tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75141329850813914112024-03-13T12:09:28.656-04:00The Kat Lee Reader(and this is the line where I'm s'posed to describe my blog with some sort of witty 'draw you in' statement. I got nothin.)Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06736671410392108226noreply@blogger.comBlogger194125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7514132985081391411.post-74361370356827556622014-03-18T14:01:00.001-04:002014-03-18T14:04:09.599-04:00<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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<span style="color: lime;"><b>Trilogies;</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><b>All things come in threes.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><b>Sometimes good things</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><b>Sometimes not.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><b>Holy food trilogy</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><b>Perfect green</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><b>Cilantro avocado lime</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><b>Gas station taco rock my world.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><b>Celebrity deaths</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><b>They always <i>always<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><b>Except sometimes</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><b>You gotta look up some sort of barely </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><b>To make it work.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><b>That weatherman in Ohio </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><b>back in the eighties, </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><b>he just died.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><b>Dang, son! </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><b>That make three.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><b>Then I thought </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><b>Eyes just come in twos</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><b>They piped up on that third eye.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><b>All seeing.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><b>Maybe, I said</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><b>To be agreeable.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><b>I’d rather have a taco</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><b>Than a celebrity</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><b>Unless it your momma</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><b>And tell you how </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><b>So your momma can live.</b></span></div>
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Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06736671410392108226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7514132985081391411.post-68151222177060960802014-03-12T14:07:00.001-04:002014-03-12T14:07:40.051-04:00Don't Mind the Gap.Not much is new today but any wisdom I can impart I will try.<br />
That new philly jalapeno cream cheese is very good in scrambled eggs!<br />
I saw a thing on achieving a thigh gap on the aol news. I've never heard of this before, but here is my take on the thing. It seems to me that to have your thighs not touch at all, that person would have to have just an extraordinarily wide vagina. Or like, the sides of the vagina would have to be very big. And that seems like it would cause another problem, because your underwear would not cover your entire puss, but have the bandy elastic parts across hair, which would be uncomfortable. While I appreciate when people have genetic mutations (Naomi goes to school with a girl with extra toes- how I would love to have an extra toe!) not an extra camel toe. I am glad I don't have the genetically mutated extra wide vagina. Too much drama for me.<br />
I really don't have much else, I just know it's good for me to check in sometimes.<br />
I just finished reading A Year in the Merde. It was tolerable but not great. <br />
Hugs.<br />
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Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06736671410392108226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7514132985081391411.post-52612261941247562902014-02-28T10:36:00.000-05:002014-02-28T10:36:36.486-05:00Also, another cheesy poem.(Sorry, I'm updating my phone soon so I have to clean out all these phone notes!)<br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">How Dare You (by Kat Lee)</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">How dare you.</span><br />
<span style="color: lime; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Make that face,</span><br />
<span style="color: lime; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">That shriveled face when I made</span><br />
<span style="color: lime; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">the most perfect cup.</span><br />
<span style="color: lime; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">You said you needed sugar</span><br />
<span style="color: lime; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">A brown demerara cube </span><br />
<span style="color: lime; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Bastardized the crema</span><br />
<span style="color: lime; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I made with pride.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Two Nespresso Pods</span><br />
<span style="color: lime; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">One dollar thirty cents </span><br />
<span style="color: lime; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I have risen above the pot,</span><br />
<span style="color: lime; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Though I fail to mention </span><br />
<span style="color: lime; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">my rise to some</span><br />
<span style="color: lime; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">smart friends who narrow eyes,</span><br />
<span style="color: lime; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I am personally starving babies</span><br />
<span style="color: lime; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">In Africa.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">But my coffee tastes good.</span><br />
<span style="color: lime; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Worth one million milkless tits</span><br />
<span style="color: lime; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Worth drinking Unsweetened.</span><br />
<span style="color: lime; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">How dare you?</span><br />
<span style="color: lime; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">But Someone's eyes are always </span><br />
<span style="color: lime; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Narrow.</span><br />
<br />Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06736671410392108226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7514132985081391411.post-64436323250776400232014-02-28T10:28:00.002-05:002014-03-12T13:52:09.169-04:00Keeping it Real 2014 & Woman of the Year AwardIt's a new year, and I'm going to post more. Possibly because my brain has kicked back into gear in the past couple months; I can't explain it, but thought processes are becoming more like myself, and I've started painting again as well. Nothing great, but I'm not out to be great. I'm not out to be great, I'm not out to be the best. I'm painting because I like to, and sometimes it's more about enjoying something than being the best at something. I tell my teenager this when she talks about Cross Country running.<br />
"I'm not sure if I should run or not. I'm not really that great a runner."<br />
"You're a great runner."<br />
"Out of ten girls I usually come in fifth. Or sixth."<br />
"That's great! Most kids don't even run. Do you like running?"<br />
"Yeah, I do."<br />
"Than run. Don't run to be the best. Run because you like it."<br />
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It's okay to have a hobby and enjoy it for that. Wait, where was I?<br />
