Deep In The Forrest

My Father is in I.C.U., where they wanted to keep him through today, so they could watch the condition closely. His cat scans did indeed show bleeding on the brain, and he had hit his head with the fall. They weren't completely sure whether there was already some bleeding in the brain and that might have contributed to the fall, or whether it was just from the fall, but they considered that it was serious. So far he's doing ok, and the swelling seems to be going down. As long as that goes down completely and the bleeding stops it should be good... if anything happens otherwise, or there is a need for surgery it could be serious given his diabetes, age and conditions. It looks hopeful though! I appreciate your wonderful thoughts, prayers and support through the situation, and so does my family. I guess after they're done with him in I.C.U., he'll be moved to a room, and I hope his stay won't be too long. He longs for his big screen T.V. and his "TV Land" ch...

I won't be doing my Weekly Words Challenge today, I just got a call from my sister. My Dad fell this morning as he and Mom were going out for Breakfast and he's hit his head, and is being taken to the hospital. I'm not sure what's going on, but I doubt I'll be around... Will post when I can. AJ

Today is my best friend's birthday! This is not my sister by blood, but she is my blood sister. I want to send her the sincerest Birthday wishes. Divorce the number baby! You will always have it goin on no matter what!! Everyone send her some birthday shout outs, and I'll just dedicate this post to my "best mate" Tamra. A short history of our friendship is in order I think, today. Roll with me here. :) I knew who she was in High School, although we weren't friends or really acquainted back then. I do remember that we were interested in the same guy once, as told to me by another mutual acquaintance. The funny part about that is that we both got him as a conquest (not at the same time you perverts, different points in our lives), and neither one of us were impressed... lol! All's well that ends well, really. So after High School, I got a job at our local Wal*Mart, and worked with a girl named Sherry. Sherry was Marge Simpson in the flesh (so named by her Dad j...

You guessed it. Another title from the Random Titles To Stimulate The Imagination page. haha I know, I'm on a weird roll... whatever. I was thinking of posting a video today, but then I got mad at myself for "copping out" and taking the easy way of posting a video. I hate when I feel void of anything interesting or worthy to say. I know this is blogging, and not every post has to be pure gold, but I like to at least feel like I put a little of myself out there and at least remotely entertained or made you guys think. I got mixed reviews about the 'ball sack pen holder' from my last post. I'm sorry, I just couldn't help myself it was hilarious looking to me. I'm thinking of getting Mr. J to pose for a ball sack pen holder, but if I do rest assured that it will blow that ball sack out of the water... the man has an admirable ball sack. ((giggles to self)) I know what you're all thinking, nobody's ball sack is more attractive than ball sack, rig...

I've done it again, only I tried out A Different "Random Song Title Generator" . Hey this is fun. :) And I'm feeling a little nutty, kind of like my new pen holder (don't ask who the model was). Anyways, I'm popping in early today, and on a Saturday at that! We're getting a little freezing rain, which is small reward in the name of the snow I have been begging for all this time. I am on the shitlist of the gods. I realize that now. My Karma is evidently as hot, evil and raunchy as Satan's Taint. (Satan's Taint is also a name I made up once for my husband, Mr. J when trying to think of a cool "Punk Band Name" for him to use for a new punk project he wanted to start at the time, I thought it was rather clever. Hell, can you think of any single worse place to be than Satan's Taint??) Oh sorry, I digress. The freezing rain... although not snow, if it actually ices over is reality in motion as Hell (Memphis) actually freezes over... Hell,...

