Sunday, December 30, 2007

clumsy

altho reep's sister took them to the airport when they left, i was to pick him and his dad up when they came home. so the plan was this, on thursday get to rip's house by 2pm and pick up his sister and drive to the airport. at around 1.50pm thursday i'm in my bathroom upstairs checking myself out one last time when i hear the street cleaning vehicle in the block before mine (i forgot they came on thursdays). i run down stairs wit my purse under my right arm and a book in my left hand. i push the garage door button as i run past and duck under the opening door to continue down the driveway. suddenly i fall.  completely.  i slide a couple inches, spread eagle, down the driveway. it f*cking hurts. i can't remember that last time i fell down. i've stumbled, of course. but fallen? no idea. i'm still thinking it hurts, when i look up and see the damn street sweeper starting down my block. i jump up, run to the car, and drive it into the garage.

i turn off the engine and radio and hear a really loud static noise (i think it's the street sweeper). i want to cry but can't. shock i guess. i check the time and realize that oh crap it's very nearly 2pm and i'm late. i run back in the house and up the stairs to my bathroom, blacking in and out all the way. roll up my pant legs, clean off my knees, slap on a bandaid, realize that the loud static noise is in my head, and check my right hip. it's bleeding. sorta badly. i clean it off a little, grab a few more bandaids, and run out the house.

i get to the car, empty the trunk and spot my chapstick on the driveway. i walk over and see that next to it is a two inch smear of my skin and blood on the stupid driveway. i am angry. i drive to reep's house.

as i'm waiting for his sister to come down. i carefully check my wounds. left knee: fine; no broken skin, but will be bruised. right knee: not so fine; dime sized abrasion on the outside bone. palms and knuckles: good; very slight nicks, only one tiny spot of blood. right hip: not fine; larger semi deep abrasion right on bone, one bandaid definitely not enough, actually bleeding (small drops). shoulders, face, everything else good. purse: good. book: not good. when i fell it opened up and it scraped against the driveway. actually have a largeish hole in a page, and small section of next page is also unreadable. many pages are bent and dirty. i just got this book for christmas! title? "stumbling on happiness" (btw, when i got the book, we all joked about the title and how fitting it was for me because i'm kind of a klutz.)

the day after i realize the full extent of my injuries. (will eventually post pictures) left knee has two rather angry bruises. right knee also bruised. bad place to get cut too, on the bone most protruding, so every time you walk it rubs against your pants (good thing it's winter!), so i'm limping a lot. hip, not bruised at all, but really rather deep scrape because it was right on the bone. and my left shoulder is actually bruised. there's no discoloration but it does ache.


reason for falling: i dunno. could be anything. 1) blacked out from when running from dark place (garage) into sunlight. 2) slipped on dusty driveway (they've been doing construction on my street, there is dirt and dust everywhere) 3) lost balance when ducking under door 4) i'm a clumsy fool.   i think it's a bit of everything. but i definitely did not trip. and btw, i think it was esp bad because i had no time to recover. i fell and had to get right back up again, which is why i think i had that crazy static noise in my head, which did eventually go away (after about 10 minutes). it was weird. anyway.

no moral of the story. :(

Saturday, December 29, 2007

big noser

pick your nose cups!

in sound mind

+--------------------- Bizarre Wills ----------------------+  
  
Ms. Eleanor Ritchey, the unmarried granddaughter of the founder of Quaker State Oil, died in 1968 with an estate worth around $12 million. According to Scott Bieber in Trusts and Estates magazine: "Under her will, she left over 1,700 pairs of shoes and 1,200 boxes of stationery to the Salvation Army. The rest of the estate went to the dogs." Real dogs, he means - a pack of 150 strays that Ritchey had adopted as pets.  
  
When American patriot Patrick Henry died, everything he owned was left to his wife - as long as she never married again. If she did, he forfeited the whole thing. "It would make me unhappy," he explained, "to feel I have worked all my life only to support another man's wife!" She remarried anyway.  

Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Treasure Island, tried to leave his birthday. He willed it to a good friend who'd complained that since she was born on Christmas, she never got to have a real birthday celebration.  

An attorney in France left $10,000 to "a local madhouse." The gentleman declared that "it was simply an act of restitution to his clients."  

An Australian named Francis R. Lord left one shilling to his wife "for tram fare so she can go somewhere and drown herself." The inheritance was never claimed.  

Sandra West, a wealthy 37-year-old Beverly Hills socialite, left most of her $3 million estate to her brother - provided he made sure she was buried "in my lace nightgown and my Ferrari, with the seat slanted comfortably." That's how she was buried. The Ferrari was surrounded with concrete so no one would be tempted to dig it up and drive away.  

A woman in Cherokee County, North Carolina left her entire estate to God. The court instructed the county sheriff to find the beneficiary. A few days later, the sheriff returned and submitted his report: "After due and diligent search, God cannot be found in this county."  

Edgar Bergen, famed ventriloquist, left $10,000 to the Actor's Fund of America - so they could take care of his dummy, Charlie McCarthy, and put him in a show once a year. They went along with it. 