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Keeping it real 2014! My brain. Ah. So I'm having brain chains that are concurrent with my old self, which is refreshing- basically when left in quiet my mind thinks of one thing, then pops over from thing to thing until it arrives at a conclusion of the thought that may not have anything to do with that first thought. But is an Ah-ha for me, because I'd gone years without thinking much at all, just making lists of what I had to do, what times, and groceries. So thoughts are good.<br />
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The Kat Lee Reader's Woman of the Year Award 2014 goes to Lena Dunham. <br />
Congrats!<br />
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Have you ever noticed what an eerie resemblance Lena Dunham has to Joanne Woodward? <br />
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So. Steven and I have watched every episode of Girls (great show), and last year, I taped Iconoclast with Lena Dunham and Judd Apatow. It's been sitting on the dvr an incredibly long time- so long that with 6% remaining, it was on the 'Auto Delete' section at the bottom, along with Triplets of Belleville (I'm just going to have to cave and buy that one). So today I decided to watch it. </div>
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During the course of watching it, 1. I thought what a cute name Judd was and if I had a son I'd name him Judd and dress him in little green converse, tee shirts and suit jackets, and 2. Lena Dunham's face has a strange likeness that of Joanne Woodward.</div>
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Okay, so not the best photo choices above, but if you actually look at her face, the resemblance is uncanny. She is a rounder brown eyed version of Joanne Woodward. Stick some weird blonde bangs on the girl and she could possibly remake The Long Hot Summer. Which brings me to my favorite celebrity of all time, Paul Newman. </div>
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Paul Newman was the sexiest man ever to make a film. It is my belief that he was the sexiest man ever born. And for 50 years, married to Joanne Woodward. Joanne Woodward was pretty much thrown under the rug of what we considered the Hollywood bombshells- Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe, Ava Gardner, Rita Hayworth, Grace Kelly, the list goes on. She's not even listed on AMC's Top 20. Which is unacceptable, with her wondrous feline voice. </div>
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Possibly it was because there was a funny glint in her eye, a tad bit of oddness with a smartness that the camera wasn't able to hide. She was and is completely stunning; but the humor/intelligence combo isn't something at that time people related to sex appeal. (But keep in mind she did in fact get and keep the Hollywood's hottest).</div>
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Back to Dunham- I'm not saying that Dunham and Woodward have the same personalities at all; that was just a minor thought that society is more accepting of smart and quirky woman as sexy now. <br />
This year's Woman of the Year was based on desirability. Lena Dunham, while not sexy in a commercial way, is completely comfortable with herself, which is a sexy quality. Love yourself, and others will love you. I see this in my own marriage- my husband laughs and twinkles at my awkward and random dancing. He appreciates my ability to make fun of myself in public in small ways. They'll see your self-love and be intrigued by it, whether you got the goods or not. But she technically has the goods. I almost rewrote this drastically after watching the episode where she spends the entire show in a green bikini, but later felt more comfortable in my own pudgy body in a shorts/tank top combo, so I'm sticking with it.<br />
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And Lena Dunham's facial resemblance to Woodward? A very similarly symmetrical face wooed the only hollywood actor who ever mattered. The man who, when you die, you hope flies in on the back of a butterfly and tells you to hop on. (Yes, Paul Newman is God's ushering angel to heaven. If you think it, it will be ;) I'm going to stick with that; it makes the idea of death seem less frightening. We went to this In-Depth Channeling event where Arthur Ford answered questions about the afterlife. It was real interesting, but this isn't the place to go into it. Maybe next time...but that butterfly thing was brought up).</div>
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(The Kat Lee Reader chose the sexiest face in history by deduction of proximity to Paul Newman, then the uncanny resemblance to that historical face to select this years' Woman of the Year. Lena Dunham). Woot!</div>
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But I have to end this post with Paul, sweet sweet Paul.</div>
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Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06736671410392108226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7514132985081391411.post-84855989007629112032014-02-25T14:56:00.001-05:002014-02-25T14:56:32.175-05:00I'm thinking of starting a second blog; one that sounds smart and important, maybe a blog about education or savvy foreign political undercurrents. I will make myself out to be ever the intellect, never the ray of dorkshine that you see here.<br />
Or maybe I'll create a new Facebook page for an elite group inclusive of only I and the most finite people can join. Like, for example, People Allergic to Asparagus- that are also Left handed. I think probably there would be too many with asparagus allergies to not include that second part. But you, my one follower, can join...albeit you'll have to mind your utensil use and cough like a son of a bitch during the annual picnic. Because the picnic will be loaded with Asparagus. To prove you ain't lyin'. <br />
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What else. I'm going to be surrendering my Blackberry with it's rotted off buttons soon, and so I'll be posting my random poetry before it goes; I have a Notes section and write when I'm in car rider lines and stuff.<br />
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Here's what you get today. (It is an actual life event, completely true).<br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Soapy Ocean</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Two unassuming teens watch from afar</span><br />
<span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Middle ages woman and small child</span><br />
<span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">stop at candles.</span><br />
<span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Bamboo Flower candle. Smell.</span><br />
<span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Pear Banana Cookie candle. Smell.</span><br />
<span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Geritol Cherry Musk candle. Smell.</span><br />
<span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Soapy Ocean candle. Smell.</span><br />
<span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Teens eyes grow pale and in devilish</span><br />
<span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Whisper/Shout</span><br />
<span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Smell Another!</span><br />
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Yep. That really happened. Although I think I did smell more than four candles. I think I smelled all the candles. That is all.Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06736671410392108226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7514132985081391411.post-26836770141308680152014-01-06T14:36:00.000-05:002014-01-06T14:36:15.986-05:00What do you want? <br />
What do you want, what do you want. What?<br />
Do I believe in life's purpose or some sort of ethereal energy that surrounds us to help us attain greatness? Bah, probably not. I'm not even sure I'm asking 'What are you seeking?' in some sort of new agey way to stir a 2014 enlightenment. <br />
Just, What do you want?<br />
