Top 5 albums from the last decade that shaped your life
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1. Elvis Costello - When I Was Cruel
This was the first album of EC's that I bought since Spike in 1989. I really got into his music with this one. It's also one of his most solid recordings in the last 10 years.
Sure Costello puts out quality work with almost every album, but this particular record is close to perfect and so are some of the bonus tracks that come with the European and Japanese editions. I consider this album to be a must have for any music lover.
I also know that if I he had done North at the time I was starting to get back into his music, I never would have been quite the fan that I am now.
2. The Moody Blues - December: How can a Christmas album shape my life?
Well, it really wasn't until I owned this album that I gave Christmas music a chance again.
Several years of working retail spoiled holiday music for me. When this album came out, I found I still had love for it, and now I look forward to all the holiday releases each year.
3. Mika - The Boy Who Knew Too Much
Last year's sophomore offering by Mika really changed the way I felt about pop music. Finally after so many years of shite, there was a good album, by someone in this genre.
It's dance-y, it's fun, and it doesn't sound like everyone out there. Oh and its not overly obnoxious, a huge plus when it comes to pop music these days.
4. Tommy James - Hold The Fire: I discovered this album when I had a huge crush on that damn DJ from The Pickle. The love for this album is probably the only good thing that came out of those 6 months when I was making an ass out of myself. Its good music. If you like the stuff Tommy did in the 60s, you'll like this, plus he did a smashing re-recording of his hit, Sweet Cherry Wine.
5. Gordon Lightfoot - Harmony: Words cannot express the love I developed for Gordon after I heard the song Inspiration Lady from this album. That song along with all the others are fantastic.
I don't think I wouldn't have allowed myself to open up to country music if it wasn't for Gordon, who's folk borders on country more than a little bit.
First, let me say, I don't really watch any of the late night talk shows unless there is a performer on that I really like. Or Jay Leno's doing Headlines.
Yeah. I like Leno. But that's not what I came here to rant about.
3 guys that have had TV jobs for years. One network that's screwed them all. None of them are all that funny and a fourth that just has too much to say.
But what gets me are the Coco freakazoids and Coco himself whining over the NBC plan to move Leno to 11:35.
OK, children. The hour log prime time slot failed miserably. We all get that. Though I admit it was more the guests that he had to have on rather than the comedy etc that caused this to fail. Plus prime time numbers have to be better than late night numbers.
But nevermind that. What could Leno do in 30 minutes? Probably not much. That's why this venture would fail too. If Coco would have sat tight for another 7 months, his Tonight Show would have moved right back to 11:35 and that probably would have been it. Coco should have been happy. He followed Leno for 17 years, another few months wouldn't have hurt him.
Instead, he stomps his foot and whines, and gets to break his contract, which will allow him to likely have his own 11:30 show on Fox by the fall, and he takes with him between 30-40 million dollars oh and reports say, the network is paying out big to the band and crew too.
Forgive me Coco, I don't feel sorry for you at all.
Jimmy Kimmel tells Jay to leave Coco and his shows alone because they have families to raise. I fucking hope both could raise a couple of kids on 30 + million dollars.
Truth be told, they all disgust me. Coco for being a whiner. Kimmel for being a fucktard. Lettermen for being a non-funny sleazebag, and Jay...well I like Jay, but Jay for not standing up for himself. However, just a little note to all you Cocoheads, Leno has a contract with NBC too, and it probably would have cost them more to break that than Coco's.
So the big asshole in all of this isn't Leno, its NBC. A station that has nothing to offer in Primetime at all. Which is why my late night show of choice is The Colbert Report.
I'm really getting disgusted with this winter. I'm also jealous of all the people that can do those 365 photo meme things. Right now I have no inspiration for my photography. There's just nothing. Its dull, its gray, its meh. I'm also broke, so the only traveling I'm doing is via the book superhighway. Thankfully I can go on a lot of travels there, but that's not nearly as fun as going somewhere and actually doing something.
That's where the problem lies.
1. I have no money! 2. Mom's still couch ridden which means I'm still super chef. (Have I mentioned I'm getting sick of being super chef?)
I did get to Jack's last night though and I got to catch up on one of the episodes of Sarah Jane Adventures that I haven't watched, which is pretty much..uh....all of them. ARGH!
I also need to start watching Being Human again, which means I need to catch up on some of the last episodes from Series 1 because I missed them. I wish the TV didn't have such a pull on me. Oh and tomorrow White Collar starts again. I wish I didn't care about that show, actually I don't, I just like the hot guy in the show...ARGH! I think I'll just read until spring.
Here's a little something different for Missing Mondays. As I've been scrambling for something new to listen to lately, I've come to the conclusion that I miss Duran Duran.
Yes, I am a child of the 80s. I love new wave and Duran Duran were one of my favorite bands from that decade.
They are still together, but in the last 20 years their music has been sorely lacking. The Wedding Album and Astronaut were the only two albums I have loved by the band since their hey day ended in 1987.
I miss good Duran Duran, not the shite they put out on Red Carpet Massacre and definitely not the shite of Pop Trash and Medazzaland....and I'm not even sure how to catagorize Thank You, because that is worse than shite.
Duran Duran are a band I love, but lately I've wanted to abandon them because their efforts have been so lousy that it pains me to listen sometimes and it really hurts to know that a band you love is becoming awful.
Oh and while I'm at it, I just miss the Moody Blues. C'mon guys, its been years since December, can't we have one more album before you ride off into the sunset? Justin? I'd take a solo album too.
I'm about halfway through Stephen Baxter's Emperor right now. I believe I've said it before, but this isn't really my kind of book to read, but then again, neither was the Einstein biography I read awhile back, and I ended up enjoying it.
This one is turning out to be much the same, although I know I'm not getting as much out of it as some readers might, as my knowledge of Roman history is pretty minimal. Its still a very interesting book.
What is distressing to me is that there are 3 or 4 more books in this series and I know that at some point I will want to read them, just to see how the story plays out. (as opposed to Twilight which I wish would go far away).
If I'm lucky I may finish it today, if not, tomorrow. I only have about 140 pages to go.
I made a mix for my friend Tina and The Animal Rescue League of Pittsburgh. Go adopt a kitty!
Artist: Various Artists Album:Take Me Home Plz: The Adopt A Kitty Mix (60 MB) Genre: Mixtape Sounds Like: Fun Felinity Tracklisting: Elvis Costello - Leave My Kitten Alone Cats Cast - Prologue Jellicle Songs For Jellicle Cats Squeeze - Cool For Cats Tom Jones - What's New Pussycat Cyndi Lauper - Like A Cat Shakespear's Sister - Catwoman Stray Cats - Stray Cat Strut Aristocats - Ev'rybody Wants To Be A Cat Lovin' Spoonful - Nashville Cats Lady & The Tramp - The Siamese Cat Song The Beatles - Three Cool Cats Al Stewart - Year Of The Cat Cory Williams - Hey Little Sparta: The Mean Kitty Song Fred Penner - The Cat Came Back Love, Execution Style - Kitty Kitty Phoebe Buffay - Smelly Cat
Top 5 band members that are neither the lead singer or the lead guitarist. (feel free to tell us why you chose them too!)
