Of Course I Hear Voices: I Own Parrots

I'm not going to lie...this might be a mixed bag of funny and sad. It's been a long week, my weekend is slowly falling a part, and my Norm is still in the hospital... What I miss: the little random things Mom and Dad coming to Indy for my birthday: It wasn't about the gifts or lack there of, it was about them taking the time to come see me. Also: taking them to a P3 show and watching Doug squirm as he tried not to drop the f bomb in front my mom...the minister Being woken up at odd hours of the night by the small town cops firing up the old school Nintendo. I was kept up many nights listening to them play Zelda or Dr.Mario and listening in on conversations my teenaged ears never should have heard...but it was way more entertaining than the silence I hear now when I can't sleep ;-)  The days when I didn't have a killer knot in my left shoulder. Right about now I'd kill for a shoulder rub...or just about anything to make it stop hurting. The days when I ...

Again...this is a tough one. Well there is the obvious: Tony Packo's The Place I can never get anyone to go with me: Myagis (sushi) and Best Breakfast   Toast Two (it is in Chicago, so I rarely get to go here...boooo)

I posted this on Facebook for my siblings last night. After a long day yesterday (Norm gave us quite a scare...we though he was having another stroke. As of right now the doctors are thinking it is something else, but still it was a pretty big concern.) I found this on You Tube...and if you have watched the movie and loved it like we do, this will make your day. If you have not watched Better Off Dead, you need to...now...

I posted this on Facebook for my siblings last night. After a long day yesterday (Norm gave us quite a scare...we though he was having another stroke. As of right now the doctors are thinking it is something else, but still it was a pretty big concern.) I found this on You Tube...and if you have watched the movie and loved it like we do, this will make your day. If you have not watched Better Off Dead, you need to...now...

Stupid blog challenge...I can never just pick one thing. :-( Okay here we go: I'm looking forward to this weekend (which officially starts tonight despite my having to work tomorrow...but then it is 3 days off :-) Although I am debating going out tonight as  I am exhausted. I sleep even worse than usual when dad is in the hospital.We will have to see how I feel after work. ) I might be getting older...but I am going to make this year's birthday as fun as I can I'm looking forward to next weekend because I get to see Norm: If all goes to plan, Amy, Kelsey and I will be getting our tattoos. Mine will probably be similar to this. For some reason, I'm also craving Frickers: I'm not sure why I am craving a  F rickin' Chicken ®  Quesadilla but I am.         

The prompts: Writing Prompts: 1.) Write about a time you had to crawl through a window. (inspired by Barb from  Half Past Kissin’ Time ) 2.) List of 10 shows you’re glad have seen their last day. 3.) A bad day. 4.) Share a joke that always makes you laugh. 5.) On a piece of paper write down something that makes you happy…take a photo of your paper and wa la…there’s your post. My choice: Prompt 2  (and I may lose all my facebook friends by the end of the day) Again in no particular order as I am just random: ER: LOVED the first few seasons of ER. I wrote some of my best AP English papers during this show (they were due Friday naturally)...then it just got old. Then it wouldn't die. I was so glad when it was finally put out of it's misery: loved hated wanted to shoot it and put it out of it's misery Friends: (yes you can hate me now). I watched it in high school because all my friends did. Then I got over it. I didn't watch it for years, and I felt like ...

My dream house has taken many forms over the years. Now: I don't want a big house...just one big enough for me, my family if I ever have one, and an extra room for friends to crash in. It has to have one handicap accessible bathroom. The kitchen doesn't have to be huge...just functional. I want to be a safe neighborhood. Basically, I want this house back (but not in it's current location): Dear remax.com: I know this is really your picture and it is linked Any of you recognize it? Maybe the big old evergreen in the side yard will give you a hint. This house has had 3 owners since us, and all of them have made big changes. Pretty much any trace we ever lived there is long since erased...except maybe the writing on the far back wall of the upstairs walk in closet. It just seems weird to  me that in the almost 21 years we lived there, we changed so little from the previous owners. Now 11 years later, it is a totally different house. I wish I had more pict...

Sharing my "pain" on this fine Tuesday morning (and I need a break from looking at excel spreadsheets).

In no particular order my favorite sayings are: Oh dear Really??!!?? Oh sweet Lord Um...you might not want to do that True story I'm sorry Why these phrases? Maybe it is better if I just show you the people in my life: Really...need I say more

not quite a year...but the best I can do My Hair is longer My hair is darker and not red I've lost weight I can wear that shirt without a tank top underneath it and it isn't obscene I'm not tan :-( I'm not in St Thomas :-( :-( I do not have a Margarita in my hand :-( :-( :-( although I think that is actually a chuck-o-rita...and that makes me even more sad...best margarita  EVER. I'd say I could drink those all night, but really I'd make it to 4 or 5 before things got out of hand. I'm  a little less shell shocked...things still suck from time to time, but it isn't that same constant under lying panic. I have come to terms with the fact that I'm not the person I was before the tornado. It has changed who I am and shaped the decisions I make...good and bad. I've ventured down unknown roads and broken my own rules...again with good and bad results, but I think I'm better for it.

Yeah I'm playing catch up...the weekend sort of got away from me. Goals: I have so many of them, and I am not sure how I am going to meet half of them. Still, I keep trying. Here are the top five: I want to be a size 10 by Christmas (if not by Adam and Kelsey's wedding) I want to be brave enough to not run from the things that scare me. I want to find a balance between my Ohio life and my Indiana life. I will finish my current writing project by Labor Day (rough draft only) I will get my apartment reorganized and all my stuff from Ohio moved in.