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We entertained an old friend for a couple hours last week, and his super cool girlfriend, and I caught myself talking about squirrels, and how I wished that I could find some sort of storm savaged squirrel nest; I could see myself with a little pet squirrel that sat on my shoulder while I shelled and fed it pecans. Perhaps it would shake its tail in irritation at passers-by. Okay, I didn't go into that much detail, but I did happen to mention a guy we met once that had a pet squirrel. And I admired my new friends ability to nod and be polite at my talk of domesticating animals that should have every right to live in the wild, while not commenting that I was wrong or really strange. Because they're park-service/hippie/biologists, and they could've created a debate. Instead, they agreed that squirrels were cute, and I felt happy. And then, later, I wondered if I said the wrong thing, as I often do.<br />
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So I guess I want a squirrel. And I'm saving up for a sectional sofa, something in a nice gray, but not a new sofa, just a Craigslist near-new one. <span style="color: #c27ba0;">But part of me wants new. Part of me wants a new, free from other people's lingering energy, piss, and scabies sofa, fresh and delivered, peeled of the plastic by me, myself.</span> <br />
I shake that part of me off, because that's also the part that wishes I had more common sense. The part that wishes I was smarter or better in some way and did something brilliant to a afford such a sofa. I focus on the practical person who saved $280 in a box for a sofa I won't have to make payments on. By summer I'll have $400, and a great deal from someone who's moving or getting evicted. <br />
What else is new? I fell asleep on New Year's Eve, due to a disastrous concoction that was supposed to be a homemade margarita gone wrong. I fell asleep at 10:30, snoring on the couch, while my family watched It (the clown movie). This week when we ate Mexican, I couldn't look at a margarita. Not my friend.<br />
I read Jane Hamilton's Book of Ruth. The entire book was a terrible train wreck. I love Jane Hamilton, she's great, but whoa. And this one after reading Fall On Your Knees- also <b><i>deeply </i></b>disturbing. Now I've found a copy of Dear Cary by Dyan Cannon at the Goodwill store. I need something frivolous and light for a change.<br />
And maybe that's just right at the heart of it all. What do you want? Does the answer necessarily have to be something deep and meaningful? Do some people just not have it in them to contain deep and meaningful answers? Could it be that often people are looking for an exaggerated sense of purpose? How do brains work; are some folks full of depth and life and meaning, and others satisfied by menial tasks, repetition, and squirrel-love? Why do people think so much? <br />
<br />Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06736671410392108226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7514132985081391411.post-19424749657314890772013-12-31T11:31:00.000-05:002013-12-31T11:33:20.636-05:00I was going to blog yesterday. I was going to, because I'd shaved the other leg finally, and I guess I wanted to announce it to the world, or like the solitary follower of this blog. Whatever, I didn't.<br />
And I had thoughts in my brain that were turning and humming and felt that some sort of New Year's Mystery Energy had moved in to make me a creative person again. <br />
But I didn't blog and the thought went away. They do that, It's like when you have to shit but you're too busy, then you get up and you don't have to anymore. Thoughts come and go like shit urges.<br />
Hmm. So we ate at a little backwoods place Saturday, so far removed from civilization. We ate there because I was on my eleven year old's Instagram and saw that someone had liked a photo of a beef brisket and tagged that place. It looked beefy and I'd never had one, so I made it a goal. One Saturday (because Saturday is the only smoked brisket day) we would go to the backwoods and eat brisket.<br />
So we get there and I spied something on the menu I'd never heard of.<br />
<span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b><span style="background-color: #073763; color: #93c47d;">"What is pear salad?" I asked. Really, I envisioned cooked pears, maybe in a hot vinaigrette with some blue cheese crumbles, but that's the Aquarius in me. </span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><b><span style="background-color: #073763; color: #93c47d;">"It's a pear, cut in half, filled with mayonnaise, then topped with a slice of cheese."</span><span style="background-color: #073763; color: #93c47d; font-size: x-small;"> </span></b></span><br />
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I'm not even sure I could watch someone else eat it, then I made it a FB status, and my precious amazing lil Patty commented how good it was. This is someone in whose judgement I <b><i>believe </i></b>in, my smartest friend. She's the friend that when I sit with her I can bask in the Smart-by-Association glow. Sometimes I nod my head and pretend to know smart things I don't know to look smart. I have other valuable friend qualities..I just can't list any just this moment. I'm still working on Smart.<br />
There is no way I can even imagine her liking that. So in that instance, I could watch...because she can ONLY be bluffing. <br />
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I guess this is why I should blog when the brilliance takes residence. Otherwise it's shaved legs, shit urges, and pears with mayo. There really isn't much going on in this head of mine. <br />
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Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06736671410392108226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7514132985081391411.post-3599090980204832432013-12-19T12:26:00.002-05:002013-12-19T12:32:26.236-05:00It's almost winter. Really It's felt like winter for awhile. So cold I hadn't shaved my legs in a month. They were so hairy, I could have looked tan from afar. Or gray. I don't know. I bought a new pack of razors, and today I shaved one leg. After that, I ran out of hot water, so I'll shave the other one tomorrow. I guess I stood around in the hot water thinking too long.<br />
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Grinchy died. We though we were gonna take him to McDonald's for biscuits and gravy that morning, but we didn't get to. He died, and we found him naked on the floor by his bed. I covered him with that red blanket and we waited. The kids sat on his porch til I decided to walk them down the road. It was a lot to take in. <br />
Last year, my uncle took him up the mountain. "Went up to see the bear waller!" My uncle said Grinchy said he couldn't die til he saw it, so he took him up. When my father got back from Vietnam, he went up in his convertible with a black waitress named Shirley L, and they didn't come down for a couple days. Memories. "I got to go again!" he said, "I can't die til I see the bear waller again." <br />
There's so much to think and I wrestle with all of it in my mind still sometimes. He was a loud and angry type, probably because his life didn't amount to what he thought it would, but you wouldn't think you could get mad at someone who was dead.<br />
One day a month or so after the funeral, my mother was riding in the car with me talking. She was talking about Grinchy's wife hugging her, crying at the funeral. We parked in the Goodwill parking lot while she relived what happened.<br />
"How did you find out about her?" I asked. She said to me that that day, she'd told him they were going to have another baby. "Well, I'm seeing somebody else, and she's having a baby too, so this is your problem."<br />
My mother didn't have that baby. She didn't but she cried in the car telling that story, and then we got out, and I found myself flipping through the used shirts, mad. I wanted to go back in time and whip his ass. I said a silent request that my granny in heaven do just that on behalf. Some people never get their due ass whippings. <br />
A few weeks later I got a little box from my aunt. It contained a cd from the funeral, the ones they play with photos, and a copy of his will. His children did well. My sister got his house and the 35 acres, I knew already. One brother got the house in Chicago. The other two split an about 200 acre farm in Wisconsin. My aunt got everything else. 'I'm okay with it,' I thought. Then my eyes drifted over and I caught sight of the date the will was made. That date was my birthday. My blood boiled at what seemed like his beyond the grave attack, there I was, mad again. Holding the thing in my hands, my mother pulled in the drive, so I put on my 'I'm Good' face and entertained her. Doubtful I was entertaining. It wasn't even unexpected. I had already bought my own copy of the funeral cd...Now I have two. I played it once. <br />