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

santa?

i returned something at the store today and altho i used a credit card to purchase it, i got cash back (weird). anyway, i didn't lookit the money until i got home. the brand new $1 bill seemed a bit thick so i checked again and it was actually two $1 bills stuck together. too bad it wasn't a $20!, i first thought. but actually i would most likely go back and return the money if it was a 20. i'd probably go back if it was a $10 too. anything under $5 and i'd most likely keep (i'm keeping the extra $1).
wat about you? at wat point would you take the money back?

shiny

this season's party dress is all about the sequins.

my picks for "cheap": the wrap dress and the tshirt dress. wit that much shine you might want to stick to a simpler style.

and my picks for pricy: the pleated neck and the halter. go for something classic, for that much money you should pick something that might last you a while.

absolute favorite: ruffled sequin dress. i'm in love!

aids immunity

i only recently (around two months ago) found out that some people are acutally immune to aids! (did you kno about this? cause my dad knew about it too) here's a pretty good article about the possible orgins of the immunity.

"Then there's the prospect that people will use genetic testing as a ticket to a carefree sex life. If you're naturally resistant to AIDS, why not dump the condoms and add a few notches to your bedpost?"

i have some problems wit the above quotation. would many people really do that? cause there's a lot more to worry about than just aids. and while most stds won't kill you, some will. ...of course, it seems like tons of people are too stupid to worry about diseases and pregnancies... but i feel like if they're not worried about the other stuff, they won't worry much about aids either.

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Tuesday, December 18, 2007

boy meets girl

it's so romantic! guy sees girl in the subway, draws her up, and tracks her down.

(link stolen from angie. lol, thanks!)

yipee!!

ohmygawds reep called me this morning! yay o yay o yay! haha. :) i was so sad all week. he emailed when he first got there and hasn't checked his email since. i sorta thought that since he emailed that first time, he'd maybe have reliable internet availability. ...guess not. and i wasn't expecting a call at all actually. hopefully just some emails and a postcard after he got back? actually, last night i got a message from his sister. appt she got a message from his cousin from rip to tell me that he was doing fine. so i wasn't really expecting to hear much from him again, hoping yes, but not expecting because if he couldn't even email me... but he called!! amazing! haha! usually i'm the one who hangs up the phone but this time i couldn't. :( i didn't want to say goodbye so i told him to hang up instead. and each time he couldn't really either (or wouldn't, lol, after a few faux goodbyes he said that he wanted me to hang up so he could check how much time he had left on the phone card), and he would start talking again about something else. :) hehe! i'm so happy! haha! only a week and a half to go! yay! there's acutally a bunch of other stuff that he said that made me really happy but i won't get into that online but suffice it to say that he's been trying to be able to contact me. :)

...you kno wat i just remembered? i called him while i was in australia. i wore out two phone cards. this was from before we were even going out. we were just really good friends but he was the only one i called (besides my rents). jeebus. to this day i don't think i liked him at the time; but just thinking back on all the things i did... it's incredible. i must've been sooo blind as to think that i'd never date him. lol, everyone knew it but me.

Saturday, December 15, 2007

no longer lost

you kno that last scene in lost in translation where bill murray's character whispers something to scarlett and you can't hear wat he says? even sophia coppola (the director) doesn't kno. but now you can!

too fat to fly?

LONDON - A British man forced to shed pounds so he could emigrate to New Zealand is hoping his overweight wife can do the same in time for Christmas. Richie Trezise was originally rejected by New Zealand because his body mass index of 42 meant he was morbidly obese, The Daily Telegraph reported Monday. Trezise, a submarine cable specialist, went on a crash diet and shed two inches from his waist, enough to meed immigration requirements. "My doctor laughed at me," Trezise said. " He said he'd never seen anything more ridiculous in his whole life. He said not every overweight person is unhealthy or unfit." Though New Zealand is critically short of skilled workers, a government spokeswoman says it cannot afford to import anyone who might be a significant drain on its health resources. Trezise was recruited to supervise the Southern Cross Cable that links New Zealand with Australia and the west coast of the United States. He says if his wife, Rowan, fails to lose enough weight, he'll return to England and forget about emigrating. Any BMI above 35 is considered obese. The report did not give the couple's weights.  

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

au natural

christine j brandt has some of the most amazing jewelry! you need to check out the bridal collection. incredible! (and that model for the necklaces and rings aint half bad either.)

tattoo!

as someone who has a tattoo, i don't really wanna criticize anyone who has one, and yet... wat does one say to the chess guy, or mr cool ice, or skull face guy?!

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

symmetry

reep's only been gone for a couple days and i've been walking around feeling empty ever since. i don't kno wat the problem is; he's coming back in two weeks! and i leave him all the time. well, no. actually, this year he's taken more trips than i have. but they were all in the states so he always had his phone wit him (not that he called every day...). but me. when we first started going out i would leave every summer for at least two weeks. and this was before we had cell phones. and just two summers ago i was away for two months! (altho i called and emailed when i could. and sent postcards nearly every week). bah. it's just so much harder when you're the one being left, you kno? lol, how selfish! but i honestly don't understand how people do long distance relationships. maybe i've just been spoiled is all. bah.

mosaics

interesting mosaic artwork. (thanks to ting for the link!)

