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Friday, April 30, 2004
Co-Chairman of the Bored... :P
Yeah, I stole that from Gaz, but it fits too perfectly right now! It's also the title of one of my fav old Iggy Pop tunes. I am wayyy bored. To the point that I wish I had my boring class back! Unbelievable. At least I'd have something to do. It looks like I won't be able to take any classes until fall semester, so I have to think of something to occupy my time. Believe it or not, I envy all of you in school with your homework and deadlines. Having time off is OK to a POINT but then you start to go brain dead. *drools w/blank look on face* Maybe I'll actually start reading the pile of Newsweeks and Business Weeks sitting in the living room. And maybe watch the news. I have officially been in a semi-newsless shell for one year now. Not that I don't know ANYTHING that's going on, I just don't have CNN on 24/7 like I used to. I figure why bum myself out w/depressing news, and it IS all depressing for the most part.
We are having some way weird weather. It was almost 80 yesterday, and it's in the 30s today. (Yep, air, then heat again!) It's gloomy and ugly out. Blah.
I'm wanting to listen to some of my older music but it's on vinyl. (For those of you too young to remember, music used to come on these things called "albums". They were disks made of vinyl, and you played them on what is called a "record player" or "turntable".) I have a ton of vinyl and I can't afford to replace it all w/cds, which is unfortunate, because I miss a lot of that music. Perhaps we will have to get a decent turntable, if they aren't obsolete, that is.
My blog is still loading slowly, but at least it takes about 10-20 seconds rather than 2-3 minutes. I don't know what's up w/that because I don't have pics, etc., and everyone else's is loading fine. I'll attribute it to 'geists again...
Congrats to ALL the pregnant jinxers! I think something's in the water. (I have officially stopped drinking water... this seems like an epidemic to me!) I cannot BELIEVE how many are pregnant!
Also, congrats to my sister and bro-in-law on their business recently becoming Incorporated! (Balloons all around?!)
Have a good weekend all, unless I have something riveting to blog about l8r. Not likely tho!
Found these two quizzes and thought I'd take them for shits and giggles...
You're addicted to.....
Nothing!
Your addicted to nothing at all? Well..... ok I
guess thats a good thing but come on just think
of the possibilities!
What are you addicted to? (pics!)
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You're addicted to.....
Nothing!
Alright, your absolutly cleen, no addictions for
you. Hmmmm, well i don't know what else to say,
but come on just think of all the
possibilities!
What are you addicted to? (Part 2 w/ pics!)
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Tuesday, April 27, 2004
Dental Experience Oopdate...
OWWWWW! This was an odd one for me. I usually have no issues w/having fillings ripped out and replaced, etc. THIS time, aside from the usual xylocaine/lydocaine/whatevercaine shot they always ram way back into your jaw, he got out this gun... (Not a .357 mag or anything...), and started shooting PERPENDICULAR to my molars! And it felt like maybe under and definitely in between underneath. That was something new to me. I got about 6 or 7 of those shots. I guess because the 2 fillings in the molars were very deep. Anyhoo, no probs w/the shots. (I'm not a dental wuss!) Anyhoo, I'm so numb that I can't feel the water in my mouth and I'm drooling MASSIVELY! I mean down my face, down my neck and down the back of my sweater... this happened at least three times. Considering I was so numb, when he got to the back molar I could REALLY feel the drill go in there, so 2 more shots w/the gun....woohoo! It was a quick appointment all things considered... only an hour and a half. And he advised me not to go out for lunch because I'd drool. DOH! Ya think?! So since the whatevercaine wore off, my teeth/gums are KILLING me! I suppose since he stuck about 10 shots in there? I haven't even been able to talk on the phone. All day when the phone has been ringing I've said "Teeth hurt. Call ya tomorrow." Bleah... But now all my fillings are white and no more metal. (Hell they had to be replaced anyway so why not go for the "no metal mouth" look.) Thus ends "The travails of Hype's dental horror.)
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Drills...
Yippee! I get to go to the dentist and have five fillings yanked out and replaced! What fun! Everytime I have to go to the dentist I think of the dentist in Little Shop of Horrors. My dentist is cool though... He gives me recipes every time I go. It's just that this will take a while today. I want to have an iced mocha now, but then I'll have to brush and floss all over again before I go. If you are anything like me, you start taking extra extra good care of your teeth about a week before you have to go to the dentist. (A lot of people I talk to do that.) So... drills away!
