(now this is when I am glad I have the 5 photo strip above… they go so nicely with this post!)
For those of you in Germany and California that are here to see my mother, (your friend’s 59th birthday), please click on any of the pictures above to go to the photo album. Also, please feel free to leave her a birthday wish in the comments below!
Is a singer. THIS is her song. She is finally making a CD. This is just the raw version of one of her songs. The title for her upcoming Album… “Money Well Spent.”
alert.pdf (this was sent around my office at 2pm)
I Do Now.
(Damn! And just when I said I wouldn’t write about politics.)
Um, yeah so this asshole rides into my state and decides to fuck up the entire! evening ! commute! The arrogance! How can one person be responsible for shutting down every. single. major. traffic. artery. in the state of New Jersey? Oh, that’s easy…because he is an average C student and a selfish prick.
Yesterday, (see the alert file attached above) The New Jersey Turnpike, The Garden State Parkway, Route 1, Route 9, Route 287, Route 27, Raritan Center, and any town USA (with a ‘main street’) was closed… Closed? Closed! As in shut-down, in ALL DIRECTIONS: North, South, East and West. And during the evening rush hour, from 4:30 pm – 7:30 pm to boot.
Gee? Wonder why?
Because we have a President with so many enemies, after having made so many poor choices and so many bad decisions, that he is now at the highest risk for mad crazy protesting.
(Yeah, well… duh.)
If I may speak, to said President, on a personal level, this is the message I would like to make crystal clear:
“Hey! Brainiac! You did not score any points with any one I know in Jersey. In fact, by making all of us suffer, for you convenience, you have managed to accomplish the impossible = more enemies.â€
(Which, to any rational human being, poses a multitude of questions.)
“Mr. President, have you ever heard of consideration? I mean….For others? Any consideration, at all…for the general public, as a rule? Hmm? … No? Well, let me be the one to school you.â€
“Here is an idea, the next time you borrow some one else balls that are big enough to cross my state line, and you want to schedule a meeting with us nice folk…how about you try something more along the lines of 10 am, ya know? That way, we (the general public) are already at our perspective jobs, or homes, an not trapped together (now as the angry general public) on sweaty highways after spending a day, in a cubical, we most likely didn’t want to be in, in the first place, for some magical social security check, that we may never receive…thanks to you.â€
(yes that was a very long, run-on sentence… it just seems appropriate for a “C ” student)
“And another thing you might want to take in to consideration (even though we have made it clear, that consideration, is not quite one of your strong points)… If you had scheduled this meeting complete with the rest of the stupefied, at the10am-ish time slot I suggested earlier, you may have GAINED supporters, rather than pissing more of us off.â€
“I, for one, would have been happy to attend some gathering in the interest of constructive political change. And the idea of a meeting of that magnitude would have been an excellent excuse to get out of having to show up at that cubical that makes most of us (me) violently ill. Had you chosen my idea, thus making you a hero, maybe even a friend to us (the general public) you wouldn’t need to shut down every. single. major. traffic. artery…. for fear. of. mad.crazy.protestingâ€
“Hello? Do you know us at all? We, the general public, all could all use a free, justifiable day off, from work.â€
“In the event you continue to remain as dumb as the day you were born (which is now rather obvious after yesterday’s events) in the future, may I be so bold and suggest that any and all commuting needs be executed in the dark. Why don’t you simply try relocating between the hours of 2am and 6 am, cuz we (general public) would all really appreciate that.â€
“Oh wait, I forgot, trying to talk to you, is like trying to teach an ant to speak…you just cant.â€
In closing, “Stay out of my state. We have enough traffic problems, with the constant perpetuation and construction that happens every year, every May, through late August.â€
Thank you and good day.
Oh, and forthe TV lover in you, please go read this little number I wrote, that involves Jerry Springer, David Hasslehoff and Sharon Osbourne.
Okay it has been decided, the picture flickr photo strip thingy needs to be changed… Now onto a gamut new of “subject(s)”….well, it’s really just one subject, which takes a long time to get around to the point. (if there even is a point)
By the way, nothing in this particular post exactly flows, or even makes a whole lot of sense, sorry about that. I am just all over the place. So much so, that I have started maybe 15 different tasks, and completed… not. a. single. one.
Warning: If you are looking for something funny, witty, or smart, please try the other people in my blogroll, they are excellent.
I have so much to say, and, um, few words, in my vocabulary, to adequately describe, what I am feeling. (and, apparently, I like, commas. A lot.) I have at least 97 things in my head running around all loose inside my skull. These incomplete thoughts…pieces of sentences…floating around my cerebral cortex…are incoherent at best. I know if I could just get it all out of me and down on paper, I would feel so much better. But no.
