D'oh Conversation

Col says:
i still think it's odd that the mexican place has a cheeseburger on their lunch menu...and fries.


Sarah Smile says:
All the mexican places around here have cheeseburgers.
That's what the mexicans eat.

Draven?

• even the cheeseburger and french fries comes with salsa and chips.
• realizing the necessity for re-potting.
• the long looks I give my bicycle.
• reliving how sad the movie 'The Crow' is.
• learning a secret about belly dancing.
• feeling my kitten tilt his head to the side so my hand purrfectly cups his little face, thus making a much easier cuddle position while I'm still half-asleep.
• noticing how my food cravings are affected by the tv shows I watch. Curse you Gilmore Girls!
• I wish someone would dress up in a frog costume, take a banjo and sit on a log singing 'Being Green' for Halloween.
• watching a raven defend his food.
  
  

In Need Of...

Twinkies, Ho-Hos, and Ding Dongs STAT!. Are Ho-Hos even wrapped in foil anymore? I remember Rosie O'Donnell making Joan Cusack do a taste test between Ho-Hos and some other inferior brand. Joan knew. Because she is cool.
Why is it that when I start to feel healthy that my body needs to go on a sugar splurge?

Howl In Sink

I'm debating whether or not to turn it in to www.catsinsinks.com.

Spring Nymph

*runs around with arms waving madly over her head*
And this is WITHOUT sugar people. If only I could be still. Like her.

As the Wind Wills

I need to get to the tenth book of the Wheel of Time Series. And by 'get to' I mean clean a path to that bookshelf.

Sometimes They Want Back In

I felt so bad for Sophie last night! She spent most of it underneath the bed because of the thunder. I wondered for awhile why she didn't hide by us, but then I reasoned it out. When she hears the thunder her instincts are "That is WAAAAAAAAAAY bigger than mommy and daddy!"
Howl apparently got frightened last night. Glenn heard a cry, saw Howl whiz! by the door. By the time Glenn got in the hallway, little Howl was already on the third floor of the cat tree. We're thinking he jumped straight up. Maybe this will deter him from sneaking outside.

Said by Me.

I refuse to believe that it is wrong to think that watching one episode of a tv show will balance out my life.

One Urge

My cell phone ring needs to sound like an ice cream trucks jingle. Not only will I be ecstaticly looking for it, but I'll have an eager/happy voice when I answer it too.

Next to the Princess

It looks like I don't have pants on.

Spring Fest '07

• I heard a suburban mom tell her little daughter: Let's ask them to play some Skynard!
• I dressed like a grandma and still got sunburned!
• I saw a 'bed' race.
  
  
  
  
• TWO! GREAT! DANES!
  
  
  
  
• Art that reminded me of a Dr. Seuss book.
  
  
  
  
• I took a video of my friend Lena dancing. That's me in the background laughing.

Video of Belly Tribe & Divas dancing with the crowd:

Watch the Video

Video of Lena dancing and me laughing:

Watch the Video

Show Me Your Belly!

As Lena says...we are all REAL women and we are having FUN!

First Love

Ernie.

*hiccups*

• Chasing after a robin.
• Glad that I do not have puffy eyes, even though they feel that way.
• Discovering I like glam rock. That I have liked glam rock for awhile now.
• Responding. Thinking. Breathing.
• Making Howl look drunk

Black Sheep Movie Trailer

I want to see this movie so baaaaaaa-dly. Supposedly it came out in March? *checks listings* Of course it's already left theatres! Maybe if it advertised.... Has anyone heard of this movie? Anyone see it?

The One Where I Posted Something Dirty

I have no recolection of this time in my life. Apparently I was funny.









Later this summer I would repeatedly unlock the front door and make my way to the water while my parents were waking up. One night, they were watching a thing about masseuses. I saw it too. Saw how they used lotion. So I promptly went to the fridge, took out the tub of butter, took off my clothes, and put it everywhere. And I do mean everywhere. I think I had to have three baths.

No. There are no pictures of that. How about something else that's dirty?

Where's our food?

Gray Line

I have something to say about free speech and Cho Seung-Hui.

