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Sometimes You Just Do It To Yourself

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I’m not a hard person to shop for at Christmas- I don’t care about stuff, I just like opening the packages and being surprised.

Which means that I’m really hard to shop for because people think that I won’t say what I want…and when I do give it up and say what I want those same people think I’m kidding so these are the things that I have asked for and have never, ever received and probably never will.

Knives.

knives

I wanted a set of those fancy knives that all good Cooks have in their kitchens.
I’m actually a great cook and I’d have to be because I use one knife and it’s never been sharpened. So really I can work miracles in the kitchen.

In case you’re curious

I will probably never get a set of knives from anyone I know because  I write about people getting their heads chopped off… A LOT…oh and I was a Mortician.

And I have a temper.

Next:

I have asked and asked and ASKED again for a

Fiji Mermaid.

mermaid

Yes  I AM  serious.

I think they’re cool.

And after 35+ years of asking I haven’t  seen  a Monkey /Fish toy, model, picture or keychain under my Christmas tree.

I suppose I will never get a Fiji Mermaid because- geeze I don’t know, I guess it’s because when I’ve been asked, ” Are you serious? ” I just roll my eyes around and walk off.

Something with Two Heads.

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Actually what I wanted was a Pickled Punk.

I wanted something in a jar that I could name Bixy or Lil’  Chunkles and all I know is that after years of  begging I have an empty shelf in my room with no Jar…oh wait I do have one full of fake eyes that float in water but that doesn’t count because I bought it for myself.

I can’t explain the Pickled Punk no show under the tree situation. I guess there’s no way anybody in my family is going to go to a store and asked for something dead in a jar to give to someone at Christmas…even if that someone is me.

Well.

I can’t fault my nearest and dearest for not twisting Santa’s otherwise open and giving hand to give me the present of my dreams-

 I did it to myself.

I just ask for weird stuff.

So.

This year I’m going traditional.

This year I’m asking for something old fashioned.

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Okay.

Fingers crossed everyone

and

Merry Christmas!

cold-cat

 

 

Fine. We’ll Go There.

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a christmas rant from

The Bones

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I was walking home from my bus stop yesterday when I noticed

the glaring lack of Christmas decorations on my street.

The next day I noticed

a glaring lack of  Christmas decorations on a lot of houses beyond my street and I suppose that

there may not be

– to paraphrase Dickens-

 much to make Merry about.

Eight of my friends have lost their jobs

my nephew lost his life

my patience is gone

my sense of humor is non-existent

and if I have to suffer through one more freaking commentary from

” Progressive Liberals” whining and bitching about how

disappointed they are in Obama’s Cabinet Appointments I am going to take my middle finger

and jab it into someones eye.

If you have a pulse and you have a job and there is the slightest ray of hope making it into your life may I suggest that you make the best out of what you have because the alternative to not having your life, a job and hope really, really sucks.

Now get the plastic Santa out of that box in your garage, pour yourself some eggnog and try to enjoy what you have.

It could all be over before you know what’s hit you.

a.m.m.

Your Call Is Holding On Line…

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Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection, [reproduction number, e.g., LC
Photo Credit: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection, [reproduction number, e.g., LC

For the past couple of days I’ve been receiving a lot of hits from a site called

Alpha Inventions.

I followed the traffic back to the referral  because I’d never heard of Alpha Inventions and generally when I notice a surge from one specific link I do get curious and always go back and check it out.

What I found out is that A.I. is an experiment in connecting webmasters ( bloggers ) together’faster’. As opposed to being a ‘chatty’ site like Facebook or Myspace Alpha Inventions deals strictly with information .

Here’s brief description about how it works from the Alpha Inventions Blog:

If you update or publish your blog at the same time my visitors are browsing blogs in my site then my visitors will get a chance to see your blog in real-time. BAM! (the entire blog is in their face instantly) It’s not even annoying to watch.  Is it alpha addicts??

I also provide a link to your blog in case they want it to open your blog in a new window, or bookmark your blog . The links provides your title, and description to help my visitors get a better understanding on what your blog is about, and get more interested. Alphainventions.com is useful for wordpress.com , typepad.com, spaces.live.com, and blogger.com I love it, and want to grow it like a tree. Yahh!

To get more traffic from alphainventions.com just keep your blog updated . It’s so simple.

More..

I would say that if I had to describe A.I. in simple terms it’s a bit like wandering through a bookstore or cruising through the footnotes in books ( which is something I like to do with pen and notebook in hand) for some new ideas to feed the old Grey Matter.

So  give Alpha Inventions a visit if you’re interested in the new ways that people are finding to stay connected through the Internet and information sharing.  And if  you are just a writer like me you’ll be intrigued by the desire that people have in a Cyber Universe to find a life line as it were to stay connected to each other.

It’s so real world.

a.m.

Meet Cooper

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COOPER!
COOPER!

Today in the Seattle P.I. I read a story about the one of the most interesting cats – so what made Cooper- you may be thinking- so interesting to a woman who has cats-one of whom got into a fight witha Pitbull and won?

Cooper is a photographer – the humans that keep his food bowl restocked are filmakers Michael and Deidre Cross. And given that Cooper has taken some very interesting  pictures I’m willing to guess that Michael and Diedre have learned a lot from him:::

Cooper Cam
Cooper Cam

 

Cooper Cam
Cooper Cam

Cooper Cam!

Cooper Cam!

One of the comments I’ve run across asks if Coopers pictures are art- he doesn’t control the camera after all.

Look, this is what Cooper sees and not only is there art in that, there is poetry and there are stories too.

So you go Cooper, if anything it will drive home the point that the world is more interesting when we’re able to see it through something other then then our own mind’s eye.

::: More On Cooper’s Pictures At:::

The Seattle P.I.

