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"Die On Your Cushion!" 2007-07-13 21:24:00 Die on your cushion? What's that supposed to mean? This doesn't sound like Turtle. Who are you, and what have you done with Turtle? You'll never get away with this! Where are you holding Turtle hostage?!OK, for this post I'm going to take a little break from talking about boobies, and turtles, and C's innumerable imperfections. I'll get back to all that tomorrow. For this post, I want to talk about death and dying. Every once in a while, and today in particular, I wake up with an incredibly clear picture of my own immortality.Let me explain. We all know that we're going to die someday, and of course it's no fun to think about. But, there is knowing with a lowercase K, and then Knowing with a capital K. This morning was one of those times when I woke up Knowing that someday I was going to die, and that the whole party will be over someday. This feeling is very hard to explain. It's not knowing it intellectually, as far as thinking about life insurance policies and funeral arran
Personal Watermelon 2007-07-13 12:26:00 What is a personal watermelon? I had never heard of such a thing, but C and I were in the supermarket, and she said, "Look, personal watermelons!" Of course, my knee-jerk response was to ask, "Is that anything like a personal lubricant?". Much to C's embarrassment, this was said in front of a teenage male clerk, but such things don't bother me.So as it turns out, a personal watermelon is a small, seedless watermelon. Who knew? I only knew about the big kind. The cashier thought that it was cute also. In fact, she said, "oh, how cute...it's the perfect size." You know what else was the perfect size? Her breasts. They were. They couldn't have been any bigger than an A cup, and that's just fine. She had pretty eyes, and a friendly smile, and she understood that it's the little things in life that make a difference, like personal watermelons. As such, her perky little boobs just made my day. Had they been any bigger, they would have looked unnatural, and they would have Read more:Personal
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The End of a Turtle Work Week 2007-07-13 09:06:00 It's the end of the turtle work week, my friends. Actually, I don't work, so it's just the same as any other day. Thanks Mommy Turtle! Yesterday I noticed a new ad on this blog. It had a fart button on it. Yep, a button that said something like "fart button, you know you want to press it." That's quite a change from the usual turtle-related ads that I see. Then I realized that I'd spent some time in the blog referring to C farting, so that's what must have triggered it. I think that's really funny. Farting is funny, and fart-related ads are funny. Speaking of C, but not farting in this case, she came home yesterday with a really short haircut. I'm told that she asked for only two inches off, but she's not the best communicator, nor listener, so I'm sure that she managed to confuse the hairdresser, who was just doing her best to survive the stressful encounter. But, as luck would have it, C now looks really cute with her short haircut. Well not so much cute, but sh
Lady Turtle will never again be referred to as such 2007-07-12 17:12:00 Not too much happened today in Turtle Land. My day started with a phone call from best friend CMJ, all the way from England! How cool is that?! We didn't have too much to say because nothing much is going on here, and she was kind of bored on her trip, and was anxious to come back. She'll be back in a week, and then we'll get back on track with eating at fly-infested restaurants, and hangin' out at the fudge shop. In other news, today Lady Turtle announced that she does not wish to be referred to as Lady Turtle, but instead wishes only be known as "C." I tried to explain to her that it will look confusing if say things like "C and I", but she didn't care. She said that even calling her LT is not OK. She doesn't like turtles very much. In fact, she thinks that I'm a crazy idiot because of the whole turtle routine. Oh well. Maybe someday she will understand what it means for me to be a turtle. So from now on, she will be referred to in the blog as "C," and that's final.
