Angelika

Testing

2008-08-20T13:54:00.001-05:00

Just seeing if this Yahoo! Buzz thing works

My Knee

2008-08-20T08:54:00.004-05:00

o, Monday night my right (non-'special') knee was hurting so bad I couldn't even go to sleep.

In spite of the PM pain pills. In spite of the Icy Hot gel. In spite of the heating pad. In spite of the Ben Gay. In spite of the aspirin. In spite of the Naproxen Sodium.

Do you get the picture?

It hurt so bad that I wanted to cry but I didn't because I knew all I'd get was a stuffy nose and a headache.

So yesterday, I called MD at 3:30 and asked her if she had any Hydrocodone left (Even though I am allergic) from when she had her last gout flare up. All she had was a Darvocet from 2004. I didn't care.

So she brought it to me & I took it & put an ice pack on my knee. (Finally remembered I had them, LOL.)

She ordered a pizza for us Evan. Then she watched Al Green on youtube.

Whatever.

Today my knee still hurts, but not so bad that I want to cry. Thank you, Baby Jesus!

Did anyone else see Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood? Last night was a clip show with their favorite moments from the season.

They had a memorial service for Tori's dog, Mimi La Rue.

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People were crying and shit.

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Dean could barely keep it together while he read his eulogy.

Famous people are insane.

Anyway, I finally finished watching Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte with Bette Davis.

It took me about 5 days to finish it.

I may or may not review it.

But right now I'm going to get back in bed with the ice pack for my knee. I just wanted to say "Hi" and leave you with this picture of Capt. Jack Sparrow Jr.

Stolen Meme!

2008-08-19T12:54:00.003-05:00

stole this from Ramblings of the Phat. :-)

::START::
RULES:
1. Add your blog/s to the list. Feel free to add all your other blogs. It’s okay if you only post this questions in one blog as long as you answer them.
2. Get back to Me {YEN} and I’ll add your blogs to the master’s list HERE! Note that you are not ALLOWED to change the link of the here.
3. Copy from Start to End.
4. Tag as many friends online you know. But you don’t need to be tag in order to join. Copy this Participants

LAYER ONE:
– Name: Angelika
– Birth date: October 10
– Birthplace: Berlin, Germany
– Current Location: Home
– Eye Color: Tar
– Hair Color: Black
– Righty or Lefty: Lefty

LAYER TWO:
– Your heritage: Black
– The shoes you wore today: None, I haven't been anywhere.
– Your weakness: Too OCD
– Your fears: Fire
– Your perfect pizza: Bacon Cheeseburger
– Goal you’d like to achieve in life: Own my own house.

LAYER THREE:
– Your most overused phrase on AIM: N/A
– Your first waking thoughts: Is this a school day?
– Your best physical feature: Lips
– Your most missed memory: I don't remember...

LAYER FOUR:
– Pepsi or Coke: Sprite
– McDonald’s or Burger King: McDonald's
– Single or group dates: I don't date, I sport fuck.
– Adidas or Nike: Converse
– Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: I rarely drink tea
– Chocolate or vanilla: Chocolate
– Cappuccino or coffee: No

LAYER FIVE:
– A famous person, dead or alive, would you interview: Prince
– Movie can you watch and say the lines along with the actors: Lots of them. I'll say the first Matrix movie
– Name two of your passions in life : Sleeping & Hugh Laurie
– Least favorite time of day: Morning

LAYER SIX:
– Use hairspray or gel: No
– Your favorite meal: Roast beef, mashed taters & green beans cooked my MD
– Color is the inside of your head when you close your eyes: black
– Listen to classical music: Sometimes
– Ever said LOL in real life without thinking about it: Probably. When I was younger (13 or so) and something amused me, I'd think "Heedee heedee". Don't ask me why. But I did say that out loud a couple of times & had to explain what it meant. *blushing*

::END::

More Skulls

2008-08-18T11:23:00.004-05:00

aturday we went to get Evan's eyes checked. The doctor (I like him, I think he's great with kids) said that maybe it was time for Evan to get contacts.

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You can guess my response.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

I know grown people who get eye infections because they don't take care of their contacts the way they should. Evan wouldn't even shower if I didn't make him. I will NOT get him contacts just so he can scratch his cornea trying to get them out or not clean them and get eye infections.

