Anarchy on the horizon?

I can't help but think that when we were all hearing "worst case scenario" and "500 year storm" in regards to New Orleans and the MS and AL gulf coast on Sunday that in anyone's imagination could things be as dire as they appear to be at this point...Monday came and it even seemed as though we could relax a little because the storm wasn't as strong, the levees in NO seemed to be okay, another near miss...but good god, this is turning out badly and the implications that things will get worse are scarey...

I think it's possible that once people get really desperate - especially in NO - there could be total anarchy on the streets - the people trapped there have nothing to lose, people in the Super Dome are looking at being bussed to the Astrodome in Houston...it's supposed to be 100+ degrees there this weekend on top of everything else.

How do you secure the valuable left in any of these cities, the cash offices in the casinos, the banks, the guns....looting is already widespread, people are armed, how long before the salvage people start showing up looking for treasure? Even more disturbing - what about the giant biohazard cooking before everyone's eyes?

Lot's of questions and apparently very few answers.

Pictures

I'm not real wordy the last few days but I put some new pictures in my Flickr feed and J has been messing around with "our" website L & J...

Driving

I spent some time in the car yesterday, driving to a auction in a town about 60 miles west of here...I used to love to drive, especially alone, didn't matter where I just enjoyed going and seeing what there was to see along the way. I used to especially enjoy driving backroads which used to be main thoroughfares before the interstates came along...listening to the local AM radio stations, stopping at a local dive for lunch, wondering about all the tourists that would have stayed in the now run down hotels on the sides of the road....it's amazing how many of those little towns are still struggling to exist.

But, driving yesterday was pretty much a drag, mostly freeway, I'm stiff and really uncomfortable today and I just hate being in the car alone anymore...I like J there to tell me to stop watching the birds (usually hawks), I want to have her there to have pointless conversations about nothing - I still enjoy just hanging out with her so much and spending the day alone instead of with her was not much fun.

So today has been all about resting and me trying to move without pain and a little painting and a little napping. Much better.

this really made sense to me

I just ran across Danny Gregory's blog and was scrolling through, looking at some neat sketches and happened to stop on a post - the passage below caught my attention and it's a good description of what I'm feeling right now about having this place to share a side of me that very few people know about (LOL, closet artist)...I've been incredibly inspired from the feedback and support not to mention the other amazing art I've been looking at but I think the real lesson for me in all this is just to enjoy the process and appreciate the experience of creating...it's very easy for me to dismiss my work as trivial or silly or not good enough but I enjoy doing it - it's a good way for me to relate and think...

To draw, one must draw. Exercises and academic and books provide examples of what one might do, but experience is the real teacher. Take tomorrow as your assignment. Draw your breakfast, your bus stop, your bathroom wall while you're shitting, your laundry as you fold it, your children as they watch TV, your pillow as you wait for lights out.Be bold with your exploration. Capture what you do and have always done. Then push yourself to new experiences if only to draw them. Visit new neighborhoods and draw them. Meet new people and draw them. Try new foods, read new books, smell new flowers, do anything that will deepen your understanding and your appreciation of your world and your place in it.I don't care if you think your drawings suck, if you are ashamed to show them to anyone else. What matters is that you pause and contemplate. If your record of that contemplation is inaccurate, try again. Feel deeper. See deeper. Slow down. Relax. And tomorrow, do it again. You aren't being graded or evaluated on your drawing. No more than you are being evaluated on your life itself. The only thing that matters is you. What you experience. How you experience it. How much you get out of this day and the next. This is your life. Dig into it. Embrace it. Notice its curves and angles. Explore its corners. Feels its edges and put them down on paper. The pen, the page, are just tools for you to take time and slow it down. I can't make you do it my way, any more than I can force you to live your life my way. You decide, you forge your style, you pick the line that draws your life.Take tomorrow and instead of hesitating and questioning and doubting and fretting, draw your breakfast, draw your day. Then try it again the day after. With each successive day, you'll be clearer and deeper. If you miss a day, don't freak out or beat yourself up. Just take on the day after that.Share the results if you'd like. By sharing you will find commonality and support. But maybe you don't need more than self sufficiency. In that case, keep your drawings for yourself. Or toss them out as you do them. The drawings don't matter, the drawing does.

pagan hierarchy

this is funny, unfortunately me and most of my friends are way down on the food chain....interestingly enough, anthropologists rank pretty high, LOL...

