So I went to the hospital from work yesterday because they thought I had a stroke.
 
 

I don't know what happened to the missing letters. Leave me be.
 
A - Age: guess!
 
B - Best Quality: open-minded
 
C - Choice Of Meat: bloody rare steak
 
D - Dream Date: John Cusack. Meow. Oh wait, you meant what would I want to do? Meh, whatever suits the mood.
 
E - Exciting Adventure: Trekking through a jungle. Or in space!
 
F - Favorite Food: spaghetti, nectarines, peaches, ice cream
 
G - Greatest Accomplishment: Waking up every morning and still believing the world is/can be a beautiful place.
 
H - Happiest Day of Your Life: Tied between my daughter and my son being born.
 
I - Interests: words, music, movies. Observing people.
 
K - Kool-Aid?: Yes please. I'm parched!
 
L - Love: Unconditional. Why settle?
 
M - Most Valued Thing I Own: My responsibility.
 
N - Name: guess!
 
O - Outfit You Love: ...on me? Whatever fits comfortably.
 
P - Pizza Toppings: pepperoni, pineapple, extra sauce
 
Q - Question Asked To You The Most: "Can I ask you something?" and "Why?"
 
R - Request a song on the radio: Catch
 
S - Sport To Watch: Wrestling! Or hockey.
 
T - Television Show: Sex in the City, The Simpsons
 
U - Your favorite movie: The Shawshank Redemption. Or High Fidelity.
 
W - Winter: cold but beautiful
 
Y - Year Born: 19--
 
Z - Zodiac Sign: Leo, baby. Mrowr!
 
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now off to work I go. Phooey.

So Friday was soooo hectic, I had a million things to run around and do before hb and ca and hm came by. Thy arrived at 3pm SHARP. It was so good to see them but I am also painfully shy and therefore didn't really know what to do with myself at first. My kids were visibly shy and unsure because these were strangers hehe.
 
Then C brought out the barbies.
 
Imagine, if you will, ca playing hairdresser while hb had to say "hi! hi! hi!" a million times. hm wisely sat back and stayed out of the way.
 
I made them supper, spaghetti and sauce. It wasn't anything big, mainly because it was grocery day and that was one of the things on my REALLY BIG LIST OF THINGS TO DO (tm) that didn't get done. They seemed to enjoy it anyway.
 
They are beautiful people and I was so glad they could come, and wished I didn't have other obligations that night. I would have liked to have shown them my city, it is quite pretty indeed.
 
At one point I just sort of sat back and listened to ca hm and hb talking with each other. I am one of those people that likes to observe. I was also fighting off a massive headache.
 
The phone must have rang eleventy billion times, this too was aggravating me. Oh and then there was the coffee maker bit. I have been arguing with SO about cleaning the coffee maker for some time now, I insist he does it because it was his bright idea to make a full pot of coffee a half hour before he left for work while the kids and I were gone, he insists I should because, well, I'm the mom. So he promised to clean it before they came over, and of course, he did not. Bastage.
 
My father came and picked up my daughter for the night and then it was just me and K and my guests. They stayed until 6:30 and then they had to go. It was lovely to see them but also bothersome I couldn't spend more time. They left and I being the emotional train I am started to cry a little.
 
Then I dropped K off at my in-laws' home and I was off to meet friends at a friend's home to go out to see Puppetry of the Penis. It was hilariously funny, my jaw hurt from laughter and it is definitely worth watching. We went to see it for a stagette type thing to do for JD.
 
Then we went to Sammy's Garage for a few drinks. I was designated driver as was JK. This seemed to piss JD off because she wanted us all to be drinking but also I think she expected a limosine to cart us around and was disappointed when we didn't have one. Well lady it cost money for those tickets and we felt it was worth it. Some people just can't be happy.
 
So K-W is a non-smoking type city now, people had to smoke in this alleyway between Sammy's and Howl at the Moon. The two pubs are accessible to each other by this ramp they made attaching the two. on the ramp is a door that leads into a closed-off alley. This has become the smoking section, thus being sort of closed up but still going by regulations as it is "outside" the building. I was a bad girl and had a cigar or two. But hey, special occasion, right?
 
I got a free CD that night too, some guy just handed it to me. This cheesed off quite a few of the Sammy's patrons, because they felt it unfair they had to beg and do stupid things for em when I just got one handed to me. Suckers. It was an ok night but I tend to avoid bars, they are loud and stupid and the music is all the same after a while. Eventually some of us snuck off to Howl at the Moon for some food, we were starving. I got Chicken thangs, boy were they hot! Very very much so. I liked them but a few people foolish enough to scarf some from me were in for a surprise.
 