Anyway, afterwards we got 3 t-shirts and 2 pair of pants with the money that MD gave him. I convinced him to get a red t-shirt because he looks good in red. He did! *faint* Then he got 2 skull t-shirts. *sigh*.

When will this Goth/Emo/Depressing phase end?

Went to Wal-Mart with MD.

2008-08-15T11:57:00.006-05:00

he said "You aren't getting a lot of stuff, are you? Because I don't want to be there long."

Me - No, I just need some bread and poster board for Evan.

So she picks me up at 10:30 am. On the way, she tells me a story about my brother. Apparently, he went to his wife's house (They're separated...again...for the 17th time. *rolling eyes*) and asked her if she & DD11 wanted to go out to lunch. They both said they were busy. SIL is working from home this week (She gets a different job every other month.) and DD11 is being home schooled this week (My SIL is the one who decided to leave my Bro & go to PA when my oldest niece was in her first semester of her SENIOR YEAR of HS. She's the flakiest woman I've ever known. This home schooling will not last long. I need to punch the idiot in her face.)

Anyway, Bro's response was "Fine, Niggas!"

So he goes to see my oldest niece (The one who looks the most like me except skinny, LOL.) and ask her if she wants to go to lunch. She said no.

Bro - Fine, Nigga!
Niece - I'm not a nigga, I'm a princess. (OMG, she's just like me!)
Bro - If you're a princess, I'm a king. I dub you Nigga Daughter.
Niece - LOL.

See? Insanity runs in my family.

Entyway, we get to the Mart of Wal and I get on an electric cart and go get my bread and poster board.

Then I proceeded to wait for 45 motherfreaking minutes for Miss "You're not going to be long, are you?" to finish her shopping.

I saw a dude who looked like Fred Durst.
I saw a chick who looked like that girl that Kurev (sp?) from Grey's Anatomy was sleeping with. The one who thought she was pregnant and tried to kill herself.
I saw a woman who had on some tight ass sandles that were cutting into her cankles so bad I'm surprised her feet didn't fall off.
I saw a woman who's hair looked like a mushroom. It was as if she'd made a long ponytail, and then plopped it on top of her head and just let it sit there while she Aqua Netted it to death.

I really need to get a camera phone!

Then MD generously bought me a Key Lime Milkquake from Krystal. OMG, if you haven't tasted that, you need to. It tastes exactly like Key Lime Pie. There are bits of the graham cracker crust in there. So delicious. I don't know how many calories or how much fat is in there (I don't want to know), but it was soooooooooo good. I need to stay away from Krystal or I'll be getting them every day!

Then MD asked me how much Evan's new shoes would cost, I told her "About 40$ the last time I got them a couple of years ago." so she gave me $60 to get him some more. :-)

MD - Tell Evan that he's NOT special. I don't even know why I'm giving him money to get new shoes. He didn't even help me clean off my patio.
Me - I'll tell him, but he won't believe me.

Every time she buys him something, she says "I don't even know why I'm spending money on you. Do you think you're special?" and he always says "Yes. I'm your only grandson in this state!"

She doesn't know that I found some shoes at Wal-Mart that look just like the Chuck Taylors for $11 and got them the other day. But I will use the money to buy him some new shirts & crap tomorrow, when we go for his eye appointment. :-)

I had to get him size 8½! His foot is officially bigger than mine now! But at least he's still a shortie, LOL.

That is all!

High Five Friday - 8/15/08

2008-08-15T11:25:00.007-05:00

ere are this week's High 5s, in no particular order:

Good and Crazy People for this post. How can I not show love to someone who has shown love to me?!?

Karlonia for the post about an ENGLISH Professor who wants to legitimize spelling errors. I can't even believe this crap.

iLike By iMike for the Bad Ad Placement? post. :-)

Steven Video for the Flashdance Stop Motion Recreation Using Action Figure post.

Odd Planet for this post. :-)

Holy Cuteness for the Two Faced Kitten post. I've never seen anything like that before!

Steven Humor for the Super Mario in His Pants post. Mature Content. I would be careful about where I'm looking at this. NSFW or Kids. Don't say I didn't warn you!

