It’s Monday

Need I say more? I think the full moon effect is on-going. Last night at work we had a vehicle on the back lot that got broke into-with both security and cameras going. All they stole was a pack of cigarettes-not all the tools these guys carry for their job. I guess some drunk just wanted a smoke. Paperwork was so sloppy and I was finding stuff from Friday that should have been punched and placed in the appropriate binder. Then I get home and there’s a man in my living room without a shirt. Manda-need I say more. Maybe I’m old fashion, maybe I’m just a prude, but this is not appropriate behavior. I don’t invite men over and I don’t invite them to stay the night but when I get home who knows whose going to be in my apartment. It would be different if she was paying me something-anything but she doesn’t and then wonders why I’m so pissed. It’s my apartment and I don’t want to come home to half naked men! The goal is to be moved out by the end of March-I may just move temporarily into mom and dads. Lord knows, I’m crashing on their couch every freaking weekend. Why am I paying rent on something I can’t live in????

This whole situation has me so stressed and upset that I have tendency to rant and rave. To me, family is family and you help out when and where you can. Next time, I am just going to hand her money and tell her to not even bother asking me for anything else. Ranting and raving again.

Not much going on in history and the news is even slowed down. I don’t have much of anything to say so I’ll get off of here. I may be back Tuesday but definitely back on Thursday. See y’all later.

5 Days and counting

We (that’s the STL Cardinals) open our preseason games Wednesday against Florida Atlantic University and then we play the Mets on Thursday! Yeah!! When the regular season starts (and more specifically the home opener) Sarah and I will bbq some hot dogs and bring Opening Day to Tulsa. I live for baseball, the rest is just a pain in the butt.

A little news out of Witchita Kansas this weekend. The BTK Killer has been apprehended. I first heard of the BTK Killer when I watched America’s Most Wanted. John Walsh really wants this guy apprehended and he got his wish. The BTK first killed a family of four in 1974. His last known attack was in 1986. There was some letters to the media and the cops during the attacks but nothing since the last attack. Last year he came out from under his rock and starting letterwriting with the media again. Police have also linked him to killings in 85 and 91. Dennis Rader, 59, lives in a nearby town and was taken out with DNA evidence. Way to go, Witchita PD.

Amber Alert out for nine year old Jessica Marie Lunsford. She was abducted from her bedroom in a town close to Tampa. Family, friends, church members, and volunteers have been searching since Wednesday morning with no luck. I’ve got a bad feeling that this one is going to end bad. Prayers to Jessica’s family, friends, and community.

Paul McCartney is a grandfather. His daughter Stella, the clothing designer, and her hubby Alasdhair Willis (do they call him Al?) welcome a baby boy into the world. No name released yet. I’ll make fun of it when the do.

Well, my hot plans for the rest of the day include redying my growing hair. I’m know able to wear barrettes. I’m shooting for a ponytail and a French braid before I get fustrated with it and whack it off. We’ll see. Well, I’ll see y’all Monday? Tuesday? Soon. Have a great weekend.

A really quick post

I’ve got 15 minutes, tops, to post and get out of here. CSI comes on at 800 pm and I’ve got to get my CSI fix. Not much going on here in Okie-World. Life-nothing that mom would want me to blog since involves her and Manda and life. Everything will work out we’re just having one of those weeks (is it a full moon?).

Work is going great-it’s so nice that I’m working with someone that I respect and like and is a go-between us peons and the GM (that’s general manager to those not in hospitality field). Jeff’s had a rough week or so, also. There’s a sense that if we (and I mean everyone I talk to that works there) can hold on it can only get better. I was so late getting off that I made Manda really late to work-talked to Jeff (the go-between) and he’s trying to work something out. The problem is that the gal that was late was the GM. Like Jeff said, though, they knew when they hired me about the situation with the car and that he’s going to get someone in and trained for front desk, day shift. The new auditor is quite interesting-I don’t think she’ll be doing audit very long. You definitely have to be able to self entertain, be a self starter, and don’t need interaction to stay awake. The audit itself doesn’t take long and isn’t hard. I fill the time typing up my recipes, working crosswords, reading books, and watching TV. There are nights when you just don’t have enough stuff to fill your free time and nights that you just about can’t get your work accomplished. I like the nights were everythings nuts and the challenge of getting everything squared away before the end of your shift. (I like ‘em as long as its not every night, that is).

But anyway, enough about work. It’s Friday and I need to head home for some CSI. See y’all this weekend.