Another day I found myself driving alone, and it was quiet so my mind drifted. Somebody said as soon as Jesse got in the car, he got a sign. The Great Pretender came on the radio, the very first song as he left from the funeral. I don't know why that entered my mind then, but it did. Then I started thinking about how my radio quit working the week he died, and how I would never get a sign, and there I was crying, driving down the road. I cried, and then I said out loud, "I don't want a sign! I don't want you to come 'round my house!" And I didn't. I didn't want him to share in my future joys or successes, because they were self created, and I didn't want him to criticize my weaknesses from beyond. <br />
And it's strange what roller coasters people can put you on, and how you think you are okay then something will pop up. Less than two weeks later Steven's father died too. We were orphans telling stories, and not telling stories, and wanting the year to end.<br />
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And the last thing I said to him was, "Maybe you should scootch in a bit, you're too close to the edge." <br />
And the last thing he said was "Nag nag nag." <br />
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But rest in peace, grinchy. I don't always think the worst of you. I was not meant to be yours, just a friend to my mother, by way of you. I think you knew that too. And I'll be okay without your stuff.<br />
However your life went, slough it off life a cruel dead skin. Find Shirley and go see the bear waller. <3 p=""><br />
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And sometimes I don't know what I <i>can </i>blog about, and what would be considered intrusive. I fear sometimes when I write that I'll offend people or that someone will think I'm a terrible person. Often I let things stir in my mind rather than write it down. For the people. <br />
Screw that today. So I have this cray story. My mother, about to retire, has a mortgage that is higher than what she should pay for the place. So I tell her, 'Let that place go and rent! You could get a better house for less, and that would include yard maintenance.' Wanting to give her examples, I pull up the Facebook page for property rentals, and scroll through.<br />
I notice someone I went to school with on that list, but that person had deleted his facebook, so I clicked on his page, out of curiosity. Then I noticed that person had no mutual friends. All the friends were strange foreign friends...then I noticed wedding photos. So (let's call this person Poo to fill in a name here) So Poo moved to a foreign land and remarried. Bizarre. Bizarre because his previous wife was probably the most kind- surely the most gorgeous person in our town. And they've got kids- lots of kids.<br />
But then my mother saw the wife in the grocery, and asked if she was still married. So the wife says yes, her husband is in the store. Even more bizarre. So a few weeks later I run into her. She mentions this husband and in my mind I think, 'Are they polygamists?' Which <b>totally </b>isn't my business if they are; but then, also, if they aren't, Poo is a sad, sad case. Steven says this isn't my business to say anything, so I made small talk and left. But I felt bad, because this person is someone that's kind of my friend (but it could be I imagine that she's my friend, like when you are in high school and you have a project with the cool kid and you get to bask in the idea of cool friends) so I felt shitty about that. But I hope things go as well as they can for her & send her good energy. <br />
But while I'm on that subject, if you are doing something that is perhaps requiring discretion, and instead you maybe put this thing in the open with a few people, you gotta know those people might be uncomfortable with it. Like that time Clank and Skeezy fed each other okra off their forks and laughed at the big table, and I sat across feeling uncomfortable for Skeezy's wife, waiting out of state for her husband to come back that night. I guess what I'm saying is that all these Skeezy's and Poo's have a negative effect on the people that are around them and have to compromise their integrity when they want to tell them the what for.<br />
Because at 40, I am losing the ability to withhold my mindspeak. By 60, I'll be dangerous. I know now the road to the sharp and sassy tongues of the grandmothers- and I look forward to it, maybe.<br />
Anyhow, I think I'll return to blogging sometimes. I still haven't told you about the time we went to the thing! That's coming. <3 p=""> </3>Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06736671410392108226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7514132985081391411.post-87414666149686539792013-12-06T15:06:00.000-05:002013-12-06T15:06:23.700-05:00I've been a terrible blogger, for sure. <div>
I've been gone ages- I didn't even check in when I got snowed in on my 40th birthday and ended up at an In Depth channeling of Arthur Ford that night. That was freaky- and I didn't share. So many things I didn't share this year.</div>
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I wanted to see where you guys were coming from so I clicked on the Google stats. You people are real pervs, yo. I was so embarrassed on that page, I couldn't even read through to see what link would get you here. Somebody's sad, and a bit skanky too.</div>
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40 makes me old as hell. I can be crabby out loud though without reservation. I enjoy throwing in a sprinkling of the word 'Cray' in front of my children, though, to make them feel I'm current and hip. </div>
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"Oh my goodness, I cannot find the gluten free scones mix! That is so cray."</div>
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So I have mostly replaced you all with Pinterest, as well. It's an ideal medium, as I can share what seems like my own ideas, without having to explain anything. I especially like the Home pins, as I would decorate my own place exactly as many of those pins, so it's almost as though it's me decorating. Look! This is my imaginary house! Addictive. And oddly...influencial. I have made so many Pin recipes, several are weekly staples now. And with all those Scandinavian boards, I'm seriously enthralled with white. White everything with a random light wooden plank thing, then a random gray fabric thing. Perfect. You throw a bunny in the corner or a giant window, even better. My new imagination. </div>
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I can only imagine how it must be for you. <br />
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I thought I saw a rainbow yesterday morning. It wasn't a rainbow, just a blushed cheek on a gray cloud. We could pretend it's a rainbow, I guess, but so many things are vague and mysterious...and so many things could be less so. So it was a smudgy cloud. A Gray one. A younger me would have mused or scrawled poetry on the beauty of an imagination that takes a cloud and creates a rainbow. The new me hates rainbows. Shitdamn.<br />
Also, I was thinking about writing a follow up to my Blogpost, 'How to Prepare for Your Cerebral Angiogram' with a 'How to Prepare for Your CT Scan,' but really there's no comparison or preparation involved. I would say, wear sweatpants or pj bottoms, so you don't have to remove your pants on the table. Also, when you get that hot feeling in your hands, then it spreads to your genitals, you are not, in fact, wetting your pants. It just feels like that. <br />
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Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06736671410392108226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7514132985081391411.post-55741766040773922062012-12-10T12:52:00.003-05:002012-12-10T12:52:26.334-05:00How lame am I today. <br />
Today, I am so lame, I was watching Grumpy Cat videos, looked over at my own sleeping cat, and woke her, restarting the video so she could watch with me. Did I really think she'd find it humorous? <br />
Also, I discovered Mennonites eat ramen noodles. I am infiltrating their secret society.<br />