A couple nights ago, I spent almost all night in the basement organizing my crafts and tools and such. I found tons of tools I didn't know I even had. (Like yet another drill.) I don't even remember why I bought half this junk. Like, why did I buy a soldering iron?! I have NO CLUE! I was mesmerized by the piles of tools I bought. I hope I have occasion to use them sometime.
It's cold out again. Bleah.. 34 degrees now, low 50s for a high. I think the new slogan will be Hurray Hurray the First of May, Outdoor Sledding Starts Today. :-/
#Hype
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Sunday, April 25, 2004
Sunday Bloody Sundaaay... (Well, not really this time around!)
Not too much... We went to my bro and sis in law's in Chicago yesterday to celebrate our nieces' b-days. It was fun, but the weather forecast was WAY WAY off. It was supposed to be 60s, and it was more like low 50s/40s and of course I wore a short sleeve sweater and no jacket. I froze my ass off the whole time. My other sis in law was at the Cubs game but left early and came over there because it was so cold. We had tenderloin on the grill and it was amazing! I haven't eaten beef in so long and it was soooo good! Mr. Hype's bro used to own a restaurant and is a great cook. I ate more yesterday than I have any other day in the past year! When we got back I stuffed my face w/leftover Recess pb eggs, and other chocolates! :-o And of course we just got back from lunch at the Mucky Duck w/ the in-laws. I had broiled shrimp and scallops.... YUM! A food kinda weekend.
I noticed that my comments work sometimes and sometimes they aren't there, whether I refresh or not. I've noticed that on other blogs as well. Haloscan's having issues I guess.
Today I tore apart my bonsaii fountain. A daunting task to say the least. I accidentally watered it w/miracle grow for days as that jug was mixed in w/the distilled water, and tons of green algae, and eventually some moldy crap started growing all over everything. It even killed a plant. The algae was clogging up the waterfall pump, etc., so I took the whole thing apart. (I can't even describe to you how intense this is w/out writing a 3 page book, so I won't.) I usually end up w/ my hands dripping blood because of the sharp center rock. Today only two cuts!!! It's now clean and no green crap and the pump isn't making all those nasty noises anymore. Woohoo!!! I'm glad I got that done. Of course it was about 10 times more difficult w/ Kuroneko and Zeros "helping" me... Sheesh... They can't understand that having two big catheads in my way isn't helpful. Go figure... Hope you all had a good weekend!
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Thursday, April 22, 2004
Tornadoes and Cooking...
Looks like another crappy day weather-wise. It's been cold and gloomy for a few days now. Although, thankfully no tornadoes. A tornado hit 10 miles from my sister's house and took out a Walgreens and then there was one north of there and a bunch to the west in Utica a couple days ago. Their city (suburb of Chicago) was leveled by a tornado in 1990. ACK! I've always been a tornado fanatic, and have read tons of books on them and seen many documentaries on them. I also have well over 24 hours of tornado footage on tape from various shows and one that I ordered. (I love watching the tornado chasers on TV!) For a long time when I was a kid I wanted to be a meteorologist. I should have gone into that. (I don't mean those dorky weather forecasters on TV, but an actual meteorologist, which isn't quite the same thing.) I used to have this cool weather radio that had a siren type thing that went off when there were warnings, etc. It was great because when I was in college, I had it by my bed, and if I thought someone was breaking in, (and yes it happened... we were all robbed while we were asleep one night), I'd just hit the test button and the siren/alarm would go off. It was also great because Mr. Hype and I had one of his friends as a roommate, (who never had the rent, etc.), and one night he came home drunk as hell, and the siren kept going off and he had to keep crawling into the kitchen to turn it off. Then he unplugged it after it had gone off quite a few times but *surprise!* BACK UP BATTERIES! Mwuahahahaaa! So it just kept going off all night and he had to keep turning it off. *snickers* He deserved that... Oooh... looks like I'm going off on tangents or something?
