumbled upon a compromise and ended up with these bamboo mathstick shades



here it is on the other window….



it's not exactly what I was looking for but I like them anyway.... of course they don't keep much light out and you can totally see in here all the time now.... so I guess I spent all that money for pretty much nothing.... but at least it looks like adults live here now and not some kind of fort put together with old scraps!!!

anyway I guess that is it for show & tell today folks....

I'll try to come up with something a little less insane tomorrow hehehe

these things are like viruses….

they keep spreading and mutating hehehe

did ya ever notice that you can sometimes go a couple months without seeing a single meme and then WHAM out of nowhere you’re hit multiple times in just a couple days?

Whirly tried to spare me from this one (although I probably would have done it anyway) but apparently the same person who tagged him, tagged angel too… and angel tagged me so… much like a bad case of syphilis this thing may live forever hehehe

good thing I'm a weirdo that actually likes doing them hehehe

ok here we go....

7 Things To Do Before I Die:

I think I’ve done this bit before…. So you’d think it would be easy hehehe ummm

1. come up with my own meme to get you all back hehehe

2. learn spanish – it’s becoming increasingly necessary if I intend to continue eavesdropping on strangers when I’m out in public

3. become a parent (today… tomorrow I’ll change back to thinking all you breeders are insane)

4. write a children’s book

5. get healthy – I’m tired of feeling like crap!!

6. either see my mother get sober and get her life together OR learn to forgive her for not having the strength

7. grow old with Sam

7 Things I Can't Do:

hmmm I can’t….

- drive 55

- get enough of your love

- quit you babe

- wait

- fight this feeling

- make you love me

- stop feeling

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but seriously – I can’t….

1. ride a bike

2. drive a car

3. do math

4. control my OCD

5. nap - unless I’m really sick

6. make up my mind

7. stand in heels

7 Things That Attract Me To My Spouse:

1. initially when I first saw him across a crowded parking lot the thing that most attracted me to him was his eyes…. he has beautiful hazel eyes and eyelashes like a giraffe!! (he also has a nystagmus which means his eyes involuntarily shake back and forth like one of those old kit kat clocks so he’s a real money maker in staring contests) hehehe

2. his sense of humor – we’re both a little off the wall

3. the fact that he accepts me exactly how I am no matter what!! and believe me, he’s had to put up with A LOT!!!

4. the way he supports and encourages me

5. his hugs!! they can turn me from an evil psychopath into a cuddly little kitten in seconds

6. he listens to me

7. his compassion for others

7 Things I Say Most Often:

1. ‘that’s cool’ (usually when I can’t be bothered to pay attention to what you’re talking about) if I’m saying ‘that’s cool’ after everything you say it means I’m not really listening to you

2. ‘what the fuck (or hell) is wrong with people?!?!?’ – there are far too many examples of how this applies

3. ‘I LOVE YOU’ – I probably tell Sam I love him 400 times a day… it must get irritating hehehe

4. 'nice fucking signal asshole!!' – I probably shout this out at least 3 times every time I leave my house – seriously ‘what the fuck is wrong with people??’ do they want to crack up their cars?

5. 'my head hurts' or 'I don't feel good' - because my head hurts or I don't feel good.... sometimes my head hurts so I take something for it... then my stomach hurts because of the pills I took haaaa I'm falling apart

6. ‘COCKSUCKER!!!’ – usually said if something isn’t going my way (for example I’m playing monopoly and someone buys something I want) or if someone is messing with me – (for example if Sam has just washed his hands and he decides to flick water in my face, he is then a COCKSUCKER!!)

