Running With a Shovel

Crabby, crabby, crabby, crabby. Not only would I torture and kill someone for a smoke right about now, my youngest Drunken Midget woke me up at the crack of before dawn and informed me that I was driving her to school today. I know, right? Never mind that I have a migraine and my sciatica is acting up so I can barely walk. And I think the patches stopped working and I might have to eat one. Just kidding. Mostly.

And I had weird dreams all night. Well, not all night, just after I turned off The X-Files. When I have the DVD running I don't dream. Anyway, I'd describe them, but they just might reveal the depths of my psychosis and I prefer not to reveal that to anyone. Especially not in a form that keeps a tangible record.

This story came to mind cuz of a song that Mama Zen mentioned in one of her posts, Running with the Devil by Van Halen. When I was in high school, my bestest gf and I were cruising the Hopkins strip in her blue Camero listening to that song when we saw some guy running up the sidewalk with a shovel in his hand. We looked at each other, and, almost if it was on cue, started singing 'running with a shovel' before bursting out into laughter. So, in my mind, Running with the Devil will forever and always be, Running with a Shovel.

I know, it wasn't much of a story, but I didn't say it was a long story. Nor a particularly interesting one. But hopefully it gave you a chuckle.  

It did snow yesterday but the ground is still so warm that it melted as soon as it landed, so no accumulation. Bummer.

I'm itchy. All over. Apparently that is a sign of high blood sugar. Well, dry skin is a sign of high blood sugar and my skin is dry, which is making it itchy. I have no idea what inspired me to share that.

How long will it take for these cravings to go away? Cuz every ten minutes or so I have to fight the urge to run to the gas station and buy smokes. *sigh*

K, well, I have nothing left to share.

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Crabby Randomness

Hello all, and welcome to Random Tuesday Thoughts, courtesy of Keely, who is on vacation, but her real life BFF FoN is over there filling in. Head over to her blog, grab the badge, and get random!

~The patch went back on Sunday afternoon, so once again I've made it 48 hours without a smoke. After digging around under my bed some more in hopes of finding another pack with zero joy I quickly discarded the idea of buying another pack. I have to be done by next Monday cuz that's when the no smoking policy goes into effect and while I could smoke until the 1st and quit then, I want to be done with it before then. I want a smoke so badly I'm almost willing to sell my firstborn for one (but don't tell her I said that). *sigh*

~Speaking of my firstborn, we went out to eat at Friday's on Saturday for lunch, then to the mall and shopped for her Halloween costume. We had lots of fun. I was very happy to see her. She was kind enough to by me lunch, so we both had the flat iron grilled steaks with the Jack Daniel's sauce. Nummy.

~I did not do my Full Moon ritual this weekend, but I blame my Drunken Midget for that. After walking around the mall with her for an hour I was exhausted and in excruciating pain, which rendered me pretty useless. I was bummed about it too, cuz I always feel so good after I do a ritual, and guilty if I don't. It would have been such a beautiful ritual too. I did light my Triple Goddess (Maiden, Mother, Crone) candles on my altar in honor of the day, but it wasn't the same. I have to write up my Samhain ritual this week sometime, and I'm running out of time to do it. I just hope I'm actually able to do it this time. My Samhain ritual is coming out of The Elements of Ritual and Grimoire for the Green Witch with a few touches of my own.

So wish my luck in doing my ritual, I haven't done one since Lammas on August 1st and I'm feeling the lack in a big way.

~My dentist is calling me. For the second time today. I hate the dentist. They want me to come in for a cleaning, but my insurance only covers one cleaning a year, which I already had, and I don't have $80 for another one.

~I am feeling rather annoyed today. Probably due to the quitting smoking. I want to yell at someone, but not someone that I would feel bad about yelling at. Maybe I'll answer the phone the next time a bill collector calls. I get plenty of those calls these days and they are always so rude, I could yell at them without regrets.

~I had a dream about Brad Pitt the other night. Don't ask me why, I have no idea. I don't remember much of it, but I do remember he kept hugging me. Weird, I know, but I certainly wasn't complaining.

~We might get snow tonight! Woo-hoo! It finally cooled off and I'm so thrilled! Though in a couple of days it's supposed to be in the 60's again. WTF? It's almost November. 

K, well, that's all I have for now.

