A Cool Stolen Forty

Thanks, Mole!

Forty Questions (minus scary #14)

1) Who is the last person you high-fived? -- Echo, my Mom's parrot

2) If you were drafted into a war, would you survive. -- definitely, unless i saw something really gross like a dead person. then i would cry over the nauseating meaninglessness of it all and someone would probably sneak up on me and poke me real hard with something pointy.

3) Do you sleep with the TV on? -- they say it's bad joujou

4) Have you ever drunk milk straight out of the carton? -- only when i have guests who i know will drink after me, then i laugh privately to myself

5) Have you ever won a spelling bee -- i was a geek, but not that much of a geek

6) Have you ever been stung by a bee -- once, bottom of the foot. he was hiding cleverly amongst some white clover just waiting for my tender young instep to find his bad barbed stinger

7) How fast can you type -- depends on how much i've had to drink and how long i have procrastinated

8) Are you afraid of the dark? -- dark good....

9) Eye color -- moss

10) Have you ever made out at a drive-in? -- old, but not that old, so no

11) When is the last time you chose a bath over a shower? -- normally i would bathe regularly to soak in my herbs and oils, however, i hate my current tub. what i really want is to design my own bathroom in my own house and put a disposal under the drain so i don't have to sift out all the flotsam i sprinkle in there to make my bath teas

12) Do you knock on wood? -- the fake stuff in my Jeep, although i do use the saying

13) Do you floss daily? -- no, but thanks for the guilt-heaping

15) Can you hula hoop? -- yup, i win regularly against the Hooters chicks

16) Are you good at keeping secrets? -- wait'll you hear this.....

17) What do you want for Christmas? -- a vacation, this Master's business is a real drag

18) Do you know the Muffin Man? -- i know a Man who likes my Muffin

19) Do you talk in your sleep? -- shhhhhh, don't you know you shouldn't use the pink rollers??!!!!!!! Mom will kill you

20) Who wrote the book of love? -- gabriel garcia marquez - a couple of them actually

21) Have you ever flown a kite? -- one of those double stringed stunt kites... smokin'

22) Do you wish on your fallen lashes? -- nah, wishes are for fishes

23) Do you consider yourself successful? -- in some realms

24) How many people are on your contact list of your cell? -- too many

25) Have you ever asked for a pony? -- still do

26) Plans for tomorrow? double step @ 8:30am, pay the rent, study for finance, clean bird room, study for finance, eat, study for finance, nap, study for finance, and finally, study for finance

27) Can you juggle? -- nope, used to have a set of juggling penguins, but....

28) Missing someone now? -- indeed

29) when was the last time you told someone I Love You? -- wrote it to my Dad yesterday

30) And truly meant it? -- it was true by my definition

31) how often do you drink -- constantly - water, tea... oh, you meant alcohol, once a week

32) How are you feeling today? -- a tad compressed and burnt out

33) what do you say too much? -- it used to be "crikey", but now it's probably "don't bite"

34) Have you ever been suspended or expelled from school? -- not a chance

35) What are you looking forward to? -- the next adventure

36) Have you ever crawled through a window? -- definitely, B&E is my specialty

37) Have you ever eaten dog food? -- tried a biscuit

38) Can you handle the truth? -- when it is not brutal

39) Do you like green eggs and ham? -- it's not really the color of food that bothers, it's the texture

40) Any cool scars? -- tooth marks from pitbull on forearm, really more of a good story than scar

But did you know???

As interesting as a "leftie" snail might be, did you know that when snails court, and they do fall in love, they shoot eachother with "love darts"? Snails are hermaphroditic, having both male and female reporductive stuff, but do not self fertilize; and have a store of small, sharp darts which they shoot at the objects of their affection. This apparently conveys a competitive advantage to the sperm which are exchanged between the two lovers, and has been the metaphor for Cupid's darts for centuries. Often upon close inspection, you can see snails sporting multiple darts protruding carelessly from their necks and heads - a sign of their fecundity.

Next time you are in your garden, look carefully at the snails.

Sad but illustrative

250 years of taking his time, eating plenty of fruits and veggies, and just plain clean livin'. maybe we should try it. However, would anyone really want to live that long??? Discuss...

I Love Grapes

The green ones - firm flesh, tart juice, crisp palate. I loved 'em when I was a kid, ate boatloads of 'em until my belly ached. Handy, no mess, lovely color. I really do love grapes. Maybe that makes me a pre-vino wino.