I'm silly sometimes. I don't care, I enjoy being silly and immature. I have OCD and ADD. [In fact, just for a goof I took This Quiz and it scored me 69: Moderate ADHD lol!] I guess this first paragraph proves a point... because it was all just scattered gibberish that had nothing to do with my point (Wait, did I even have a point?? What was it?). Haha! Oh, yes... What I was going to say was that I really get bored with my Blog titles sometimes, and I ran out of creative things to name the posts, so just for a goof today I went to Random Titles to Stimulate The Imagination in desperation, and came up with today's title!! Actually, now that I re-read the thing, it is more true than I thought... I am my own dangerous spoon!!! WTF! Speaking of WTF, I recently got invited to participate in WTF Friday , a blog run by some of our best! Let's see, the contributers are: Ole Phat Stu katy cappy. Ron, apparently Aunt Jackie Four Dinners Barnze tideliar Cynnie I'd say that i...

I am a sheep in the ever-growing cyber-meadow of life... I have a google homepage. I decorated it with all kinds of "cool web parts"... I get the Quotes of the day, because frankly I love quotations. I always have. I get a giggle out of some, and inspiration from others. I even write one myself here or there. When scanning my google homepage this morning, the following quote stood out to me (for some odd reason). "Write a wise saying and your name will live forever." - Anonymous Way to prove a point huh? Isn't it true though, I mean wise sayings, philosophical word vomit, it's always a hit... Some people we know already, the actors and famous folk who've spewed 'words of the wise', and sometimes it's because of the wise word vomit that said individual might get noticed, right?? I think this "Anonymous" has the game all figured out though, he or she is also quite cocky enough thinking that the "one word name" is going to ta...

Lately, aside from my philosophical stent with Picasso the other day, I have felt rather wordless. Wordless is kind of unusual for me... normally, I have a great deal that I can usually carry on about (interesting or not). So I'm trying to work myself out of that. I tend to get worked up sometimes, and I crawl up into my shell and try to retreat from the world, and can become anti-social when that happens... wanting to keep to myself, and hide. This week, so far hasn't been that ecstatic for me. We had the holiday Monday, as I mentioned yesterday, and that was o.k. because I got to visit my Mom, Dad and Sisters. Yesterday was one of those hum-drum days though. I think it was a full moon, and it was so uneventful and boring to me. Nothing seemed to go right, and also I didn't eat right and ended the day feeling like shit... I managed to walk a mile before band practice, which got me feeling a little better, then practice went not-too-bad, so I felt better after that too, the...

Cindi had a Meme, she didn't tag anyone specific but it was kinda cool, so I decided to participate. So here is mine. It was fun! Here were said instructions. Here's how it goes. You are about to have your own band's CD cover. Follow these directions Go to...... 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random The first article title on the page is the name of your band. 2. http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album. 3. http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/ The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover. 4. Use your graphics program of choice to throw them together. Like Cindi et al, I will tag whoever would like to do it. Let me know in the comments if you did it so I can check yours out! How fun was that??? :)

Nothing else to call it really, and not been very witty. I (guess) you guys have noticed that I didn't post all weekend. Well, I thought about it, but I had nothing interesting to bring to the table. I tried to think of feelings and ideas or anything I really had on my mind, but came up blank. Hope you'll forgive me. I will post more today and this week. I'll get back in the swing!! Today's Weekly Words Challenge, brought to us as always by the Fabuloso Tink of Pickled Beef , is themed "Envy" and "Triangle". I admittedly dug into my archive of photos from fall, which were not that long ago, but still MINE... and brought to you the following items... I'll do better next week!! Triangle(s)... Always capturing signs and windows, etc from Restaurants downtown... This bar called "Swig" has a very cool logo, which does in fact include "Triangles"! What would a Memphis photo be without the Pyramid?? Memphis' ultimate Triangle! En...

One more piece of proof that stupid people continue to breed, and breed. Woman Gets Sick from Tattoo purchased from Door-to-Door Tattoo Artist

Here I am, one amazing woman, still carrying on the tradition of apples... Here is mine, a little knowledge I'm passing you from my own tree of knowledge and life too. I felt in an open mood today, and I thought I would contemplate some of the insights that our great friend, Pablo Picasso left us. The bold are a few quotations by Picasso, and I will attempt to expand on his words with my very own grey matter. Everything you can imagine is real. Just look around you at the world you have created... It's beautiful, it's dangerous, it's joyful, it's insane, it's nirvana, It's ugly, it's serene, it's an Armageddon. You're all such talented artists and geniuses yourselves, every move you make is a brush stroke on an ever-growing mad masterpiece... the art of Life... Never stop imagining, lest you cease creating... and you are capable of anything... limited only by You. Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. Think about that for a mome...