Lazy Goy for this "Disturbing Video". You know how much I love Hugh Laurie & House, MD. But I find this amusing anyway. :-)

Vertigo

2008-08-14T10:46:00.006-05:00

nother Hitchcock movie starring James (Jimmy) Stewart. This one is about a police detective who decides to quit the police force when his Acrophobia (fear of heights) is the cause of a fellow officer's death.

He's taking time off, doing nothing, when a former college friend looks him up and hires him to watch his wife because he's afraid she's going to kill herself. Turns out that her great grandmother & grandmother had also killed themselves. His wife currently disappears for hours at a time and has no memory of where she's been or what she's done.

John Ferguson (Stewart) starts following Mrs. Elster (Novak) and one day she jumps into the San Francisco Bay. He saves her & takes her back to his apartment. She, of course, remembers nothing. When he leaves the room to answer the phone, she takes off.

The next day, she's leaving him a note thanking him for saving her and apologizing for leaving so abruptly. He sees her & they start "hanging out". He keeps asking her what happens & where she goes in her mind and why she's so terrified. He finally decides to take her to the place that she "dreams" about so that she can face her fears.

When they get to the old Spanish Mission, they admit that they love each other and then she runs into the bell tower and jumps off.

He goes on trial? for leaving the scene of a crime? I have no idea. It's retarded. But then he goes crazy and is in a mental institution for 6-12 months. I don't know if they made that clear in the movie.

That's all I'm going to tell you.

:-)

I've decided that Alfred Hitchcock movies are too long, LOL. They take for freaking ever trying to build up suspense and then something convoluted happens and it ends...finally.

If those looooooooooooong sequences with nothing going on except the score were cut by 75% I'd be a lot happier.

I think the "TCM Guy" said that this was said to be one of Hitchcock's best.

I guess. I mean, I certainly didn't expect the ending. Didn't really expect the "twist". Maybe I'm just too jaded by this century's movies with the quick editing and whatnot?

I don't know. I was really looking forward to this for Jimmy Stewart & because it was a Hitchcock movie. I think the movie sounds more interesting than it is. But at least now I know who Kim Novak was. She looks kind of like Harmony from "Buffy" and "Angel" to me, minus the porcine nose. :-)

Whatever. If you like Hitchcock, you might like this. But I wouldn't say that this is a "must see" movie.

That is all.

Arsenic & Old Lace

2008-08-13T18:26:00.006-05:00

his was an enjoyable movie. It made me laugh out loud only once, but I found it amusing. I guess it's what you'd call a "farce".

Mortimer Brewster (Cary Grant) has just married the daughter of a minister. Brewster is a lifelong bachelor. He has even written books talking about how marriage is unnecessary and antiquated (or whatever, it doesn't matter).

So he stops by to see his 2 aunts & let them know that he's married their next door neighbor's daughter. His aunts seem very ditzy. Brewster is looking for something that he's left at their house and while he's looking for it, he finds a dead body in the window seat.

He's shocked, but at the same time, he doesn't want to scare them with the news that they have a dead body in their house. When he finds out that they know about the body, and that they've killed 11 other men & buried them in the basement, he starts wondering how to cover it up.

The comedy comes in with Brewster's reactions. He has 2 brothers. One who lives with the aunts and thinks he's President Teddy Roosevelt and another one who's a homocidal maniac and keeps getting plastic surgery and currently looks like Boris Karloff? Or Lon Chaney? I don't know. One of those old horror movie actors.

The crazy brother...I mean, the homicidal brother comes back with his plastic surgeon and a body in the trunk. He wants to hide it in the basement of his aunt's house until he finds out that there are already 12 other bodies down there.

Mortimer wants Murderous Bro out, Teddy Bro committed, and tells his new bride that he can't go through with the marriage because insanity runs in his family. There's a whole lot happening in this movie, LOL.

I'd tell you more, but I have a really bad headache right now so I'm going back to bed.

Look for it on TCM (Turner Classic Movies). It's decent if there's nothing else on, but I wouldn't go out of my way to see it. I think it had 3½ stars (out of 4) on the guide, but I'd give it 2. Maybe 2½ for Cary Grant. ;-)

Chow! (Sorry, read Cardiogirl most recently, LOL.)