There are many things I refuse to leave the house without. I have broken most of the day rules and listed more than one so why not  do it again? Lipgloss. I'm addicted. I may not even be wearing make up, but I at least have Burt's Bees on me. Hair ties. You know, I rarely pull my hair back (mainly because I don't think it is a good look for me), but I always have these on me. I may not even have a hair brush, but I at least have the option of pulling it back. My phone: Sadly this is true. It is my connection to everything...and being so far from Dad I feel better knowing if I'm needed back home they can get in touch with me.

heh...I probably should have checked the list before picking my writing workshop prompt....oh well this will sort of be a repeat. In no particular order, here are my favorite TV shows: Chuck (seriously, how can you *not* love Chuck??) The X-files (pre them messing with the final few seasons) The Powers of Matthew Star (aka the reason I had a late bed time once a week...and I had  my mother write a letter to the network when it was cancelled) I really don't remember it, but it must have been good if I was that attached to it. Scrubs (original cast only...not that last season) Burn Notice (aka the show I know I should hate...but I love it so) NCIS (because Abby is my hero) Daria (do I really need to explain this one to you?                                                      8. Dexter (who doesn't love a serial killer who kills criminals...

ha..this will be easy. I will try not  to make it too depressing.We have already had our depressing post of the week: the sound of fireworks (sounds like debris hitting the car) being alone (a friend of mine's daughter made me feel uber craptastic about this one Monday) Justin Beiber (sorry P3 guys...who probably will never read this) severe thunderstorms...driving in them is even worse writer's block: soooo annoying. I lose so much time with this. bad hair days my friends getting hurt...I don't have kids so these guys are like my kids. I hate for anything to happen to them and I would do anything to take their pain away something happening to my dad heights do not bother me as much as the threat of the free fall needles

Probably only Amy, Adam...and a few other people will get this first one...but its my blog so I can really do whatever I want: Emperor's New Groove [ Kuzco and Pacha are tied to a tree branch floating in a river ]   Pacha : Uh-oh.   Kuzco : Don't tell me. We're about to go over a huge waterfall.   Pacha : Yep.   Kuzco : Sharp rocks at the bottom?   Pacha : Most likely.   Kuzco : Bring it on.   and because I can never pick just one From Empire Records: Joe : [ after Lucas enters ] Lucas! Lucas : Joe! Joe : Where's the money? Lucas : Joe, the money is gone. Joe : Yeah, I know it's gone... but where's it gone to? Lucas : Atlantic City. Joe : Atlantic City?... Is it coming back from Atlantic City? Lucas : [ nervous laugh ] Oh, I don't think so, Joe. Joe : What's it doing in Atlantic City, Lucas? Lucas : ...Recirculating. Joe : Recirculating? Lucas : Yeah. Someone has to be silly around here...why not let it be me?

This week's prompts: Writing Prompts: 1.) A list of 10 old TV shows you’d like to make a comeback. 2.) A post your mom would write if your mom wrote posts. 3.) Do you love it or hate it? An open letter to your child’s latest obsession. 4.) We just celebrated America’s Independence! Write a poem about what freedom means to you. 5.) It’s hot, the kids are home and crazy, our pets are panting, the days are long…share your number one Summer Survival Tip. This week's blog is sponsored in part by prompt #1 I must have horrible tastes in television shows, because most of the shows I love, end up cancelled. Seriously, if I get  whole season, I am a happy camper. Of course there are some obvious ones like Firefly and Arrested Development that immediately come to mind, but I have some other ones too that are worth mentioning.   I'm not sure some of these count as "old" but lets run with this and see what we find. Veronica Mars: I really did like this show. I think i...

Who doesn't love the Fourth of July? For years it has been my second favorite holiday (after Halloween of course). It brings up memories of a house full of cops/friends, the smell of french fries, being able to hear the band in the beer tent from my front porch, rides that always made me sick (I rode them anyway), mom's cooking, the beer tent, and of course the fireworks and Roger Weber's soundtrack we've been using since the early 90's. I love it. Seriously, give me a bucket of Frank's french fries (from the top of the hill), an elephant ear (from the vendor about 6 spots to the right when you get to the bottom of the hill) and a pitcher of beer. I'm set until we go to Jo Jos (or I have to walk home to use the little girls room). Even if the band sucks, the people watching is AMAZING. I seriously saw the whitest and drunkest Cupid Shuffle ever there last year...and I work for P3 so that is saying something. I'm related to one in the middle and ...

Day 7: Favorite movies In no particular order Dark Crystal Emperor's New Groove   28 Days Later Psycho (the original...not the remake) Vertigo The Crow (guaranteed to make me cry *every* time) Empire Records (judge me as you will) Alice in Wonderland Dream for an Insomniac  The Nightmare Before Christmas Day 8: A place you've traveled to USVI: St John My sister and I went to St Thomas last fall, and while we were there we took a morning trip to St John for shopping and mimosas...and to be chased by wild chickens. Okay...maybe we weren't chased by wild chickens. They are all over the island though. It was a nice place to spend our morning!

Ugh...another tough one. Well usually not. Typically the song stuck in my head is somehow tied to my mood, but that isn't the case today (Pink's *aka the original version she co-wrote and recorded for her 5th album  but didn't make the final cut and is on her greatest hits album...not Adam Lambert* of Whataya Want From Me is just catchy). Plus I'm just in a weird mood, so this doesn't help. I'm a little sad (and this song is the last song that made me burst into tears) Pink: Who Knew I'm feeling kind of conflicted...about a lot of things Garbage: I think I'm Paranoid Guster: Either Way btw...best.song.ever and a little silly Brian singing Total Eclipse...so tone deaf...so classic so there you have it. It is sort of a weird mood today, but it could be much worse :-)30