hellbilly

Well, I'll have to rent it again and check you out. It was freakin' long, though. I had to watch it in two sittings.

I am not sure I had fun, since all of us seem to have problems right now and it basically turned into a group counseling session, but I AM sure I am never having sake again. Ugh. I can barely stand to think about it.

Peanut butter cookies....must be soft.

Off to sleep now. Good night.

No offense to Jesus, who was by all accounts a great guy, but the Pagan parts of the holidays are just more fun. It's funny how the church managed to combine Jesus into whatever was going on locally. I read a great book called about how they did this in Sicily. My Italian teacher was Sicilan, so I can basically only talk like her. I can hardly understand a Toscano, and they certainly can't understand me.
Gotta get packing!

I know, pretty pathetic of me not to do anything fun on St Patricks Day...boring vanilla WASP, that's me!! Make sure you party for the both of us!! Looking forward to your answers.
I'd love to learn more about your script if you are willing to share.

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really? i don't have any bf's for the bunny to contend with--lol
questions:
1) Same as Catiedid--just strange people (and lots of em)
2) No (at least not mine)
3) Flannel pj bottoms and a Daquiri Emporium t-shirt (and fuzzy slippers and some socks and my glasses)

I'm not really trying to dodge questions, I just can't define strange, or answer relationship questions in a concise way. But one of my best friends is an ex, too. #3 was easy because I am always wearing some variation on the wifebeater/jeans combo. It can be just the $2 undershirt from the boys' dept with a jean skirt I made from cutting up $3 men's jeans from Goodwill (see profile pic), or, if I'm really making an effort, more expensive jeans with a more expensive tank, or even t-shirt.

I mostly like to visit cities, but lately I have been wanting to visit Yosemite, Yellowstone, etc. I am worried that if I wait until later in life, things might be too changed. When I moved to the west, it felt so foreign and I never thought I'd feel comfortable, but now it's my home and I can't imagine anything else. I don't think I could go back.

Gee, I tried to start smoking when I was a teenager in Switzerland, but I just couldn't stick with it. I don't have an addictive personality, I guess. I have one cig every few years, and that serves to remind me why I don't. I do the same thing with Dairy Queen.

I thought Paulette Goddard was NOT married to him, that it was a big scandal that they were just living together, and that it kept her from playing Scarlett O'Hara. See, gossip I can remember.

Wish I knew how to fix mechanical things--I am so envious of that skill.

I hope you're having fun up on the roof! Please don't fall off.

What brought me to SG (besides the obvious)...to learn. I love learning about other people and their lives. I've chosen a path for my life and I like to learn about others peoples paths and what it is like the walk them. People are just interesting, even the seemingly uninteresting ones.

sick, not crying. =)

God, I hope I am not sick for a month. I can't work that into my schedule.
I watched Chaplin in Modern Times last night. He still seems so impressive. I guess this is the first time I really appreciated it. I had to watch it in one of my sculpture classes in college, but I was operating under the influence, as students tend to do.

God, that made me laugh so hard! I agree. Nothing should keep you up at night except nose and ear hair.

As for offensive smells, I am into smell, and I like a person to smell like a person, not like a product. So I'll paint on make-up and get the brazilian, but I haven't worn deodorant since college. And I graduated at 20, so that's a long time ago. I don't think people need it unless they drink caffeine, which I don't.

This has been very inspiring. No more brazilians for me.

Well, just because I don't use deodorant doesn't mean I have a relaxed attitude about hygiene. I floss, I bathe twice a day, and if I do have caffeine, I will put rubbing alcohol under my arms.

I do have a friend who hardly bathes, though--she says it's something about pheromones. It must work, because she attracts a lot of men. And dogs love her.

There's something to be said about lazy and immoral.

Sounds like your ex got the better break up deal. Sorry!

Yeah, the valley's full of slugs and snails, but no fireflies, grasshoppers, or comforting nighttime cricket noise. I've lived here most of my life, but some things I still can't get used to. Apparently insects were very important to my childhood experience.

The SW indians do all the cool Catholic stuff. My mom is always in Santa Fe, and she carts home sacks of amulets and creepy statuettes. One thing she brought me once was a devil with a huge, drippy erection. That goes on my Christmas tree every year!

Ah, visiting the parents. You're even braver than I thought! I haven't done it in at least 5 years. I prefer my home turf.
Though not my current home turf. Bend is so bourgeois--everyone out here pretends they have a ranch, but they're really McMansions, and they drive to them in their Porsche Cayennes. Too stupid.

Oh, Portland's crawling with Hummers--the Trailblazers need somewhere to get high, after all. I went down to FL last Aug after my grandma went into the hospital. I have been there a zillion times, and I am sure that was the worst weather I'd seen--constant thunderstorms, a tornado on our street, etc. The time before that we had a family reunion in St. Augustine and it was 30'! I kind of liked it--that Lady of La Leche shrine was creepy-cool-- but I am starting to forget how nice it used to be to catch lizards by the pool on a sunny 80' day. When I was a kid, that is. I'm not so much into that now. Though I wouldn't mind gutting a few fireflies to decorate myself with--we just don't have them out here.

The company I worked for was just starting a project in Savannah when I quit. I just couldn't handle the boss showering and changing clothes in front of me. Wish I could have put up with him--I was just starting to get assigned good projects! I did write the National Register nomination for the Hotel Californian in SFO, and another one for a historic house in Newberg, OR, so I guess I did something.

Well, I've been up about two hours, so I am ready for a nap!

I did give Jolie a listen...I need to give it more time. Not what I typically listen to so I want to listen a little more.

I've always been a film camera picture taker, but with my new digital, it is just like using my 35mm. Same functions, I can even interchange the lenses. And WOW am I gonna save money on film developing. I would make the investment! I love mine.

All the old people in my family are in Florida now. It's pretty much a given that old midwesterners go there to retire. They know all the same people they knew "up north". Having lived in Oregon for the last 15 years, I can barely handle the Florida sun--it never gets that bright here, so I am immediately blinded and never seem to adjust.

Newport, Oregon is definitely one of the stinkiest places on the coast, with all the fishing boats sitting in the bay, and the whole downtown echoing with annoying sea lion barking. Somehow that adds to the stinkiness for me.

I'll stop before I get to the smell of hiking in the Swiss alps (just like Ohio, but with bells!), though I could go on about smells forever. It's one of my favorite topics. No one ever seems to smell everything I smell. And smell is the number one thing that attracts me to people. At least, I think so--the older I get, the less I know about love, attraction, and all that stuff.