Song of the Week - 8/12/08

2008-08-12T12:09:00.004-05:00

his week's song is "Ain't Love Strange" by Paul Thorn.

Because I realized I hadn't changed the Song of the Week since "I kissed a girl" and I'm tired of kissing girls. Listen & enjoy! :-)

Random Thoughts - 8/10/08

2008-08-10T23:15:00.005-05:00

have been very sleepy this weekend. Friday night I took the phenergan 'just in case' because I get motion sickness a lot when I roll over in bed?!?! Fine.

I don't even want to talk about it anymore.

Isaac Hayes died. The guy who sang "Shaft". The Chef on Southpark. He was only 65. The ticker on my DVR said he died of unknown causes right beside his treadmill. This on top of Bernie Mac's death from pneumonia and he was only 50. :-(

*sigh*

I was going to write about the upcoming reality shows "Outsider's Inn" (Bobby Brown, Maureen McCormick aka Marsha Brady and Carnie Wilson) and Season 2 of Gone Country. But I don't feel like it.

Here's one of the 12,000 superheroes that Evan made from HeroMachine that Cardiogirl blogged about last week. He didn't literally make 12,000. But he made enough so that I had to give him his own folder on my desktop, LOL. He also informed me NOT to save anymore stuff I think he might like in his bookmark folder. Apparently, it distracts from the 3000 Jedi/Stupid Crap youtube videos he has saved...

That funny but evil nurse maimed me!

2008-08-10T13:47:00.003-05:00

y arm hurts so bad it's like someone hit it with a sledgehammer.

She really did jab me with that needle. :-(

Thankfully, I only had one nausea episode yesterday. I am keeping myself hydrated and getting lots of rest so I should be fine soon.

Thanks for the well wishes!

5 Hours in the Emergency Room

2008-08-09T06:46:00.005-05:00

nd I still have no diagnosis. Man, I love medicine!

So Thursday night, I had the trots. I don't know why. But I took some Immodium tablets and it finally stopped.

I never went to sleep.

After Evan caught the bus at 7 or so, I tried to get some sleep. Wasn't happening. So I got on the computer to drop some cards.

As I was sitting here, I started thinking "I feel like I'm going to pass out." so I turned off the monitor...

Next thing I know, I'm opening my eyes to look at the ceiling. One of my legs was on the computer chair. Everything else was on the floor.

I've never passed out before. It's very disorienting. One second you're doing something and then the next second you're somewhere else not seeing what you expect to see.

Before I could really think about what had happened, I started vomiting. Thankfully, it was on the linoleum and not the carpet, LOL. I laid there for about 15 minutes thanking God for the coolness of the floor because it felt so good. Yes, even while I'm hurling my guts out (which contained nothing more than Peach Raspberry Crystal Light) I was glad the floor was cold. :-) I finally felt like the vomiting had stopped, so I sat up.

And promptly vomited into the garbage can next to the computer.

So I sat there until I felt sure that I wasn't going to vomit anymore & called MD to take me to the ER. Funny thing is that I had an appt at 2 pm with my Dr for my knees. But I figured he'd send me to the ER for a Cat Scan anyway, so I canceled the appt. I really wanted (and still want) to know why I passed out.

Nurse #1 - Ok. Strip.
Me - Are you serious?
N1 - Yessssssss. OMG, You're going to be a brat. *to MD* Was she always a brat?
MD - *Nodding*
Me - I can see you!
N1 - I don't think she cares! You have to at least take off your shirt & bra because we need an EKG.

So I put on the damned hospital gown & let Nurse #2 put sticky tabs all over me while Nurse #1 stabbed me so hard that I lost at least 2 oz of blood while she's hooking up the IV fluids. (I don't really know how much I lost. I just know it was all over my arm & elbow and the mattress.) She was a funny, but evil whore!

So, a cat scan, x-rays of my neck & head, bloodwork and an EKG later...the doctor had no idea why I had passed out.

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That's all. I'm still drowsy from the Phenergan I got yesterday. And I don't want to pass out again sitting here, so I'm going to watch the Dr. Who marathon I taped yesterday while I was at the ER.