Turtle Hump Day! 2007-07-11 15:51:00 It's Wednesday, and that means it's Turtle Hump Day! Actually, turtles don't work, so technically speaking, there is hardly a hump to my work week. However, throwing in the word "hump" can't hurt in bringing some extra traffic to the blog, so what the heck...it's Turtle Hump Day! Humpity Hump Hump.I'm going to use this entry to continue discussing my busy Tuesday. Lady Turtle (LT) and I got our new couch delivered. It looks really nice, and more importantly, it doesn't smell like cat pee....yet! Let's see, what else happened....ah, well, LT made an odd snorting sound at some point in the day. She does that every now and then. It's quite uncouth, yet humorous. Usually on Tuesday we would have gone to our personal trainer, but he is on vacation so we decided instead to go out for Mexican food for lunch...which brings me to an all important topic: Mexicans.Our favorite restaurant in our neighborhood is a Mexican one. Not only is the food great, but the service is always
Turtle Therapy Day! 2007-07-11 00:15:00 Today is Tuesday, and that can only mean one thing: Turtle Therapy
Day! That's right, it's a special day when I go for therapy so that I can become an emotionally stable turtle. Here's how it works: I start the session by telling the therapist how imperfect Lady Turtle is, and how I, by comparison, do not share these imperfections. Then he tells me that I have to "live in the now," and "just observe" my responses to the situation, and realize that I am not one and the same with my emotions. Then he spends some time staring at me while I sit there feeling uncomfortable. Then he gives me other advice, including reminders of how everything happens for a reason, and that the universe put me and Lady Turtle together for a reason, etc. etc.Usually by this time I've tuned him out, and I've started thinking about the sexy MILF who lives across the street, and then sometime before the end of the session, I tune back in. When the session ends, he asks me if I need any herbs (he's a naturop
Turtle Zit Problem 2007-07-09 23:02:00 OK, I just can't stand this anymore. For about two days I have had some really big nasty zits on the back of my head. One is sort of more down by my neck, and it feels like a "two-parter" if you will. I feel two distinct bumps right next to each other. The other zit is actually on my scalp, on the back of my head.Now here is the problem: they are not yet popable, and it's driving me crazy. I squeeze and I squeeze, but nothing happens. Sometimes if you squeeze hard enough, you can convince a non-popable zit to just get it over with and pop, rather than prolong its agony, but these ones are holding on for dear life. It's really, really bothering me. The only thing that keeps me going is the knowledge that once they are finally ripe, they will make for a most pleasurable popping experience. I bet if I tilt my head just right, and squeeze at just the right velocity, I can create quite a projectile. I should aim it at a mirror so that I'll be able to admire my handiwork after Read more:Problem
It's Just Another Turtle Monday... 2007-07-09 09:44:00 ...wish it was Sunday...'cause that's my fun day....my "I-don't-have-to-run" day....ah, you get it. OK, if you don't get it because you're tone-deaf, and therefore don't know and like music, it's The Bangles, except I substituted the word "turtle" for "manic". See, that's clever. I'm a clever turtle.Last night's game night was lots of fun. We played Notre Dame, and Zooloretto. If you never heard of these games, it means that you should probably start exploring the world of games beyond Monopoly and Scrabble, and certainly beyond checkers.This morning the maids came, as usual, and so I went to the coffee shop to be out of their way. A sexy black lady came into the shop wearing a very low cut top, and obviously no bra, as could be deduced from her so-called "pokies." It was an excellent way to start my day. Black women are really hot. Why did it take me 35 years to figure that out. Why, oh why must I learn every single important life lesson only when it's too late? N Read more:Monday
Special Emergency Update: Lady Turtle Farts at Game Night 2007-07-08 22:29:00 Special EmergencyUpdate
: Lady turtle farted just moments before guests arrived for game night tonight. We believe that they were unable to smell the fart, but it is a distinct possibility that we are only fooling ourselves. While our guests do possess the compassion necessary to abstain from commenting on the offensive act, a more realistic scenario is that the fart was undetectable over the smell of cat pee that presently permeates our home. We'll bring you more on this story as we receive more details. Until then, please join me in praying that such an embarrassing thing never disgraces our home again. Read more:Special
