The kind of sore that comes from a good day's work. Today in Poppyland the weather was wonderful for outdoor activity - in the mid 40s, overcast, with no precipitation. I was able to clean out and trim down the dead parts of all of our garden beds today. That is an all day endeavor, and I'm just now writing about it while it is firmly dark outside, so you know it took me all day. My back is happily sore, because it knows it was productive today. And, it was so nice to see how much new growth we have!
Gorgeous...
In case anyone's interested, here's a photo of the double cut of the coax cable leading from the house to our satellite dish:
(Oops.)
Not too much progress was made on the porch yesterday, so I'm not going to bother posting a photo. BUT, last night's birthday party at the karaoke bar was a ton of fun. I didn't achieve bravery to sing a birthday song other than the traditional song one sings with others on a birthday, but here's a little photo of the exciting time:
That's the birthday girl on the right and her partner in civil union on the left. They are such an awesome couple, and incredible individuals. (I know it's dark, but I didn't dare to use the flash in the bar... If you click the photo you'll see a slightly clearer version.) Here's the set with the rest of the photos, including this lovely:
My co-worker is having a dirty 30 birthday party tonight at a karaoke bar. I may have interesting photos and/or tales to tell later tonight. I may drink one alcoholic beverage (my first in over a year, so I don't think it will mix with my morning medication and cause me to have a bleeding ulcer). I love parties. :)
Update: I had two Coca-Colas. :) But, but but!! I did stay out until after midnight and had someone drive me home as if I were drunk!!
When you were in chorus/choir/madrigals/etc. in high school did you have to sing an inordinate number of religious-y songs? Yah, me too. And, I unfortunately still remember those better than the rest. Like, "my lord, what a mor-or-or-ning" and "et in terra pax hominibus" blah-de-blah.
Anyway, the whole reason for me posting: I just went to visit my gram in the hospital and she wasn't there! Sooooo, I called the house as soon as I got out of the hospital and my uncle answered. He told me the doctors increased her meds and she should be fine. A visiting nurse and a meal service will take care of her needs until she's back to full strength.
In other news, Hay tells me that the chimney smokers in flannel accidentally cut the line to our satellite dish, so no TV for us this weekend. Totally okay, since we have a lot of DVDs to watch. I'm pretty sure if we can't get a signal we can't get the information for what's stored on the DVR and therefore cannot watch it. Hay thinks the opposite, but seems to me when we have dish problems due to weather we can't see what's on the DVR either. Anyone know the definitive answer?
...and then little bearded men wearing flannel and chimney smoking came over and caused a raucous. By Wednesday they had turned the outside of our home into a wasteland:
When we came home Thursday there was something that resembled a deck(!!!):
Looking forward to what the site will look like tonight, and to a construction-free weekend. Ahhhhhhh....
Oh, totally random: We watched The 40 Year Old Virgin last night and laughed hysterically. Definitely worth your time and money. Who knew that Catherine Keener has such a smokin' hot bod?! Loved the chest waxing scene, which was real - Steve really had his chest hair ripped off for the movie. Dégoutant*, but hilarious. :)
--- *In Poppyworld this means “disgusting”, but en français it actually means nothing. Proper use of disgusting/disgust is “dégout”, and if something is disgusting it's “répougnant”, but it's my blog and that's what I say, so l'Académie française can shove it. :D
I have returned from under the pile of rubble! It will take me exactly one hour to catch up on comments, blogs, and the entertainment world. Please note that I shall be posting more today.
My teeth effing hurt, my class effing sucked, my grandmother is still in the effing hospital, there are still effing little men crawling all over the outside and inside of my house, and the cats are still effing pissed about it, but at least we're all alive to be effing anything, right? Rock on!
Had a fight with Hay first thing this morning because I'm an idiot and can't deal with the fact that men are crawling all over the outside of our house and freaking Georgie out.
Then I stormed off to work and got freaked out by the head of IT who said “you're all getting shuffled, but I don't know where yet.”
Then I freaked out with my coworkers about the meeting we had just attended while I finished putting together my packets for tomorrow's class.
Then I bought Hay a “sorry, I'm an idiot” gift.
Then I went to make sure my classroom had what I expected it to for tomorrow and helped someone else for their class.
Then I returned a call to my mom who told me I really need to call my grandmother in the hospital; I called, no answer.
Then I called Mom to let her know I didn't reach my grandmother and that life is crazy so please let her know I'm trying.
Then I read my email to find that after several years of being on the waiting list I finally got a parking spot in my building's lot! Le woot!
Then I called Hay and apologized for my idiocy and warned him I have a gift.
And, now it's the end of my day and I haven't read blogs and I haven't accomplished anything other than some really tense shoulder muscles.
