Mi madre

My mother is swell.
She brought me home some of those little powdered Hostess doughnuts that I love.
*sigh*

Ode to a Thin Mint

O D E T O A T H I N M I N T

BY ANA MARIA CORREA

Alone I sit and worry in the dark
But then remember I have something cool;
A little wafer with a velvet crunch
With flavor of the lovely homegrown mint.
Alas! Refrigerator's out of milk —
How can I cope with cookie ever rich?

Although I am not quite so very rich
As to afford refreshment in the dark,
I always need the freshest lovely milk
To slake my thirst and proffer something cool.
If chocolate goes best with vibrant mint,
Then I will want to add a hearty crunch.

Oh yes! 'Tis best to add resounding crunch
To snacks and treats that border on the rich,
And since the scouting girls all dote on mint,
I'll search and search through hourly shadows dark
For what I seek — important and so cool
That tall and icy glass of wholesome milk.

So off I go in quest of jug of milk
In order to endure the cookie crunch
Of such a wondrous thing so ever cool
And deeply dusky and so brownly rich.
I drive through lonely streets cloaked in the dark
To find perfection for my waiting mint.

At times I wish I had a money mint
(I dream as I continue quest for milk);
Financial gain to me is wholly dark
(I muse as wheels go o'er gravelly crunch).
My lot is not to be obscenely rich —
I do not need much moolah to be cool.

Arriving at a quickie mart so cool,
I pass the rows with other cheaper mint,
My mind with only one thought e'er so rich —
I gravitate to freezer case and milk
To mellow the effects of noisy crunch
And lovely chocolate so deep and dark.

Triumphant now with cool and frothy milk,
I revel in my long-sought mint and crunch
And eat my dear, sweet cookie rich and dark.

Well, at least you won't have to worry about getting a sunburn

Chepstow Castle

These next two give you the view from one of the last scenes on the Carman music video.
*grin*

AARRGGGGG!!!!

I'm working on the WorkAbility database and there is a teacher whose last name is HAWORTH!!!!

WAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!

Did I mention...

...that some moron broke off one of the wings on the little bobbly love bug that Auntie Lissa gave me?

Hmph.

I should sue.

Waaaaahhhhh

One year ago, I was in England....walking around Oxford with Bec, hanging out in the Bronte Parsonage, playing in 1,000 year old castles...
*sob*
If that isn't depressing enough, Reina was supposed to be home today but she's staying with that man until Saturday.
I told her that I don't like him very much right now.
Stinky man.
Taking away my friend.
Hmph.

Sal, I've had two cookies and it doesn't help.
*sniff*

It's another Monday

Well, some moron on the Jane board cast a slur upon James, so of course, I had to say something about that.
Hmph.
No one insults JB if I'm around.

Like the background?
Makes me think of...."the great old Chestnut of Thornfield..."
*sigh*

The Spanish exam was okay.
Not awful, not fantabulous.
And that's fine.

I'm mad

Well, people, I am mad.
I am mad because people are jerks sometimes.
I am mad because about something that basically happened months and months ago, but now I'm thinking about it.
And it makes me mad.

Whatever happened to friends being friends?
A new face comes along and *zhoom*, you are left in the dust.
You, who went through ups and downs with the person.
Bah.
I better stop.
I'm not making much sense.

It's strange how events in years past still have an effect on you.
You see a person, just on the street or something, and they remind of you someone you knew and your heart jumps.
I'm not sure if it's emotion in the moment or just recollection of an emotional time or what.
But it surprises me.

Well, I need to do my lab work for Spanish.
*sigh*

And one more thing...

Bryan is leaving the lads.
*sniff*
Wife and babies don't usually lengthen one's career in a pop group.
I wonder if the four of them will just remain the four of them or if they will get one more to make it the five of them again.
Hey, I can add.
*pats self on back*

Just had to say...

JS Bach and Chopin rooooooock.
Like majorly.

And will someone please explain to me why practically the whole world doesn't like Wagner?????????????
I mean really, people...
You go around saying that Wagner is all stormy and screechy and full of viking women, etc., etc.
I ask you - HAVE YOU EVER ACTUALLY LISTENED TO ANY WAGNER????

For Pete's sake, listen to Leontyne Price sing "Mild und leise" from Tristan und Isolde.
It's gorgeous.
Absolutely beautiful.
Nowhere near stormy or screechy.

Bah.
Poor Wagner.

The wheels on the bus go 'round and 'round

Well, people, I'm a little scared right now.
I realized that I have been slipping into the habit of daydreaming.
A lot.
And that isn't good.
Several years ago, I had a calendar, "The Cat's Guide To Love."
One of my favorite sayings from it is "If you find your head is in the clouds, make sure your feet are the ground."

