Things That Do Not Go Together...

+ = trouble...

My damn cat can open my doors. Sheesh... She's to damn smart. If she get's accidentally locked in my bedroom or where ever, she can open the damn door and get out. This makes it difficult if I actually WANT to lock her in somewhere. Her not so intelegent sister has no clue how to do this and will just scratch at the door until someone lets her out.. *snicker* But Sunshine... she's to damn smart for her own good... she can open drawers also... I'm just thankful this cat doesn't have thumbs or I'd be in big trouble

Miscellanous Babbling From The Back Of My Mind...

Today at work something unique and funny happened. I was taking pictures of the last baby for the day... and adorable little girl with the nicest parents (and a HOT daddy). I was finishing up, they were so thrilled with the picture.... then I hear someone say "Now you need to take Judy's picture." I look up, not sure what they were talking about, the mom says "Well we should ask her first if she minds. Can we take your picture for the baby's book? A picture of her first photographer." I said sure. It gave me the giggles the rest of the day though.

Christmas gifts...

This year (much like last year) I am totally broke... well mostly broke, So I'm going to make gifts for people. I bought a little wooden box at Hobby Lobby yesterday and am planning to paint it with a Texas theme for a friend who lives far, far away from Tejas (the poor sucker). I have considered painting a bunch of little wooden boxes for friends and family, but I'm a little nervous that people would think that it was incredibly cheesy. I mean is it presumptious and vain to think that people would want something with my art work on it? It's not like I'm Rembrant or Dali. But my art work doesn't completly suck. I've given pictures to a couple of people and they have them framed and love them very much, but that's probably just because they love me. I can't imagine anyone shelling out cash for something I did though. Anyway... give me opinions... is this a cheesy idea or not?

OK, I have noticed, from my surfing while bored, that more and more homeless are blogging. What the hell? They all seem to have the same sentiment that their blogging is somehow raising public awaremess of the plight of the homeless. Yeah... whatever... I think it doesn't do much good for the homeless as a whole, but it feeds the ego of these homeless with blogs, raising them in their own minds to the status of gurus or leader in their 'community'. It also tends to lend to the idea that many homeless are just lazy bums who don't want to work as most of these homeless bloggers are pretty decent writers who seem to spend a great deal of time at the library writing in their blog and not working to change their status as a homeless person... i.e. looking for a job, etc. Maybe my views of homelessness are narrow and uninformed, but the homeless bloggers are doing nothing that changes my mind on this but has only reinforced this concept in my mind. I work, albiet part time, but I work. I don't have nearly as much time to devote to my blogging as the homeless bloggers seem to. I could sit on my butt all day long at my computer if I wanted to, my husband works and makes enough to support us (my money helps though!)... but why would I want to do that? I'd never accomplish anything, my house would be a disaster and, well, I like to work. Another thing that confuses me is that each of the homeless blogs I have read, the author talks about how they want to not be homeless and maybe someday things will change, yadda, yadda, yadda... yet they seem to be proud of their status. Thats just crazy. Like they are now the Homeless Elite because they have a blog. Maybe I'm to harsh in my judgement... but it does seem that they are just making excuses for not doing anything to NOT be homeless.

Humor For The Intelectual Geek...

I just barely fit into that catagory... well definatly the GEEK part, but the Intelectual part... this is funny though Acme Klein Bottles I got the link out of Discover Magazine. Read through the entire site, it's very funny.

And on the other Geek areas of my life, hubby and I sat around after our delightful taco dinner (with a side of spicy queso) and discussed the ongoing plot in one of the comic books we read and the future and past ramifications... it had something of a time paradox going on... The discussion had started before dinner with the question "which super hero group do you think would make a good movie?" hehehe.. I won't go into the details as I'm more than certain that you have NO interest in our quasi-intelectual comic book conversation.;o)

I AM SUCH A GEEK!!!!

Tonight hubby came home with a gift for me - DICE and COMICS! YAY! hehehe.. yes I was excited about my purple dice (all my dice are cursed from a nasty dice accident... don't ask... it sounds stupid... but... it's for real). The comics are not just for me, he reads them also... but I was excited to get the latest JLA. *my geekyness showing again*

Anyway, we have a game this weekend, so I'll have my opportunity to use my NEW DICE!!! (go ahead and laugh....)