Pagan Hierarchy

Illustration Friday - Reflection

I had to take a break from the gourd tonite and decided to do this - I think that fortune-telling- looking into the unknown - can be based on reflections of what the person being read wants to hear or see...

gourd update

well here's the way I'm leaving it for the day...I added another fish, still lots of shading to do and I can't decide whether or not to add water or make the basket water-ish...as for what happens with this when it's done, I think I'm going to enter it and maybe a few other things in the State Fair...we've talked about it before but this just might be the thing - I actually registered online tonite so if I can stay focused and get it done, LOL....easier said ;)

music

we've been taking it easy this weekend and listening to alot of music...some on cd, some on tv - we listened/watched Nanci Griffith's Other Voices, Other Room Two this morning and Woodstock the movie is on right now...kinda crunchy I know but I never get tired of that stuff...listening started a bunch of conversations - including one of our favorites - songwriters vs. singers, who's really the most important? - but more interesting to me...where did that feeling of social awareness go that drove people to the cultural changes of the 60's?...isn't this a much scarier time, aren't we fighting just as an unpopular war, isn't the government worse than ever?...why aren't more people angrier and speaking up?...will it take a draft to send people to the streets?...are the streets really a viable means of change anymore?...and that I guess is the answer to alot of this, we're jaded and globally connected and completely unaware of what that implies - it's all about marketing;)

and with that said, I'm going to go join J for a nap and listen to Country Joe and Joan Baez and dream about the hippies:)

weekend project

a few weeks ago, artlad posted some gourds that he and his sister painted, one of them was a balloon and it got me thinking because we happened to have a few gourds laying around that we couldn't quite figure out to do with so...I started mine and here it is at this point...I should have started with shots from the beginning but...I didn't, LOL - can you tell I'm still looking at tattoo sites?

edited because I got distracted by Joe Cocker and forgot to link artlad's balloon ;)

Illustration Friday - Lack of Wisdom

I guess if you find yourself in front of a judge....you've more than likely done something lacking wisdom ;) This didn't scan quite as well as I'd hoped.

Short Hair

For the most part, my hair has been long or very long. My mother and grandmother had it cut in a shag when I was 7 or 8 and my dad and grandfather flipped the hell out....I wore it long until high school when I decided a rockabilly DA was a good idea for a few years and from then until 2 years ago I let it grow...when I had it cut it was below my waist.

Once I finally made the decision to cut it, I realized that I love it short and each time I go, I get it cut just a little shorter. Now my dad still hates my hair short and I often get called "sir" but fuck that...it's comfortable and I'm grown and I am most definately not a man. So, it's been about 2 months since the last cut and we have appointments this afternoon. Given my state of mind I may wind up kinda bald. This is a great website for a women's barber shop in NYC....Crops for Girls. Doesn't that make everyone want to liberate themselves from long hair?

I am irrational today...not thinking clearly and reacting badly. I know I have an unhinged look in my eyes and I feel the vein on the right side of my head throbbing. I want to say ugly things and hang up on people when the phone rings. I don't like driving in this kind of mood because I want to run the car into other cars....or buildings....or whatever. I want to lash out at whoever's around. I have to consciously edit myself so that I don't say something that might get me fired or really be hurtful to someone undeserving. J calls this my Doris personality...I definately don't think the good grandmother whose name that was would appreciate my evil alter ego being known that way.

Cartoons and Flip Books and Barrista Aprons

This is fun...you can make your own comic strip, I haven't actually finished one yet but if I do, I'll post it later - Comic Strips .

And these are some interesting illustrations that this group is doing...a bunch of Finnish artists - Napabooks - no flash on their flipbooks unfortunately but a great representation...and they look like it'd be fun to sit around and drink beer with...