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lincoln

+------------- Bizarre Abraham Lincoln Facts --------------+  

During the 1860 Republican National Convention, his campaign managers forged convention passes in order to pack the galleries with Lincoln supporters, shutting out hundreds of his opponent's supporters in the process.  

Lincoln hated being called "Abe" - friends called him Lincoln.  

Although Lincoln's voice is often portrayed in movies as being deep and booming, his actual voice was high-pitched, piercing and shrill.  

Lincoln wasn't always honest: After one trip to Springfield, Illinois, he filed for compensation for the 3,252 miles he claimed to have traveled. The actual length of  the trip was 1,800 miles.  

He really did carry important documents in his stovepipe hat.  

About a week before his assassination, Lincoln had a dream in which he "awoke" to the sound of sobbing and went to the East Room of the White House - which had been prepared for a funeral. When he asked a guard who had died, he replied: "The President."

Thursday, November 29, 2007

un-re-rape

how to rape and get away wit it. it's crazy sad but oh so true... something similarish happened to someone i used to know. she woke up next to some guy and couldn't remember anything that had happened the night before (except that she knew they had sex), and so she had sex wit him again. i can't remember wat i thought of it at the time. but i think even then i could kind of see why she slept wit him again. of course, i didn't so fully form the thought as "to regain some her power."         :(

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

like spagetti

and you thought only cats got hairballs...

snowboarding heels

i'm sorry, i'm actually trying hard to not make this site all about fashion and shopping. but since that's wat i love... in any case. these balenciaga shoes (#16) are genius! i love love love them! they totally remind me of snowboarding. altho at over $4k a pair i think i'd rather buy me a full set of snowboarding gear and head the alps for a couple weeks.

Monday, November 26, 2007

bad cow!

"A Michigan couple are happy to be alive after a cow fell from a 200-foot cliff and landed on top of their minivan outside Manson, Wash.  

"Charles Everson Jr., 49, of Westland, Mich., said he never saw the incoming animal until it landed squarely on the minivan as he and his wife Linda traveled along Highway 150.  

""It was just 'bam' -- you just saw something come down and hit the hood," he said of Sunday's accident. "I'm like, 'I don't believe this. I don't believe this..'"  

"County Fire Chief Arnold Baker said the cow, which he estimated at nearly 600 pounds, had been reported missing by a local breeder.  

"Whatever caused the animal to hurdle off the cliff remains a mystery, but Baker commented the couple was lucky to escape with only a heavily-damaged vehicle.  

""It's funny because it was such a close call," Baker said. "Inches different and the couple in this car would have been killed.""

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wake up

reep's starting full time work romrow as a programmer for parasoft in monrovia. yay for him! and while i am sad that we'll be spending less time together (on average we see each other maybe three times a week? for maybe... 12 hours total?) i'm rather relieved that he's starting real work. all we ever really do together is dick around. i mean, sure it's fun watching movies and playing video games but it's not at all productive. wit him working, hopefully i'll get serious about my life too (i naturally tend towards sloth). lord knows it's about time...

Sunday, November 25, 2007

smell it!

want to kno if your boyfriend is cheating on you? just go smell his dick! lol!! it actually sounds pretty foolproof. i mean, if it smells like some other girl, well, you have your answer. but if it constantly smells like soap, but if he didn't just shower, you also kno something is up. genius!

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

teeth

haha! i need to see this movie! it's called teeth (go watch the clip!) and it's about a lady who has teeth in her coochie! better yet, it bites off mens' thingers! haha! awesome!

Sunday, November 18, 2007

bizarre coincidences

+----------------- Bizarre Coincidences -------------------+  
  
A distraught architect threw himself in front of a train in the London Underground in a suicide attempt. Luckily, the train stopped inches from his body; in fact, it had to be jacked off its tracks to allow his removal. When questioned, however, the driver informed officials he hadn't stopped the  train. An investigation revealed that one of the passengers, unaware of the suicide attempt, had independently pulled the emergency brake. London Transport officials considered prosecuting the passenger for illegal use of the emergency brake but ultimately decided against it.  

George D. Bryson, a businessman from Connecticut, decided to change his travel plans and stop in Louisville, Kentucky, a place he'd never visited before. He went to a local hotel and made preparations to check into Room 307. Before he could do so, a hotel employee handed him a letter addressed to his exact name. It turned out the previous occupant of Room 307 was another George D. Bryson.  

One three separate occasions - in the years 1664, 1785, and 1860 - there was a shipwreck in which only one person survived the accident. Each time that one person was named Hugh Williams.  

In 1983, a woman told British Rail authorities about a disturbing vision she had of a fatal train crash involving an engine with the numbers 47 216. Two years later, a train had a fatal accident, similar to the one the woman had described. The engine number, however, was 47 299. Later, someone noticed that the number had previously been changed by nervous British Rail officials. The original number: 47 216.  