It is being said that the students and professors in the English Department were disturbed by his writing. His plays were disturbing. But so was he. That’s how it is being interpreted in the news. Go listen.
http://www.cnn.com/video/player/player.html?url=/video/us/2007/04/17/acosta.disturbing.writing.cnn
And I don’t think it is being said, at least not enough, that his writings, in connection to his behavior are what made them seek help for him. In that same news video they mention that the university could not do anything because student’s are free to write what they will. It’s a slight pause and twist that the news is doing. Clearly if everyone who wrote horror films were suspected of possibly committing those same acts then we would not have any horror writers. So why aren’t they being committed to a mental ward? Because they are open and talk about their work. By all accounts Cho Seung-Hui would not communicate about why he wrote what he did, and that is what caused the concern.

Convicting a person by their possible intentions is a very gray world. For example, in Minority Report, the movie presented a possible future where crimes were predicted by psychics and the possible criminals were arrested before committing the crime, but the plot thickened when it was discovered that one of the psychics would predict simultaneous reports that these possible criminals would not commit the crime. How can we judge? Can you imagine if there were laws out there that said people could be arrested on suspicion alone?

Perhaps if it was discovered by school officials earlier that Cho Seung-Hui had guns in his dorm room, then more action could have been taken. The gray world, between fact, suspicion, and all of the little trails that make your stomach turn over.

Still Playing

Life on the Farm

I've been going thru some old photos. My mom took some good ones, especially "action series". For example, here you have "The Sneeze."





Pretty good, right?
Well, she caught a really good one. We were out at a farm visiting relatives. Immediately, I run over to the turkeys and stick my little hand in to pet them.



The turkeys took this opportunity to bite my hand. I freaked out and told on them. We had turked for dinner. Later, I was out by the pomeranian pen. Notice the hands.

Trying Out My New Camera

Me: Sophie! Smile for mommy!
Sophie: I don't wanna.




Me: C'mon be a good girl! Look at the camera!
Sophie: *glares*




Me: Oh you're so cute! What a pretty kitty princess!
Sophie: You blinded me!




Me: I love you! You'll get a treat later....
Sophie: Treat?

It's the Sweater

A local radio station keeps playing the Mister Rogers "Proud of You Song". It's stuck in my head. And it makes me happy.

Berries and Cream!

I love this commercial for many reasons.
First, because of berries and cream. Yummy! Although I'm not sure about it being in Starbursts....
Second, because the guy gets SO EXCITED about something. Why don't people get genuinely excited about stuff anymore? It's the little things people! I got mail! They're serving sloppy joes! Woohooo!
Third, his costume rocks. More people need to dress in period clothes.
Fourth, his eyes. So wide. So happy. So freaky.

But I Love Him!

I was just told that I remind someone of Elmyra.



Odd...now I want to have a daughter and name her Elmyra.

Another dream - in parts

Met profgrrrrl at a semi-ren faire/ DC event. Got upset at a DC event. Traveled a long ways with Rezzie and her family to spend New Years w/ them. In the snowy mountains, on an uncovered train.

What Next?

I bought this mini-drawer chest at Pier One Imports this weekend. Original price? $60. It's barely bigger than my head.


Also, we are getting ready for Halloween. I just ordered Glenn's costume. And yes, he'll be bleaching his hair.


No clue what my costume will be.

Zach Braff Hates Me

“Good things are being said about you". So sayeth my Fortune Cookie this morning. But last night....
*starts dream sequence*
I had a dream last night where people were saying the worst things about me. This included the cast of Scrubs. I kept running from room to room, trying to find a place to hide or sob in peace before I hit someone.
Then, the sleep apnea set in. Talk about scary! It felt like my throat was closing up, almost burning, and then I couldn’t breathe! I still feel like I am having trouble. Maybe it’s the throat thing that’s going around?

Zipping the Purse Up

• Watched the Pirate Movie
• Dyed my hair by myself. Sophie kept peeking in.
• Lost power. Glenn fixed it.
• Ate crab!
• Measured. Cut. Bent a blade. Cut again. Sanded. Glued.
• Got belts! And a sailor wallet!
• Got a great deal at Pier One.