Last but not least since sewing is evidently for some people - The Monkey Basket has this :)

Now if I could just find my drawing pencils...

nothing of substance

just ready to go home...we didn't make the family gathering yesterday (I woke up pukey and decided to go back to bed)....my dad and stepmother came by yesterday to drop off our present from Nicaragua (I'll put up a picture once it's assembled) but we didn't know it was them so they stood outside and knocked until they got bored and went away ;)...USC freshman moved in over the weekend which means all of the little frat boys and sorority girls will be rushing soon and that is a much better spectator sport than football...in fact this is a funny article about frat boy fashion that mentions the Gamecocks in one section...read the 4th Lemony Snickets and watched Meet the Fockers last nite... I resisted Netflix for a long time but it's turning out to be a pretty neat way to rent movies.

long day

we went out this morning for what seemed like a few stops and ultimately turned into a long day...but the dryer vent hose is replaced, the dogs nails are cut, they're bathed and flea sprayed, we went shopping at Walmart, joined the library (I read #3 Lemony Snickets this afternoon) got banana chips and are finally getting ready for bed just to have a family event to attend tomorrow at the step sister's house I loathe (it's mutual ;))....have I mentioned I'm PMS'ing in the worst way????..can't wait to get up tomorrow, at least it's only a few weeks until a 3 day weekend.

Tattoos on my mind

actually tattoos are never far from my mind, LOL but especially recently because everytime I turn around I'm seeing tattoos. The two shows that I've talked about before - Miami Ink and Inked, there was a show on National Geographic this afternoon about Tibetan spiritual tattoos and of course I've been looking at tattoo blogs here and there.....and as wonderful as all this exposure is it's tough because it makes me (J too) want one and you still can't get tattooed legally in SC (I'm not even going to go into that because it's so frustrating and stupid). Yes it is legal in GA and TN but getting tattooed for me is an experience that I really prefer to relax and reflect after, not to mention having a 3+ hour session is physically draining and a long drive home is completely unappealing.

But I am craving some ink in the worst way. I know I like the process as much as the end result, it's not the pain but knowing that I can take it, watching something beautiful and meaningful become part of my body forever. Body modificaton interests me in general, why people mark their bodies interests me even more... the desire to mark myself comes from alot of different places - I think that whatever I get next is going to have some spiritual significance, even if it's in a really abstract way... but I'm seriously considering several identifiable symbols...and that sort of suprised me when I first realized it...even though I know it shouldn't.

Illustration Friday

My first attempt at Illustration Friday. I haven't worked with pencil for a long time other than rough sketches. This idea came to me Monday morning as our fat cat Otis was bitching because his bowl was empty. Maybe a little too cutesy for me but it's a start.

Devil Dog

at 5:30 or so this morning, I realized that Scout (our 1 yo Jack Russell/Chihuahua mix) was crazy barking...I had only been lightly sleeping for hours anyway and it wasn't that much earlier than we usually get up so I went to see what was the matter...the dogs sleep in the utility room...I opened the door, saw the other two but no Scout even though she was still barking...all of a sudden she comes out from BEHIND the washer and dryer and that's when I saw her handiwork...she had managed to shred the aluminum dryer vent hose and I guess was trying to get out through the hole in wall...

just a little break

I needed a second or two of non-work time, today has not been a day I could screw off like I have for the last few....so here I am...since it's a break - even though unofficial - let's talk snacks...a friend at work left me some of this tea last week - cinnamon flavor, my obsession with Arizona Green Teas continues...I think I've tried all of them now and my favorites are still the blueberry and white cranberry/apple....I picked up a pluot at Publix this morning - haven't eaten it yet but maybe soon (it was just pretty - it looks like the one in the pic) and I wish I'd picked up some apple chips because those are the best...