Several secret code words were devised by Allied military commanders during their preparations to invade Normandy in World War II. Among them: "Utah," "Neptune," "Mulberry," "Omaha," and "Overlord." Before the invasion could begin, however, all of these words appeared in a crossword puzzle in the London Daily Telegraph. After interrogating the puzzle's author, an English school teacher, authorities became convinced that it was sheer, inexplicable coincidence.

Thursday, November 15, 2007

mallmates

when i was a kid i had fantasies of living at the mall. but even then i was pretty practical and realized that no, that would be too hard because all the stores are locked up at night. i decided that it would be better to live in a superstore of sorts, a fedco maybe (remember those?), because i could very easily mooch off of the store.

now, michael townsend is someone who really did live in a mall. for about four years. ...for reals. he was cool tho. they didn't steal stuff like i would've. but here is a link to the story and if you've got the time (50 mintues), listen to the mp3 of the radio show where he explains stuff. pretty damn worth the time.

thanks to robert for the links! hilarious and incredible!

parables

a couple stories i've picked up from class:

1. confucius was walking around china wit some buddies when they came across a lady who was sobbing. they asked her wat was wrong. "my husband was eaten by a tiger!" oh jesus that's terrible!, they replied. "well, it's actually worse than that; last year my son was eaten by the same tiger!" "...wtf is wrong wit you?! why didn't you move away after it happened the first time?!" to which she replied "there is no oppressive government here." confucius turns to his buddies and says "remember that: an oppressive government is worse than a man eating tiger."

2. two monks were walking around (china again?). as they approached a muddy road they noticed a girl. she was sorta mincing around cause she didn't wanna get dirty so one of the monks gave her a piggy back ride to the clean part of the road. later, back at the monastery, the other monk says "you kno we as monks aren't supposed to touch women, right?" the other monk looks at him in surprise "you're still carrying her? i put her down hours ago!"    [haha! but seriously, get it? the spirit of the law, or to the letter?]

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

h20

water conservation is important, duh. below are some tips to conserve (i do these!):
 
use a spray bottle - if you wash your face without a wash cloth (ie, you splash water on your face), to initially wet your face, use a spray bottle to spritz yourself rather than running the tap.
 
turn it off - when lathering up in the shower (or when washing your face, etc) turn off the tap. lots of shower heads have a stopper thing that stops the water flow without you actually turning it off.
 
wait a bit - soap and lather your hands first before turning on the tap. most liquid soaps will lather without water.
 
water at night - most plants need more than just a surface watering; soil needs to be saturated. if you water during the day a lot of the water will evaporate before your lawn gets to use it.
 
reuse water - when washing fruits and veggies, place a pot or whatever underneath to catch the "dirty" water and then use it to water your garden or household plants.
 
fill it up - run the dishwasher or washing machine only when full. (duh!)
 
if you've got any tips yourself, please comment!

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

trivia

+-------------------- Bizarre Product ---------------------+  

In 4000 BC Egypt, men and women wore glitter eye shadow made from the crushed shells of beetles.  

In M&M candies, the letters stand for Mars and Murrie, the developers of the candy in 1941.  

In the 1700s, European women achieved a pale complexion by eating "Arsenic Complexion Wafers" actually made with the poison.  

Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during W.W.I.  

Most American car horns honk in the key of F.  

Most lipstick contains fish scales.  

The condom - made originally of linen - was invented in the early 1500's.

Monday, November 12, 2007

sports

lol, way to perpetuate the stereotype, duuude! (thanks to reep for the link)

and for the football fans, the trinity lateral miracle.

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

youtube

finally got me a youtube account (can facespace be far behind? [well, yes! it can be!!!]). i've actually been meaning to get one... have some random videos and stuff... anyway, don't expect to see much. most likely just a jumbled mess of things. and i don't think i'll be posting up too much of friends of people. would like to keep it semi private-ish but wit public access? we'll see. :)

Thursday, November 1, 2007

no sex!


not the best written article ever, but i do agree wit its message; for most females, young girls included, halloween has become all sex and no scare. i'm not going to lecture about this (i think i talked about the oversexification of halloween for the last two years) but i did find this song by jill sobule which i think is pretty damn funny: women whose costume is just that they're slutty.

btw, i went to a costume party earlier this month and do (somewhere) have pictures of my costume. i'll post it when i get them. :)

update: picture. obvoiusly. more on my flickr.

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

halloween!

BAD SEGEBERG, Germany - Police investigating reports of a corpse on a German train near the town of Bad Segeberg said the reported body was actually a drunken man dressed as a zombie. The Halloween reveler had fallen into a drunken sleep on the train ride home from a party in Hamburg, and his gore-covered zombie costume was mistaken by fellow passengers for a bloody corpse, Sky News reported Tuesday. Police were called when passengers couldn't get a response from the man but a first aid team quickly determined that the man wasn't dead, merely sleeping. The police told him to remove his apparently realistic makeup and he was allowed to continue his train ride home. "Bad Segeberg is in a rural area and Halloween isn't very well known there," police spokeswoman Sikle Tobies told Sky News. "So people weren't expecting anyone to be dressed up in the train."  

