So again, I'm up way to late. LOL. I was just purusing (sp?) and found this list of The top 10 banned books and why they were "challenged": I have read a couple of the books. 5. "Summer of My German Soldier" by Bette Greene for racism, offensive language, and being sexually explicit. and, 8. "Go Ask Alice" by Anonymous for being sexually explicit, for offensive language, and drug use. Now "Summer of My German Soldier" was a pretty good book, I read it in HS... I remember the racism.... but I it was appropriate for the book... but I do not remember it being sexually explicit... Now "Go Ask Alice" that was freaky, sexually explicit and full of drug use.. a 60's/70's anti-drug book. So strange that in this day and age books would still be banned. With so much sex on television... and with the crap that Hollywood comes out with... eh, *shrug* who knows...

A little something funny for Friday... enjoy.

whew...I've been totally unmotivated today...

OH... let me tell you about the pizza experience last night. So I did the internet order to Pizza Hut, for the Deep dish Chicago pizza. After 45 mins of waiting I told DH to call and find out where our pizza was. So he called the number they said would be delivering our pizza. They said the do NOT deliver to our area!! WTF?!?! No one called me to tell me I would not be getting a pizza? No one could e-mail me? Assholes. So Dh calls our order into the other Pizza Hut that is near by and said he would pick it up. I call the customer satisfaction number and tell them the problem, they say they are sorry, will resolve it and will send me a $10 gift certificate for my troubles. Cool. 5 mins after Dh called in the pizza we get a knock on the door, our pizza was here. What????? We pay and eat.. are totally confused though. No call from the other Pizza hut about the pick up order either... crazy... But eating the pizza reminded me of something... I hate PH's sauce... the good thing about this pizza is that the sauce is on top of the pizza - normal that would be to messy and all, but last night, that was good, since I hate the sauce, I could just push it off my pizza. I guess when I get the $10 gift certificate I'll order the same thing and tell them to NOT put the sauce on it.

Last night I may not have eaten very healthfully, but I did go work out. I switched machines. I did this one for the inner thigh... not a very modest machine I might add... I'd never sit with my legs that far appart! HAHAHAHAHA! Anyway.. I did that and the one for the outer thigh and one for the hamstring and glutes... (another machine that is less than modest)... well today I'm sore! LOL. Oh well I hope that means these jiggly inner thighs are on the way out! Now here's my question... why don't MEN have to worry about jiggly inner thighs? That's just not fair.

L - that's exciting about the prospect of a job change! YAY! I hope it works out and is what you want! So what if your a ladder climber? Isn't that what most people are trying to do in their careers?

Ahhh..... here I am, home... waiting for dinner to be done.. er.. I mean arrive.... DH talked me into getting pizza for dinner. I know I should avoid this, but damn I'm hungry and tired... Oh well, tonight I'll go work out... despite the pizza. ;o) I ordered on-line. Gotta love technology...I think I put the e-addy in wrong though - DH wanted it to go to the swb account... *sigh* so I don't know when my pizza is going to get here!!!! DAMN!!!

I can't think straight.. need to stop writing... hungry... fog brain...

Shit.. I just looked down at my last post and see a butt load of typos.. please excuse.. I'll proof read tonight... these computers here act weird when one tries to do anything technical.. HAHAHAHAHA.......

So heare I find myself with a little extra time before I get my DH from work. I'm here at the library. I had looked up a book - I belive it's a classic - Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach, but ... this lame ass library does not have a copy. Soooo... I picked up another book to read - one that was right next to where the Bach book should have been... The Regulators, by Richard Bachman AKA Steven King. So far it's not bad, very to the point... a dog and a boy just got shot... Not extremely gruesome or detailed as of yet, but.. a compelling book none the less.. I have this feeling that I may find myself looking to pick up a copy of this book since there's no way in hell I'll be able to finish this in the next hour or so. *sigh* and I had totally written off reading Steven King novels (after he sold out, his work has been hack-ish at best) and the reading of horror also... not because I didn't like it but because I could not find a writer I liked enough to read. I had tried Clive Barker... but wasn't nearly impressed enough to read another book. Had read several friends books... and learned an important lesson.. never read a book written by someone you want to stay friend with or keep a fair amount of respect for. I had one friend who wrote several novels, and I read a series that he wrote and loved them... except for the last book... and I told him so.. he laughed at me HAHAHA.. good sport, but later I realized that was sooo rude of me. Another person, Sydney was his name, such a nice guy.. read his vampire novel but the utmost disdain... He truly is a hack writer, another writer - Roxanne... I read her crap... I mean writting and had waves of nausea... After reading their so called writing.. I could bear to be with them.. I totally lost respect for any of their work and cringed at the thought of them asking ME what I thought of their work.... So... best to never ever read the work of a friend (unless of course it's already gotten raving reviews and hit the best seller list.... then even if you don't like it... you can quote some reviews in a creative lie).