I'm pretty lucky

I've been reading blogs today and ran across this article. It made me realize how differently things could have turned out if I'd come out just a few years earlier. Colleen's story is similiar to many of us - I imagine - that grew up in a fundamental household...I used to like to think that the Baptists were the worst but now I realize fundamentalism on any level is the same...my sexuality wasn't that big of issue because I was so busy finding other stuff to get into as a teenager that I didn't come out until I was on my own and I didn't really tell the family for another year or so and that was fairly uninteresting overall...I managed to be so different on so many levels to the people around me that the sexuality piece of it was just a portion of the bigger picture...and at that point my parents were divorcing badly so there was drama to take the focus off of me...long story short, I walked away from the church and Christianity without much regret - I've never struggled with being a lesbian - in fact, once I realized it, I'd say I embraced it wholeheartedly ;)...but stories like Zach Stark and Colleen's and lots of others make me wonder if I would have had the courage to express my feelings at that point in my life given the opportunity...I hate to say it but most likely not...for fear of some of the very same things that both of them experienced.

artlad made Drawn

check him out: Stencil Squirt not bad for a 6 year old, huh?

And here's arlad - Adventures of Artlad!

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a few weeks into this

and the less I feel sure about...I've just spent the last little bit reading about tags and I'm more confused than ever...there is alot of techy stuff out there to do with blogging that is pretty involved....LOL...spoken with true sincerity and admiration....style is as important as content now isn't it?...I'm also not sure whether I prefer posting with IE or Firefox, I installed the Greasemonkey extension and a script that I thought would give me an automatic tagging box but apparently that isn't the case....so nevermind I just found a modified script that at least looks like it's working :) we'll see soon enough I suppose...and I have questions about template changes and reformatting my RSS feeds as well....I'm blowing my bloglines site up and starting over soon....

as for my other thoughts about blogging - the ones about the experience itself - I'd have to say I'm enjoying it, alot even....enough to have J's interest raised a little - she'd be great at this, I'm convinced....enough to have mentioned it to J's mom and now mom is wanting me to set her one up for wolf hybrids, and enough that I think I'll mention it to my Dad at the next family get together next week....obvious prejudices aside ;), I think I'd be interested enough in what all 3 of them had to say to read their blogs....we were watching a Food Network biography on Julia Child last nite and talking about J's encounter with her and I said that would be a great blog story...that seem to make her think...it's definately been interesting actually speaking on the internet after listening for so many years.

Tags: blogs, blogging, tags, tagging, foodnetwork

Loretta and the Farmers Market

I was going to cut grass but I'm blowing it off until tomorrow morning cause I'm feeling a little puny and would rather just chill out and concentrate on nothing seeing as I have aspirations for later on as well ;)

We decided to hit a little produce stand this morning- they call it a farmers market but it's not - and wound up getting a lot of fresh vegetables and fruit - corn, tomatoes, squash, snap beans, peaches, blueberries, lettuce, bananas, potatoes and just a litttle okra to flavor the beans - so dinner should be good tonite and I think I'll have a fresh tomatoe sandwich for lunch...J mentioned something about cornbread but I don't think we have the stuff...weekends are typically big food days for us and so far that hasn't been the case so we are committed to eating after J gets up from her nap :)...

Once we got home we listened to some new cds - which is mostly the point here - and I am loving Loretta's latest ! She and Dolly are two of my all time heros...hands down they are living legends and I don't think music - or us in general - will ever see anything close once they're gone...I can gush endlessly about both of them, their success, their compassion, their real-ness but the things that impress me the most are the songwriting and the willingness to reach out across what is perceived to be a very narrow-minded genre to create some great collaborative works. Cut 2 stands out on Van Lear Rose - typical edgy Loretta lyrics with Jack White (of the White Stripes) singing alongside...btw, he produced the album if you didn't already know...her words now are easily as topical as The Pill or Don't Come Home A Drinkin' but what makes this album so crazy is the 60's garage psychedelic guitar work going on the background. I would love to see a "making of" about these recording sessions! Music is at a great point now - people teaming up across their classifications, songwriters getting more credit...I can't wait to come back later this weekend to talk about the Willie cd that's in this batch too....
[country music]
[Loretta Lynn]
[Dolly Parton]

Lunch doodle

just messing around at lunch after reading about Bert this morning...

