Can't sleep....again

I wish I could go to bed and sleep for a full 8 hours and wake up all refreshed and ready to take on the day. Instead I go to bed around 10 or 11, and sleep really well until 230 or 3 and then I am wide awake for another 3 hours or so, then back into bed until 730 or 8. I am getting the sleep I need, but not all at once. I need to take a nap about 2 or 3 in the afternoon or I won't make it through the day. I was sleeping really well tonite, and Bandit came in and nudged the bed as he laid down beside it. So I am here trying to get back to sleep.

I have started my first attempt at writting down my 100 things. Whoa, I never knew it would be so hard to do. Try and write down things so that people who don't know you will know you after they have read your entries. I went great guns for about 35 and then slowed way down. I am up to 80 now and the well is dry!! Don't know when I will be able to get it linked to my blog though...have to find a time when Chemystery is in a good enough mood to show me with out getting all sarcastic and telling me to read the book. I am also thinking about putting on a Christmas skin, but every time I look for one, a million pop-ups stop me.

Sadie went for her first Bye-bye ride today without being in the carrier. I put her in the seat and told her to stay put, and she did!! I was amazed. I drove into town to the store, and when I started to get out she wanted to come to. I told her NO she had to stay and guard the car. She got a paniced look on her face but stayed put. Lately she has taken to howling very forlornly when I am out of her sight. I just knew she was gonna stat as I walked into the building. I got back out and she was still sitting ther looking out the window at the store right exactly as I left her. She was such a good girl. She didn't even pee in my seat like I thought she would.

Last night after I turned out my bedroom lamp I looked out at the backyard, just to see if it was snowing, and saw a shape on the feeder. It was really dark so I was not sure what it was. I waited until my eyes got accustomed to the dark, then grabbed my Binoculars and looked out. It was a barred owl just sitting there on the feeder. There must have either been a rat or a mouse there when he came down. Owls do not eat seed. He sat there for about 10 minutes just looking around, and then flew off. I was amazed at how silent his wings were. The doves make a lot of noise as they fly, and the other birds make some noise, but this owl just lifted off and did not make a sound at all.
I have not seen many owls. I hear them but they stay well hidden. Bob has one that comes down to his deck for meat scraps. I hesitate to do that because of the rats. Don't want them bringing the meat into the crawl space. and having it stink up the place.

It is now 400 and I am starting to get sleepy again, so I better take advantage of the sandman and get back to bed.
I have to start blocking Godspell tomorrow, so I can be ready when I finally get the stage. see ya...ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

OK ANOTHER DAMN QUIZ....

You are George Walker Bush! You are the most
powerful man in the world, which leaves you
little time to think for yourself. Fortunately,
you have your friends to think for you!


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Pop-ups GRRRRRR

I have been plagued the past few days with those pesky pop up ads. I dont mena just your standard pop-up I mean the kind you can NOT tell FUCK off to. Yesterday right in the middle of my daily blog reading, one popped up, and had absolutely NO way to get it gone. There was no tool bar showing, ESC did not work, 3-fingered salute did not work, I mouse overed every inch and could find NOTHING that will allow me to close down the damn thing. I had to physically turn off my computer the wrong way, just to get it gone. Of course Windows XP does not like it when you do that, so it had to scan my hard drives for damage before I could continue. Then once it came back up there was the damn ad again, only this time with a toolbar. I closed it three times before it went away. Then when I looked at my favorites there were two adult porn sites in my FAVORITES that I did not put there.

Chemystery got home really late, and I was worried about her and the icy roads. I yelled at her when she got home, about not being courteous and letting me know she was gonna be working late, then I hit her with the porn sites! She swears she didn't do that, and I believe her. She deleted a bunch of things that looked really strange on my files, and rebooted. Today I ran a p-cillin scan and found I have a spy-ware worm. I deleted it and now I'm starting over. and the Damn Pop-ups are popping like mad!! ANybody know a reasonably cheap program that will block all of these stupid advertisements? They are really pissing me off. Especially the one that wont let you close it.

There are those stupid ones in email too. and the ones that look like it is an official pop-up from microsoft about it's system. I refuse to download anything that I do not request myself. and I periodically go to those places and get updates and patches.

Just typing this, I had to close 15 ads!!! it wouldnt even be so bad if they would pop UNDER so I could still type! I do not look at the screen but at my keys so when it pops up it kills the typing and I dont realize it until I look up.

AAAARRRGGGGHGHGHGHGHGHGH

Where do Ice Cream cones come from?

Funny!!

A new, young MD when doing his residency in OB, was quite embarrassed performing female pelvic exams. To cover his embarrassment he had unconsciously formed a habit of whistling softly. The middle aged lady upon whom he was performing this exam suddenly burst out laughing and further embarrassed him. He looked up from his work and sheepishly said, "I'm sorry. Was I tickling you?!" She replied, "No doctor, but the song you were whistling was 'I wish I was an Oscar Mayer Wiener."

Frosty Morning!

I came home from work yesterday with a splitting headache, an upset tummy, and aches all over the body...Took a really hot shower, fixed a mug of soup and headed for bed. My daughter came home and rubbed me down really good with Mineral Ice, and off to sleep I went. Until 900. Then I had to get up and watch West Wing. fixed a cup of blueberry tea, and back into the sack. I was sleeping so good, and about 500 am Phyllis called... NORTHERN LIGHTS UP NORTH!!! yea, like they would be down South? So I jumped out of bed and ran out to the back deck. I remembered to turn the back porch light off before I went out. Took one step out in my bare feet and started skating!! The deck was coated with a thin layer of solid ice.

I thought Dear Lord don't let me fall, and I looked up at the sky and there just over the tree tops were the Auroras!! Not green and pink like some people have seen, but white! The Lights were dancing like a curtain blowing in the wind. It was awesome!!

Now mind you, all this is going through my head as I am falling. I took the first step, started to skate, so instead of going backwards into the house, I head forward...very fast. I don't remember the actual fall, but I found myself in the middle of the deck, on my hands and knees. I tried to get up, and fell flat. So I tried to get up and my PJ's are stuck to the deck. Now if bare flesh doesn't stick to the deck, why does flannel? I am giggling. You know the kind, the "OHMIGAWD I'M ON THE DECK IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NITE AND STUCK" kind of giggle?

About this time I look up and the stars were close enough to touch, and the Big Dipper was tilted so that it looked like it was pouring the Auroras out of it's cup. So beautiful. I thought, Well if I have to freeze to death I picked a beautiful time to do it. I hear an OH SHIT!!! coming from Donnas room. OOPS woke up the daughter.

What would you think if you were to wake up in the middle of the night and see your mother laying on her stomach in the middle of a frozen deck? I knew she would be scared, so I yelled, I'm OK...JUST STUCK! So she comes to the door yelling at me. IF YOURE OK WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING LAYING ON YOUR STOMACH ON A FROZEN DECK?

OK quit cussing at me and bring me something to wstand on that isnt slick. She goes back into the house, and is gone 15 minutes while I am slowly freezing solid. She finally comes back and throws a teeny tiny throw rug at me. (Now I would have grabbed a blanket off my bed which was really close, or a towel out of the dryer which was RIGHT THERE) I got my feet pryed up off the deck and put them on the rug, and stand up. Now how to get from where I am to the safe house? Donna, Please go get me another something to stand on? SO she is gone another 15 minutes and throws another teeny tiny rug at me.

Now she is pissed!! WHY IN THE FUCK WERE YOU OUT THERE MOM!!! YOU'RE SICK!!! DOESN'T "I FEEL AWFUL" SOUND REMOTELY FAMILIAR TO YOU? No sense of humor that kid...

I get in to the house, and tell her Im ok, And that Phyllis had called to tell me the Northern Lights were out. She just does not get it...she is ranting at me...I tell her to go back to sleep and I call Phyllis.

No Answer...OH LORDY I HOPE SHE DIDN'T FALL TOO!!! She did. Last time she did that she knocked herself out. So I finally get her on the phone, and ask her to come take me to the hospital and all she did was laugh. SOme family!! THe daughter cusses at me and the sister laughs!! No respect!! None at all!! And to top it all off, the Auroras weren't even colored!! (Sniff)

You all probably think I am totally wacked, but it is the little things in life that give me joy. THe Auroras, The stars twinkling brightly and so loudly that you can hear them! THe patterns of ice on a frozen deck as your nose is stuck to it...

Gotta love it. The knees are killing me right now though. "Was it all worth it?" Donna Screamed at me...YEP It was. I might not have another chance to see them...the world may stop at any moment and I want to be able to say, I saw them one last time...

Thanks Bill!!

Ya know, Sometimes it really is nice knowing a gentleman! Bill told me how to get the do-hickie working right. I didn't know it had sound!!! My daughter turns the volume down so she won't wake me up with her chat rooms :-( and she never remembers to turn it up. But with Bills kind words and Leslies comments, I got to see it in action. Feel free to take it folks.

Worth the wait!

I have no idea if this will work but if it does it is really cute.

Happy Thanksgiving!

hmm obviously not...well punch it into your URl address line it is really cute.

Links

Done here too Guys. Anonymity is good.

Mother Nature hits hard!

Whoo-boy...watching the news this afternoon, listening to all the rivers that are at or above flood stage again, and thinking that I am so glad I live on an island. We are getting the rain though. So far about 3 inches. Now this may seem like nothing to some of you, but We usually only get 17" of rain a YEAR, it is usually just showery and misty all the time. It rarely pours like it has this Fall. I was shaking my head at our weather and then they switched to the national weather. Man!! Tornadoes, WInd, Rain, more wind, more tornadoes all through the mid section. Houston is flooded, New Orleans is flooded (that doesn't take much I hear) Tornadoes in Arkansas, Alabama and Mississippi. Wind through the mid-west along with the rain and snow! I can deal with the wind, and the rain, but I don't think I could deal with living where you would have to fear tornadoes in the middle of the night. I think I would just build a house underground and never come up for air. I sincerely hope that all of you are safe and secure and out of Harm's Way.