Today, I have nothing to do. Now that I don't have my boring class, I don't even have that to deal with. Mr. Hype is actually reading my text book because he LIKES it. Go figure. So today I have decided to cook and bake most the day. I'm making these yummy choc./pb no bake treats that taste like Recess peanut butter cups, (YUM!), some oat bran muffins, chili, bread machine bread, and whatever else I can think of that I have the ingredients for. (Probably something weird based on what's in the cupboard... Lemon/lime almond peanut butter sugar cookies w/choc frosting? ... Organic salad greens and onion cookies?) Hmmm... I've had my share of awful baking debacles when I've decided to make up a recipe. When I was in high school, I made up a recipe for cookies and you could actually throw them full force at the wall and they wouldn't break. You couldn't bite into them either. (Hey! That would have been a good idea for diet cookies! You can't eat them!) My dad said I could sell them to construction companies as building supports... :P What an entrepreneurial idea! Ciao! (I still haven't looked up who Eddie Izzard iz...)
#Hype
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Tuesday, April 20, 2004
A Good Day For Some Black Magic...
Since a few people had this on their blogs, I thought I'd do it... HAHAHA! Good at sports! *snickers*
Evil is afoot! And Mr. Hype and I are going to (attempt) to fight evil with evil... using one of my Haitian voodoo dolls, the spells and ritual, and of course, 2 pieces of hair from 2 particular people. Damn I wish I could say more about this, but I'm being cautious because what if in a one and a million chance, one of those 2 people reads this, then we're screwed! In the past, I did a white magic voodoo ritual w/a piece of my hair and a Haitian voodoo doll to try to get rid of my migraines. They STOPPED after that day and I had them DAILY before! I told my neurologist that... she got a kick out of it. Coinkydink or....?
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Saturday, April 17, 2004
Shoptime With Stubby Oopsalot...
OK, I don't know if any of you have been getting more *sings* "spam spam spam spam..." (got caught up in Monty Python mode there for a sec), but I'm getting tons lately, and half of it has viruses in it. One was titled "Shoptime With Stubby Oopsalot". I don't usually look at the titles, but that caught my eye.
Anyhoo, yes, we DID have to run the central air... It wasn't that hot out... low 70s during the day, but after it went down to about 60, it was 77 in the house! Ugh! Our house has that adobe thang going because it's ugly DARK brown. It sucks up the sun and holds it in and releases it into the house so it gets much hotter inside, and even when it gets in the 50s it's 77 in the house. Opening the windows didn't help much, so we ran the air. Yes, Wisconsonites DO run their central air, and their heat in the same day. THAT is TRUE! :P
So anyway, the cats FREAKED when Mr. Hype's friends came over! Zeros ran behind the dryer and stayed there all night. Kuroneko jumped on a shelf and hid in a pile of shoes all night. Zeros whined the entire time. In the morning, Mr. Hype found Zeros on the other side of the barrier where the kitties aren't supposed to be. I don't know how he got there, unless he can jump that high now, but I doubt it because he couldn't get back to the other side. When the guys came upstairs, the cats got down and did their "back in 'Nam" walk, which our old cat Trepp used to do also when the guys were over. (Walking w/their bodies practically on the floor and really slow... it's funny to watch...) Zeros is whining right now as a matter of fact...
Then this morning I get shit from one of the guys because I didn't make them breakfast. lol! He's like "My wife always makes me a big breakfast, with sausages, and eggs, etc. etc.!" I'm like "There's cereal." He's cracking up, "Cereal? You're kidding!" It's semi-earlyish on a Saturday for me, so I said "I'm just going to finish my cigarette and go back to bed." And he says "We could make a cartoon character out of you! 'I'm having a cigarette, and I'm going back to bed. Feed yourself!' ", in this goofy voice. The way he said it DID sound like I could be a cartoon character! ACK! So now I'm feeling guilty 'cause I didn't make them breakfast and they ran to McDonalds to get breakfast and I know I will never hear the end of this! *sigh* I feel so... undomestic or something... I can cook very very well, I just don't do it that often is all. Which reminds me, we all got takeout from Luigi's last night (don't know if there's one in Madison, there may be one, there is in Racine and GB, etc.). They got this "football" pizza, which is a huge-ass pizza, and I got linguini w/clams and we all got an order of hot wings too. Luigi's makes the BEST hot wings! I scarfed down two of them and ate my linguini w/clams (which was OK, not as good as Los Banditos clam cartdrivers!), and some garlic bread. (Yea... I pigged out majorly...) And shortly thereafter, I had the WORST stomach pains and cramps. Probably all the fat, because the linguini and clams was soaking in olive oil and of course the hot wings are fried. Too much fat makes me ill sometimes. So I spent a couple hours curled up in a ball in the bedroom. BLEAH!