Thanks for Making Us Happy

Don Ho.

He was my reason for wanting to go to Hawaii. Now, I guess I will have to surf. Go here and listen to him sing while you read the news article below.

'Tiny Bubbles' Singer Don Ho Dies at 76

By JAYMES SONG

Associated Press Writer

April 15, 2007, 1:18 PM EDT

HONOLULU -- Legendary crooner Don Ho, who entertained tourists for decades wearing raspberry-tinted sunglasses and singing the catchy signature tune "Tiny Bubbles," has died. He was 76.

He died Saturday morning of heart failure, publicist Donna Jung said.

Ho had suffered with heart problems for the past several years, and had a pacemaker installed last fall. In 2005, he underwent an experimental stem cell procedure on his ailing heart in Thailand.

Promoter Tom Moffatt said he attended Ho's final show Thursday and Ho received a standing ovation. Afterward, Ho reminisced about his many years in Waikiki and talked about how Judy Garland sang with him one night.

"Don was in great spirits," he said. "He was fine."

Ho entertained Hollywood's biggest stars and thousands of tourists for four decades. For many, no trip to Hawaii was complete without seeing his Waikiki show -- a mix of songs, jokes, double entendres, Hawaii history and audience participation.

Shows usually started and ended with the same song, "Tiny Bubbles." Ho mostly hummed the song's swaying melody as the audience enthusiastically took over the familiar lyrics: "Tiny bubbles/in the wine/make me happy/make me feel fine."

"I hate that song," he often joked to the crowd. He said he performed it twice because "people my age can't remember if we did it or not."

The son of bar owners, Ho broke into the Waikiki entertainment scene in the early 1960s and, except for short periods, never left. Few artists are more associated with one place.

"Hawaii is my partner," Ho told The Associated Press in 2004.

Donald Tai Loy Ho, who was Hawaiian, Chinese, Portuguese, Dutch and German, was born Aug. 13, 1930, in Honolulu and grew up in the then-rural countryside of Kaneohe.

In high school, he was a star football player and worked for a brief time in a pineapple cannery. After graduating in 1949, he attended Springfield College in Massachusetts on an athletic scholarship. He grew homesick, returned to the islands and ended up graduating from the University of Hawaii in 1953 with a degree in sociology.

Inspired by the U.S. military planes flying in and out of Hawaii during World War II, Ho joined the Air Force. As the Korean War wound down, he piloted transport planes between Hickam Air Force Base in Honolulu and Tokyo.

When he returned home and took over his parents' struggling neighborhood bar, Honey's, he put together a band and started performing at his father's request.

"I had no intention of being an entertainer," Ho said. "I just played songs I liked from the radio, and pretty soon that place was jammed. Every weekend there would be lines down the street."

Honey's became a happening place on Oahu, with other Hawaiian musicians stopping in for jam sessions. Ho began to play at various spots in Hawaii, then had a breakout year in 1966, when appearances at the Coconut Grove in Hollywood helped him build a mainland following, and the release of "Tiny Bubbles" gave him his greatest recording success.

Soon he was packing places such as the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas. Stars such as Lucille Ball, Sammy Davis Jr. and Frank Sinatra were known to be in the audience for Ho's shows.

Ho also became a television star, and hosted the "The Don Ho Show" on ABC from 1976-77. One of Ho's most memorable TV appearances was a 1972 cameo on an episode of "The Brady Bunch."

"I've had too much fun all these years," he said in the 2004 interview. "I feel real guilty about it."

Gov. Linda Lingle said Ho created a legacy that will inspire future generations of musicians in Hawaii.

"Hawaii has lost a true island treasure," she said. "He laid the foundation for the international prominence Hawaii's music industry enjoys today."

Besides "Tiny Bubbles," his other well-known songs include "I'll Remember You," "With All My Love," and the "Hawaiian Wedding Song."

In the final years of his life, Ho's heart problems couldn't keep him away from the stage. He was back performing at the Waikiki Beachcomber Hotel on a limited schedule less than two months after his heart procedure in Thailand. His final performance was Thursday, Jung said.

