Thought to get you through the day…

I was standing in the park wondering why frisbees got bigger as they get closer. Then it hit me.

Anonymous

Tuesday’s Gone with the Wind

Well, y’all, my Tuesday’s about gone. I have been a bum this evening-I haven’t checked e-mails or my newspages I normally check. Realizied twenty minutes ago I haven’t checked my baseball webpages for about ten days. But, I am feeling better (lots) with just a mild runny nose and cough. Maybe I’ll get it in gear for the rest of the week.
On the odd name story USA Today ran a story about Hollywood and first names and here’s the link: ATODAY.com – The odder the baby’s moniker, the better?.
Well, Laura is here so I need to run. See y’all tomorrow.

Thought/Quote of the Day

Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds-all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have. Edward Everett Hale

Monday, Monday

Well, I survived the weekend…Although I thought my sinus/cold combination was going to kill me. Between a constantly running nose, sneezing every five miutes, headache, and sore throat-well I thought I was done. Now you can call me Rudolph with my red chapped nose. Also all that congestion has managed to settle in my chest giving me a deep scary cough. Oh well, at least I won’t wake myself today thinking Darth Vader’s in the room.

And in the “What is Hollywood Parents Thinking?” Category we have the two newest entries. They come from Julia Roberts and her husband, Danny Moder, and their twins are named Hazel Patricia and Phinnaeus Walter. I can’t even come up with a good nickname out of those names. Almost as bad as Gwyneth Paltrow naming her kid Apple. Or Demi Moore with Rumor. And isn’t there a Hollywood kid with the name Sailer. Sigh and shake head. What next?

A really quite weekend news-wise. Apparently NFL is getting close to their season end with some team clinching their playoff berth. Are we that close to the end of NFL season? Man, with NHL (National Hockey League) still on lockout, and who really cares about basketball, what is there to talk about between here and February when pre-season baseball starts? And anyone out there that really loves me, needs a Christmas idea, and whose ship has come in-here’s one: tickets to Florida in February. We can call it a late birthday gift.

Well y’all, have a great day and see you manana.

I’m Doing It Anyway!!

I decided not to put out my Christmas till at least next weekend. Nope. The bug hit and regardless of the fact that I alone will probably cause a rise in the Kleenax stock, I’m putting up Christmas. Live once, live well; right? FYI: Jeff included my poem in today/yesterdays Poetry Victims-check the link to the right to see it (Issue #200). Anyway, have a great weekend.

Welcome to the Shopping Season

As we all try to digest the immense amount of food we’ve eaten in the last twenty-four hours just know that you can burn off most of those calories doing the mad dash through stores, parking lots, and people. Unless you work till seven, are broke, or don’t want to put up the mad shopping season. (Which covers me on all three bases.) Thanksgiving at mom’s was good-10 out of 11 was present and accounted for at the table. Dad came and woke me up at 100 pm when he got my car to go get Mandy. Return about 200 PM (I stayed in bed till 130 PM, shame on me) and help me load the food into my car. We ate around 230 or 300 PM. It was really good and I’ve got leftovers in the fridge calling my name right now. To the extended family in Missouri, Jeff, and everyone else, hope the day was great.

In Iraq a new operation, for today only, was in swing. In Fallujah, which is where some of the worst fighting is occurring, Marines from the rear brought turkey, stuffing, and sodas to the guys on the front lines via three (3) seven-ton trucks. Staff sergeant John Flores reports, “The operation was a tremendous success.” Of course it was, these guys have been living off of MREs (Meals-Ready-to-Eat) for how long? Oh, the name of the operation? Operation Meals on Wheels.

On Wednesday, author Arthur Hailey passed away in the Bahamas. Arthur Hailey wrote several bestselling novels in the 70’s and 80’s that were turned into hit movies. The two titles I recognized were Hotel and Airport. I remember reading both novels in high school and thought that Airport was better. I have never seen either movie but just as a trivia the movie Airport starred Burt Lancaster and Dean Martin. Hailey was an Englishman who fought with Royal Air Force in WWII flying patrol fighters in the Middle East and transport planes in India. He had dual citizenship with Canada. He passed in his sleep, although he had 2 heart surgeries and a stroke in the past few years. Although he hasn’t written or published anything recently, he has been called the “Godfather of the Disaster Movie.”

And if anyone is curious, the new DC baseball team is called The Nationals (real original) and they moved from Montreal (where they were the Expos). Just a side thought, if they stay in the American league we will have a team called the Nationals which could play National League teams, confused yet?

Plans for this weekend include the library and lots of rest. My sinuses are starting to feel better but the tonsils are killing me. So instead of spending 60 bucks on a doctor visit I’m going to follow what I’m usually told: lots of rest and liquids, over-the-counter meds, and a few great movies to keep me company. (Okay, so probably not the movies.) I hope everyone has a safe weekend and that any celebrations planned go wonderfully. See ya Monday.

Happy Thanksgiving

And so it’s Thanksgiving and my cooking is done! Spent most of last evening in the kitchen whisking and stirring and cooking and praying that I do indeed have everything (except mom’s pie pan, which was a quick remedy). Mom forgot, though, the lettuce. So guess who’s running to Wal-Mart at seven this morning? Maybe it won’t be so busy.