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Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06736671410392108226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7514132985081391411.post-35983557202517630892012-06-01T15:06:00.003-04:002012-06-01T15:06:58.886-04:00The other day I was walking in from outside and I got back outside 20 minutes later only to think that I am grateful there are no wild spider monkeys in America. Because I left the marshmallows out and hot dogs too. And because mostly, I wish there were wild spider monkeys. But that day, I was just grateful for what I had...No monkeys. <br />
I discovered Pinterest, and so I'm cooking all these things I never cooked, and feeling this shared community thing, which is cool, and then I hit the Search, and type in 'Kitchen', and this lady had commented on Every post with a similar comment, "I wish I had this. One Day..." OR "I would love to have this! One day, I guess." So I kept scrolling, and more and more of this bullcrap, so then I see one, and it's a pic of a lawn with an old mug and an open book. Same comment. <br />
And then I just had to comment that if she was not incarcerated, greenspace and a book may not be that elusive of a dream. I mean, right? <br />
We got some chickens. They really rock. Ha, after I type that, I started thinking about rocks and eggs, and the similarness (and yes, I know I coulda wrote similarities. I made a choice there). And the Black Eyed Peas Rock That Body played in my head. But then they won't rock, they'll egg. Then I thought about how cool it would be if they laid coffee beans. Because organic coffee costs more than eggs.<br />
And then how if Henny Penny is a rooster then we may make some soup. <br />
Happy May to you. :)<br />Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06736671410392108226noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7514132985081391411.post-83034524662814225502012-04-12T10:12:00.001-04:002012-04-12T10:14:27.696-04:00<strong><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:180%;color:#99ff99;">We had a kettle; we let it leak: </span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:180%;color:#99ff99;">Our not repairing made it worse. </span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:180%;color:#99ff99;">We haven't had any tea for a week... </span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:180%;color:#99ff99;">The bottom is out of the Universe. </span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:180%;color:#99ff99;">~Rudyard Kipling</span></strong>Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06736671410392108226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7514132985081391411.post-43666571514452266432012-03-30T09:35:00.003-04:002012-03-30T09:46:43.201-04:00Kissing boo boos.Yesterday Steven had a boo boo on his arm.<br />Really a microscopic little dot of a boo boo, but he had scratched at it so it was bleeding.<br />"Will you kiss it?" he says. Ha.<br />But I'm not really a fan of bloody boo boos, so I just ignored it.<br />But then riding in the car, I looked at his little scab on his arm.<br />"Awww," I said.<br />"You wouldn't kiss it earlier," he says,"but if I thought you would now, I would scratch it back open?" :P<br /><br />Also last night I saw a car flipped on its side on fire on the interstate. It was dark, and no one had come yet; cars started slowing.<br />Shanna starts talking about possible injuries. <br />"They may need a tetanus shot in that car! They may need some bandages! Don't you think?"<br />"Yes, they'll have to get out the bandaids for that one." <br />"I bet they have amnesia!!" Steven says maybe they lost an ear. Then we are agreed that hopefully no one was hanging out. It was a bloody boo boo kind of drive home. Frightening.Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06736671410392108226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7514132985081391411.post-70430305814028635262012-03-13T10:17:00.003-04:002012-03-13T11:26:36.906-04:00marchHey there!<br />Yeah, I said i'd blog more, and I guess I lied. <br />I think the brackets that they used to close up my skull on that off kilter side interrupted the way I recept ideas a little. Something with Orbs and Globes and Skulls and Planets being Round. The Sun is Round.<br />The Buddha is Round. Wee little cells are Round. <br />Squirrelly cheeks are round, when they got a nut in em.<br /><br />Nah. I'm just uninspired.<br />And really when you discover all the interesting news I have, you'll probably agree.<br /><br />So I went to the grocery store, which is outrageous, going to the gro? expensive.<br />I'm seriously considering building a little chicken coop so I can have free eggs. <br />Bees and Chickens soon, probably. Also, we're going to plant another row of blueberries, which will make 18. And replace the pecan tree the deer killed. Again. And maybe fence the one they didn't kill. Before they kill it. So I'm off subject.<br />I went to the grocery, and I pick the line with the teenaged girl that rings up my red and yellow bell peppers the same price as the green ones, and lets me know, "These red ones are high! I'll just charge you for the green." So when I have bell peppers I like to go through her line.<br />Also, I really enjoy her comments. <br />Like this one, when she was scanning my bag of dog food,<br /><br /><div align="center"><strong>"You sure do love your dog, huh?"</strong></div><br /><div align="center">'I like them enough to feed them,' </div>I didn't say that.<br />but I thought it.<br />I think she's made the same comment about gum before, really just replace the 'dog' with 'gum'...and I think I had to admit, "Yes. Yes we do." We do enjoy some gum. But not those dessert flavors, which are disgusting. Mentos is good. And it is also the fresh maker. That means it makes your breath fresh. For those of you who didn't get that. And those of you too young to have seen the old commercials. <br />I watched a commercial the other day. I usually fast forward them, since I prerecord all the shows I watch. So this was a watching of a commercial that had been prerecorded. <br />It was the longest commercial I've ever seen. From Cartier- the one with the leopard running on top of the plane next to the giant elephant, then the gold dragon turns into the great wall of china and the leopard runs up that too- it was so long. And then at the end it just zooms in on this great leopard bracelet, heavy laden with gems.<br />"I want that!" I say.<br />"We may as well just get a baby leopard," Stevens says.<br />Commercials. Bah.<br /><br />I'm starting to read again. i think it's going to improve my memory skills. In the two and half years since brain surgery, I hadn't been able to really read. I could read a page or so, get foggy and tired, then the next day, I really couldn't remember what i'd read. I spent over a year trying to read one book. "Put it down and try something else if it's no good!" my mother told me. This year I finish reading that book, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. I went on to read The Member of the Wedding. I just finished Gap Creek. <br />Now I'm reading The Red Tent. <br />Reading is sort of like having a friend, and it keeps me occupied and keeps me company. <br />I think there are times when everyone thinks, 'What good am I?' and I have that too, more since the brain surgery that ever before. As far-stretched as it may sound, finishing a book feels like some sort of accomplishment for me. It feels like effort. It feels like i'm not standing in place, if that makes any sense.<br />And I keep finding myself scanning the book racks in the Goodwill store, piling several at a time in my buggy. I'm becoming a hoarder, really. <br />Not really. but i've got a couple dozen I haven't read yet. (I like to buy corell and spoons at the Goodwill stores too).<br /><br />I really don't have much to talk about.<br />But I hope you have the greatest March and that every day is super cool for you.<br />She sang 'Splattery Splat Splat! Splattery SPLAT!' but it didn't happen. <br />And it won't.<br />be fearless and happy today<br />see ya later.Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06736671410392108226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7514132985081391411.post-63216908650081007482012-02-03T13:17:00.002-05:002012-02-03T13:49:43.684-05:00Reiki KittySo I have been ill for a couple weeks, and my latest observation is that my cat, who often likes her space, decides she wants to hover over me when I don't feel well. Sleeping on my legs, (I humour her and refuse to turn over at all costs), licking my hands and arms, sometimes she'll just hop in my lap and stare into my eyes. I believe my cat is some sort of Reiki Master kitty. She's trying to suck the poisonous energy outta me. & Then I start thinking about how in the old days they related cats to witches, and warned mothers to keep their babies away, because they' suck their souls out, when really they just liked their milky breaths. But I don't drink milk, and my kitty is, in fact, Reiki Master. So yeah. <br />And yesterday was my birthday. Woo hoo! Ah. <br />I called the Grinch, because people like to say they spoke with you on your birthday, and I don't speak with him much. And my birthday conversations always begin a certain way.<br /><br /><div align="center">"Did the Groundhog see his shadow?"</div><br /><div align="left">And a part of me likes this, because of course, I have always celebrated Groundhogs Day (or Imbolc to you pagans, lol) as a National holiday, and am partly recognised as an expert on the matter. Betwix you and me, I don't know what it means about the groundhog shadow thing, in the same way I can't recognise my left and right. But I heard an interesting thing yesterday, so </div><br /><div align="left">"the kids tell me there was no groundhog this year. Muskrat."</div><br /><div align="left">"Muskrat?? No. There was a groundhog."</div><br /><div align="left">"No. Apparently they couldn't get one." He then went on to tell me they were everywhere, also, <strong>Good Eatin'</strong>. I told him I'd like to try that, and we discussed proper cooking techniques for groundhog. Nice.</div><br /><div align="left"></div>So I wasn't in peak form and felt a little like I disappointed everybody by wanting to sit under a blanket. Cause when you have family, your birthday is everyone's party, and I became the sucky party pooper. I gotta get better soon.<br />I've O.D'ed on gluten lately, and I attribute my flare up to that. I'm going on a February Detox.<br />today I made a brothy soup, and I'm going to have this as lunch every day of my Detox.<br />Brothy Soup Recipe<br />3 c water<br />1 T cayenne powder<br />1 T Turmeric<br />1 Cilantro Boullion, or fresh cilantro will work<br />Fresh Dill (I use a couple Tbs)<br />Fresh Parsley<br />1-2 red dried peppers- those skinny red ones on the dried section- look in the latin foods<br />1-2 T Garam Masala powder- you find this in big bags at the Indian Grocery<br />2 T Coconut Oil<br />If it's too hot for you, add water. You'll sweat a little, but that's part of the detox. <br />No gluten during this time. Also, to aid in anti-inflammatory, take your fish oil/omega oils.<br />Your tummy will thank you. :)Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06736671410392108226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7514132985081391411.post-3649294249763559162012-01-13T09:05:00.004-05:002012-01-13T09:14:26.303-05:00my love<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQVENtc0YseYS8GpUnAJSrqEdK2424YS_ywlRLG0AJySYYibpAVus_4wYfYmt1GuGxGoAsI4RqtzfxCLL0jIruWQUrk6-l9qIpQFAYCNVZ88YC6N78eRNYYUYcMzZIjt_q1fRsINllXlo/s1600/IMG_1879.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 300px; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5697119028961322482" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQVENtc0YseYS8GpUnAJSrqEdK2424YS_ywlRLG0AJySYYibpAVus_4wYfYmt1GuGxGoAsI4RqtzfxCLL0jIruWQUrk6-l9qIpQFAYCNVZ88YC6N78eRNYYUYcMzZIjt_q1fRsINllXlo/s400/IMG_1879.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div>It's been a few year since I bragged about my almost unrealistically beautiful husband. That's just sad for you guys. So eye candy for my readers today. Then I hear Bonnie Raitt singing "Woman Be Wise" in my head, so that's all you get.</div><br /><br /><div>We're back from Barcelona, and on my Resolution List is hitting the blog more often than I've done. </div><br /><br /><div>So your gonna hear from me. Soon. But not at the moment cause I got to take a shower and get on the treadmill (attempting to accomodate the 'See 120 on the Scale' resolution. Got to fit everybody in, yo).</div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div></div>Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06736671410392108226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7514132985081391411.post-78407684772573862872011-12-16T17:46:00.006-05:002011-12-16T23:10:33.601-05:00November<div align="center">my november</div><br /><p align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd96NLnOem6beYjaJa5X4Z9_zsH_mLUQK5EfLidUyrW0FGik4pCgsuOEMJKFwgiuOdsY-97Hn8WzR2ajWShyUEZvoE0LC52mBggPZmW6OZvP2xTjy7Ivi6Gscf9y3LKgedgHYypw48a2Q/s1600/IMG_0194.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 300px; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5686865002828963058" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd96NLnOem6beYjaJa5X4Z9_zsH_mLUQK5EfLidUyrW0FGik4pCgsuOEMJKFwgiuOdsY-97Hn8WzR2ajWShyUEZvoE0LC52mBggPZmW6OZvP2xTjy7Ivi6Gscf9y3LKgedgHYypw48a2Q/s400/IMG_0194.JPG" /></a></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><p align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTXYaAn8fjtzxwg3acTMPj9H1d03BXZURYaBy84OJy2D8fAs6t2yu6XJZSAgB3IDFYiSU7vFmKBfbHn5LDSYf6ISzsQQxCnm1P8G0JtnTGX9G-5xvM2JPVGDsTU4FjOc0pVKWMVzItqyc/s1600/IMG_0431.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 300px; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5686864134531289938" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTXYaAn8fjtzxwg3acTMPj9H1d03BXZURYaBy84OJy2D8fAs6t2yu6XJZSAgB3IDFYiSU7vFmKBfbHn5LDSYf6ISzsQQxCnm1P8G0JtnTGX9G-5xvM2JPVGDsTU4FjOc0pVKWMVzItqyc/s400/IMG_0431.JPG" /></a></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_rUY_f4qAtAe7PnxUENt8hLLZUAJ9xZiiaGwbwyuFSrJtT9y8pFWssCceei3nsq29jiEyC_USQZwkoWE2RyLh4trMru9AnDh29bHEltCXq859g3Ivo9w8zkGTVsOdiXCcdAC1Ve42z_Y/s1600/IMG_2044.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5686863087108942242" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_rUY_f4qAtAe7PnxUENt8hLLZUAJ9xZiiaGwbwyuFSrJtT9y8pFWssCceei3nsq29jiEyC_USQZwkoWE2RyLh4trMru9AnDh29bHEltCXq859g3Ivo9w8zkGTVsOdiXCcdAC1Ve42z_Y/s400/IMG_2044.JPG" /></a></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAysTPYz0q4VZPrjC8ihKkRhgOMtT9REWVgS7DLzCSPa_H2gISISQrkjXAfnZbmSMkpBzY0ACgctbx2LUmz-HAaek9yaDpX2ufhtQwiuArrLzofAsHHkC2HjITRVqH56uQkpTIUvZW43E/s1600/IMG_1948.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5686862796831352898" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAysTPYz0q4VZPrjC8ihKkRhgOMtT9REWVgS7DLzCSPa_H2gISISQrkjXAfnZbmSMkpBzY0ACgctbx2LUmz-HAaek9yaDpX2ufhtQwiuArrLzofAsHHkC2HjITRVqH56uQkpTIUvZW43E/s400/IMG_1948.JPG" /></a></p><br /><br /><br /><br />a few pics from my november...Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06736671410392108226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7514132985081391411.post-76477623816867252922011-10-13T10:35:00.003-04:002011-10-13T10:54:19.963-04:00Be HappyBe Happy. It's okay to be happy- since when did being happy become a crime? I used to have this job; okay, it was a maid job, but in fact, I really enjoyed it (aside from the fact that they made me wear pleated polyester uniform pants. That's criminal, and I stomached down the putting on of said pant for the love of my fun job) but I worked for a woman who was obviously Unhappy, bitter and slightly evil. (Classic woman boss?) uh oh.<br />So every day i came to work smiling, happy. It didn't bother me that I was going to be cleaning pubes off of urinals, or lifting chair after chair to get the vacuum under tables. I made it my mission to hunt the stray macaronis that got away from their plates and mouths of children. They weren't in the clear yet...they'd have had to grow legs or a roachy passenger for that.<br />But when I walked in, ready to face the day, my boss would sneer. Some days, she would question me. <br />"Why are you so happy?"<br />"What are you, on drugs?"<br /><br />Sheesh. Nowadays, a pretty good response to that would be chimpanzee smile. I see all these arrests made for meth heads on the news, and they have this uncanny resemblance to old granny from Beverly Hillbillies. Then you read they're 23, and you think, damn. No teeth.