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This is not at all important in the grand scheme of things (as if many things are), but... What IS it with the Chiller Channel? Why do they always seem to show titles and such with a few letters backwards? Is this supposed to be significant in some way? Is it supposed to have some strange cultural meaning that I have obviously missed? Is this "cute" to someone? Am I the only one who finds it annoying enough to make a post about it? (Which could be translated into: "Am I the only one who is this deep into the 'has no life' condition that something like this will be in any way interesting?")

I have to say that I

That might not be a bad idea. Would help reduce overpopulation and teen pregnancy. No way! Batman had a thing for Cat Woman and Robin... *thinks* I really can't see Robin with anyone. Yeah, but Harry is cheating on Ron with Draco.

Happy Birthday, Rob!

He said,

I'm going to play with what I lovingly call my 'chainsaw on a stick'(electric pole trimmer) and cut down some tree branches. Then will put up the pool and, if it is not too hot, will do the garage roof. At some point Sam wants to see the new PotC movie.

So this Sunday my dad will have been dead 5 years. Five years ago the 27th fell on a Monday. I remember that because it was Memorial Day. I have always found that to be fitting in a strange way. My dad (who was really my grandfather

Happy Birthday, Nate!

I believe that the purpose of my existence is to die, at which point my body will: Provide food for various other forms of life Provide material necessary for the growth of other forms of life In essence, I am food and fertilizer. Maybe that sounds like an unpleasant purpose, but it doesn

Well, Scott and I had a major argument today. Not sure where things are going to go from this point. But I guess the root of all my evils is the time I spend on the computer. From my perspective, the amount of time I spend on the computer is the effect and not the cause, but who am I to know anything. But I'm tired of the argument. So, I'm going to be staying off the computer for a while. Not completely, because I don't want to lose touch with some people. So will still be on long enough to send emails. I doubt I'll be doing much writing for a while. Can't really do that without being on the computer. Not that anyone is waiting for my next words with bated breath. And I do need to spend more time making sure Sam stays off his ass. Apparently I don't do enough with him and that is why he is the way he is. I suppose he is right there. Sam is a straight A student, but that isn't as important as 'doing things.' And yeah, I suppose that is true. I was a straight A student who had no social life to speak of--and look where it has gotten me. So yeah, good point there. And you know what started all this TODAY? Apparently Scott has to tell Sam what to do more times than he thinks he should. But Scott rushes his instructions and tells Sam more than one thing to do. I'm sorry, but Sam needs to be given instructions one step at a time--or he will rush ahead in his mind to the next step and the next one and will then forget the first one. It has something to do with his ADHD. And he IS lazy. But he will do things if you tell him to and tell him one step at a time. Yeah, it's annoying as f**K, but it doesn't help if you just yell at him and then end up doing it yourself. *laughs* Because then it becomes MY fault because I have made things too easy for him. *shakes head* It really is all a bunch of babble. The real issues have nothing to do with the ones being argued about. But no one will listen to me on that, so whatever. I'm going to play the game and alter MY life for everyone else because really, that is the only thing that I have control over. So we'll see if anything changes. I'm just tired of the arguments.

Everything by Lifehouse has deep significance to me. But since it has been posted already, I won

Had planned to get started on fixing the garage roof, but the weather forecast is not looking good. So...Saturday will be watching hockey--Ottawa Senators will be kicking Buffalo Sabres ass. That's a no-miss-unless-dying thing. Afterwards we'll be going to see Shrek 3.

Happy Birthday!

I have what is probably a very stupid question. What action can the administrator of the site where your work is posted take? What power does that person have?

Happy Anniversary! Rich is a lucky man. I'm glad he got the job. Good thing he has you to keep poking him to follow up.

I interpret

When I first looked at my herb garden this year I discovered that my catnip had not over-wintered. This surprised me because catnip is a very hardy herb. Most forms of mint are. So I replanted it a little bit ago. The day after I planted it I noticed it looked like someone had trampled it. Several pieces were broken and it had fallen over. I started wondering whether there was some mysterious disease in my soil or whether the cinder blocks that surround my herb garden were toxic in some way. But a good watering seemed to help revive it, so I bought a couple more plants and planted them in a different part of my yard (in the bed with the snow peas and the peppers), just in case there WAS something wrong in the herb garden. A few days went by and all my catnip seemed to be thriving. So I figured that Sam had over picked it last year and probably stepped on it this year (without telling me, of course). Today I went out to look at my garden and THE CATNIP WAS GONE! I don

Happy Birthday!

