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ARGH! 2007-02-07 05:22:03 I’ve been offline for about 4 days.
After about one day I go into internet DTs. 4 days is asking for trouble. Thats when all the inner mes whose appetites are normally filled online start to feel denied and fight to come to the surface.
And I think one of them might be Napoleon.
Or, at the very least one of them is short and is wearing a big hat.
I’m just glad I was finally able to connect again.
As a gift, I give you this link to a Gazoo thats been held hostage in my inbox so long it might not even work anymore.
The end of a bad ride. 2007-02-08 04:37:42 Sitting on the bathroom floor, cramps ripping through my stomach, a head full of big bad hurting, I feel like I’ve been hit by a truck.
“What the hell is wrong with you!” the saner part of me is screaming, while the sick part of me is already thinking about the kitchen again. After all, I didn’t eat all the macaroni. I have to finish it. There’s room to finish it now.
This past week has been pretty hellish. Stress+depression+PMS apparently = a B/P cycle like I’ve not had in a LONG time. In a matter of 6 days I have gone through almost 2 weeks worth of food.
Meanwhile I spritz the toilet with some bleach and give it a swish. Wash my face, clean my glasses, fix myself a cup of coffee and run water in the sink to wash the nights dishes.
After all, as they say, life goes on.
Having recently learned that people will pay to watch other people vomit, maybe I can find a way to turn my fucked up mentality into a profit.
50 Books a Year 2007-02-09 03:43:23 I’m in a Yahoo Group that challenges us to read 50 books in a year. Last year I hardly kept track at all, despite making a special blog for it.
This year I say, screw the special blog, I’ll put everything right here.
So far this year I’ve read:
#1 “Gone South” by Robert R. McCammon
The book summary is:
Gone South. In Vietnam Vet’s parlance, it means screwed-up, crazy. In the Deep South of the United States, it means dead.
Dan Lambert’s experiences in Vietnam have left him no stranger to psychological wounds or death. Years later, they have also left him divorced, broke, unemployed—and on the run. For Dan, to his shock and his shame, has become a murderer.
There is a $15,000 reward on his head—a reward that two weird bounty hunters will stop at nothing to get: a reward that doesn’t interest the brutally disfigured Arden Halliday. For Arden is after a different prize—one that she hopes to find deep in the dangerous swamp Read more:Books
My Carton Has Been 100% Inspected 2007-02-13 03:55:03 At least that's what the sheet of paper at the bottom of the carton told me.
Upon reading that I laughed like a lunatic for quite some time. It seemed funny to me that they put things like that in the bottom of shipping boxes. It it had been 100% inspected, why was the sheet on the BOTTOM of th box? And if the carton had only been 48% inspected, would they have left me a sheet of paper in the carton telling me so?
I checked my blog's stats recently, and was slightly appalled to find that "fat people" and "steaming pile of shit" are tied for the #1 search. I was amused to see that at least one person found me by Googling "Why do retail customers suck so bad"
Saturday we went to see "Hannibal Rising" and I left the theater thinking something similar to that last search query. "What did that movie suck so bad?" I borderline hated it, which is odd, because I've liked all the others. I chalk it up to the time the movie is set in. The older a movie Read more:Inspected
It is my civic duty to Be Proud! Be Shitty! 2007-02-14 20:50:52 Since some of the search words leading people to my blog include "steaming pile of shit" I thought it only fitting to talk about the Shitty Blogs Cub.
Its this club see, where you join if you feel your blog is shitty, and if you are proud of its shittiness.
Be Proud
! Be Shitty! Our logo says.
Being a member of the SBC, you can win such honorable titles as Shitty Blog of the Month ( Sparky was January's SBotM), or even Shitty Blog of the Year (2006’s SBotY honor was taken by aka_Monty).
Even more fun than being able to claim a month of a year to me yours in the shittiest, there is also a little game about to start up called Shitty Blog Survivor. If you decide to participate, you will be given weekly tasks to complete, if you fail to completely them, or suck worse than everyone else, you will be "kicked off the island" so to speak. Fun times for all.