Me, I gotta get out in this pouring rain and bring in some fire wood. I'm cold. Damn I wish I one of those four men that Dorothy mentioned...

PHHHFFTTT!!!!

Ok Wanda....start laughing.... I deserve it!!!


What Kind of Asshole are You?

You'd sell your grandma to get ahead in life if you could. You blame half the people around you for your failures and expect the other half to treat you like royalty. Assholes like you make fine racists, Christian republicans, or both. Do us all a favor and keep your damn mouth shut.

funny!!

Took a nap, just checked my email, and the wind warning has been cancelled, The low pressure system hit shore at upper British Columbia, So Chris Might have gotten the wind, but not us. DARN!!! AH well, the winter hasn't even gotten started yet, there will be more I am sure.

so much for fantasy .....

You should be dating an Aries.
21 March - 19 April
This person is a leader, very energetic, always
helping others to achieve their dreams. Though
at times, Aries can be be bossy, jealous, and
selfish, this ram enjoys sexy new challenges in
bed!


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Sunday Afternoon

Yep...It's late, really late. I slept until 1200 noon!! Got home about 130 last night after striking the set from Over the River And Through The Woods!! It was a GREAT show. I left before the set was finished though, my knee was the size of a cantelope and my back went out. So I said Enough is enough and just left.

I got home and took a HOT shower. I just let it beat down on my back and shoulders. It felt SOOOOOOOOO good. Put on my new flannel niteshirt and fixed a hot cup of cocoa and went to bed. Now when I am that tired, i can't get right to sleep. I wanted to, but my mind wouldn't let me, so I tossed and turned finally went to sleep...for 20 minutes! I was hurting so badly that I couldn't get comfortable, I got up rubbed mineral ice on my knee, and aspercreme on my shoulder and tried again. Nope. so I got up and took a pain pill. That did it. Out like a light! slept until 8 got up went to the bathroom and stumbled right back to bed. Sadie was still asleep, so I figured I needed to be also. It really wasn't as bad as it seems, since I did not get to sleep until 4AM so I only was in bed for 8 hours. (why am I making excuses? Im an adult, it is my house. ) I feel much better today, but the pain medicine makes me sick to my tummy so I try not to take it unless I really need it.

It is raining like hell out there right now, the wind has not hit yet. We had some this morning but the big wind is expected this afternoon and tonite. Sadie came in all covered with mud. GOD what a mess! I kept her in the utility room, but she was bouncing off the walls, so now I have muddy puppy prints up as far as she can reach. Her feet are so big and furry and hold that med really well. I need to mop the floors now too. I tore up my carpet when I moved back here, as my renters DESTROYED my house. I put laminate floors down and they are wonderful!!! Cold, but wonderful. They show the dust like mad, but 5 minutes with endust on a dust mop and they are clean. Or Were until Sadie!! now they need to be mopped and scrubbed too. Ah Well. easier to clean than the carpets were. LOTS easier. Cheaper too. I think Next year I will rip up the carpet in the office too, and put down laminate here also. Eventually I will have all the rooms done, and will be closer to keeping a clean house. I am not the best housekeeper though. Other things are more important to me than a perfect house. I LIVE in mine. and so do all of my animals. So if you ever decide to stop in, be forewarned!!!

Well What can I say?

Claire. You are a pricess that comes from a rich
family. You do what whatever your mom tells you
not to do because your dad says its ok.
Hopefully from your experiences you learn that
you are not the only one people like!


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Lazy Saturday...

What a lazy day...I woke up at 630, peed, then crawled back under the covers, Sadie was not awake yet, so I figured I would take advantage of that fact and go back to sleep. I slept until 11:30!! I needed it though. To night is STRIKE night. We have a cast party pre-show at 530 then the final show, then we have to strike the set. This will take us until 200 in the morning at least!! UGH> This is the part I really hate. I can't lift, I can't do stairs, But I feel I need to be there because it is mandatory for everyone else. I'll work until my Knee swells up and then I'll sit.

It is really getting nasty out there. We are sposed to get slammed with a storm tonight. The wind is already starting to blow. My luck the lights will go out tonight during the show. I guess I better have a few flashlights ready huh?
Sadie is outside right now, I sent her out to spend some time...before the rain hits. She is assuming the position to poop, and a leaf will blow by, so after it she goes, then re-assumes the position...and so on. She'll stay out a while I'm Afraid.

I am cold clear through right now. Still in my new flannel niteshirt, but no socks. I just got up and closed my window, and turned the heater on to take the chill off the room. I looked out front and you cant even see the Olympics!! It is UGLY out there. Better bring in some wood before it gets dark. I hate to try to stumble around in the dark looking for the woodpile. Then it will be time to hit the road.

See me...

HMMMMMM.......

I stole this from Don's site


avoidant


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I wish CJ's Gary would give us an update! I know he is still there with her, but why didn't he take her laptop and plug it in? Who updated while she was in the last time? That is when I first met her.

I have to work today at the playhouse. Yay...money coming in. It isnt much but just enough to pay for my meds is really good. We are sold out for OVER THE RIVER AND THROUGH THE WOODS, so I wont have a lot to do today. I can start blocking act I of GODSPELL. ANd start calling some places and trying to recruit a Jesus...Tacklebox face boy called and wondered why he wasn't picked...DUH! can't sing, can't act, too much metal on his face...We'll get there for sure.

got to go get ready...see ya

Emotional me.

I stole this one from Wanda....She knows I cant resist these...


You represent... naivete.
So innocent and trusting... you can be very shy at
times, but it's only because you're not sure
how to act. You give off that "I need to
be protected vibe." Remember that not all
people are good. Being too trusting will get
you easily hurt.


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Lilacs For CJ

Leslie did this first, and was such a good idea I think we all ought to send her flowers...Cyber wise, because they won't allow flowers in CIC.

Morning musings

I had to get up early this morning, Donna had to go get her car from the repair shop, and I got the pleasure of taking her there. I say pleasure and mean it, because the morning was gorgeous!!! The temperature got down into the low 20's last night, so everything was covered with white hoar frost. As I was coming back along the curves by the O.L.F., the fog had formed along the ground. THe sun was just coming up over the trees, and turning the fog pink and mauve. It was forming in layers too, so there were different colored stripes in the fog levels. Beautiful. The hunters were out in their bright orange vests and their dogs, walking the cut wheat fields looking for pheasants. The spider webs that were woven between the two sets of power/telephone lines were highlighted by the fog and frost, and really stuck out, where you wouldn't normally see them.

I was driving along thinking what a beautiful morning and that I was glad I was able to see it. I then thought of CJ. She is undergoing a heart operation today, that might not work. I have to have faith that it will. There are so many things that are done today, that even five years ago, were un heard of. I do not know her entire history, as we just met, but she hit a nerve in me, and I feel very close to her. Don't even know her real name. I said a little prayer that she would be able to see many more mornings like this. I hope it gets answered.

SAdie is running through the house like her tailend was on fire. She was outside in the freezing weather for an hour, runnning and chasing the birds away from the feeders. I worked so hard to get them to come, and she is chasing them all away. I have not seen "Lola" in awhile. I know squirrels do not hibernate, but they also do not come out when it gets cold. They store up for the winter, all the peanuts, and pumpkin seeds I have been putting out all summer. I even saw her burying some right in the grass. I did not see any sticky notes, so I don't know how she'll remember where she puts them. I was kinda hoping that once the sun came out she would reappear.

I have been trying to spit out things that have been in my head, and get them all formulated so that they would be coherent, but all I get are spits and spots. Lots of ideas, but nothing of substance. I even thought about posting some of the writing that I did while I was stationed in Adak. Nothing to do there but reflect and write. I would take a beer or two, and a tablet and go out on the tundra or to the Bering Sea wall, or up a mountain, and just write what ever popped into my head. Some times it was about the scenery, sometimes about my Non-relationship with Bob, sometimes about the stress and frustration of knowing that I have to work, and when I work, I have to excel, and how lonely, how terribly lonely it can be. I do not have many friends I have a tendency to push them away. Afraid that either they want to be friends because they think they can get special treatment, or what....? I have made some with the playhouse, and I am thankful for them. I have made some with my blog, even though I have never met them. I have some that I know from my travels, that I keep in casual touch with, But the best friends I have are my babies. There is a fuzzy soft grey tabby half on my lap, and half on the keyboard, that purrs softly, and loves me unconditionally. There is an orange tabby that loves to lick my face around 400 AM and then try to crawl up my nose, all the while purring loudly and making mudpies in my boobs. THere is an old Manx that sleeps beside me every night as close as he can get to my butt, then stretches out his claws and digs into my fat ass. He LOVES me. He purrs loudly and drools all over the sheets. There is Ethel, who is the Feral kitty, and loves me so much, she knows when I am in pain, and she will sneak up and lay on my hand so all I have to do is wiggle my fingers and I am scratching her tummy. She also drools when she purrs. Sadie loves me, but she is still an ornery little shit, and likes to terrorize everyone.

I have a special relationship with my SIster. We fight, we argue, we have differing views on religion, and politics, but she is always there. I can call her at anytime and laugh. We watch tv and if we see something funny we call and as we pick up the phone we are laughing because we know what the other is going to say. You will come to like her too. SHe is the one who keeps herself so busy doing things for her friends that she has no time for herself. But that is what keeps her going. I envy her.