Bitch for a day

and I don't mean the snippy, ill-tempered, self-confident kind which is what I prefer....what I mean is that my job (which I really love) is on my last fucking nerve today....everybody wants something - even people I don't technically work for but whose asses I am obligated to kiss, normally not a problem but I'm just not feeling it today.....if someone wanted cookies and sodas for a meeting at 3:00 they should have arranged it differently than calling me at lunchtime and stating snacks were needed - get them your damn self....if you need minutes taken don't assume I'm gonna be there.....if you don't ask me to call someone to inform them of a meeting change don't fucking assume I am psychic and that I can magically identify who was contacted and who was not...I am obsessive and fixated on performing at a certain level when it comes to work, wouldn't matter if it's cleaning a toilet or coordinating an event, whatever...if I do it, I expect that it I will do it pretty near perfect...so it makes me mad (when I'm tired and facing another auction tonite) when my perfection gets taken for granted and people think just because I can do something that I should.....at any rate I have to arrange the cookies....presentation is always important....

Just messing with the picture thing :)

Yard Elves

eating out seems to be a bad idea for me this summer...

we went down the street to dinner this evening and I had another bad food experience....no details cause it is still fresh in my mind and disturbing - but after the food poisoning in June at another of our (previously) favorite restaraunts I think it's best if we only eat at home (again) for a while...that doesn't bother me I've gone completely vegetarian again - with the exception of some dairy - no animal protein at all, no soda, cut way back on alcohol and I was finally starting to feel better about food and this happens....

goddammit Denise

I've been reading - well actually skimming - some of the blogher blogs Denise linked and blogs by women since about 5:00 am and haven't even begun to make a dent...I started last nite when I got home from the auction and could only manage about twenty minutes on commercial breaks during Miami Ink (today's assignment may be to find a blog by a woman tattooist) but I fell asleep thinking that maybe I'm finally starting to get this blog thing (probably not but delusion works for me)...it's a natural extension of the communities that started on boards and in chatrooms....but it shifts the responsibility to the individual - not a mod or cl - to be informative...maybe not even informative but proactive when it comes to putting things out there that matter to you...I can't believe the sheer number of people blogging and I also can't believe that I'm adding yet another one to the mix since I'm pretty convinced anything worth saying has already been said -maybe that's why I never thrived on message boards, I've always said that, always felt like the red-headed stepchild because I just don't have the warm-fuzzy girl gene that so many do but I am really starting to get intrigued by the idea of this kind of communication....the one thing I did realize is that as funny as I think my Spurrier shit is, he'll only be going forward on bloglines because I don't want to clutter issues here with stupid links to a stupid man...not that I really have any issues in mind but I don't want him here, LOL...

Dolly on tour again

Dolly Parton is touring this summer and fall....unfortunately the closest she'll be to us is Atlanta or Orlando....someday I will see her live...

no time for this really...

I have a shitload of stuff to do at work this morning....stuff that is going to involve me writing a bunch of crap....hopefully my boss will keep his important visitor away from this office today so I don't have to play nice with him and can actually concentrate on the other stuff but I do entertain well so if I have to I will even though I will be thinking nasty stuff ;)...I copied everything from bloglines....I'm not happy with the overall appearance of this yet so I'm going to have to continue playing...

I think Ozzy broke the alarm clock yesterday...