7. ‘I’m hungry’ – meaning either I’m bored or we’re nearing a place that sells something I feel like eating or I’m bored…. or occasionally but not often enough I actually haven’t had enough to eat (in the event of the latter if food isn’t consumed ASAP I’ll go from saying ‘I’m hungry’ to ripping your fucking head off within a matter of minutes)

7 Books I love:

this is gonna make me sound like the biggest idiot in the world but I hardly ever read…. not because I don’t like to read, in fact I LOVE to read (when I can) but I often have a VERY hard time of it these days because of my OCD so I usually end up abandoning books 1/3 of the way through

so some books I’ve managed to read all the way through at least once

1. Alices Adventures in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass

2. Catcher in the Rye

3. The complete Brother’s Grimm

Starting to see a theme here? it seems as though I haven’t read a book since I was in high school hehehe

4. I’ll read pretty much anything by V.C. Andrews (apparently I enjoy stories about girls who have sex with their long lost brothers) haaaa

5. Perfect Victim - which was totally disturbing but interesting

The last two books I tried to read were:

6. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

it’s been pretty good so far – maybe some day I’ll actually get to finish it

7. Body Dump - a. because I like true crime books and 2. because it takes place a couple towns away from kittyville - Sam & my mother actually went to school with the guy and my mother hung out with him quite a bit (further proof of her spectacular taste in companions) haaaa

7 Movies I Could Watch Again and Again:

this is much easier… I have a lot more patience for movies – I’m gonna list non-horror for the hell of it… because there are just TOO many horror movies I can watch over and over again – even without horror it’s way too hard to narrow it down hehehe

1. Dazed and Confused

2. Airplane!

3. Secretary

4. Girl Interrupted

5. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes

6. Crumb

7. Pink Flamingos

bonus #1 The Usual Suspects

bonus #2 The Incredible Shrinking Woman

7 people to tag:

hmmm I'll be nice....

and tag everyone who hasn't done this yet (which should be just about NOBODY!!) hehehe

the times they are a changin'

I should preface this by saying that I have NO problem with sex education in public schools…. in general I'd say I'm pretty open-minded about these things.... and I'm probably gonna piss someone off here but that's ok.... sure I believe that it’s the parents or guardians responsibility to teach their kids about sex, the biological workings, the emotional issues, diseases, SELF RESPECT and all that stuff, but unfortunately you can’t and probably never will be able to count on that happening, not adequately anyway…. and SOMEONE has to teach kids about these things!!!

I’m sure you remember sex ed from back in the day – goofy film strips… strange diagrams… discussions about ovaries and sperm drowned out by embarrassed chuckling. The use of the words penis or vagina was as minimal as possible!!

I’m sure they were somewhat limited by certain rules and regulations but we were at least taught about how pregnancy happens or how certain diseases are spread….

it wasn’t great but it was something… it was better than total ignorance

it was certainly better than letting kids think they can get pregnant by kissing in a wet bathing suit ya know? hehehe

anyway…. I'm floating around wasting time looking for something (I don’t remember what) when I stumbled upon....



you just have to click it to get the FULL picture.... go on CLICK IT!!!

bet you can't guess what it is!!

give up? ok.... it's from a booklet handed out to kids (aged 14+) at a school in Masachusettes!!!

don't believe me? look HERE

this is where I'll say that I also have no problem with gay issues being addressed in school…. there are certainly gay kids there and unfortunately I imagine too many of them probably feel like freaks or something.... there definitely has to be something that can be done to help them through what I'm sure is a pretty rough time... (adolescence is tough on everyone, I would imagine it's extra tough for a gay kid)

but COME ON!!!

first of all RIMMING?!?!? FISTING?!?!? PISS PLAY?!?!? who the fuck does this when they’re 14?!?!? have things changed THAT much since I was a teenager????

but if they must discuss these things, can’t they address the dangers without being quite so vulgar???

I understand they’re trying to speak in a language the kids will understand but COME ON!!! is it me or is this going just a little bit too far?!?!?

ack!! tagged again.....

well it’s been a little while and well…. even though I was kinda thinking of FINALLY posting something naughty again, I guess NSM is in need of some reading material to help him sleep – why else would he tag ME?

I can’t imagine at this point that there are anywhere near 11 things you don’t know about me but I’ll give it a shot….

11 things you might not know about me....

1. ice cream - I can take it or leave it…. I like it enough but it always sounds like it’s gonna be a lot more enjoyable than it actually ends up being

2. my mind has become a very noisy and frustrating place and I’m finding it increasingly difficult to drown it out

3. I’m completely incapable of counting back change!! I know the concept is insanely simple and I actually had it once for about 30 seconds but it flew right back out of my head just as quickly as it came (don’t bother trying to explain it to me)

4. that is just one of the MANY reasons I have a hard time not thinking of myself as totally STUPID!!!