Wednesday morning

Just now I was over visiting Kat and you know how I can't refuse a quiz...I took the How sexual are you quiz, Sexual? ME? I even forgot what the word MEANS!!! and look what it rated ME!!!!!! hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha


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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! Ok Shut up Phyllis!!

Snowflake!!

Testing

Ok Now is this gonna show up? The last post didn't.

Thanks CJ!!

CJ Fixed my header!!! I thank you so much, now I need to compare the two so I can see where I goofed, or did not see it.

For all you ANIMALS out there.

Dear Dogs and Cats:

When I say to move, it means go someplace else, not switch positions with each other so there are still two of you in the way.

The dishes with the paw print are yours and contain your food. The other dishes are mine and contain my food.

Please note, placing a paw print in the middle of my plate and food does not stake a claim for it becoming your food and dish, nor do I find that aesthetically pleasing in the slightest.

The stairway was not designed by NASCAR and is not a racetrack. Beating me to the bottom is not the object. Tripping me doesn't help, because I fall faster than you can run.

I cannot buy anything bigger than a king size bed. I am very sorry about this. Do not think I will continue to sleep on the couch to ensure your comfort. Look at videos of dogs and cats sleeping, they can actually curl up in a ball. It is not necessary to sleep perpendicular to each other stretched out to the fullest extent possible. I also know that sticking tails straight out and having tongues hanging out the other end to maximize space used is nothing but sarcasm.

My compact discs are not miniature Frisbees.

For the last time, there is not a secret exit from the bathroom. If by some miracle I beat you there and manage to get the door shut, it is not necessary to claw, whine, try to turn the knob, or get your paw under the edge and try to pull the door open. I must exit through the same door I entered. In addition, I have been using bathrooms for years, feline/canine attendance is not mandatory.

The proper order is kiss me, then go smell the other dogs' butt. I cannot stress this enough. It would be such a simple change for you.

To pacify you I have posted the following message on our front door...

Rules for Non-Pet Owners Who Visit and Like to Complain About Our Pets:

1. They live here. You don't.

2. If you don't want their hair on your clothes, stay off the furniture.

3. I like my pet a lot better than I like most people.

4. To you, it's an animal. To me, he/she is an adopted son/daughter who is short, hairy, walks on all fours and doesn't speak clearly.

5. Dogs and cats are better than kids. They eat less, don't ask for money all the time, are easier to train, usually come when called, never drive your car, don't hang out with drug-using friends, don't smoke or drink, don't worry about buying the latest fashions, don't wear your clothes, don't need a gazillion dollars for college, and if they get pregnant, you can sell the results.

TOM!

This is Tom. He is (Or was) a wild turkey that had a harem of three hens. When I lived in Nevada, I lived along the Carson River in a spot that actually had trees. We had feral peacocks, and peahens and turkeys and all kinds of wild thangs. Tom would wander over to the neighboring pasture, so of course I would gobble at him and he would puff up his feathers and strut. It got to the point that everymorning at 8:00 he would come over and peck on the wall under my bedroom window until I looked out and went GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE at him. He was so much fun. The neighbors all protected him and his brood. We fed him peanuts. One day he actually stopped traffic on the road when a strange car appeared. He was prolly too tough to eat anyway.

yeah, yeah, yeah

Playing Catch-up!

I decided that since I did not have to go in to the playhouse tonite, I would do absolutely NOTHING. And I did. It felt good. I rested, with my knee up, and nibbled all day. Ate popcorn with Butter, drank diet pepsi with crushed ice, and several slices of cheese. Donna yelled in that dinner was ready if I wanted it. OK. She tells me as I come in, "now don't turn your nose up until you taste it. (OH Brother NOW WHAT?) She was born into the wrong generation. She should be or WOULD have been a perfect flower child. Ms. GREEN, Ms HERBS, MS WEIRD FOOD. She once served me Lentils with dates and pepers and onions. (GAK) So I'm thinking it has to be some thing really strange. It smelled good, so I tasted it. It was chicken breast cut into pieces and mixed with spaghetti, peas and PEANUT BUTTER!!! I don't think in my entire life I have had spaghetti and peanut butter. peanut butter and dill pickles sandwiches yes, but spaghetti and peanut butter and CHICKEN? nope...actually did not taste too bad, lots of protein, I guess.

We had our first read through yesterday with almost all of the cast. No Jesus yet. I have someone in mind, but he cant be here until Dec 1, and that is a whole month of missed rehearsals. Not too sure about this. I still have it running on the radio, that I need a male singer/actor for the part. All the rest of the cast is excited and ready to start singing. THe first two weeks will be spent on the music, then I get them for blocking, and lines. IT is starting to fall into place. I feel really good about the people I did cast too. Troupers all of them.

SAdie is starting to become a real dog. Her little nose is filling out, and her baby teeth are coming loose, and she sticks like a dog!! She learned how to sing yesterday. I was making some howling noises, you know, just throwing my head back and howling real primal like, (don't YOU?) and she ran under the desk, but her front paws on my knees and threw her head back and howled, and howled and howled. I laughed and howled some more, and she did too. SO we spent about 5 minutes singing. Loki came running in to see if I was ok, jumped on the computer desk and licked my arm. I had to stop, I didn't want to scare my babies.

I could not sleep last night, I hurt all over, My back was hurting and popping, my knee was aching and my shoulder hurt. My feet were burning, and I felt like every nerve was exposed. I threw the covers off, but that didn't help, so I got out the aspercreme and mineral ice and slathered them both on me where I could reach. THen I remembered the pain killers the Dr gave me for my knee. I popped one, read a little and slept like a log until 930 this morning.

I want so badly to take a long hot soaky bath with salts and foo-foo juice. I could get in there, but I couldn't get out, so I don't. Long hot showers just aren't the same. I need to try and fix the top of this blog. I can't seem to find the place to put the top pictures so they are UNDER the blogger ad. Try and try again...

Where's Nemo?

HMMMMM

some of you might relate to this


The service station trade was slow
The owner sat around,
With sharpened knife and cedar stick

Piled shavings on the ground.

No modern facilities had they,
The log across the rill
Led to a shack, marked His and Hers

That sat against the hill.

"Where is the ladies restroom, sir?"
The owner leaning back,
Said not a word but whittled on,

And nodded toward the shack.

With quickened step she entered there
But only stayed a minute,
Until she screamed, just like a snake

Or spider might be in it.

With startled look and beet red face
She bounded through the door,
And headed quickly for the car

Just like three gals before.

She missed the foot log - jumped the stream
The owner gave a shout,
As her silk stockings, down at her knees

Caught on a sassafras sprout.

She tripped and fell - got up, and then
In obvious disgust,
Ran to the car, stepped on the gas,

And faded in the dust.

Of course we all desired to know
What made the gals all do
The things they did, and then we found

The whittling owner knew.

A speaking system he'd devised
To make the thing complete,
He tied a speaker on the wall
Beneath the toilet seat.
He'd wait until the gals got set
And then the devilish tike,
Would stop his whittling long enough,

To speak into the mike.

And as she sat, a voice below
Struck terror, fright and fear,
"Will you please use the other hole,

We're painting under here!"

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STOP and smell the.....deer? Ducks?

Sometimes in the day to day business of our busy, busy lives, we need to stop and take a look around us. I did just that coming back from the Vet's office on Wednesday. I took the back way home, through Fort Casey state Park, and along the beach by the ponds, and just right in the middle of the soccer field was this herd of deer. They didn't care that I couldn't cast my show, they could care less.



And then on along the Spit road and by the Ponds there was this flock of ducks. They followed me around the pond, hoping that I had something to eat. I didn't but I quacked really good!!

Where the HELL is JESUS?

I can't find him anywhere!!! It seems that everybody is too busy right now. Ya know Christmas is coming...all the Singers are busy with Pageants, shows etc. I have a casting call on the Local radio, asking anyone to come to the playhouse and leave their name. I did have one show up, he is a drummer in a rock band, has piercings everywhere, can sing,loud, but not on key, and has never acted before. He did a reading and kept stumbling over his tongue stud. Did have the long hair and a beard, but...........NOT!!!!

I just got back from the orthopedic surgeon. He poked and prodded and read the MRI for 10 minutes, wrote an order for Physical Therapy, said I had a tear in some cartlidge, and arthritis under my kneecap, and sent me on my way. I drove for 2 hours up and 2 hours back, for a 10 minute POKE? (not that kind Kat.) ; ) So I guess I spend more money I don't have on PT and then go in for arthoscopic day surgery. I hate this!

Oh MAN, they just said that the Green River Killer may have killed as many as 90 prostitutes. Somebody ought to use him as a parts source. He is a real sick person. I cant believe they made a deal with him. (Shudder)

Gotta run, show tonite!

Killer!!!!

No not the Green River Killer, there is enough written about that ass-hole!!

Sadie!!! She caught and played with and then killed a bird!!! Right under the bird feeder!! I am yelling at her to put it down, and she is whipping it around in her mouth, shaking her head back and forth! I couldn't believe it!! And she dropped it so it was hopping away and she pounced on it twice, just like a cat!!! Poor Bird!!! It was a junco! They are so cute, and she KILLED IT!!!

One of the reasons I will not let my cats out, other than the fact I don't want them getting hurt, is because I feed the birds. I have feeders everywhere, of all kinds. I have attracted birds to my yard that I have rarely seen around here. I know my cats would lie under them and treat the feeders as an hor d'oervre tray! So instead I leave them inside. THere are nose prints all over the windows from where the cats are drooling, but I know my birds are safe...or WERE until SADIE!