Ho is survived by his wife, Haumea, and 10 children, including Hoku, who sometimes performed with her father. Copyright 2007 Newsday Inc.

Dream Shopping

I had a dream last night about the perfect muffin. It was large. Flecks of tiny blueberries. And fresh.

Living with Howl

Me: What is Howl eating?
*Glenn looks*
Glenn: It's a bug. Or his own poop.

A girl began walking next to me and struck up a conversation as though we had known each other for some time.

"What color did you dye your hair?" she asked.
"Light reddish chestnut."
"Everyone seems to be dying their hair red."
"It's a good spring color." I look at her. She's wearing shorts and a t-shirt in 50 degree weather as the sun is setting. "Aren't you freezing?"
"No, we have a lot of changes during class down at the gym, so I'm kinda hot and the cold air feels nice."
"Ah. Okay, well have a good night."
"Bye."

Because Happy People Rock

I just like the idea of wearing garden gloves in public.

Something to Talk About

Last night I impressed Glenn by standing on one foot for more than 20 seconds. It's years of southern genes breeding to keep their expectations low.

Sophie's Revenge

Last night I dreamed that I had a horrible case of the ear mites.

Pleasant Things and Unpleasant Things

Pleasant Things

• Broken nacho chips.
• Walking down the coffee aisle.
• Meeting a cat.
• Having a husky voice after walking up a long set of stairs.

Unpleasant things

• Sugar making your breath smell bad.
• Wet sleeves.

Tidbits on How To Decorate Your Desk

Materials Needed:

• Poster ticky tak
• Old mugs, frames, 365 page daily calendar
• Cheap toys (can find these at dollar stores, coin machines outside of the grocery store, Happy Meals. WARNING: DO NOT USE ANYTHING THAT YOU WOULD REGRET LOSING AS SOME PEOPLE TEND TO HAVE STICKY FINGERS.)

First, clear out the space underneath your monitors. This is the perfect opportunity to buy yourself a new desk organizer for any stray post it notes, paperclips, pens, etc.
Next, Stagger your toys. Use the ticky tak to help any gangly toys, like action figures, to stand. Or use it to place your GI Joe action figures around your monitor, or invading your new desk organizer, or your cubbie mate.
You know that daily calendar? Instead of tearing off the pages and throwing them away, write something on the back. Like, a line from a song you can't get out of your head, a funny website, something that you don't mind others reading. Fold that page up into a fan, and stick it into one of the many decorative mugs you have on your desk. You now have an ANSWER MUG. If someone keeps asking you a question and refuse to accept the answer you give them, offer them the Answer Mug. Much funnier.

Catch Phrase

I keep telling people "good luck" today.

Moose!

I re-discovered this link and thought I would share. What you are looking at here is the Earth's Journal in map form. Scroll your mouse over the different pictures and the news headline will show at the top. Cute and informative!

Lucky Number

Dreams can come true.

Green Dress, Blue Eyes

I was adorable. I liked good crafstmanship. I wore risque fashion. I was watched by the FBI?

C'mon Granny!

• Free pizza!
• Teacher assigned us to make transformers...with wood.
• Helping others re-live my blog.
• Walking thru the cold rain and seeing the rushing water go by.
• Playing with saws!
• Appreciating other's prettiness.
• I know nuclear engineer chicks and they rock.

Girl Toy

Lately I’ve felt like I’m eating too much, especially when it comes to fast food. Now I am choosing to revert to my childhood, and I couldn’t be happier. I’ve taken up ordering happy meals again.
What could be better? Smaller containers = less calories. And I'm not overstuffing myself or looking at those last four french fries with bulging eyes and gut. Plus, they give you a toy. Need a fast snack, grab a box of cracker jacks. INSTANT PRIZE! Normally as an adult, one tends to stick with the ordinary prizes. Fortune cookies are the classic ‘food prize’, but why not get food that always comes with a prize. Even if it's chicken kiev. Oh...chicken, but wait! It's filled with cheese! And broccoli! Yum!