I like to think that I am a fairly levelheaded person.
But I dunno.

I see that I am starting to slip into the mode that I was in late last summer and fall. I don't know if anyone really noticed, other than my mother, but she thinks I was in a state of depression. In a way, I sort of didn't say anything from early July to around October/Novemberish. It was a period of adjustment for me. My best friend got married and was gone and my other best friend was out of the country for three months. Now she's getting married in a month and she'll be gone.
Another one bites the dust.
Bah.

So, this daydreaming/mind wandering thing....
It just worries me.
And I want to read.
Like the fluff kind of reading, the escapist kind.
The kind of books that you pay $6.95 for and the kind which I don't even usually end up reading in its entirety.
I want to read Byron. And when is that ever a good sign???
*sigh*
I went to the library today and got a couple of Bronte biographies.
I did Spanish homework and listened to some opera cds.
Now I'm looking at a computer screen, at words.

Water, water, everywhere
And not a drop to drink

*sigh*

Rain: You are the sound of rain. You have two
important sides. There is your strong, powerful
side and your calm, gentle side. Both are very
important. Rain also reflects a bit of darkness
in your personality. It isn't bad, just shows
that along with the good, you also can see bad,
which can come in handy. (please rate my quiz)


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Hah!

You are a silver dragon. The rarest kind of dragon.
YOu are noble yet avoid humans as much as
possible. You are the guardian of the
defensless and you rule the skies.


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Do I get a toga?

Athena


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Back to childhood

Well, people, I'm teething again.
My second wisdom tooth is making an appearance.
I don't think Dr.Brian will have to remove them, but if he does, I just have the two top ones and those aren't as much of a pain as the bottom ones.
*sigh*

I had tea and scone for breakfast.
I hope someone I know goes to the UK soon, because my Fortnum and Mason stock is almost out.
*sniff*
Poor me.

A little gossip, a little chat...

La la laaaa.
How is everyone doing today?
The weather is a little chilly over here in the sunny paradise of California.
It was actually warmer at Becca's school in MA!!!
Figure that one out!!

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...

I'm finding out that the happiest times in life are usually coupled with a significant dose of sadness.
I think, for the most part, I can handle change fairly well. I tend to freak out after the fact. Well, freaking out for me isn't really a big dea. It's more of the adjustment in my mind that has to take place. Sometimes I feel like I'm on a kind of delayed reaction mode. Which, in retrospect, I suppose is a good thing.

I changed the blog, in case you haven't noticed.
I really wanted the Friedrich print of the graveyard, but I figured that might be a little morbid.
So I decided on Vermeer.
If you squint, the girl in the picture kind of looks like me.
*poses*

Well, I don't really have much else to say, except that I am hungry.
Food is a good thing.

This is even better!

Hah!

Someone hold me back

Okay, people, calm Kathey wants to scream. Very loudly.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Do I feel any better?
Not really.
But oh well.

Bah and double Bah.

Off to spit nails...

Incredible

I was talking with a lady last night who paid $125 for a ticket to The Lion King in San Francsico.

*eyes bug out*

Is that not incredible!!???
I was like, For Pete's sake, you can go see the show on BROADWAY and not have to pay that much!
Yeesh!!!

It's a mad world.

Check it out

I started working on a site for Tim.
Oh, excuse me, *cough*, Bro.Whiseant.
*wink*
Check it out if you have a minute.

Le Site

What a shame

Joyce was sending me the English R&J today and I decided to listen to some of the tracks.

Ouch.

Painful.

I had her cancel the transfer and send something else.
I don't know if I could sit through the whole thing.
Goodness. No wonder it only played for like 3 months in London.
*sigh*

Yeesh

Last night, I had a dream that I was pregnant.
It was terrible.
Not that being pregnant is terrible...at least, I don't think it will be...
But the terrible thing was that....eehhmmm...well, let me put it this way -
to bake cookies, you need to have mixed up the dough...and well, I hadn't mixed up the dough. *cough* So, I was rather confused as to how I arrived in that state. Immaculate conception, I suppose. *wink*

Happy St.Patrick's Day to everyone.
I remember when this day was very special to me.
*sigh*
Life is interesting.

I had cereal breakfast. Don't often do that.
I have to be in the right mood.

It's supposed to be close to 90 degrees again today.
*fans self*

IT'S HOT!!!

It's almost 90 degrees.
What happened to spring!!??
Yeesh!!