Monday, October 22, 2007

lyrics

natasha bedingfield - soulmate

 

incompatible, it don't matter though
cause someone's bound to hear my cry
speak out if you do
you're not easy to find

is it possible mr. loveable
is already in my life?
right in front of me
or maybe you're in disguise

who doesn't long for someone to hold
who knows how to love you without being told
somebody tell me why i'm on my own
if there's a soulmate for everyone

here we are again, circles never end
how do i find the perfect fit
there's enough for everyone
but i'm still waiting in line

who doesn't long for someone to hold
who knows how to love you without being told
somebody tell me why i'm on my own
if there's a soulmate for everyone

if there's a soulmate for everyone

most relationships seem so transitory
they're all good but not the permanent one

who doesn't long for someone to hold
who knows how to love you without being told
somebody tell me why i'm on my own
if there's a soulmate for everyone

who doesn't long for someone to hold
who knows how to love you without being told
somebody tell me why i'm on my own
if there's a soulmate for everyone
if there's a soulmate for everyone

bizarre buildings

+------------------- Bizarre Buildings --------------------+  

The Ice Hotel at Jukkasjarvi, Swedish Lapland, offers the ultimate in cold comfort - a building constructed out of ice where the average room temperature is minus four degrees centigrade. The beds are made from packed snow topped with spruce boughs and reindeer skins. The hotel melts every April and has to be rebuilt the following winter.  

The six-story Elephant Hotel at Margate, New Jersey, is in the shape of a huge elephant, complete with trunk and tusks. It was built in 1881 by James V. Lafferty as a realestate promotion. The 65ft-high concrete elephant, named Lucy, was used as a tavern before being converted into a hotel. The reception area is in her hind legs and a staircase in each leg leads up to the main rooms.  

The Pineapple Lodge stands in Dunmore Park, Central Scotland. The lower part of the building is an ordinary octagonal tower but from the tops of the columns sprout stone, spiky leaves, transforming it into a 53ft-high pineapple. It was built in 1761 at the request of the Fourth Earl of Dunmore for reasons known only to himself.  
Sir Thomas Tresham was obsessed with the power of numbers and in 1597 ordered the building of a triangular lodge at  Rushton, Northamptonshire, in which everything relates to the number three - a homage to the Trinity. It has three sides, each of which measures 33ft, three gables on each side, three stories and triangular or hexagonal rooms decorated with trefoils or triangles in groups of three. All of the Latin inscriptions have 33 letters.  

The Crocodile Hotel near Ayers Rock in the heart of the Australian outback is a building complex in the shape of a crocodile. The 'eyes' protrude from the reception area, the rooms run along the 'body' to the 'tail' and the hotel swimming pool is located in the creature's 'alimentary canal.'

audrey kawasaki

audrey kawasaki. she paints the most beautiful art on wood and lets the lines show thru. recalls art nouveau (which i've recently fallen in love wit). beautiful

Sunday, October 21, 2007

wave

pictures of turbulence, which i found while looking for a desktop of katsushika hokusai's the great wave off kanagawa (which is the third picture down). but really, be sure to check out section 2. the pictures of the clouds and smoke are amazing!
and as an aside to "the great wave off kanagawa" check out "the great monkey wave". i think i've seen a version wit bunnies before too...

minesweeper

how to unlock a hidden minesweeper mode. not sure if it works, but if it does, let me kno.

Friday, October 19, 2007

feminism

why do otherwise normal females refuse to go dutch? maybe because they're male chauvinists? cause guess wat, feminists make better lovers!

(i usually try to pay reep back some money. but sometimes when we go out to nice dinner one of us will treat the other, depending on the occasion. i think for first dates tho, whoever does the asking should to the paying. and in the future, whoever makes more money should also pay more, if only because they can afford to do so [as long as their partner doesn't try to take advantage].)

(and that feminists make better lovers is pretty damn obvious to me. to stereotype: they're usually willing to put in more work, as less work themselves, and have more realistic standards of men.)

googly

most googled words, by the top three countries. americans appt need to kno about botox, car bombs, and marijuana. (go thru the pictures to find more)

Thursday, October 18, 2007

clutch

i've never much liked clutches, but this one is beautiful. and it has a chain so it can be a real purse!

fashionable?

"Thought you might like to do a little public  
service announcement for all those "cool people" who wear  
the saggin' pants.  I figure they might not want to wear  
their trousers like that if they knew why prisoners wore  
their pants so low.  This straight from several friends  
who work for Corrections in California.  In order to  
show that one was afraid of prison and other inmates and  
one wanted  protection and/or affection, sagging pants  
announced one was willing to be someone's wife (aka butt  
buddy) in exchange for same.  I guess the jokes on them."

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Monday, October 15, 2007

leftie, rightie

a test to see if you're left or right brained (or both!)

(thanks to ting for the link)

the english patient

made from only the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields and Marta Sebestyen songs' titles of 'the english patient' soundtrack. capitals usually denote start if new title.

The English Patient


Rupert Bear, Read me to sleep

Hana's Curse?
   Black Nights; A Retreat; Ask your saint who he's killed!

-Why, Picton?

Lullaby for Katharine?

Let me tell you about winds As far as Florence
I'll be back, I'll Always go back, to that church, Convento di Santa Anna

-Am I K in your book?