~ phew this is getting depressing hehehe

5. I wish we had a pool…. if we did I’d probably swim for hours every day (I guess I’d have to invent a way to blog underwater) hehehe

6. several times when I was about 12 I took over the counter antihistamines because they made me speedy… one time I took so many I thought my head would implode it hurt so bad – my sinuses dried out so severely that I was trying to somehow funnel water up my nose just to get some moisture in there haaaa

I’ve had migraines that weren’t as bad as that headache!! (I have no idea why I would do this because I’m MUCH more a downer type of girl!!)

7. I never masturbated until I was with Sam – never even thought about it

8. I also never had an orgasm before him (of course I was only 16 when we got together so I’m not sure how out of the ordinary that is hehehe)

9. I can’t sleep without some kind of noise – but it CAN’T be music!!! for the most part I can’t stand hearing music right before bed or first thing in the morning – because if the wrong song comes on it could ruin my sleep or my mood for the day

10. once upon a time when I worked in a deli I ran a little test-like thingy…. whenever anyone got a drink I’d ask if they wanted a straw....

women almost always said ‘yes, please’ and men almost always said NO! as if sucking on a little plastic tube somehow made them look gay or something hehehe

funny thing…. the only men who ever said yes WERE GAY!!!

I know it sounds weird but it was actually pretty interesting… for a people watcher such as myself anyway hehehe

11. cell phones - man I hate cell phones!! I mean I guess it's nice that if your car goes off into a ditch you can call for help - but seriously do people REALLY need to walk through the aisle at the video store reading off the cover of every new release to some lazy bastard on the other end of the line? or up and down the aisles of the supermarket getting shopping instructions as if they're on a secret mission and they don't want to leave a paper trail by actually making a LIST?

my new burning hate? those walky talky phone thingies that you hold up a couple inches in front of your face and everyone can hear both sides of your fuzzy conversation - yes we all think you're super cool for being so important that you must be reachable at all times but seriously, we're NOT interested in whether or not your lazy friend is a fan of Billy Bob Thornton - or whether you prefer skim or 2% - or if they can hear you.... NOW? - I CAN hear you now and I'm fixin' to trip your rude ass so you fall on your face and knock out your teeth with your piece of crap phone!! I'm sure I could do this without even being seen because lets face it, you know you're completely unaware of what's going on around you!!

ok that’s it…. hmmm I guess I'll tag Sam lest he never post again hehehe

as for the rest of you.... well you can all just go tag yourselves… go on, you know you wanna!!

cake coma....

So yesterday was my birthday…. It didn’t feel much like my birthday, which is good!! usually on my birthday I’m in a pretty crappy mood… I guess I get to feeling like people should fuss over me and they very rarely do!!

Since Sam has to work most years on my birthday I spend most of the day alone…. this is really no different from any other day other than it’s my birthday and I guess I’d rather not be alone hehehe

My friend Natalie had mentioned wanting to take me to lunch yesterday but wasn’t sure she’d be able to unload her offspring for the afternoon, she said we’d have to play it by ear (if anyone knows the origin of that saying kindly let me know… it doesn’t seem to make any sense to me)

Anyway I had been up half the night with an upset stomach, it seems my body is finally rejecting all the ibuprofen I take… I think I may be getting an ulcer or something =(

And I had quite a bit of stuff I wanted to get done around the house so even if she could go I was thinking of bailing on her….

Then my sister called me at like 7:45 in the morning…. she wanted to know if I’d like to go to lunch with her (these people all must know me pretty well hehehe FOOD? yes I’d like some free food please!!) however like I just said, I didn’t really feel like going out =(

But she sounded so excited about the idea of taking me out to lunch that I just couldn’t say no…. of course in order to get my free lunch I had to be ready to leave in 40 minutes!!! she had an appointment she couldn’t skip beforehand….

