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And meaner than ever.
Another wet spongy summer, but we have been rain-free for two whole days, so things are looking up. Without getting rain in their faces.
Have returned to the church of my youth, Unitarian, but the gas to get there (it's 30 miles, one way) is killing me. Still, there are very few Unitarian churches in small oklahoma towns. okmulgee, the largest town close to us, with 13,000 souls, has 97 churches ( I counted in the phone book), all christian denominations, including the two catholic churches. No Unitarians. At the church I attend in Tulsa, there is one other couple from Beggs. I guess the three of us would have no trouble lifting a collection plate.
Watched my grandson Vinny overnight for the first time last night, and he's a funny, happy, goofy, clingy little guy, with the same deadly aim his dad had as an infant. Watch your shins, Jess.
Bye for now. More next year. tee hee.
- Location:earth
- Mood:
angry - Music:the stupid song i can't get out of my head.
On a warm summer night, get into a swimming pool and position yourself in it so you see as little light pollution as possible. Look up to the stars. Watch the bats swoop and wheel overhead.
So cool.
- Location:out of the pool
- Mood:
giddy - Music:Handel's "Water Music"
This is my game. You blow up the outer ring of a one ring baby pool until nearly supportive, and partially, just barely, blow up the bottom portion if this is an option. Float the baby pool in the big pool, and fill inside with water. Put in as much or as little as you like.
Get a cheapo beach-ball. Blow it approx. half way up, the force in up to 1/2 gallon of water with hose. Plug hole.
Throw same at baby pool as it floats about. Smack your friends and family (not too hard, it can hurt. Then it's hilarious) with the ball to prevent scoring. Use two balls. Score the way you want. Cheat. Make it your game. Help me name the game. The one who's entry is chosen wins! What do you win? Well, nothing, really, but if we can sell the game to a manufacturer...too much like work.
- Location:you know
- Mood:
chipper
http://kotv.com/news/local/story/?id=130
follow the above link, and ask yourself:
Who Would Jesus Shoot?
Wanna buy an arm band?
- Location:terra aqua
- Mood:
sad - Music:Themes from West Side Story"
 MSNBC.com |
- Location:US of A
- Mood: sad
of the walls in the bedroom and kitchen, if anyone is interested...or not.
it's been raining. And raining. Some folks in Ok are actually flooded out, and if you could get a look at the rivers in their normal state, you would be shocked. The Arkansas, as it flows (?) through Tulsa, usually looks like you could easily navigate a path across it and never get your feet wet. It is a sad river, most times. But now it is a fierce, proud, swift flowing river, as it once was, before the dams tamed it.
Just thinking...ya' know how the conservatives and Republicans keep making nasty remarks about Dems cozying up to the "Hollywood Types"? How's about this list:
George Murphy, former Senator for CA. Republican
Shirley Temple, former ambassador to Ghana. Republican
Sonny Bono. Republican.
Ronald Reagan. Republican
Fred Thompson. Republican
Arnold Schwarzenegger. Republican
Fred Grandy. Republican
And those are just the ones I can come up with off the top of my head.
Just thought I'd mention it.
- Location:existing room
- Mood:bemused
- Music:"Oliver"
Oh, luckily, the families living in the apartments all got out OK, except of course they are now homeless and without possessions. Life can really suck, but what's the alternative?
- Location:My World
- Mood:philosophical
- Music:Le danse du diable
It sounds scarier than it was. They are really good cookies.
For some reason, even though i attempt to capitalize every "I" in reference to "me", all I get for the most part is lower-case. Perhaps my low self-esteem manifesting itself through my keyboard. Or maybe I am just a lousy typist. A or B.
- Location:kitchen, mostly
- Mood:
curious
The past couple weeks have been one surprise after another, first the birth of our whole entire grandson, Vinny Ray, who’s photo I have uploaded to my gallery, so have a peek.
We have been getting rain. And more rain. And a little more rain. You can literally watch the grass grow, although it really isn’t good entertainment. The garden and flowers and gourds and peach trees have been celebrating as well, and the willow thinks it’s died and gone to heaven. Really, one of our tiny peach trees, planted just last fall, has about 10 large peaches on it, and without support, it bends to the ground. Some apple gourd seeds I planted Wednesday were already up Thursday. Lotsa rain.
JoeyJoJo Shabadoo fits into the pack like a puzzle piece. The pack adores her, even Malibu, and considering the smallest of our other dogs is almost four times Joey’s size, and the largest almost 10 times as heavy, they are remarkably gentle with her…I think they think we got them a puppy.