Auditions 2nd night

I have 8/10's of a cast. I did have one man show up last night, however he is not a lead. I will use him because I know him, he has been in numerous productions, and he is reliable, but he can't act. He can knock your socks off singing. so I will give him the role with the least lines, but the best song. ALL GOOD GIFTS. I have put the word out for two men. I wish it wasn't during the holiday season, then I would get some, but most of the good male singers are in church choirs or corales and are busy for the holidays, and concerts.

Wish I had the guts to cast it FEMALE. I don't though, not for my first show. I haven't slept well, kept waking up and re-thinking the way I cast it. Ya know I retired, to get some of the stress out of my life. Here I am piling it on again, WHAT EVER FOR? slap, slap, MARY LOU!!! You don't have to do this to yourself. This is a volunteer project. What's the worst that can happen to you?

THEY CAN HATE ME!!!! :-(

who-hoooo!!!

You are the classy pin-up! You are everything
sophisticated and refined about the entire era.
You exude class and dignity.


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Auditions

Wow. We should have charged admission for the show that we had last night. About 15 women who knocked our socks off with their voices!!! They were fantastic!!

but no men...

In the script, Jesus is a man. John the Baptist is a man, Judas is too, played by the same person. Herb is a man. Lamarr is a man. Jeffrey is a man.

No men auditioned...

How can I cast this show with no men? I guess I could REALLY stand Oak Harbor on it's Presbyterian ear and cast an all female cast. Oh Lordy, I can see it now...pickets on Midway Blvd, Mary Lou hanging in effigy, Witch burnings at midnite!

I put out another emergency casting call to all of the surrounding Communities, so MAYBE I'll get some men tonight. I only need 2, and I can cast the show. I want 4 at least, but I could do it with two.

Just like the marines...I need a few good men....

Things that make you go HMMMMMM.....

Subject: Do you ever wonder??

Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, I think I'll squeeze
these dangly things here, and drink whatever comes out!"

Who was the first person to say "See that chicken there?.. I'm gonna eat
the next thing that comes outta it's butt"

Why do toasters always have a setting that burns the toast to a horrible
crisp, which no decent human being would eat?

If Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why is there a song about him?

Can a hearse carrying a corpse drive in the carpool lane?

If the professor on Gilligan's Island can make a radio out of
coconut....why can't he fix the hole in the frikin boat?

Why do people point to their wrist when asking the time, but don't point
to their crotch when they ask where the bathroom is?

Why does your OB-GYN leave the room when you get undressed if they are
going to look up there anyway?

What do you call male ballerinas?

If Wile E. Coyote had enough money to buy all that
Acme crap, why didn't he just buy dinner?

If quizzes are quizzical, what are tests?

If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables,
what is baby oil made from?

If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?

Why do they call it an asteroid when it's outside the hemisphere, but
call it a hemorrhoid when it's in your butt?

Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog's face, he gets mad at
you, but when you take him for a car ride, he sticks his head out the
window?

Does pushing the elevator button more than once make it arrive faster?


Just something for you to think about, while I think of something to Blog about.

FLEAS!!! AARRGHHHHH!!

Sadie has bugs. We dug up the back yard this summer and must have stirred something up, I have not had fleas in my house or yard for almost 9 years. Bandit started scratching first then Sadie. So now I have to dose all of my animals with flea control. The Vet gave me a pack of 4 vials of Advantage and 2 syringes so I can pull out the correct amount of medicine and get it onto all the necks of all the pets. Well the first one I got was Loki, caught him while he was sleeping on the arm of the sofa. Evidently this stuff either stings or stinks, cause he shot off the couch like a bullet. Bandit was no problem. DOnna did him Chitters came up sat in my lap and started making "mud pies" so I grabbed the goop and got him. Off he went like a hot cinder popped him the arse. Lint and Ethel ran and hid, so it was Sadie next. Had to give her a good bath first. OH GOD. Try to bathe a 3 month old hyper active puppy in the tub on your knees when you have a really bad knee. SHe wanted out of that tub in the worst way. THe noises that came out of her poor little body. She sounded like Whats-her-name in THE EXCORSIST. GAWD! GOt her all shampooed and rinsed and forgot the towel. Had to call Donna to bring me the towel. I wrapped Sadie in the towel and handed her to DOnna so I could try and stand up. I did it, I hurt, but I did it. Took Sadie back, dried her off good with the towel then took her into the laundry room to shake. Shake she did. But she is clean. Caught her again, and dosed her on her neck too, then changed her bed and put her in the pen. She jumped into her basket dug into the pillow, turned around three times and flopped down with her little head hanging over the edge, looking at me like "I Hate you!" She'll get over it, and love me again. She better...I feed her....

ROFLMAO over bad taste Halloween costumes

I got this from Grouchy old Cripples site

Ramblings...

Haven't written in a few days, Been really busy, So figured I'd better sit down and write something really really profound!! BUT then I sat here and sat here and oh Hell there goes Sadie....be right back.

OH SHIT!!!!!!!!! My Brother's band is playing in Pt. Angeles this weekend, so I am dog-sitting...Rocky is the funniest dog I have ever seen. He is 1/2 Boxer and 1/2 either pit bull, or rotweiller we aren't sure. His ears are not cropped and neither is his tail which is about 18 inches long and thin. Rocky is his name. As in BOXER get it? I didn't...anyway, Sadie does NOT like him....growls, and barks, and basically lets her Buzzard mouth override her hummingbird ass. the Hair on both of their backs was standing straight up and both were snapping and growling. I have NEVER seen ROcky act aggresive towards anybody or anything. But he sure tried to with Sadie, and she tried right back. I'm not sure who woulda won this round, but since I have a dog in this fight, I thought maybe I had better try and keep them as far apart as possible. I think it's gonna be a LOOOONNNNGGGG weekend. Uncle Bandit could care less, who does what, as long as he gets fed and kept warm. He is pretty much hen-pecked by Sadie too. Maybe if they get used to each other through the doggie gate things will be ok. Rocky and Bandit are Buds. Sadie and Bandit are Buds, it's just Rocky and Sadie that snarl at each other.

Tonite is opening night for OVER THE RIVER AND THROUGH THE WOODS at The Whidbey Playhouse. I have already had one of the cast members call and ask If I would re-take his picture, because he thought he looked like he should be in a Gay Chorus Line. EGOS....Ok Chad, I will retake your picture, but then you gotta live with it. I will run down, retake it, run back home print it out and run back in and post it on the board. I will admit, It did look pretty bad. His makeup was too dark. So we are going to re-do it with out makeup.

I am getting so nervous about GODSPELL. This has got to be done just right, and there are so many people that are going to audition, and I just hope I pick the right cast. Guess I won't know until I get there huh?

It has gotten really cold here this week. Right now the wind is calm and the sun is shing, but it is COLD. They really are predicting the possibility of snow tonight and tomorrow. GOODY!!! I love snow!!! Oh WAIT....It can't snow, I have AUDTIONS...Sun and Mon. Better re-think this.

ever see a cat walk across a room and into another room WITHOUT TOUCHING THE FLOOR? Chitters does not like ROCKY! So he made it from the front room window to the office window by walking across every piece of furniture in the front of the house. FUNNY...

BOO!!!!!!

An extremely modest man was in the hospital for a series of tests, the last of which had left his bodily systems extremely upset.

Upon making several false alarm trips to the bathroom, he decided the latest episode was another and stayed put. He suddenly filled his bed with diarrhea and was embarrassed beyond his ability to remain rational.

In a complete loss of composure he jumped out of bed, gathered up the bed sheets, and threw them out the hospital window.
A drunk was walking by the hospital when the sheets landed on him. He started yelling, cursing, and swinging his arms violently trying to get the unknown things off, and ended up with the soiled sheets in a tangled pile at his feet.

As the drunk stood there, unsteady on his feet, staring down at the sheets, a hospital security guard (barely containing his laughter) who had watched the whole incident walked up and asked, "What the heck is going on here?"

The drunk, still staring down replied: "I think I just beat the SHIT out of a ghost!"

So, Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween

Well It Figures!!!

take the virgin-whore dichotomy quiz.


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Auroras tonite!!!

No picture, but as good a description of them as I have ever read. go to Chris' blog and indulge!

He is about 100 miles north of me in Howe Sound off Vancouver, Ca

sunset

THis is in no way a good composition, but the colors are very accurate. This was at the height of the storm. Looks ominous huh?

And then there was Light!!!

Well, If you have been reading Phyllis' blog, you will know that I was without power for awhile yesterday, and it was not too stable when it came back on. I opted to be safe, and NOT be on the 'puter. I turned it off, and went to bed. Lights kept dimming, so I was watching TV and woke up when my daughter got home. She works off Island In Everett. The wind was sooo bad and coming from a different direction than usual, that it caused wide spread damage. Some of it being at the Mukilteo Ferry landing. The Ivars Restaurant there lost it's outside deck, and the water was slapping so hard UNDER the place that the floors were raising 3-4 FEET up. Needlees to say they evacuated the place. Donna stops there frequently for dinner before she gets on the ferry to come home. I called and she was in the mall. The Ferry had shut down for safety, and the line was 2 miles up the hill, so she figured she'd play it safe and shop. None of the street lights were working all along hiway 99 and 525. She said when she got on the ferry, that you couldn't see the island. All the lights were out.

Yep They were. Especially on the south end where the ferry lands. A branch feel over the main line up-island, and put everybody in the dark. Tree fell on a car in the state park killing one man too. Bad winds!!! The news said it was gusting up to 63 MPH on the Base. I believe it!