But the best part is the forum. Or, rather, the best part would be the forum if anyone ever came in there and said anyth
Silly Online Games 2007-02-17 06:39:14 Why do I play them?
I spent 4 hours last night training my horses on Horseland.
Today I decided to put them all up for sale, and start all over, and while they are worth millions of dollars on horseland (while people will try to get me to sell them for mere thousands), they are worth zilch in the real world. Worth even less than this gazoo.
Anyone else out there play horseland? Interested in buying some Gypsy Vanners? Willing to pay a few million HL bucks? Check me out. I’m player #1870250
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Movies on a Saturday Night 2007-02-18 18:21:12 We went to see "Ghost Rider" last night. We went to a 9:45 showing, which was awful late for me, since I had worked a full day and it was a scary busy day.
It was a scary busy day at the theater too. That place was freaking packed. We were tempted to turn around and leave without waiting in that LONG line to get into the movie.
Despite my mental and physical exhaustion, I managed to stay awake through the whole thing, and I actually enjoyed it. I know NOTHING of the Ghost Rider comic, so my enjoyment came purely from the fact that he was a burning skeleton guy, and there were demons invovled.
Gotta love demons.
I also loved that I got to see a Resident Evil preview. I love me some resident Evil. Thought by seeing the preview this looks like it should be the 4th one, because it looks like we've missed something between the second one and this one.
Then the whole experience was ruined by Robert demanding that a manager (who looked like Lex Luthor off Smallville) refund Read more:Saturday
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, Saturday Night
I've Read 2 More Books 2007-02-21 17:24:45 Book #6 was “Stormy Weather” by Carl Hiaasen.
I’ve enjoyed all of his books, but this one was getting a little less enjoyable, only because it had a few too many characters for my taste.
It was about several people who converged on Miami after a hurricane ripped through. Some were bad, wanting to make money off the crisis, some just wanted to film the cargane. Some were people who already lived there.
Book #7 was “Pest Control” by Bill Fitzhugh. I enjoyed it, but I think it would have made a better movie than a book (and thats not something I’ll say often).
Pest Control man Bob Dillon looses his job, then drunkenly sends a resume out to a want ad, witch turns out to be an add for a professional hitman.
Suddenly people are asking Bob to kill people for them, and even though he says no they turn up dead anyway. Then the brother of one of the recently dead puts a bounty on Bob’s head and assisans are coming from everywhere to kill him.
Its a h Read more:Books
Whale Sharks for YummY! 2007-02-28 04:35:29 This past Saturday I finally got to go to the Georgia Aquarium.
Due to my suck-tacular camera, I only have suck-tacular pictures, but I will share with you now the least suck-tacular among them.
(At the moment, suck-tacular is my new favorite word)
These are supposed to be WhaleSharks
, though you can’t really tell. I need a camera with a zoom.
This is the smallest of the 3 whale sharks, and the closest any of them came, if I remember right.
Now, for some other fish:
This spotty fish was called a “Potato” something or other. I can’t remember if it was potato grouper or potato wrasse. I think it was the latter.
This is an ugly critter. It looks sick to me, but I saw 3 or 4 of them that looked the same, so I guess they are supposed to look like that.
This one is a sea dragon. I love sea dragons. I wish I could have spent more time looking at them and taking more pictures, but it was getting really crowded in the aquarium by this time. I’m
2007-03-02 05:28:27 My knees hurt. So does the middle finger of my right hand.
Its ‘cause I spent 3 and ½ hours this morning on Aisle #7 (aka Foam World….and, we really do call it that) peeling off old price labels, putting on new price labels, scrubbing off sticky goop with Goo Gone, and dusting it all with a Swipe.
Three and ½ freaking hours! On my knees!
No wonder my knees hurt.
The middle finger is cause that’s what I used to pry up the old labels with. I think I have a paper cut under the nail or something.
