4.10.06

Category: dribblings

lord, have mercy.
i mowed the grass again today, as i have to mow it twice a week ‘cos i planted grass seed in the fall and WHY IN THE NAME OF LOVE DID I DO THAT?!
right. so. mowing the lawn, and the grass is SO thick and green and lush that the mower stops because it’s clogged with think, lush, green grass clippings and dog shit. so i usually give it a good bang and shove (this is the dirtiest sounding paragraph, banging, mowing, dog shit.) and some clumps will fall off the bottom and i go on with my mowing.

well, today, just for shits ang giggles, after mowing, i turned the mower over to look at the bottom and holy cow, it looks like i’ve run over a moss covered Swamp Thing.
i honestly don’t know how the damn blade was even able to spin. and right now Dante is cringing and thinking, “you should know better than that!” because he’s the Lawnmower Man and has had the same mower for 18 years.

it looked ridiculous. so i took a broom handle and i dug out as much of the Moss Monster as i could. i think i carved out 8 pounds of grass and shit off the bottom of the mower. the dogs were all, “wow! what’s this?! thanks jaimie!” and i was all, “no! bad! stop! ew. GIT!”
i guess i learned something today.

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4.10.06

Category: dribblings

i watched the St. Louis/Chicago game last night. that was a great game. except StL lost. but i got to see another grand slam, and those are just too cool.two things i’ve noticed while watching the Cardinals play ball:

1. the commentators love Albert Pujols, and they say his name approx. 600,000 times per inning. (psst. guys. there are other players…in fact, there’s a whole other team out there on the field, and? they just won the game.)
2. Tony LaRussa looks more and more like the Penguin from Batman.
there were not a whole lot of Penguin pics to choose from. but i fully expect LaRussa to start coahing all, 'waugh! waugh! waugh!' with a lavender umbrella in his hand.

in other baseball “news” that you care nothing about:
the Yankees are in the basement. already.

in other “you’ve got to be kidding me…are we in Bizzarro World?” news:
Detroit’s in first.

but with only 6 games played, it’s not like any of this matters yet.

 

 

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4.08.06

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what kind of blog is this where i don’t update regularly anymore? i mean, who do i think i am, Liz?

it’s been really busy but not in an interesting way so i don’t have any cool or funny or even stupid stories. there have been two deaths recently, and that’s been very sad, but also i don’t want to blog about that because it seems in poor taste at the moment.

now that i can see the houses across from me on Chestnut St. (‘cos of the house next door that was torn down and removed) i can see that the yellow house (with the giant tv that i can watch from my deck) has acquired three (3) new chow-chow puppies. they’re just three balls of barking fur. so cute, even if they do constantly bark.

i had to take miss junebug to dialysis early this morning and when i got back (around 5:20am) i could hear a rooster crowing. i’ve heard the rooster before, but usually i hear it while i’m at the Holy House (when i’m on a high floor with the windows open. you’d be surprised how sound travels) and it’s never in the morning. so it was quite hilarious to me to get home while it was still dark in the morning and hear a rooster. like i live on a farm in the country when in fact, i live in the middle of the ‘hood.

i mentioned the rooster to laura last week and she said that it lives at the house behind her grandma’s (GJ) house on 8th St. i live on 11th skreet so it’s a couple of blocks away.
and since i’m racist like my dogs i asked, “does it belong to some of our friends from south of the border?”
she said that no, actually, it’s the pet of the realtor lady that sold GJ her house.
which:
A. small town and
B. i didn’t think farm animals were allowed in the city limits.

not that i care, ‘cos like i say, it’s never bothered my sleep before, but i can only imagine how the people who live next door (or behind) the rooster feel about it.

thinking of “exotic” birds living downtown reminds me of when i was a little kid Noccolula Falls used to have peacocks that would roam the park (and the surrounding neighborhoods).
i’m kind of sad that they don’t have them anymore.
but also, i’m kind of glad, because there’s no one, NO ONE, who works for Parks&Rec with the knowledge of how to keep ANY kind of animal safe and healthy.
still, i remember that the peacocks sounded like they were saying, “HELP! HELP!” when in fact they were just chirping or cooing or whatever they do.