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1. John Lodge (bass, vocals) from The Moody Blues: Lodgey is my favorite Moody Man. Right now I'm trying to figure out what this Sunny Sunshine Faces song is..and who is singing it and why its credited to John. I'm so confused. Oh and have any of you seen the latest picture of Justin Hayward that was posted with his Q & A on the band's website? OMG, JUSTIN, looking way way old. Looking Gordon Lightfoot old, but Justin doesn't have the health issues that Gordon has. So sad.
2. Nick Rhodes (keyboards) from Duran Duran: I love my platinum blonde Nicky. I still think that one day he will come out of the closet though. I think I'd have a bit more respect for him, if he did.
3. Vince Clarke (keyboards and other assorted things that make bleeps and bloops) from Erasure: Hey its a duo. There's a vocalist and there's Vince. I love both blokes, so Vince wins in this spot. Also he's got geeky cuteness going for him!
4. Micky Dolenz (Drums/percussion) from The Monkees: Hey hey he's a Monkee and vocals are up in the air with this band since everybody got a shot, so I pick Micky!
5. Steve Nieve: Elvis Costello's awesome keyboardist when needed. He's a nice bloke too.
My favorite, indie hotie, Judd Starr is going to be doing some live dates, and I think of all the new artists I've been exposed to in the last few years, he's one of the very best and also one of the prettiest.
Yup, Judd is about as easy on the eyes as they come.
Oh and he can sing too. However sometimes that's a bit hard to remember how good a singer he is, because I'm a girl and I tend to go all weak in the knees when I see a really good-looking bloke.
But in case you think I am one of those girls that is blinded by a pretty face. Listen to his music here. Scroll down and listen to Please Penny, because that is one of my favorite songs in the entire universe.
Now tell me again why I can't be in the Reno area?
I have books on my brain. Currently I'm trying for the third time to read Stephan Baxter's Emperor. Its not been easy going for me. The langauge is a bit dry, but I'm determined to make it through the 300-ish pages of this book.
I openly admit to preferring light reading. I like my Harlequin romances. I like books by Debbie Macomber, Nora Roberts, Janet Evanovich, but I also like to read things every now and then that challenge me.
I think the last book I read like that was The Lovely Bones. That book, just did nothing for me too, but I finished it. It took awhile. I don't understand what the huge hype was surrounding it. It wasn't a great afterlife story. In fact everything about the book was rather depressing. I prefered The Shack and even that book left me feeling a bit meh by the time I turned the last page.
Now don't get me wrong, books don't need to always have happy endings or always be happy, but I generally don't like to be depressed when I'm reading. That's not why I read. I read for escape and for entertainment, ocassionally I read to learn something.
So what are you reading right now? What are some of the toughest books you've managed to get through?
I keep missing Missing Monday. Do you think its Freudian?
Today I have to say the thing I'm missing the most is HEAT! I'm sick of wearing snow boots everywhere I go. I'm sick of sleeping with 4 blankets on the bed. I'm sick of sleeping with socks on and my warm fuzzy robe.
I want warmth!
I want a day that's about the freezing point!
I don't think its too much to ask for. Just a teeny tiny bit of warmth.
Oh to have a few days of totally unseasonably warm.
Not like they are having this summer in Australia. I think our friend Mal might have melted over there, but a little bit of warmth would be so lovely.
Raise your hand if you'd like a day or two in the 60s!
Now before you think I'm getting pissy, I'm not. I love Jay, a helluva lot more than I like Conan or Dave. The reason I'm over the moon about The Jay Leno show going away, is that the pilot David Tennant shot for NBC may make it to our screens in the early fall.
Yes, Rex Is Not Your Lawyer is coming to NBC!
Woo hoo!
David Tennant is ours now!
And I speak on behalf of all the women in the US when I say, we ain't giving him back either!
So if you don't mind, I'm going to do the happy dance of joy now!
For the last 2 weeks I've been officially grown up and it sucks. Royally. Mom's back has been bugging her, so I've been:
1. Caretaker
2. Cook, making sure not only she eats, but dad and Raymond and on several occasions my sister and her other son.
3. Laundry lady.
4. Total house cleaner etc.
On top of it all in that time...the one cat died....I've had to do all the grocery shopping and make sure mom's household bills were being paid...on top of doing mine.
I'm very crabby right now, because there's no damn place to sit in our living room, because Mom's on the couch...dad's in the chair, and he's always in the living room now....and the other two chairs are totally uncomfortable, mostly because they are Mom's chairs.
Yes, I'm being irrational. Most likely a little childish, but I'm flipping frustrated, because for the most part I wonder why a man that's 84 years old still doesn't know how to get food for himself, that isn't a flipping donut!
Oye vey.
And now I have to take him out to dinner.
And no he's not senile.
Head desk.
Being grown up is seriously overrated. The only good thing about it, is that you can drink beer/wine/liquor.
I've been doing a lot of cooking the past few weeks since mom has been laid up with her back.
Its a quick and easy soup..only takes about 30 minutes
5 cups of water pepper to taste 2 packages chicken ramen noodles 2 medium carrots chopped 1 stalk celery chopped 1 can of chicken
Put carrots and celery in pot of water and bring to a boil When brought to a boil add ramen flavor pack and salt and pepper. I used garlic salt and a few shacks of pepper. Cover and simmer about 20 minutes. Add can of chicken and ramen noodles crushed Simmer 3 minutes and serve
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1. Lady Antebellum's new album Need You Now, that's due out this month.
2. I'm hoping to catch Peter Noone again in Akron this year if at all possible. I always get exciting about seeing Peter, he's such an awesome guy and his shows are so fun.
3. More Costello concert CDs. There's another one of the "live" collection discs coming out this month and I hope to be able to get it. Its Live At Hollywood Hight
4. Nunsense and Hairspray in Pittsburgh! I haven't seen a show since Avenue Q. Let's hope that I have money by then!
1. My cat Skimble who really likes to watch TV. He does. He gets into America's Funniest Home Videos. Sometimes he gets into it a bit too much.
2. The Master on Doctor Who: OK, how can you not be amused by John Simm turning the world into a whole bunch of John Simms!
3. Fantasy Summer by Susan Pfeffer: A teenage romance I found and either read for the first time or re-read. I'm not sure which. It was fun and so unrealistic in some places that it made for a good many giggles.
4. Last night's quasi Friends reunion on Cougar Town: Firstly I don't like Cougar Town and I never liked Friends, but I watched last night out of curiosity and was just a wee bit amused.
5. Brooke Shields as the white trash neighbor on The Middle: Do I have to say any more?
6. The Snow: I'm both amused and angered by the obnoxious white stuff. Angered that I've lost a day's wages as a result, amused that I got to curl up on the couch for an extra day. (after almost getting myself killed trying to get to work)
7. That Chicken commercial that Mike posted on his blog here. Nothing funnier than a dumb blonde boob commercial that's actually about a chicken sandwich. Go watch!
8. The previews for the film Leap Year. I really want to see this movie!!
9. This LOL pic
10. Fat rolling cats!
11. Tiger Woods: Oh c'mon now! How can this guy not amuse you! I also applaud him for his apparent stamina. How many mistresses can the guy have!
