Pointless Blogathon

December 22, 2004

One of the terrible things about....

DOING a last minute/pointless blogathon, is that there aren't very many people around to offer moral support. Basically, at this point, I'm writing to myself. *waves to self* Hello, you. You're looking might hot this fine evening. No, seriously. You should take off that coat... you must be sweltering under there. Have you had a good day today? Well, it's been an odd sort of day. Yes, it has indeed - but at least you got packages mailed off! Yes, I did. And you got some boxes unpacked/purged/repacked. The Twinkie gorge-fest was probably a bit much, however. And what were you thinking? Doing a blogathon with only a few precious days to go until Christmas errupts, leaving a trail of shiny ribbons and tissue paper in its wake. And here you are. Staying awake for 24 hours. You're so silly. And ambitious. And kind of selfish, if you REALLY think about. So, let's not. Ok. Ok. You are starting to crash. I see it in your eyes, and hear it in your tone. You're beginning to ramble. Don't you think you ought to wrap this up? Yeah. You totally should. Ok - you go ahead and publish this, and I'll run go put a fresh pot of coffee on. And pee. Oooooo. Sooooo gotta pee. TAKE YOUR CAMERA!!!!!!! No, not in THERE. In THERE. Yeah... right... there. No, you missed again. THERE! Right. In. To. The. Kitchen. Malleum sapientiorem vidi excusso manubrio! (I've seen hammers with the handles off cleverer than he is!)

Oh. Shut-up, Plautus.

Just kind of making it up...

.... as I go along!!! I like this no-pressure blogathon thing. I'm not hurried and rushed to get the next blog up. And I have plenty of time to hang out and watch extended versions of LOTR: ROTK!!! hehe. SO love that. By the way, the extended version? Tres cool. They added a lot of stuff that really made me, a total Tolkien purist, very happy. Well - with the exception of the demise of Saruman and Worm Tongue. (the portrayal in the movie is SO not how it happens in the book.) But... whatever. Artistic liberties and all that, ya know. They DID add the Houses of Healing - a pivotal moment in the book - and that made me just fall in love with Peter Jackson all over again. Giant bushy hair, and sausage legs and all.

I just LOVE the whole series. LOVE LOVE LOVE it.

It's 11:06 pm. I should SO go to bed. But - I WILL stay awake for 24 hours. Come hell or... soft pillow. I'm going to go get my stuff together to have some presents wrapped. Yo.

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Ok, you talk - and I'll type whatever you say.

The following is not a conversation. Rather, just me typing verbatim Emily rambling to me. It was not planned. Nor contrived. Yet, it makes me laugh.

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Hmmm. What single word appears on the mosaic at the center of central park's strawberry fields? Guess. A strawberry? *laughs* No. Imagine. Weird. Are you going to post this on your site? *coughs chokes* OH NO! You're going to post this on your site, no fair. Yet I keep talking. *stares at me silently and opens another piece of candy* I wonder why they call this "Crunch". Hmmm. *stares at me again* Do you think that's new? *rips paper* Gilmore girls? I'm afraid to say something. 'cause you're typing it down. *eats more candy and stares at me strangley* They messed this one up. See? *waves it at the cat and drools on self while mocking cat's expression* I picked upType_what_you_say wood I totally couldn't pick up. Well, I could pick it up.. because.. I did. *bubble in throat, gags, and spits all over arm* OH. UM. They messed this one up to. Um. This guy at the wood field he had like a trailer and like a dollie thing and he cut the wood and put it on the dollie and rolled it onto the trailer without picking it up! Cool, huH? we should totally get dad a trailer for christmas next year. I'm totally making myself sick. Are you still doing blogathon? Mmm. These are so hard to read because they're bright pink. They should be black. YOu could see it better. *coughs* What else did you buy? *smirks at me* *looks at me and laughs* *rumages through bag of junk food* *eats twinkie* What did Marcus say? Don't you hate it when it does that? When the twinkie skin gets stuck in the cellophane? Yum. I'm totally gonna be fat. Oh great. Nbwao, youf goannd bwoahgh that? Do I really talk that much? *picks twinkie out of teeth* I'm surprised. Well, not really. That twinkie over-did it. I feel lohk I'm gonna be fick. Ugh. What about you? *points at cat* I'll bet you wish you could have some of this. Spazz cat. Soooooooooooooo. What do you want me to talk about? *coughs into arm* *pets cat* *stares meaninglessly into space* *breathes in cat's nose* *cat licks lips* Ewwwwwwwww. What on earth is that music????? *****BBBBBBBEEEELLLCCCHHHHH****** That totally was not planned. *spits water everwhere and out nose* Ow that hurt my nose. *fits of laughter* *glances at screen to see what I'm writing* *laughs* *coughs* *sighs* phewwwwwwww. It was a rolly pollies in bugs life belch. *demonstrates lips blowing in breeze then farts* Ok. *looks at watch* *belches again* Too much chocolate. *groans* What kind of milk do they use in chocolate. Better yet, where does chocolate come from? That's the question. *shakes fist* Hmmm. Where DOES chocolate come from, Sara. I have all these terrible pimples on my nose. See? *squeezes my cheeks and squeels DON'T TYPE THAT!!!* What is this? *shakes Mandie's camera bag in my face* Oh, it's Mandie's? Hmm. I still have to get her a Christmas present. *rattles off list of people to buy presents for*  *clears throat* Snowballs, twinkies, and chocolate - O, my. Have a very merry Christmas. And a sick new year. *throws hands up* I don't know. What do you WANT me to say??????????

