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| PREmilyMONITIONS....a dream analysis. |
| 04.29.04 (11:12 am) [edit] |
SO emily and i went to see Connie & Carla last night. The movie is about these 2 women who pretend to be men who pretend to be women(drag queens). This brings me to a dream Emily told me about the other day. She dreamed i was in drag....cute little school girl plaid skirt with ruffles underneath, purple eye shadow, long curly hair...the works! I think i was supposed to be in some kind of parade and Greg was commenting on how good i looked. Well DUH! i always look fabulous, girlfirend *snap snap*. So what did this dream mean? I think it was a premonition. Websters defines a premonition as " anticipation of an event without conscious reason." So maybe Emily subconciously knew we were going to go see a drag queen movie together....i surely hope so because i really hope i don't end up on madison ave decked out in full drag anytime soon. Also, it could have been a dream influenced by an event that appened many years ago at Beaumont. I woke up from a nap oneday finding Emily painting my toenails pink...definitely NOT my color *snap snap* Perhaps she has been supressing her urge to transform me into a queen all these years and now it's coming to the surface.
So there's another coincidence to add to the pile.
I'm going to nashville this weekend to see Garrison Keillor and his radio show "A Prairie Home Companion" I've always listend to the show on NPR every saturday evening. Garrison's sense of humor is dry at times, sometimes witty, sometimes deep. He has a wonderful way of telling his stories. He can take the listener or reader from point A to point B by taking the long road, roaming off on a tangent, turning around the corner, going over the viaduct, down the stairs, through the kitchen, and bring you back to the end without ever losing you along the way. it's kinda like tying an ellaborate knot with words.
my favorite quote of his is:Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see it's what you would have wanted had you known.
But incase jeanine is reading this blog i thought i'd slip in another quote from G "Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth. These people tolerate every kind of crank and eccentric and mouth-breather there is.
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| coincidences |
| 04.28.04 (12:18 pm) [edit] |
i changed my floatyman link today. It will now go straight to the blog. Just doing my part to make it easier on those who want to access it. customer service is my middle name. :D
I was out making a sales call this morning with a coworker and as we were driving out to the account i was daydreaming. I was thinking about how cool it would be to walk into a business oneday and run into an old friend who i haven't seen in ages. Then we would talk and catch up on our lives and bada bing bada boom i get the sale.....well....10 minutes later we walk into this business and this girl runs out to the lobby and says "i know you! you're matt ellis...from waverly!!"
:shock: It was my old high school classmate Danielle Westbrook!! I haven't seen her since graduation night 9 years 11months ago!! So we chatted for awhile, gave our AFLAC introduction, gave her my card and parted ways with a good potential sale in the near future!!
Why do coincidences....coincide? Are they all random? Are some caused by a higher force? Am i the only person this happens to? What were the chances of having that kind of thought just 10 minutes before we walked through that door today? I've had a few things happen before that normally might shock me but i've grown accustomed to having coincidences pop up so i just take it in stride. Another one was last friday i was fishing with my friend scott and cousin brian. It had been about 10 years since i caught this big bass while out with brian. Brian was pissed since i caught the fish and friday he commented that it would never happen again. i told him well what if i got one today? i guess i will have to owe you big time again eh?......10 minutes later...there she was...7.25lb bass! but i took it in stride as i heard brian mumble from the front of the boat..."sonofabitch".
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| the coolest thing i learned in school |
| 04.26.04 (10:36 pm) [edit] |
the other night some of my dark side blog cohorts and i were sitting around remembering all the cool school things we used to do, signing yearbooks, going on field trips, our favorite teachers' habits, eating paste..you know..the usual. When i asked if anyone ever took an ink tube out of a magic marker and put into a bottle of elmer's glue to change the color, no one had heard of that before. i remember some goofy kid in the 1st grade did it on accident one day, he wasnt too bright back then, but little did he know he would start a new fad. my favorite color was green. after a few days the glue would be a neat "lima-bean green" hue. neat-o huh?
my word of the day "OODALALY" (ooo-da-LAH-LEE) i am not sure what it means exactly but it's an exclamation of great joy and happiness.....used in the disney movie RobinHood. that word doesnt get used enough nowadays. i plan on using it the next time we win or place in the money at trivia..maybe this week!!!
finally i think i would be THIS guy in a group or barbarians. scroll down to the middle of the page and click on the link titled "ooh goldfish!"
http://www.salon.com/people/bc/1999/12/21/ larson/" title="http://www.salon.com/people/bc/1999/12/21/ larson/" target="_blank"http://www.salon.com/people/b...