Well, I got out of jury duty. Woohoo.

I've decided that I'm going to have house parties when I'm settled into my estate. I'm thinking along the lines of the a big costume party. Sound good?

I should probably do some laundry.
That means I would have to go outside.
Blech.

Bah

I have jury duty tomorrow.
Jury duty on a Monday at 8am.
Life is cruel.
And who knows how long I will be there, so I might miss the vocab quiz in Spanish.
Bah.

I hand squeezed about a gazillion lemons and took fresh lemonade for the munchkins this morning. I served popcorn with it and let me tell ya, it was a hit.
:)

The youth choir sang at church tonight. We tried out our new song. It wasn't terrible but it wasn't fantabulous either. The timing is just off a bit. The song starts soooooo low, I can't really get any volume going. After we raise the key twice and finish the song, I feel like "Wow, I can sing now!"
Also, someone said that they couldn't understand the soloists, which I noticed myself during practice.
Projection, people!!! Enunciation! Pronunciation! (hey, I'm pulling a Quasimodo here... *wink*)
There is absolutely no point in a person having a solo if no one can understand what they are saying.
Bah.

Someone told my sister that I have a theatrical sounding voice.
*beams*
Did you hear that, James? Bruno, you listening?
I'm just sitting over here, waiting for you!!
Heehee.

Well, that's about all I have to say.
Need to get to bed because I have to get up so stinking early.
Oh, wait, I do have something else to say...

Blast that blasted Gerard Presgurvic!
If he's going to write such "catchy tunes" (as Sal says), could he least make sure that his work gets a decent translation into English????
Is that too much to ask???
I mean really, for the love of doughnuts!! How hard can it be!!???

Bah.

I'm off to bed.
Maybe I'll have a nice dream about dudes dueling over me.
Ciao.

Wow. That nose ring must be uncomfortable.

You are naturally born with a gift, whether it be
poetry, writing or song. You love beauty and
creativity, and usually are highly intelligent.
Others view you as mysterious and dreamy, yet
also bold since you hold firm in your beliefs.


What Type of Soul Do You Have ?
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Naked feet. I like *grin*

Sandals- peaceful, daydreamy, and thoughtful, you
often find yourself staring into space. When
you aren't out volunteering you are often just
dreaming away. You enjoy the company of
friends sometimes but enjoy peace and quiet.
[please vote! thank you! :)]


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Not thatn I actually listen to this band...

My Immortal.

Your Lyrics

I'm so tired of being here
Suppressed by all my childish fears
And if you have to leave
I wish that you would just leave
'Cause your presence still lingers here
And it won't leave me alone

These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase

When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have
All of me

You used to captivate me
By your resonating light
Now I'm bound by the life you left behind
Your face it haunts
My once pleasant dreams
Your voice it chased away
All the sanity in me

These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase

When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have
All of me

I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone
But though you're still with me
I've been alone all along

When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have
All of me


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*floats around*

Your: Wondering eyes. Your not quite focused and
your quite the day dreamer. Your a bit odd and
as many say "Your head is in the
clouds."


What type of eyes do you have?
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Someone stop me

As much I love this blog theme, I'm getting the urge to change it.
Something sunshiney sounds good.
Or maybe a dueling theme....hhhmmmmm....

At work...

Elizabeth and I are taking a break from sorting a box of shark teeth.

And you guys think that I just sit at a desk all day.

Well I sure had a lovely dream last night.
Two men were fighting a duel, which I'm pretty sure was about me.
*bats eyelashes*

They were both wearing white poofy shirts, tho the shirts could have been a little poofier. *cough*
The good guy *sigh* had dark hair. Big shock, heh? *wink*
The bad guy had blonde hair.
I must say, it was a great duel. I was watching and I was really into it. Sometimes it looked my dude was going to win and sometimes it looked like the bad guy was going to win.
There were a couple of close calls.
But of course, my dude triumphed! He disarmed the bad guy and then.....

Percy knocked a bunch of junk of my nighttable and I woke up.

Hmph.

Blasted cat.

I am going to assume that my dude, being the just and merciful knight in this case, probably let the bad guy go. Or I could say that he killed the bad guy and then the bad guy's brothers would ride out to avenge him and that would supply ample material for a sequel.
*grin*

Pencils

There is something very satisfactory about writing with a pencil. Maybe it's the sound of the lead scratching the paper, the softness of it. I imagine that it sounds like the scratching of ink and quill from years gone by.