Alas, this blog has become the superficial blog supreme. I say this blog has become a superficial for a couple of reasons:
1. I don’t write about any hard hitting topics like politics or religion. I know some of you guys do, and you guys do it well. But, I don’t write about them, well, because you guys do such a damn good job of it already. And in truth, I don’t write about that subject matter, because I am not a political or religious person. I don’t believe in any single religion. Fuck it, I don’t believe in any religion. Period. However, for some reason, I do believe in g-d. (even though we are not always in the best of terms). And, I can’t really talk about politics, because I am not on one side. I am not on any side really. There are some things I am very liberal about, and some things I am very conservative about. And, who the hell can keep up with all these “hopefulsâ€? I get all my political news from a whopping three places, DefectiveYeti, SmokeRingsAndCoffeeStains, and my Gramma: Everyone Needs A Little Evelyn. The last one may not be quite the best resource for information, but she sure is damn funny.
2. I no longer write as exposed as I used to, or as I would like to. I keep most things light and fluffy around here. Right on the surface. I leave a lot of things off of this blog. I don’t write about a lot of things I want to, or even things that I should write about, ever since I found out that there are people in my office who occasionally read this, and so do most of my family members. I’d hate for some of them to read some of the things I am really thinking sometimes. Besides, I have learned it is not always best to show the crazy that lives in my head. But I miss writing from my guts.
So that leaves me with, the daily nothings in my life. The superficial. I am not as crafty at making the everyday as comical as some of you other bloggers out here. I am left with flat posts about the weather, traffic, and haircuts. I can’t remember the last time I wrote something as funny as this. Or as thought provoking as this. (okay I was just kidding about the thought provoking one.) but, I feel like I haven’t written anything real … in months.
And these last few days, I haven’t been able to drum up, or write, or say, or think much of anything. not even the superficial. I don’t know if it is the change in weather, the heat and the humidity that’s making me drag ass, or what the hell else it is, but I have been practically paralyzed since Saturday.
Over the holiday weekend, I did nothing. And I mean nothing. I didn’t clean, or do laundry. I didn’t read a book, or write a sentence. I didn’t do any of the things I always imagine I’d do, if only I had the time to do them. And there it was, the elusive time I am always chasing. Right in front of me. Time. The time I am always complaining about not having. The time I am always looking for, needing and wanting. That time, to do anything.
And I did nothing.
I was invited to go to several places with wonderful things to do, and wonderful people as company. But I couldn’t go. Rather, I didn’t want to go. I just didn’t have the will to hold up my end of a conversation. All I could do and all I wanted to do, was take. a break. from everything, and everyone. To sit, on my sofa, staring, blankly. So, I did.
Now, I still am stuck in the “do nothing” mode.
I tried to watch TV or a good movie, but even those distractions couldn’t hold my interest for very long. It’s not that I am in a dark place. Or, even in a depressed place. I don’t feel guilty, or less of a person because I did nothing. I’m glad I did nothing. Sometimes I need to do nothing, in order to do all of the things I have to do on a daily basis.
But, I am in an empty place. Like I have nothing to offer, or give, or say. I’m tired of trying to make sense out of all the things that make no fucking sense at all. I’m tired of trying, to make, or find the funny, in the things that aren’t funny at all.
I’m sure (hopefully) by tomorrow I will feel better and post a huge disclaimer apologizing for being such a wet blanket today, but for now, I am crippled. I have nothing to say, or write, or give, or do, or be.
I hope to write something: funny, or thought provoking, or at least insightful, maybe even deep and meaningful once again, one day…, and one day soon, just not today…
If you are ever suffering from Insomnia, much like I am right now… you will feel instantly better after taking a look at this.
Okay, I have to make another “blog†decision. The photo strip above. On my old ass crapy blogger account, I had a flickr stream that alternated random photos. On this blog, the flickr stream above always shows the latest 5 pictures I have uploaded.
Now, for my question….do I leave the photo strip on the current setting? Leaving the 5 most recent pictures shown above?  If I decide to do that, it means, I would have to write any new post to correspond with the 5 pictures above, which means for each post I would also have to take 5 pictures, (and that’s a lot of fucking work) and some posts just aren’t picture worthy (which means there might be several unnecessary pictures of lets say my feet…)
Or do I somehow (ask, beg, Leslie ) to change it back to the random pictures setting that will change the pictures above every time the page is refreshed? hmm…. I think I want random?  What do you think?
