01 February 2006

Yep, that's me about 20 years ago in college, something else I found in that box. Oh if I still had that hair. I actually had a flattop at one time for a couple of years but I don't think there are any pictures to prove it. Today, it's raining and I've spent the day doing laundry. How is it possible for there to be so much laundry? I'm on load number eight, including bed linens. The plan was to go to see Transamerica tonight but I think I may be too much of a punk to go out in the rain tonight.

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03 February 2006

I was sitting with one of my buds at work in the break room talking about anything and everything. I'm holding a tape measure playing with it only because it was just sitting there. This kid who is always wide open walks in and just sits there and listens. This is a smart kid but really doesn't know anything, you know what I mean? By the way, I'm at the point where I refer to an 18 year old as a kid. I take the tape measure and start extending it through the air, over the table, really just to annoy my bud. That's just what I do. It's high quality so it doesn't give any. I extend it six feet over the table and when I get close to his face, he turns toward it and opens his mouth wide open. This kid turns ten shades of red and decides it's time to leave.

On the home front, Duncan's been out of town but should be back tonight just in time for him to leave again tomorrow morning. I am seriously missing the man.

And one last thing, everybody deserves a chance to whine and bitch every now and then. But here's thing, if you're one of those people who constantly bitch and whine, shut-up, nobody gives a damn.

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09 February 2006

Today I scraped off wallpaper glue from the upstairs bathroom. What a thrill that is. That's Duncan's baby. I think he doing some sort of 50's or 60's retro thing but I don't think he's decided for sure yet. I've got my eye on the downstairs bathroom. I hate that freaking drop ceiling so it's going away. Just what I have time for, another project.

I recorded Saturday Night Live Saturday with Prince last week and am watching it right now. God he's still awesome. I gotta buy me some right now. I always think of my friend Dennis who died in 2001 when I get down with Prince. He was the BIGGEST Prince fan ever. I think I'll search through The Grammys now and find the good stuff. Joss Stone, Madonna, Stevie Wonder, Mary J. Blige, Bonnie Raitt, Kelly Clarkson, and the tribute to Sly and The Family Stone...I don't get John Legend.

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12 February 2006

Cheney shoots fellow hunter. Thank you Dick.

29 inches of snow today. Oh wait, that was in Central Park, we got about a half inch or so. Thank you Dick.

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13 February 2006

Je t'aime bébé. Pendant que nous commençons notre huitième année, je sais qu'il continuera à être un si grand plaisir. Anniversaire Heureux De Mariage. Encore, je t'aime.

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14 February 2006

As I was talking to my dad this morning, I mentioned to him that yesterday was our anniversary so we did our normal celebratory routine and had dinner at the restaurant we met at and then went to a movie. I thought we had done that every year since we met but Duncan corrected me last night because he was in Salt Lake City one year so we delayed it until I met him out there. Anyway, my dad asked me how long we've been together and I replied, seven years. He's like, Oh come on, you've been together longer than that, what have you been doing the rest of the time? I said, What do you mean and he says, How old are you now anyway? Fifty? No, I'm just forty dad, and I had to talk him out of the idea that both me nor my brother were fifty yet.

This morning I also worked on the ceiling in the bathroom. The drop ceiling is gone and the studs are up asking for some drywall. Keep asking, I'm tired.

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19 February 2006

That's Wayland and Madame if you're too young to remember. Mostly from the Hollywood Squares, but you'd see him pop up in quite a few other places. I loved these two when I was a kid. Who knew he was gay...I guess everybody but me. He died of AIDS back in the 80's.

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19 February 2006...Later

I wrote the last entry and Wayland and Madame were mentioned on King of the Hill an hour later.

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20 February 2006

I just want to get home from work. I just want to stop at the Stewarts on the way home from work and buy a soda and get on my way. WHY?!!! I ask you, do I have to get behind some old retard buying $50 worth of different lottery tickets one at a time while the line gets bigger and bigger and bigger. WHY?!!! Look, if you're spending $50 on lottery tickets in the first place, you're a retard. If I have to wait 5 extra minutes while you read your numbers one at a time, you're a retard. Other than that, I'm OK.

FYI, I do play the lottery sometimes, a couple of dollars.

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22 February 2006

OK, these are my favorite American Idols. Chris Daughtry, Elliott Yamin, Kellie Pickler, and Paris Bennett. I don't watch any reality TV except for COPS, so please excuse my obsession for this one show. After last night, I know my girls are doing good and it's a possibility bitchy poo may get voted off. I won't be around tonight so I'll have to DVR the guys...And OK again, Chris and Elliott are incredibly hot...not the reason they are my favorites. Ace is freaking hot too, but not my favorite. I plead innocent to favoritism.

Toboggan: A hat, right? Not unless you live down south. I've always been taught this is a toboggan but I learned yesterday that no one up here has ever heard of a toboggan except as a sled. It's simply called a hat. A friend of mine lived down south for a time and worked in a department store.

Where are your toboggans?
We don't carry them.
How can you not carry them?
We don't carry them.
Do you know where I can get one around here?
The plastic kind?
What?...

They told her boss she was rude to them.

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27 February 2006

It was 4 when I started out today. It got up to 21. It was windy. We worked outside all day...What a day! I enjoyed the cold weather. What's happening to me? I'm becoming one of them. Oh my God! My only problem is when it's 80 this summer, am I going to be bitching about the heat? Will I need air conditioning at 75? After 4 winters in upstate New York, it's finally happened. I've become one of them. May God have mercy on my soul. The next thing you know, I'll be driving down the street at 25 MPH.

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