What else do you love?

Herodotus, Kip's lights, The cave of swimmers...

Let me come in, Swoon, I'll catch you

Szerelem, Szerelem, Rupert Bear, Szerelem, Szerelem

leftie, rightie

a test to see if you're left or right brained (or both!)

(thanks to ting for the link)

Sunday, October 14, 2007

jags

i've been a bit depressed lately. some time late september marked the start of reep's and my eigth year together. incredible, isn't it? but wit all the weddings, proposals, and happy couples going around, i started to (again) wonder just wat it is we're doing together (as in, wat's the purpose?). last week i posted up some pictures of us on my flickr. even as i writing the captions, i thought they were a bit... reminiscent (the captions, that is)... as if i was looking back on something i no longer had. tonight i went thru and took down quite a few pictures of us or him. [i actually have something to say about that, but i've never said anything to him.] i guess... silly me, i keep expecting him to change somehow. but not so much me changing him. as i just wish he would change on his own. of course, hopefully those changes would be to my liking. but... eight years is a long time to wait, no?

a couple months ago we were talking and he said that he thinks we're "good/normal" for people who've been together for as long as we have. i told my mom tonight that lately i haven't been too happy wit reep. she said that that's wat happens to a lot of couples who've been together for so long. i asked her "wat about marriage then?" she replied "well, divorces are such a hassle, and the kids..." wat?! she quickly said that no, she wasn't talking about her own marriage (and yes, i do believe her).

we had a bit of a fight today. but from even a couple days ago things were a little strained. something from our past has come up again. and i just feel like... why are we still covering the same bases? i haven't really said anything. he knows that i feel uncomfortable wit the whole situation. but he, as he is usually does, refuses to really and fully assure me that things will be okay. i kno that i should probably say something but i feel like... it was such a long time ago. i do need to get over this by myself [and that's also me, always thinking that i need to do things myself. and knowing that since i can't change others, if anyone is to change, it'll have to be. ...i do feel like sometimes i get taken advantage of, because the way i am]. and of course, i'm scared that he'll say something horribly inappropriate again. a friend of mine said that they thought i was justified in feeling the way i do, and also for not making a deal of this, but that still, they hoped he would be on his best behavior. i have my worries tho, that he won't. and wat will i do then?

friends are a great comfort. but they, naturally, have their own lives. i think that's why so many people want to be in a relationship. your partner is supposed to, in some ways, anyway, value you more than they value themselves.     i may never get married, but that does not mean i want to spend my life alone.     i cycle thru periods of depression. they're not serious. i'm in one right now. i get restless and lonely (i normally cherish my time alone).   i think i might go to the beach tomorrow.


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mintage

i love the new nickels, but the new pennies? yuck! ...will still collect them tho.

my baby's hot!

from psychology today: "A study of children with two types of brain cancer showed that their dads were more than twice as likely to have used a hot tub, sauna, or electric blanket less than three months before conception. Want to add to the gene pool? Stay in the kiddie pool."

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Thursday, September 27, 2007

just stfu

"Angelina Jolie blasted the U.S. over Iraq, insisting the government's war expenditure could be better spent on education. Angelina spoke out at the Clinton Global Initiative, an event organized by Bill Clinton to address the most pressing global concerns. Urging the world to get its "priorities in order", she claimed a UNICEF appeal for educational needs was dwarfed by America's military spending."

angelina jolie and daughter zaraha have matching handbags. appt cost of said valentino handbag for 2 year-old zahara? $1150.

for some perspective on how much $1150 is: at $6.50 an hour, 40 hours a week, 4.5 weeks a month; the total comes out to $1170. so yay! you have $20 left over. oh wait... only if you bought it duty free.

women & racists

makeup-eating face (that's right! not face-eating makeup!)

wheel of fortune visits south park (video)

chinese granddaughter as pincushion (thanks to ting for the link!)

space bombs

this caught my attention, probably because my dad's in peru right now: meteorite in peru making people sick! scientists are now saying it was probably just mass hysteria: that people went crazy with fear and physically manifested their own sickness.

when i first heard of the illnesses i had major doubts it actually came from the meteorite itself. when a meteor comes into our atmosphere the temperature heats up enormously so it wouldn't be very likely that any bacteria or viruses could survive. ...of course, it might have been some type of special space bacteria. after all, we only know wat happens here on earth: that illnesses are always caused by living bacteria/viruses (or watever) and that normal earth organisms die in super high temperatures. and maybe space stuff might be different. maybe it thrives in super hot environments. or maybe the dead stuff still infects? or simply, maybe not all of it was killed. but anyway, i'm glad that the people aren't really sick. altho it seems a little... unmodern(?) that people would have such a huge fear of these space rocks falling out of the sky... ...maybe i'm just being elitist...

papercuts

su blackwell's art is amazing! she cut pages from vintage books and makes them into art. absolutely incredible.

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

mintage

i love the new nickels, but the new pennies? yuck! ...will still collect them tho.

no preggo!

+----------- Bizarre Methods of Contraception -------------+  
  
Back in 23-70 AD, Roman nobleman Pliny the Elder believed that if you took two small worms from the body of a certain species of spider and attached them -- wrapped in deer skin, mind you -- to a woman's body before sunrise, she would not conceive.  