DISCOVER Magazine

I've been reading Discovery Magazine, they had an article on the 50 most important women of science - that was pretty cool and they had a section on some that had not been recognized for their contributions. :o( Sad. The next article was on why Science must adapt to women.. I won't bore you with the details, but it was interesting... One thing that caught my attention was where the Scientist who was featured in this article is a professor - UCSF - L is that where you work? And if so do you know Elizabeth Blackburn? She's a cell biologist whos done some facinating work.

L - I'm searching for that painting.. I can't read what the writing says... From your hint, I'm guessing it's a German rennasance painter... Probably not Durer since you just did a painting by him.

DAMN THEM For not Having What I WANT!!

I went to my local library yesterday. I figured I would go ahead and check out Desperation by Stephen King since I had started reading it at the other library. Well guess what book is not on the shelf? Of course, the book I want. The ONLY King novel to be missing from the shelf. Sheesh...


I did check out some other things, a book on Feng Shui (isn't that ironic about the raccoon now.. I guess I can do something about that bad chi). Some books on painting and illustrating.. I'm looking for some tips on painting... I also checked out some DVD's - they had some worth watching this time. Dead Poet society, Sense and Sensibility and Hannibal. Gosh I love my library... ;oP

Kill them all.... just spare the...



We watched Gladiator the other night... damn that was a great movie. I loved it... even all the head chopping! ;o) So we are watching and the scene comes up when Maximus is running towards his farm and it's all burned out.. you see someone's body burned and then Maximus walks up toward this arch, and you see these chickens cross in front of him. Smart ass husband says "Kill them all... just spare the chickens!" I burst out laughing, that is so rediculous. Men...

MAD COON! (And I'm not talking about any of my coon ass relatives either!)


Here's what happened (for those who care). About 10 pm, we were watching the end of Star Wars I (ahhhh now I remember just how much Jar Jar irritated me...) and I hear this noise outside kind of like a small dog in a fight or something. (made me think of my sisters Chihuahua's hehehe). So I peek out the blinds... I can't see anything but I can hear it, so I look around more and I see something about as big as a large cat laying on the sidewalk in front of my door, it's panting. I notice the banded tail and figure out that it's a raccoon. I think maybe it's been fighting or something and watch for a minute, it keeps panting.. I open the door and step out a bit. A man who lives in the same complex I do, says "I wouldn't get to close hun, it's having some kind of fit." I say oh! and close the door. The poor thing has another fit. I tell hubby that it's a rabid raccoon and he needs to call the police non-emergency number. After a few minutes the man outside knocks on the door and hubby goes out and talks with him. The raccoon is just laying on the ground panting, every so often it will get up and try to walk, then collapse on the ground. :o( this is sooo disturbing to me. Hubby comes back in and tells me that the guy said that he lost his dog to what ever is afflicting the coon about a month ago (a coon had jumped out of the creek area and attacked his dog, then his dog got sick and died.. the vet said it wasn't rabies... what a lie...)... sad. So at 11 pm a police officer shows up. He asks what's going on, hubby tells him we have a rabid raccoon on our door step (he had to walk around it so he couldn't have missed it) then he says, "What's going on inside?" We look at him like he's crazy and say nothing, he says he got a call about an unattended child... we say... um.. no... we called about a rabid raccoon... he looks irritated then walks away... dick. So the officer sends the man back to his apartment and he stays and monitors the racoon (we have a lot of kids in the complex, some of which are stupid enough to mess with a wild animal). At 11:30 there is still a dieing raccoon outside my door.. I'm looking outside and see it staggering around, making like it's going to crawl into my big flower planter! I start saying "No! No! No! Don't you dare die in my flowers!" Hubby is laughing his ass off now. I'm all anxious. I tell him to call and find out WHEN someone will get that dieing coon! He does grudgingly. They say that animal control is almost there. So we wait about 15 minutes and go look outside again.. I see no coon... we look and look... no coon.. I can't see into my flower pot so I'm nervous that he's in there. Hubby opens the door a little... no coon... he looks around... no coon... he steps out... no coon.. then he sees the animal control truck. He goes to talk to them. They say that they have had 3 rabid skunks and another rabid raccoon recently. sheesh... I was glad it was gone. I didn't want to open my door to a dead raccoon! So that's it. Hope this doesnt' bring bad chi on my house! ;o)

Whew it's Thursday! Time for 3XThursday 11/21/2k3 What makes a good Blog? from Jake

1. What makes a good blog? What make you want to read it? Why do you read them?
Humor, Interesting content, coherent writing, interesting person who writes the blog. Why read them? Because I'm interested... ;o)

2. What makes a bad blog. What topics and things do you think will kill a blog?
People who whine constantly, can't write a sentence to save their lives and people who bash others. Generally I think people should steer clear of politics unless they can discuss them in an intelegent, informed manner (so I try to stay away from that myself!!!) and should stay away from bashing others... that's just childish.