I just finished listening to Shitty Blog Radio for the first time in a long time, and now I’m listening to the wind blowing outside my house. The area is under a tornado watch. I hate bad weather. Especially when I’m alone. Not that not being alone would make a tornado any less deadly, but at least I’d have more company when I died.
Speaking of tornadoes, I thought I saw a witch on a bicycle out there, but it turned out just to be a lost little gazoo.
Meanwhile, I
Thursday Thirteen #4 2007-03-01 03:43:47 Thirteen
Things I Saw at the Georgia Aquarium
1. Whale sharks. 3 of them. Two big, one little (if a whale shark can be called little). They never opened their mouths. I wanted to see one open its mouth.
2. Beluga whales. One of them did a twisty little dance in the back of its tank. The twisty dance made me smile.
3. Sea Otters. The male was asleep. The female was in the water playing. When a kid tapped on the glass, the otter tapped back with a shell it had in its hands.
4. Spotted wobbegong, sleeping smushed under a rock. It looked like the rock had fallen on them, making them smushed wobbegongs.
5. A massive crowd of people around the penguins. The crowd was so thick that I barely even got to see the actual penguins
6. A channel cat sleeping under a rock. It was covered in pink spots and its gills were not moving. Just as I was almost convinced it was dead, it opened its mouth and took a gulp of air, and wiggled around a little. I told Robert it was having a nig Read more:Thursday
Didn’t Sunday used to be a day of rest? 2007-03-05 04:25:24 Today was one of those days that the crazies came out of the wood work.
I’ll spare you all my usual “customers suck” rampage and just say, I worked too hard today. The lines stayed backed up ALL day. And I do mean BACKED UP all day. Too many fucking people.
The lines were still backed up at 7, when the store closed. We didn’t get out of there until after 8.
Tomorrow promises to not be any better, but at least I dont have to close. I might actually get to come home at a reasonable hour.
Meanwhile there was some mild (and mostly one sided on our part) drama between the SBC and some new place calling themselves Shittyblogger.com
Being both shitty and proud I even joined in the shameless comment spamming, though my comment (Which simply said “Shitty and Proud for over 2 years”) has gone the way of the dodo.
And since, in only a day’s time, we’ve bugged them so much they wrote their own post about us, the fun in further comment spamm Read more:Sunday
I just wanted to pee! 2007-03-07 18:29:03 Yesterday was, up to a point, a nice and normal day. A pretty okay day. I slept till noon. I went to work at 5pm for a short work day.
It wasn’t a crazy madhouse like it had been the past 2 days.
Then, around 7:15, I had to go potty. Not normally a big deal.
We don’t have a private restroom we get to use. We use the public restroom too, the same one the customers use.
Well, to go into the first stall, and the toilet is covered in crap.
Someone went into the ladies room, pooped, and rubbed it all over the toilet. Not just the seat, but the front, the sides, the tank, even the flush handle.
NO! I said. I’m not cleaning this shit up. I just came in here to pee!
So, I went to the second stall, and that toilet is STUFFED with various papers. Toilet seat cover paper, the paper from the changing table (that you’re supposed to lay down first, then lay your baby on the paper) and yards and yards and yards of brown paper towels.
So now I go to the broom closet, don a Read more:wanted
Thursday Thirteen #5 2007-03-09 03:32:14 Thirteen
Things I’d Like 13 Of
1. 13 Rats:
I could never have enough rats. I have 5 currently, and I love every inch of every one of their furry little boddies. I’d like to have a rat rescue, plus breed my own pet rats one day. 13 rats would be a good start to that.
2. 13 $100 bills
Who WOUDLN’T want that one? Right now I want a printer/copier/scanner for my computer, plush I want a Crayola cutter and I want THIS book. $1300 would get me much closer to all 3.
3. 13 pairs of jeans EXACTLY like my favorite pair.
I’m a jeans and t-shirt girl 100%. I never feel the urge to be “girlie”. I would, however, like all jeans to be as comfy as my favorite pair. It doesn’t matter if I buy the exact same style of the exact same brand at the exact same time, one pair always ends up being more comfortable for some reason.
4. 13 days off in a row.