That’s one of the drawbacks to not driving, you spend a lot of time waiting around for people hehehe

Anyway I got to hang out with Emmy Loo (that’s my niece) for a bit…. She’s such a funny funny kid!!

We went to Barnes & Noble – chonga had another grand adventure…. all in all it was a pretty good day!! I kept busy which was probably a good thing!!!

Once I got home I noticed a bunch of calls on my caller ID – but I didn’t feel like returning them…. and throughout the afternoon the phone rang about a half a dozen more times with people calling to wish me a happy birthday….

For some reason I don’t really like those phone calls… I know I know I don’t make any sense… I want people to fuss over me but when they acknowledge that it’s my birthday I don’t like it hehehe what can I say? I’m confusing!!

The day before, my mother didn’t work because we had such yucky weather, so she baked me a cake…. here’s what’s left of it….



but is one cake enough? heck no!! this is a sort of last hoorah of sorts for the people of kittyville…. Since after this birthday business is over with it’s wheat grass and ice water for us I had to make a CHOCOLATE cake too!!

here’s what’s left of IT



Sam was happy anyway…. if it was up to him he’d probably eat an entire chocolate cake in one night!! this morning when he cut himself a giant slab of cake for breakfast I had to remind him that this is MY birthday cake and he can’t devour the whole thing like he pretty much did with his!! hehehe

Ok well that’s enough about cake… I think I have a cake hangover today hehehe my head is pounding!!

You’ll be pleased to know (or at least I’m pleased to report) that this pounding headache did NOT keep me from getting my morning exercise!! YAY!!

I seem to be watching a lot of shows about obese people lately and I think it has me determined to stick with the idea of getting in better shape!!

Sam and I watched the biggest loser last night – neither of us had ever seen it before – now Sam wants to get all buff and me? well I just want to not be a big fat cow anymore!! hehehe

If they can do it, so can we…. I thought to myself as I was watching the show… those people are put through some kind of high speed medieval weight loss torture!! I should quit my bitchin’ about a 30 minute 2 mile in home walking dvd!!

of course I’d lose weight quicker if I had a gym in my living room too!!
ok that’s it…. I have MUCH to do today and I’m done neglecting things!!

p.s. I changed the music... now maybe certain people's ears will stop bleeding.... however Armaedes, if you have a problem with Led Zeppelin you might as well just hit the little x and not come back hehehe

resolutions....

it’s Tuesday it’s Tuesday – what a wonderful day – just one day until my birthday!! (sung to the tune of the slinky jingle)

exciting isn’t it? I’m gonna be 23 years old!! I know it seems impossible… how could someone so witty and wise be soooo young, right?

well by lying of course!! I’m really gonna be 27!!!

still not buyin’ it huh?

fine…. I give up… I’m gonna be 33

and actually I don’t care… I don’t lie about my age – 33 works just fine for me… why not even a year ago some insane blind woman asked me for ID when I tried to buy a lottery ticket!! of course as I said she was clearly insane and possibly blind because even a year ago I didn’t look a day under 50!! there’s NO WAY I looked less than 18!!

so it’s a new year for everyone but it’s REALLY a new year for me!! I’ve never really been one for resolutions…. and well… that line of thinking has done nothing for me!! so this year I figure I’ll try something new…. multiple resolutions!!!

if I sign myself up for a bunch of stuff and I actually manage to do even some of it, I’ll be happy…. great plan right? make an impossible to do list, set yourself up to fail and then MAYBE you’ll feel good about at least accomplishing some of your goals!!

anyway I know you’re just DYING to find out what my goals for the year are, soooooo…. here they are in no particular order....

1. take better care of myself (eat right and get more exercise)
2. take more time to do things I enjoy (reading, crafty stuff, drawing etc.)
3. learn to relax - take time to just sit and regroup/meditate/whatever every day!!
4. get the house clean and organized!!
5. get some order to my every day things (set daily schedules)

ummm there ok I think that’s pretty much it…. if I think of anything else I’ll just have to add it to the list

but I figured if I post the list here I might have a better chance of sticking to it haaaa - we can always hope, right?