12. Hungry Girl aka Lisa Lillien: She tries to healthify food so we can all be skinny bitches. I love and hate her at the same time. Her daily emails amuse me though, except when she demeats or over Splendas stuff. I like meat and I like sugar, wanna make something of it, bitch!
13. Craig Ferguson: Cute, Scottish and Silly. What is there not to be amused by. I only wish I could stay awake to watch his show and still be able to function the next day.
I'm so lame with doing my own meme. But oddly the thing I was missing today hit me when I saw a Schawn's freezer truck. No it wasn't anything from that to your door grocery store, it was Charlie Chips! OK, Charles Chips.
When I was little we always had a big tin of these chips in our house and oh were they so very good.
We used to get awesome marshmallow cookies from the Charlie Chip man too.
Oh how I miss those days.
We had a JT man too from JT's General Store. That's gone the way of all things too.
At least I can get a bag of Charles Chips if I get to Cracker Barrel.
This is what I love about Charleroi. I nearly got killed trying to get to work this morning because they didn't bother to treat the roads.
Uh snow...subzero windchills, shouldn't you put something down?
Apparently not.
I made it almost all the way to work, but when I got to the road I'd turn on to get there...it was more than a little snow covered.
I then drove up to the Exxon station..called home and my boss to let one know I couldn't get there and the other to know I was safe, then I attempted to come home.
I got as far as McDonald's in Charleroi when I gave up for about a half hour.
The Vanilla Latte fortified me enough to attempt the roads again.
OH MY SWEET JESUS!
I prayed to him the whole time.
I slipped and skidded and nearly collided with walls and parked cars from 5th St to my home.
OMFG!
They didn't bother to clear anything until 11:30.
And its still flurring with a chance of a few more inches tonight.
When winter comes, it sure doesn't waste any time moving in. Its at these times when I try to remind myself that a little more than a hundred years ago, most people didn't have all the fancy furnaces that are about now, but lordy it doesn't help. Its mother humping cold!
The room where my desktop is just happens to be the coldest room in our house.
Right now I'm in the process of trying to put some stuff on a flash drive so I can use my notebook in warmer regions of my house.
However after 5 minutes I'm an ice cube and I have to stop working.
Which is also why its taken me over an hour to type this damn entry.
I'm a fucking ICE CUBE!
I need my blanket. A heater! David Tennant! erm...a blanket and a heater.
I swear we never had this kind of cold this early in the season...
I figured that after I spent yesterday griping about the fact I haven't read enough in the last few months, I'll at least give you a nice list of the authors I really love, so you will remember that I do love reading.
Debbie Macomber: She started out writing for Harlequin, and still does. Her stories are about families, real people. Her romances are light and could really be read by anyone that really wanted to give them a go.
Stephanie Bond: Oo La La! Her novels for the Harlequin Blaze line are hot and spicy, kinda like a good Mexican dish. Her Body Movers myster series is fun and funny a'la Janet Evanovich.
Janet Evanovich: When she writes, I smile. I haven't really been able to figure out what genre she falls in. She's not romance. She's more like humorous suspense. I really wish her books would be made into movies.
Nick Hornby: My favorite British author. His books are often hit or miss with me, but I've loved so many of them, that he has to make this list.
Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy: May this wonderful writer rest in peace. She really did great suspense and great historical accounts of the royal families of Europe. I've read more of her novels than I can count.
Marion Chesney/Jennie Tremaine: Tilly was the first romance novel I ever read. I love her regency novels. I devour them as soon as I get them.
Richard Paul Evans: Heartwarming stories that stay with you forever. I always shared these with my gram. I hope there are books in heaven. If there aren't...well that's a spoiler for me.
Ann Rice: Vampires Mummies and Jesus Christ. She's written about them all and she's done each topic well. Screw Twilight, this is the lady to read.
So these are some of the authors I love, how about you?
December 31st is fast approaching and my book tally is sad. Granting I didn't start the book challenge until October, but I've only read 35 books since October?
I really thought I could have made to the halfway point.
BAH!
I suck.
Things apparently got busier than I thought they would have in the last few months. I hope to make and exceed the goal of 100 books in 2010. Its a goal I know I can make. I should have made the 50. I really should.
My 4 day weekend is gonesville. Christmas and Christmas Eve were lovely but the last two days have been just ARGH! From Coco dying to today just being full of frustration, my 4 days stunk.
I haven't been able to get anything done in the last two days. Not for want of trying either. Its just I'm drained. Too drained to even read.
I'm feeling very whoa is me right now.
Nothing has turned out the way I wanted it.
I just want to vegetate somewhere and pretend that this whole holiday didn't happen. Its such a shame too, because the actual holiday was really nice. It was just yesterday that spoiled the whole 4 days.
Here's hoping the New Year's weekend will be much better.
My beautiful Christmas was shattered this morning when my sweet little Cocolocopocowheats died.
We have no idea what was wrong. She was in the basement with my dad, in fact he was erm...on the throne and she was on his lap, as cats have a tendency to want to sit on you when you are doing...those sorts of things. She was purring and happy.
She jumped down off his lap, let out a meow and died.
She was only a little over a year old!
Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!
All the other kitties are ok.
We're all heartbroken. This was like our Itchy come back to us. We all loved her and she loved us. I can't begin to understand why God would give anything that short of a life.
I've lost 3 animals this year. I love them all so very much, Mutchka was painful, but this just seems senseless. She was just a wee baby of a cat.
This here is my loot from Santa and family and friends:
1 Stocking filled with pretty costume jewelry Doctor Who Series 2 DVD set 3 Doctor Who books The Buckinghams Reaching Back CD Erasure Pop Remixed Some cash! A box of gourmet popcorn with Coca-cola ornaments A set of Jack Skellington pens 2 Nora Roberts books A gift card to Books A Million
Life is pretty good.
I hope all of you had a good and present-filled holiday
The only reason we made this recipe was because Food Network gave us a quick and easy way to make them.
What you need:
1 pie crust (Pillsbury is best) 1 jar of apricot preserves or the Bakers Apricot filling I'd say about 1/2 c of either chopped pecans or walnuts 1 egg beaten for egg wash
What you do:
Take a pizza cutter and cut the pie dough into 16 triangles
Spread the apricot from the tip to about 2/3's down the triangle
Sprinkle with nuts and roll up from the big end to the point.
Its the second year in a row that I haven't made it to Pittsburgh once to see the lights, the department store windows and my beautiful trees in PPG Place.
I miss them so much.
I miss walking through downtown, dodging cars and getting hot chocolate or a peppermint mocha at the Starbucks by Heinz Hall.
The last two years have been crazy. Last year it was my depression. This year, its just too much to do and not enough time to really go, along with a car I don't trust going more than 15 miles in.
~sigh~
The sad part is, I have a decent amount saved for a down payment, but I'm nervous about job related things and I wouldn't want to have a car payment and then become a victim of the economy.
I'm part of the Harlequin Ambassadors program for Harlequin books and today I got a package in the mail.
In the box were 5 copies of one of the Silhouette Special Edition's Christmas books.
Its called The Cowboy's Christmas Miracle and its by Raeanne Thayne. I've got one extra copy that I can pass off to someone after the holiday if there are any romance readers that would like this story to add to their collection. As soon as I read it, I'll share my thoughts on it, cos there's nothing wrong with a little romance, or a lot of it, for that matter.