That’s right. I want a vacation. Preferably a paid vacation. And not my hubbys “Lets go to Disney” hurly burly vacatio Read more:Thursday
50 Books a Year: #8 and #9 2007-03-10 22:55:24 Book #8 was “By the Light of the Moon” by Dean Koontz
After a mild dissapointment in my last Hiaasen book, I immediately had a dissapointment in another author I like.
In “By the Light of the Moon” Dylan O’Connor and Jillian Jackson are attacked by a man at a motel and injected with a syringe of what the man simply calls “stuff”.
This “stuff” ends up giving them “supernatural” powers. Then they find out people are after them, and its not too easy to run and hide because of Dylan’s autistic brother Shep and his special needs and wants.
It was an okay story. I enjoyed Shep’s character, and the way Dylan interacted with him.
(One scene that stuck with me was where they were in a bathroom, where Shep HAD to maintain verbal contact with Dlyan. Shep would say, “Pee, Dylan” and Dylan would say “Pee, Shep.” The repeated the process until Shep finished and came out of the stall, but it seemed to freak out the other man in the mens room at the time.)
O Read more:Books
And here I whine again 2007-03-26 00:13:52 I’m still here, and still mostly alive. At least I think I’m alive. Maybe I died and went to hell. It’s got to be so much the same that I’d probably never notice.
I’ve found myself spending less and less and less time online. For a period of 4 days I didn’t log on once, not even to check my e-mail. That’s very much unlike me.
I’ve been spending most of my evenings watching tv. At 6:30 its “The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy” on Cartoon Network, and most nights Spike TV has CSI from 7 to 9. And this week, all new Animal Cops on Animal Planet. Woo Hoo!
Yep, I’ve become a sofa potato.
That, and I’ve been playing Final Fantasy X again. One day I’ll beat it, but not as long as the big beasties keep kicking my ass.
Been reading too (as my previous 2 posts show) but slower than I used to. Only finishing 2 or 3 books every 3 weeks, when I used to get between 6 and 8 read in that time.
This past Friday Ellen (from work) talked me into going out
My most recent books have been a John Saul three-fer. 2007-03-25 23:42:44 #10 was “In the Dark of Night” about 3 boys who find a hidden door in the storage house of a summer house they were renting. In the secret room they find random things that seem like junk, but as they start putting these things together, odd things start happening around them.
I did not like this book much at all and wasn’t sure I’d be able to even finish it. And by the end things were unclear as to what had actually happened that summer, who did what, or if anything happened at all.
#11 was “Black Creek Crossing” A better tell of Angel, who was the outcast in her old school, moves to a new house only to immediately become the outcast in her new school as well. She befriends a boy named Seth, and together they find an odd book in the basement of her new house.
It was a better story than the first one, but I didn’t like the ending, and it also left things unanswered. Things like, “Whats with the cat?” and “What makes her father act the way he does?” and “Um&h
The SBC Has Gone .com 2007-03-27 19:26:39 Remember, once upon a time, I mentioned drama between the SBC and a place calling itself ShittyBlogger?
Well, during that time, and probably because of it, Blogsome deleted the SBC.
So, the Shitty Blogs Club has moved…….again.
This time we’ve gone .com.
Shittyblogsclub.com to be exact. It makes us look all official and shit. Um….sort of.
So now is the perfect time to join.
Why join the SBC?
Well, it gives you a chance to meet other bloggers who realize that blogging is not the be all and end all.
It also gives you a chance to be a “Shitty Blog of the Month” and win a button for your blog sidebar. Everyone wants more buttons for their sidebar.
Then there is the forum, where SBC members can gather and talk about….well….pretty much whatever they want to talk about. The group favorite seems to be the “I Hate Everything Club” where bitching and moaning is a way of life. Don’t worry though, optimists, there’s also the &ldq
She Who is YummY! 2007-04-07 04:47:59 I think that, photo wise, the image of me naked in last years Shitty Blog Survivor might be the only me that anyone has seen. And any other photo I might have shared would have been one that was self taken, probably with a rat on my shoulder.
