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I am so tired of the political TV ads. They are really nasty this year. And I throw so much over sized glossy card stock into recycling it's ridiculous. I'm so glad it's about over. I have the ringer off the phone and the machine picking up (so yesteryear of me), and still they leave these long-assed messages. Shut up, already! I have VOTED!! And there's another thing I just don't understand. Even from young voters, I don't get it. How can we elect a President, of either party, who comes into an office that is mired in chaos, being embroiled in not one, but two wars, with an economy that is on the verge of collapse, a national debt that was at its highest in history, to just name a few of the bigger problems that were facing us in November 2008, and expect the new president with the new administration, to get up to speed and learn ALL of the things that WE THE PUBLIC DO NOT KNOW, and solve all these (and more) problems in less than two years?  Those are som...

Here's the thing. I wasn't the first person to think of this. I am just one of many who quietly shake their head at the Christmas music playing in the stores and the decorations being put up earlier and earlier each year. So here's a little reminder, folks: Hell, I don't even know what I am going to be doing on Christmas this year, so let's give me a chance to breathe and figure out what to do with the holidays that precede it, shall we? I'll admit, there's not too much more time to plan for Halloween. If you haven't gotten started there, well, time's a wastin'. I have cajoled DH to make an artsy-fartsy mobile out of a little bag of plastic movable skeletons that were on sale at the grocery store for TWO BUCKS. I help them up, said "YOU could do something really cute with these, don't you think?" And I threw them in the cart, along with a skeletal ghoul that was dressed in orange burlap and mossy hair. A great outside door or...

Thank you Sherri, for becoming follower  #45!. If only I could figure out how, I would comment more over at your site, The Mess that is My Mind .  Just keep on keeping on without my pithy remarks. But if you have any suggestions for me, do let me know, Thanks. I have been awake all night - again. I got up late, and was going to go to bed early in the AM, but realized that I have to pick up my license tabs today, or risk getting a ticket.  DH FINALLY took the car in for its emissions inspection yesterday, and my the time we got over to  the county extension office, we found that they close at 4 fucking 30. So I'm heading over there in just a few minutes to get my tabs, I HATE putting this crap off  til the last possible minute, but that's what I get when I leave it to somebody else to take care of for me. I know. They say if you want something done right, do it yourself. I guess that as long as that is possible, I'd better stick with it. So, I'm off; just aft...

I just started to read Howling at the Moon by Zoomdoggies and she challenged me to make my list of 15 (favorite) books in 15 minutes, before reading her own posted list. So here it is: 1. Shogun    James Clavell 2. A Confederacy of Dunces   John Kennedy Toole 3. Saint Maybe Ann Tyler 4. The Falls   Joyce Carol Oates 5. Crime and Punishment     Fyodor Dostoevsky 6. Life of Pi   Yann Martel 7. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues    Tom Robbins 8. The Source   James Michener 9. Until Proven Guilty J.A. Jance 10. Ella Minnow Pea  Mark Dunn 11. The Shining    Stephen King 12. The Sparrow    Mary Doria Russell 13. Ecotopia     Ernest Callenbach 14. The entire Harry Potter Series  J.K. Rowling 15.  The Little Prince   Antoine Saint-Exupéry and just for sh*ts and grins I'll add one more 'cuz it appears I'm on a roll. 16. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society ...

Now that I've started, I have to collect my wits and try to remember which ends have been left loose! I know that one was my Tracfone. It turns out that once I recharged it with a 60 minute card, my phone still says I have  600 (or so) minutes on it which is good as they were the minutes that were paid for when the phone was purchased. It's just that after six months or so, I had to start regularly (quarterly) buying a phone card to keep it active. So I have, and it is, and that makes me feel beholden to another electronic gizmo that I might need some day. Like if I have to call THESE guys if I run out of gas or have a flat or my battery goes dead. Anything like that.     It's the ONLY reason I have a cell phone.     So all's good. Hubs and I never made it to Snake Lake - and I am afraid that the days of 70 degree weather are GONE for probably, say, seven months. Unless we're [very] lucky. It's dark at 6 PM now [Okay, 6:15 is sundown], but s...

Today I received the Prolific Blogger Award from Karen over at "Meandering ...One moment please." Thank you so very much for this, Karen. But I know that the only reason I got this is because I admitted that I will fart out loud if I need to, and I got her to own up to that as well. Still. I'm honored. As with almost all blog awards, this one comes with rules:  Link it to the person who gave it to yo u. Check; Link it to the person who originated it and that would be Hazra at "Advanced Booking." Check; Pass it on to seven more prolific bloggers, but Karen (another one who likes to color outside the lines) gave permission to opt out of this one, but today, I think I won't do that.  So I choose to pass this on to, in no particular order, these people whom I read religiously, but without piety.  Kmilyun (Jan) at Bifurcate in the Road Attila the Mom at Cheaper Than Therapy Zoomdoggies ( ) at Howling at the Moon Doug at Groping the Elephant Weeble G...

Welcome to my new followers! There is, in no particular order,  Karen , and Nick , and Laura , and Jane . What an eclectic and interesting bunch of people I have who read me. It is just wonderful. Thank you for reading. I'm happy to have you here.  Good Night, TTYL and Be Well, P.S. Though I may never have mentioned it, I am happy about all of you who follow me. I'm just flummoxed surprised at the recent influx of newbies!

I remember October 9, 1980 a little better than I remember most other dates from 30 years ago. It was a weekday, my day off, bright and sunny with a little Fall chill in the morning and in the shade. I had made plans with my best friend to meet in the University district where she could go to her bank, and then we would commence our trip for the day. After conducting her business at Rainier Bank near 45th and University Ave. we started walking down the Ave and browsing in a few shops along the way, chatting in the way only best friends do, finishing each other's thoughts and jumping from topic to topic in random fashion. First stop on campus was the undergrad library cafeteria for something to drink. This is where I got my instructions of what to expect of the day. This was my inauguration to the world of hallucinogens. Yes. This was my first (of just a few) acid trip. Looking out for me, and not wanting me to have too intense an experience, she gave me half a dose, carefull...