I finished cleaning the kitchen this morning. On to the dining room. There is a small glimmer of hope that the cleaning may actually get finished before Christmas Eve. That my friends, is a freaking miracle.
Actually the amount of stuff I have for goodwill is insane! Not to mention the stuff that's gone to the garbage!
Yikes!
At least we've decided on the cookies we are making.
Firstly, we're doing Muddy Buddies Chex Mix.
Then coconut blossoms w/Hershey kisses
Peanut butter cup cookies
and then one slovak cookie that I can barely pronounce, let alone spell but it will have some nuts and apricot filling.
I'm also going to make something with nutella and crescent rolls.
At least the food will be good, even if the house isn't spotless.
I'm really kicking but with the whole cleaning thing today. I should have our kitchen as done as possible today. Tomorrow I tackle the dining room.
I'm very very proud of myself right now.
I'm also thankful for the snow.
I know most of the people that got the brunt of the storm aren't but this snowfall as kept me from doing all the extra stuff that takes my mind off the hard stuff.
I even baked a batch of brownies today!
Isn't that freaking amazing?
Aren't you all proud of me?
You should be, cos I'm so damn lazy that this is really an accomplishment. I will do anything and everything to get out of cleaning.
I feel so accomplished. I think I deserve a glass of wine and a good movie tonight!
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Top 5 musical things that made your 2009.
1. Getting to see Deni Bonet in concert @ Oglebay. It was a wonderful show and a lovely day in Wheeling and @ the park. Its totally awesome that I finally got to see and meet one of the Indie Artists that I reviewed. Truly you should check Deni out if you haven't already. She's fantastic.
2. Mika's The Boy Who Knew Too Much. I never thought one album could make my year again, but this one has. Its so fun and catchy and just adorable. I love Mika and I love this album!
3. Seeing and playing with The ReBeats in OH. I love this covers band and I don't usually like covers bands. Do a google search for them and watch a clip or two. Here's hoping I get to see them again next year somewhere.
4. Getting to meet Sarah Marince one of our Pittsburgh country singers. She's so cute and sweet and has a voice that will knock your socks off.
5. Several of the artists I've learned about through my other job doing CD reviews.
I need to sort out what I need to get done before Christmas. Sadly there's still a lot of stuff.
I've got the presents and whatnot sorted out. Everything is bought there. I still have cleaning to do and some grocery shopping that can't be done ahead of time. Then there is the baking, we've decided on making about 3 different kinds of cookies. We're a small family at the holidays anymore. There's no point in going nuts when its just the usual crew celebrating.
However it still means more than usual cleaning.
We're packrats living in a house that doesn't have packratting space. Not a good thing, especially when one of the packrats doesn't like to get rid of stuff! Oye and vey!
But starting tonight I'm going to start getting more cleaning done. Starting in the kitchen and working my way through the dining room to the bedrooms. By Christmas Day, damn it, I will have our house looking passable. We'll never have a better homes and garden type house. Our house is old and neither my parents, nor I make a lot of money to fix things. But I will get it looking better if it kills me. And it just might.
Wish me luck.
I hate holiday cleaning! I'd rather shop. (And at the holidays that's saying a whole helluva lot!)
Artist: Various Artists Album:A Cold Winter Night (114 MB) Genre: Mixtape Tracklisting: Gordon Lightfoot - 10 Degrees and Getting Colder Sara Bareilles & Ingrid Michaelson - Winter Song Enya - And Winter Came Cliff Richard - Mistletoe & Wine James Taylor - In The Bleak Midwinter Greg Lake - I Believe In Father Christmas Dean Martin - I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm Loreena McKennitt - Snow The Simple Things - Cold Jane Monheit - I Love The Winter Weather (Medley) Over The Rhine - Snow Angels Grey Eye Glances - Our Own Place And TImes Elaine Paige - The Coldest Night Of The Year Sarah McLachlan - Song For A Winter's Night Diana Krall - Count Your Blessings Instead Of Sheep Elvis Costello - North Danny Elfman - The Edward Scissorhands Theme The Pogues - Fairytale Of New York Dar Williams - February Emmy Rossum - Carol Of The Bells Nick Lowe - Freezing
Here ya go peeps! Happy Christmas. Thanks to Rashbre for the Smoke Fairies!
Artist: Various Artists Album:Christmas Delights (117 MB) Released: My 2009 Christmas Mix Genre: Assorted Genres Sounds Like: Christmas! Tracklisting: Must Be Santa Bob Dylan Warm & Fuzzy - Billy Gilman The Answer - Corrinne May Christmas Is Finally Here - Matt Dusk Winter White - A Fine Frenzy A Silent Night With You - Tori Amos Jingle Bell Rock - Mitchel Musso Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - Colbie Caillat Let It Snow - The Carter Twins Silent Night - Gloriana Shimmy Down The Chimney (Fill Up My Stocking)- Suzy Bogguss Lo How A Rose E'er Blooming - Sting Holly Jolly Christmas - Sugarland Christmas Morning - Hayley Westenra I Wonder As I Wander - Smoke Fairies Blessed Is This Holy Night - Jaynse O Holy Night - Josh Groban A Scoundrel's Christmas - F&M Old Night - Dala Here Comes Christmas - The Nadas The Gift - Joshua Stedman
I was lucky enough to receive a copy of Dan Van Oss' latest CD The Heart Of Heaven to review and I want to share that review and one gorgeous song with you.
So by all means, go to Mossip and read the review here.
If you like it, leave your comments there, because I know several of the artists I've reviewed stop by that site to read reviews.
This album was gorgeous. I loved the different arrangements of some of the holiday classics and there were a few surprises as well.
Its 4 minutes after 10 and I feel like I've gotten nothing done, yet our Christmas tree is decorated and I even made some headway cleaning the room from hell, but for some reason it doesn't feel like I've done enough.
Oh and I totally finished the Christmas shopping. I bought the wine and the jam we wanted to add to my brother's gift and we bought the wreath for the cemetery for gram and grandpap.
I did a lot, but it feels like nothing.
Mostly because I spent a lot of money that I didn't want to spend. That's the purchase of a new printer and extra ink as well as the last gifts I had to buy.
Now if only I could get a few hours of relaxation at some point.
Not much to ask for is it? But somehow it is.
I need time off. Have I mentioned that for the millionth time yet?
We all know I'm a sucker for girl porn. And the way things have been lately, I need stuff like this to keep me sane.
I had the damn book in my cart when I did my monthly book order from Eharlequin and I got logged out before buying and my whole cart vanished and when I went back to add my books, I forgot that one.
ARGH!
So if any of you would like to buy me a cheap present...this book would be it! Cos I missed it when it was out in Oct and then I kept forgetting it because it wasn't on the main page. Grrrr.
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Top 5 Traditional Christmas Carols and tell us why you like the particular song.
1. O Holy Night: I don't care who sings it most of the time. I just love this song. Its beautiful song and one I've loved since I was a little girl.
2. Angels We Have Heard On High: What can I say? I'm a sucker for the Glorias!
3. O Little Town Of Bethlehem: I love the slowness of this one and the imagery that it creates.
4. What Child Is This?: I like Greensleeves so this is pretty much a given.
5. When A Child Is Born: I'm not sure if this one is considered traditional, but I love it nontheless. If not for The Moody Blues, I never would have heard of this song, and I'm glad that chose to record it, because I've loved most every version I've heard since.