By 2:30 am I was more than ready to leave as were a few other people. ON the way home I listened to drunken mutterings about people not having fun and why can't they just lighten up already. I blacked out and don't remember half the trip home, I'm glad we made it safe. I just barely missed a family of raccoons crossing the road. I was thus declared a hero for stopping in the nick of time.
 
We get back to my house and I park S's car in the lot (I drove her car to K-W, ours is even less reliable than hers so it was a no go for my car). S and M and Ju left off in search of more fun whilst I crawled into bed.
 
I got to sleep in Saturday, it felt glorious.
 
Saturday day was ok, we went and supported the Ride for Sight barbecue, SO's brother is participating in it as well as his aunt. Then we went to get some ice cream from Scoopers, a place we have been going to since it opened back in the spring of 1997.
 
Watched Ocean's Eleven on Saturday night after the kids went to bed, my brother lent the movie to me. It was quite good, although the character played by Julia Roberts could have been better played by someone else.
 
I love caper movies so this was just a great ending to a pretty good day.Sunday I worked and so did SO. MJ, SO's brother watched the kids for us. It was very nice of him but he almost showed up too late and I ended up being a bit late for work because of it.
 
I have more to say on all the events but I am getting head-achey. I spent all morning in the sun helping my mother-in-law with her garden. Gold stars for me.
 
Wow this entry is the longest one I have done in some time. Go me!

I am still processing everything that happened yesterday, it was so full of goodness.
 
Thank you beautiful dearlings who visited me, I love you all.
 
I'm sorry if I seemed subdued, I was fighting off a terrible headache. I did my best to hide it.
 
The show was hilarious and I highly recommend going. The rest of the night was... interesting.
 
I will type more when I am ready. I am so glad you guys came.
 
Thank you and thank you and thank you.

So it looks like the ca/hb/hm train isn't coming here after all.
 
It's all good. I'm tired and weepy.
 
Good night, moon

So we took daughter to go see Spider-Man last night. She's been craving wanting to go see it forEVER and SO and I discussed it and talked about it and conferred with each other and decided we would take her to see it.
 
She loved it. One minor point: She complained about wanting to go home during the Peter/Mary Jane scenes. Just proof in point that Kirsten Dunst/Tobey MaGuire don't have enough chemistry to pull it off. Tobey MaGuire is the *perfect* Spider-Man, so don't get me wrong. But ugh. Watching them do key scenes in the romantic sub-plot just made me want to gag. C made the theatre laugh however when it was the end Norman Osborn's funeral and she realized that Spider-man had won she shouted "SPIDER-MAN SAVED THE DAY! HE GOT THE GREEN GOBLIN! HOORAY!" just minutes after Harry told Peter he was going to get Spider-Man some day...
 
Anyway...I have to work today and in between shift have to go to a bridal shower, but the location has moved and I have no idea where it is now so I am thinking of saying to hell with it and just rest at home until I have to go back in.
 
Ca and hb and hm are coming to see me next week, WOO! Ooooog. Don't. Wanna. Work.

Sweet christing potato, everyone is getting married these days! I'm so glad I got that over with a few years ago...

SO I have like, 4 weddings to go to this year. Which is nice but also makes for an expensive summer.

It has been hotter than a whorehouse in Savannah out there, which is nice and all, but so odd. We had no spring, we leapt straight from winter to summer. It makes me sad, my favorite seasons are autumn and spring. Death and Birth. The changeling seasons.

I am feeling stressed and I am feeling overbooked. Every weekend something is going on and sometimes three somethings in a row and I am finding it hard to figure out who to say no to and who to say yes to because inevitably someone's feelings will be hurt.

I feel like closing myself up like a flower just like that cummings poem. *sigh* I wish someone would write something like that for me, just my luck to marry an artist instead

I am feeling bones grinding in my knees pop pop POP every time I go up or down stairs, I am young and already my body is falling apart. Blame it on youth, you never consider the fact that it is the only one you get.

So SO quit EQ, things should be grumpier around the house because of it.
I am slowing to a stop and I hope y'all don't mind if I just...cave...in.