Because I could never think of something so clever, I want to help Greg come closer to achieving his goal of world domination, read how to help him acquire his goal here. I will be executing the first two on the list.
I think maybe because I have been going through so many changes lately: new website, new web browser, new writing jobs, new clothes, and taking chances I wouldn’t have done a year ago myself, my son agreed to a little change as well. Or, maybe it’s because I went all Dr. Cox on him, and kept calling him by girl names.
While I am all for “free will†and “self-expression,†(as long at it wasn’t a tattoo or piercing) I really did miss my son who seemed to be hiding out underneath all that hair! My boy was hiding under some raggedy locks, and no matter how many times we washed his hair it just remained looking like a dirty, wanna be hippy, Beatles crazed fan.
Now with his fresh clean cut, he looks so… grown up… to me all of a sudden. He looks like a young (dare I say) man!
For some odd reason all I can hear is this Justin Timberlake song playing in my head…“bringing sexy back…â€
( …and to JCH being so brave, and for any other starwars / vader fans, Leslie brings us THIS …)
For any of my readers that maybe confused or lost, this is my new permanent home. There is no more blogger account for me. I will be posting here. I have done my best to change all the sites I am linked with to this new URL address. Please make note of my new page / URL address as the old one is now just a page marker for this site.
While I love my new pages, I do, can I just say how much I do not like change. Holy Jesus. I am still in the process of trying to get used to all of these new settings, coding, functions, capabilities, uploading, (still having mad issues with sizing photos) and re-entering old links and pictures that may have been deleted during the big move. Unfortunately there are some things that have been deleted which are gone forever. On those older posts, which are missing links or movies, or pictures, there is a statement that says, “sorry, this was lost in the blog move.†And others I just deleted all together. After reading through 400 some posts, I decided to remove quite a few.
Moving has been hard for me, since I am not one to posses much patience and I have little to no technological skills. I went through an upgrade once before, back when I changed from old blogger to new blogger, and I thought that was rough. This upgrade / move was much more difficult. This is a totally different platform all together. No more html codes, things are in php scripts which I barley understand. I even had to change my web browser from Safari to Firefox in order to use this website properly.
I was going through some of the 400 pages on this site entering old links into the texts of these posts, but, seriously, I can’t. It is just too much to reconstruct. Whatever links came over fine, whatever links didn’t make it, too bad. I did add most of my favorite links into the sidebar, but I am sure there are a few I have forgotten, or missed. If I am missing you, send me an email, or leave a comment and I will be happy to add you again!
As for all the movies I used to have embedded on these pages, I have removed them and re-entered them as a links instead. I find that embedded videos really slow down the loading time on my pages. I hate waiting for a decade for pages to load. I know personally when I click on someone else’s blog and it takes a long time to load I just leave the site all together.
As for uploading new pictures in new posts going forward, since I am having so much trouble with sizing these fuckers, I will only be uploading them as thumbnail size. For some reason, I cannot figure out and will not spend another second trying to figure it out, why all of my photos are gigantic. Huge. Massively oversized. When I upload them, they take over my whole page, then, my page gets all whacked and looks like “blog vomitâ€. So, to prevent further stress and eliminate shit that annoys me, my pictures will be in thumbnail size, but, when you click on the thumbnail picture it becomes giant inside its own window. I wish there was a way I could just drag a picture from iPhoto directly into the text of the posts, because that would make my life so much easier, but, for now, I can live with thumbnails knowing that clicking on them makes them enormous.
My myspace page is also under construction right now because that was / is / does look too busy and sloppy, and much like the new look of this site, and my Mac Pages, I am going for a cleaner simpler look.
The Everyone Needs A Little Evelyn site will also be going (dot com) and leaving blogger, I will be sure to notify the 6 people who care when that happens.
All in all I am very happy with this new page, it is just going to be an adjustment for me to get used to these settings. I’m so glad the major part of this move is over, I hope to work out all the kinks within the next week or so. If you see anything crazy or out of place or whatever, please comment or email so I can try to fix it as soon as possible!
Since I have spent the last how ever many days in here adding, cleaning, uploading, deleting, changing, altering, resizing, ect, I haven’t had any time to read or network with any of the other bloggers I have come to know and I love, I feel so disconnected with the internet and blog world! I miss my interweb peeps! I am off to socialize.
If you are looking for me I am guest blogging over HERE
and you know you can always find me HERE
Have a great weekend bitches!
I will be busy trying to figure out how to “work” this site, adding back all of my pictures and links that have been lost or deleted during the big move… Man, I love my new home…. it’s so pretty!
Leslie, IÂ Â can not thank you enough!