I've got so much to do and an attention span of a gnat, and I'm probably being insulting to the gnat.
I have cleaning to do that needs to get done before Christmas.
I have 2 reviews that need to be done and turned in by the weekend. 1 won't be rough but the other that's due first is a bit tricky. I'm not the greatest at reviewing instrumental stuff. Plus I'd like to get some other writing done for Mossip which I've been slacking at for awhile.
I still need to go through stuff for Good Will. I wish my nephew and father could go through their damn clothes. Why must men never toss stuff that they will never wear out? Actually I'm still pondering why I can't toss an old pale blue suit coat of the 1970's leisure suit variety into the fire? Dad, its not as if we would let you out of the house wearing it!
Will probably have to go to the police station to pick up the report on the accident that knocked out our fence. This is not going to be fun or pretty.
Plus I still have the mix CD to burn and mail and I must do that tonight. There's no ifs ands or buts about it. ARGH! I want these CDs in the mail on Saturday. I will share them here later this weekend. If I survive it all.
I mean that literally too. Two trucks, a big Dodge Ram and a Ford of some kind duked it out on the corner sending one sailing into our front yard, taking out our fence.
Yee ha!
So much for a nice quiet morning eh?
Now I have to hunt down a police report later today or tomorrow so my folks can get their fence replaced.
This is turning out to be a really great week!
Oye!
This is not the way I wanted to start my morning.
I can't wait to see how the rest of the day turns out!
I'm not looking forward to Thursday or Friday when the temperatures dip below freezing here in PA. I also don't feel jealous of those south of me or in the midwest that are experiencing SNOW in larges amounts right now.
I've got too much to do to have to deal with snow! Cold is enough. I hate being cold. I'm not a huge fan of being too hot either, but cold really makes me miserable.
Have I mentioned I hate winter? Christmas and New Year's Day are about the only two good things about it.
I just want to get my warm fuzzy robe on and stay inside for the next 3 months.
I haven't had much time to do much of anything these past few days. Blogging has been scarce and reading blogs even scarcer. Is that even a word? But Saturday night I took the time to sit down and watch Mrs. Miracle on the Hallmark channel and I'm so glad that I did.
Its a movie based on Debbie Macomber's book of the same name. When I heard about it, I knew it was a movie I had to watch, because Debbie's books are some of my favorites and her holiday books are always the best.
This movie was wonderful. Its the story of a widower with twin sons who are rambunctious. They can't seem to keep a housekeeper. The female character is an owner of a travel agency who is not on speaking terms with her sister because of an event in the past that she considers unforgivable.
Well its Christmas and with Mrs. Merkle (Miracle) both overcome the fears and hurts that have kept their hearts closed for years and they learn to move on, forgive and find love.
A wonderful story! If you get the Hallmark channel, look for a re-airing, its worth watching. If you don't? Go out and buy the book!
My last two Christmas presents were bought today and now I can concentrate on the mix CD card! Woo hoo!
I've got about half of the mix figured out. I still need a few more songs and then it will be complete. I've even got an image for the artwork, which I found while trolling some stock photo websites.
Woo hoo!
I'm officially broke, but I'm festive and everyone will have a gift, including a few of the members of my online family that I've bought gifts for over the last 5 or more years.
I'm really pleased how everything is turning out.
Here's hoping Dec 25 turns out to be just as lovely as the advent season. I'm excited for it.
So far so good, the cats have only tried to eat the garland and one ornament so far today!
This is the tree I keep in my computer room. We still haven't put the tree up in the living room yet. Mom's still fearful that the cats will knock it over. I keep telling her they won't. They just want to gnaw away at the bottom branches. They are crazy like that. Better that then when our little malty-poo decides to water the tree.
Funny I thought all of this bad behavior was supposed to be corrected by spaying and neutering.
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Top 5 dream collaborations. ex: Justin Hayward of the Moody Blues and Andy Bell of Erasure (something I only wish would happen)
1. Justin Hayward and Andy Bell: I don't know what they'd sing together, but I would love to hear it. These are probably two of my favorite voices and they both do sappy love songs so well.
2. Mika and Andy Bell: Just because the video for whatever they did would be so colorful and shiny that you'd probably spend hours staring at it.
3. Elvis Costello and Diana Krall: I mean they are married they really should record together. What beautiful music that would be!
4. Over The Rhine and Grey Eye Glances: Two of my favorite not so well known bands fronted by two very beautiful women with even more beautiful voices. This would definitely be a collaboration that dreams would be made of.
5. Simon Le Bon and Elvis Costello: A dream collaboration, cos I'd like to see Simon learn how to write songs, good songs. Unlike the crap they've been recording lately (meaning Duran Duran...not Elvis)
I'm sick of hearing about Adam Lambert. I don't really care about his performance on the AMA's. I don't care about him at all. I don't think he's that great. Didn't when he was on American Idol and I don't now.
What most people need to get a hold on in this country is this: If you want to cause a stir do something sexually or religiously explicit. It causes an uproar. If you push the invisible bar, you will cause controversy. Will it hurt your career. Probably not, which is why all people, probably me too, should just STFU about it. Give it a few weeks....Adam will go platinum, and all will be well in the world.
Janet Jackson is fine...Madonna is fine...heck even George Michael still sells records when he can be bothered to record.
Scandal gets you in the papers, and when you are in the entertainment industry, that's really what you're aiming for. He didn't hurt a puppy or a child, so I'll safely predict he's going to be just fine.
I only wish he'd go away and take all his other Idol predecessors with him
Actually its what makes me go hmmm about all cats. Why do they want to eat plastic? My older cats ie: the cats I had before last August, don't really give a damn about the Christmas tree. I knew this before I started to put the tree up this year. The young ones; Miss Callie and her babies, think that that tree is an appetizer. This would make more sense if I didn't have an artificial tree.
But nothing makes sense with cats!
I have 2 of the 4 kittens sitting under the tree....and they look as cute as buttons, but then I hear..lick lick...munch munch!
I've been threatening them with spanks for the last two days.
Mind you, threatening a cat is as good as nothing. So is punishing a cat. Cats don't listen. They don't care. They only let us live in our houses as long as we feed them and right now, artificial evergreen is on the menue
I read this book earlier this year and I loved it. Last night I watched the made for tv movie version, and I have to say they did a wonderful job adapting it to the small screen.
I only wish they could do this so well with other books that they turn into movies or TV specials.
I realize that the books was a short one, much like Neil Gaiman's Coraline, but to the best of my knowledge they really didn't change much of anything from the novel, and what they did, didn't harm the story or anger me in any way. I do realize that Christmas was more of a black lab...but other than that, I can't complain very much.
The movie was just beautiful and I cried most of the time I was watching, because even though we have the kitty community and little J.J., I really miss Purrbee.
So if you are a dog lover and one that likes good family movies, look into this one @ Hallmark. Oh and read the book!
I'm down to 4 presents that need bought and all of them can be bought either locally or online. However in my jaunts today; I spent scads of money and my dad's car broke down.
Yeah.