3. Name a celebrity that should never ever have a personal blog. Who would have the last online journal in the world that you would want to read.
Britney Spears, JLo, Christina Agullara and Eniemm... what the fuck could they possibly have to say?

Uggh! Animal control is STILL not here... the police have gone... and the mad coon is still dieing on my door step....

oh wait.. they JUST got the damn thing.... I can't imagine that having a dead coon on the door step is good chi.

damn... I'm all scattered tonight... I had all these topics to write about.. my day, everything.. but... there's a mad raccoon dieing in front of my door currently. No I'm not shitting you.. this is for real. I was going to take a picture, to prove that it's really out there... but that it would be in bad taste to take a pic of a dieing animal. So the police are here, just waiting for animal control to come take care of this. I'm totally creeped out that this animal decided to die right in front of my door.

OK, this is soooooo totally un-PC it's fucking hilarious though. This is especially for Jake - that Mr. Rogers comment you made reminded me of this Elmo is bad. WARNING - A - do not play this with your little ones there.. it's not for kids.

Sheesh.. I have a sinus headache again tonight. Ouch. ouch.. ouch...

Today I cleaned house, finished laundry and... got my eye exam. It's only been about 4 years! I've been wearing the SAME contacts for 4 years! The eye Dr. was amazed and a little impressed I think. He hooked me up with a pair of disposables to wear for this week until my new ones come in. He said that my eyes weren't getting enough oxygen and my corneas were a little scratched, but nothing major and nothing that couldn't be fixed with a new pair of contacts. And my eyes do feel better now. hehehehe.. i'm so bad.

eh.. off to bed... my brain hurts...

See which Greek Goddess you are.

Ahhh Tuesday means it's time for Two For Tuesday

1. Have you ever had neighbours from Hell? Do you have neighbours from hell? How about the best neighbours you've ever had? Tell me about them! =)
OMG yes! I've lived in some of the crappiest places growing up. We've had the perpetually noisy neighbors, the ones with heathen kids who stopped up the comodes (which caused them to overflow in OUR apartment also!), the ones who would let their dogs crap infront of our door, the ones who argued so loud we could hear every word, the drug dealers... that was just growing up... When I moved in with my hubby we have only had a few neighbors from hell - the first ones we ever had infact! The night we moved in they were having a party... on a Sunday night... lucky us... they had a bunch of people in their apartment - right above us... and they were playing their music very loud well past 1 am... (it was Duran Duran...), then later they had two cocker spaniels that would bark in the middle of the night - they weren't home either... they would argue with each other in the bathroom - which was right above ours, and you could hear EVERY word when they did that... We complained about the dogs and they got evicted.

2. If you could have anyone for a neighbour who would it be and why?
Hmmmm... I think I'd want some very hot men to live next to me... very hot, very polite men who liked to do yard work in just shorts... and maybe do some weight lifting in the back yard or something.... ;o) ahhhhh just for my own little selfish purposes... I'd love to watch that.

A - been reading about your little man being sick, that sucks so much. The thing with the medicine is strange, and for this reason. While I was pregnant the last time, my oldest had a nasty cold and got a fever and all. I was giving her medicine for it, which she would take just fine. I thought it would be eaiser if I got some of the Triaminic chewables for her. Not so, as soon as I gave her that, she would not take any other medicine at all. I could not figure it out. I thought the Triaminic would taste better - I got the cherry flavor - so I tried one and it tasted ok, but then had a nasty after taste. From then on I had to sneak her medicine in to juice, Coke, chocolate milk... just whatever she would drink so that she would take the medicine. Months later, when the baby had to have some medicine, the oldest would take the medicine again (she wanted it at that point.. jealousy is a strange thing in kids)... but it wasn't Triaminic, it was some other stuff. Anyway - hope he get's better soon!