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| on with the happiness |
| 04.25.04 (7:01 pm) [edit] |
Keeping with the spirit of my blog i'm moving onto the usual happy-limnetic thoughts.
i found this on tony's site...linked to the door from hell blog. i bet Emily, Star, and Sandra will get a kick out of it. Also look on down the list...transformer dvd!!!! http://www.amazon.com/exec/ob...
Also i came across a blog there about a drawing of some guy holding a dwarf's hand...coincidentally i am watching one of my favorite childhood movies Time Bandits, whose central characters are dwarfs traveling through time.
I love coincidences. they make you wonder about....stuff.
ALERT: STAL(STUFF TOLERANCE ALERT LEVEL) BLAZE ORANGE!!! this place has gotten out of control...wayyyyy out of control. i can hardly walk through my bedroom now. 7-up cans have banded together on my coffee table and seem to have formed a primitive culture using fire and stone tools. In the kitchen there are some dishes supporting a small evolutionary community of icky slime.
i need a little shrimp buddy like on finding nemo...Jacque!...oui!.....clean up the apartment...oui! i shall clean! *popping sound with lips*..by the way i found out last night that kind of sound is called "Poppism" We played Beyond Balderdash last night. gotta love that game.
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| Why Minx feels the need to comment where she is not wanted... |
| 04.22.04 (5:55 pm) [edit] |
I love you too Matteo!
I want to apologise in advance for the dryness of the following blog.
After reading Sandra's comment today, I realized I was not the only one who suffered the wrath of the automatic newbie. Well, being the bookworm that I am I went to my beloved M-W.com and looked for the official definition of "newbie". There I found this:
Newbie (NU-BE): Beginner, novice, especially a newcomer to cyberspace.
I love cyber lingo...
I would like to know who among us is truly a newcomer to cyberspace. It seems Mat and Tony go places in cyberspace that no (sane) man has gone before. (Just kidding boys.)
There is one person in particular that we all know is not a newbie by any means. I don't know what Merriam-Webster would call a person who surfs the web looking for places to leave their lousy and insignificant opinions solely for self-satisfaction, but I'm willing to suggest the word "Minx" to fit that new "cyber" definition.
Speaking of self-satisfaction I looked up "minx" on dictionary.com to refresh my memory and ended up being pleasantly innundated with many colorful definitions. Take a look and come to your own conclusions... just some food for thought. http://dictionary.reference.c...
I look forward to hearing from you Minx. :twisted:
~Kim
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| oh yeh |
| 04.22.04 (12:24 pm) [edit] |
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oh and thanks Star! you know i feel likewise!!! :D
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| Let The Bidding Begin |
| 04.22.04 (12:24 pm) [edit] |
Well, Star and Emily and Greg love me...Sandra and Jason love me too.....so let the bidding begin...who wants me the most?
i'll consider all offers and favors...starting bid is "tree-fity"
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| Another tuesday trivia night |
| 04.20.04 (9:34 pm) [edit] |
yay!!!! we didn't win trivia AGAIN this week!!! Our streak lives!
Aqua Teen Hunger Force is on cartoon network. They just went to Memphis to see if Dracula was dead....he was....Shake said that memphis was cool..."they lit up the bridge and everything." he said.....
My future is in the balance right now. I have been trying to get a job with Farm Bureau lately while at the same time keeping my current job. I have been living in memphis since september 2000 but there have been a few times when i have almost had to pack up and move back home. Everytime i get to that point something happens and i get back on my feet and get to maintain my residence here. I have grown to like living here....sometimes i wihsh i didnt but i've adjusted to it. But now, this might be the last straw. Things are pretty tight right now and if something doesnt work out soon with Farm Bureau i will likely have to move out..back home to the small town....which i dread!!!!
But there's a chance that even if i DO get a job with Farm Bureau i will have to move to wherever they need me. I have mixed emotions about moving. Ultimately i need to do what's best for my future career..whatever that may be, but on the other hand i would miss my friends here and the good times we have. Mainly Star and Emily and the rest of the trivia team will be missed...but not just because of trivia but all things we've done together. I guess we'll see what happens soon.