Well, everyone just got back w/their McDonald's breakfasts and I must go and receive more condemnation for not being wifely enough to make everyone breakfast. *sobs*
#Hype
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Friday, April 16, 2004
Night of the Cenobite Kitty?
It's actually warm here! It will definitely be in the 70s as it's 69 already. Now it's too warm. :-/ The house really heats up when it gets warm out. I can see it now... heat on at night, air on during the day. I'm going to have to go spray out the central air unit because it has dogwood tree fuzzies or whatever in it, so the air won't be going on today anyhoo... (I don't know which thingy to turn in the basement to get the water running outside anyway.) I've been vacuuming and cleaning the house so it looks halfway decent when Mr. Hype's friends get here. (Yeah, like they care!)
Mr. Hype gave the kitties baths last night and didn't put their collars back on yet. Zeros has had issues w/his collar a couple times. We call it "Cenobite Kitty Incidents". Remember the Cenobites from Hellraiser? (I'm probably spelling Cenobite wrong, but it's not like it's in the dictionary!) Anyway, Zeros has this cute Harley leather collar w/silver studs, and two times it ended up being put on him one notch too loose. Somehow, he got his lower jaw stuck in the collar both times and couldn't get it out, so his jaw was stuck wide open, thus looking like a Cenobite. It's really stressful for him of course. I guess he was stuck like that for 10 minutes once. I'm really careful about making his collar tighter, but last time Mr. Hype put his collar on him, it happened again. I hope that never happens again!
And some news for those who don't already know: Bluey is pregnant! Congrats Bluey and Mr. Bluey!
Have a nice weekend y'all!
#Hype
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Thursday, April 15, 2004
GRRRR!!!
My desktop link and my saved link for my blog page doesn't work for some reason. Not a lot to blog about... Well actually, I had some things in mind but now I don't remember. A couple of Mr. Hype's friends are coming over for the weekend, so I shall stick around and hold down the fort, so to speak. It's supposed to be in the high 60s or low 70s tomorrow, but it was supposed to be in the 60s today and it wasn't, so again, the Weather Guessers are probably going to be wrong. Blah blah... My eyes are blurring up... Dunno why... Man, what a drag of a post! I wish I could remember what I intended to post about... Ahh... Crikey... Maybe tomorrow...
#Hype
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Monday, April 12, 2004
Evil Jelly Beans...
I had an OK Easter. Mr. Hype and I went to my mom's and she had enough junk food and desserts for an army. She got these jelly beans from a local candy store and she said they were really good and spicy. So I grab a red one (red's my fav!), and start eating it, and it's *shudder*: BLACK LICORICE FLAVORED!!!! :-O I HATE black licorice and hate black jelly beans as a rule. What twisted minded candy maker could be so cruel?! To lure a person who hates black licorice into eating it by changing the color of the jelly bean to red?! I couldn't believe it! That was just weird. We also watched Brother Bear. I liked it. Wow I'm tired... Ciao...
#Hype
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Saturday, April 10, 2004
Quiz Day!!!
I got most of these from Nessa's blog and thought I'd take them:
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You Are Not a Gold Digger
You go out of your way to take care of everything in your life.
Including money - which you've got plenty of, thank you very much.
And you have no intentions of being a trophy girlfriend for some bald guy.
Just make sure that hottie you met isn't scheming to be your boy toy!
As a successful woman like you knows, gold digging goes both ways these days.
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Are You A Gold Digger? Take This Quiz :-)
you are violet
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Your dominant hues are red and blue. You're confident and like showing people new ideas. You play well with others and can be very influential if you want to be.
Your saturation level is lower than average - You don't stress out over things and don't understand people who do. Finishing projects may sometimes be a challenge, but you schedule time as you see fit and the important things all happen in the end, even if not everyone sees your grand master plan.
Your outlook on life is bright. You see good things in situations where others may not be able to, and it frustrates you to see them get down on everything.
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whoa! you're actually pretty normal...what's wrong with you?
Are You Seriously Mentally Unstable and a Threat to The Human Race??? brought to you by Quizilla
I am 41% evil
I could go either way. I have sinned quite a bit but I still have a bit of room for error. My life is a tug of war between good and evil.