If I were a stone, I would be: ruby
If I were a tree, I would be a: weeping willow
If I were a bird, I would be a: emu
If I were an insect, I would be a: ladybug
If I were a machine, I would be a: robot. duh.
If I were a tool, I would be a: hammer
If I were a fruit, I would be a: peach
If I were a flower, I would be a: daisy
If I were a kind of weather, I would be: cool breezey weather on an otherwise hot day
If I were a mythical creature, I would be a: dragon
If I were a musical instrument, I would be a: clarinet
If I were a kind of profession, I would be a: PR representative
If I were a dog, I would be a: english mastiff
If I were an animal, I would be a: tiger
If I were anything in the world, I would be: peace
If I were a colour, I would be: iridescent energy with sparks of all colours
If I were a fragrance, I would be: springtime
If I were an emotion, I would be: love
If I were a state or feeling, I would be: confusion
If I were a vegetable, I would be: tomato
If I were a sound, I would be: a whisper
If I were an Element, I would be: fire
If I were a season, I would be: autumn

1. Which is your favorite Star Wars movie? Why?
I don't have a particular favorite, but if I *had* to choose, it would be the Empire Strikes Back. I just like it.
 
2. What are your thoughts on Bon Jovi?
Which incarnation?
 
3. The universe: speeding up, slowing down, or constant?
Constantly speeding up then slowing down.
 
4. Vanilla, Chocolate, or Strawberry?
Neopolitan. ;)
 
5. Do you like your yogurt pre-stirred or with "fruit-on-the-bottom"?
Fruit-on-the-bottom. MMMmm. Fruitalicious!
 
6. You wouldn't hit a man with glasses, would you?
I wouldn't hit a man, period.
 
7. If the Earth had to be evacuated, and you were allowed to bring three things aboard the spaceship, what would the be?
You said things instead of people, so we will go by that. Pens. Paper. Guitar.
 
8. Epee, foil, or saber?
Saber.
 
9. If Mouth, fluent in Spanish, was able to explain in detail to Rosalita the details of the Walsh family's drug and sexual exploits, why was it so difficult for him to figure out she was saying "Don't sign" after she found the gems that were hidden in Mikey's marble bag?
He had studied and memorized the exploits bit by heart, to be purposefully shocking to her. So when it came to the don't sign bit, it took him a while to figure it out.
 
10. If you had to kill one person (you can include yourself), who would it be?
I would do it to my self before I would harm someone else.
 
11. Do you have any environmental concerns about strip-mining the moon?
I am tired of the world being raped by our greed. And not at all surprised they would move on to the moon, but it does sadden/anger me.
 
12. Have you had the chicken pox?
Yup. Had em so bad I got em in throat and was off school for 3 weeks.
 
13. Automatic or standard?
automatic. i have never learned standard.
 
14. How much is that doggie in the window (the one with the waggily tail)?
fitty buck.
 
15. Pineapple slices on pizza. What the fuck?
DUDE it's Pineapple CHUNKS thankyouverymuch... I LIKE EM.
 
16. Would you still recycle cans if you didn't get the nickel?
Yup.
 
17. Pick a number from one to ten. Explain your choice.
Seven. I have always been partial to that number. Also 3. I like its shape.
 
18. What is your favorite movie starring either Andrew McCarthy or Jonathan Silverman?Silverman: Brighton Beach Memoirs
McCarthy: Less than Zero
 
19. Ever kiss somebody with braces?
Nope.
 
20. What is your favorite variety of cheese?
Mozarella.
 
21. What are the odds that Robert Downey, Jr. is high right now?
What are the odds that I am breathing right now?
 
22. How much can you bench press?
Two small children. :p
 
23. Red light. Late night. No traffic. Run it?
Hells no. Our town cops like to lurk in shadows.
 
24. Time out! How can Zack take Kelly to the prom if she's already going with Slater?
Hahahah I loved that episode! Oh but what bout the one where she ends up with her boss! And Slater and Momma are singing in the gym and Zach and Kelly are crying their eyes out outside. Or! The one where she fell in love with Screech!But the topper is the episode that dare not speak its name. You know. The real "excited" one.
 
25. If The Eagles got into a fight with each other, which one would be left standing at the end?
I have no idea.
 
26. Cut off in traffic. Do you use the finger, lay on the horn, shout obscenities, or just let it slide?Obscenities Obscenities Obscenities. Then the finger. Then some more obscenities.
 
27. It was once said that a woman should feel like a hot water bottle filled with cream, not a paper bag filled with coathangers. Grab your significant other. Explain what he or she feels like, using the most abstract simile possible.
My significant other is at work while I type this, so I cannot give a full report.
 