I hope i can stay here. Starrymack and MLE i love you guys and i hope to have many more good times here....but i wonder....what if i have to move to clarksville...jason..sandra....i could drop by for sweet tea!!!
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| Seven |
| 04.19.04 (5:05 pm) [edit] |
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| I will write 500 Blogs and I will blog 500 more... |
| 04.19.04 (12:06 pm) [edit] |
well i'm back. do i still have my job? hope so :?
I heard a song on the radio the other day that brought back some memories of back around the 3rd or 4th grade. The song was "Your the inspiration" by Chicago. Back when i was going to W.O. Inman elementary school in Paris our PE teacher would make us do a spring performance...pretty much it was a coreographed "dance skit". One year our main performance was set to this song. We would rehearse over and over and over each day for about a month...and that song became seared into my brain attached to the emotions of embarassment and boredom. If that wasn't bad enough the next year's performance we used Bruce Hornsby's "The Way It Is"...we had to do this silly little snoopy-dance footwork.
So i got to thinking about other songs that i have associated with memories. "Jump" by Van Halen; again, for PE class, we had to jump rope to that song for the jump rope pledge drive. Later on between my junior and senior years in high school the most memorable songs were "500 miles" by The Proclaimers and Frustrated Inc" by Soul Assylum. I delivered pizzas for my hometown pizzaria and the local radio station was obsessed with those 2 songs. any song by Dave Matthews reminds me of ut martin and Dot's. Leeann Rhimes' "Blue" in summer '96 reminds me of my summer internship at Dupont back home. The maintenance shop guys loved country music and that song was on all day...ughh!! agony...reminds me of floor sweeping and those boring days of sorting nuts, bolts, and gaskets. For some reason System of a Down's "Toxicity" reminds me of my friend Missy. i think it has something to do with leaving the ketchup on the table or brushing your teeth...BECAUSEYOUWANTEDTO!
And finally, "Pink" by Aerosmith reminds me of my shift work at MTD in martin. I worked on a lawn mower assembly line and that was the biggest hit that spring on all the local radios hanging from coat hangers above our assembly line...i can still hear the sound of air tools and drills and smell the grease whenever i hear that song.
that reminds me, of one night after I got off work from MTD and went to the exxon station to get something to eat from the blimpie sub lady. It was about midnight and this guy driving a van with canada plates walked in. "hey you guys know where i can find Modern Tool and Die?" he asked in that classic canadian accent. Hmmmm...i thought for a moment and said, No i dont think there's such a place around here. He said it was out near the industrial park....hmmm..nope never heard of it. After asking me one more time i said. look i've been here for about 3 and a half years now and i work out at the industrial park and there's no such place as Modern Tool and Duhhh....oooohh!!!!!! wait a minute!! You mean MTD??!? the lawnmower place? He said tyeh that's it eh? i said yeh why didnt you say that!! that's where i work...i never knew what the letters stood for. :shock:
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| The Zipper Conspiracy |
| 04.16.04 (7:28 pm) [edit] |
Of the late I have been receiving e-mails from my mother containing "imponderable" questions. I'm sure you have all gotten at least one of these...
For example:
"Who was the first person to look at a chicken and say, "I'm going to eat the next thing that comes out of that chicken's butt." (I don't think anyone has an answer to this one)
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"Why do we always see one shoe lying on the side of the road?"
Well, often times I send my mother an e-mail back answering the questions to the best of my knowlege (or to the higest extent of my comedic ability). Unfortunately, one very smart person (David Feldman) decided to compile life's "imponderables" into a series of books, rendering my interpretations useless. These books answer many of those questions we think up while staring blankly at our computer screens at 4:00 on a Friday afternoon.
One in particular that I used to always wonder about was why there was YKK printed on the little tag to all of my zippers. Now, being the strange person that I am, I automatically thought it was some type of "Zipper Conspiracy" and we were all secretly being tagged by the dictator of YKK. It certainly freaked me out when I asked my friend if all of her zippers said that and she confirmed my suspicions. (Nowadays, many zippers will say the brand name of the manufacturer, but back when I discovered this, I wasnt wearing clothing from Abercrombie or CK.)
A few years later I stumbled upon one of Feldman's books and found out that YKK stood for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikikaisha, a Japanese zipper company that was the leading international zipper distributer or something. Though it was a slight relief knowing I wasn't tagged like a dog by some underground government, it was also a bummer finding out I was not the sleuth I originally believed myself to be. It's like finding out the UFO you saw was a smashed lightening bug on your windshield.