Well I spoke with my sister this morning, she said the Dr. told my grandmother that it's a 50% chance that it is breast cancer. My grandmother said that if it does turn out to be breast cancer, that the Dr. is to do a mastectomy right then. I can understand that. I'm glad my sister will be with her while this is happening. I know I don't want to be there... and not just because I'm avoiding my grandmother.. I just don't want to be there if she gets the news that it is cancer. I know that sounds selfish, and maybe it is... but I was there when we got the news with my mother. I was devistated, I totally broke down. I had expected it to be breast cancer, but when the Dr. told us that it had spread to her liver and her lungs I just couldn't handle it. So... I don't want to be there if the news is worse than expected. I fear that I would not be any help at all, I know my sister will be.

All this talk about my grandmother probably having cancer has gotten me thinking about my own health. I'm in good health now, but I could stand to make some changes... like not eating so much junk food... and loosing some weight... getting more exercise (I haven't been to the gym in a few weeks...bad me). Well I better wrap this up.. it's time to rinse my hair.

*warning - some things in the following post are probably very un-PC. Oh well... it's my blog... if you offend eaisly, don't read this.*

Due to my having a horrible headache for most of the afternoon and evening, we went out for Chinese tonight. We went to this place pretty close to us, I didn't even know it was there. Hubby looked it up on the internet. So we get there, it's a place that has a 'Super buffet' - I generally steer clear of these places as you never know how long anything has been sitting out and how many people have breathed into the food. My head hurt so I didn't argue about the buffet I just got a plate and loaded it up (they had a lot of shrimp also... a big bonus). Chinese restaraunts are funny around here, all the waiters all have thick Asian accents - you know the sterotypical Chinese person accent - and all the bus boys and cooks are Mexican. I have yet to find an Oriental restaraunt around here that is different, one time we went to Beni Hana and sat at the hibachi - the cook was Mexican! Why is it that all the waiters/waitress' only speak 'Engrish'? I'm starting to wonder if this is just something they do so that they will get bigger tips by making the restaraunt seem more 'authentic'.

Anyway... the food was good and no dishes to wash. YAY!

I've been reading the magazine 'Discovery'. Damn they have some facinating articles in this issue. My favorite being a Neolitic village discovered at the bottom of a lake in Italy. The first ever. But that statement is a bit misleading.. it wasn't JUST discovered, it was discovered more than 10 years ago, it's been being excavated for the past 10 years. There have been some amazing discoveries so far, and only a small portion of it has been uncovered. It will probably take at least another decade to uncover just half of this. Some of the artifacts reveal that this village probably had a lot of trade going on there, lots of the artifacts they found are from other places, suggesting that these people had the capability of sea travel. One particularly interesting thing they found that leads credibility to this theory is a large canoe - 35 foot. They have been working on dating exactly when the village was established... and they think they can get it pinpointed to a very exact time - right now they estimate that it's within a decade or two of 5230 B.C. I really hope the person in charge of this particular site publishes some more papers on this... and in English... She hasn't published much so far, and mostly in Italian, but I hope that this get's more attention.

Book Review! Last night after my poor hubby went to bed with his migraine I sat down and read 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull' by Richard Bach. It was a really quick read, maybe 45 minutes to finish it. My impression, a waste of 45 minutes. It's a bizarre story about breaking away from the norms of society and striving for perfection. Written back in 1970 and it pretty much summed up the 70's new age philosphy. I should have been reading Desperation by S. King.. It would have been freaking me out and scaring the crap out of me.

whew... what a weekend! I worked as usual, and it was a really good weekend at all my hospitals. Friday night I burned dinner (I didn't think that was possible in a crock pot) so we went out to this little German restaraunt near us. Hubby got a big thing of beer and proceded to get tipsy. HAHAHAHA! Apparently this little restaraunt is where all the local old people go to have a night out. The median age in the restaraunt was 65!! It was a trip, there was this table of older people next to us, but they were all dressed really nice.. one of the men had on leather pants! that about cracked me up! but they were all older, one guy had his oxygen tank with him - no shit, he really did. It was funny, and sort of cute to see this group together. The food was great, hubby was amuseing. Saturday night hubby and I went with a couple of friends to the Improve to see a stage hypnotist. It was a blast. I went up on stage as well as our friend R. It was sooo damn much fun. The weather has finally gotten consistentally cool at night, so I decided to wear my boots on Saturday night. As we were leaving it was to nippy to go with out a jacket and to warm for my coat (heavy leather coat) so I dashed to my closet and started digging through stuff, I grabbed this one suede jacket and pulled it out - out fell this brown skirt I've been trying to find for the past 4 months! So... I changed clothes... hehehe... It only took 3 minutes to change from the black skirt and red shirt to the brown skirt and leopard print silk shirt. Hubby was impressed. I looked hot.

