It took a little more than a click of the ruby red slippers, but I'm HOME...







I love it!!! "A Gaultier purple faux-leather vest, a straight-out-of-International-Male purple mesh shirt, black jeans and shoes." And get a load of that caption under the convertible date picture: "It's Earring Magic driving with Secret Hearts, who is wearing a wrist corsage." Earring Magic & Secret Hearts... The pink ruffles on the passenger's shirt sleeve... A WRIST CORSAGE!!! There is a gay-Ken movement!!! Who knew!? I mean, it's always been obvious, but how fucking funny!!! Oh my God, I'm peeing..."On closer inspection, Ken's entire Earring Magic outfit looks like three-year old rave wear. A Gaultier purple faux-leather vest, a straight-out-of-International-Male purple mesh shirt, black jeans and shoes. It would seem Mattel's crack Ken redesign team spent a weekend in LA or NY, dashing from rave to rave, taking notes and polaroids."
Then, Jon had the gall -- the gall! -- to make me be somewhat productive yesterday! We made the requisite trip to Lowe's (every man's wet dream) & then we stained my adirondack chairs... something I've been wanting to do for, oh, 5 or 6 years now. I'm just a tiny bit of a procrastinator, huh? We also pulled up the pansy bed/Indian burial mound we planted this past winter (sniff, sniff) so that it can fill in w/ grass. It's in one of those places whose location makes absolutely no sense -- so away it shall go! Not sure who made that brilliant call when the landscaping was first being done... And of course, once again, Jon did most of the work while I pitifully weeded my flowerbeds & took pointless pictures like the one at left...
I was sick for the last 2 days of the work week last week (I went in for about 2 hrs. on Fri., hardly anything to write home about) so I have a lot of goodies to catch up on as well as the stuff I already needed to do (important to mention it's all hurried a bit anyway b/c of the upcoming jaunt to Prague -- I'm already out a week there.)... plus a doctor's appointment... plus a dentist appointment... plus packing... lots of fun stuff. Ha, ha.
Anyway... here's a bit of pop culture for you before I leave for an appointment:
Anyway... last night while I was taking pictures of the horses, a family gathering sort of popped up out of nowhere. One minute I'm alone, the next I'm w/ my aunt & grandmother & look to see my parents heading over to the barn, too -- my dad carrying his requisite bourbon & coke (priorities, priorities) & my mom with her bird, Tallulah (see right)... It was such a pretty evening, it was hard to pack it in & go back inside (see picture of the moon below)... but the damn mosquitoes made it a bit easier!!!
ION... D12's Proof was shot & killed early this a.m. He served as best man in Eminem's wedding just a couple months back (yeah, the one that is dissintegrating -- again) and played a murder victim in one of Em's videos. If that's not foreshadowing, well, then I don't know what is...
Gas prices are set to go even higher this summer!!!??? I'm thinking about just moving in at work to eliminate that pesky "driving to & from work" aspect of a job (plus, that would mean a few extra minutes of sleep, right?). At this rate, I can't afford to be employed!!! Okay, so that's a lie, but still...
MUNICH (Reuters) - A supermarket worker's discovery of 20 kilograms (44 lb) of cocaine hidden in a case of fruit had German police going bananas. Surprise!!!
Queen Trivia (no, not me... that other queen, QE2): she's given out 78,000 Christmas puddings over the years & I never got a single one (even though I have no idea what a "Christmas pudding" is -- it sounds British & gross), her real birthday is in April but they celebrate it in June (oh, okay, b/c that makes no sense at all?), she first travelled on the London Underground in 1939 with the {gasp!} commoners, etc.
Okay, gotta run... the phone is ringing my ear off & making my blood pressure sky-rocket... grrr...
The frog is still around -- I was sitting outside the other afternoon & when I took a peek at my plant, I could see the little face to the left staring back at me... My backyard is just flourishing with all kinds of animals -- birds, squirrels, frogs, lightning bugs, raccoons, dogs, etc. It's a jungle out there. Especially if you take into account all of the weeds that have popped up!!! The picture above shows 2 male cardinals literally having a "stand-off" over my bird seed (you might have to look closely). Just another day in the neighborhood, I guess...
Speaking of "cardinals", that reminds me of a very random story. Back in elementary school, my friends & I played w/ Barbies. However, our Barbies didn't have "dream houses" or stuff like that. Instead, they got murdered, had affairs, whatever... It was more true-to-life (blame too much unsupervised Skinemax & HBO) than pretty & pink. Anyway, one of my friends, Leah, decided to give one of her Barbies a haircut & proceeded to shape it into a mohawk, a la' Maddox Jolie-Pitt -- which looked much like the little crest on top of our cockatoo's head. Or, as Leah saw it, like on the head of a cardinal. Thus, the doll was dubbed "Barbie Cardinal". The fact that I found that so funny probably explains a lot...
Anyway... I had a nice weekend, despite the fact that my trip to Texas (horse show) had to be cancelled b/c of timing issues... We ended up going to the annual Crawfish Boil @ the Hungry Heifer (restaurant here in town) on Saturday -- lots of pullin' tails, suckin' heads, & drinkin' beer. Can't beat that with a stick! A good time was had by all (@ least, as far as I am aware)... Some of you may recognize the guy in the middle in the pic above right from "Anatomy of a Fall" here & here... [Yep, I did it, I called you out again, Matt!!! C'mon, you know you like it...]
* If anyone watched "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" last night, I'm excited to report that my friend Molly's husband, Sean, works for Fieldstone & was one of the guys working on the Craft Family's house -- we got several glimpses of him throughout the show... They did an awesome job & I just wanted to say congrats!!! (Molly & Sean's wedding in December was recounted here)...
Quote of the Day: "It's not that I like to cuss -- I just like to use the word 'fuck' a lot."