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Parenting Hell is especially good today. I was actually glad to read about this children drug addict thing because I have seen it in my nephew.
It was so good actually, that I clicked on the guest authors' blog and found this fantastic site which reminds me that I really want to read the Left Behind Series, well maybe not the whole series but one or two of them. The graphic novels were fascinating, just do not click on that link, it's a nightmare. I will report back with a book review if I ever get there.
Well it is the BIG BIRTHDAY WEEKEND around here... My mom and nephew both have impending b-days. Cancers all over the place, I am next. The sun moving into cancer this week could really explain my fowl/foul and dissatisfied mood. Well it could be one of the explanations anyway. Usually Rob can sooth me at times like these but this week, NOPE!
The fact is I am unhapy in my job and live in a house that I live but with a mortgage that is unreasonable and if the market is going to do what the guys on Marketplace say then I am in for the long haul of waiting for economic recovery until I can do anything in my life that does not come with a regular (well, above average) salary.
I like the way Peace Out and Piss Off go together. I may make it my new tag line.
My Timeline of Proud (and not so proud) Moments
1979 - Patience Williams asked me a trick question at school one day, I said yes. I cried for the rest of the year because I new the answer was true.
1981-1984 - I fell in love with a girl. We held hands in school. We both had boyfriends. I moved away to Texas and was heartbroken. We never kissed once, what a waste.
1985 - Came out to my best friend, later that day we hooked up with two guys. She ended up marrying hers.
1985 - I recognized a lesbian walking across Red Square the first day of my Sophmore year without anyone pointing her out.
1986 - Fall in love with another straight girl, take her home to meet mom and dad. Still no kissing, more wasted youth.
1987 - Coming out all over the place (except for home).
1987 - Tell both straight girls how I feel/felt. Girl1 "You just have not met the right guy." Girl2 "I just don't go that way, sorry."
1988 - Take a year off from school get some therapy and finally come out to mom and dad.
1989 - Kissed a girl, we move in together three months later.
1990 - Lesbian Culture Immersion: Clubs, Parades, New Words, Kate Clinton, Pat Califia , (I was all lesbian all the time)
1991 - move to Texas with first kiss, go to library school, break up with first kiss
1992 - still breaking up with first kiss, attend Texas Lesbian Conference, hang out with a great group of lesbians in Denton
1992 - March in SF Pride Parade, Make cover of American Libraries mag holding the Queer librarians banner
1992 - meet a straight girl, she knocks me out of my chair, fall in love barely finish grad school with little hearts in my eyes
1993 - have no job, have no life, break up with straight girl, turns out she is not straight but she wants to see other people
1993 - devestation
1993 - depression
1993 - move to Oak Lawn, get a job still listening to songs that make me cry
1994 - kissed a co-worker, she wanted more I moved to New York
1995 - got back together with straight girl, she was in Texas I was in New York we were going to take it slow
1995 - moved to Utah to be nearer to straight girl "I will never move to New York"
1996 - the girl moves to Utah and we find a duplex
1997 - the girl support me (and my dream) and we open a queer bookstore in Utah
1998 - the girl and I buy our first house from our lesbian realtor
1999 - commitment ceremony, the whole family (except for one) flies in
2000 - we close the bookstore and stop bleeding $$$
2001 - we move back home to Texas to be closer to the family
2002 - play spot the queer as we attend countless little league games, school programs, childrens movies.....
Holy Smokes that was easy. Just added coments to The ListLess thanks to 
Juneteenth -
June 19th is celebrated as the day slaves in Texas were notified of their freedom. This occurred two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed by President Lincoln.
"The people of Texas are informed that in accordance with a Proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and free laborer." --General Granger's General Order Number 3
What's Going On In Texas Today
As you may know I am a Reference Librarian at a public library. Somedays it is a small branch and some days it is a big branch, see if you can tell which by the questions.
Juneteenth books or videos.
Prisoner of Azkaban
Algebra 1
Nursing Career
The Face On The Milk Carton
The Crucible
Demons
Authors like Eric Jerome Dickey
The only one we did not have was the Harry Potter book, well the guy looking for a book on demons settled for a Sylvia Browne which really suprised me.
I am spreading more Barabara Kingsolver today.
"The greatest, simplest, most elegant logical construct ever to dawn across our curiosity about the workings of natural life."