Ta!

High Five Friday - 8/8/08

2008-08-08T01:48:00.010-05:00

his week's list is longer than usual because I didn't do ^5 last week. Here they are, in no particular order.

The Why File for this post & this post. The first one surprised me in a bad, people are so foul way and the second one surprised me in a people are so weird way, LOL.

Ettarose for her post about Secret Internet Language.

GeekMom for her Nighttime Toilet Tips post.

Personal Finance Management Guide for this post. We should all be aware of this! :-)

Jokes @ jDonuts for his Female Facial Expressions post.

Joe Tech for his Geeky Tattoos post.

Hailey's Beats and Bits for this post.

Good and Crazy People for her Headband Giveaway and this post.

Steven Humour for this post and this post which is not actually humorous. Breyer's needs to be boycotted until they stop trying to invite pedophiles to buy their ice cream!

Steven Video for his World's First Rotating Skyscraper post. I can't even believe they're doing this spacey looking stuff. Now. In my lifetime. It looks really cool. :-)

Amy Oops for this post.

Monday Morning Power for this post.

Even Angels Fall for her Wordless Wednesday post. I can't believe this crap!

The Soccer Mom Files for her "It takes a village" post. :-)

LPLPX.com for this post.

On the Bricks for this post. Ha!

Regretful Morning for this post.

People in the Sun for his "Worst Father Award" post. It caught me totally off guard and cracked me the fark up!

She Lives for her ONLINE Music Games for Kids. I'm sure Evan will love it to death.

Cardiogirl for giving me a link for Evan (and me) to design our own Super Heroes in this post. I swear, he was on the computer for 2 hours making all kinds of Super dudes until I got tired of getting up to come look at them and made him watch "Man vs Wild" with me.

How is Bradley for telling his story about being gay and coming to terms with it. I started reading part 3 first, and then had to go back and read the first 2 parts. I think it's a good story to have out there, especially for other people who might currently be coming to terms with their sexuality.

That is all for this week! Enjoy. :-)

First day of 7th Grade

2008-08-06T22:51:00.003-05:00

van came home happier today than any other school year I can remember (Except Kindergarten).

I think he likes the fact that he has 2 coaches for teachers. He doesn't even get a History book (???????) because they are in such bad shape, apparently. The coach said "Homey don't play that" and Evan told him that we have 2 seasons of In Living Color on DVD & the coach said he could bring it some time, just not tomorrow.

The other coach keeps asking Evan to play football... I have no comment.

Evan has decided that he doesn't want to be in the band anymore. :-( But secretly I am thankful that I don't have to pay for that effing sax anymore or a marching uniform, LOL.

Evan - Guess what some of my classmates did when we got to Science class?
Me - Opened up their books to the part where they show penises & vaginas?
Evan - Yep. They're so immature...
Me - Well, not everyone has a mom like me to talk to them about sex. Speaking of which, I read on a blog that England is teaching 11 year olds how to use a condom properly. I guess I'm a bit behind. I'm not going to buy any condoms until I am about to have sex, but you can pretend. *Sticking up my finger & demonstrating how to properly put on a condom.*
Evan - OK! You can stop now!
Me - Well I know I've always told you to wear a condom when you have sex, but I never showed you how to put one on.
Evan - It is not right discussing this with my mother!
Me - You want me to call your uncle? I probably should. He can tell you all kinds of stuff about girls.
Evan - NO!!!!!!!!!!

So then he called MD to tell her about his first day of school. She didn't answer the phone. He left her a message:

"How DARE you not be home to answer the phone and hear about my first day of school & my first day of school gift!"

So, of course, she came over to hear about his first day & see his gift. While she was here, I mentioned to her about explaining how to use a condom to Evan.

MD - You want me to call your uncle to have the sex talk with you?
Evan - NO!
MD - Because we don't want you having any babies!
Me - Not until you have a job & for another 20 years, at least.
MD - Yes, I think I'm going to call your uncle. Tell him to have "The Talk" with you. *winking at me*
Evan - NO, DO NOT do that!
Me - It will probably be fun for him. He doesn't have any sons. And he can tell you all the things girls will say to you to get you to not use a condom.
MD - Yes. Because they'll want to have your baby because you're so handsome.
ME - And so their babies will have "good hair".
Evan - I'm going upstairs.