I don’t miss Wal*Mart. I don’t miss the customers, I don’t miss the corporate horsecaca, I don’t miss the dress code, I don’t even miss my employee discount card. Ok, I do miss some of my old compatriots, but that’s it.
That’s about it. I guess not all that much has happened after all…
- Location:earth
- Mood:
calm
Still no grandbaby. Come on, Vinny!
- Location:state of humility
- Mood: amused
- Location:the mist
- Mood:dreamy
- Music:"Where or When" by Lena Horne
Here is Steve as a lovely renaissance maiden.- Location:earth
- Mood: giddy
- Music:Whatcha See is What you get
Actually, it's been rawther wettish for OK Spring, and a little cool. I suppose as global warming melts the ice caps and the cold water entering the oceans cools the earth to the point where the next ice age is upon us, wettish and cool will be normal.
I may have mentioned that there are some squatters living around the corner and down the road from us. They have picked a really lovely spot to park their two RV travel trailers side by side, right next to a small bridge over a chattering little stream midst a leafy dell. We frequently walk our mutts past their woodland estate, and an itty-bitty mexican hairless often comes bouncing stiff-legged down the gravel drive, outrage evident in his strident little bark. The last two times, Mighty Little has been joined by another pure breed, a young black and tan bloodhound, who echoes his little friend's feelings towards our scruffy pack of misbegotten mongrels. I guess when you don't pay rent or a mortgage, you can afford to buy thoroughbreds.
- Location:living room
- Mood:
blah - Music:Rock DJ
A new dog showed up this morning. I have to figure out how to run her off without feeling like a monster. She's a cute, fat waddly border collie mix, and when i went to the garage to check to see if my goose had thawed, she ran right up. Damn.
Hey, Jess, going to the RenFaire with Dalton today. Wish you were here.
- Location:earth
- Mood:anticipatory
- Music:"Up on Your Toes"
- Location:beneath a stone grey cloud
- Mood:
and goofy - Music:"Tainted love"
Went on a roll today withLeslie, hitting quite a few "Antique" store, and came away with a plethora of wonders. Two pair of sequined shoes that almost fit, a pair of Doc Marten's that do, a lovely oil of a small pottery vase with gourds. Very nice.
No tornados here. I really think that global warming is shifting Tornado Alley to the east. Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi...they have all been hit harder than Oklahoma in the past few seasons. Last year no tornados were recorded at all in OK. That hadn't happened in over 100 years.
Golly.
- Location:OOOOOklahoma
- Mood: calm
- Music:"Everything's Allright"
They are all in such elegant company.
Haven't been updating much lately. Jim, my new boyfriend and gnarled gnome that works with me, is in the hospital battling a staph infection. Oh, the wonder germs we've encouraged over the decades, how they do eat us up. Poor Jim is lonely and blue in the hospital, so i hope he gets to go home today.
Work has been uneventful. I have a pair of glorius shoes, rich green satin brocade Chuck Taylors, that have been getting alot of attention, deservedly so. Really fine shoes.
Attended the baby shower for Dawn on Saturday. Vinny will be able to go about six years and never wear the same shirt twice. Or same bib. I intend to do some serious spoiling. His room looks really nice, with his name in big blue letters over the crib.
At least the cursed week in April is over. Another disaster to add to the infamy that is the week spanning 14th thru 21st April. i wonder why it seems so many awful things seem to happen during those days. Walpurgis Night isn't 'til the 30th.
- Location:earth
- Mood: curious
- Music:kung Fu Christmas
Glorious. Marilyn Monroe. "My Heart Belongs to Daddy". She makes it sound marvelously innocently obscene.
- Location:earth
- Mood:
contemplative - Music:guess
Enough feeling stupid..I am now happily listening to Tom Lehrer warble "She's My Girl", one of his rare love songs. So touching.
- Location:My Yellow House
- Mood:ambivolent
- Music:The Moody Blues, "The Story in Your Eyes"
Oddly quiet at the mart tonight, considering it was a payday Friday Night and the Friday before Easter. The shoplifters had a swell time. The things people will steal are soooo funny. Whole families of thieves roam the aisles. It's a fun game, figuring out who they are, and catching them in the act.
"I was just poking it with my knife."
"I found this open like this."
The 'lies pool' in this part of the country is pretty shallow. Occasionally you get the ones who want to get aggressively defensive. Really don't like dealing with them.
I wear fairly long bangs, but I am considering writing "STUPID" on my forehead, and the very next time i am presented with one of those ridiculously blatant lies, I'm going to raise my hand to my forehead, expose the writing, and say, "Oh, well, that's OK then."
That would be such fun.
- Location:home at last
- Mood:bemused