It was believed in ancient times that if a woman spat three times into a frog's mouth she would not conceive for a year.  

Supposedly, a pebble clasped in the hand during coitus would also stop conception.  

St. Albert the Great (1193-1280) advised women to eat bees as an effective contraception procedure.  

Aetios of Amida (fl. 527-565) suggested that a man should wash his penis in vinegar or brine before having sex and that a woman should wear a cat's testicle in a tube across her navel to avoid contraception.

free ebooks

free books! ebooks anyway. :) (thank robert for the link)


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Sunday, September 23, 2007

zigguwhat?

100 words every hs grad should kno. ..wtf? a lot of these are harder than the gre vocab! i don't think i've ever even seen the last word before, ziggurat? i honestly think these editors randomly put together a list of rather heteroclite and recherche words (two can play at this game!) to make themselves feel smart. to their credit tho, some definitions should be well known: euro, irony, and respiration for instance. but a few of the others...

gelaskins

i don't want an ipod. i never have (altho i do love the new nano colors). but when nearly all the cool accessories are being made for only ipods... so if you do have an ipod, an iphone or razr, or a laptop, you should get a gelaskin for it! cause they're sooo pretty.

assertations

accidental hermaphrodite dolls for children! ...maybe this ballsy chair is made for them?

Saturday, September 22, 2007

wtf?

+--------------------- Bizarre Facts ----------------------+  
  
The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.  

A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.  

In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.  

About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they are still sitting on it.  

In Kentucky, 50 percent of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.  

In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.  

27 percent of U.S. male college students believe life is "a meaningless existential hell." 

Thursday, September 20, 2007

men good?

interesting article: is there anything good about men? if you have the time, you should read some of the comments too; some are surprisingly good.

deap see!

if you've been following this site for a while, you shoud kno that i love deep sea animals. so here's another amazing photoset. :)

historical facts

+--------------------- Bizarre History --------------------+   

Beer was the first trademarked product - British beer Bass Pale Ale received its trademark in 1876.  

Playing-cards were known in Persia and India as far back as the 12th century. A pack then consisted of 48 instead of 52 cards.  

Excavations from Egyptian tombs dating to 5,000 BC show that the ancient Egyptian kids played with toy hedgehogs.  

Accounts from Holland and Spain suggest that during the 1500s and 1600s urine was commonly used as a tooth-cleaning agent.  

In 1969 the US launched a male chimpanzee called Ham into space.  

In 1963 the French launched a cat called Feliette into space.  

The first written account of the Loch Ness Monster, or Nessie, was made in 565AD. 

Sunday, September 16, 2007

lighting

amazing home lighting fixtures! glowing pillow, double lightbulb, creepy baby head candle holder (i would LOVE this!).

bizarre convict lawsuits

+---------------- Bizarre Convict Lawsuits ----------------+  

In April 1996, inmate Kirk Livingood attempted to sue his cell mate, Phillip Negrete, for routinely beating him.  

Convicted rapist, robber and kidnapper Melvin Leroy Tyler, serving time in Missouri, filed a lawsuit for $129 million to have prisoners supplied with a salad bar and brunches on weekends and holidays.  

A New York City inmate sued for $8.5 million in damages because he smuggled a gun into the prison and accidentally shot himself.  

Richard Loritz filed a $2000 lawsuit against the South Bay Detention Center in San Diego, California, for refusing to allow him to use dental floss.  

Roy Clendimen, a prisoner at the Mohawk Correctional Facility near Syracuse, New York, sued for $1 million because a guard wouldn't put his ice cream in the freezer and it melted.  

A Utah prisoner filed a $1 million lawsuit against the state for suspending a program which provided hair transplants for prisoners. He claimed "emotional suffering."  

Monday, September 10, 2007

landmarks

quicky landmarks by state. who wants to go?!

in the news

CINCINNATI - A 10-year-old boy who said he hated snakes killed a 10-foot python at petting zoo by stomping on the reptile's head. Scott Braunstein, a reptile handler who brought the snake to the St. Bernadette Festival in Amelia, Ohio, last weekend, said he was shocked by the boy's violence, The Cincinnati Enquirer. The snake, named Popcorn, was a non-poisonous albino Burmese python. Braunstein, who operates House of Reptiles in Dry Ridge, Ky., said the boy approached him and told him that he hated snakes. The child then raised his leg and stomped down on the snake's head, Braunstein said. A man believed to be the boy's father grabbed the child and said, "This is why I don't take you anywhere," before disappearing into the crowd, the newspaper said. "I've never, never had anything like that happen," Braunstein told the newspaper. 

AUSTRALIA - A woman in Australia has been killed by her pet camel after the animal may have tried to have sex with her. The woman was found dead at the family's sheep and cattle ranch near the town of Mitchell in Queensland. The woman had been given the camel as a birthday present earlier this year because of her love of exotic pets. On Saturday, the woman apparently became the object of the male camel's desire. It knocked her to the ground, lay on top of her and displayed what the police delicately described as possible mating behavior.

stupid advice

...because it's a wife's job to prevent her husband from cheating? maybe he should just not be such a lying, cheating bastard.