This is always a difficult topic for me. I have given a lot of thought to all these questions at various points in my life. Anytime I think of what I would change if I could, I DO end up with the answer of

I hope they find her and that she is ok. When Sam first started school when we moved here, he got lost on the way home from school and I couldn't find him, my head went through all sorts of horrific scenarios. There is nothing I have ever experienced that was worse than that hour of not knowing where he was or if he was ok. Parents make stupid mistakes (like thinking an 8 year old can find his way home after showing him once). I think they should have known better, but the important thing is that their little girl be found safe and sound.

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday!

We're having a thunderstorm! Been forever since we've had a decent one. I've been extremely jealous of Andy, who seems to have one on a daily basis lately. So first things first... A good friend of mine has posted a story on eFiction. Finishing Lyrics by Unbeliever I'm a real fan of his writing for a few reasons. He tends to write short, sharp pieces, which is something I really like. His writing style is different.' It usually has an edge to it, which is also something I like. And it is vastly different from mine, which brings me to one other reason I am a fan--he is the "he who points out things" that I have mentioned before. I would call him my editor, but he won't let me. When he reads my words, he reads them with an eye that sees things from an angle, a different perspective, which always has the result of making my writing better than it would be. So, give his story a look. It might not be to everyone's taste (whose writing is?). but you owe it to yourself to experience something new. And don't forget to leave a comment in the discussion thread. i've planted my garden. That's always an exciting thing for me (yes, I am sad). My gardening options are a bit limited since my yard is shady in most spots and the ground is filled with large tree roots just about everywhere. So I put in a few raised beds last year and made a raised herb garden out of some cinder blocks that used to be part of what we called "the fireplace" when I was a kid (someone's aborted attempt to make a bbq). I discovered that most of my herbs DID overwinter. Though for some reason the catnip didn't. Neither did the sage. The sage I can understand. It seldom overwinters. But the catnip is usually much hardier. Though I really do suspect that my son had something to do with that. My cats seemed to be stoned more often than usual last summer and fall. Improper and excessive harvesting o the leaves--that is what I am thinking. So I put more catnip in this year and some more sage. I also added some dill in the center. Most of what has overwintered can't really be seen in the pic. What appears to have survived is the chocolate mint, peppermint, lemon balm (though it may be the lemon catmint), oregano (did I actually DOUBT that the oregano--which ended up EVERYWHERE at my old house--would NOT survive?) and some other form of mint that I really don't remember. Hopefully it is spearmint. Will know when the leaves get big enough to risk pinching off one and sniffing. I added wind chimes to the herb garden this year. Got them in Virginia Beach when I went on vacation. They are fishy things and I forget what they are made of, but they have a nie sound. I also added some flowers. I planted violets (which somehow survived the unexpected encounters with the cereal box and the candy bar in WalMart) and Alyssum in the holes in the cinder blocks. Hopefully they will grow for a little while at least. This is the garden bed that will have the snow peas. Sam planted them. We don't end up doing muh with them except eating them when we are in the yard. I put 3 pimento pepper plants in that bed, 2 catnip plants (in case the herb garden finished the other catnip off again) and 3 cucumber plants that wouldn't fit in the other bed along the trellis. They are bush type, so I will cage them and hope for the best. I also had one violet plant leftover from the herb garden, so planted it here. This is the garden bed that has the cucumbers planted along the back trellis. They grow fairly well that way and we seemed to get enough cucumbers last year to keep up with our salad and munchie needs. I also have a patio tomato planted there (no cage yet) and some tomato variety that claims to be HUGE. It is Texas something or other. Well...everything in Texas is HUGE, right? And in between them I planted some basil. I don't actually use a lot of basil, but I like the smell of it and it likes tomato plants. This garden bed is just grape tomatoes. I have one plant that is "Juliet" and is suposedly a grape form of Roma paste tomatoes. I never seem to have enough grape tomatoes and they are expensive as hell in the stores. They also provide good munchies as well as salad material. I need to grow a lot o anything that can be picked and munched on--because Sam is like a locust when he is around a garden. I, of course, do not pick things and eat them while I am gardening... I decided to cage them as well as leave the trellis up for their climbing pleasure. Last year the grape tomatoes grew over 8 feet tall. My guess is there will be little bastards (aka volunteers) growing on the other side of the fence this year. So yeah, I get into gardening a bit. It's relaxing--or it is when no one bothers me when I am doing it. I don't like to r ush things. I just like to take my time and sit next to the beds and look over the plants and pull weeds and chill. I have also planted a raspberry bush, but apparently I left that pic on my upstairs computer when I was transferring files. Since the Ottawa/Buffalo game is on now, there is no way I'm going to go upstairs and get it. They are tied 2-2. GO, SENATORS!

My first reaction was that no, just perjuring herself shouldn