Some "Honku" for your amusement...

Gas brake gas brake gas
will you please make up your mind?
damn student driver

Minivan jungle -
an aggressive soccer mom
steals my parking spot

Other driver swerves
I give him the finger and
he shows me his gun

Defrost or a/c?
difficult to decipher
dashboard hieroglpyhs

Excerpts courtesy of
Honku: The Zen Antidote to Road Rage
by Aaron Naparstek

Speaking of Canada and Whisky...

Looky_what_i_found

... look what I found while cleaning out a box! Coincidence? Me thinkest not. Bibamus moriendum est!

*slaps forehead*

Johnnycanuck_sayruhstyle

Thank-you for reminding me, Naomi!!! I'm 1/4 French Canadian myself! My grandfather is 100% French Canadian... when he came to this country as a boy, he couldn't even speak English. Now, of course, he doesn't remember a lick of French - but still. I'm a Canuck!!! CAPTAIN SAYRUH!!!!!!!!

Now, I MUST go make cookies. AND go to the post office. AND I really need to brush my teeth. Ickies.

I meant it in the BEST possible way!!!

Johnnycanuck Cool. It's Captain Canuck!!! Well, muchos gracias to Naomi for passing along that link! I've been able to read up on my Canuck history. So, when I refer to my fine feathered Canadians as "Canucks", I mean it in the BEST and most ENDEARING way possible,  y'all know that - right? Sort of like Cheri calling me a "Yankee". I know she doesn't intend to send me in to a fit of insulted tears... rather, it's a term of endearment. Not unlike me calling her a "bitch". A term of endearment, I say!!! Going forward - I would pay really good money to get my hands on this comic book. It looks riveting. I mean, the maple leaf really does it for me. Mistah Canuck is CUT, too, boy. Check out those delts.

It turns out that Johnny Canuck is Uncle Sam's second cousin once removed. So - in a roundabout way, Naomi and I are kin. And that makes me all warm and toasty inside. Though, that could just be the oatmeal talkin'. ;-)  ((((CANUCKY-YANKEE HUGS))))

So far today...

Oatmeallg

... I have managed to eat my weight in oatmeal, and watch/be jealous of Aleisha Keyes singing O, Holy Night on that Regis show. Good times. I wish I NEVER had to work again. I could stay home all day, get incredibly fat, and watch Regis all morning long. I would never have to leave my house again!!!!!!!!!! Hmmm. Now that I think about it - that would be sorta miserable. In theory, though? Rocketh. And now - for my next trick, I shall actually go clean out the rest of the boxes so I can stop blogging about how lazy and oatmealish I am.

I am a lazy bum.

I don't want to do anything. I just want to sit here. I have emptied two boxes, but... I don't waaaant to do anything else. Can't I just bum around? Do nothing? No? Ok.

Army_of_containers = before

Done_nothing = after

Funny = funny

Fishy = fishy

Manless_wonder_1 = hungry

It's time to get my *boo hiney in gear.

Everyone in my house is being productive. *shakes fist* They all think they're better than ME!!! And they would be right. I'm still in my night gown, and have done nothing but surf around my favorite haunts, and email W@H. Stop making that a link! Because it's not! W@H. STOP! W@H. STOP! W@H. STOP! Disobedient blogging WYSIWYG screen.

So. Next time I see you, I shall have at LEAST 3 boxes sorted and packed away into organized 50 gallon rubbermaid containers. And ... I'll brush my teeth.

*the term 'boo hiney' here, blatantly stolen from CJ - who is TOTALLY my hero, so I shall use her catch phrases in stride. Imitation=flattery, and all that.

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