1. Every organism produces more seeds or offspring than will actually survive to adulthood.
2. There is variation among these seeds or offspring.
3. Traits are passed down from one generation to the next.
4. In each generation the survivors succeed because they possess some advantage over the ones that don't succeed, and because they survive, they will pass that advantage on to the next generation. Over time, therefore, the incidence of that trait will increase in the population.
From her book Small Wonder.
Now this is what I am talking about.
I have been clicking around for days looking for some blog organization that I like and viola, Blog.Elements.Again has been there for a week.
This link stolen from zeldman.com
How to keep from getting hurt, become a bully in one easy step.
A fine example for the youth of America, let alone the world.
I was sorry to here this morning on Democracy Now that June Jordan died of Breast Cancer on Friday.
Some quotes:
Americans have begun to understand that trouble does not start somewhere on the other side of town. It seems to originate inside the absolute middle of the homemade cherry pie.
If you are free, you are not predictable and you are not controllable.
Sometimes we become so sophisticated we have to read the New York Times in order to figure out whether it's a hot or a rainy day.
I just accpeted the Google Challenge.
I know I do not have a chance but it should be a lot more fun than the Pepsi Challenge, man I hate Pepsi.
Tip o the TrackPoint Device to PIRILLO.EXE
I would have never guessed.
The Girl Took The Test
Which Willy Wonka character are you?
made by
This is very interesting, I especially like the last few slides regarding the electoral votes. I don't know Karl Rove but if he was working for me he'd be sitting in the bar surround by cardboard boxes right now.
Stolen from Oliver Willis.
I never liked transformers..
Stolen from Dr. Grosz
Five things that pick me up when I'm feeling blue. Now, how 'bout you?
1. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
2. Spending time with Jesse, Megan, Nicholas
3. Making a mix tape (cd now, I guess it's been awhile)
4. The ocean, being in it or looking at it
5. The Work
Blogwhore Deluxe.
Which Willy Wonka character are you?
made by
Tip o' the mouse to Sputnik.
Holy Toxic Waste Batman!
My House Houston, TX 77009
Distance from the nearest nuclear waste route: 2.6 miles
Distance from South Texas Project, the nearest waste source: 74.4
How close are you going to be to toxic waste?
Thanks to BifRiv
A to Z (thanks to Head Rush).
A - Animals/Pets: Brutus & Samantha
B - Best Friend(s): the Girl, my brother and Deb plus all the others I don't keep up with like I should
C - Cohabitants: the Girl and 2 cats plus the occasional possum under the house
D - Desire(s): To work for a great manager, live in the country
E - Eye Color: blue
F - Favorite Food(s): toast, Cadbury Fruit and Nut Bars
G - Games: cribbage, dominoes, kickball
H - Habit(s): (bad) beer, wathcing three sitcoms at once (good) none that have stuck
I - Interests: religions, mountain biking, sailing, swimming
J - Job: Librarian
K - Kitchen (Wonder or Blunder?): I've got everything but natural talent
L - Languages: English, Spanish, Pascal
M - Most Valued Possession(s) (an item, not people/pets): wedding ring, rock collection, pocket watch found at the bottom of the lake at camp Yankee Trails
N - Name (Named after?): Elizabeth Lorraine. My aunt who died as a young child.
O - Outfit You Love (and most likely found in): camp short and grey t-shirt (summer), jeans and other grey t-shirt (winter) & stan smith's
P - Pizza Toppings: spinch or sausage and mushroom
Q - Question Asked To You the Most: "So what are you going to do?"
R - Relationship/Partner: Spouse, the Girl (10 year anniversary of our first date next month)
S - Sport: walking, biking, swimming, sailing
T - Television Show: Gilmore Girls, Malcolm In The Middle, Mad About You, Alias
U - Unsavory characteristic(s): bossy, know-it-all
V - Video (Favorites): High Fidelity, Benny & Joon, Matrix, Fried Green Tomatoes
W - Webpage (Favorite--not your own):camworld, flightview, library news daily, h-town blogs
X - Xylophone (or other Instrument?): piano (6 years: failed attempt), harmonica (1 afternoon: failed attempt), guitar (about 3 weeks: failed attempt)
Y - Year Born: 1966
Z - Zodiac Sign: Cancer
Very fun Google history from Stanford via Google Weblog.