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A Turtley Saturday 2007-07-08 00:27:00 Today wasn't very exciting. I practiced a bit of piano. Fur Elise is coming along nicely, but I'm having trouble holding my wrists high like my teacher wants me to. Piano is hard! I also made some progress on a new prelude that I'm working on. It's in 12/8 time....what kind of crap is that? Ah, it's all right.Well if you're going to live vicariously through me, you should know that my piano practice is a big part of my life. Even more important than that is the fact that there are several stuffed turtles on top of my piano. But more about them later.Today we received some games that Lady Turtle (hereafter referred to as C) and I ordered online. Who knew that FedEx would deliver on Saturday
for no extra charge?! The games look pretty cool. We're anxious to try them out. We're very active gamers by the way. We like advanced abstract games that are sometimes referred to as Eurogames. If you're going to live vicariously through me, you'll soon learn all about them.We went out for
Bringing You Up To Speed 2007-07-08 00:18:00 Hi there. So you've decided to live your life vicariously through me. Did I mention that I'm a turtle? Good. I'm glad that you're open minded. I just know that we'll be the best of friends. Well, I'm 35 years old, and I hardly have the time to catch you up on everything that you missed, nor do you probably have the time to read about it even if I did. Basically, my childhood sucked, my young adulthood sucked, and, well, things kind of suck now, too. But it's getting less and less sucky each and every day, and just maybe my mundane existence will be sufficiently worthy of you living vicariously through me. I think that you made the right choice. Get ready, because you're about to start living vicariously through a turtle! There's no turning back now. Read more:Speed
Really Funny Observation 2007-07-16 22:49:00 OK, this is really funny. As you know, I'm sitting at home by myself watching Playboy TV, since C is out of town. Well actually I'd be doing the same thing if she was here, but I'd be interrupted by her scolding the cats for scratching the new couch. Anyway, I'm watching their usual explicit 11PM movie, which tonight is called "Shoot All Over Me Club." It takes place in the 1950s, so the women are dressed accordingly, and have the appropriate hairdos, etc. Now that part is very sexy, but get this...the women all have pasted on fake pubic hair. I kid you not. When I saw it in one of the scenes, I just dismissed the whole idea, but then later I saw it again. It was just a big patch that was stuck on, and was moving around while they rubbed it. Unbelievable. And even if it didn't move around, you could still see that it was just totally unnatural. I wonder if they figured that guys would be so stupid that they wouldn't notice, or they simply didn't care. Maybe they figure Read more:Funny
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Home Alone 2007-07-16 20:58:00 C went to visit her sister out of town, so that means I'm home alone. I didn't call up any hos or anything like that, I'm just doing my usual thing. I worked more on my book, so that's moving along, but ever so slowly. I just have so much to say, and it seems like it never ends. But I have a pretty good outline, so little by little I'll fill it in. I wish I could tell you about it, but no one must know. It's topic secret political stuff.Not much else is happening. I'm sitting here watching the Playboy channel. Devinn Lane is a brunette with big titties, and somewhat of a big bone structure, so that always makes for good viewing. Jesse Jane is loud and vulgar and quite annoying, but no one put me in charge of casting. That's about it for now. Tomorrow I get to sleep late. Therapy day is cancelled because C will still be out of town. I do have my trainer, though, and then my piano lesson and a game night that evening. We have a full house. Should be fun. Read more:Home Alone
In Your Face, NY State Dept. of Taxation 2007-07-16 16:38:00 Many months ago, I received a letter from NY State
, saying that I might be audited for the 2004 tax year. They said that they were missing some information, and that I should just send it to them. I knew what the problem was. I had moved to Florida mid year, and sold a ton of stock just two days after I arrived there. This was before I had a chance to switch over my driver's license, and such. Sure I had a lease that showed I was paying rent in Florida at the time, but of course that doesn't actually prove that I was living there. Plenty of people have homes in many states, and plenty of people have a small period of overlap in rent when they are moving, especially interstate. I really had nothing to prove that I was physically living in FL at the time that the stocks were sold. The only evidence I could provide would be somewhat circumstantial.At the time of the letter, I spoke to the accountant who had handled my taxes, and he said that sometimes they go after people who le Read more:Taxation