Be wary though, there are YKK inpersonators out there... http://www.ykkfastening.com/g...
This is Kim, filling in for Matt, signing off. :wink:
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| heeere's kimmy! |
| 04.16.04 (1:50 pm) [edit] |
As Carson used to take a break and let Leno guest host the tonight show, so am i taking a break this weekend and letting my friend Kim take over my chair. i'm sure she'll have some great stuff. Be back in a couple days!!
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| i have a confession |
| 04.14.04 (8:03 pm) [edit] |
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just read sandra's 4/13 blog. I never destroyed any public property but i did carve the word "STRATOS" into every food tray i got at the caffeteria while at UT Martin. So if you ever saw that on there and wondered...yup that was me....STRATOS YO!...
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| oooo-oooo that smell! |
| 04.14.04 (7:49 pm) [edit] |
Why do Sharpies smell so bad? To me they smell like vomit. :shock: blegh!! I'm waiting for the day when we can have genetically enhanced sharpies that have been crossed with roses or buttercups or honeysuckles....mmm..that would be perfection.
South Park is on now. Cartman is dressed in a cardboard outfit which is supposed to rese,ble a robot. His robot name "A.W.E.S.O.M.-O" A SPOOF ON HONDA'S NEWEST CREATION "ASIMO", a biped robot that supposedly will be able to do many human tasks. The creators of south park never cease to amaze me. Nothing is sacred in the south park world. I love how they use some old 80's and 90's movie themes for some of their jokes. But what i like the most is how they come up with toungue-in-cheek parodies of real life events such as steroid use in baseball, celebrity murderers, jennefier lopez, the french and canadians, and social issues in general.
here's one of my favorite clips.hope you have Quicktime. http://www.southparkstudios.c...
greg had some interesting evolution comments on the foolish consistency blog. check it out. I'm not too sure how far we can go with crediting genes for our behavior. We can certainly give genetics credit for hair color, eye color, fingerprints, nose shape, bust size, even athletic ability. But what about violence? Homosexuality? Sense of Humor? Obesity? I've been told by my buddy Scott, who just recently got his phd in entomology/weed science, that certain worms/caterpillars/larvae of crop pests have genes that allow them to be resistent to pesticides that affect their digestive systems. Normally certain pesticides, and even chemicals created by the plants themselves thanks to genetic engineering, cause the larva's gut to become paralyzed..thus stopping digestion..killing it. However some individuals have a gene....perhaps some dormant, passed down trait that normally wasnt expressed that allows the bug to be resistent to those chemicals.....but why would a gene like that exist all those years back before there ever was a pesticide in existence to counteract? Makes you wonder. A genetic defense sent down for generations never being used yet now is the only thing standing between death and survival of certain crop pests.
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| Get Out the Vote 2004...aka "Don't Let Bush Win Again" |
| 04.12.04 (9:22 pm) [edit] |
Is it just me or does anyone else see right through all the hype CNN, MTV, and other news/media agencies are really pushing the importance for people to register and/or get out and vote in this year's presidential election? Although i have not voted since 1998 i still follow a lot of the political issues that our country faces today and i strongly believe everyone should take the election seriously and do their own research and make their own decisions. However, it's pretty clear that a lot of media entities are hiding behind this noble cause of spreading voter participation and awareness to sway the votes in a certain direction, Specifically those people who still are holding to the "selected not elected" grudge. nearly 4 years after a close election these people are still sulking over something that they can't do anything about now...Michael Moore, Al Franken, Tim Robbins, and his mom Susan Sarandon :twisted: Sometimes it frightens me to know what anyone 18+ can vote..all they gotta do is register. Yes, it is our right but do you really want politically uneducated people walking into the polls and voting with the only basis for their choice being "my daddy always vorted republican" or "my momma always voted democrat so that's what i'm going to do"??