28. What did you get for your last birthday?
Dude. We don't want to go there. My last birthday was the birthday from hell. Honestly. It will make you cry.
 
29. What age are you going to live until?
Eleventy-bazillion at least.
 
30. It's 2002. Where are the flying cars?
The gov't uses them late at night when nobody is looking.
 
31. Have you ever seen a film with Maury Chaykin in it?
probably. is he a professional minor character or something?
 
31a. Go to imdb.com and look up Maury Chaykin's filmography. Would you like to change your answer to question 31?
Sure.
 
31b. Now, how many Maury Chaykin films have you seen?
thirteen.
 
32. Would you like to make money fast?
No thanks. Making money fast would result in spending it twice as fast.
 
33. You are offered a role in the fourth installation of the "Three Men & A Baby" films. How much would you need to paid to star in this tub of crap?
More than the film would gross.
 
34. Who is the voice over the loudspeaker of hell? Is is Art Bell, Bobby Likis, J.T. The Brick, or other?
Art Bell, hands down.
 
35. What does the color blue taste like?
cool. creamyish refreshing undescribable color. maybe something involving berries.
 
36. Welcome to Jack-In-The-Box. Can I take your order?
I have never been to Jack-In-The-Box. But I'll get a large drink, while you're asking.

MERCUTIO
 
You are a lover; borrow Cupid's wings,
And soar with them above a common bound.
 
ROMEO
 
I am too sore enpierced with his shaft
To soar with his light feathers, and so bound,
I cannot bound a pitch above dull woe.
Under love's heavy burden do I sink.
 
MERCUTIO
 
And, to sink in it, should you burden love;
Too great oppression for a tender thing.
 
ROMEO
 
Is love a tender thing? it is too rough,
Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.
 
MERCUTIO
 
If love be rough with you, be rough with love;
Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down.
Give me a case to put my visage in.
A visor for a visor! What care I
What curious eye doth quote deformities?
Here are the beetle brows shall blush for me.

SAMSON
 
Nay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb at them;
which is a disgrace to them, if they bear it.
 
SAMSON bites his thumb.
 
ABRAHAM
 
Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?
 
SAMSON
 
I do bite my thumb, sir.
 
ABRAHAM
 
Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?
 
SAMSON (to GREGORY)
 
Is the law of our side, if I say 'Ay'
 
GREGORY
 
No.
 
SAMSON
 
No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I
bite my thumb, sir.
 
GREGORY
 
Do you quarrel, sir?
 
ABRAHAM
 
Quarrel sir! no, sir.
 
SAMPSON
 
If you do, sir, I am for you: I serve as good a man as you.
 
ABRAHAM
 
No better.
 
SAMSON
 
Well, sir.

 need a break from life. i need to figure out who i am. i need to figure out what makes me happy. but i don't have the time. i am too busy being everything to everyone. i don't remember who i am.

When were you born?
July 27.
 
Where were you born?
In a hospital.
 
What was your First Grade teacher's name?
Ms. Janet for the first few months, then we moved and it was Mrs. Fitzpatrick.
 
What was your first pet's name and what was it?
Lady, a black labrador retriever
 
What was your worst accident?
Dislocating my ankle one night tripping on a curb on the way to the bar.
 
What was your favorite cartoon?
Was? right now it is Spongebob Squarepants. Although I also love the Simpsons and Johnny Bravo.
 
Who was your Best Friend?
Was? At what period in time? These questions are too vague.
 
When was the first time you ever went on a plane?
When I was fifteen, we went to visit my aunt.
 
Who was your first g'friend?
This does not compute. Error. Error. *kweeep*
 
What was your favorite song in the 5th grade?
Christ, you people keep track of these things? /me does some math.
 
What was your favorite movie in the 2nd grade?
OH MAN, more math? *mumble mumble*
 
What did you want to be when you grew up?
EVERYTHING!
 
What used to be your favorite color?
When?
 
What was your favorite subject?
I liked em all. :)
 
Did you ever wet your pants at school?
Nope
 
Did you ever get sent to the principal?
Only once.
 
Did you ever steal anything?
Hearts.
 
Was was your worst fear?
Aliens. or vampires. or alien vampires!
 
What was your favorite toy?
LEGO but also Tonka Trucks. ALthough i still like these toys.
 
Did you ever suck your thumb?
Nope. Bit my nails all the time though.

d-11 f-9
 
bleh i'm tired and weary. i need more time to myself. oh woe.