HA! It's so fun embarrassing Evan, LOL.

I don't know if this video will work, because I've never seen this file extension before...

Just in case, here are some photos of his Rainbow Blob Ball.

No, he's never gotten a "First Day of School" gift before. He gets new clothes & school supplies, that's enough. But today at Wal-Mart I happened to see it and thought it was cool. It was $1.?? so I figured "Why Not?" :-)

His Nana & I had a lot of fun saying "Evan, let me play with your ball." or "Ew, blue balls." & laughing. As a result, he has named it "First Day of School Gift" or FDSG for short. We are no longer allowed to say "Balls"

*giggle*

That is all!

CONTEST OVER!

2008-08-06T07:27:00.005-05:00

ell, wonder of all wonders, Evan did not come downstairs at all last night!

It could be due to the fact that I woke him up at 8 am yesterday. Then he went out for Chinese food with MD, then he jumped on the trampoline & came back at 6 pm. Then we did the laundry. And I gave him some Sleepytime Tea at 9 pm.

He did get up once at 11:15 to use the bathroom, but he never actually came downstairs.

So, since only 3 people entered the contest I'll just give all 3 of them 500 ECs.

The Lucky Recipients are:
1stopmom
Proud2Parent
Journal of a Rock Angel

Congratulations! You should have received your credits already. :-)

Contest!

2008-08-05T14:44:00.004-05:00

hool starts tomorrow. WHEEEEEEEEEEE!

If years past are any indication, Evan will get up several times tonight and tell me that he can't sleep.

Even though I don't believe he's lying in his bed for 2 hours without even napping.

It's just the excitement of 7th grade. New teachers, new clothes, blah blah.

So here's the contest. How many times will Evan get up tonight to tell me that he can't sleep, and at what time will he first get up?

Comment with your guess about the first time he will get up & comment about how many times he will get up for me to make him warm milk, sleepy time tea, etc.

The first person who guesses closest to the FIRST TIME he comes down the stairs tonight will win 500 ECs.

The first person to accurately guess HOW MANY TIMES he will wake up & come downstairs will get 500 ECs.

Of course, he could shock the hell out of me by not waking up at all...(HA!)

I've been waking him up earlier every day for the past couple of weeks in order to get him used to getting up at 6 am again.

Also, I plan to take him to do the laundry this evening so that he will be tired tonight.

Evan's bedtime is 9pm.

Contest ends tomorrow whenever I get up, LOL.

Why I hate SUMMER.

2008-08-05T14:33:00.006-05:00

Sigh*

Every summer, the heat makes my MS worse. I also have Osteoarthritis. Yes, that's the kind that Senior Citizens get. Whatever, I've gotten used to it. I dread when the weather gets to the time when it's regularly more than 75 degrees. It's why I usually go to Wal-Mart in the middle of the night. Because it's cooler then.

Anyway, last week my right knee was hurting. Bad. On fire bad. So I had to climb the stairs like a toddler because every time I bend my knee, I get a sharp pain & it has the potential to collapse. So I had to use my "special leg" to climb the stair and bring my right leg up as straight as possible so as not to get the sharp pain. I also had to come down the stairs by keeping the right leg straight.

Yesterday, my "special leg" decided that it was tired of doing all the work, so it started hurting too. (YAY!)

So now I just climb the stairs like a normal person while holding the railing in a death grip in case one of my knees collapses.

*cries*

Yes, the Dr. gave me that prescription for Naproxen Sodium. It's supposed to be an anti inflammatory. But you wouldn't know it. I can actually see the swelling in my left foot & leg. It's not as bad as the picture (Thank GOD! I don't want to have to wear slippers to the everywhere again because they're the only thing that fit!) but my knee is totally as big as my thigh. (!!!)

In addition, I keep getting headaches. Sudden headaches that feel like someone punched me in the face. They're not migraines, I don't think. But if I don't go to sleep, I feel like I'm taking something (Aspirin, Ibuprofen, Acetaminophen) every 4-6 hours just to make the pain manageable.

I don't like taking drugs all the time.