Oh... I'm so bad.. I'm eaves dropping on someone's cell phone conversation... he's talking to someone about a conversation he had with a Chiropractor (witch-doctor) that carbohydrates may cause artheritis! YEAH RIGHT!! If only it WERE that easy. What complete bull shit. I've heard of chiro's claiming to be able to cure asthma and scoliosis (sp?).... now someone is claiming to have the answer to the cause of artheritis. I mean it's POSSIBLE that it may be agrevated by an excess of carbs, as artheritis/diabetis/thyroid disease are all sister diseases... but... sounds like a load of Quack-practor voodoo talk. Sheesh... It amazes me how many people swear by what a chiropractor says. Not that I haven't seen a chiro - I did after my wreck, and it helped some, but I honestly think I would have recovered whether I went or not. It was just kind of nice to get the cool massaging bed on my back... not on my neck though.. give me a headache since one of the disks is bulging.

Damn.. better get off here.. the library will be closing in 30 mins.. I thought this was one of the days they were open until 7pm.. not the 5 pm day.. Oh well.... such is life.

So here it is... just past midnight... I should be sleeping... but I'm not.. Hubby is sleeping.. but I'm not.. Can't sleep... and I have a busy day tomorrow. Of course.

Let's see... what can talk about...

I've started knitting... I've never really done that before, so I'm surprised that I'm really enjoying it. I'm making a blanket for my friends new baby - I'll take a picture of it tomorrow. It's navy blue and light blue. wish I knew how to read a pattern...

I went and worked out tonight, ahhh that felt good. I changed machines. There's these three guys who are always at the gym - any day I go, I see them there, they are always hanging out together, lifting weights. They aren't bad looking but, FUCK - They are STUPID! They always have the STUPIDEST conversations. Tonight it was about trucks, one night they were talking about school and compairing what grade each of them had been held back in ... and yes all three had been held back at least one year. Sheesh.. men like that are a waste. Once I had the hots for this guy that worked in the same building I did, and I finally asked him out to lunch, so we go out, he was so hot, well he was dumb as a fucking rock. I lost interest in a matter of seconds. I call this trio The Gubbers Three, hubby knows who I'm talking about and thinks thats a riot. There are other men there worth looking at though - there's one with a fire tatoo that goes around his arm... I call him Ring of Fire.. and he's totally hot. Ahhh... I do love working out.... I have so much incentive to go to the gym ;o)

Oh yeah, and I need to appologize to J - sorry about our little debate today. I shouldn't have even brought it up. We both have our own point of view and it's not worth debating over.
J never reads my blog, so I'll have to tell her this on Thursday when I talk to her again. hehehe...

Hehehehe... Thanks L for this one.. I had to steal this off her blog - What's My Wu Name?

I am ... get ready for this one... :

Touchy-Feely Unpublished Poet

Use it wisely, soldier.

Or if I just use Judy - Not Judith it is - (your going to love this one...):

Bellowing Rap Machine
hehehe
My husband: Childish Gambino That's my man...

Well the oven doesn't seem to giving off as much in the way of fumes today, so it looks like we will be having dinner in tonight. ;o)

Ahhh something to amuse the masses... Find out What's My Pirate Name?

Here's the low down on me. Arrrr!!!:
Your pirate name is:


Dirty Mary Kidd



You're the pirate everyone else wants to throw in the ocean -- not to get rid of you, you understand; just to get rid of the smell. Even though you're not always the traditional swaggering gallant, your steadiness and planning make you a fine, reliable pirate. Arr!

hehehe...
Avast ye' maties! I'm off to the store! Better have thoes decks swabbed by the time I get back or somebody's walking the plank! Arrr!!!... Hehehe.. always wanted to say that... well... not really... :o)

OK, now that it's the end of the day, I think I might be able to muster up something to write about. LOL.

A - Hope everything is OK, sounds like you have a lot of stress going on right now. Call me... I can't really help with anything but I'm sure I can make you laugh. (ask me about the gym and $5) A little laughter couldn't hurt. ;o)

L and J - so glad y'all wrote in your blogs!! *happy dance* *happy dance* L - the bat spray dream was pretty funny.

Well today in a fit of boredom I cleaned my oven. I can honestly say I've only cleaned ovens maybe 4 times in my entire life. I had some fume free Easy Off left over from the melted dog bowl in the oven incident nearly 2 years ago. Not that the oven was all that clean, but I was in the kitchen wiping the base boards and cabinets (I told you I was bored..) and I notice a smear on the oven window, I tried to wipe it on the outside but it didn't come off, so I figured it was on the inside and decided to go ahead and clean the oven.. probably didn't need the whole Easy Off treatment, but what the hell - I may never do it again in this place. This evening when I heated up the oven to make dinner - I had icky fumes coming from the oven - even though I wiped it out pretty well. It wasn't really bad, but it kept making me sneeze. Hubby suggested we use the restraunt gift certificate we got recently and go to Big Bowl. No need to ask twice, I changed clothes and we were off. It was ok, I had some garlic chicken with noodles - I didnt' like it. They were soooo nice about it. The waiter offered to bring me something else, then the manager did also. I ordered dessert - chocolate brownie! - and they gave it to me for free because I didn't like the food. LOL! Talk about good customer service! So after the gift certificate the whole thing cost us $9. :o)