My Garbage can rolled across the front yard, and the front door blew open, that's when I knew the wind was different. My lights went out at 4:00 so I went on in to Oak Harbor to the Playhouse. Got the Bios and pictures posted on the lobby wall, set up the box office for member's night and turned it over to someone else and left. On the way home, I looked across the water at Coupeville, and there were no lights. Somebody STOLE Coupeville!~!! wow. When I got over there, only the old part or the historical part was black, the Prarie Center side was lit. I took the back way home to avoid the non-working stoplight, and it looked so odd to not see lights in the farmhouses. It was almost like You were all alone. The fields were dark, but across the sound you could see a few lights, and the glow from Seattle was showing above the South end. Othwerwise, DARK! Real DARK!

I had put a flashlight between the storm door and the front door for Donna, and called and told her the power was out. She wasn't home yet, so I left my headlights on and got the flashlight to get into the house. Went back turned out the headlights and came in and lit lamps and candles. I pulled out the Coleman lamp, assembled it and turned it on. It puts out heat as well as light, so I put it on the desk, and turned on the laptop to post my blog to word.

Lint jumped up and curled around the lantern to keep warm and stuck his nose right on to the chimney of the lamp and burned his little nose. Won't do that again. Just got all comfy, had the boom-box tuned to the local channel KWDB and listened to the local news. Had 1/2 a page written on the lappie and heard a generator close by. Hmmmmm Lea must have bought a new generator, she said she was, and she had lights. I typed a little more, and just felt weird, so I got up to look outside, and noticed that everybody else had a generator too. How weird is that? turned around to blog some more and noticed the kitchen light was on. DUH!!!!

Lesson for Mary Lou: ALWAYS KEEP A LIGHT TURNED ON IN THE ROOM YOU ARE IN SO YOU KNOW WHEN THE POWER COMES BACK ON. DUH DUH DUH

This morning I put Sadie out to pottie, and I watched her from my window. She did her business and was watching the birds, and decided to chase one. Right under the Wisteria bush and right into stinging Nettles!!! they bit her little nose, and she jumped back and barked and barked and barked at the BIG BAD BUSH that EATS PUPPY NOSES!! I laughed so hard. She is such a joy,

Ok, I'm caught up now. gotta get wood in and get ready for Chapter 2 which will hit either tonight or tomorrow. It is all coming down fron the Gulf of Alaska. OK Rachel, how bad is it gonna be, you have it first I hear.

WIND!!!!

We got slapped really hard with wind. Power was out from 4-9 tonite, just came back on. This will be really quick because it could go out again. I will post all about it tomorrow morning. too scary tonite.

See ya.

HELL WEEK!!

This was technically the last dress rehearsal before a live audience comes in. We Have our Members night tomorrow, and If you are a member of The Whidbey Playhouse, you can get to see all of the plays free on Members night. (Cheapest Season Ticket in Town!) So tonight I was frantically taking pictures of scenes that I needed for the story board in the Lobby. Just finished enhancing and printing out all of the 8X10 head shots and the bios too. So tomorrow, I will be busy, too. Gotta go get my MRI on the bum knee, take Zucchini bread into Phyllis office, get gasoline, run into the Playhouse and decorate the lobby, then take a deep breath and relax for a day until opening night on Friday.

I start GODSPELL on Sunday with Auditions, then after that show is over I will be able to just relax. I have worked every show this year, and I had not planned on that. Just worked out that way. I enjoy it, and it has helped me get through this year. When February comes and the show closes, I will once again start in on the inside of the house. As you all remember, I took a hiatus from painting the inside because the weather was so good outside. Well I didnt get all of the outside done either, but I did get more than I had thought. The yard actually looked pretty good this year. At least the back yard did.

I was planning on getting some fall bulbs planted, but I just ran out of money, time and weather. There is always next year. Bob got my cultivator working, so I can turn over the garden where the Zucchini was growing. I might even try some cold weather gardening. Spinach, lettace, cabbage garlic etc. It is usually so wet and soggy here in the winter that you need mud boots to garden in. Maybe we will have as dry a winter as we did a summer. Although you wouldn't know it by all the flooding we just had huh?

Brenda has me wanting to do something with my hair. Hers looked sooo good, that Now I am thinking that if I colored the gray up and had it styled I might look a tad bit younger. I wanted the gray to grow out, as a badge of honor, and I like it, but every time I wake up and look in the mirror, I see my Mother, and THAT scares me. (Shudder)

The time change threw me for a loop today. I have no idea why, but it just seemed like it was dead winter!! the alarm went off at 700 and it was light out, which was really nice, but the fog stayed and it got darker as the day wore on. I took a looong nap, and when I woke up I realized that it was gonna be dark real soon. I do not like the dark days. Never used to bother me before, but now they do. Maybe it is because I feel like I am in the winter of my life sometimes. I keep hoping for spring again, but it ain't gonna happen to this body!! I will be counting the days until Winter Solstice, when the Sun turns its journey back to the North again. THen I think I will feel brighter and better.

Thank you all for dropping in on Phyllis blog. She actually wrote an entry! Cool. Now she wants to change the colors. I knew she would. She's just that kinda girl. DOes anyone know why on her 'puter my blog shows up different than on mine? All of my links and archives, and the side bar stuff is all on the bottom of her page, but it is where I put it on mine.
Better fix it before I start messing with HER blog huh?

Wish me luck tomorrow! knee feels really good right now. maybe it'll be ok.

Zuchinni Bread. LOTS OF IT!!!

Ok, Ya'll, I just made another 10 loaves of bread. I will have coffee on first thing in the morning, so everybody come on over for a slice and a cup. I might even manage to send you home with a loaf under your arm.

I just added comments to Phyllis' Blog. I told her ya'll would come visit. I set her up with just the bare bones blog just to see if she would use it, and already she wants comments! Won't be long before she'll be adding blinkies, and smilies, and tags, and all those other kind of things 'cause she is just that way. (I should say I will be adding them for her< She can't even change the VCR)

She is a very touchy-feelie type person where I am sarcastic and brittle. She is in to crocheting and reading. Her Favorite is STEPHEN KING. She loves really spooky scary things and really gets into Halloween. SHe is single and has no children. Owns her own home free and clear. and works as an operations manager for the local Bus COmpany. If she wants to she can tell you more about herself.

Sadie is now staying out by herself more and more. And she has learned how to bark really well. She stands at my bedroom window and barks when she is ready to come in. She is getting so damned cute. AND BIG!!!

THis next week is what we in the theater call HELL WEEK> it is the week we open and everything that can go wrong does. Tomorrow I have to put the story board together and print out the cast pictures and do Bios on them all.

NEW TOPIC:

Anybody know any neat places to go for blog thingies? skins, blinkies, smilies, templates, stickers, yadayadayadya?
I have been looking and just havent found them yet. I did find webmonkey.

Gotta run Sadie is barking....see ya'll tomorrow for coffee.

new blog for Phyllis

Ok folks, I just set my Sister up a very basic blog to see if she will use it. She might, she might not. Let's give her a chance. She won't have comments or anything until we see if she really posts...then we will suck her in really good. She is younger than I, and she still has to work. HEHEHEHEHEHee She is very Independant and has a sicker sense of humor thatn I do. SHe LOVES practical jokes, and cats, and wolves. Oh and ALASKA.

GO Phyllis!!!!
http://lifeonwhidbey.blogspot.com/

until she changes it, which she probaly will.

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For Brenda...

Here is the Eagle picture i promised you. I had to scan it from a negative, so I hope it looks ok. I took this in Adak, Ak when I was stationed there. THey were as thick as Crows. This one was sitting on the Dumpster out behind the commissary store when I got off work. I just drove up to him/her rolled down my window and shot it from the car. They are really scavengers and dirty but I love them.

Today I had a new visitor. So being the nice person I am I went to Patricks' site and read some of his blog. I noticed that he has TONS of theater links, so I bookmarked him. Do yourselves a favor and go to October 20 blog entry at his site, and read it. I laughed soooo hard!!!!

NEW MOON

WHOO-HOOO Dig my New moon thingie...I am so Proud of me....

I was all snugged down in my warm bed, socks on my ice cold feet, a cup of hot cocoa (made from Scratch) Sadie in bed for the night, and reading "I is for Innocent" and had just got to the part where Bibianna had jsut escaped from Raymond when the phone rang. It was my Sister Phyllis. The Northern lights were supposed to show up tonight, and the sky is actually clear. She called to see if I would go down to the beach with her to see if we could see them. I groaned and told her I was already in bed. She begged, so I said ok, you run by and pick me up.

I crawled out of my nice warm bed threw on my sweats over my still warm pj's and slipped on my Birkies and went to the street to wait for her. We went down to the beach, where there is no light and parked the car looking North so we could see if there was any Boreal activity. NOPE. THat is when Phyllis confessed that she only wanted me there because she is afraid of the dark. I have known her all of her life, I knew that. That is what Sister's are for. To keep the other one safe from the scary monsters in the dark. Done it all my life! Of course I'm afraid too, so we both sat there telling scary stories, in the dark, in a car, on the beach road, in our pj's. I looked over at phyllis and said..."I hope a cop doesn't come by now, they will think we are parkers, and flash a light into the car, and then they'll think we are LESBIANS!!!"

There was a faint wisp of ground fog every once in awhile, but for the most part the sky was clear, and the stars were so close you could hear them twinkling. We could hear the ducks and waterfowl on Crockett Lake, and the owls hooting in the trees across the Lake. The Salt water was sloshing softly on the rocks and they were making a soft rushing noise as the water pushed and pulled at them. These are rocks almost through with their evolution from boulders into sand. THey are mostly gravel size, and make a very musical sound when moved by the water. It was one of the coldest nights so far this season, 36 and you could see your breath. The only thing missing was the Northern Lights. THey were a no-show. At least at midnight they were.

Halloween

Frosty Morn...