Sunday, September 9, 2007

space trivia

+------------------ Bizarre Space Trivia ------------------+  
  
Seven U.S. Delta rockets and a French observation satellite have exploded in space.  

In 1961, Cuban premier Fidel Castro charged that a chunk of a U.S. spacecraft had fallen on Cuba and killed a cow.  

In 1962, a 21-lb. fragment of Soviet Sputnik IV landed at the intersection of Park and North 8th Streets in Manitowoc, Wisconsin.  

Over 7,000 objects floating in space are being tracked from earth; only five percent are satellites.  

Dodging space junk is a dangerous occupation. A 0.5 millimeter metal chip could puncture a space suit and kill an astronaut walking in space.  

In 1978, a Soviet satellite came crashing back to Earth, contaminating hundreds of square miles of Canadian territory with radiation.  

Saturday, September 8, 2007

fire crotch!

Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has been seriously injured in his kitchen after his genitals were set on fire because he wasn't wearing any underwear.  

The TV star admits he was in "absolute agony" after the accident last week which saw him rushed to a private London hospital for burns treatment.  

Gordon, 40, admits he didn't tell friends the real reason behind his hospital visit, blaming the medical emergency on a knee injury.  

He explains, "I was standing too close to the hob when I was cooking. I was wearing these cotton trousers underneath I was going commando.  

Suddenly I felt this searing heat. My bollocks were burning. "I went to the hospital because of the excruciating pain. I had an ultrasound and I get the results on Friday.  

"People think I went in for a knee injury."

Tuesday, September 4, 2007

eediots!

+------------ Bizarre Things People Have Done -------------+  

[The following is from the British Sunday Express giving Gongs (medals) for dubious distinctions]  

To John Bloor, who mistook a tube of superglue for his hemorrhoid cream and glued his buttocks together.  

To Henry Smith, arrested moments after returning home with a stolen stereo. His error was having tattooed on his forehead in large capital letters the words "Henry Smith." His lawyer told the court: "My client is not a very bright young man."  

To Michael Robinson, who rang police to deliver a bomb threat, but became so agitated about the mounting cost of the call that he began screaming "Call me back!" and left his phone number.  

To Paul Monkton, who used as his getaway vehicle a van with his name and phone number painted in foot-high letters on the side.  

To Julia Carson, who as her tearful family gathered 'round her coffin in a New York funeral parlor, sat bolt upright and asked what the hell was going on. Celebrations were short-lived, due to the fact that Mrs. Carson's daughter, Julie, immediately dropped dead from shock.  

To poacher Marino Malerba, who shot a stag standing above him on an overhanging rock -- and was killed instantly when it fell on him.  

To the passengers on a jam-packed train from Margate to Victoria, who averted their eyes while John Henderson and Zoe D'Arcy engaged in oral sex and then moved on to intercourse... but complained when the pair lit up post-coital cigarettes in a nonsmoking compartment. 

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

(in)direct requests

i kno, i kno, i never post anymore. but little do you kno that i've actually blogged a lot! well, in my head anyway. you wouldn't believe how many times i've rewritten my 'vanity' post. jebus...
tonight, however, i would like to talk about unspoken persuasion. say your significant other (or whoever, parents do this too) wants to do something, or wants you to do something. but they don't want to ask you to do it, or for the 'permission' to do it. ...this is getting complicated. see, the reason i've not posted much lately is cause i have so much damn noise in my head that i find it hard to write wat i really want to say. okay. starting over...
say your significant other wants to do something. and you don't want them to. but you don't want to ask them not to because then it would be like you're controlling them and that's not something you want. and besides, you do want them to do watever they want to do (...sorta...) and it's not like they need your 'permission' to do anything anyway. so wat to do?
sometimes you're lucky and your sig other knows wat you want even witout you having to say it. but of course, they still wanna do it. if they wanna do it badly enough they're pretend they don't kno that you don't want them to do it and do it anyway (outcome 1; no good: you're unhappy and since you kno they knew, you make them unhappy [thought you could get away wit it, did you?]).
if they're nicer, they will acknowledge your unspoken feelings but will make you ask them aloud cause they kno that you really don't want to so now they're gonna punish you too. this can end in one of two ways. outcome 2: you ask and they go anyway (super no good cause the person you're wit is an obvious asshole and they're only gonna end up breaking your heart. again...). outcome 3: you ask and they don't go. (better, but not great; you feel bad for asking, they feel bad for not doing wat they wanted and they might resent your for 'making' them not do it. [they might even later try to guilt trip you into 'letting' them do something you don't approve of. which would be bad. cause they're actually the asshole from outcome 2. just more passive aggressive. which is actually worse cause, let's face it, it's just a slower death for you]).
and finally, outcome 4. they're a really nice person. ie, they don't make you ask and they don't go. this is actually the only reasonably good outcome. but you gotta remember that you're dating a nice person so you better freakin 'reward' them somehow.
(and yes, rip, this is somewat directed at you and this weekend. [i'm so sly! {lol}])