Nutt Begone

A 46 page pdf file of Houston Nutt's phone records, including those to a femals sports caster.

Fire Bad?

July 2007 American McGee's 'Alice' will come out in theatres. Sarah Michelle Geller, a.k.a. Buffy, will be playing Alice. I hope Mr. Pointy makes an appearance.... Below is the trailer for the PC Game this movie is based on. It's creepy. I tried playing it, but I just can't get puzzle games. Notice her wrists in the beginning.

Buffy as Alice

July 2007 American McGee's 'Alice' will come out in theatres. Sarah Michelle Geller, a.k.a. Buffy, will be playing Alice. I hope Mr. Pointy makes an appearance.... Below is the trailer for the PC Game this movie is based on. It's creepy. I tried playing it, but I just can't get puzzle games. Notice her wrists in the beginning.

Holy Crap!

I don't know...it will be hard to beat WAV....

Songs for My Peeps in Pictures!

For VJ.
For Jen.
For Rezzie.
For Joy.

If Only I Got My Hands on Some Ostrich Eggs....

The egg project is finished! Sadly, without water.

What Would You Do?

Sometimes I want to paint the ceiling green and put a bunch of fake flowers up there. Maybe sting a bee or two, and butterflies.

Like a Robot Chicken Episode Gone Country

Last semester we had to do a pastel piece and work from a model that we set up. Everything that you see below, besides the tables, I actually have.



Including the brain. It is sticky and likes to climb walls.

Seeping Time

My tea is gently seeping and it is freezing outside. On Monday I was considering wearing shorts. Oye.

I have no idea what was going on with Howl this morning. Either he had the morning crazies, or he was doing flippies on the cat tree. But I think whatever it was he was trying to accomplish work. Not only did Glenn and I get out of bed, but I also picked up the little piece of poop he left stranded in the hallway.
My next camera is going to come from B and H. Not only do they give you the best price, but they also offer bundles so you don't have to worry about getting the right card or cable for your camera.

Which leads me to announce that I believe my camera is officially dying. The little screen had tons of lines running over the image, and that's how the image turned out. Unless it was just the cheapo batteries I had in it. I was literally able to take three pictures before the batteries died. This is the last picture it took.



I'm really addicted to my Google homepage. All day I watch a little Japanese fox go about his chores. My favorite is mid-morning when the giant tortoise comes to hang out and eat.

Yesterday I went on a labeling rampage on the blog. It felt SO. GOOD. I get teased taht I have OCD. Sometimes I wonder, but I think I just really like to clean and organize stuff. Think of it as Martha Stewart organized. Everything that you see is organized except for that one room in her house where scraps of paper line the floor and are falling out of her desk.

Art Projects for a Rainy Morning

• Paint the ceiling green and hang plastic flowers from it.
• Paint a tree in the corner, hang some plastic flowers from the branches, or a fake birds nest with eggs.
• Dye your cat with easter egg coloring.
• Embroider jeans that have holes in them.
• Make 'monster dollies' out of different fabric scraps. Glue on odd or broken pieces of jewelry.
• Organize your books by the color of their spine.

Mountain Trip to Old Japan

By the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players.
Please note that Trachtenburg is the last night of the actress who played Dawn.
That is all.

Yummy!

Sushi jewelry!

Down with Curves

Any thoughts on the new modeling craze?

This explains a lot!

Uber Cool

Thunder! Thunder! Thunder cats! Meow!

A Red Journal

• Utterly exhausted from this weekend!
• Still messing around with eggs. Will have pictures of final project tomorrow!
• Kitties love their treats, especially after getting eat mite meds.
• Got the Buffy Season 8 Volume 1 comic. I'm waiting to read it.
• Considering purchasing the two Buffy radio cd's.
• Looking forward to Easter.
• Filing cabinets are cool.
• I like eating fruit cups.
• Sometimes I believe that I am a fruit cup.
• Cleaned up this weekend and there was dust everywhere.
• Sophie is cute when she sneezes.
• I like spamming people with fun messages.
• Need to purchase a red journal next year.

I think it might be time for a repeat.