Well not really, but CLOSE! I din't wake up until 900!! What a SLUG! I actually slept really well last night. My knee wasn't hurting, and neither was my back. I woke up when Sadie started the HOOOOWWWWWWLLLLLLLing. the uh uh uh uh uh uh didnt wake me up. I musta been sleeping GOOD. I dont even remember getting up to pee!!! (NO, I didnt!!). Ethel was sleeping warmly and comfortingly in the middle of my back. I raised my head and looked out the window, and Lola was on the feeder stuffing her little face. She has not been here in a while. She stays well hidden when it is nasty out. I was glad to see her back again. Still have not seen her babies.

I stagger in to the bathroom and pick up Sadie, and head for the back yard. BRRRRR the barefeet aint gonna hack it today. So I shoved her out the door by herself and watched from the window. She looked over her shoulder at me with her tail tucked under as if to say."so it's too cold out here for you, and you expect me to squat my little twat over the cold wet grass?" I did not even feel bad about it either.

As i wandered into the kitchen to make a pot of coffee, I tripped over Sadie leavings. No not poop, but all the trash in the world. She finds junk everywhere and deposits it right where I will trip on it. The floor was cold, my toes were cold, the house was cold, the sun was shining really brightly. It hit me that the weather has finally turned. It is Autumn for sure now. I still can not bring myself to start a fire yet though. I try not to turn on the heat or build a fire until Nov 1. I only use wood heat, electricity is only used as a back up. I have a really tight house, and it holds the heat well. And the windows bring the heat from the sun into the room very nicely.

I like a cool house too. Nothing is better than putting on a warm fuzzy big sloppy sweater, soft cords, and a pair of slipper socks, and cozying up on the sofa with a book, or needlework. Sadie is in and playing under the desk. Better post quick!!!

How'd they do that?

ok, Anybody out there able to figure this out?



1. Key into the calculator the first 3 digits of your phone number (not
area
code).

2. Multiply by 80

3. Add 1

4. Multiply by 250

5. Add last 4 digits of your phone number

6. Add last 4 digits of your phone number again

7. Subtract 250

8. Lastly, divide by 2

Is this your phone number???

If you can figure this out, please explain how the arithmetic works!!

Dirty Dog...

THe precious little puppy I had 6 weeks ago has now turned into THE HORRID HOUND!!! She is sassy and beggy and is resisting pottie training. Just like TX's grandchild! This week her Uncle Bandit has taught her how to dig!!! >:-(

see....

Bright Morning

Did you know that the Pacific Northwest holds the honor of selling more sunglasses per capita than any where else in the world? Yep rainy, nasty foggy, cloudy Seattle. It is because the sun comes through the atmosphere at such an angle that it is blinding to your eyes. I myself have 2 pair of prescription glasses.

This morning was one such morning. I had to get up and take Donna to the repair shop to pick up her car. IT was cloudless. and it had just rained and was wet everywhere. THe sun hit the roads and was blinding. On the way home, I had to stop at Praire Center for some coffee, and came home down Ft. Caset Rd and the air was so clean and fresh and bright. THe fields had a lazy foggy haze that was not quite yet ready to give itself up to the heat of the sun. A Thick fog bank sat low on the Inlet, and the rest of the world was bright blue and gorgeous! I am going to have to get in the habit again of carrying my camera in the car again. I only have 2 35 MM's with all the lens. 1 Mamiya 634 large format camera. An advantix camera. and of course my Sony Mavica. All sitting at home. Several photo ops were passed up and I hated it.

This morning at 500 when I had to take Sadie out to pee, I noticed the stars! The sky was cloudless, and the stars were so close you could touch them. No moon, and no light to spoil it. I always feel so damned insignificant when I look up at the stars and realize that We are just a speck of dust in the Cosmic Wholeness. It is really hard to wrap your mind around that . ..

Too little time!!

I have been so busy the past two days that I have not had time to blog. I did blog for a full 20 minutes this morning about 130, but the "Sassy Little Bitch" ran under the computer desk and unplugged the computer before i could post it. I got up with Chemystery this morning. 'cause her car was broken. Moral support I thought. Did laundry played with the puppy, and got ready for Dr.

I have what he thinks is a torn anterior "something or other" and there was a LOT of fluid on my knee. He ooed and ahhhed at it , poked and poked at it then went after it with a honkin' big needle. He asperated some liquid off of it, which helped, but it was bloody, so He is sending me for an MRI on Tuesday. Probably will have to have surgery. SWELL. Why couldn't I have done this while I was working and had an HMO and only a 10.00 co-pay and 100% on in-hospital stays. Now it costs me 20% of EVERYTHING! WAHHHHHHH!!!! he chewed me out for waiting to come in. (YEAH< YEAH YEAH)

OFf to the playhouse to get the cues re-set and the last run-through before the Press comes to watch.

Brenda, when I get all caught up I will post some Super Eagle pictures for you that I took in Adak, Alaska. And I will try and get a picture of the eagle and heron on Hastie Lake.

On the way to town today I looked at the Lake as I passed. Eagle standing on the bottom of the lake in the mud, no Heron today but TWO eagles on the fence posts. We surmise that there is a nest around there as there is always at least 5 eagles in various stages of adult hood on the posts when the hay and alphalfa get cut. (mice and Rabbits ya know) They know a good thing when they see it.

On to bed before the horrid hound wakes up.

Phyllis' Sunset

This one is for you Brenda...My sister took this one about this time of year last year. This is the west side of the Island looking out into the Straight of Juan De Fuca. This is Ebey's Landing.

In someone's Blog this morning, I read where they saw both a heron and an eagle. At the same time. I have blogged before about driving past Hastie Lake, and seeing the eagles on the fence posts. Today I was driving by and noticed how much the bottom of the lake was showing, even with all of this rain. Right in the middle of the weeds growing in the mud was a Bald Eagle jsut standing on the bottom of the lake. To his right, about ankle deep in the little bit of water there was, was a Great Blue Heron. AN eagle and a heron at the same time. I guess that makes me really lucky today too. Now if I could only remember who it was.

THe temperature this evening is in the high 60's. Usually at this time of the year we are down into the low 40's. ( That's farenheit Kat and Leslie...) I kicked the covers off the bed because my feet were burning. I was also breaking into a sweat. I can not believe this weather. In 1991 the rain was so bad, that the earth was sliding into the Sound. Everywhere you looked, people had blue tarps hanging over their fragile bluff lines trying to keep them dry. It seemed to work some what, but I would expect that it could become quite expensive trying to keep all those tarps from blowing away. THe bluff lines are sometimes very high, and they would have tarps all the way to the bottom. If it starts sliding from the top, it will put your house right on the beach. KAPLOOEY!! The rivers all over are rising very fast, and they have evacuated people from the upper Skagit area. I guess they were expecting it to crest at 40 feet. I thought normal was 28, I must be wrong. They are going to let some water out of Ross Dam also, to releive the pressure on the dam. There are three very big dams on the upper Skagit, and if the highest one went, it would be horrendous. They are all pretty secure as we speak, but if this rain keeps up....

THe commercial went well, and we ran a light cue rehearsal, which really needs work. We will do that one tomorrow, and then it is on to Press Night, where all of the local and neighboring newspapers are invited to come watch the play in return for a nice review and free publicity. We usually get pretty good coverage out of it, but with all the other things happening around the area, who knows.

I actually am starting to get sleepy, so I think I will sign off, and try to get some sleep. I can't sleep in tomorrow, as I have to take Loki in to have his little ears looked at. He is scratching at them so hard they are bleeding. Poor love. He comes to his mommie for help and I grab the ear wash. He HATES it. He is such a big LOVER. Hope it isnt anything serious.

I spent another night wide awake. I went to bed to read about 10:00, fell asleep face down in my book. Woke up with Sadie yelling to go pee. So out in the rain and wind we went, in my nightgown and birkies, to have her decide that all she wants to do is chase the leaves. After about 15 minutes of getting soaked, I said enough and came back in and left her outside.

I came in here to see what I can do about fixing my blog, and after about 30 minutes I hear scritch scritch whine whine. She had discovered which window I was in and was doing her best to look pitiful. It worked. I brought her in and she of course was ready for bed. I was wide awake. So I worked on the computer until 300 and went to bed. WOke up at 500 and stayed up until 730, and went to watch the today show and fell back to sleep until 100. I have got to get my schedule back on track. I truly think it is the darkness that is getting me. It was pitch black at 730 this morning. Reading back in my blog, to when I first started it, I was so excited about being up at the crack of dawn, to watch it get light. At 500!! I can't wait until we get to the Solstice and the sun turns it path back North again. I feel like I have wasted a wole day. I have to voice over the commercial for the play today and I haven't even written it! Why do I alwysa wait until the last minute to do something?

It is raining like hell again. Seattle streets are flooding. The Skagit river has flood warnings on it again. It could really get messy this time. The rivers have not gone all the way down since the last flood, and the dikes could fail in places. A summer with NO rain, and a month with 15" really has put us in harms way. The reservoirs are finally back to normal though, so no water shortage for the winter. What we really need is a good cold snap, and lots of snow in the mountains. THat would keep the rivers from flooding, and build the snow pack up for next summer. Everybody blow really hard, and get that jet stream up into the Gulf of Alaska, and then back down the coast as COLD . Sounds really good to me.

Now when I get home I need to figure out how to change the colors on my comments line, and then all of the orange should be gone. By the time I get this all done, It will be time to change it Christmas colors. I can hardly wait...

Well, As much as I hate to do it, I am going to have to spend some money and make an appointment to see the Dr tomorrow. My knees are both really bad now, and my right shoulder is heading south really fast. I wake myself up wheezing, an coughing, so I know there is something going on there. (prolly a fur ball) and they called me and told me it is time for my flu shot. Just got all the dr. Bills paid, now we gotta start over.