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4.03.06

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it’s Opening Day! Woot! everyone gets to start with a clean slate! except you, barry bonds, i’m already sick to death of hearing about you.
one thing i’ve noticed is that the scores have been pretty high. the cubs killed the reds. the braves were killing the dogers and then it was all, “oh my gosh! the dogers are catching up! ohmygoshohmygoshohmygosh awww, nice try guys.” and now the yanks are killing the a’s. that, of course, could change seeing as how it’s only the second inning and the yanks love to give up in the middle. freaks.giambi, you are already dead to me.

 

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4.01.06

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laura and jimmy are trying to move my cheese. they want me to start using Moveable Type for the blog and i REALLY DON’T WANT TO and what i don’t get, is how come my not wanting to use MT is not at all considered.
it’s my blog. my site. it’s hosted on jimmy’s server and laura made it look like a real site! why, why, WHY do i need to use MT, a canned pre-made program corporate thing, when i can use html or something and still be able to say, yeah, that’s my site. it’s not MT’s site. it’s mine. MINE!but the laura and the jimmy, they don’t get that, they’re all, “oh jaimie.” and they think i’m just being stubborn or something. like it’s almost cute that i don’t want to change the site.
BUT I DON’T WANT TO CHANGE IT.
and isn’t that okay?
i love the way the site looks. and yeah, it’s annoying as hell to have to do this in html, but from what i saw with MT i’ll still have to insert html tags anyway so FUCK the MT. i don’t trust it! i don’t trust that it archives for you. but where does it save the archives? i know where my archives are now. why trust another program and another server?
i don’t like this. i don’t like this at all. my site has been fine for the last 3 years, i don’t see the need to change over to some kind of automated bullshit. in fact, i feel lucky that my site isn’t like that now.

i’m glad that my site isn’t a blogger page or a diaryland page or a livejournal page or whatever. and i’m not saying those are bad things, i realize that they are wicked convenient (because hey, free.) especially if you want to update your blog from different computers say, at work and then at home. i get it. i do. BUT. i don’t need that. i only update at home.

i am so grateful to jimmy and laura for making my site (years and years ago), ‘cos honestly if not for them, i wouldn’t have one now. i don’t know the first thing about websites and servers or anything. so honestly, i owe them for everything you see here.

i think it’s great as it is. so why change over to the MT? makes no sense. and i won’t do it. and i swear if you two move my cheese i’ll fold and we can just unplug this damn machine. i will not fucking sellout. i’m spoiled. i want laura’s designs…not prefab templates. i want jimmy’s brains. i don’t want to e-mail strangers with my dumbass questions.

so can we please not do this Moveable Type thing?

 

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3.31.06

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tomorrow is mr. fleegan’s birthday. he is an april fool. (buddy is also an april fool. he doesn’t go by buddy anymore, but i just can’t bring myself to call him jeremiah.) he’ll be the three-four. i think. i can’t do math right now. in fact, all i’m really able to do so far today is drool and make coffee.
i’m taking my fella out tonight to get him some new shoes (new shoes!) and to a movie or dinner or whatever he wants. he’s the Birthday Boy.i came home on wednesday and they (who are they?) had demolized (is that a word? remember, i’m drooling over here.) the hobo crack house next door.
yesterday morning, at 6 in the morning i might add, they had that big machine (hey kids, remember when we went to the monster truck show? and that big dragon that killed the old pontiac? it was one of those machines! sans dragon outfit.) and it was picking up the debris and putting it into dumptrucks.
i woke up all, “are we having an earthquake?” and the cat was all, “since you’re up you might as well feed me. ‘cos if you don’t i’m just going to pester the hell out of you until you do. get up and feed me. feed me! feed me! feed me!”

so i watched the dumptrucks get filled while i drank my coffee. it’s so strange now, ‘cos when i look out my window i can see the houses on chestnut street. and one of them seems to have a giant tv on the porch. i think it’s actually in a picture window, but it makes it look like it’s on the porch. especially at night.

NOTICE:
free cat to good home. she’s old, so you just have to feed her once a day. she sheds like crazy, but also, she’s free. goes by the name Toonces Whorecat. but if you take her, you can call her whateverthehell you want.