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Just Stab Me in the Eye With Hot Pokers

As my eldest Drunken Midget would say, I fail at life. Or at least at quitting smoking, this time. I was so good at my bestest gf's house, even sat right next to her when she smoked and didn't have a single puff, though I did inhale the secondhand smoke some. But then last night I was sitting around watching X-Files and I was hit with a major craving, an I'm going to die if I don't have a smoke right now craving, and then I was hit with the thought that I had dropped a full pack of smokes under my bed a couple weeks ago and never found it. So I went frantically digging around and I found it. Hallelujah! *choirs of angels sing* So I ripped that patch off and that, my friends, was all she wrote.

But, I'm not giving up. After this pack is gone the patch goes back on and I will be a nonsmoker yet again. I will kick this habit if it kills me.

So, I had lots of fun at my bestest gf's house. We chatted and watched some movies; Pitch Black and Paycheck, both of which are fantastic. Especially Paycheck. I love Ben Afleck and Uma Thurman. Especially Uma, she so rocks. Now I have to buy it. I looked online at Best Buy to order it cuz it was pretty cheap but they didn't have it available in any of the stores around me and I didn't want to pay for shipping so I guess I'm out of luck for now. That's ok, I really can't afford it anyway. I'll probably end up asking for it for Christmas or maybe checking out Half Price Books.

I'll have to pick up Pitch Black one of these days too. I didn't really care for Vin Diesel until I saw that, now I'm a fan. I heard somewhere along the grapevine that he came out of the closet recently, though I'm not sure if it's accurate or not. Not that it would change my opinion of him at all. More power to him, I say.

My youngest Drunken Midget is at her 'father's' house this weekend. I always get tense and nervous when she's over there. It makes it hard to enjoy my weekend. But, for the most part, things have gone ok so far, so hopefully that will continue. While she's gone I plan to watch lots of X-Files and read a lot. Tonight is the Full Moon and I have a ritual written out but I'm so not feeling motivated to do it. I pray I do somehow muster up the motivation though cuz it's a beautiful ritual and it took me forever to write it out. It'd be a shame to not do it. Plus, I've been feeling kinda blue lately and that's just when I need to attend to my spiritual side. But, we shall see. 

I'm so excited, I found an Ankh set at Barnes and Noble a while ago that came with a necklace and the history etc. behind it. It's so cool but before I wore it I wanted to do a ritual blessing it so I could wear it for protection so I finally did that then found I couldn't wear it cuz the string was too slippery and the knot kept coming loose. But I finally got around to hot glueing the knot so it stays on so now I can wear it, and I love it! For those who don't know an Ankh is an Egyptian symbol of protection that symbolizes the union of opposites; Goddess and God, Heaven and Earth, light and dark, etc. And it looks like this:

Well, that's pretty much all the blather I have for today.

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Nicotine Patches, It's What's for Dinner

Yesterday I missed Random Tuesday Thoughts! It's not like I didn't have the time, I just forgot it was Random Tuesday. Well, all my posts are pretty random, so it's all good.

This afternoon I am heading out to my bestest gf's house so we can drop my Drunken Midget off in Hutch so she can spend MEA (don't ask me what that stands for, I don't know) weekend with her 'father.' I am so excited, I haven't seen her since last December. As we are both insane agoraphobic and she lives 45 minutes away from me, we don't see each other that much, though we talk on the phone a lot. At least when her husband isn't home (he works on the road and doesn't let her talk on the phone when he is home). So, I'm heading out there and I'm going to spend the night. Yay! It will be hard though, cuz she smokes and as of yesterday I quit.

Yupp, my nicotine patches finally came in and I haven't had a smoke in 24 hours. And I haven't even ripped anybody's head off yet. But, the patches help that. What am I going to do when I have to quit the patches?? About every 10 minutes I think, "Oh yay, it's time for a smoke." Then I go, "No, no, no, no, I'm a nonsmoker now." I actually repeat that to myself, "I'm a nonsmoker" until the craving goes away in order to pull myself out of the mindset that I have to have a smoke every so often. Mind over matter.

And I did things before I quit, like I stopped having a smoke right after a meal and upon getting up in the morning and I quit smoking at my computer and in the car, so that there are less times when I feel like I absolutely have to have a smoke. So far it's working. Thank you Quit Plan for the ideas!

One of the times I was in the hospital psych ward (I told you I was crazy, and you didn't believe me) they gave all us smokers patches cuz they wouldn't allow us to go outside and endanger the general public and my roommate was complaining her patch wasn't working so she took it off and started eating it! I LMAO at that one.