Hangin' Out at the Coffee Shop 2007-07-16 08:26:00 So it's Monday morning, and that means it's Turtle maid day. It's that special day of the week when I have to wake up early so that I can help get the house ready for the maids. Getting up early also gives me time to pleasure myself before they arrive, which is important.I'm here at the usual coffee shop, killing time until they're done. The cashier today is a blonde cutie with glasses and small boobies, but regular readers of my blog will know that that's just fine. She has a really pretty face, and is very bubbly. She said, "I remember your name, it's Dave!", but I had to correct her, since it's not. That's OK, she's cute, she can say and do as she pleases, and I'll answer to whatever name she calls me.No one else of note is here in the shop, but there's some dorky looking woman at one of the tables who sort of has my eye. She also has blonde hair, glasses, and small titties like the cashier, but she seems much smarter and sophisticated. I wonder if she knows that Read more:Hangin
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Rachael Ray vs. Giada DeLaurentiis (Part 1 of an Ongoing Series) 2007-07-15 17:37:00 There comes a time in every man's life when he needs to make a very important decision: Who is hotter: Rachael
Ray or Giada
DeLaurentiis. I will use this blog entry to help you guide you in your decision. First of all, it is important that you know how to properly pronounce Giada's name. It's pronounced JAH-dah. It's Italian, that's how it works. Many people don't know this, and pronounce her name as jee-AH-dah.This is bad for a variety of reasons. Most importantly, it's only a matter of time before you accidentally scream her name in bed while you're making love to your homely wife, and when you do, you might as well get it right. You'll just be even more embarrassed in divorce court if you don't. With that said, let's move on to the comparison. Over the next few weeks, I will compare these two angelic specimens of loveliness in several categories, starting with beauty.Both of these ladies are exceptionally beautiful, probably more so than your wife, from what I've been to Read more:Rachael Ray
I'm on Google Now! 2007-07-15 09:34:00 Good Morning, Turtle Friends! I've awakened from my usual horrible, disorienting nightmares, and am ready to start a brand new turtle day, full of wonder and surprises! This morning I decided to do some Google
searches to see if this blog would come up. Guess what? No....guess! No, silly, Rachael Ray didn't link to my blog on her official website, but that was a good guess. If you search for "live vicariously," my blog is on the first page of results! And if you search for "stupidest blog," it's on the first results for that, too! How cool is that?! These are the kind of things that Americans search for. Government data would have you believe that all Americans are searching for is upskirt photos and PlayStation 2 cheat codes, but you and I both know that that is just not true. What America wants is turtle blogs, and that's what they have right here.In other news, today we go back to our personal trainer, who has been on vacation. Here's how that works. Usually C has her session f
OMG, New Huge Stuffed Turtle! 2007-07-14 20:28:00 C went out for dinner with her friend, and I stayed home and worked on the book that I'm writing, and some of my websites. I also watched Paula Deen on the Food Network, and found myself lusting after her more than I'm willing to admit to myself, but that's not what I want to talk about right now. We'll talk about that some other time. When C came home, she gave me a huge stuffed turtle! It's so cool! It's really big, and it's of excellent quality. It's a sea turtle! It's from Melissa and Doug, who sometimes advertise on this blog, but that is just a coincidence. She didn't even realize that they made it. I'm so happy! It's such a great gift. I'm going to hug it when I'm feeling sad, and I'm going to talk to it when I have something to say, and I'm going to show it off to everyone at game night, and they'll probably just spill salsa on it. Right now it's going to stay on top of a reclining chair that we have, but that might not be its permanent home. I love Read more:Stuffed
Turtle Movie Outing 2007-07-14 18:43:00 Today C and I went to the movies to see Ratatouille. It was really cute, but a bit too long. It dragged on a bit in places. The really could have edited it somewhat. But the animation was really great, and it was a really cute story. Guess what? Guess who we ran into at the movie? No....guess....OK, give up? No, not Rachael Ray, but if we did, I would have ran over to her like an idiot and told her that I'm her biggest fan, and then I would have done my best to try to look down her blouse without her catching my eye. Actually, we ran into our friend Andy. He is one of the veteran members of our game group. It was quite a surprise to see him there. I didn't think that any of our members actually exist outside of the context of game nights. Boy was I wrong...lol.In other news, today I did the 3 mile walk, as part of the Leslie Sansone Walk Away the Pounds DVD series. I know that must guys wouldn't be caught dead doing it, but I'm not a guy, I'm a turtle, and that's ver