I think I'm going to have to go and get some harder stuff. *sigh*

Which means I'll be sleeping even more than usual.

The weird thing is that PMS pills work the best on my pain. It's still acetaminophen, but they also have a diuretic & something else in the pills. I was amazed at how well they worked. I got them from the Dollar Store. But when I went back, they were out. *pulling out hair*

And they close at 9. So I have to get out in the heat to go get them anyway.

AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

I'll be glad when January gets here. :-(

Song of the Week - 8/4/08

2008-08-04T19:05:00.003-05:00

his week's song is "I Kissed a Girl" by Katy Perry.

I love her voice. I love the song.

Evan thinks I'm gay now...*rolling eyes*

He should know that if I were "suddenly gay", the first thing I would do would be to drive to MD's house & tell her to see if she has a heart attack.

Probably not.

She's too evil to die.

You can see the video HERE.

Anyway, thoughts and prayers go out to Morgan Freeman (he was in a car accident) and Bernie Mac (Pneumonia).

I luff both of them. I want them to get well & continue making great movies (and cracking me the fark up, in Mac's case). :-)

??? I don't get it.

2008-08-03T19:05:00.005-05:00

van was dropping some cards for me (the chore he must do to get me to leave him the heck alone) and he said "Your picture is on this blog".

I don't get it.

I sent him/her an Entrecard message asking why, but until I get an answer, I won't know WTF is up with that...

Ok, I'm officially a Chaplin Fan!

2008-08-03T16:08:00.008-05:00

started watching Chaplin's movies yesterday on TCM because nothing else was on. Once I saw one, (The Gold Rush) I wanted to know if that particular silent film was the exception (because I liked it) or the rule. I watched several of them. Stayed up all night watching them, actually.

Today I watched "The Great Dictator", his first "talkie". "Modern Times" was released the technology was available for voice, be he still chose to be "The Tramp" and didn't say anything.

Y'all, if you've never seen a Chaplin movie, you NEED TO! I don't mean "If you get the chance" or "If you're bored". I mean you MUST see this man in action.

It's not only his movies, but who he was that has me loving Chaplin.

In between movies, they told some stuff about his real life. Like the fact that reporters always asked if he was Jewish (he wasn't) and he said "I prefer not to answer."

How cool is that?!?! WW2 Era, and this man won't say "No, I'm not Jewish."

I just finished watching "The Great Dictator", which is the movie where he spoofed Hitler & Mussolini. Excellent. The "TCM Guy" said that some people had called it preachy, but I found it inspirational in between the comedy bits.

Chaplin was a genius.

Here are the movies you should definitely see, IMO (Movie Plots are from IMDb.com):

City Lights (Silent) - A "romantic" comedy where The Tramp (Chaplin) struggles to help a blind flower girl he has fallen in love with. The ending was so sweet. That silly Tramp Smile is...I can't even find the words. It made me tear up a little bit. :-)

The Great Dictator - In Chaplin's satire on Nazi Germany, dictator Adenoid Hynkel has a double... a poor Jewish barber... who one day is mistaken for Hynkel. Chaplin's "German" is hilarious!

Modern Times (Silent) - The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman. So good. He goes to jail for a crime he didn't commit, foils an escape attempt, and then tries to get back into jail after they pardon him.

I seriously wonder if there was anything that Chaplin couldn't do! He sang the Title Song for one of his movies, juggled, roller skated, etc. You name it, he seems to have done it. His writing was so clever. It's all the "little bits" & unexpected things that made his movies great.

You know the excitement you feel when you find something new that you LOVE? That's what I feel. I wish it was Charlie Chaplin MONTH on TCM!

Here's one of my favorite clips from Modern Times. The Tramp is hired as a singing waiter (with no experience) and he can't remember the words to the song. The woman writes them on his cuff, but then when he's dancing his cuffs fly off. This is the best clip that I could find. Enjoy!

Oh! And here's the part from The Great Dictator where he's allegedly "preachy".

We like Charlie Chaplin

2008-08-02T20:47:00.001-05:00

ho'd have thunk it?

The farting noise at the end is Evan.

Playing with his ball.

That he busted.

A rubber ball.

*giggle* I'm so mature...

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Charlie Chaplin day on TCM!