After reading this I subscribed immediately so I would not miss an installment.
I am going to extraordinary (for me) lengths to avoid paying through the nose for a Mac OS X update. Just bought a 10.1 upgrade pack (for $10 american on eBay) so that I can then go through the torture of doing all the other updates to get me up-to-speed. Serves me right for getting an iBook with OS X a year ago and using OS 9.x until TODAY because I was to lazy to figure out DSL. Lame lame lame.
After all these years of resisting it was the Ipod that pushed me over the WishList edge.
After reading The Beast's post on Krispy Kreme I have two things to say.
1. In March 2000 I should have bought Krispy Kreme stock (52-wk 25.00 - 46.90) instead of Be stock (52-wk 0.08 - 0.67).
2. Shipley Donuts are far better than Krispy Kremes. Hot warm of cold there is just no comparison.
Barabara Kingsolver in her book of essays Small Wonder talks about how she does not want let the violence of television or movies into her mind. It has me wondering what effect, if any, the violence I have let into my mind has had. My initial reaction was "Oh, come on!" yet I am still thinking about it a week later. With my attention span that is something, I am just not sure what.
Don't you hate it when you do something rash, like tell someone some life changing thing they did was stupid. I did this very thing this very morning. UGH! I called afterwards but there was no answer. I left a message apologizing but still... It would have been better if my compassionate feelings came to the surface prior to my fear and anxiety so I could have said something like "Wow that is going to be a huge change, what are you going to do now?"
I am so far from being the person I imagine myself to be that it is laugh-out-loud funny.
I think I will send another apology in email.
I dreamt the the Eiffel tower was bombed last night. It just evaporated into thin air. have to check NPR to see id it was a Morning Edition Dream or not.
Went to see Episode II with my nephew and brother this afternoon. My nephew is almost eight, and after the prologue scrolled by at the beginning of the movie and panned to the first scene he said : "It went up this time, last time it went down and this time it went up." The kid is always amazing me.
The girl took the test and did much worse than me.
16
I act like I'm 16.
This test was brought to you by Mel - mostly.... Take it here.
Had to pass on this piece of dubya stupidity currently being ignored by the press. Thanks Jim.
Sad story from the Woodlands today.
Went out last night, first time in a while we went anywhere other than the Biscuit.
We discussed the Birthday Bar Crawl at Warren's and brainstormed a potential list:
La Carafe (also visited last night, good people watching while sitting on the street).
Cosmos Cafe
Mary Jane's
Jimmie's Ice House
Rudyard's
Muck Duck
Continental Club
We did decide it would be 8 bars and that the Biscuit would be the last one.
Well hell, I act 14 years younger than I am.
22
I act like I'm 22.
This test was brought to you by Melissa - No, really.... Take it here.
Got a little About Me homepage up on geocities today.
Look <--left--.
Amazingly I found a jpg of my dad's signature on google images today so I had to have someplace to post it.
Looks like thunderstorms again this afternoon.
The girl's mother and brother are here for two days... hence all the cleaing.
Last night we were hanging out and he was telling about how in the florida election mess they were call people felons who were not felons so they could not vote. I am going to have to research this and get back to you.
None of my friends have blogs.
This should not suprise me really, considering.
Waiting for coffee, listening to NPR.
I am not cleaning anything until I have some coffee.
The more I listen to NPR the more I think it is just like listening to commercial news. I may have to switch to the BBC in the morning but I do not know if I can take cricket news on a daily basis.
I have to clean.... NOW....
Mother-in-law is coming... will be here when I get home from work...
Should I have another beer?
Yes... I can clean and have another beer...
How early can I get up...
I just had this idea that digital clocks give of waves when they change time so that we can acutally "hear" what time it is when we are in earshot of them.
I have yet to investigate but will report back when I do.
Post Lunch-time Chat
Second Cousin Once Removed A: Did the babies go see Spiderman
Second Cousin Once Removed B: Yes we went to go see it
Second Cousin Once Removed A: Did they like it
Second Cousin Once Removed B: They loved it
Second Cousin Once Removed A: That's good, it is good for them to see the difference between good and evil
If you buy more rice I will punch you.
So a year and a half later and I still do not have much to say.
I am currently reading Small Wonder by Barabara Kingsolver. It is making me want to move...
to the country
to a place with a bigger yard
to a less expensive place
off this planet