Well I'm not going to paint over the Frog Prince side of the stool. Thanks to everyone who said nice things about it. I am going to add some more to it though.. maybe some roses or water lilies.. something.. just looks plain... And no I did not intend the princess to be me... (I don't think it looks like me.. but a few of y'all think it looks like me) I think that would be incredibly vain of me to intentionally make the princess look like me... If anything I wanted it to sort of look like my oldest... but not with blond hair since Rapunzel has blond hair. Anyway - J was so nice and said that I should paint furniture for a living. hehehe... yeah I wish I could make money at that! I'd love it. I am really enjoying painting this stool. Anybody want to order a one of a kind, hand painted stool? hehehe... Better head off to bed. Night

All rightie then.. it's Monday... and my brain is moving slow... Sooo.. here is -

Monday Mission 2.38
1. When I was young, my Mom would always drink a cold Dr. Pepper in the morning. Me, I can go either way. I like a Cold Frappucchino in the Summer months and switch to warm Mocha Espresso in the Fall. Do you like to drink warm beverages in the morning or do you prefer yours cold?

Depends on the weather.. if it's cold - I like a warm one, if it's hot, give me something cold... and since it's usually hot here, I guess it's usually cold for me. lol.

2. Have you ever been so upset with someone that you wanted to get revenge? What did you do? Or if you didn't, what would you like to have done?

Hmm.. I've never done that. But I considered it. I wanted to get back at the woman who screwed me out of my job (that I got laid off from almost 3 years ago)... she was sleeping with the VP.... So I kind of wanted to get back at both of them... I had everything to do it too. I found a love note from a lover of his in some old files I was getting rid of about 6 months before I got laid off. I had kept it - It was very incriminating - had his name on it, and was signed. I have no clue why he put that in is WORK files. Anyway.. I thought about sending it to his wife. I didn't do it. They both ended up being laid off though, so karma took care of them.

3. Sometimes I can look back at my past and see so many things that I was too naive to take advantage of. A time where I could have moved ahead in my career if only I'd chosen to move, the High School girlfriend who said she would do anything if I just asked, and so on. Looking back, are there any opportunities you missed out on that you can see now but didn't realize then?

oh hell yes. who hasn't?

4. Today I tried on my black slacks, and they are just a skosh too tight (yeah it's a real word, look it up). Of course, I wore them anyway. Are there any clothes you refuse to throw away even though they don't (and never will) fit? Why do you keep them?

*snicker* you mean like that old prom dress hanging in my closet? Or the shoes that are too tight but tooo damn cute to get rid of? Maybe those silk pants that fit for a few months... about 5 years ago! HAHAHAHA! I have no idea why I keep them. Hope springs eternal! I like to think someday.... maybe.... hehehehe... I'm an eternal optimist whne it comes to my closet.

5. Although my speech classes eliminated most if it, I still have a little Okie accent left. I say "Git" instead of "Get" and "Collar" instead of "Color." Do you have an accent? Are there any phrases or words you say that tip folks that "you aren't from around these parts?"

Hmmm.... Not really... I do say y'all. But I've been accused of being from Minnesota before! WTF???

6. Speaking of phrases, it really drives me nuts when folks say "very unique" (Unique has no degrees, it is either unique or it isn't) or "irregardless" (not a real word). Are there any words folks misspell or incorrect uses of words that simply drive you insane?

I'm with you on the 'irregardless' that irritates the shit out of me. there are other things... but I can't think of them right now... Brain fog!


7. I am guilty of using pet names a bit too often, like "honey," "babe," and "sweetie." However, currently, no one uses any pet names on me (and I think I'd like one). Are there any pet names that you like to be called? Any you don't? Do you (or did you) have any pet names for your partner?

I get called Pooh by a lot of people or Pudy, my mom used to call me that... I call my DH hon a lot, but since we watched Monsters Inc I've been calling him Sully - that character reminds me of my hubby. Big, sweet, a sucker for little kids and furry! HAHAHAHAHA!

BONUS: Why you so fly?

*sigh* like I can help how fly I am. hehehe...

Today's comment question: Do you prefer a stick shift or automatic? ummm.. has to be an automatic... can't drive a stick...

The Frog Prince.


This is where I'm at right now on the other side of the stool - I went to WalMart today and got more paint. I'm not sure I really really like it.. I may paint over it.... I'm not sure... I do know that it's not finished at all - I need to add some more stuff. I do like the frog though. He's cute. :o)

Tell me what you think - be kind... I get pissy when criticized... Suggestions are cool though.