Catch up day

Saturday was my birthday and I had a great Birthday Weekend. We celebrated Friday night because mom works Saturday nights. I finally got my ball cap that I wanted and some chicory coffee. Stuff that was on my list with one surprise-no books! That’s the one fall back item that I get every birthday and Christmas. Saturday, mom and dad and I went out to eat. The Macaroni Grill was someplace none of us had been to (and the least busiest) and it was excellente. I mention that it was my birthday when we ordered dessert so she lit a candle in the middle of my three-story cheesecake and sang Happy Birthday in Italian. It was great.
Upon reading the USA Today Monday morning I noticed three obituaries from Hollywood. John Raitt passed away Sunday. Raitt was an actor on both Broadway and Hollywood. He starred with Sandra Dee in The Pajama Game, and was on Broadway in most notably Oklahoma!. He was also the father of Bonnie Raitt. He was 88.
Sammi Smith passed away Saturday. Smith did the first version of Kris Kristofferson’s Help Me Make It Through The Night. She won a Grammy for the song in 1971. It was her only #1 single, although she did place 36 other singles on the chart. (Take the ribbon from my hair; lay it loose against your skin…)
Then there was the news that the ailing Sandra Dee had passed away on Sunday. Dee was the bubbly teen icon from the late 50’s and 60’s. She starred in several films including taking on the Tammy roles and starred in Gidget. She met Bobby Darin on the set of Come September and they were married later in the year. A son was born to the couple, Dodd, but they divorced within a few years. Dee and Darin stayed in contact till Darin’s death from heart disease in 1973. Dee had been on dialysis in the past few years and was battling kidney disease.

Then in today’s paper it was all doom and gloom again. The Fort Worth PD have arrested Stephen Dale Barbee in the death of pregnant ex-wife and their son. Lisa Underwood and Jayden never showed Saturday for her baby shower. Cops found a puddle of blood in her home and her SUV in a ditch 30 miles northeast of Fort Worth. The bodies were found in a rural area as described by the ex-husband.

A disgruntled employee of Northrop Grumman Shipyard in Pascagula, Mississippi opened fire on his co-workers. He wounded two employees but no one was killed. A motive is still being sought. In my opinion, if he was a happy camper he probably wouldn’t have opened fire. Maybe we can blame it on the squirrel-isn’t Pascagula where Ray Steven’s squirrel went beserk. (The day the squirrel went beserk in the First Baptist Church in the sleepy little town of Pascagula…)

Time has finally caught up to the mob. In an interesting article in the USA Today, all those bodies they have buried are now being found and cops are using DNA testing to prove who’s who. It’s even helped disprove a liar who said he shot Jimmy Hoffa in his living room. Enter CSI with their little blue light and they proved that the blood did not belong to Hoffa. Chicago, as everyone knows, is fertile ground for Mafia killings. The Chicago Crime Institute says that 1,111 people have been killed in slayings related to organized crime since the forming of the Institute in 1919. Only 14 have led to murder convictions; or 1 % of cases have been solved. Ouch.

I’ve never read him, but to some in the 60’s I’m sure that Hunter S Thompson was wonderful. Thompson died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound this weekend. He wrote Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Well, I’m going to mosey. I’ll see y’all later.

The family grapevine…

Is alive and well. Mom talked to grandma and someone in Missouri is reading this at least once in a blue moon. I was wondering whether anyone was listening to my ramblings. Guess that’s my answer. And speaking of family-Happy Birthday Grandpa!

Nothing much going on in the world. Baseball is starting, NHL’s season is officially over. Yankees newest pitcher has admitted that he is a hired gun. His job is too make sure that the Yanks win the World Series. This could be a very interesting year. Rocket Clemens wants a World Series trophy in Houston so that he’s getting paid 18 million to play this year. Johnson is also being played a ton of money to win in NY. Red Sox believes that anythings possible are going to do everything to defend their title. Who are we leaving out? Redbirds look fantastic this year, Atlanta’s always a contender, and who knows what’s going on in LA. Then there’s always that team that comes out of no where. White Sox, perhaps? Cubbies? Detroit Tigers?

Well, today is My Way day. So today it’s champagne and caviar for everyone! Okay, I’ve never had champagne and I don’t think I could do the caviar thing. So-how about McD hamburgers and fries for everyone? Somebody call McD and get them to chip in. Well, I need to get going so I’ll see you Saturday.

Happy Valentine’s Day

I wrote five poems at work last night-Jeff must be rubbing off on me. Let’s see, I missed the Grammy’s (apparently I didn’t miss much). NFL is officially over with the Pro-Bowl played this weekend. NASCAR has started-watched a little of the race on Saturday. Officially we’re 15 hours away from baseball’s start although St Louis is starting on Friday. My birthday is Saturday-things are definitely looking up.