So, my doc called yesterday and she said that because my blood results were so much worse than in July I have to go on meds for my diabetes as well as my cholesterol. I guess when you have diabetes your bad cholesterol needs to be under 100 and mine is close to 200, which would be normal if I didn't have diabetes. *sigh* I'm already on like 9 medications cuz of all my mental and physical health problems. I mean seriously, I have this huge monstrosity of a machine taking up counter space in the kitchen that dispenses all my meds there are so many and now they want to put me on more? Jebus. But, my blood sugar was 225 this morning (it's supposed to be under 120 fasting) so I can see why I need to do it. But I don't have to like it.

"Hey, wait, I got a new complaint."

Sorry, a little Nirvana slipped out there.

And with that, I'm outta here, I have packing to do!

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Spare Me Your Hatred

Well, the extreme right-wing Christians are up in arms again. I'm sure no one is surprised about that, they are always pitching a fit over something. But why this time? Apparently Campbell's soup has introduced a Halal line of products. For those of you who don't know what Halal is, it means that the food has been prepared according to requirements as set forth by Islamic law. And the Christian extremists are slinging the hate (oops, got some in my eye), there's even a Facebook page to boycott their products, filled with nasty, hate-ridden comments about Muslims.

These products haven't even been introduced in the U.S., only in Canada, and they've been on the market for months but apparently the Christian extremists here in the good ol U.S. of A. are just catching wind of it, and they are outraged. To them, it's just one more indication that 'terrorists are taking over.' Let's not forget here people that not all Muslims are extremists, just like all Christians are not extremists. As Eddie Izzard says, there are a whole lot of laid back Muslims out there, and that's very important to remember.

A while ago Campbell's came out with a Kosher line of products, and apparently that was ok, cuz the extremist Christians didn't utter a peep about it. But, give the Muslims their own line of food and holy shit the world is going to hell in a hand basket. Who knew Campbell's soup would usher in the apocalypse? Certainly not I. 

I just can't believe that Jesus would condone such hatred as the extremist Christians have for Muslims. He was a laid back, groovy guy who was all about peace and love and condemned hatred and ignorance wherever he encountered it.

I'm sure my opinion is not a popular one, but it's my opinion and as we live in the good old U.S. of A. I'm entitled to spread it over the internet.

What was the company a while ago whose advertisement showed two men in a kitchen cooking and the extremist Christians threw a fit and boycotted the company cuz they said it was 'promoting the gay lifestyle?' Was that Campbell's too? I can't recall. Now it's bugging me. Damn.

Ridiculous. All of it. This hatred is a disease that spreads like wildfire, destroying lives wherever it travels.

So, I'll hop off my soapbox for now. But I can't promise I won't hop back up on it later. I feel a rant about the hatred towards GLBT people a brewin'.

And a quick update into my life. My nicotine patches come in this afternoon so as soon as I can cough up the money for the copay I'll be picking them up, along with my diabetic supplies. I'm getting nervous and keep panicking at the thought of not smoking anymore, but I'm determined to be rid of this damn habit. 

I'm spending my morning procrastinating, as usual. I have to clean the kitchen but I'm afraid to. It's very scary right now. I know I have counter tops under all the dishes and junk, but I'll be damned if I can see them. I need to train my Drunken Midget to rinse her dishes and put them in the dishwasher instead of leaving them on the counter to get all hard and crusty so I have to scrub them for twenty minutes at a time. I mean, if she gets them all the way to the kitchen, how much harder is it to put them into the dishwasher? Though, she doesn't always get them to the kitchen either. I pick my stuff up around the house so when she does her chores she's just picking up her own stuff, but she leaves her stuff all over the kitchen and my bedroom so I have to clean up both of our messes when I do my chores. How does that work? Divas Teenagers!

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A Mish-Mash of Random Stuff and BTW Does Anyone Know Where I Can Get a Vault?

Ok, first off can I just say, WTF Blogger? I've been trying to catch up on my blog reading and commenting but I keep getting this white screen that says 'Service Unavailable' and then I have to go back and try to comment again. Finally I just gave up until such a time as it's working properly. The sad part of it is I don't know if it's Blogger or my desktop, which is forever causing me no end of trouble. And I'm still waiting for my mom to get back so she can hopefully help me with my netbook so I can't try that to see if it works any better.

So, I've been taking my blood sugar 3X a day like I'm supposed to, and it's been so much higher than it was when they tested me back in July (yesterday afternoon it was 255. It's not supposed to be higher than 160 after a meal). Part of that is me finishing off the last of the snacks we have in the house (well, what I'm just supposed to throw them away???) but still.