Well, how about this one…a picture of me that makes me look almost pretty.
This picture was taken by a friend of mine from work for her photography class.
I’m almost officially internet famous. 2007-04-06 22:26:01 That’s right. Almost, but not quite.
See, I’ve been offline for…oh…a week or so because our phone line is screwed up and I was too lazy to do all the disconnecting and reconnecting it took to get phone line a to computer b, and really made me wish, once again, that we were not still the last family on earth using dial up.
Anyway, I came back to find I had a comment from the ever lovely Katkat telling me I had a nomination for a BOB.
I love things called Bob. I had a mouse named Bob once. But thats beside the point. I drool over the BOBs every year thinking someone might love me enough to nominate me.
Then again, the categories don’t exactly “fit” me, since I don’t think my blog really HAS a category, its just a general brain dump.
So I looked, and sure enough, it wasn’t YummY! Down, but my Writers Notebook blog.
That really makes me very happy. I joke about writing bad fiction and even worse poetry, but I’ve always been a little proud of my writi
I make people think! (and 5 books down) 2007-04-24 00:53:15 Once upon a time, about 18 days ago, Webkittyn awarded me as a “Thinking Blogger”, and then my writing blog was in the running to win the BOBs, and then I ran away from the internet.
Not because of the awards, but because I just didn’t feel like logging on when things such as CSI and the Lego Star Wars games had my attention at home.
Meanwhile I’m still trying to think
who of the multitude of blogs I read will I nominate as a thinking blogger. And also, I came first runner up in the BoBs.
Until I can find my thinking bloggers (without copying anyone Kittyn mentioned, or else Kat would be there), I leave you with the next 5 books I’ve read toward my 50 this year.
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#13 was “Dead Run” by P.J. Tracy
Its the third book involving the members of a software developing
group called Monkeewrench.
On the way to share some of their software with a police department in
need, two women from Monkeewrench and one police officer find
themselves in an oddly empty town. Th Read more:people
I’m not profound, just tired…. 2007-05-03 07:41:18 …and I ran out of FUZE.
The moon was orange tonight. Big and orange.
Its 1:30 am currently, and I saw this on my myspace comments and really hurt myself laughing.
Sure, its likely to offend someone, but I thought it was funny as hell. Crystal always could make me laugh my ass off.
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Going to Disney 2007-05-06 17:20:47 We’re leaving today to go to Florida. We’re going to MGM, Epcot, and the Magic Kingdom.
Its really Roberts vacation, and I’m hoping that I’ll have some fun. It’s all he’s talked about for a month now.
I’m not really big into the whole Disney
thing. I’m sure that makes me some great American Dream destroying terrorist or something, but its just not all that.
Its made even less “that” since I refuse to get on a ride without someone I know with me, and Robert refuses to get on any roller coasters, so I’m not seeing many coasters in my future. Ellen told me to get over my not wanting to ride alone and grab a native.
Yeah, if I just grabbed some stranger to ride with me they’d probably think I wanted to eat them or something.
We’re leaving around 1:00 and I’ll be stuck in a car for too long. Once upon a time I used to read in the car on a long trip, but as I aged, reading in the car started giv Read more:Going
Internet Families (of Mass Disfunction) 2007-05-17 07:08:31 I’ve been online for several years now. I used to hang out in yahoo chat rooms. Usually ones for dark poetry or one user created group called The Vampyrs Tavern, which was an RPG type room. The name of the latter of those two sticks with me because it gave me an idea for a short story collection that I’ve been too lazy to write.
Shortly after I got into chats, I got into Yahoo Clubs, which eventually became Yahoo Groups. I’ve been in and out of several groups, but I’m still a member of a couple of groups who I was in when Yahoo Groups was still Yahoo Clubs.
And, slowly, I’ve started leaving some of them. Most of them because they were dead or dying and I was tired of trying to keep things going just because I was the oldest member there in terms of how long I’d been in the group.