There was a interesting article in the USA Today about drugs and alcohol by the US Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services administration (SAMHSA, in government code?). A few neat facts about our country: southerners use the least amount of alcohol but were among the biggest tobacco users. Alaskans have the highest rate of drug use in the past month and marijuana use. Colorado has the highest rate of past year cocaine use, Idaho the lowest rate. Hawaii has the lowest rate of serious mental illness, Rhode Island has the highest. Kansas has the lowest rate of drug dependence/abuse. New Hampshire has the highest past month use of marijuana and alcohol. North Dakota has the highest rate of binge drinking and alcohol dependence. Tennessee has the lowest rate of past year marijuana use and alcohol dependence and abuse. (I guess country music really isn’t about getting drunk anymore.) Utah, unsurprisingly, has the lowest past month drug use, marijuana use, alcohol use, and binge drinking. Mormons-what can we say.

A little more on the Grammy’s. Velvet Revolver, Gretchen Wilson, and Ricky Scaggs all won. Scaggs won for Bluegrass Album (definitely a birthday idea). Wilson won for female country vocal. Velvet Revolver for hard rock. Lorretta Lynn won country album (Van Lear Rose) and country vocal collaboration (Portland Oregon with Jack White). Britney Spears won for dance recording.

Playwright Arthur Miller passed away Thursday. Miller wrote Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, and A View From the Bridge. Miller was briefly married to Marilyn Monroe.

Well, no history to speak of outside of organized crime. Today was the Valentine’s Day Massacre. Capone versus Bugs Moran. The Feds started cracking down on Capone and his illegal businesses. Here comes Eliot Ness to save the day and before you know it Kevin Costner is staring in a movie. (This is the really abbreviated version of history, by the way.)

This is International Flirting Week and National Condom Week. So if your Valentines didn’t turn out go and flirt. But just use a condom. I guess this is what we’re being told. Don’t ask me-I don’t date.

The Maltese Falcon was published in 1930 on this date. Starred Sam Spade and written by Dashiell Hammett. Was also done in movie form a couple of times.

Well, Sarah’s waiting on me to hurry up so we can go. I’ll talk to you guys later.

I’m back

If I could just get everyone on the same page that I need to go to the library for a couple of hours every couple of days I’d actually be able to post. There’s my grand excuse. Things have been interesting here lately. My bruise from walking into a wall has healed. The gentleman that liked to come down in the middle of the night and tell me I’m beautiful has quite harassing me (with a little nudge from Jeff, I believe). I have survived the weekend. I’ve got more books than I can read in a week ready to go. I’m dealing with PMS/Valentines/Getting Older Birthday Depression. Along with financial woes. I keep thinking that sooner or later this has got to get better. Cheaper apartment, less stress, and more hands-on with my finances and things should be fine.

This week is Jell-O Week. Considering that Madri Gras just wrapped up, some of you don’t want to think about jello. I’m hoping to make it to the library tomorrow-that’s my idea of Valentine’s Day. A few news items to pass on for you today. A newborn baby believed to be only hours only was thrown out of a car in North Lauderdale, Florida. The infant was rescued and hospitalized and is expect to recover. In Newark, NJ, an airport screener missed a butcher knife in a passengers bag. She went on a blind date earlier in the week and took it with her as protection. Prince Charles is finally going to marry Camilla Parker Bowles.

NHL is just about to declare this season a washout. Football is finally over. Baseball officially starts tomorrow although we have four more days till we report in. Feb 18 pitchers and catchers report in and practice on the 19th (my birthday!!) then on the 22nd position and full squad report in and workout. It’s about time.

Well, I’ve got things to do and people to annoy so I’ll see you tomorrow. Have a great day.

Yes, I walked into a wall

When I get real tired I have a tendency to walk into things, trip over my own feet, smash my fingers, etc. I was up for 24 hours Sunday-Monday morning. Sometime Monday I got up in the middle of my night and proceeded to walk into a wall. I now have a bruise on my face that makes me look like I’m dating some biker dude with an attitude. The kicker? Nobody believes me! Nobody! I need a better story, I guess. If they don’t believe the truth give them something they won’t believe anyway. Hmmm….Aliens from Xanadu came down and attempted to kidnap me…nah.