In Better Spirits Today 2007-07-14 11:41:00 Today I'm feeling good, which means no more talk of death and dying. In fact, no more talk of darkness, forget these wide-eyed fears, I'm here, nothing can harm you, my words will warm and calm you.....ok, so I like Broadway show tunes, I'm a turtle, what do you expect? But seriously, I certainly did benefit somewhat from my moment of satori yesterday. For as long as I can hold onto the feeling, which is hard, I'm going to try to live my life more in the moment, and not obsess so much, because the moment is all we've got.Today, I'm going to take it easy. I have tons of piano practice to do, otherwise I'll have nothing new to show my teacher. I'm also going to try to work hard on the book that I'm writing. It's quite controversial, so I can't talk about it there, but within a month or two I'm going to publish it anonymously on the Internet, for free download. Sorry that this post isn't too interesting or titillating. If I get inspired later, maybe I'll write about h Read more:Spirits
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Evening Update, Playboy Channel Complaint 2007-07-18 21:55:00 Came home from the coffee shop. As promised, C brought me home a delicious chimichanga. We watched a Netflix DVD of the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Veruca Salt is a little bitch. She was also a little bitch in the Johnny Depp remake of the movie. Maybe her character is just plain bitchy. Little bitch, that Veruca Salt. Anyway, C went to bed, so of course I'm trying to find something suitable on TV to wank to. You would think that paying $19.95 a month for the Playboy Channel
would facilitate such activities, but alas, it does not. How does one wank to slim, dumb, blondes with no pubic hair? How, I ask you? The answer is one does not. One surfs the web to find pictures or videos of middle-aged, heavyset girls with hairy bushes. 'Tis the only way. I'm tempted to send a complaint letter to Playboy, but I'm sure that I'll just get a form letter back. Why can't they just devote 30 minutes a day in the middle of the night to showing videos of women t Read more:Update
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Sittin' at the Coffee Shop 2007-07-18 17:47:00 Here I am at the coffee shop, sipping my apple iced tea. It was an extra large one...I had to pee numerous times. Some lady customer had to pee also, apparantly. When she came out of the bathroom, she told one of the clerks that there was no more toilet paper in the ladies room, and overheaing this turned me on quite a bit. I'm one messed up turtle.There's not much to do in this town. Whenever I want to get out of the house, I can't think of anywhere else to go. Many coffee shops close at 6PM or 7PM, and at many, it's just not feasible to spend several hours. The environment here is good, they have free Wi-Fi, and the girl-watching opportunities are about as good as possible for this meaningless town, and so here I am. The dorky-yet-sexy clerk lady is here, sans her usual blue hair. She's so cute. Too bad she doesn't seem to have any interest in being my friend. We'd probably have a fair amount of stuff in common. Oh well.Not much is happening. C came back into town today, Read more:Coffee
A Tribute to Spanish TV: Charytin 2007-07-18 11:28:00 This blog is getting even too boring for my tastes, with too much talk of dead fishies and other crap. So today I'm going to talk about Spanish
TV. Latina women are so hot. They often have wide hips which is what I like, but even they don't, they are always extraordinarily sexy. American, non-Hispanic women really have no idea at all of how to be sexy. They just don't have a clue. It's really pathetic. I'm ashamed to be part of such a race. The good news, though, is that there are several Spanish TV channels that always provide good visual stimulation for masturbatory activities. For example, right now I'm watching Escandalo TV on Telefutura. I don't know what the hell any of that means, but I know that it's all hot. One of the hosts is Charytin. I remember watching her in the 80s, and then I kind of lost track of her. I think she's in her 50s now, and she looks fabulous. She's phony as all hell, but she has great legs, a great rack, sexy full lips, and she dance
Dead Fishie 2007-07-18 09:36:00 The angelfish that I spoke about in yesterday's posting has died. It's very strange. Usually when fish die, they don't look good at all. They're either floating, or their mouths are frozen open wide, or they just look sick. This fish just looked fine. It took me a long time to be convinced that he was dead. It just looked like he was hiding in a plant like he was last night. It's possible that I hurt it somehow when I was cleaning the tank, but I don't see how, and the other one in there seems to be happy. There were no obvious wounds of any kind on the fish, and I would have seen them since he's a light color. Oh well. Maybe for a while I'll just have the other angelfish, and we'll be on the lookout for a nice one of similar size to add to the tank. Poor fishie.