Yesterday we didn't do anything, hubby started getting a migraine. Poor guy.

*sigh* I know I'm not making a whole hell of a lot of interesting conversation right now. I just got news from my sister that my grandmother may have breast cancer. She was scheduled for some test today - a needle biopsy for some lumps, but they could not do it, so she's scheduled for a regular biopsy this Friday. My sister said there are several lumps that showed up in the mamogram. *sigh* This is weighing on my mind quite a bit. My mother died from breast cancer 6 years ago. 10 years ago this month she was diagnosed... so this is just an ominous coincidence. My sister is pretty sure it is cancer, but my grandmother is totally convinced it is not.... which is not good. She's not leaving herself any room for the chance it is and that could be such a shock for her. She's 71 and her health has been pretty good for the most part. In the past for or so months she's been diagnosed with diabetis and had to have angioplasty to remove a blockage, but she's been pretty much fine after that. Still.. I worry... Cancer took my mother, I don't really want to loose my grandmother to it... even though we don't always get along that well. *sigh* not much I can do except pray.. it's in God's hands now.

It's Monday, that means it's time for the Monday Mission 2.46 (Thanks Promoguy)

1. Is there anything you used to be able to do physically that you no longer can? What changed?
Other than not get into the same size clothes because I'm 'BIGGER'... not a whole lot... oh yeah, I used to be able to sit on the floor or on the couch for hours while playing games, but not it hurts my back.. why? because my back was injured when my tiny little car got rearended by a big old van the summer of 99.

2. If you could go to lunch with someone famous, anyone living or dead, who would you choose? What questions would you ask them?
Dead: Jesus and ask about a lot of things I'm not sure about, Salvador Dali and talk about his art work and wild life, Atilla the Hun talk about the hordes and Ramases the Great ask him what it's like to be the Pharo and my mother, ask her questions about the family. Living... the scientists who have been working with the Iceman or the ones who have been working on the Mammoth Found in Siberia and ask about thoes discoveries... or Bob Brier the Egyptologist and ask about his most exciting excursion.

3. On that same thought, there are probably several Bloggers you enjoy reading but have never met in real life. Which one Blogger would you most like to meet for dinner? Why did you pick that person? What would you talk about? What do you have in common? What would you do after dinner?
Hehehehe.... I don't read many blogs, so that leaves a very small list. Neil Gaiman because I'm such a fan of his, so I'd probably just be such a bore to him and ask him about his work, gush over him and look stupid. I'm not sure we have anything in common, but we probably do... after dinner Neil would probably try to tactfully escape from the slobbering fan and failing that he would pretend to have to use the restroom but would sneak out instead, leaving me to wait for the next hour then be irritated by him.

4. Money (or the lack thereof) is the number one cause of arguments amongst couples. Do you find this to be true? If there really was a "Money Tree" you could go an pick, would this really solve a couple's problems? Hmmm... I think that statement is kind of misleading question, saying that it is the cause of most arguements... I see most arguements as a reflection of things being wrong in a relationship, such as bad communication. A lot of times it's eaiser to argue about other things such as money or house hold duties rather than deal with the real issues. Money can't fix relationship problems, communication, love, respect and trust can though.

5. Speaking of arguments, have you ever been drawn into any nasty, hateful arguments? The kind where hurtful things were said that had nothing to do with the fight at hand? What was that all about? How did it turn out?
I think we have all done this. I try my hardest to not do something like that. I haven't done anything like that in years and years, so I really can't remember the last time that happened, but I'm sure the results were not good. I'm sure I looked more like an ass than anything else.

6. When was the last time you had to admit you were wrong about something? How did that go?
Actually I end up doing that fairly often. I think it was with my husband, we had disagreed about whether Stan Lee was dead or alive, I was wrong. Went fine, I'd rather admit I'm wrong than look like a stuborn jackass.

7. Now for a slight change of theme....what song should never have been written?
Anything by Britney Spears

BONUS: Are you ready for a new sensation? yeah baby! Bring it on!

Today's Comment Question: What excites you? hehehe.. I don't think I should talk about that on here... the mention of Astroglide in any subject matter makes A cringe. ;o)