Little miss Sadie is growing like a weed!!! I had to buy her a new collar today. And I invested in a choke chain to start teaching her to heel, and sit/stay. This oughta be really good. A Sassy Cocker Puppy and an indulgent old retired fart trying to learn obedience. Fun huh?

Fixed a really good roast tonight with potatoes and carrots and a salad and a crunchy crusty loaf of Tuscan bread. Yummy. Sat down after dinner and got all my bills paid, so now I hold my breath and wait until Nov 1, when I will have money again. All of my life I have gotten paid 2 times a month, now it is only once a month, and It realaly scares me. I know I should be able to make it, but I am still a little leary of spending any money on myself. I did however send off for some new cords from Lane Bryant. THey are so comfy. Cords, Sweatshirts, and slipper socks thats quite a wardrobe for me huh? Don;t have to dress up anymore, so I am packing all of those away for another day. ('sides, they don't fit anymore anyway. :-(

Better skip on over and see if Kat has disposed of Preiss' body yet. LOLOLOLOL She must be someone to know!!

This one's for TW

Here is an animal with no fur!!! It is my Brothers' Salmon crested cockatoo, her name is chiquita and she is the ugliest fekking bird I have ever seen. She hates everybody but Michael, and pulls all her feathers out where she can reach. She;s been this way for at least 10 years. (Shudder)

What kind of drink are you?

Hells Bells, I'm a fekkin' GLASS OF WATER!!!!


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for you Leslie

I went to GRouchy Old Cripple this morning and the picture he had posted reminded me of Leslie's blog this morning.

sleepless in Coupeville...

I did it again. Woke up at 0'dark-thirty, and could not get back to sleep. I read for a while, got sleepy turned out the light and woke up again. This time I came in to the 'Puter, to see if anyone else was up like me. COuldn't find anybody, so I decided to try adding links. My Guest map is finally on the top of the column, so all of you can now find it and SIGN IN PLEASE...

I looked at my template, and I felt like the first person to try and read hieroglyphics. SAY WHAT? Ok, I am fairly intelligent, and can usually figure out something if I play with it long enough. I was afraid to play here, for fear I would screw up my blog, and not be able to fix it back. Finally after trial and error, I got one link to work, but I couldn't remember which trial and which error was the right one, because I forgot to re-publish. Just kept going back to my blog. OK Now know THAT doesn't work! I got the right formula, and the color was wrong. I will fix it today. And I will add all of you too. Just be patient with me.

I have been visiting with Fran at NORTHWEST NOTES and her topic today was politics. She said so nicely what I have been feeling, but afraid to voice. Politics and Religion are two topics you should never talk about with family or friends. It causes major rifts. Most of us are informed, but only to the extent that we really want to hear. We tend to turn off those people that we do not agree with. It is a real shame that there is not a true truth source that will publish just the facts, with no ideologies attached. Allow us to form our own opinions. There is not a news source out there that isn't slanted one way or the other. I get so tired of the vituperous spewing from both sides of the aisle. Why can't there be someone who can get us over the Clinton-DIrty-politics, and back on track with governing our country. I will vote for the first person who runs a clean, honest, no-mud slinging campaign, and that seems to have his or her ducks in a row. There are more informed people than me out there, and I am trusting them to make the right decisions for all of us. What is nice to know though that regardless of your politics, most of us agree that our system right now is broke, and needs to be repaired. On both sides.

There I said it.

On to Applesauce and Zucchini bread. See, I'm not all bad...

Just added the Daughter....Brenda and Leslie...

whoo-Hoo,

IT WORKED!!!! I even got the color changed on the font but I can't find where I change the size of the font. WHy in the holy HELL don't they publish a road map with these things? Two of you are on there, now to find the rest of you, and list you correctly.....Gonna be a long night!!!!!

testing again...

Well not knowing exactly where to put these puppies, I may have poor leslie at the bottom of the page again. I am trying with Leslie, and If I can get her to work, then I will be linking all of you here too. Don't hold your breath, you know me.

carving along....

I too, went to Dorothy's site...took me a while to figure it out though, I kept trying to turn the page even further...duh






Well it would be nice if I could figure this out....It looks ok from this end....hmmmmmmm
GOT IT!!!!!! WHEW only took me three tries...

Life after NEXCOM

Life after NEXCOM

Well everybody Look out!!! i just finished picking all the zuchinni off the 8 plants I babyied all summer. How many would each of you like? LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOl They are HUGE. Lots of zuchinni bread for the freezer this year!!

Flood warnings....

Even though we live on an Island, and there are no major creeks or rivers on the island, our lives are very much affected by the rising rivers in the area. I-5 runs over about 6 major rivers, from Tacoma to the Canadian Border, and all of these rivers are expected to flood. What this will do to us, is keep our much needed supplies away from us. Although we have never run entirely out of anything, It does make you plan ahead. Fill your gas tanks, Buy extra milk and bread.

When the Skagit River floods, it becomes really messy. our major access point to the main land is over Deception Pass, and across the Skagit Valley. This is a big flat low lying delta, that is farmed during all seasons. It is also the only way on the island without taking the Ferry at the South end. When the valley floods, Highway 20 and I-5 are closed. Mt. Vernon is where all of the major malls are for us to shop. Hmmmmm Maybe there will be some good flood bargains. Seriously, this could be a major disaster. It floods every year, but with no rain in months, all the water is running off the land, and into the rivers. Usually the rain that we get, is a light soaky rain, and seeps right into the land. Well this time it isn't. In some places there has been upwards of 6" since this weekend.



Skagit river basin 450 am PDT Fri Oct 17 2003

Skagit river at Concrete...

flood stage: 28.0 feet. Latest reading: 28.5 feet at 430 am.

Forecast: cresting near 34 feet around 10 PM tonight.

Skagit river at Mount Vernon...

flood stage: 28.0 feet. Latest reading: 21.2 feet at 400 am.

Forecast: rising to flood stage around noon.
Cresting near 33 feet 10 am Saturday morning.

The predicted crest on the Skagit would result in major flooding.
The river will inundate Farmlands and roads in the Skagit Valley
... With flooding in the residential areas of several towns. This
corresponds to a phase 2 flood on the Skagit river.


Let's hope everyone is prepared.

Autumn storm.

I woke up this morning with rain blowing in my window, right on my face. I love that feeling. Wasn't really wanting it today though, as it got my hair wet again, and I had to work today. Ah well. Sadie wanted to just run and run and chase the leaves all over the yard. She went behind the deck, and a big gust of wind came roaring through between the houses, and out she ran, tail tucked between her legs, back legs in front of her front legs and yipping loudly. MOMMIE! MOMMIE! big bad Noise growling at me!!! She ran under my robe, and peeked out as I stood there laughing my ass off. She gave me a look that said, "you aren't sposed to laugh at me, I'm SCARED." So I picked her up and cuddled her, as I took her back into the house.

Had to get the Dear Darling Daughter up, as the lights were blinking and I knew she would need the electricity before the power went out. There were three little bitty alder trees down across the power lines as I drove into work, not enough to break the lines, but enough to worry you as you drove under them.

This storm kinda took us by surprise. We knew one was coming, but had no idea it would be this intense. We live with the knowledge that we can and will loose power. So we stay well prepared with hurricane lamps, extra kerosene, lots of candles, batteries, bottles of water, Coleman lanterns, stoves and plenty of wood and kindling. Unfortunately for me, I had to go to WORK!!! I would have loved to stay home and watch the storm blow on through.

I live on a hill side about 1/4 mile from the water up about 100 feet, and just dead North of the Hood Canal. This Canal is a long narrow fijord really, surrounded by high land masses, one side is the Olympic Mountains and the other is the Kitsap Penninsula. Wind that comes swirling in from the Pacific, and skirts the bottom of the Mountains picks up speed as it tries to push its' way through the narrow opening. We get smacked every time the storms come in from Hawaii. Commonly called the Pineapple Express.

When I realized how bad it was, I drove home along the back way, by the Ferry landing and along the beach. THe Ferry to Pt. Townsend had been cancelled all day because of the high winds. (trust me you do not want to be on the ferry in wind like that) The water in the Keystone Harbor was splashing up onto the Ferry landing, and really putting on a show. As I drove down the 1.2 mile strand deserted by now, I watched the waves break over the rocky berms and splash way up into the air. LOVED IT!!! I am hooting and yelling and WOWIng and Sadie is just laying there on the front seat, looking up at me under her eyelashes, like "man she has really flipped out".

I got home, and ran in to turn on the scanner. There was so much traffic on it that you couldn't really tell what was going on except that there were a whole lot of trees down. Life in Rural Washington State, can be really exciting...you just gotta look for it, and take pleasure in the small things, wind, sea, rocks, trees, storms, candles, lanterns, portable radios, and lots of long haired pets to keep you warm and secure. I used to want a guy, but now If I had one, he would probably get all mushy on me, in front of the fire, and I'd just want to watch the STORM. Don't get storms like these everyday. (Shit! Don't get nookie EVER!)...

WIND!!!!!

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA
421 PM PDT THU OCT 16 2003

ADMIRALTY INLET AREA-HOOD CANAL/KITSAP PENINSULA-NORTHWEST INTERIOR-
SAN JUAN ISLANDS-WESTERN WHATCOM COUNTY-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...Anacortes...Mount Vernon...Bremerton...
Shelton...Friday Harbor...Oak Harbor...Port Townsend
421 PM PDT THU OCT 16 2003

...A HIGH WIND WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM PDT...

