The Manticore

Currently on the list: Best of David Bowie, "Love Actually" soundtrack, The Donnas, The Beatles and U2.

BTW, I love the nod to the movie in this Buffy quote.

Labels: christmas, music, picture, wish list

¶ 9/12/2007 09:17:00 AM  1 comment(s)

• Working on Christmas.
• Ready for my ear to stop hurting.
• Gonna take care of business this afternoon.
• Feelin' good in a sweater.

• guacamole dip and leftover nachos
• Cheetos
• day old bagel and cream cheese

Clearly they were peeking in my window last night and did a representation of what was going on. Little how was clearly on the kitty krack. He would be laying on the carpet, suddenly purr, spring up and race down the hall. Then, he would come in, stare at the wall just above his head, attempt to catch the imaginary bug, purr, and run off. This cycle continued all night until he finally collapsed in our bed. At one point he ended up on top of his two foot tall kitty tower and freaked out for the next five minutes on how to get down. (Apparently jumping off of a two foot tower is much scarier than jumping off of the four foot tower that he does every day.) Kitties. Meh.

Labels: icanhascheezburger, pets

¶ 9/07/2007 07:14:00 AM  2 comment(s)

Whatever, Colleen.

I really mean that.

Whatever, whatever, whatever.

You can have it.

Whatever,
The Universe

Daniel Miller: Where were you? I'm just curious.
Bob Diamond: I'd tell you, but you wouldn't understand.
Daniel Miller: Don't treat me like a moron. Try me.
Bob Diamond: I was trapped near the inner circle of fault.
Daniel Miller: I don't understand.
Bob Diamond: I told you...

This is it! I can feel it! Fall is finally coming in! (This is what happens when it starts raining at night and continues thru the morning - Happy Col!) Maybe by tonight or tomorrow we can open up the windows in the house and let it BREATHE! (Why is it just spring cleaning that matters and not seasonal cleaning? Every season needs it's own clean start!) I got so excited last night checking out all of the new Halloween ornaments that were coming out. So excited I almost decided right then and there to only ask for Halloween/Thanksgiving/Fall Harvest decorations for Christmas. What? I'm serious. Oooh...or maybe I can become a Holiday Fairy for Halloween. You know, where a mixture of every type of holiday clothing that I can find, then carry around a pet groundhog for luck. ;)

Labels: deep thoughts, happy, picture, seasons

¶ 9/05/2007 06:33:00 AM  4 comment(s)

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¶ 8/31/2007 06:47:00 AM  4 comment(s)

He took a step towards me on that last picture. My friend squeaked and I nearly peed in my pants.

Labels: Fayetteville, pets, picture

¶ 8/30/2007 06:42:00 PM  2 comment(s)

• Thank you for my family.
• Thank you for my creativity.
• Thank you for nearby gas stations.
• Thank you for not encouraging that squirrel to jump on me yesterday when I kept taking his photo.

Labels: cute, Glenn, pets, sick

¶ 8/29/2007 09:11:00 AM  3 comment(s)

Labels: crafty, my present, picture

¶ 8/27/2007 11:51:00 AM  3 comment(s)

• Taking 60 pictures on Saturday morning.
• Getting creative on some postcards.
• Walking around the neighborhood and realizing that everyone else also let their front yards go because it's just been too hot out to mow.
• Four Cats and One Box Video.

(I know you were here!)

Labels: little things, pets, picture, video

¶ 8/27/2007 11:05:00 AM  2 comment(s)

Labels: belly, diva, food, friends, picture, travel

¶ 8/24/2007 07:06:00 AM  4 comment(s)

Cute sockies.

Thankfully, no advertisements.

Labels: funny, health, picture, women

¶ 8/24/2007 06:13:00 AM  0 comment(s)

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¶ 8/23/2007 11:06:00 AM  2 comment(s)

This was taken in Italy, Epcot, Disney World.

Labels: crafty, my past, picture, travel

¶ 8/23/2007 09:53:00 AM  0 comment(s)

This morning I already drove to Wal-mart in rush hour traffic, got kitty litter, drove home, refilled and refreshened the box, and still made it to work on time. Can I get a 'Booyeah'?

Labels: my present, picture, WonderCol

¶ 8/23/2007 06:28:00 AM  2 comment(s)

And the laundry has been done.

Labels: diet cokeness, my present

¶ 8/22/2007 09:52:00 AM  0 comment(s)

• Apparently there are a lot of people out there that name their animals after artists. Did you?
• Do you have a favorite artist? One of mine is Albrecht Durer. Another is Edward Gorey. I'm all about the lines!
• Have you ever gone to a museum that you wanted to stay in all day and night until you were the only one there? Did you ever want to spend eight hours just staring at one painting?
• What's your favorite book? One of mine is "Violin" by Anne Rice. Another is "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin.