Game Night Without C; Sick Fishie 2007-07-18 00:20:00 We had a fun game night tonight. Everyone seemed to have fun. I'm sorry that C wasn't able to join us, but it was good practice for me to handle things around here by myself. I even cleaned up! I played an exciting game of Puerto Rico, followed by a 3-player Ra, and two games of Gang of Four. Another table played a very long game of Friedrich, and another table played Thurn & Taxis, and I think Settlers of Catan. We got to meet a member who had attended some events closer to where she lived, but she had never attended any events at my house. She was really nice, and is interested in America's education system just like I am, so maybe I'll sometimes be able to talk to her about that. She's also a BBW, and the more BBWs I'm surrounded by, the better. BBWs make the world a better place, whereas slim women are pretty much an eyesore, unless, of course, they happen to be Rachael Ray.Oh, she questioned my turtle collection (the gamer girl, not Rachael Ray), and she assumed that it was Read more:Night
ZOMG! Clean Fish Tanks!! 2007-07-17 17:24:00 I cleaned my fish tanks today, without prompting from C. How cool is that!? See, I'm capable of amazing things when I'm given room to grow. Now I can have the lights on in the tanks and not feel embarrassed. For the record, we have two tanks. One is a 12 gallon tank with two small angelfish, and one is a 30 gallon with 4 small ryukin goldfish. I'm having quite the algae problem. I've tried different types of algae-fighting chemicals, but I think that the tanks get too much sun, and it just builds up. We've tried having plecostomuses, but it's hard to find big ones, and the small ones are quite fragile and die quite readily. I'm going to look into snails to see if they can help. Have to get ready for game night. More later. Read more:Clean
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Just Killing Time 2007-07-17 12:56:00 I'm back from my personal training session. My trainer was going to have me do leg work today, but I had some knee pain, so he stopped it immediately. I think he's afraid that I'll sue him, and then he'll lose his job and won't be able to see all the pretty ladies sunbathing by the pool. I'd be worried about that also, I suppose. Actually, I think that I messed up my knee when I did the Leslie Sansone DVD a few days ago. It dawns on me that she does a lot of exercises with the legs separated quite a bit. I mean walking almost in a "duck walk" type of stance. She probably just does this so that she can be a bit different than other exercise videos on the market, but I don't think it's very good for the knees. It's quite unnatural, and my trainer agreed. I think that from now on I'll just march in place, perhaps holding the two pound exercise balls that she recommends. My trainer says I should walk outside, but the outside world is pukey, so I won't do it. Plus, they Read more:Killing
CMJ returns to USA 2007-07-21 08:18:00 CMJ has made her return to the United States. C and I picked her up at the airport, and we took her out to dinner. The food was good at the restaurant, as expected. The hostess had small breasts that were widely separated, yet she wore an outfit to show cleavage. The effect was rather unusual, at best. The waitress was quite cute, but more importantly, she had a bit of a tummy which is always a turn on for me. Even better is when a girl wears a tight top, and does nothing to conceal the fact that she has a tummy. Usually that means that she is either oblivious to it, which is a good thing, or that she thinks that she's so hot, that her tummy doesn't matter. This is also a good thing. So it was really great to see CMJ after two weeks. She actually hadn't missed much of anything in my world, since nothing ever goes on, but it's great that she's back. She brought back some cute gifts for C, and she got me a bunch of turtle gifts! Yay! Thanks CMJ. Oh, it's worth mentioni
Report from the DMV; Bunnies in the Yard 2007-07-20 08:53:00 C was only at the DMV for 35 minutes. She clocked it. That wasn't bad at all. In NYC she would have been there for 4 hours. While she was in line, I waited in the waiting room outside (it's also a train depot), and worked on my laptop. There were a fair amount of teenage cuties walking in and out, some accompanied by their MILFs. This made the time go by somewhat faster. For the record, MILFs are much hotter than teenage girls any day. I noticed many Indian people coming in and out, and I've seen more and more Indians around the fudge shop where me and CMJ hang out. I am left to believe that many Indian people are moving into the area. I suppose that's a good thing. Indian food is really great, so maybe more Indian restaurants will open up. Plus, Indian women typically have big boobies and big asses, which is what I like. So maybe this pathetic town ain't so bad after all. Since I'm talking so much about Indian people, I wonder if I'll start seeing ads for saris on Read more:Bunnies
Early to Bed and Early to Rise 2007-07-20 06:13:00 Last night I went to bed at 6:45PM. Lately I've been staying up until 3 or 4AM in the morning, and I haven't been sleeping well at all, and I just needed to catch up on sleep. Coincidentally, I woke up at 6:45AM, in time to put out the garbage and recyclables which I forgot to put out the night before. I feel really good this morning. It's a whole new world when you wake up earlier than 10 or 11AM like I usually do. It's a new fantastic point of view. There's no one to tell me "no," or where to go, or say I'm only dreaming. This morning I'm going to accompany C to the DMV so that she can renew her driver's license. Then I'll come home and practice piano, and later today we're going to pick up my best friend CMJ from the airport. She's returning from her trip after two weeks. We're going to take her out for steak dinner. Speaking of CMJ, here is a turtle joke courtesy of her: What does a turtle use to make phone calls? Give up? His shellular phone. ROFLMFAO! OM Read more:Early