LOCALIZED SOUTHERLY WIND GUSTS OF 65 MPH WILL OCCUR THROUGH EARLY
THIS EVENING. A WEATHER SPOTTER SOUTHEAST OF BELLINGHAM RECORDED
GUSTS TO NEAR 80 MPH THIS AFTERNOON. ANOTHER SPOTTER IN BRINNON
RECORDED 44 MPH WINDS GUSTING TO 60 MPH.

HIGH WINDS CAN TOPPLE TREES AND DOWN POWER LINES. MOTORISTS IN THE
WARNING AREA SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR DEBRIS ON ROADWAYS.

---------------------------------------------------------------

Whoo HOO!!! I LOVE a good storm!!!! Trees are going down everywhere and the power is going off and on and off and on. Better get off and back up my 'puter huh!!

Miss Bea...

This Is Baby Bea Bunny. She is 7 months old and growing in her winter coat, right now she is really shaggy man!!

Gremlins

THere is a theme running through every one's blogs today...except for KAT Hunkering down, feeling lethargic, slight depression, and general malaise. I know that I am feeling really down. Started last night on the way home from the Playhouse.. The moon was trying to break through the clouds and looked really forlorn. I came through town and it was all closed up and tucked in for the night. Even the Cop was no where to be seen. (small town....REALLY SMALL) I drove on through and rounded the s curves that used to be someone's fence line, but have been straightened out through the years, and headed on past the Outlying Field. (Navy Practice field) Even the planes were gone. The whole world looked pulled in, hunkered down, ready for a long night ahead. It was if it was waiting for something to happen, and wasn't sure what.

I got home, and the Daughter was really crabby or so it seemed, says she was just tired. OK! So I tried to get on the computer, and everything was really sloooow. Now I have absolutely NO patience when it comes to tech things. I paid really good money for this thing and I expect it to work when I want it to. FEH! It sensed in me the same crabbiness that I sensed in Donna. It would not respond. Tech wins again.

Today while reading everyone, I noticed that comments have been turned off. Not everywhere but at least on Blogger. It appears there is a Spammer on the loose. That just adds to my crankiness. I want to get out there and visit with my new friends and I can't. That makes me want to just go on back to bed and cover up. I think Leslie had it right, There must be some gene in us somewhere that says when the light starts leaving, crawl under a rock or into a cave and sleep all winter. Seasonal Affective DIsorder is what it is called, and is s'posed to be kept at bay by full-spectrum lighting. I have two 100 watt bulbs in my office and they don't do the job.

Someone in the neighborhood has their wood stove on. I smell the pungent odor of wood smoke. That in itself stirs feelings of wrapping up in a warm robe, a good blankie, witha nice warm fire going, and a nice lamp shining on your chair. Small dog at your feet, cat on your lap, and a good cuppa in both hands. Gotta use both hands. It doesn't feel comforting using just one hand. Oh forgot the good book. I'm reading Sue Grafton right now I am up to G right now, but it is time for a really good New Barbara Delinsky Book, or a Nora Roberts . A good heartwarming feel good book. Barbara is really good at that. Nora is too, but she goes more into mysterys which is not all bad either. Heck even a November copy of GOURMET magazine would be the ticket.

I think I will pack up Sadie, and go back to bed. Screw it...

Slow Computer

Well all of a sudden my super fast Sony Viao Computer has decided to slow waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down. I tried three different times to check my blog and yours, to no avail. Of course it might be Blogger too, can't tell. I went in and ran a chkdsk and a scan disk and deleted all my cookies and temp files and ran PC-Cillin and nothing. Just really slow.

So I will be posting this and that is all until I figure out what the deal is here. I have tons of Memory so that shouldn't be it, I turn the computer off every time, so the cache should be empty. I give up!!! maybe it's the weather....NO It's Brenda's Hob-goblins!!!!!

LEAF DAY...

WHile browsing through my daily blogs, NORTH COAST CAFEhas a Lovely story about Leaf Day Oct 17. She posted a gorgeous picture also, but since I dont want to break any rules, I wont put it on here. Not sure about the legalities. I would have given her site credit for the picture, but it is safer to just refer her site. You need to go read todays' entry if for nothing else, the Picture!



I will however try to do this one!!! They were featured on the today show this morning. It is a fund raiser for the Junction City Oregon, School district. Bake Sales didn't make enough money, this one is a winner!!! LOVE IT!!! OOPS!! It won't save, so you need to go here...LONG TOM GRANGE It was hit so many times this morning that it almost crashed, so wait a bit and then try again. NAKED FARMERS !!!!!! It is a HOOT!!! Well why not? It is very tastefully done, and if the Firefighters here in District Five can do it, (all volunteers) so can the Farmers of the grange!!!

Let's Hear it for the NAKED FAT LADY BLOGGERS!!! We could earn enough money to all meet at a central location, and have Lunch!!!

Just another night at the playhouse

Had a full dress rehearsal tonight. I had gone in on Saturday and set the lighting cues for Act I but we couldn't do act II because.......

Anyway 1/2 way through the first act, with jsut the four of us in the back row, a strange woman walked in with tears streaming down her face. She needed to use the phone. As I got up to take her back downstairs to the phone, I noticed the smudged mascara under her eyes. Something did not sit right with me, so I waited, I heard the words, son, Hospital, 10 dollars, please? and ok, just thought I'd ask. She told me that she had tried several businesses on the street and none would let her use the phone. (?) She then asked me if I had any money she could use for the payphone? I did not have any and felt kind of bad about it. She left. She was about 23-26 years old. I went back up and told the Director that I just didnt feel right about what had just happened, and she said the same thing happened to her TWICE as she was locking up the playhouse. If it happens again tomorrow night I think I will call the cops. Sounds like she is snowing us. Am I wrong? Am I too much of a BITCH? hmmmm....



From Phyllis:

The Ten Commandments in Cajun...

1. God is number one... and das' All.
2. Don't pray to nuttin' or nobody... jus' God.
3. Don't cuss nobody.. 'specially da Good Lord.

4. When it be Sunday... pass yo'self by God's House.
5. Yo mama an' yo daddy dun did it all... lissen to dem.

6. Killin' duck an' fish, das' OK... people - No!

7. God done give you a wife... sleep wit' jus' her.
8. Don't take nobody's boat... or nuttin' else.

9. Don't go wantin' somebody's stuff.
10. Stop lyin'... yo tongue gonna fall out yo mouf!

G'Nite all....

Surfing along

I was surfing Google looing for information on Blogging and Blog formatting...and in one of the pages about 11 clicks back was this quiz....



My liege!


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Funny

pasting from word...

It is good to be a woman:
1. We got off the Titanic first.
2. We can scare male bosses with the mysterious gynecological disorder excuses.
3. Taxis stop for us.
4. We don't look like a frog in a blender when dancing.
5. No fashion faux pas we make, could ever rival the Speedo.
6. We don't have to pass gas to amuse ourselves.
Well Maybe SOME OF us do…
7. If we forget to shave, no one has to know.
8. We can congratulate our teammate without ever touching her rear end.
9. We never have to reach down every so often to make sure our privates are still there.
10. We have the ability to dress ourselves.
11. We can talk to the opposite sex without having to picture them naked.
12. If we marry someone 20 years younger, we are aware that we will look like an idiot.
13. We will never regret piercing our ears.
14. There are times when chocolate really can solve all your problems.
15. We can make comments about how silly men are in their presence because they aren't listening anyway.








This is Ethel the Bitch….She hides under the bed. I got her when she was ten days old and had to feed her every two hours with an eyedropper and a babydoll bottle. She is a real Love and drools when she purrs…just does not trust strangers. She was born Feral, and her mother was killed, so her older sibling brought her to a safe home, where they turned her over to W.A.I.F. who called me to foster parent her until she was old enough to find a home for…CALL ME SUCKER…I kept her. I called her Ethel, because she screamed like Ethel Merman sang. Loud and Long. Ethel raised Mariah, and is not really fond of Sadie yet.

awake again...

What is it about 2:30 AM that wakes me up every night? I thought it must be Donna getting up to go, but she is on a visit home in Ellensburg this weekend, so It isn't her. I dunno. A storm is blowing through so maybe that is what woke me up. The wind is blowing at around 40 MPH and the wind chimes are really banging in the tree. I LOVE to listen to them. I have 5 of them hanging in various places around my yard. (I know Leslie, you hate them.) Maybe it is the rain pelting against the side of the house, that woke me. What ever it was, it has my full attention, as I can't get back to sleep.

In case you are wondering about the weird colors on the blog, do not fear, I was just playing to see if I could actually change colors with this HTML Crap. I did it!! I am looking for the right area to stick my links into, and wanted to see what would happen if i plugged in another color number. I will be changing it again. If not back to the way it was, at least to a more readable print.

Sadie is sleeping soundly...and I hope she stays that way, too windy and nasty to take her out there right now. SHe is getting sooo big soo fast. I have had her for 1 month today, and I swear she has tripled in size. She is really giving the cats a run for their money now. Her and Loki are two yellow streaks running through the house, sometimes it is hard to see who is chasing who. Ethel is a real bitch and just sits there and whacks at her and growls. But then she is the Grand Dame of the house. My oldest pet now, and she is 10 years old. Oh wait...My SOn's cat Lint is older. I forgot. He is 12 or 13. I inheirited him when Errant Son was incarsarated. He is out now, but I still have the Cat. Funny how that works. Well at least they aren't leaving me KIDS!! just pets.

Well, the sandman must have been by because I have really scratchy eyes, so Maybe I can get back to sleep before it is time to get up. See ya...

Tonights pumpkin...

I found this one last night. I LOVE IT!!!!! LOLOLOLOLOL

testing testing

Ok I tried something did it work?