I don't see how anyone can live and think in this world with a 9-10-01 mentality. But i am afraid if we don't continue to take a very strong, no tolerance stand against those who would try to terrorize or attack this country we will be taking such a huge step backwards that we'll risk our credibility and reputation for being a leader in the world...not to mention suffering an even worse attack by those who see appeasement as a weakness ready to be exploited.
i'm not saying Bush and his staff have done everything properly but i know we cant have a new leader who will show any sign of weakness.
ok sorry, that's as political as i'll ever get on here.....now onto miss USA. I saw some of the show tonight. I'm pretty sure miss Utah had fake boobs. ALthough fake boobs can look good and give someone a boost in confidence i don't believe miss usa should have them. She should be 100% all real and natural in physical attributes as well as personality. Miss TN got 5th place. though so that was kinda cool.
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| Chaos Theory |
| 04.11.04 (9:00 pm) [edit] |
I wish i had a voice like the guy who does all those cool movie trailers. "IN A WORLD....blah blah bblah." You can say "in a world" in front of any sentence and make it sound cool.
IN A WORLD.......WHERE IT TAKES OLD LADIES 10 MINUTES TO WRITE A CHECK AT WALMART...IN A WORLD...WHERE I DID MY LAUNDRY THIS AFTERNOON AND IT COST $4 AND I HAD TO PUT A 5 IN THE CHANGE MACHINE IN THE LOBBY OF MY APARTMENT..........IN A WORLD WHERE THIS BLOG IS GOING TO SUCK REALLY BAD B/C MATT IS BORED AND CAN'T THINK OF ANYTHING WORTHWHILE OR CREATIVE.....
so yeh, i would like to have a voice like that guy.
What's up with Chaos Theory...and the Butterfly Effect? A butterfly flapping its wings in China could affect the weather in New York? Gee whiz....if such a little thing like that can affect somethign so large...just think what 6 billion people are affecting everytime they sneeze! Or what about our cars creating turbulence on the highways?
It's a wonder we're still alive!!! Have you ever thought about that one thing you did that lead to a chain reaction of events that molded your life? I would never had met most of my friends who are readig this very blog if i hadn't decided to go to the computer lab one night in october 1997 at UTM. That's where i met Candy, which caused me to meet jason and sandra, and emily, and star, and tony, the akers, and many more. Although i might have met Emily at a new year's party through my cousin a couple years ago anyhow but that' s beside the point. I'm glad that butterfly in China got sneezed on by some chinese guy and put in motion the events that made me decide to go to the computer lab one night instead of staying in my dorm and watching Loveline with adam corolla and Dr. Drew.
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| Pelicans Don't Wear Briefs.....they wear boxers |
| 04.08.04 (8:31 pm) [edit] |
This may only sound interesting to Pinky-Kim, but while i was out on the lake fishing today i saw a flock of WHite Pelicans! @first i just saw one sitting out in the main river channel. He let me get as close as about 50-60 yards from him before he got up and flew over me but i got a good look at him and took some pictures. White Pelicans are rare for this part of the country. This was only the 2nd i had ever seen..and the 1st on KY Lake. Well later on around noon a whole flock of them(31) flew over my head...gliding...riding the air currents..spiraling up then gliding back down. Such an awkward looking bird but so graceful. I think one of them was telling some strory about this fish looking for his son...Fabio...or was it Harpo?..anyways i have always enjoyed studying birds and this was a memorable day for me. 8) yes, i AM a dork.
I have been credited for bringing another soul to the dark side of bloghood....tblog should give me some $$!!
Jason Smith, Sandra's"other hasjoinedthe list. Actually, the entire Beaumont Contingent is now Tblogging!! I don't take any credit for it. Afterall, i got into this addiction through other influences too. It's a good way to end the day, surfing the blogs and seeing what's on my friends' minds, behind the scenes, the stuff that we don't get a chance to talk about at the trivia table or the karaoke table, etc. By the way, Jason...you called me your boy..and your dog(dawg)...but i'm upset that you did't call me your sexy beast too! I mean cmon! we got our toenails painted together girl! BFF!
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| It All Makes Sense Now |
| 04.06.04 (10:44 pm) [edit] |
Bobby Ryan.....2208 Lyon ave. memphis, tn 38108 901-725-6191.......The unknown MINX commentor........and The mysterious author of the letter in Greg's closet. All these people are one in the same.
Bobby Ryan and that phone number have shown up on my caller i.d. about once or twice a week for the last 3 weeks. i called him back oneday last week...some black guy answered the phone..it was approximately 1:30pm....and he sounded like he had just woke up...yelled for "Bobby" to pick up the phone...commenting that i "sounded like some white dude."