We go to school for roughly thirteen years and we grow so tired of this boring gray type that we swear off pencils. We enter college and use ink pens, purple and blue ones. But after a while, purple ink loses its appeal and we find ourselves wishing for a pencil. So we pick one up, sit down, and being to write. Suddenly, words flow out onto the paper. We feel like John Hancock or Frankin Roosevelt, signing some very official document.

The sun shines brighter through the kitchen window. We walk over to the sink and wash the purple ink stins off our hands.

Today's Literary Moment

Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens

Pip:
I'm Pip. I'm poor.

lots of things happen

Pip:
My life didn't matter, because I'm still poor and alone.

THE END

Quote for the afternoon

Reina, upon leaving her storage unit and entering the car:
"We're having a warmish day, no?"

*grin*

Ah, music...

So I decided to go ahead and get the French version of Gone With The Wind.
I really like it, even though I am not a fan of the language.
Very pleasant, never annoying.
And not that it matters when it comes to only hearing him, but Mr.Rhett Butler isn't exactly hard to look at.
*cough*

In other music news, I got La Bella y la Bestia.
The Beast is great but Belle is absolutely horrid. She sounds like a twelve year old who inhaled a whole tank of helium. She makes Susan Egan sound like the best thing since sliced bread and that's really saying something.
I was quite disappointed.
As far as Mr.Beast....wow, is he good. His death scene is faaaaaab, if you can get past little chirpy Belle breaking the whole mood.
Anywhoo, he is definitely the best I've heard other than Mr.Barbour. :)

Oh well.
You can't win them all.

Word of advice - don't try to eat leftover fried clams. They just don't taste the same as when they are fresh. They taste much more...clammy.

My parents are leaving tomorrow and will be gone for a couple of days.
Party, anyone?
*grin*

Nifty stuff

1) using band or show names, spell out your name:
Kiss Me, Kate
Assassins *cough*
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Hairspray
Ragtime
You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown
Notre Dame de Paris

2) have you ever had a song written about you?
I don't think so

3) what song makes you cry?
the last song that made me cry was that blased Diamonds one

4) what song makes you happy?
The Hair Song!!

5) what do you like to listen to before bed?
depends on my mood...Garrison Keillor....Josh Bell's Romance of the Violin

6)height: 5'10"

r i g h t n o w
12) what color clothes are you wearing?:
jeans, white shirt, green and white shirt

13) what song are you listening to?:
I just listened to Jamie Cullum

14) what taste is in your mouth?:
grilled cheese and grape juice

15) what's the weather like?:
83 degrees

16) how are you?:
Doing fine.

17) get motion sickness?:
Nope

18) have a bad habit?:
Yep

19) get along with your parents?:
Yep

f a v o r i t e s
20)drink:
Juice, tea

21)conditioner:
Citri Shine

22) book:
Jane Eyre
.....as if there were any doubts...

23) dessert:
I make a pretty good smoothie, but that's not really dessert. Hhmm. I like cheesecake.

24) salad dressing:
Ranch

25) thing to do on the weekend:
hang out with my mom

h a v e y o u
26) broken the law:
I jaywalk. :)

28) snuck out of the house:
Nope

29) ever gone skinny dipping:
Nope

30) made a prank phone call:
Nope

31) ever tipped over a porta potty:
Nope

32) used your parents' credit card before:
I asked first. :)

33) skipped school before:
I need more specifics here, please *cough*

34) fell asleep in the shower/bath:
No

35) been in a school play:
Yes

36) boyfriend/girlfriend:
not currently

37) living:
with parents

38) children:
Some day

39) current crush:
It's no use. He doesn't even speak the same language. Well, at least not fluently.

40) been in love:
I really hate this question.

41) had a hard time getting over someone:
Yep

42) been hurt:
Yes

43) your greatest regret:
Not going to the matinee of Jane when we already had tickets for that night

44) gone out with someone you only knew for three days:
Uhm, no

45) do you have a job:
Yes

46) your cd player has in it right now:
Josh Bell, Romance of the Violin; Bruno mix, and I can't remember what else

47) if you were a crayon what color would you be?
green

48) what makes you happy:
My cat, my music, my friends/family, travelling

48) who makes you happiest:
Well, when Percy walks up and gives me that look of "You're the coolest person in the world.".....that makes me pretty happy :)

49) what's the next cd you're gonna get?
I've got The Mask of Zorro soundtrack, a Westlife cd and a Roch Voisine cd coming from ebay.


w h e n / w h a t w a s t h e l a s t
50) time you cried:
a couple of days ago when I was thinking about my friends not being around forever

51) you got a real letter?:
last week sometime, I think

52) you got e-mail:
this afternoon

53) thing you purchased:
cds

54) book you read:
my Spanish textbook

55) website you visited:
probably someone's blog or Ebay

y o u r t h o u g h t s o n
56) abortion:
It's murder.