Oh and did I mention, Dad has his colonoscopy on Tuesday? This was supposed to be a nice day out for him with a good dinner and the car has to go and try to die on him. His car, not mine.
ARGH!
This all happened in the parking lot of the restaurant, so even though we could eat, there was no enjoying the food and what we did eat was the stupid shit, like the peanuts in the buckets @ Texas Roadhouse and the onion blossom.
Double ARGH!
I would just like to know when something is going to go right? I think my family and I are deserving of some good luck.
Our payroll processing company FUCKED UP badly this week. I ran out to work to check on the status of the paychecks and they weren't there.
I'm not sure what Dave is going to decide to do on Monday, but I really need my paycheck badly.
I've already bought presents for the holiday and I want to start working on the mix CD for my friends, but I need to buy stuff. Stuff that I don't want to put on a credit card. Presents, those go on credit, because that's what Christmas is all about, going into debt to buy people stuff.
ARGH!
This is not a good way to start the Christmas season.
If I don't get my pay on Monday, I think I will SCREAM!
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Top 5 artists/bands you'd brave Black Friday crowds for. (Use your imaginations, you're not necessarily going out in the crowd to buy CDs) Make up a little story if you'd like to go along with your 5.
1. Elvis Costello: I would brave black Friday crowds for him, as long as those crowds didn't involve being in or around Post Gazette Pavilion in Burgettstown. Have I mentioned lately how much I hate that venue?
2. Mika: Ok, for him I'd brave PGP, simply because I'd never have the chance to see him without trecking to Philly and I hate Philly with a passion that can't be described. However for Mika I'd probably even brave Philly if I had the money. I'd even stay up late if I knew he was going to be on. He's so damn cute its disgusting.
3. Erasure: I've loved these guys too long not to be considered hopelessly devoted. I might even sing that song in a black Friday crowd if it meant getting to see Andy and Vince up close.
4. Danny Elfman: They call me Elfslut in some places for a reason. Danny Elfman is one of my longest standing musical crushes. I'd even babysit his shrunken heads!
5. Oh lordy, who would be number 5? The Moody Blues? Davy Jones? Gordon Lightfoot? Don't make me pick! It could be any of these artists, really. Heck I might brave black Friday for Over The Rhine, cos I love them so much
From all the turkeys here in my little hamlet of Charleroi on Mon to all of you the world over (even though some of you don't have a thanksgiving) I wish you a day of blessings with your family, good health, good food and much to be thankful for.
Eat, drink and be merry!
Then we can do it all over again in about a month!
I ranted that there was no way on earth that Donny Osmond would win Dancing With The Stars, but apparently there was, because he did, and even though I wish the show to perdition (sorry Bilbo) and all other shows like it to the same place, Donny's win made me exceedingly happy.
Now all the women can put their clothes back on and go back to doing whatever it was they did before they started. I will never understand the appeal of dancing that looks more like tossing the half nekkid girl around. To me acrobatics is that, and dancing is, well, dancing.
But I congratulate Donny on his win, because he wasn't obnoxious and because he's cute as a button.
So yipee!
Now if only the show would go away and take all other competitions (American Idol etc) with it and never come back
It doesn't take Thanksgiving to remind us that Christmas is just around the corner. What it does take is Eat N Park to air their beautiful star commercial.
This is the best commercial ever. Now where's my Smiley cookie!!
You know what I miss the most during the holidays? My metabolism! I miss being able to scarf down whatever I wanted to without a worry about that scale.
Of course this was back when I always had the day after Thanksgiving off too.
I'm not sure why I'm even excited about this day off. I'm just going to have to be awake early so I can help with dinner and there won't even be anything on TV except for stupid parades and football, none of which interest me.
In fact, the only thing that would really interest me is curling up somewhere and reading until I fall asleep.
Fat chance of anything like that happening.
In fact the only thing that is likely to happen on Thursday involves me likely getting fatter!
Grrr.
Which reminds me again how much I miss the metabolism I had in my teens and twenties. I think its horrible that metabolisms can't stay nicely fast at least through your 40s.
~sigh~
Ah well....I'm going to eat drink and be merry! Who gives a fig newton!
This is the thing I hate the most about the holidays. Cleaning the damn house. I don't know why, but it makes me cranky, bitchy and pissy all rolled into one big unpleasant girl.
Cleaning takes up so damn much time. Time that could be spent doing other things. Anything for that matter. I would rather watch paint dry than clean the damn house.
I think that explains the state of our house too.
But I'm so damn sick of every stupid task having to involve me when there are other people living here besides mom, dad and I.
The only thing the nephew does is clean out the litter boxes. And when I say that, I don't mean cleaning the boxes etc, I just mean the task of scooping the poop.
That takes 10 minutes.
I do shopping.
I do cleaning.
I do laundry.
I pay my bills and write the checks for mom and dad now.
Its been a busy day overall today. So much running around. So much eating and a whole lotta fun had by all.
We went to Later for crepes and then Paradox Books which is the most incredible book store in all of Wheeling and there are quite a few book stores in the Wheeling area.
After that we did a bit of shopping @ Target, TJ Maxx and Books A Million, because you can never have enough books, EVER!
By the time we were done there, we had dinner at Indigo Joes, which was damn tasty for a sports bar. I had a steak sandwich and we had onion straws for an appetizer and funnel cake fries with chocolate dipping sauce for dessert.
A little too much food for the day, but I don't really care. It was all yummy.
Oh and at Joe Muggs' I had the most awesome Caramel Apple Latte!
I'm officially in a food coma!
Oh and on non-food related news. I got an awesome bracelet from Istanbul (not Constantinople) for $15. Its uber cute and jingles, which really amuses the hell out of me!
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1. Adam Lambert - For Your Entertainment
If that picture doesn't terrify you, I don't know what would!
2. King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
This cover gives me nightmares!!
3. John Lennon & Yoko Ono: Two Virgins I wouldn't post this album cover, its too traumatizing. Nekkid Lenonos! Yuk!
4. The Moody Blues - In Search Of The Lost Chord
For a band that is known for gorgeous cover art, this is the one that I like the least, its just creepy looking to me.
5. Bauhaus - In The Flat Field More nekkidness on the cover. That scares me more than anything!!!
1. The exhaust on my car finally went. Bernie is in the car hospital and with any luck she'll be out by Saturday or Monday.
2. Once a year I end up with a cell phone bill from hell. Guess what? That month is now. I about shit a brick when I got a $95 bill. I went over my minutes! Which proves October was a lousy month because I obviously using my cell a lot which I don't normally do. Most of the time I'm under the minutes in my plan.
3. Took my sister for her b-day dinner a day early. Here is epi bar food fail, even though everything was super awesome. 2 lambic beers, 1 micro brew, meat and cheese appetizer and the bratwurst sampler totaled $45. Yikes. I never get b-day dinners like that from her..and I make less money. I fail and am too nice.
Today I have a gyne appointment.
Pardon me while I go hide under a rock. This is one of those really bad weeks and I just want it over. NOW!
Thirteen things I would like to tell people and pets that went before....
To Grandma:
1. No, Grandma, I love you more.
2. Grandma, you are the rock that held our family together, without you we are falling apart.
3. Your house still has your smell. I know this sounds weird, but when you went into my grandma's house, it always had a particular smell about it. A clean, yet totally unique smell. Its going to be two years in April and every time I walk into your house Gram, I expect to see you there.