• Discovering that today is free food day: as in cookies, cream cheese cakes, brownies, watermelon, quesidillas, coke, popcorn, pizza, etc.
• Sexy harem jitsu.
• Finding yet another way to pimp out a crafty friend. I'm a mad, maaad woman.
• Paying $1.00/lb is good, especially if it is for a textbook that you will carry with you wherever you go to help you lose any weight that you didn't lose while having mono this summer.
• Getting to make ten postcards.
• A possible museum trip.
• Watching your friend's face light up when she finds a $5 bill on the ground.
• Watching the number of pirate friends I have grow.

Labels: Glenn, happy, love, picture

¶ 8/20/2007 09:02:00 AM  2 comment(s)

Glenn knows what makes me happy.

I want to put these three in a frame.

I can't wait for the DVD to arrive. Oh yeah, and next year? We're dancing to "Thriller". How hard can it be to learn how to moonwalk?

Labels: absurdity, belly, diva, funny, picture, Shimmy Fest

¶ 8/20/2007 08:42:00 AM  2 comment(s)

• Requesting catalogs and free samples.
• Writing possibilities.
• Re-framing with new pictures.
• Long hours of cuddling.
• Pictures in the mail.

• Seventy-two hours of watching "Naruto" with Glenn can't be wrong.
• Discovering that Sophie also enjoys watching "Naruto."
• Gene Simmons is a clutz.
• Discovering that you have been cuddled by a kitty at night.
• "Lick It Good" was the perfect thing to write on a melty birthday cake.
• Witnessing Wal-mart watch out for wandering children in their parking lots.
• Discovering the perfect picture for a t-shirt to wear in the South. (see below)

All it takes to make him proud of me is unhooking the DVD player and hooking the cable back in.

Labels: Glenn, love, picture

¶ 8/17/2007 06:17:00 AM  1 comment(s)

"Boys, a path!"

Labels: poetry

¶ 8/16/2007 10:25:00 AM  0 comment(s)

Talk to me of rainbows and puppies and violets.
The sun shines warm on dried grass and ivory fences.
Get up! Smile! Everything is just shiny.

Labels: poetry

¶ 8/15/2007 07:39:00 AM  0 comment(s)

• cherries - so that they squished beneath your feet and when you go inside of building there would be red footprints everywhere.
• licorice - it would grow like weeks in the cracks.
• sequins - all sidewalks would be shiny and irridescent, you'll be walking with jazz hands in no time!
• Quilted Northern Bath Tissue.

• stress excercising
• stress crafting
• and stress cleaning.
• Oh, and watching the diva perform from 5th Element.

Finally, the mattress is picked up and put away in the closet. Howl sees this but does not believe it is gone. He continues to check out that spot for the next hour. Then, he starts asking for sympathy. He comes in and mews, asking for comfort. I pick him up and put him under the covers, where he sulks, then eventually comes to the top for a long nap. By that afternoon, his tent tower has taken the spot of the mattress, and he is still wary that it might have snuck into the lower platform. Like a good little soldier, he keeps a look out for the rest of the night before going back on it.

Labels: cute, my present, pets

¶ 8/13/2007 09:26:00 AM  4 comment(s)

• Divas CAN do it all.
• What's that smell?
• Free stuff rocks.
• Nothing gets noticed more among a bunch of gals like shiny stuff.
• Kegela.

• Direct quote from Glenn: "You have a bird in your hair."
• Direct quote from the in-laws: "We thought you were gonna pop out!"

• Yes. I did have a bird in my hair.
• No. The girls stayed put.

• I should have practised putting on my inch long gold eyelashes so that I could have worn them for the show.
• I kinda wish I did put a bit of white blotches on my left shoulder...you know, for the effect.
• I bought that top (and a matching skirt) earlier that day from Miss Judy.

• When your knee hurts - sit your @$$ down!
• I got several compliments on the bird in my hair.
• Family and friends did not recognize me.
• The lady who I bought the costume top from that day was afraid that it was going to fall off too.
• Someone in my group knew where I was by following the trail of feathers thru out the hotel.
• I never realize how crazy I look until I see a picture of myself. Gods...I look huge...so huge I could...I could...I COULD EAT THEIR BABIES!!!