<br />So when they jealously made snide drug remarks upon seeing your happiness, just give em<br />Chimpanzee Smile.<br /><br />I discovered myself doing something today that made me a hypocrite- though small in action, after catching myself in this act I'll have to change my ways. Walking through the kitchen, I opened the gummy vites, and when an orange one came, after two attempts putting it back, I got a pink and purple. However, I do not let my children have the same luxury. I'd have made them take the orange one. But I just didn't want it. So my new rule is "Get the flavor you want, then we'll eat all the orange ones at the end." Because the orange ones are pretty good when its all that's left. <br />The sun's come out. Have a cool day :)Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06736671410392108226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7514132985081391411.post-34113225232990061082011-10-03T09:09:00.010-04:002011-10-03T12:59:21.291-04:00Hehe. <br />Again, it's been forever!<br />I just haven't been the same since the lobotomy. <br />(That's a joke. But only barely...)<br /><br />So I apologize for not checking in; sometimes I'll think of something really interesting and blog worthy, but by the time I'm here I don't remember what that thing is. <br />What have I been doing? Have I read any good books? What have I learned this year?<br />I'm not that person that's going to awaken your spirit with some sorta great revelation. <br />Oh! Okay. <br />I guess I learned that scrunching your hair when it's wet does not make it curly. I also learned that towel drying your hair (basically towel-scrunching, so I'm just being repetitive) & then the non-combing of said hair also, does not make it curly. <br />For some people, it takes a long time to learn something like this. You might be one, I don't know. I might too. But I have adopted a hair brush when wet thing that is working out pretty well for me. <br />I learned that the phrase "If you can't do something right, don't do it at all" is not necessarily correct. A half ass job is still half. And that's better than none. Staring at a pile of magazines on the floor, going thru half the pile and trashing a little is better than walking past the pile. Washing half the dishes is better than no dishes. So my new phrase is<br /><br /><div align="center"><strong><span style="color:#ffff33;">A Half-Ass job is still half.*</span></strong></div><br /><div align="left">I have a class reunion coming up this month. Yay. </div><br /><div align="left">But my husband's smokin hot so I guess I have one thing going for me. The man is beautiful, seriously. </div><br /><div align="left">And I can always blame my lack of finesse in the area of smalltalk, my stumbling into the consistant wrong thing to say on brain surgery if I screw up too badly. But hopefully it'll not come to that.</div><br /><div align="left">Because both before and after brain surgery, I'm the same. I'm simple. I like to just put it that way rather than the derogitory phrase 'simple-minded.' It sounds better. Lynyrd Skynyrd made it into a bragging right somewhat. But I haven't been able to listen to LS since the mid-nineties; Years ago we saw them at the Tabernacle and the smoke, mullets and speaker throttling lack of volume control left me deaf for a few days. Freebird has never been the same. If you've been reading this for a long time, I'll have to turn to the Taterbug reference. If you haven't, back track. :P</div><br /><div align="left">Went to a potluck yesterday. Oh! But before the potluck, I went to the grocery store. So the girl asks me what's new when she's bagging my gro, and I say 'I'm going to a potluck!' And she says 'What's that?' So I tell her it's a thing where people bring food, then I'm trying to think of the words to explain it and all that came out was,</div><br /><div align="left">"You know when somebody dies and everybody brings a covered dish? It's like that without the dead person." </div><br /><div align="left">"Oh," she says. (If you've come to the conclusion that this person made me feel smart by not knowing what a potluck was, this isn't the case. Sometimes intelligence is purely a matter of life experience. If you know what a potluck is, that's probably cause you've been invited to one. Which doesn't make you smart, just lucky). :)</div><br /><div align="left">So the potluck in question was a UU (Unitarian Universalist) Potluck. UUers are pretty random but liberal types, and this UU group is like an extension of my family. I really do love them all, and though the faces change from potluck to potluck, they are familiar and warm, and the food is always good. </div><br /><div align="left">The New Guy. So there were maybe thirty or forty folks there, mostly that I knew, and then this one new guy. The new guy had become disgruntled with his previous UU group due to 'too much New Age talk,' stating he'd made a fuss about it and couldn't go back. I'd seen my mother set her lovely pie down, and knew doing the math, 30 or 40 heads versus 8 slices of pie, that my best option wouls be to go straight for the pie, because hell, the cheese slices and macaroni salad would still be there, but there were kids present, and this was my own mothers pie we're talking about. So I selected my pie, and then framed the pie with little bits of things; a meatball here, two spoonfuls of salad there, til it was folding over a little and Linda handed me a tray. (God bless Linda...She's too good for words). </div><br /><div align="left">So I sat across from Steven at a little table, and set down my pie. Then the new guy sat down beside me. He told me about how he'd been disgruntled with his old group. How he didn't see how they could carry on so. Growing up fundamentally Christian, he told me, what was the difference between listening to that hubub (Hubub is my word, not his, but I'm just trying to tell the thing) than going back to what he'd heard before? He wanted scientific proof behind anything in order to make it truth. So he brings up Stephen Hawking (?) and his new theory that because the conscious mind dies when the brain dies, there's obviously no afterlife. He is seeking debate. "I grew up with reincarnation, so it's a little different for me," I tell him. Then he begins with his evolution speech, and asks about apes. Did Apes reincarnate? So I'm trying to be polite but then he keeps asking me questions, and I say that I just always felt that our spirits seek higher consciousness, and that we will continue to evolve until we no longer need to, spiritually, and then we go back to being one with God- but that it was just one persons idea, and that I felt people have to find their own spiritual conclusions. But what I said in my head was, "I just want to eat my pie."</div><br /><div align="left">Damn! Let me eat my pie. F*ck, if you came to try to disprove other people's belief systems, maybe UU is not right for you. Or maybe it is exactly right, just not with me, and definitely not with me and my pie. I'm simple! Let it be.</div><br /><div align="left">Agnostics. So I get along well with athiests/agnostics, perhaps because believing in a bit of everything can be similar to believing in nothing. It is what it is, or maybe not/we'll see. (It's those people who believe in the one concrete thing that you have to worry about- those are the troublemakers, lol). So my mother asks me if I invited this friend I have to the potluck.</div><br /><div align="left">"No," i say, "She's athiest. I don't think she wants any part of a religious organization."</div><br /><div align="left">"Why?" she asks me, so I try to explain that sometimes when you don't believe in anything, you don't feel the need to look for it. If you don't believe in aliens, a shooting star will never be a spaceship. </div><br /><div align="left">So I'd brought up religion with this friend in the car, and she said she didn't really believe in anything in particular. Then, I said, 'So would you say your agnostic, or more like athiest?'</div><br /><div align="center">'I don't really like to label myself or people in that way.' </div><br /><div align="left"><em>She was right</em>. Darn it if I didn't take a look at myself later on and feel slightly like one of those Baptist ladies that ask you if your saved in the check out line. I was the New Age crazy person. But it's not so much I want to label people, but that I'm 'grouping' in my head. It's just a weird thing I do- which doesn't mean one group is better or worse, it's just a strange thing. Whatever you are is accepted, I just kinda want to know how you got there. </div><br /><div align="left">Which just brings me back to the new guy. Maybe he had what might've seemed a pushier way, but wasn't that what he was asking all along? :) It's odd how the train of thought often loops back to where it started. Much love, Kat</div><br /><div align="left"></div><br /><div align="left"></div><br /><div align="left"><span style="font-size:78%;">*unless you're getting paid for it. Then half-assed is truly half-assed.</span></div>Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06736671410392108226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7514132985081391411.post-10542769520202048372011-08-22T15:10:00.002-04:002011-08-22T15:14:03.333-04:00<div align="center"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#99ff99;">I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.</span></strong></div>