Do you know how hard it is to find Vault soda around here? I like it so much better than Mountain Dew, but I went to three stores yesterday and not a single one of them carried it. What's up with that??

I know, I shouldn't be drinking soda, but I do it moderately. They said I had to limit my sugars, not eliminate them.

I had to postpone quitting smoking till Monday cuz wouldn't you know that the nicotine patches my doc prescribed are on back order and won't come in till then. I thought (oh-so-briefly) about attempting quitting without them, but then decided it would be much safer for everyone around me if I did not do that. After all I've been smoking everyday since I was 16, that's a lot years of smoking (22) to just quit cold turkey. Or at least that's how I rationalized it anyway, and I'm ok with that.

I'm good at rationalizing things. Superlative rationalization skills are essential to a career procrastinator such as myself.

So yeah.

"I did not lie, I willfully participated in a campaign of misinformation."

I love that quote by Mulder on the X-Files. It's my favorite one.

"I wanna be sedated!"

That's a great song by the Ramones. I'm listening to it right now. I also wish I was sedated.

I really miss smoking pot. I quit a long time ago and while I'm glad I did, I still miss it. The other day I was driving and someone around me was smoking cuz I got a big whiff of it and oh boy did my mouth water. But, sobriety has it's advantages, so I think I'll stay that way.

Unless of course they someday legalize it, in which case I make no promises.

K, well, with that, I'm off. I have no idea how I'm going to entertain myself today, but I'll figure something out.

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Oh Jebus, What a Day

Still haven't run out of smokes yet, surprisingly. I bought 3 packs on Friday, thinking it would get me through till Tuesday, but I've cut down so much that they're lasting me a lot longer than I thought. But I will definitely be done by tonight or tomorrow morning, then the fun begins. I have to warn my Drunken Midget that I will be extra, extra demonic crabby for a bit. Usually she's the one that's crabby and I can usually keep my cool, but with both of us being crabby, I'm thinking there will be more than a few fireworks.We might not both survive, and I can't project the winner in event of an apocalyptic confrontation, but if you don't hear from me ever again you can assume I was not the victor.

My netbook got a nasty virus that FUBAR'D my antivirus software, so now I can't use it, damn it. I wish we could track down all these damn virus creators and torture them for days weeks on end. I'm pretty creative, I could come up with some interesting torture devices. I have a thirst for blood, and I could keep someone alive for months on end and enjoy every minute of it. I'd better be able to fix the netbook or I'm going to shoot someone pitch a fit cry. I love my little netbook.

Actually, I have to have my mom fix it cuz she has the DVD drive or whatever it is, and she has my discs and product key, etc. But she's going out of town until Sunday night so she won't be able to get to it till next week, I'm sure. *sigh* Stupid virus creators. They think they're so smart when really they are just hostile cuz they can't get a girl so they take out their impotent rage on innocent computer owners.Wankers.

In other, less disturbing news, I have my appointments this afternoon regarding the diabetes. I'm not sure what it will entail, but we'll see. Oops, I think I was supposed to fast and I've been drinking coffee with creamer all morning. Oh well, it's too late to do anything about it now.

Later...

My appointments went pretty well. I met with my doctor (and she even recognized me this time) and the diabetes specialist. They sent me home with a glucose meter so I get to prick myself in the finger 3X a day. Woo-hoo. I did say I was out for blood though, right? Yeah, I know, I think I'm funny. They said my diabetes is under control for the moment, but I have to change my diet and start exercising (perish the thought) and if I do that I shouldn't need medication or insulin. But at least I don't have to completely eliminate sugars and carbs, I just have to limit them. I can live with that. If I had to give them up completely someone might have to die. I'm feeling rather violent today, can you tell?

Three things I've learned from rap music:

*a 211 is a robbery

*a 187 is a murder

*Eazy-E totally kicks Dr. Dre's ass!

Ok, now that I've completely bored you to tears, I'm outta here!

Oh but wait, here's a vid that I love from The Queen of the Damned....



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Random Rambling

Once again it is that time. Time for the randomness and mayhem that is Random Tuesday Thoughts. So, visit Keely, grab the badge, and randomize!

~I'm not drawing a blank at all. Nope. I have a plethora of ideas for this Random Tuesday and I'm not pulling a single one of them out of my ass. Not at all.

~If it doesn't cool down soon, Mother Nature and I are going to have words. Then I might kick her ass. I want Fall temps, people! My fave weather is when it's in the 40s and 50s. This record temps BS sucks!