See the Super Bowl? Good game this year and the commercials were even better. I liked the pre-game Direct TV commercial with the guy who grows up before our eyes going from room to room with classic TV shows playing. As for the big commercials: P Diddy starting the Diet Pepsi truck craze, Diet Pepsi guy walking to the Bee Gees and all the girls (and a queer guy) following, the Lays commercial where they throw the bag of chips over the fence after loosing the baseball and getting all that stuff back and then throwing back MC Hammer, Anheuser-Busch commercial where the soldiers get applauded in the airport, guy at convience store that gets mauled by the owners after telling them “You’re getting robbed.” Oh-and will you guys make up your minds! There have been complaints to the FCC about how boring the halftime show was. Last year was too much this year not enough-will somebody make up thier mind!!!

In the odd news of the day Nicole Ritchie is getting married. I’m surprised anyone would take her because in my opinion she is stupid and ugly. Guess it proves that money wins out in the end. And no, I’ve never seen Simple Life, I’m surrounded by moron doing idiotic things all the time why would I want to watch a couple of rich morons have a reality show doing idiotic things?

9 days to catchers and pitcher report in to Florida. With NFL now over, NHL still on lock-out, and I really don’t care about basketball, we can now get down to business and focus on baseball. Jose Conseco used to play for the Texas Rangers when President Bush co-owned them. Conseco is claiming that Bush was aware of the rampant steroid use in the sport. And Bush’s reaction? Did not!

Some sad news to end this post-Merle Kilgore passed away Sunday. He was 70 and suffering from cancer. Kilgore had a few hits of his own but was know more as a Nashville insider. He co-wrote with June Carter Cash Ring of Fire and he wrote Wolverton Mountain. He was also a manager to Hank Jr. I didn’t realize this but he was also in the movie Coal Miner’s Daughter.

No history to speak of and I forgot my notes at home (this is being done at the library). I hope everyone has a great day and I’ll see y’all later.

What a weekend!

I’ve spent a lot of time at mom’s and that will probably continue till I can find a new place to live. Manda and I had a fight at moms Friday morning. I stayed last night at mom’s-just can’t stand to go home and deal with her. Amazingly, I’m looking forward to finding a new apartment and the changes that will incur. This is not me-I don’t embrace change or take to change to well. The time, though, has come and I know that things have to be restructured or I will probably end up with some series mental illness. That’s not a joke but a statement of fact.

Nothing going on in MLB or St Louis-only a few more days till preseason ball begins. If you watch the CBS’ show JAG, Harm’s going AWOL after this season. Not quite sure what to make of that announcement. Ossie Davis has passed away; he was 87 and it is presumed of natural causes. Davis was on Evening Shade back in the 90’s with Burt Reynolds. Davis, though, did lots of pieces over the years.

Today, the 5th is Weatherman’s Day. I guess guys that are right only 50% of the time get their day too! Yesterday was the USO’s Birthday. They were formed in 1941 and have been involved in every war since then. Bob Hope was the biggest spokesman/comedian/entertainer that went overseas for the troops. These shows were put on by the USO.

Well, I got the fixings for the tacos for tomorrow-forgot the cheese, though. I’ll get that when I get mom at work tonight at eleven. The soda has been bought, snack food gotten, I think we’re all set here. Of course, we’re rooting for the Pat’s. To everyone celebrating, and there’s a lot of you, be safe. Super Bowl Sunday is the Number 1 day of the year for consumption of avocados-everyone serving guacamole raise your chip! SB Sunday is the 1st in home parties (2nd is New Years Eve), 2nd in food consumption (behind Thanksgiving), and there will be an average of 17 people at your party. Ain’t stats fun? Here’s a few more: $49.27 is the average spent of SB stuff, 68% prefer pizza (3.2 million expected by Pizza Hut and Dominos to sell), 1.5 million TV’s sold, and 4, 000 tons of popcorn popped. 21.5 million will throw parties and 9.9 million party at bars and restaurants.

Well, I need to mosey-see y’all on Monday.

The Day the Music Died

Today is the day of the plane crash in Iowa in the 50’s that killed three early rock musicians. Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and Big Bopper died in a cornfield in Mason City, Iowa. Don McLean had a big hit about his thoughts on the day. Everyone now: Bye, bye, Miss American Pie, drove my Chevy to the Levy…

Not much going on in February. News has been quiet-except for the Pope. He’s in a hospital in Rome with some lung/breathing problems. Sosa’s trade has become official. Spring training starts in 15 days. All quiet on the western front.

Lynn Anderson, country singer, has been arrested in Phoenix area. She’s been accused of shoplifting a Harry Potter DVD. Anderson had a big hit with I Never Promised You a Rose Garden.

The month of February is named after the Latin term Februalia. It means a time for sacrificial and antonement for sins. Just a little info this morning.

I’m starved-going to go home and find something to eat and watch some more CSI. I’ve seen so many here lately, I’m surprised I’m not dreaming about them!

Have a great day and talk to you tomorrow.