Uh....What the *&%$!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Texans have always prided themselves on being a "breed apart". Huge state, monstrous egos, ginormous hair, colossal politicians... but when I saw this on the news and then read about it, I wondered out loud. One of the last states to ban drinking and driving, we have historically flung our collective fingers at the law. Flaunted all that is bumpkin and continued on our merry Texan ways. Pretty soon we'll just go to the bar to, well, uh... look at the interesting interior design???????

In the Crack

The schedule races forward relentlessly, dragging me along behind to fret anxiously, gnaw at my own inability to have "sticktoittiveness", snap convulsively at those least deserving and demean my ego for not being perfection incarnate. Many internal promises and resolutions are passed by the psychic committee that sits in residence, much babbling and dithering about the process and how the reward system should work. But nothing concrete ever results and so the schedule gallops rampant, snatching my will and forcing itself on my decency.

Double Standard

When I cruise over to my regular blog reads and nothing new has been posted for a couple of days, I get bent, miffed, annoyed and indignant. How dare my "ether-eal" literary slaves deny me the insight into their weird worlds and psyches to which I am entitled. It is my right to look inside their heads and be amazed, horrified and entertained.

But my blog, my whimsical little piece of the web can go days, weeks, an eternity without entries, updates or flippant response. You people out there...

Snatched from "Pointless Drivel"

Somethin' fun to do 'til quittin' time...

Four jobs you have had:
Lifeguard
Scientist/Animal Researcher
Baby-Bird Raiser
Waitress

Four movies you could watch over and over:
Dangerous Liaisons
Holy Grail
The Piano
Little Mermaid

Four places you’ve lived:
Tyler, TX
Chapala, Jalisco, Mexico
Midland, MI
Caldwell, TX

Four television shows you love to watch:
anything involving sharks
Rome
Deadwood
Nova

Four places you’ve been on vacation:
Ambergris Cay, Belize
Santa Fe, NM
Orillia, Canada
Manzanillo, Mexico

Four of your favorite foods:
Red Wine
Sugar Snap Peas
Cheese
Rice Krispie Treats

Four places you’d rather be right now:
With James
Fiji
Underwater
Home

Four sites I visit daily:
Nature.org
mail.tcu.edu
Ocean Spirits
Yahoo!!

New Flock, New Jock

I've been promising for quite some time, but now I am pony-ing up:













Chauncey



MrNewburg

Silly Quizlets

If it can define me by my selection of a picture, how generic does that make me??

Your Hidden Talent

You are both very knowledgeable and creative.You tend to be full of new ideas and potential - big potential.Ideas like yours could change the world, if you build them.As long as you don't stop working on your dreams, you'll get there.

What's" Your Hidden Talent?

I've Wanted to... No, Really... I Did

Alright, stop whining, you ninnys. Very soon, there will be new posts a-plenty. For the few of you who do still stop by and wonder at the banality of this blog, there have been oh so many changes in my quirky little world - Mr. Newburg joined the flock just prior to X-mas festivities, there was a serious lapse in judgement which has turned out to be allright indeed, Yippicus strayed from home only to have an adventure with a nice entrepreneurial family, a sleigh was installed and the painting is on-going. Classes start again this week. Bloody Hell, that little hiatus was short. And romance springs eternal.

Details to follow [do I know how to entice or what???!!! (Yackkkkkk!!)]

From Danny @ Ocean Spirits

I stumbled upon Danny's blog and added a link on my site 'cause if you are into cetaceans like I am, this is an awesome blog - simple, beautiful and meaningful. I swiped this site today... Very Cool!

Who Knew??!!

Well duh!! So you get a bunch of Jamaicans and you film them dancing - the symmetry is just corollary to the issue and the sexual issue is a no-brainer. Wouldn't it be nice if this was also a predictor of desirability as a mate (ability to provide, fidelity, handiness...)??

Anonymous Face

Recent ether-flirtation confirms a suspicion I have had, and written about in this blog, that there is something a tad too independent, intimidating or just plain weird about me that prohibits or inhibits folks with regard to approaching me. Needless to say, there is the little frisson of mystery which infects us all when attempting to seduce our chosen from a place of anonymity. Very intriguing indeed. However for me, where the rubber doesn't meet the road is when the solicitation goes no further.

Not a complaint - I do enjoy my little frissons - so keep it coming Anonymouses and Pats.