• One girl made me feel many things (and I wasn't the only one): first, that I was happy to be a full figured woman; second, that if I had a brother and she was single I would have made an arranged marriage; third, if neither of us were married, and gay, then ...well...yeah. Like I said before, I wasn't the only one who felt that way - or made the mistake of telling her husband. :P
• After watching Miss Kitty Sparkle dance on top of TWO layers of goblets, and ONE layer of shot glasses, I went up to her and said "That was the most f!cking, amazing thing I have seen in my entire life!" She replied quite nicely and sincerely "Oh, why thank you!" Damn, I can be so utterly elegant.
• I learned that it is a good thing to practise your shimmies. No matter what level you are.

Costumes/Songs I'm considering for the next time:
• Slave Leia,
• Thriller,
• Eskimo - you know, to mix it up.

• Realizing that you've never laughed so hard at a tv show before in your life and it's all because they remind you of your family.
• Hearing "That's so cute!" followed directly by "Suck it in!" more times than I can count.
• Howl has forsaken mewing us awake in the morning for a buzzard sounding "Eh!" and still had a wet face while he did it.
• Sophie could not get enough loving and cuddling in yesterday afternoon.
• Walking up the entire flight of stairs and BARELY GETTING WINDED! BOO YEAH!!!
• Thinking that I should wear a bird in my hair more often.

• Amity Island
• Devil's Tower
• Omni Consumer Products
• The Overlook Hotel
• Nostromo

Last night, I was having issues. Pepto Bismol type issues. And I'm all better now thanks to rest and water and the best nurse kitty ever. Sophie.

You might not believe this but she can tell within an instant when Glenn or I are sick. It hit me, then I went to the couch with a bottle of water. Immediately she poked her little head out from behind the window curtain. Then twinkle-toed her way over to me. She kept trying to get on my belly, which was NOT the place I wanted anyone touching. But she settled down next to me and started purring and head-butting. She finally made her way onto my belly, where she purred and stared at me. Soon enough, I was feeling better to go back to bed.

As soon as I settled down I felt her creep up and lay at my feet.

Labels: pets, picture, sick

¶ 7/25/2007 06:11:00 AM  1 comment(s)

• smelled was clean sheets.
• felt was a purring kitty laying on top of me.
• drank had green tea in it.

• got myself a purple filing cabinet last night.
• tonight I get to organize TWO filing cabinets.
• and add more stickers to the filing cabinets.
• and clean the house so that I will smell lemony fresh!
• I love to clean and organize, run from room to room, I'm like the Flash Gordan of cleaning - it's the key to my diet cokeness.

• I have become involved with the horrible habit of thinking.
• Making a house a home.
• Hoping it truly was an imaginary bug my cat was chasing in the litter box last night.
• Shortened dark wool pants and flaming white socks over black buckle shoes just don't cut it.
• Thinking about writing.
• Unless it is a favorite, is it really necessary to keep a book once read?
• Matching, dust, organization, neatness, usefullness, and unfinished projects: my continuous obsessions.
• Finding the right costume that suits me.
• Advancement and becoming more.
• Making the most of time and finding the energy to do so.
• To cap it all off I'm deliberating giving up sugar.

• an ant was crawling around on my forehead
• an...off...person walked by me fast, as soon as they got past my shoulder, he whipped around and blew a rasberry at me...I think I even heard him utter an unflattering word.

• blog stalkers to say hi in the comments.
• to see llamas on parade.

• A blade of grass will not show up on an x-ray.
• The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money. - David Richerby
• I never broke a bone.
• Ben Affleck, Ricki Lake, and Hilary Swank were in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."
• Mosquitos love me.

• Soundtrack Friday on NPR.
• Lipton White Tea with Raspberry.
• Having fun putting on makeup and curling my hair.
• Getting ready for a crafty weekend.
• Genie! Genie! Genie! arms!
• Not drowning while wearing a wedding dress with a very long (therefore heavy) train in a creek.

• Did you know that there was garbage pick up on a federal holiday? Neither did I. :/
• Food still doesn't taste too good.
• I've never seen Howl so scared before when the big fireworks started.
• Then again, there was that time we got his butt shaved.
• Discovering a little hump on the back of my neck - FUN!
• Still lovin' the linen pants.
• Discovering local art.

I think if I lived near the water all day, I would do nothing else but stare at it. It would take me a month to fly a kite, or read, or eat clam chowder.I think if I lived near the water all day, I would do nothing else but stare at it. It would take me a month to fly a kite, or read, or eat clam chowder. I think if I lived near the water all day, I would do nothing else but stare at it. It would take me a month to fly a kite, or read, or eat clam chowder. Just give me an adirondeck chair and I'm home.

Have fun with architecture.

I totally agree. (From http://www.postsecret.com/)

Nutella has made my mornings sweeter, and fools me into thinking I'm being healthy.

Labels: lists, little things, my future, picture

¶ 6/28/2007 07:34:00 AM  0 comment(s)