2008-08-02T13:32:00.005-05:00

oday is Charlie Chaplin Day on TCM (Turner Classic Movies).

I was halfway through "The Gold Rush" when Evan decided he needed to watch his shows, so I'm recording it.

The 45 minutes I've watched have me understanding why Chaplin was such a big deal back in the Silent Movie days.

I never thought I'd enjoy silent movies because the clips I've seen of other ones (not starring Chaplin) had that ridiculous music and every other frame was the card telling what someone had said.

I don't know about the other movies that will be coming on today, but this one had a narrator, so I was able to just enjoy the comedy.

Definitely check it out if you have nothing else to do today! :-)

Oops! Open mouth, insert foot.

2008-08-01T17:24:00.003-05:00

e went school shopping today.

First I went to the bank. I saw an aunt of a friend of mine and what I assumed to be one of her great nieces and that girl's child. Yes. I'm used to seeing 16 year olds with babies.

Every other girl at Wal-Mart was pregnant today. And EVERYBODY in my county was shopping today (Tax-free for school supplies & clothes 8/1 - 8/3).

Anyway, as we were about to leave someone said:

Friend - Ma'am, I'm going to need to see your driver's license for that thing (I was in an electric cart)
Me - Hi! *hug* I haven't seen you in forever, blah blah, small talk.
She - So I guess you're here school shopping.
Me - Yep.
She - I have to get DD#4 some new shoes.
Me - I have to get Evan some too. But not this month. Car insurance & tags. He'll have to wear his old ones until MD sees them and feels sorry for him, LOL. Oh, BTW, I saw your Aunt today.
She - Where?
Me - At the bank. I don't think she recognized me because she looked right through me. She was with that retarded girl. I didn't know that girl had had a baby!
She - What retarded girl?
Me - I don't remember her name.
She - *Naming off a list of names*
Me - Yeah! Jane (not her real name)!
She - Jane doesn't have a baby. That was my daughter!
Me - No, she had short brown hair. So did the little kid, about 3 years old?
She - Yes, that was Peach with Apple's (oldest daughter) baby! You called my baby retarded. *fake crying*
Me - Well I don't know if Jane was literally retarded, but she was very stupid. I couldn't believe that someone had slept with her. Anyway, OMG! I can't believe that Peach is that tall! She used to have blonde hair too!
She - Yeah, she's big now. Bigger than me. I have to shop in the Women's department for her. She wears a size 10 shoe! Pear is still skinny, it's easy to shop for her.
*more small talk*
Me - Well, I have to go before my frozen crap melts.

HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OMG.

If we hadn't been such good friends she really would have been offended when I mistook her daughter for the "mentally challenged" cousin.

*hanging my head in shame*

In my defense, I haven't seen her since her mom died of cancer. I used to go over there when her mom was alive because when I was dating friend's brother, her mother & father (both of them are gone now) were very good to me & Evan. I had Thanksgiving with them a few years in a row. I miss PawPaw's cooking. :-( I used to tell him that his cooking was so good, I could mistake it for a black woman's cooking. He took that as a huge compliment, LOL.

They are the most redneck family I've ever known.

Furreal.

Which is why I stopped hanging around so much once Evan got older.

After Peach showed Evan her cooch (when they were 6), I figured it was time to move on....

Entrecard Stats - 8/1/08

2008-08-01T16:49:00.003-05:00

ollowing are my Entrecard Stats for the month of July.

Top Entrecard Droppers
Regretful Morning - 31
Technically Easy - 31
Snapshotcap - 30
Diet Pulpit - 30
Turnip of Power - 30
People You Need to Know - 30
Stir The Cauldron - 30
Untreatable's Blog - 29
Septagon Studios Inc News Blog - 29
On The Bricks - 29

Top Advertisers by Click

Pandora's Casket - 306
Tales from the Tracks - 237
Random Ramblings - 213
My Big World of Crap - 174
Sir Robbie Rob - 144
Random Musings of a Deranged Soul - 110
WORLDWIDE TRAVEL BLOG - 88
Blogging MoRe - 82
AmyOops - 80
time2cre8 - 65

I must admit, I didn't really do as much advertising in July as I have in months past. Whatever, man.