Proof

This is why Florian's 1966 Chevy with 42,000 miles on it is completely believable.
This is why the Chevy septic tank is believable.
This is why Pontoon Boat is believable.
Those things are believable because this link is true.
And because this link sounds like something Garrison made up.
I told you he is brilliant.

Biggest Hockey Stick

Does everyone have a water buffalo?

Been busy.
Very busy.
Lots of work.
Debate.
All that.
Yeah.

Sooooooo.....
Work is going fine.
The debate was great. We kicked tooshie. Larry Exum would be proud.

I'm listening to VeggieTales.

A few days ago, I was thinking about I Love My Lips and got very worried because I couldn't remember half the words.
That's very bad.
Very bad indeed.

I thought of some more things to add to my Thrill list and then I forget them.
However, I thought of one again.
Garrison.

Garrison gives me the Thrill.
He's brilliant. Brilliant, I tell you!
I'm reading one of his books right now. The Chicken story - oh boy. I laughed, I cried, my body hurt from laughing.
He makes me terribly depressed and I think the world is peopled by heathens who kick puppies and take ice cream cones from children.
Then he makes me snort with laughter and think that life is one grand picnic a few pages later.
And maybe both of those are true.

The Thrill

It's interesting how little things in life can give us a Thrill, like when Anne gives a place a name.

One of the things that gives me a Thrill is that line from Wives & Daughters -
"You men concern yourselves with the eternal verities: we women are content to ponder the petty things in life."

AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
I LOVE THAT LINE!!!!!!!!
IT JUST KILLS ME!!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

So.
*cough*
Anywhoo...I like that line.
:)

Things that gives me a Thrill:

-the national anthem

-those 35 magnificent seconds of Carlos'

-the last line of Farewell, Good Angel as delivered by JB

-various parts of Jane, mostly the scene after the thwarted wedding....the violence comment *sigh*

-The Moon by Joshua Payne

-the last "Flyyyyyyy!!!" in River by Mikey

-Acts 4:12

-singing To Him Who Sits On The Throne

That's it for now.
If I think of any more, I'll let you know.
:)

My cat

I love July 4.
I love all that patriotic shmooie.
It's great.

Last year, I had my July 4 on a lovely summer evening in Indiana.
Being outdoors and watching fireworks in the summer feels like July 4.
If only the blasted man had sung the anthem.
I really need to speak with him about that.

When we opened the store this morning, I put the flag outside in its holder.
I wanted to wave it around and sing the anthem or God Bless America.
A customer came in and bought a little flag pin for a person who just got their citizenship.

I know a lot of people complain about this country, but I don't see anyone jumping the border to get out of it.
Just a thought.

Soooo....

Hallmark is going well.
I'm enjoying it.
We've got a ton of stuff that's 50% off, so come by and see us.
:)
I met the other twin today, can't remember if that was Ricki or Randi.
Sheesh.
Working with twins. I can see this might be an issue.
Anywhoo, we were both helping customers and when they were gone, I looked at the twin (whichever one it was) and said "Okay, the one I just helped gets the Cute Customer Award of the Day!"
:)
I think I might have to keep that up. It's amusing.
This guy was cute.
So, naturally, that's why he got the "Cute" Customer Award.
Heh.
Mind boggling, isn't it?

My cat was just sitting in the hall, looking at himself in the mirror.
He was hissing.
*sigh*

I miss my friends.
I realize this after we talk on the phone or I'm with them for an hour or two and then they leave again.
Stinks.
Majorly.
Today, one of them said "I'm an unfaithful friend!!"
I said "No, you're just MARRIED."

In case something happens to my first husband, I now have a back-up husband.
I suppose when I get that bored again, I'll choose a second runner-up.
Should this occur, I will of course inform my adoring public.
It should be no surprise that my back-up, like the uhhh....first-up, is tall, dark and sings rather nicely. However, this one resides across the pond, so I'll have to take frequent trips abroad. It'll be a struggle, but I'm sure I'll survive.
*puts on brave face*

******NOTE to Derek and anyone else who is frightened by the above paragraph******
I'M JOKING

*sigh*

General American English?

Your Linguistic Profile:

70% General American English

10% Dixie

10% Upper Midwestern

10% Yankee

0% Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

From a CNN money article

According to U.S. Census Bureau statistics, people with a bachelor's degree earn more than 70 percent more on average than those with just a high school diploma.

In dollar terms, Junior will earn more than $1,000,000 in his lifetime because of his college degree than his slacker friends who decide to stay home and mooch off Mom & Dad instead.