The Seattle Weekly

Cooper Will Be Featured On Animal Planet Cats 101 Episode 1

December 6, 2008

 

Sweet And Saucy

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Veronica Lake-Actress

Veronica Lake-Actress

In my world

some songs are sweet

and some songs are saucy.

I learned that from my Grandma Ginger.

My Grandma Ginger was really into songs from the Big Band Era.

This is my second Christmas in my 44 years of life without her.

Who knows- maybe this year I’ll sing and play it for my nieces.

We’ll see.

Anyway.

This song

 is dedicated to my Grandma Ginger

Pennsylvania 6-5000 is said to be the oldest continuing phone number in New York City, New York. It belongs to the Hotel Pennsylvania and has been in continuous use since 1919.[1] The telephone number is based on the old telephone exchange name system. The first two letters “PE” in PE6-5000 stand for the rotary dial numbers 7 and 3, making the number (with Manhattan’s area code) +1 (212) 736-5000.

CONT HERE

Pennsylvania 6-5000

(lyrics)

I got my shoes shined up
I got my hair slicked down
‘Cause baby I wanna hit the town
Call me – Pennsylvania 6-5000

I’m gonna shake you up (all night)
Rock you all night long (all right)
Baby you got something
Goin’ on
Call me – Pennsylvania 6-5000

Write it down,in your book
On your wall,oh baby just call
Pennsylvania 6-5000

You got the look I like(oh yeah)
Come on and show it off
Whatever your doin’ blow it off
Call me – Pennsylvania 6-5000

You know I just got paid
I got my hot rod wheels
So if you wanna find out how it feels
Call me – Pennsylvania 6-5000

Write it down,in your book
On your wall,oh baby just call
Pennsylvania 6-5000
In your room,in your bed
Keep it in your head,oh baby just call
Pensylvannia 6-5000

Hey oh(hey oh)
Hey oh(hey oh)
Na na na na(na na na na)
Pensylvania 6-5-0-0-0
Write it down,in your book
On your wall,oh baby just call
Pensylvania 6-5000
In your room,in your bed
Keep it in your head,oh baby just call
Pennsylvania 6-5000
Pennsylvania 6-5-0-0-0

My Thanksgiving Note To All

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PLEASE NOTE

I am Thankful For:

Godzilla Movies- because when I was a kid it was nice to see a big monster make grown-ups ( who looked teeny tiny people ) cry like babies.

My husband- and I’m not saying that because I desperately want Pirate Boots for Christmas, I’m saying that because I’m going to GET Pirate Boots for Christmas.

My family who not only accept me in all of my weirdness they can do it with a smile on their faces ( okay, so they’re laughing hysterically, whatever- sometimes you have to take what you get )

My friends out here in the real world who put up with me in the cyber-world and support my writing- just by reading it- no kidding,-like it’s not enough to deal with me-  on top of that they deal with my weird stories about cannibals and graveyards and the stuff I write here.

They’re Saints I tell you…SAINTS.

I’m also thankful for my Cats and my Dogs because they remind me everyday that I’m not an island, that what I do affects the world around me and that one good deed can without a doubt not matter-

 but you should do them anyways.

And of course, I’m thankful for Bruce Campbell and David Tennant and Swing Music and of course Mozart.

So as I spend Thursday in self indulgence mode, I am going to be thankful for the world around me and for the people and thing inside of it

and I’m going to enjoy it all.

I hope you do to.

Happy T-Day

from

Anita Marie

 

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What I Want For Christmas Pt 1

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I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
Don’t want a doll, no dinky Tinker Toy
I want a hippopotamus to play with and enjoy

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
I don’t think Santa Claus will mind, do you?
He won’t have to use our dirty chimney flue
Just bring him through the front door,
that’s the easy thing to do

I can see me now on Christmas morning,
creeping down the stairs
Oh what joy and what surprise
when I open up my eyes
to see a hippo hero standing there

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
No crocodiles, no rhinoceroses
I only like hippopotamuses
And hippopotamuses like me too

(Short Music Interlude)

Mom says the hippo would eat me up, but then
Teacher says a hippo is a vegeterian

(Short Music Interlude)

There’s lots of room for him in our two-car garage
I’d feed him there and wash him there and give him his massage

I can see me now on Christmas morning,
creeping down the stairs
Oh what joy and what surprise
when I open up my eyes
to see a hippo hero standing there

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
No crocodiles or rhinoceroseses
I only like hippopotamuseses
And hippopotamuses like me too!

Christmas novelty song written by John Rox and performed by Gayla Peevey

Christmas novelty song written by John Rox and performed by Gayla Peevey

Ode To My Hippy- Baby Friends

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I have a half dozen friends

who all share the same name

and

who to this day

all go by nickname based on their real name.

Why?

Because their parents were total hippies and named them after a song about a floozy named

Cecilia.

CECILIA- Simon and Garfunkel

CHORUS:
F                Bb          F
Cecilia, you’re breaking my heart
          Bb         F         C
You’re shaking my confidence daily
      Bb F        Bb         F
Oh Cecilia, I’m down on my knees
       Bb         F             C
I’m begging you please to come home
         F
Come on home

CHORUS

F                   Bb   F
Making love in the afternoon with Cecilia
Bb    C     F
Up in my bedroom
             Bb       F
I got up to wash my face
                     Bb
When I come back to bed
           C         F
Someone’s taken my place …CHORUS

F               Bb F Bb F C
Bo po bo bo …

     Bb  F       Bb        F
Jubilation, she loves me again
   Bb          F             C
I fall on the floor and I laughing
     Bb  F       Bb        F
Jubilation, she loves me again
   Bb          F             C
I fall on the floor and I laughing
       Bb F  Bb F  Bb F C
Wo ho oooh …