Today: I was in the grocery store and I was amazed how everybody seemed
to be in a good mood and how nice and courteous everyone was.
Today: I was in the grocery store and an old man accidently hit the
Prego shelf with his cart and they went flying. I felt it hit my face
and I was thankful I wasn't cut so I wiped it off and went on. When I
got home, I had more Prego on me than a pot of spaghetti.
Today: I was by myself in the living room dancing full blast and having
a good time with the blinds open and I hear a noise and turn around and
the mailman was on the porch filling up the box.
I forgot Kaleb's birthday and I
forgot to call my best friend on his birthday this year, both April 1st.
It's hard to believe it's been 9 months
since Kaleb died. If you've
lost a close loved one, you may think I'm silly to hawk on about Kaleb,
a dog, all the time. I do so more with Duncan than here or with other
people. It's just that I had her for more than 15 years and it's been
quite an adjustment for not just me, but for Duncan. The people I've
lost in my life have been grandparents who I was not really that close
with and friends from high school but both of those were long after we
had lost daily contact.
We have been thinking about another addition to the family though.
I had no idea a video existed for this. No hair, and fairly
reserved...As you can see, I've been pretty much B-52's oriented for the
past couple of weeks. In the car, in the house, in the yard. I just
can't stop.
Boycott the Beijing Olympics. I've been saying it for the past year and
it seems people are catching on. And it's not just the whole Tibet
thing, which seems to be what is being talked about the most, but what
about the way they treat their own people? ...yea, I know they
consider the people of Tibet their own people. There are more human
rights violations in China that we just ignore because they supply us so
much CRAP and are so powerful. The fact is we are scared of them
militarily and economically and this is our chance to show them how we
really feel about the little respect they have on what we think are our
most basic rights. The power to express yourself and not be put in jail
for or killed for doing just that. I remember the effect on the American
athletes from the 1980 boycotted Soviet Olympics. That's life. How many
years later did the Soviet Union dissolve? And remember this. Beijing
was picked for the Olympics back before it came out that the Salt Lake
City and Australia selection committees took bribes and kick backs for
those selections so who knows what China did behind the scenes to get
the Olympics in Beijing. Boycott the Beijing Olympics, not just the
opening ceremonies either.
...and by the way, if I lived in China, I couldn't write this blog, and
say whatever I wanted, no matter how meaningless. Time to enjoy this
beautiful day. I think it's the third this year.
One of my old friends from Charlotte died, very sudden. I know he's had
bad bad health problems for many years but I didn't really expect this
but at the same time, I'm not really surprised by it. I still haven't
been able to talk to anyone to find out exactly what happened but I know
I'm not going to be able to make it home for the funeral Friday night.
Flying last minute cost much more than I could justify in my mind and in
all honestly, I didn't really feel like the 14 hour drive to Lancaster,
SC and turn around and come home. It's been two years since I've seen
him though I do talk to him every now and then. He was a truly nice guy
who was different and that's what made him special. They say these
things come in threes and in the back of my mind, I wonder if my dad is
gonna be number three. He seems just not to care anymore.
On an up note, We've had three days above 60. Tomorrow is the last so
I'm gonna wear shorts and dream the weekend wasn't going to be raining
in the 40's so I could work in the yard.
Boy, my day at worked actually just sucked everything right
out of me. Large burdens of life strapped to my back, pulling me down
like steel beams emerging from my insides with supersonic magnets in the
ground. A great boss fired for doing the wrong thing for the right
reasons. Another boss riding me like a slimy pig in a country gay bar.
Nobody there to clean me off with
Palmolive, I'm just soaking in it.
That said, twenties next two nights but seventy is a coming with total
sunshine. Soon the yard will be dry enough not to drown in the mud and
the flowers will be popping and the grass will be greening and the
leaves will be leaving. Hey, I need something to lift me up, OK!
Was on a plant cart we received yesterday at work.
I brought my
dipladenias up from the basement where they spent the winter under a
grow light to the warm sunshine of the front porch. I'm sure they weigh
100 pounds each and just got heavier with each step. I can't wait to do
some gardening this spring, maybe tomorrow.
Finally had the chance to work in the yard a bit today, the last of the
old lady's giant unmanageable perennial garden is gone in exchange for a
little grass. That should come through in a couple of weeks. Finally got
the chance to get dirty too. I love mud and dirt and I love cleaning up
afterwards. I take two kinds of showers, hot and cold. In the winter, I
take really hot showers. In the summer, I take really hot showers. That
is unless, I've just finished some activity and I'm sweating like a pig,
then I take cold showers. Never take a warm shower. That probably
explains my extremely dry skin.
I share my birthday with a lot of cool people. Iggy Pop, Patti LuPone,
John Cameron Mitchell, Charles Grodin, Robert Smith, and even Queen
Elizabeth has pulled the stick out of her ass in the last several years.
The coolest person I shared my birthday with yesterday was Duncan after
work last night with dinner at Azteca and then
Smart
People. I looked over at him and just thought...yeah.
By the way, I just missed sharing my birthday with Joey Lawrence and
Hitler.
Say on your lunch break it was such a beautiful day, much like the whole
week has been, you decided to grab a burger and just ride around and
take it all in. Say you were so enjoying yourself with said burger while
riding around, you didn't notice that you were dropping mayonnaise all
over yourself, especially in the area of, say your crotch. Say, before
heading back to work that you remembered you needed a little $2.99
calculator so you stopped by Target to get one. And say you still didn't
notice you had several large glumps of mayonnaise on your crotch. I'd
say you may just be a little embarrassed. Let's just say...
Yesterday I got a great deal on a new dryer, a really nice dryer with a
small dent for $200. Today I bought a tank of gas that surpassed $50 for
the first time, $53 to be exact.
I can now drive to work or to the grocery store or just take a little
ride here and there. I can also start doing laundry again which is now
stacked up to my nipples.
A problem with an old house is old windows which are not smooth and
therefore it can be kind of hard to spy on neighbors. You may actually
have to get off the couch to take a deeper look and see what's going on
across the street. I'm actually not a big spy or very nosy for the most
part, but if something's going on like a delivery or a repair vehicle or
a hot guy, I like to take a look. My dad on the other hand, not now
because there's literally nothing to look at where they live, but
growing up, nothing happened outside without my dad going to the window.
At the same time, he didn't have a clue what we were up too.
We got snow today, probably 10 or 20 flakes.
And our new dryer dries in less than half the time, in case you cared.