4. I'm sorry your house isn't clean anymore. Please forgive me. I just don't know what to do with some of your things. I feel like I'm throwing you away when I start cleaning and then I have to stop.
To Purrbee:
5. You are and always will be a nice little dog. I knew you were going to be leaving us soon, but I miss you so much.
6. The floors are quiet without your clip clopping.
To Mutchka:
7. I miss you so much my little Mutchy kitty. There is no etting time now. I loved kitty cat etting time. All the other kitties eat dry food.
8. I always tear up at cans of Friskies Mixed Grill.
To Itchy:
9. Thank you for somehow sending Miss Callie to us. Her and her little ones have brought so much love to our house since you left us.
10. I miss your pick me ups by the hot air register in the kitchen and the piggy back rides you used to take on my back.
To Misty:
11. You left me to soon, baby girl. You were my kitteh. My little angel. I love you so much and miss you. I call Bootsie by your name so often. Misty-fa-cat-or you were a cat in a million.
To Buddah.
12. I hope there are lots of belly rubs for you in heaven kitlet. You were a special boy.
To all of you...
13. There was never enough time to show you all how much I loved you. I hope wherever you all are, Grandma...my kitties and doggies, I hope you know how much you were loved.
With David Tennant's upcoming departure from Doctor Who, I've got to start wondering what will happen to my favorite actor. Will I ever see him again?
Thankfully with him it may be a little easier than the last UK actor I fell in love with.
David has shot a pilot for NBC. Assuming it gets an air date, the US may have cleverly stolen the Doctor!
But he's not the actor I'm wondering about.
I used to love the show Coupling. I've seen a few of the shows some of the other actors and actresses have done since, but what of Richard Coyle who played Jeff Murdoch in the first 3 series? I know he departed the show without much love between him and Steve Moffatt. The last I heard he was in the film Libertine with Johnny Depp and that was about it.
I adored him.
I would love to see something he's been in since he left Coupling.
Richard, where are you?
And if you were a more responsible guy, you would have made a better Doctor Who. Probably better than the young guy I like to call Intern Who, because he doesn't look old enough to be a doctor!
Every Saturday morning I miss cartoons. I know that we have whole channels devoted to the entertainment of kids, but there was something really exciting about waking up on Saturday morning and watching Bugs Bunny, The Flintstones, The Jetsons and a bazillion others.
Now on ABC you get reruns of all the Disney shows that you've seen a million times before. Trust me, I've seen every Hannah Montana, Zack and Cody, and Raven episode that they've made.
I like them, but I have the freaking Disney Channel and I do watch it!
(Yeah I know, I don't have kids either, so I'm doubly goofy)
Give me some cartoons!
The fun kind, like I used to watch when I was a kid, sitting dangerously close to the TV so that I'd wreck my eyes!
Awww well, I guess I just need to watch The Cartoon Network!
This isn't the sad from something bad happening, its the sad from seeing a performer that you love really getting old.
I was @ John Lodge's Blog cos I haven't really been paying much attention to the guys lately and I was scrolling down, grumbling at the fact that they are playing Lancaster @ the end of March, which is still in my hibernation time of year, and just catching up with what has been going on when I saw this picture.
JUSTIN!
What the hell is happening to you!!!!
I want to force him to eat all of John's b-day cake! Possibly a few cheeseburgers too.
Yes, we still have a coal furnace which really saves a lot of money on heating bills. I know that in a few years this isn't going to be something we can keep up. Dad is getting too old, fuck, I'm getting to old, but for now it means heating the house in the winter is under a hundred dollars a month.
Not to shabby.
If only my arms, shoulders and back felt the same way.
Oh and have I mentioned how sweaty and icky feeling I am now?
I haven't?
ARGH!
I just keep thinking that about 50 years ago or so, most everyone kept their houses warm this way.
Perhaps that's why the older generation is a bit fitter than we are now. They didn't just turn a knob to get warmer.
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This week's question ties in with last week's Top 5 musical purchases you regret (or would like to cast aside to the nearest used CD store)
1. Duran Duran - Red Carpet Massacre: I wish I never had spent the money on this piece of crap CD. I also wish I didn't have the little bit of love that I do for the band, because that's what keeps me from swapping this CD out somewhere.
2. There have been a few concert trips this year that I have enjoyed but wish I hadn't made. Again not because I didn't love the concerts but because financially it was very irresponsible at a time when I really shouldn't be that way.
3. Buying all those vinyl albums when I only have one turntable and no means repairing it should anything happen to it. Some of the stuff I have is fairly rare too, but it was a waste of money and still is. I hardly ever use my turntable.
4. Mr. Bloo my first iPod shuffle. He wasn't needed. I have...erm...2 other mp3 players all are functioning. I bought him because he was cute! I'm amazed I've been able to hold back from buying the 16 GB Purple Nano!
5. Posters and pictures that I've bought. Yeah, I've got tons of posters etc and none of them are leftovers from high school. I have The Beatles, The Moody Blues, Oingo Boingo...do I wish I didn't have them? Well since I have no place to hang them, YES!
I'm trying to get used to a new bank. Not by choice but by buyout. Thanks National City for getting caught up in the Sub-prime mortgage crisis. I really appreciated that.
If I had wanted to be a part of PNC, I would have opened an account years ago. Now I'm forced to be part of their family of banks, simply because there aren't many options that are feasible to me or my family.
Now I'm waiting to see how everything transitions as far as payments that are direct debited etc.
I'm not really enjoying this. I hate having to change all the account info on the bills I pay monthly online. I hate that I'm going to need to reorder checks soon.
The mammogram came back good, but only after I had an ultrasound to determine that I have even more cysts in my left boob.
See aren't you glad I share things.
However it was enough to scare the waajeebies out of me, especially when the last time I had to worry about a fibroadenoma that was in my right boob.
ARGH! That's about all I can say.
Cos let me tell you, after sitting in a cold room with your top off waiting for a technician to come and let you know if your ok, you start to lose what little sanity you have and get slap happy, especially when the tech comes in and says they need to do an ultrasound of the left breast and when they do it they pretty much go for one area.
Yeah. I'm not stupid. I know they were looking for something there. Thank the dear lord it was only cysts!
I was very slap happy last night. I'm still a little slap happy now.
At least I don't have to turn my boobs into pancakes for another year. I just have to go to the gyne next week and hopefully all will be good there too.
Hopefully this will be my last TMI post for awhile.
I have to say I'm always nervous when I have to have a test like this done. I've had problems in the last year but everything has been benign, but you always go in wondering, is there something wrong, even if it is a yearly thing.
It's no fun to get your boobies squished.
Can I also add that its no fun to go to these tests alone?
I really wish there was someone that could sit in the waiting room for me, but no. The distance to the office @ Mon Vale Healthplex where I have my screenings done is too far for my dad to walk, so I have to go it alone.
Just a little more for me to be nervous about.
I mean they do give you the results the same day. Which means more nervousness waiting for a radiologist to read your x-ray or whatever it is.
So yeah, I'm a bit twitchy right now.
I can't imagine how I'll be in 20 years when there are more than just the 2 girlie screenings to deal with?