Things

Well, here I am, folks.
Of course since I'm starting a new job tomorrow, I have caught a cold of sorts.
*sigh*
Most unfortunate.

It will be rather odd working in the same building again.
However, at least the interior is lovely.
'Nuff said.

Grandma Gooch had her surgery and seems to be doing fine.
The relatives are gone.
Me and The Steve get along well.
Put two Task Oriented Introverts together and they can find a lot to talk about.
:)

I made some mean stew the other night.
Might have that for lunch.
Sounds more appealing than hot dogs.
*turns green*

I had to have my tea without milk this morning, since we didn't have any.
Bah.
I don't recommend it.
Hey Bethy, I'll be working right next to that Pete's place...

I have a statistics class this summer then I'll be done at NVC.
Time to move on to Sonoma State.
I'm thinking about going for the MA Counseling program.
Sounds interesting.
Of course, they have to accept me first.
But why wouldn't they accept me!?
I'm brilliant!
I'm more than spectacular, to use the vernacular, I'm wizard, I'm smashing, I'm keeeeeeeeeennnn!!!!!!

Oookay.
Sorry about that.
Was having a Sherman Brothers moment there.
*cough*

Slow connections.
I really don't like slow connections, especially when they are supposed to be fast connections.
Very annoying that.

*sigh*

Whatever

You Are A Romantic

You are more romantic than 100% of the population. You life your life like a fairy tale... or at least you try to. Living for magical moments, you believe there's only one true love for you. Love is the most important thing in your life, and you don't take it for granted. Your perfect match loves to be in love as much as you do!

Are You Romantic or Realistic?

Hah!

Your Inner European is Russian!

Mysterious and exotic. You've got a great balance of danger and allure.

Who's Your Inner European?

Drugs or Jesus

How terribly interesting:

Drugs Or Jesus
written by - Brett James/Aimee Mayo/Troy Verges/Chris Lindsey)
sung by - Tim McGraw

In my home town
For anyone who sticks around
You're either lost or you're found
There's not much in between
In my home town
Everything's still black and white
It's a long, long way from wrong to right
From Sunday morning to Saturday night

Everybody just wants to get high
Sit and watch a perfect world go by
We're all looking for love and meaning in our lives
We follow the roads that lead us
To drugs or Jesus

My whole life
I've tried to run, I've tried to hide
From the stained glass windows in my mind
Refusing to let God's light shine
Down on me
Down on me

Everybody just wants to get high
Sit and watch a perfect world go by
We're all looking for love and meaning in our lives
There's not much space between us
Drugs or Jesus

Everybody wants acceptance
We all just want some proof
Everyone's just looking for the truth

Everybody just wants to get high
Sit and watch a perfect world go by
We're all looking for love and meaning in our lives
We follow the roads that lead us
To drugs or Jesus

Hahhaaaa!!!

So, filthy rich Joop Van Den Ende's company Stage Holding is settling a deal to purchase Theatre Mogador in Paris.
The thing that cracked me up is this portion of the article -

ut Paris and musicals are seen by the industry as a mismatch. The shows which have set French box offices on fire, like Notre Dame De Paris and Romeo and Juliet, have bombed elsewhere (both of those were notorious London flops). On the other hand, Les Misérables, a decidedly successful French export, failed in Paris and only found success when Mackintosh and the Royal Shakespeare Company developed it for London.

Hahhaaaa!!!
Paris and musicals are seen by the industry as a mismatch!!
Sure they are!
What industry???
Definitely not the industry in France!
Folks, they failed elsewhere (meaning London, not necessarily other European countries) because they lack traditional staging.
And because anyone who is dumb enough to hire Don Black to write/translate lyrics for a musical...well, what can I say. Plus, and I use the term losely, the singers in the London production of R&J were amazingly dreadful.
*sigh*
Of course, this article does not mention that R&J is a big hit in other countries. For Pete's sake, the thing is playing in RUSSIA!

*sigh*

Moving

******ALERT******
I've just come up with a new word - a combination of "mental" and "emotional" - menotional. It is used in the following post. :)

It is so interesting to look back a few years in one's life and think "I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT HAPPENED!!!!"

You think about things and you're shocked that they happened.
You're shocked that it happened to YOU.
You're amazed that no one and nothing stopped it from happening.
Not that it was something specific, like stealing a car or something LOL but just a situation in general.

It's funny how you can become so wrapped up in a person.
You see them everywhere you go.
You see a tree and think of them.
You hear a word or a phrase and think of them.
You hear their name and it's like a punch to the chest.
And it lasts for a long time.
You want it to end, but you can't MAKE it end.
You try and try and try.
But you can't make it happen.