 

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3.25.06

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i took a whole week off from the blog. it felt great not to turn on the computer.

this would be the part where i tell you all the cool/funny/stupid/weird things that happened to me this week.
well, i don’t remember much. let’s see, there was bowling, which i still suck at, in case you were wondering. then there was liz’z birfday. then there was liz at fredo’s. then there was the grocery store.
that’s how my week went. nothing too interesting. oh, but dad and i worked in anniston yesterday and we TOTALLY had lunch at Mata’s and we TOTALLY had steak grinders, and you guys, we TOTALLY need to take a trek over there en masse and have grinders and beer. we are far overdue for a Mata’s run.

fiddy.

cell phone fun: more txts

Damn right you will buckfutter.
– fellykish

blegger goo?
– kristie

Wassup hobag? Just check’n in to see how the kitties are.
– fellykish

I will find it when i get home tomorrow and then i will kill them.
– fellykish

Crazy margaret is here. Bike and all.
– chris

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3.19.06

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i had dinner this evening with mr. fleegan and his sister’s family including one of their cousins who happens to be in high school. turns out that she’s in liz’z dad’z english class.
small damn town, huh?
anyway, mr. fin, she says your class is “soooooo hard.” also, she hated the Iliad, but really, who hasn’t hated the Iliad? i love greek myth and all, but damn, Homer isn’t exactly compelling, or brief.
so then she asks if i can tutor her in english.
sure, i say. anytime, i say.

it was only after i got home did i realize that i told someone i’d tutor them in english. me?!
oh well, how hard could high school english be? i passed it once before. it’ll be like reruns.
i done tol’ her i could learn her to speak and write language good.

i’m listening to the Allman Bros. right now. is there anything more perfect than “In Memory of Elizabeth Reed”? hush liz, i wasn’t asking you. or laura either. in fact, nevermind that last question.

okay, well, “Little Martha” is probably my fave. but Liz Reed is right up there.

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3.18.06

Category: dribblings

books that i’ve started but will probably not finish:
blog!: How the Newest Media Revolution is Changing Politics, Business, and Culture the intro alone made me want to puke. it was comparing blogging to cave paintings. this is the reason i haven’t been updating as much. because really, blogs? they aren’t that important. and? they shouldn’t be that important. get over it.
The Truth (With Jokes) by Al Franken. i love this book, but since i agree with him on most everything it’s mainly just making my blood pressure rise reading about how evil the Bush Admin is.

in other non-important blog news:
i was allergic to the Lodine (oh lord, stuck in Lodine again!) and so i called the doc’s office and told them this. three hours later a nurse calls me back and she tells me, i swear on a stack of blogs, she tells me to take ibuprofen because it’s “really the best thing to take.”
well.
IF IT’S THE BEST THING TO TAKE WHY WAS I PRESCRIBED SOME BULLSHIT, EVIL, STOMACH BLEEDING, PRESCRIPTION ONLY DRUG LIKE LODINE?!
oh lord, stuck in Lodine again.
what a waste of money.
this pretty much happens everytime i go to a doctor. this is why i don’t go to doctors. this is why i wait and suffer through 6 months of gall stone pain before going to a doctor. so the next time i’m complaining about something asinine like, say, a severed head, and you say, “jaimie, you really should go to the doctor.” i’m just going to silently give you the finger, because you should know better by now.

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3.16.06

Category: dribblings

well, the doc said i’ll live. my knee is “inflammed” he says. my ass. i’d know if my knee was on fire or not.
quack.
so i’m taking Lodine (and you bet yer ass everytime i pick up the bottle i sing, “oh lord, stuck in Lodine again.” because i’m just wired that way.), an anti-inflammatory. it makes me kinda itchy (no hives or anything) and it makes me VERY sleepy. i can tell already this “twice a day” thing will be “once before bed”. there’s no way i can do ANYTHING after taking one of these.
zombie.
crap.
i just noticed that one of the side effects is chills. i totally had chills an hour after i took the pill. or maybe it was just cold at my house. i dunno, i’ll see if it happens again.
stoopid drugs. i don’t like taking medicine. it always sounds so dangerous. it IS dangerous. damn you, pills, with your possible side effects of bloody stools and blindness!

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