57) teenage smoking:
Any smoking is pretty dumb.

58) spice girls:
Embarrassing history for mankind

59) dreams:
I'm not going to even try for this one!!

Wow

Jumpin catfish!!!
IT'S 82 DEGREES!!!!

Today's Condensed Classic

The Collected Works of Jane Austen

Female Lead-
I secretly love Male Lead. He must never know.

Male Lead-
I secretly love Female Lead. She must never know.
(They find out.)

THE END

Aaaahhh....

How I love my state.
Ladies and you other people, the date is March 8, the time is 10:18 am and the temperature is 74 degrees.

*dances around*

Anyone want to come visit?
*grin*

This heat wave *wink* is actually kind of weird, because last night I was listening to Urinetown and I had this sudden remembrance of summer '02 with my East Coast family....listening to Utown about 4 times on the drive to and from Newport, the smell of the water and the grass, the breezes, the sunshine, the rain...
*sigh*
I wrote this morning in the journal that Rebecca got me about memories and photographs. In Rebecca the "I" character says that she wishes she could put her memories in perfume bottles on a shelf and whenever she wanted to, she could just take down a bottle and relive the memory.

Well, I should go eat and work on my Spanish some more.

Hasta la vista, chicos!

"Experience may be the best teacher, but it kills most of its students. Every man needs an elder in his life. You don't have to make their mistakes all over again."
Paul Price

Amen!!

Enjoying oneself alone is a necessary prerequisite for genuinely enjoying others.

It's almost here!

Spring Break is in TWO WEEKS!!
YEEEHAW!!!!

Obersvations

I noticed two things as of late:

1. I seem to be crying frequently (for me, at least)
2. I use the word "just" TOO MUCH in conversation and in writing. It's just so satisfying, ya know? ;)

And for today's condensed classic...

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Hermia, Lysander, Demetrius, and Helena

We're all in love with each other the wrong way around.

(Everyone goes into the woods. They have wacky experiences, pair off correctly, and live happily ever after.)

THE END

Friends

Last night I spent some time with friends.
I laughed so hard, I cried.
*sigh*
Enjoy them while you can.
They won't be around forever.

James

I just listend to James sing that semi stinky song about baseball and diamonds.
I cried.

As Sal says, I need to get out more.
But by jiminy, if that man isn't good.
*sigh*

The satisfaction of satisfaction

If I may say so, the blog looks fab. I'm so glad Sal found the pic.
I think I might have to keep it this way for a while.
She and I went a little nuts on the comments system last night.
*insert smiley face with halo*
But hey, at least we can entertain ourselves.

There is something very satisfactory about cheese and crackers.
It reminds me of when I was little and we would have cheese and crackers for snack in Sunday School.
Those were the days.
*sigh*

Mother and I were in the car on the way to church last night and we were listening to the classical station. The piece that was playing was sooo familiar. I was like ooookay, this has got to be Bach. I love Bach. Bach is too cool.
And guess what?
It was Bach.
*grin*
The violin concerto for 2 violins in D minor. Absolutely smashing.
It happens to be the piece that Isaac Stern and Itzhak Perlman play on one of the first videos that we ever got. I had a good start in life. *bat eyelashes*

Grandparents

My dear grandmother decided that she wanted to get me a plant that is supposed to help people with asthma.
So they brought it over today. I told her that I would put it in my room. I just have to find a spot that Percy can't get to. Fuuuuun.

And in case anyone was wondering, Frollo is equally annoying in Spanish as he is in French, English or Russian. I must recognize the casting directors. They did a great job. Not that there's any shortage of annoying singers in the world, but you know what I mean.

Heh?

Good Lady Sal found a pic for moi.
Isn't she clever.
*applauds*

Out of the mouths of babes...

"No person really decides before they grow up who they're going to marry. God decides it all way before, and you get to find out later who you're stuck with." -- Kirsten, age 10

"Be a good kisser. It might make your wife forget that you never take out the trash." -- Erin, age 8

Why People In Love Often Hold Hands:
"They want to make sure their rings don't fall off, because they paid good money for them." -- Gavin, age 8

For your auditory pleasure

I've uploaded The Hair Song.
*grin*
The Hair Song
When the page opens, right click on the song title and choose Open Link In New Window.

AAAHHHH!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SAL, HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME!!!!???
THAT BLASTED HAIR SONG!!!
AAAARRGGGG!!!!!

*scurries off for fourth listen*