~I have 8 appointments this week. Jebus. How do people who have to work do it? I have a full-time job just going to appointments and making phone calls to make appointments.

~Not that you could tell by looking at my apartment, cuz I have books everywhere, but I need more books. Admittedly, there are a bunch I haven't read yet, but I'm out of books on my favorite subjects, Witchcraft and Buddhism.

~I have the tendency to buy the same books more than once. I have so many that I sometimes forget what I have and end up purchasing duplicates. But, then I just sell them back to the used bookstore.

~I had a dream the other night that I was eating cigarette butts. It was so vivid that I nearly threw up in my sleep. Guess that means it's really time to quit, eh?

Well that's all I could pull out of my ass have for now!

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Rock the Vote

Well my quit date is tomorrow, or it may be Wednesday, it depends on when I run out of smokes. So, just a warning, I may be rabid and foaming at the mouth for a while until I conquer the cancer sticks. And my new diabetes patient appointment is on Thursday so I'll be put on my new diet. *sigh* I can't affor to be diabetic, it is so expensive to eat healthy, especially in the winter when most things are out of season. Oh well. There's not much I can do about it.

I had a nice quiet weekend. My Drunken Midget was off with friends, doing homework, or working most of the weekend so I had plenty of time to rest. I'm finally starting to feel halfway human again. Although in looking around at all the cleaning I have to catch up on, I kinda wanna crawl back into bed with the covers over my head.

Have I mentioned lately how much I hate cleaning? Yeah, we don't get along at all.

Which is why I plan to procrastinate a while longer before I get started.

Sometimes I think I procrastinate too much. I might have to do something about that. Someday.

Maria Ruud came to my door the other day; she's running for Congress in my district. She came to the door last time she was running for reelection too. She's such a nice lady, just very genuine and upbeat. And liberal, gotta be liberal to get my vote. I'm actually disappointed that Obama turned out to be not nearly as progressive as I'd hoped he'd be. I'm so sick of moderate democrats, and so are a lot of other people. We want real progressive candidates that will enact actual change, not cower before the Republicans and give into their every insane whim.

If 'we the people' elect Republicans to take over Congress this election I'm defecting to Canada, eh? Especially since the Repubs that are campaigning are scary extreme, like the whole, masturbation is adultery, let's dismantle social security and repeal health care reform while we're at it, lets mandate that single women who are sexually active can't teach our children. The list goes on and on and gets scarier as we go. So people are disillusioned with the Democrats cuz they have't done a good enough job, well it took 8 years to create this mess, it's going to take more than 2 to fix it. Besides, do you really want to see the Repubs take over our country cuz you have a beef with the Dems? That would be suicide, and Goddess help us if that happens!

So basically, what I'm saying is, get out and vote, damn it!!

Well, not right now, but on November 2nd.

And that is my rant for today.

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Don't Be A Rabid Porcupine*

It's Friday, but it feels like Saturday or Sunday cuz my Drunken Midget had yesterday and now today off of school for conferences. She's been pretty busy with friends and keeping me busy driving her around. Yes I've been dragging my plague-ridden body out of bed to drive her to movies, friends' houses, etc. etc. etc. I'm too nice. I should be in bed resting. I didn't even get a chance to pick up my antibiotics and prescription cough syrup until yesterday. But, it's better than her being home picking fights with me cuz she's bored.

I received a letter in the mail from the high school asking me to verify my 12th grader's emergency info. The 12th grader that graduated last year. Ok then.

It also feels like Sunday cuz I'm cooking a roast beast. (My mom always cooked roasts on Sunday when I was growing up. She probably still does but just doesn't invite me over.) I really didn't want to, I feel like shit, but if I didn't cook it today it was going to go bad, and I just can't afford to throw meat away. It was free meat, but still. How often do you get a free roast beast? Not very damn often.

There are not very many things I can cook, I'm really a horrible cook. I'm missing the chromosome required to produce culinary delights. However, I can make a mean chili, delightful spaghetti hot dish, awesome meatloaf, and fantabulous roast beast. The secret to the roast beast lies in the Lipton Onion Soup mix I pour all over the meat and veggies. It's grubbin', if I do say so myself. I can't tell you the secret to my meatloaf cuz that's my mom's secret which was her mom's before her, and so on and so forth. My Midget won't eat meatloaf. Not even my meatloaf. I used to have friends show up at my door offering their firstborn children offering to pay me to make them my meatloaf. That was when I had friends. And that's how good my meatloaf is. But the Midget still won't eat it. Fine. Whatever.