Whenever I get behind in reading my favorite blogs I get tagged for a meme, and this time I got tagged by the delightfully charming and talented Melissa at Wonders Never Cease. Soooooo, here we go...
1. Choose a search engine (e.g. Google), click "images." 2. Pick 5 random blogfriends. 3. Think of a word or a phrase that you think describes each friend. 4. Do an image search of that word or phrase. 5. Pick an image that makes you say "A-ha! That's it!" (6. Tag somebody)
Melissa “twisted it a bit and decided to just search for things I think of when I think about these bloggers.” So, I'm gonna do it that way, too.
That's just a freakin' cool cake. Oh, and it says für on it which really means for but it's similar enough to the plain old fur that coats my nephew.
Who to tag, who. to. tag. Let's see. *cluck of the tongue* ... *a bit of Jeopardy music* ... MALIAVALE! Sorry, Sweetie, that's what you get for doing the recipe swap a few months late. ;)
That's how many we missed when our DVR decided it just didn't feel like recording American Idol tonight. We did catch all of Paris's performance, but not the two before. And, really, who cares, because Paris rocked it and I love her and wish I could just bottle her up and carry her in my pocket. :)
Oh, but, HOLY SHIT that Chris can rock! His rendition of Johnny Cash's I Walk the Line was freakin' fantastic!!!!!!!!
Kevin Federline's supposed MySpace page has a new song playing which claims that his first track, Popozao, was a "curve ball", not "this shit", and the exclusive kfederalf is the real song.
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What?? Let me just say I never listened to Popozao, but the baseline of this new song exclusive kfederalf is a total ripoff of Thomas Dolby's song.
Is this shit for real??? It's really offensive, really ripped off, and really stupid. Who sings about Bryant Gumbel?!
All of the broadcast networks are faced with the same problem of declining viewership in the face of competition not only from hundreds of niche cable networks, but also from the Internet, video games, and a number of other activities that draw viewers away from the boob tube. Jeff Zucker, the CEO of NBC Universal Television Group, recognizes the problem, and is encouraging would-be producers of TV shows to come to the company with a strategy that extends beyond TV.
(That Jeff Zucker, he's kinda brilliant.) Who's excited? (I am! I am!)
--- *For those of you who I emailed to say I was not available for comment because I'm prepping for my class: I found Adam's site while searching for the text of a CNN article that has expired since I first found it. Thanks to Adam for totally ripping CNN's content and pasting it to his blog so that I could use the article in my class again!!
Due to both creative and business reasons I have decided to leave Betty.
I thank you all for the love and support you have shown me and the boys. You are amazing. I know this comes as a surprise to most of you but it has been in the cards for a long time coming. We had an amazing time on tour and have had some great shows. It is just time. I can no longer expect the band to wait for me to pursue my solo endeavors...it is not fair to them. I will not bore you with the rest. They are three very talented artists and I trust you will continue to support them in whatever they chose to do. I know you will. I hope you will continue to support me as well.
Please know that some amazing things are instore for me and I assure you...you will be the first to know!!
You were doing so well. You were keeping the human in general happiness mode. Nothing phased her. She made great decisions. She even could argue with a clear, calm head. What the fuck* happened? Now she's pissy and moody and downright grumpy for no apparent reason, and you aided and abetted in the gaining of 4 lbs in one weekend. What is wrong with you? Shape up or ship the f out.
Sincerestly, the human element referred to as Poppy
--- *I only spelled out the f word once, so this post is rated PG-13. Right? I think.
Looks like Blogger is behaving again. FOR THE MOMENT. I guess that's what I get for a free service - shittiness. (Free shittiness!) You're only as good as your last page load, Blogger, so let's TRY to keep the page loads under 60 seconds?!?!
/gripe off
The library finally had Cell! Remember when I mentioned that I went to the library to get it but it was the only missing Stephen King book?! When I visited today its status was "Returned" so I asked the nice young man at the counter to paw through all the books to be shelved and locate it for me. He said it was the very last book he checked. My lucky day! I am now juggling 4 books, although I'll be honest with you and admit that I'm committed to finishing Kathy Lynn Emerson's book for the following reasons:
1. B lent it to me and I'm feeling guilty about possessing half her library of books. 2. It's REALLY good and I want to keep the momentum going. 3. It's the book out of the 4 that I've had for the longest, so by default it deserves to be finished first out of the 4.
And they lived happily ever after. The end. Goodnight, Poppette! Back to Sopranos from the DVR for la famille Cede. *les smoochies*
I am semi-shocked at how naked many of the desktops are out there. They must be home computers. I mean, a girl eating out another girl is pretty NSFW. Unless of course you work for ...well, I'm not going to defame any business characters, but you can all think of at least one company where photos of naked kitty eating might be encouraged.