<br /><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#99ff99;">-Georgia O'Keefe</span></strong></div>Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06736671410392108226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7514132985081391411.post-21472957947614274622011-07-24T14:11:00.002-04:002011-07-24T14:17:14.272-04:00Amy Winehouse<div align="center"><strong><span style="color:#9999ff;"><a href="http://http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqSKVv6YO8g">http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqSKVv6YO8g</a></span></strong></div><br /><div align="center"></div><br /><div align="left">Huge Amy fan, so this is just the pits. </div><br /><div align="left">If you haven't seen this AW Valerie video, it's one of my faves. </div><br /><div align="left">Sending good thoughts to you, Miss Winehouse. </div><br /><div align="left">You were a treasure. </div>Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06736671410392108226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7514132985081391411.post-24465543456180746892011-07-08T13:32:00.003-04:002011-07-08T14:12:24.738-04:00I have been crying for two hours. <br />Don't even look at me. Seriously. <strong>I have had it.</strong><br />Ticketmaster Customer Service, you have done the equivalent of bashing my brains in with a rusty hammer. I can't take it!<br />Well' it's obvious I'm having a very very bad day. :(<br />So I waited one afternoon to buy tickets online for Adele (sweet sweet Adele!) at the Tabernacle. While it sold out in 30 minutes, I got through! And thrilled the girlies. We were going to Adele! Very cool. But Adele got sick, and it was postponed. <br />I recieved an email. Adele has been moved to the Fox Theater! Online Presale Only, use this number (which is my previous order number). Cool, I thought. Sounds easy enough. I'll sit a half hour early, have everything ready, and get Fox tickets. Not cool. :(<br />It would not let me enter my presale number. So I've called over and over. Finally what it amounts to is this...They see that I had the original tickets, and tell me it shows I have not purchased tickets to the Fox show. But it also shows that someone used my presale number and bought three tickets already, and only one purchase per presale number can be used.<br />"Who bought those tickets? What address are they going to?"<br />"We cannot tell you that." <br />"But you can see I did not buy those tickets! That's my presale number! How can someone that doesn't match my previous order name use my presale number???"<br />"We can't answer that."<br /><br /><div align="center"><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">Motherfuck</span></strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">.</span></div><br /><div align="left">So they say, "Wait by the phone and someone should contact you within the next 24 hours (while the tickets are selling out) to maybe resolve this and perhaps give you a new presale number, but Ticketmaster cannot." I'm screwed. And now I'm just a slobbery mess, my nose running down my shirt and no relief in site. Where are those little finder angels when you need them?</div><br /><div align="left">A long time ago I'd read that there were finder angels who helped you, say you lost your keys, you could silently call upon, 'finder angel, I can't find my keys again...' and then of course they'd turn up. Maybe finder angels were only a nice though all along. And if not, really, finder angels, i'd like you to search for whoever typed in random numbers until one worked (<span style="color:#ff0000;">mine</span>) and bashed they're brains in with that same rusty hammer. But a real one. </div><br /><div align="left">Oh, that's terrible. God help me. </div><br /><div align="left">I think I need some pie. Blueberry or blackberry. A la mode. I know food is not a remedy for mental stress, and that's such a crap solution. Honestly, I have a twenty year class reunion coming up. Pie shouldn't even be an option, that last ten pounds seems so damned content. The last thing it needs is pie. But this situation is special. </div><br /><div align="left">Sometimes I think of my cousin Jack when I think of angels. I think of car rides with my mom driving the old catalina, the felt hanging low on their heads in front; me laying across the backseat, with my legs dangling out...feet in the wind. I think about laughing back then, because everything was funny. I think about how now when I see feet dangling out a car window it reminds me less of those times, and more of the idea that someone will lose toes to a mailbox or something. I wonder if I googled it if any toe loss from dangling feet would come up. And I wonder if Jack is still funny, wherever he is. I wonder if he hears me when I think my silent conversations up or out to him. I think of Joust on Atari and ramen noodles and silver aviator glasses. I think of cards. Crushing cans in the stairwell. </div><br /><div align="left">But Jack is gone. And I'm having a bad day, or I wouldn't even be going back to that. </div><br /><div align="left">later.</div><br /><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">:(</span></strong></div>Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06736671410392108226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7514132985081391411.post-43119984102605791822011-07-07T14:18:00.002-04:002011-07-07T14:36:58.117-04:00observationsStuff I observed this week..<br />The girls, talking in back while I was driving,<br />"Nationwide has it's own store? Wow! I didn't know that! Did you know that?"<br />"Cool! Progressive does too. I saw it the other day."<br />Hmmm.<br />I don't know how people without kids do it, how they make it without those random funny kid moments. You think your too grown up for your britches, shopping the Coldwater Creek store, then the kids'll pop up behind you, "Did you see that sign? It said 'Irregular!!!'"<br />Irregular. I think they watch too many commercials. Funny. <br />Last week when we took my man to eat Indian, I watched a woman finger-comb a fat guy's long hair. While I was eating. And I was disturbed. <br />Probably just jealous nobody was finger-combing my hair while I ate my paneer. <br />And then at the bookstore, there was this lady. So whenever I find a book, I always back away from the shelf, so I'm not in the way. because I'm nice. And lately I've thought I'd like to learn to draw caricatures, you know, the kind you find in malls and amusement parks. So I stroll to the Art and Drawing section, and there SHE is. Stuck to the wall like a Chiquita banana sticker on a refrigerator. Like a bug on a windshield. Guarding the wall like one of those dumb birds that lays eggs in your yard. SPRAWLED out ON the wall. She was literally making love to the wall. And as I walked around her to try and view books, her beady bird eyes watched me, never straying from her coital positioning. And it was just really weird, I was obviously intruding. So I walked away. I went back later. Didn't find anything.<br />Anybody know Contrary Guy? That guy who has a contrary opinion to everything you say? I was thinking of the neighbor the other day and it reminded me of that. Cause he hates blueberries. But he may really hate them, i don't know. <br />I hate to go to the dentist now. Super Excited! Wish I could stay and hang out :).Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06736671410392108226noreply@blogger.com0