By nuthinfancy
Black Sabbath is not the best way to start the day...it seemed like a good idea last night when I was setting the cd on the alarm clock but Ozzy at 5:00 am was a mistake. Trust me on this.
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By nuthinfancy
I got the new Harry Potter yesterday and have managed to squeeze in the first few hundred pages in between house cleaning and everyday life...these are about the only books I seem to read these days which is very strange since I've always been such a book geek up until the last few years back but that is another issue and I have to admit I miss reading, especially the fantasy and sci-fi stuff but it's a luxury I don't afford myself much...I've managed to avoid spoilers and many of the reviews because I know something big happens at the end of this one and I've even resisted the urge to flip to the back and peek because I want to prolong the experience this series offers....magic and possibilities....that's what I've always expected of my reading...I am going to hate when the Rowling finishes, I'm already dreading it....maybe I'll start the Lemony Snicket series at some point...J's mom has loaded me down with this series of mysteries that invovle an Alaskan Malamute and dog magazine writer by Susan Conant.....okay but mindless and I don't share her fascination with wolf hybrids...unless they have three heads and are in Hagrid's backyard...
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July 29, 2005
By nuthinfancy
ah, Friday at last....it's cooler, my truck is officially sold and gone and I don't have to cut J's mom's grass this week....things are looking up...what I'd really like to do is this Biking the Cooper River Bridge but my fear of heights and hate of Charleston in general will most likely prevent that from happening....how can I hate Charleston, most people ask....it's so many things I don't even know where to start....an ex who dumped me for a woman that lived there....the slums on the backside of the most affluent neighborhood in town....the confederate flags for sale in slave market...the traffic....the attitude...the Citadel....the list is neverending...the only redeeming quality that the city has in my mind is that it's a conduit to Folly Beach.....a day trip there might be in order soon....
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July 28, 2005
By nuthinfancy
it's so freaking hot here right now....normally, I love the heat and humidity, I like to make fun of transplants to the area because the climate can be a shock if you're not used to it....but, this last week has been hellish...supposedly we won't break 100 today and have a few cooler days coming....I hope so - my brain is starting to cook...
