Aside from the foods listed, I can't cook unless it comes out of a box. Or the microwave. Which is going to make it hard now that I've been diagnosed with diabetes cuz I'm thinking that hamburger helper and ramen noodles with toast are not on a diabetic diet. *sigh* Of course, neither are peanut M & M's and Snickers bars. *double sigh* And I just found out yesterday that Culver's sells cheese curds. Is there no god???!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!

And, as if having to go on a strict diet isn't enough, my date to quit smoking is on Tuesday. So, I'm getting a double whammy, which really bites the big one. But the no smoking policy that my apartment adopted goes into effect on November 1st so I have to quit before then cuz I just refuse to walk all the way down to the street in 30 degree below zero weather just to get lung cancer.

Speaking of the weather. We  have record high temps here for the next couple of days. I had to have the air on in my car today. In October. WTF? Where is Fall??? It seems like we always just skip right over Fall and segue right into Winter. Damn it. I'm going to lodge a complaint. Damn it. I hate this weather. I've been ready for Fall since the beginning of August people. Where the fuck is it?

Ok, I feel better now.

I'd better go check on my roast beast.

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*Today's title was brought to you by Psych!

Random Tuesday Lateness

I'm a bit late with my Random Thoughts today, but better late than never, eh? So go harass Keely, the founder of this great day, grab a badge, and randomize already!

~Finally, I went to the doctor today, and I found out I have bronchitis, a sinus infection and I'm apparently working on a double ear infection. It's like the plague but supersized. But, I really like this nurse practitioner that I saw, she's awesome. And tomorrow I have to go in to see my regular doc cuz when I was in the hospital two months ago with that kidney infection they apparently diagnosed me with diabetes, but 'forgot' to tell me. Go figure.

~I'm very disappointed in the selection of Samhain (that would be Halloween to the cowens, or non Witches, out there) decorations this year. I have only seen one gargoyle and it wasn't even all that ugly. Gargoyles are supposed to be ugly, people, that is how they scare away the boogieman! I haven't even seen one black candle either. The stores have lots of costumes and candy, but very few decorations, which bums me out cuz Samhain is my favorite holiday! I'm going to do an awesome ritual for it this year.

~The new moon is on Friday, I think, and I haven't even started writing my ritual yet. *sigh* I might skip this one, but I skipped the last Full Moon too, so I really should get my ass in gear on it.

~The eleventh commandment: Thou shalt not 'should' thyself to death.

~I remembered what I had to blog about. Remember, about lizards? Well, it turns out it wasn't lizards at all, but turkeys! Or more specifically one turkey that was hangin' out around my back porch. A wild turkey! In the suburbs! Just some random turkey strutting around in Suburbia, USA. I couldn't believe it, I was amazed. He was beautiful too. Just magnificent. The biggest turkey I've ever seen. Ok, so it was also the only turkey I've ever seen, at least up close, but it was still huge!

~My Drunken Midget got a job! Yay! We thought she had one, then she didn't have one, then they called for a 2nd interview and she starts tomorrow. Thank Goddess, cuz I've never known a kid who needs as much money as she does.

Well, I'm outta here, I need to go lie down!

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Benjamin Franklin Was a Man-Whore, Apparently

So my Drunken Midget and I were in the car the other day and all of a sudden, completely out of nowhere, she bursts forth with, "Benjamin Franklin was a man-whore."

*crickets*

After a minute, as I'm wrapping my head around this statement, she explains to me how he left his wife on her death bed, went gallivanting around the world and, ignoring all his dying wife's letters, hired prostitutes on a daily basis.

I never knew that. They didn't teach me that in school, which is apparently where she learned it. How the curriculum has changed since I was a Midget. Though, in all fairness, the part about Ben being a man-whore was all my Midget's embellishment.

I watched the pilot for 'The Pretender' tonight and I loved it. I can't wait to watch more!

My youngest Drunken Midget is watching the Homecoming game tonight, which means I'm totally free for the evening. Not like I have anything special to do because of that other than blog, listen to music and Facebook. I'm so lame, I know. I used to have friends that used to want to party but not anymore. Bummer dude.

But not really cuz I'm all antisocial and agoraphobic now. So, it's all good to me.

Then I had something to blog about that had to do with a lizard, but I couldn't tell you what it was. I just kept thinking, 'lizard, man whore' cuz of the whole Ben Franklin thing, and I remember him, but not the lizard, go figure.

Ok, so that's all I got for now.

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