Are you evil? find out at Hilowitz.com
I did the coffee one, but it distorted my blog totally... I came up double espresso, which is my fav! I'm too lazy to actully blog, so this is it for now!
#Hype
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Friday, April 09, 2004
Clear Artesian Water...
I've been out of town this week. Sorry Byrds, no flu. :P
Last weekend, Mr. Hype was snaking the tub in the basement bathroom and when he opened the panel to get at the plumbing there was a ton of water underneath the tub. He yells "We're sitting on top of a gold mine!" My first thought was "Oil, in WI? Coming up into our basement?" Well, of course it's water. (It's not coming from the plumbing.) So, perhaps we are on an artesian spring and we can sell "clear artesian water" and make lots and lots of lucre! :D Either that or we're floating on Lake Michigan... Ewww... That's a creepy thought... It was kind of funny when Mr. Hype was working down there because he went over to the tub side and looked through the hole where he took out some of the drain stuff and he's like "There's something black and furry in there!" Both the cats went from the other wall thru the panel and were in between the wall and the tub underneath poking around and drinking the water... You can't keep cats out of little cubby holes. That's just a fact of life. So whenever Mr. Hype is working down there, the cats are there "helping" him. So, we bottle it and sell it! Unless it's actually Pure Lake Michigan water... (Yeah, like that would sell?)
If I don't blog before Sunday, everyone have a Happy Easter!
#Hype
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Friday, April 02, 2004
Pencils and Jehovah's Witnesses...
Pencils... Does anyone use them anymore? I needed to use a pencil today and we don't even have a sharpener! I had to find an old eye liner sharpener and use that. :-/
JH's... I have a sort of friend who's JH and calls to talk about the bible occasionally. She's pretty cool, and isn't out to convert me or anything, HOWEVER!... We disagree on so much! I called her to thank her for the card she sent while I was waiting on the results of my biopsies and we got to talking. JH's believe EVERYTHING in the bible, where as I do NOT. The convo's are pretty interesting, but I would say it's sort of like a RIGHT RIGHT wing Republican disagreeing with a LEFT LEFT wing Democrat. Neither of us budge. Which is fine, but I sometimes can't believe that people can have such archaic belief systems in some ways. I respect others' spiritual beliefs but mine aren't changing! So nyah nyah nyah!
Oh... I talked to Jordan today... No mini sewer this year... :-( Apparently there isn't any money in the city budget unless there is some left over from other projects around fall... *cries and thinks about getting a fan-boat for summer*
#Hype
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Please Take My Rifles...
TAKE MY GUNS... A SINGLE BULLET LOADED IN EACH ONE...... OK, so that's my mom singing in my car yesterday. We were going out to lunch and I had a Frank Black compilation I made playing in the car and she starts singing (at the bold part). I just looked at her, like WHAT?! She said "You've only been playing that every time I've been over all week." Actually I think she really may have heard it 3 times at most over the years. It's catchy... But it was kinda funny when my mom started singing w/Frank Black! :P Had a great lunch. Jerk chicken wrap! I haven't had jerk in a long time. My brother in law used to own a restaurant near Madison and he had a LOT of jerk food on the menu, and I LOVE the stuff, so it was really cool to have it again. MY bro-in-law's jerk sauce was MUCH hotter. I like food hot as possible! I once had chili con queso at a local Mexican restaurant. It wasn't on the menu, but the little granny-type lady from Mexico made it for me anyway. The waiter came up to me and asked me how it was, and I actually had tears streaming down my face. I'm crying saying "It's GREAT!" (It was a bit like battery acid on the digestive system a bit later... I'm sure you needed to hear that tidbit.)
Anyhoo... I'm sorta veggyish right now, so maybe I'll post more l8r. And here's a quiz:
You are a fire shadow. The feathery glow of your
source makes you spritely and active. You love
to experience many things and you want to take
in the entire world. You are constantly
flickering, darting from one experience to the
next. You have heat, energy, magic, and
charisma and hold the power of beauty and
destruction. However, the dying of your embers
is a corrupting fear. Learn to accept that you
cannot possess so much raw energy
forever.(please rate my quiz cuz it took me for
freaking ever to create)
What Kind of Shadow Are You? (with gorgeous pics)
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