The weather down here has finally turned cold although it won’t stay cold. The one thing I miss about Missouri is the cold weather-constantly freezing overnight and staying chilly throughout the day. Our high in Tulsa is expected to be in the 50’s today. But my sinuses are messing up with the weather change and all. My tonsils are raw right now and coffee is doing more harm than good. Yee-haw. Guess what I’m picking up for myself at Wal-Mart? And maybe some sore throat drops also.

I hope everyone enjoys the day and the feast. Manda and the Kids are coming over (Mike has to work) so there will be a full house at mom’s today. I am going home and crashing for a few hours. I figure if hold the pumpkin pies hostage someone will come get me when everything is ready. (Mom needs my car to go get Manda and kids). Bon appetite!

12 Days of Thanksgiving

On the First day…We give thanks for the fresh turkey feast and it’s hot trimmings.
On the Second day…We bless the cold turkey sandwiches, sloshy cranberry sauce, and hard rolls.
On the Third day…We praise the turkey pie and vintage mixed veggies.

On the Fourth day…We thank the pilgrims for not serving bison that first time, or we’d be celebrating Thanksgiving until April.

On the Fifth day…We gobble up cubed bird casserole and pray for a glimpse of a naked turkey carcass.

On the Sixth day…We show gratitude (sort of ) to the creative cook who slings cashews at the turkey and calls it Oriental.

On the Seventh day…We forgive our forefathers and pass the turkey-nugget pizza.

On the Eighth day…The word “vegetarian” keeps popping into our heads.

On the Ninth day…We check our hair to make sure we’re not beginning to sprout feathers.

On the Tenth day…We hope that the wing meat kabobs catch fire under the broiler.

On the Eleventh day…We smile over the creamed gizzards because the thigh bones are in sight.

On the Twelfth day…We apologize for running out of turkey leftovers. And everybody says Amen.

Another day closer to Thanksgiving…And Friday

As of 600 AM, Jeff has yet to put out the new Poetry Victims-working doubles and back-to-back shifts can make it hard to have much of a life. So, my poem (if he’s going to include it) isn’t up yet. He may get one out today-but I won’t know till after eleven tonight.

Well, it’s Wednesday before Thanksgiving so it’s off to the kitchen I go. I’ve got the butterscotch fudge made and in the fridge. Tonight it’s two pumpkin pies, green bean salad, strawberry salad, and probably the carrots with honey and brown sugar. Thankfully most of this can be done in steps…Like make the pies and put in oven and in the next hour start the green bean salad (which needs to marinate one hour in the fridge before finishing), the strawberry salad (which is a jello salad), and the carrots can be put on and merely watched. However, on the downside, I won’t make it to the library till this weekend. I may end up with library withdrawal.

And for more Thanksgiving humor here are some ways to use a Thanksgiving turkey: *as a blunt object*as a hood ornament*as a football for the after-meal game*one word…Bowling!*as a Christmas gift*as a doorstop to keep your relatives out.

No-I didn’t sit and come up with this or the Thanksgiving outlook. The net is a very wonderful place to get easy items to copy.

Have a great Thanksgiving, if I don’t talk to you till after Turkey day, and Be Safe!

Books and sleepy times

I think if it got any slower around here I could take a nap and nobody would notice. We’re sitting roughly half full tonight. Mondays we’re usually three-fourths full. Holiday week so everyone is staying home.

I “worked” on my booklist tonight. I’ve been made fun of because of this booklist and if you haven’t had the joy of seeing me explain it in person well you’re really missing something. First of all, it’s typed. And saved on a computer disk. I’m working on booklist 2 and compiling booklist 3, which has roughly 320 books on it. Booklist 2 has 67 books on it and I’ve been working, and adding, to it since high school. The great thing about Tulsa (maybe the only thing) is their library system. Books that were not available back home are available in the larger library system. And the cool part is that I can manage my library account via the internet. From making reservations for books, movies, and CD’s to extending my due date to seeing what’s in at the holdshelf; I’m am checking my account daily. (You can pick your jaw up off the keyboard now.) Booklist 2 has some books that I’m very interested in (i.e. can remember their blurbs) to ones that I’m not sure about. I have a sixty page rule-if by page sixty I’m bored stupid I give up. This has been a major breakthough for me in the past few years. (You can quiet laughing.) What started, I believe between 1995-1997, became a four hundred pound elephant that I’ve diligently waded through. Adding new authors to my “like” shelf, saying good-byes to others, and generally happy as a clam. I am now down to two pages, originally I think there was eight, and beginning to feel melancholy for the last few books. I should be done with this list come May.

Now that everyone knows my neurosis, my passion (beside baseball), and my general obsession let me assure you that I’m quite normal. There has been books that I wasn’t sure about that were great reads, books that I looked forward to that were disappointing, and always a surprise or two thrown in. Not sure how my current read got on the list but with just a few pages in I’m definitely looking forward to this one. (By the way it is, Into the Far Mountains by Fred Grove.) The recently checked out list contained a couple of disappointments which were ironically the books I most looked forward to and the book I wasn’t sure about has promise. (There’s something about life in general in that statement.)

Anyway, I sent Jeff another poem and he apparently loves it. Perhaps (good chance) it will be in today’s Poetry Victim’s email. Check the link on the side to see if he’s got today’s out yet and maybe you’ll see me!

Well, I hope everyone enjoys their (possibly) last day of school/work.