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July 22, 2005
By nuthinfancy
Raging Grannies other than being a great name for a band this is just a great idea on the grannies part....surely the charges will go away?
A friend from Atlanta is stopping by tonite on her way back to the city from Pennsylvania....we haven't seen her since we moved and frankly I'm not thrilled about it now...we left alot of baggage behind with the move and I hate to say it but this relationship was part of that....she and her husband have been discussing divorce for 3 or 4 years, now they're actually seperated but she won't agree to the divorce b/c her alimony would be subject to income tax....that pisses me off for lots of reasons and on lots of levels but first and foremost b/c it's just greedy....her husband is a lawyer making a disgusting amount of $$$ and they aren't ever going to reconcile...there are no children involved - she's just used to living with a fat wallet.....thankfully this will be a short visit.....
More grass to cut this weekend, I need to get up really early and do it before the heat is too bad....and we have to try and do some straightening up in the spare room, it's out of control and it's all my shit....and I suppose at some point I should call Santini and see how many heathens were rescued last week.
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July 20, 2005
By nuthinfancy
forgot about the lightening storms last night....2.5" of rain in a few hours...it started just as the auction was ending and I wound up hanging out for an extra half hour waiting for it to let up...the building is an old armory - big brick thing with a curved roof and maybe ghosts if you're inclined to believe in those sorts of things...but we got a spectacular show and have the chance for more tonite....love the storms, have always thought the folks that chase tornadoes had a cool gig...favorite nanci griffith song for a stormy evening....
NANCI GRIFFITH lyrics - "I Wish It Would Rain"
www.OldieLyrics.com
(Nanci Griffith)[Chorus:]Oh, I wish it would rainAnd wash my face cleanI want to find some dark cloud toHide in hereLove in a memorySparkled like diamondsWhen the diamonds fall... they burnLike tearsWhen the diamonds fall... they burnLike tearsOnce I had a love from theGeorgia pinesWho only cared for meI wanna find that love of twenty-twoHere at thirty-threeI've got a heart on my rightOne on my left... neither suits my needsNo, the one I love lives a-way out WestAnd he never will need me[Chorus]I'm gonna pack up my two steppin' shoesAnd head for the Gulf Coast plainsI wanna walk the streets of myOwn hometownWhere everybody knows my nameI wanna ride the waves downIn GalvestonWhen the hurricanes blow in'Cuz that Gulf Coast water tastesSweet as wineWhen your heart's rollin' home inThe wind[Chorus]When the diamonds fall darlin'... theyBurn like tears
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By nuthinfancy
almost done for the day - nothing planned for tonite except tv watching and relaxing...premier of the 2nd Tattoo shop reality show in 2 days...makes we want one and we still can't get them here...I still harbor fantasies of full sleeves one day...missionary dad and his troop of white folks get back from Nicaraqua on Friday...I'm sure they will be full of wonderful stories and stars for their crowns...we have wondered how my stepmother is leaving the house and driving since she doesn't open doors on her own...Santini is a gentleman :)....got to stop and get gas, beer and boiled p-nuts on my way home...and I have to try and get cop brother to see how the police olypics went....off to the heat
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July 19, 2005
By nuthinfancy
busy day...gotta work tonight...amazing how many people are associated with this auction in some weird way or another...got the insurance handled for the new car, will deal with transferring the tags at the end of the week....this I dread since I got asked to leave this DMV by a nice security guard about a year and half ago....LOL, good thing I have a brother in the neighboring county's sheriffs deptartment....
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July 18, 2005
By nuthinfancy
this is really cool...not the story itself that's another issue entirely but the fact that the alligator exists...White Alligator in SC
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By nuthinfancy
we bought a car...1987 Nissan Sentra...and for what it is and what we paid for it, I'm happy...we found it yesterday driving around looking for cars in people yards or in front of garages, with for sale signs on them...it's a method I believe strongly in - just look for shit...the side of the road car dealers were a series of crazy encounters...just out of curiousity I stopped at a couple of the really sleazy ones and we even drove a few cars from one but the people were outstanding, characters worthy of Tim Burton and Johnny Depp...fat, dirty, cigar-chewing men, women with little dogs, car lots that surely had snakes hiding somewhere (Jeannie refuses to believe in the swarms of flying poisonous snakes that live in this state)...we have scratched the underbelly of Columbia's used car trade and it isn't pretty....the car has been pretty much rebuilt by a Nissan mechanic (named Wendell and a real charmer to boot)....I have alot of thoughts about waste and the outrageous number of junked, crappy cars out there but it's easy to be noble when you're poor...
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Birds mimic ringtones
By nuthinfancy
URL: Birds mimic ringtones
urban sprawl strikes again......this kind of stuff creeps me out, we're forcing evolutionary trends on the ecosystem without even realizing it...
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Posted on: Mon, Jul 18 2005 1:52 PM
By nuthinfancy
so I'm still screwing around with my feeds and I'm still not sure exactly how this is a good thing but we'll see...the car saga continues...we are looking at something tonite that I am pretty sure we will buy just because it's cheap, it's being sold by a mechanic who specializes in this make and because most importantly I'm over it....I'll get J's truck and she'll get this one....I've wanted her truck for years anyway, LOL...
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July 16, 2005
Unsure start
By nuthinfancy
well here I am...completely unaware of the blog world and not sure what to do with this space but whatever.....right now I need a distraction from shitty used car dealers and trying to find just the right car for no money....my dad is in Nicaraqua with the two oldest grandsons on a Baptist mission trip....that irritates me to no end and I live in a state that would absolutely succeed from the union again if possible...I sense the beginnings of a serious meltdown and I really can't go there right now...LOL, at least I can tell when they're coming.....what else...oh, I really do love alot of things about my life right now....Dale Chihuly kept me going this week and Scout the troubled Jack Russell/Chihuahua is finally settling in, unfortunately Mama Kitty - neighborhood feral - seems to be pregnant with her third litter this year and is still nursing the last bunch.....at any rate maybe this will be a good outlet and place to store the mountains of useless information that catches my interest....
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July 22, 2005
By nuthinfancy
Raging Grannies other than being a great name for a band this is just a great idea on the grannies part....surely the charges will go away?
A friend from Atlanta is stopping by tonite on her way back to the city from Pennsylvania....we haven't seen her since we moved and frankly I'm not thrilled about it now...we left alot of baggage behind with the move and I hate to say it but this relationship was part of that....she and her husband have been discussing divorce for 3 or 4 years, now they're actually seperated but she won't agree to the divorce b/c her alimony would be subject to income tax....that pisses me off for lots of reasons and on lots of levels but first and foremost b/c it's just greedy....her husband is a lawyer making a disgusting amount of $$$ and they aren't ever going to reconcile...there are no children involved - she's just used to living with a fat wallet.....thankfully this will be a short visit.....
More grass to cut this weekend, I need to get up really early and do it before the heat is too bad....and we have to try and do some straightening up in the spare room, it's out of control and it's all my shit....and I suppose at some point I should call Santini and see how many heathens were rescued last week.
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Posted on: Fri, Jul 22 2005 1:54 PM