Well Bobby answered, he also had been asleep, and denied having ever made the call or knowledge of my existence....AH-HA!! So does minx when i confront him for his true identity.....and the culprit of the closet letter has yet to come forth also.
The words Robert Ryan can be swapped around to spell the words "Robe Tyrrant"( i know there's an extra R in there but that's just to throw us off).....someone who sleeps late would wear a robe...someone who would leave anonymous letters in a closet and assume the name of a kind of wild cat(minx) might have the stealth of a wild cat and thus go undetected in strangers' closets....and "bobby"...could be cryptic code for "bobcat"....a cousin to the Minx. ..that MIGHT have been his cousin who answered the phone. I think you see where i am going with this. (puffs thoughtfully on my tobacco pipe).
Either i am right and the mysteries have been solved....or i have been up since 6am yesterday, been on 2 flights, and licking my wounds from yet another SUCKY-piss poor performance at trivia tonight. I leave it up to you the jury to decide.
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| fashizzle |
| 04.05.04 (6:01 pm) [edit] |
well, my trip is about over. Kim and i are barely 12 feet from each other right now but messaging each other on AIM....we're dorks. She's talking to her cats, those 2 have it made. The sun finally came out today, but the wind was very blustery. I'll get on the plane tomorrow wearing a sweater but will probably have to shed by the time i get to memphis.
I had some trouble getting that Milkshake song out of my head yesterday. Thanks to Jeanine's blog. But i fought back. I slipped my Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot cd in and listened to a few other catchy tunes. Which brings me to this....What is an American aquarium drinker?.....How does one "assasain down the avenue?....and how exactly DO cross-eyed strangers undress? :shock: That makes as much sense as the joke "How many Surrealists does it take to change a lightbulb"....."FISH".
Is it bad when your dreams have their own soundtrack? I woke up last night with Wilco's Radio Cure echoing in my ears.....grrrr....now i need to find another cd to get this song out of my head!!
I just bit the head off a blue peep. These things are too good.
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| Greetings from PA |
| 04.03.04 (8:57 am) [edit] |
Well, i made it. Survived my first 2 flights. The first flight i was a little nervous but once we got up above the clouds i relaxed and just stared out the window and took in the scenery. I've always wanted to see what the tops of those clouds looked like. It looked like pure white snow as far as i could see. Almost like i was at the north pole...or south pole for that matter.....fluffy, textured, rippled "ground". I wanted to get out and run across it and slide on my belly like a penguin. But by the time the 2nd flight took off i was calm and felt like it was something i've been doing all my life.
So now i'm here in PA. Kim picked me up and we went down to my grandmother's house for a few hours. I hadn't been in that house since summer of '92 when my grandfather passed away but as we got closer to the house all the scenery became more and more familiar. All the peach and apple orchards looked the same. All the little roadside markets, dairy "cream" restaurants, dairy farms, churches and schools all seemed to be right where i left them. Our visit went well. Granny fixed us a nice lunch and gave me all this food to take with me. On our way back we took the back way on a few 2 lane highways. It was raining on and off and the roads were a little wet but Kim is a mad driver! we made good time.
I noticed all along the countryside that most of the houses didnt have any lights on, only small "candle" lights in each window. i'm not sure what the meaning of that is. Perhaps it's an old custom from back in the old days. Perhaps everyone was already in bed at 7pm because they're farmers and have to get up at 4am to milk the cows. But from where i come from most houses out in the country have at least a couple room lights on..living room and tv..or bedroom....and there's always a lightpole out in the yard somewhere lighting the property. But not up here....things are different. We havent been able to get out much yet due to the weather being POO. Kim just told me it might snow tomorrow. To me that is good...i want to see a good snow!! But they've had so much of it up here this winter they're sick of it. The trees in their backyard have no bark at their bases and some of the lower limbs also. Kim said that's because when it snowed 3 feet the rabbits had nothing else to eat!! Her cat, Cotton, is laying on the bed where i've been sleeping. He has a deviated septum and makes such a loud snoring sound when he inhales. her cats are so cool. I woke up my first night to find that i was spooning Cotton....hey i dont know you that well yet buddy....sleep at my feet mmkay?
Well i'm gonna go watch The New Guy with Kim. So far we've watch Ice Age and Finding Nemo and Dances with wolves..Tatonka....i cant remember the whole sentence in sioux.
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