So, I’m down to only a couple I was originally in, and one of them I’m thinking about leaving because its changed so much over the years its not the same group it was when I joined, even t Read more:Internet
, Families
Good Sunday 2007-05-20 16:18:47 How is everyone doing today? Are you enjoying your weekend?
Its just a little after 10 as I sit down to write this. I just woke up from a nightmare that my brother called to tell me our dad had died, only to find out in an unpleasant way that my TOTM had snuck up on me in the night. YUCK!
I’m drinking coffee and reading e-mails, trying to compose myself from both events.
We’re going to see “Shrek the Third” at a 12:30 showing today, then we’re going to the hardware store. Robert wants to see if they have some hinges he needs to fix the bathroom closet, and to price some wood because he wants to build a new shelf for all his electronic stuff hooked up to the TV. (There’s a lot of it.) I want to look at some chain, if they have any. I need a little chain for my rat hammocks, because they hang so close to the top of the cage.
Yesterday was a calm, around the house type of day. I read a lot. Finished reading “Nature Girl” wh Read more:Sunday
Can a Straight Woman have Gay Pride? 2007-05-19 04:57:05 I have a blog over on yahoo’s 360. No big surprise there. I have blogs everywhere.
Today I read a blog entry written by the friend of a friend. It was about gay life styles. At the end of the blog entry, the writer asked:
So what is your opinion about this subject?
Have you ever considered having sex with someone else of the same sex?
Do you think they should have the same rights as other married couples?
I read all the responses written to the post so far, and though as usual the christans were all “God is right and you’re going to hell” as usual, there was no personal attacks going it. It was as civil a discussion as could be had on such a topic. I felt safe enough to post my response which was:
I’ve tried a same sex sexual relationship and it wasn’t for me. I’ve also been deeply in love with another woman in a non-sexual relationship.
I’ve always been attracted to the idea of men in love with each other (and was taunted a lot by my brother for Read more:Straight
, Pride
Blogging Got Me Noticed 2007-05-23 14:04:24 I was waging war against the 10k+ spam messages in my comment moderation when I found a quick and wonderful little code to zap them all. That made me happy, but I wish I’d found it 3000 clicks ago.
Then I decided to go in and attack the spam messages that didn’t get caught up in moderation and did make it into my comments section, and I cam across a comment that made me go, “Well, would you at that.”
A while back (in November) I posted a blog entry I entitled “London Hardware” where I talked about the mistakes I found in reading a book called “Spawn of Hell.”
Well, while doing my “spam be gone” duty I realized that it had a comment on it. One I’ve not read. Which served to remind me that I need to get e-mail alerts when I get comments because apparantly I’m missing some.
The comment is from one Bill Schoell. William Schoell himself…the author of the novel. I was tempted to not believe it was who he said Read more:Blogging
Work Makes my Elbow Hurt (and there is blood in this post) 2007-05-21 21:18:06 I got to work at 7 this morning thinking I’d be working on the massive reset I have coming in my Foam department. Instead I was there…..cleaning. They had me on shelf scrubbing duty again. I HATE that. I hate feeling like a maid! If I wanted to clean up other peoples messing for a living I’d work at a freaking hotel or something.
Meanwhile, my first customer of the day (on a register, not on the floor) was a $145 RETURN. Why do people return things so early in the day. We have NO money in our registers to give them, but they want us to give them money anyway.
So I ended up owing the safe $140 and couldn’t go home until I got it. Luckily I was able to go back to my job scrubbing glitter and glue and glitter glue off of shelves while Elise ran on my register to get me the cash I needed.
Much love for Elise!!!
And now my elbow hurts. And my thumb hurts. And I broke about 3 nails today.
And my elbow hurts.
WARNING…THE FOLLOWING IS PROBABLY TOO MUCH INFORMATION Read more:Elbow
Shitty Blog Survivor: Year 2 2007-05-27 10:31:37 Every time I see this symbol I think of shutter trying to sing the theme music.
I put my name in the hat to be on the island.
Last year I ended up getting naked and singing, and both were horrible. We’ll see how this year goes.
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