So, what makes us tick?
What makes one person more appealing than another?
What is so fantastic about that person that makes you do such crazy things and become so absorbed in them?
It isn't because they scaled Mt.Everest or gave everything they had to starving children in Sudan. They are usually just Average Joe's.
What is it?
What makes a nice baked potato so great?
A potato is a fairly common thing.
You think about it the next day or the next week and you realize that it was just a potato.
Was the potato great just because you were hungry?
Is that Average Joe so great to you just because of timing?

I think because this world basically will take everything off in more than ways than one, we have forgotten how two people can forge a mental & emotional relationship when there is no physical relationship between them. Certainly the physical would have just compounded the menotional, but sometimes that menotional relationship has effects that hang around much longer than physical ones would.

You see the person years later and they still look at you the same way.
It's very strange to have a person look at you with something in their eyes that can only be compared to Hope. It's scary and humbling and flattering all at the same time.
To know that you symbolize Goodness itself to a person, a person with whom you will never share your life, a person that you may in fact never see again.
And that doesn't bother you. Years before, it crushed you. It took away the sunshine and warm summer days. It made life dark and lonely.
You can talk about them and think about them without those piercing bolts of lightning attacking your heart.
And it had to happen on its own.

Love

When there is love, you will not erase it. When a heart has found honest love, it holds fast and remains tender. There are no deeper roots, and flowering or not it grows. It's patient this love. It needs so little care, so little light. It does not strive but given a place, at last will show itself to generations.

Joshua Payne

Whoa

Sorry for not posting for so long.
Let's see, what's been going on...

I went to San Francisco with the Browns and they took me to the Rainforest Cafe, which was very cool.

Easter, etc. Thought mother ruined my pretty pink sweater, but she didn't.

Did my film review last night in Speech class. For anyone who's wondering, I did the VeggieTales Jonah and made it sound terribly politically correct...colorblind casting and all that. Well, they are all VEGETABLES ya know! ;)

Laughed so hard that my face was hurting because of a conversation with Jenny.

Fell in love. *sigh* ;) ;) ;) ;) ;)

Heard a HORRIBLE version of Because You Loved Me by some new chick artist.
Oh man, it's bad. I thought it was Jaci Velasquez and I was thinking WHOA! She sounds terrible! But it's not her.
People, if you are going to cover a song, punch it up a little! Don't sing it exactly like the original artist! That's BORING! Add your own touches to it!
This is a terrible expression in the first place, but oh well.....
After hearing that song, I thought Sweetie, if you're going to beat a dead horse, beat it with a NEW whip!
Gah!!!!

Paul said that he's going to sing Healing Hands if Frankie can lower it.
I gotta keep bugging him about it.
I told him that Tracy and I can be his backup and do the whole coordinated arm movement thing.
Heeheeheeeee!!!! ;)
So after hearing part of the song, I had to have a little JonathanFest.
What a beeuuutiful voice.
Certainly takes me back a few years.
Ah, the crushes of a teenage girl.
Folks, I sat through a Gaither Homecoming Concert just to see that man.
THAT is dedication.

The Divos are going to be making some appearances in the US next month.
Thanks, guys.
Make me pay an arm and a leg to import the cd and then months later, you'll release it here.
What's up with that!! Why do people keep doing that!!!
I'll tell you why! Because people are prejudiced against we poor Americans!
They think they can just dangle us around! They give the Europeans the first crack at new music! Well I gotta tell you, music would be in a sorry state if it weren't for the American market! So you better think this over long and hard! So there!

My, I seem to be using a lot of exclamation marks!
;)

Sal, if you read this...
I hope you're feeling better.
I sent Cheyenne and Doug to you a couple of days ago.
They'll help cheer you up.

Okay, I'm going.
Byeeeee!!!!

Memories

THE PIIIIIIIITTTT!!!!!!!!!!



It's been almost two years.
*sniff*

And just because it's been stuck in my brain....

*insert Cockney accent*

The pious path won't pay...
If you wanna get ahead!
..there's just no honest waaaaayyyyyy!!!!

:)

Today

Me and Bethy are going to The Dump (In&Out) for dinner tonight.
We're such party animals.

It's raining today. I guess the weather realized that it's still supposed to be winter. One week it's 85 degrees and the next week it's raining and I'm wearing a sweater that I don't think I have worn since I was in Indiana in January.
I love California.
:)

Vivaldi makes me happy.
*sigh*