Right now I miss working at places where there were more paid holidays. I would be so freaking happy if I had the one holiday a month that some people get.
Yes, I'm still freaking cranky about losing out on Independence Day this year because of the way the holiday fell.
Grrr.
I'm also sick of having to reserve vacation days for when family members have medical tests done too.
I really just need some time off for me. Lazy time. Time without company, even when its family that I love dearly.
I am so in need of a day off right now. I envy people with sick days too. I have none.
I tend to miss these things the most when I'm feeling pretty lousy. Stupid sinuses. Stupid weather.
Can't read. Can't watch TV. Can't play on the computer without a huge headache coming on.
I've also run out of Nyquil and my Daytime head cold meds.
This is not my day.
So I'm calling it a day, or a night or whatever, and I'm going to bed, before my head explodes all over my monitor, and I don't think anyone would clean that up.
I wish colds, sinus infections, the swine flu or whatever would at least give me 24 hours notice before showing up when I have plans.
Thank god for something resembling Dayquil or I would never have made it through all the stuff I needed to get done today.
We brought up one cabinet from my gram's house for mom today and I took my nieces and my nephew to The Big Barn and Gene And Boots Candy to get some goodies and stuff for the holiday.
At least I got something accomplished. Right now I feel like death warmed over and I still need to do laundry.
There's a certain amount of unfairness to this all
I have a headache the size of Alaska along with Sarah Palin's ego and I just want to curl up in a ball.
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1. My 4 GB Ipod Shuffle. I got mine earlier this year, you know before they came in colors. That kind of pisses me off, but I still love my baby shuffle.
2. My trip to Wheeling to see Deni Bonet in August. She was definitely worth the rental car fee! And the cost of her 3 CDs!
3. Mika - Life In Cartoon Motion: Words cannot express my love for this album. I still need to buy his new one.
4. Speaking of car rental fees. The fee for the car to see The ReBeats in Canton was well worth the money spent. I had such a great time at that show and the band is really awesome. I wish they could get some gigs in PA, so I wouldn't have to make the roadtrip!
5. This is kinda odd, but my tickets to Whose Live, because Jeff and Chip do some pretty awesome singing in the show!
If I'm the only person that frets when going for any test or doctor's visit. I've put on pounds again since July. I'm not happy about it. I'm trying to lose but nothing is working shy of sticking duct tape across my mouth and I've got a doctor's appointment in 2 weeks.
~sigh~
I wish this month weren't so full of tests and girlie tests at that, the worst kind. They all make me nervous and I really don't need to do anything to make me more stressed then usual.
I just wish all of these things didn't have to come up in the same month. You know, so I could balance my stress levels. Keep them at a nice even high point instead of having them spike through the roof.
~bigger sigh~
There are other things I'd rather worry about than medical stuff.
I'm doing pretty good on the book challenge considering how busy I've been. Since mid-October I've read 10 books.
Not to shabby.
I'm trying to figure out how many I can actually get read by Dec 31.
I know I'm not going to hit the 100 book mark, because I didn't jump on the challenge until October.
I'd like to get halfway though and I think that's definitely possible, and with any luck I'll be able to hit 60. I know I've already read 60 books this year but I feel like adding my totals from before I joined the site would be cheating, though I've been told I can.
I have so many books I want to read and so little time to read them. Plus I'm so excited, Holly Tarr, one of my favorite Harlequin Blaze writers has a new Blaze Historical out! I can't wait to read that one.
I really need to spend less time on the computer and more time with my nose in a book.
I was lucky last year when I discovered UK Indie artist Paul Jeffery at the PR company I do reviews for.
I was totally thrilled with his last release and I was even more excited when he asked me to give his new album Dare To Be Different a listen before it even came out.
But for those of you too lazy to do that, you can listen on this awesome widget.
I think people that like Elvis Costello and Joe Jackson will really like his music. The new album Dare To Be Different has a definite Progressive Rock feel to it, 80s Progressive Rock, like Marillion.
If you do like the music, feel free to leave comments over at Mossip. I know Paul will probably check the site and would appreciate some kudos.
I skipped a few week of this one, most because Monday mornings are evil for me. What am I missing this week?
A movie theater in my town.
For a good part of my growing up we had one theater in town, The Coyle Theater. It down by McDonalds in my hamlet of Charleroi On Mon. When I was little there was another theater closer to my end of town. The State. I believe I saw the first Star Wars movie there.
By 1981 both theaters were closed, but a few years later, The Coyle reopened. Not for very long, because the idiot running it the second time around didn't like to spend money on advertising, and you never knew what was playing or the times.
I saw so many movies at The Coyle; Dirty Dancing, The Goonies, ET and so many Disney films.
It was so nice to be able to walk downtown and see a movie. Now the closest theater to me is about 25 miles away in either Washington or West Mifflin. If I'm going to shell out an arm and a leg for movie I like it to be closer to me than that.
They are working to reopen the theater, much like they have in places like Uniontown or Greensburg. Here's an updated story about The Coyle
I just got my mother off to CCD. Now I've got a load of laundry in the washer and I've got to go to the mall to pay a bill and then take Dad for his Sunday dinner.
I hate Sundays.
I hate them almost as much as I hate Saturdays and Fridays.
I'm not a weekend girl anymore.
I seldom get time for myself. Sometimes I just want to freaking be left alone, but no one seems to grasp that.
I'm just sick of feeling like I'm getting nowhere fast. Really fast. Its really getting depressing.
Oh and I have to go to Walmart. Something isn't going to get done, and I think its the bill that will have to wait.
40 something reader of romantic fiction, YA, Paranormal and any other book that might strike my fancy.
Lover of music and photography and travel even if it is only in my local area.
Buddha
1989/? - Nov 2, 2006
Sleep well sweet prince.
Misty
1993 - Dec 16, 2006
Sleep well baby girl
Itchy
199? - July 21, 2008
Sleep well baby, Itch.
1995 - August 27, 2009
Purrbee was a nice little dog. Sleep well sweet prince
1993 - Sept 20, 2009
Mutchka: The Great Mutchcoweeo, he was always looking for food for his piehole.
May 17, 2012 - June 9, 2013
Blinky Mucker: My sweet sweet binky mucker, I love the Blinky Mucker
April 2, 2006 - Aug 29, 2013
Bootsie: Bootsietardalopasaurus, the invisi-cat
2. The Moody Blues - December: How can a Christmas album shape my life?
3. Mika - The Boy Who Knew Too Much
4. Tommy James - Hold The Fire: I discovered this album when I had a huge crush on that damn DJ from The Pickle. The love for this album is probably the only good thing that came out of those 6 months when I was making an ass out of myself. Its good music. If you like the stuff Tommy did in the 60s, you'll like this, plus he did a smashing re-recording of his hit, Sweet Cherry Wine.
5. Gordon Lightfoot - Harmony: Words cannot express the love I developed for Gordon after I heard the song Inspiration Lady from this album. That song along with all the others are fantastic.
I'm about halfway through Stephen Baxter's Emperor right now. I believe I've said it before, but this isn't really my kind of book to read, but then again, neither was the Einstein biography I read awhile back, and I ended up enjoying it.
Itchy
199? - July 21, 2008
1995 - August 27, 2009
1993 - Sept 20, 2009