July 20, 2005
By nuthinfancy
forgot about the lightening storms last night....2.5" of rain in a few hours...it started just as the auction was ending and I wound up hanging out for an extra half hour waiting for it to let up...the building is an old armory - big brick thing with a curved roof and maybe ghosts if you're inclined to believe in those sorts of things...but we got a spectacular show and have the chance for more tonite....love the storms, have always thought the folks that chase tornadoes had a cool gig...favorite nanci griffith song for a stormy evening....
NANCI GRIFFITH lyrics - "I Wish It Would Rain"
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(Nanci Griffith)[Chorus:]Oh, I wish it would rainAnd wash my face cleanI want to find some dark cloud toHide in hereLove in a memorySparkled like diamondsWhen the diamonds fall... they burnLike tearsWhen the diamonds fall... they burnLike tearsOnce I had a love from theGeorgia pinesWho only cared for meI wanna find that love of twenty-twoHere at thirty-threeI've got a heart on my rightOne on my left... neither suits my needsNo, the one I love lives a-way out WestAnd he never will need me[Chorus]I'm gonna pack up my two steppin' shoesAnd head for the Gulf Coast plainsI wanna walk the streets of myOwn hometownWhere everybody knows my nameI wanna ride the waves downIn GalvestonWhen the hurricanes blow in'Cuz that Gulf Coast water tastesSweet as wineWhen your heart's rollin' home inThe wind[Chorus]When the diamonds fall darlin'... theyBurn like tears
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Posted on: Wed, Jul 20 2005 6:33 PM

Birds mimic ringtones
By nuthinfancy
URL: Birds mimic ringtones
urban sprawl strikes again......this kind of stuff creeps me out, we're forcing evolutionary trends on the ecosystem without even realizing it...
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Posted on: Mon, Jul 18 2005 1:52 PM

July 16, 2005
Unsure start
By nuthinfancy
well here I am...completely unaware of the blog world and not sure what to do with this space but whatever.....right now I need a distraction from shitty used car dealers and trying to find just the right car for no money....my dad is in Nicaraqua with the two oldest grandsons on a Baptist mission trip....that irritates me to no end and I live in a state that would absolutely succeed from the union again if possible...I sense the beginnings of a serious meltdown and I really can't go there right now...LOL, at least I can tell when they're coming.....what else...oh, I really do love alot of things about my life right now....Dale Chihuly kept me going this week and Scout the troubled Jack Russell/Chihuahua is finally settling in, unfortunately Mama Kitty - neighborhood feral - seems to be pregnant with her third litter this year and is still nursing the last bunch.....at any rate maybe this will be a good outlet and place to store the mountains of useless information that catches my interest....
Posted on: Sat, Jul 16 2005 7:52 PM

By nuthinfancy
almost done for the day - nothing planned for tonite except tv watching and relaxing...premier of the 2nd Tattoo shop reality show in 2 days...makes we want one and we still can't get them here...I still harbor fantasies of full sleeves one day...missionary dad and his troop of white folks get back from Nicaraqua on Friday...I'm sure they will be full of wonderful stories and stars for their crowns...we have wondered how my stepmother is leaving the house and driving since she doesn't open doors on her own...Santini is a gentleman :)....got to stop and get gas, beer and boiled p-nuts on my way home...and I have to try and get cop brother to see how the police olypics went....off to the heat
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July 19, 2005
By nuthinfancy
busy day...gotta work tonight...amazing how many people are associated with this auction in some weird way or another...got the insurance handled for the new car, will deal with transferring the tags at the end of the week....this I dread since I got asked to leave this DMV by a nice security guard about a year and half ago....LOL, good thing I have a brother in the neighboring county's sheriffs deptartment....
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Posted on: Tue, Jul 19 2005 1:50 PM

July 18, 2005
By nuthinfancy
this is really cool...not the story itself that's another issue entirely but the fact that the alligator exists...White Alligator in SC
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Posted on: Mon, Jul 18 2005 8:10 PM