We all have them, don't we? "Those Days"... You can't find your keys, you get locked out of the house, different little things that seem to stack up on you as if it were a bad moon rising. It can be extremely frustrating, but if you look at the big picture, you eventually see that everything actually does happen for a reason, whether or not it seems like it at the time. Yesterday was one of those days that I just couldn't catch a break. It started out o.k., but progressed in a somewhat humorous fashion I guess. I slept late, and had to rush like mad to get ready and get to work anyways, so I had time to slap together a bowl of cereal, throw myself together and head out the door. By lunchtime, I was harboring evil thoughts of "Sonic" (You may or may not know what Sonic is depending on where you live, but it is a drive-in fast-food place, like the 50s/60s I guess, for a long time, it was endorsed by Frankie Avalon, and there is NOTHING healthy there at all...

I can't believe it, but I've won an award over at Picked Beef (Thanks Tink!) I was a little late finding out because I got busy yesterday and/or kept getting interrupted. Very cool... it's the "Golden Spork Award", and she gave it to me for "Inspiring Blogger". This is a great honor Tink, and it means alot!!! Anyways, today is the WWC again... yep Tuesday already! This week's words are "Soft" and "Square". Ok, so in an attempt to be sly, and put both words into one, I baked a big batch of gooey soft chocolate brownies, and I was going to take a photo of them for this but unfortunately I ate the entire thing on the way to pick up my camera. I'm JOKINGG!!! GEEZ!! I'm not that much of a chocoholic ( or AM I! ) No anyways, here are my pics this week, and as always I enjoy playing WWC with you guys... Enjoy! Soft & Square (some are both!). This cake looks very soft as my nephew sticks his baby-soft face into it for the fi...

... I have not. (That's my best Yoda voice by the way). Feelings of things brewing, not necessarily bad, just a state of energetic unrest like things are happening. I don't know what yet, but we'll see as the week progresses. Other than that, I stayed up too late last night and couldn't get up early this morning like I had planned. Nobody's fault, just me. :) Now I went out to lunch in my car and I went down and parked by the River, I turned the music down kind of low and I relaxed and had my lunch, and the sun was beaming through the window, so I relaxed back in my seat a moment and closed my eyes and just tried to let the tension go. It was nice. I opened my eyes and there was a Mockingbird sitting on top of the little trash can next to where I parked and he sat there for the longest time staring at me... I wondered about him. Then I watched the lazy river roll by, and there were objects floating in it, like big limbs, bushes and debris (occasionally). I thought a...

Written by Me: Ode... When you've done some walking in my shoes come find me, feel free, seek then you might be allowed opinion and be permitted an attempt to speak I'm the one who lives my life yes I've always just been me your attitude, impressions, perceptions are so far from reality Just focus on your puppet strings and keep silently in time Clean your filthy fingers before you point them at me and mine Please, a moment peering through my eyes before you tell me how to see Live and let live, dear 'Jesus' B - B - B and LET BE When you can create a universe in merely seven days then maybe you can be free to judge or be allowed words about my ways Your hypocrisy don't touch my soul because I'm the only one who has to know What I am, and can do and should be last time I checked, was every inch Me. Before you try to force my head into a bow double check your own name plate as Only God can Judge me now!

Seriously, if you like coffee, and are not drinking a cup right now, then take a moment to brew a pot... Go ahead. Stop and get yourself some coffee. Then come back. If you don't like coffee, have water, soda (whatever you like). [pause] Alright then. Well, we've made it to Friday. It's been a better day today than the rest of the week, I feel my energy returning. I can't explain it, just haven't felt very energized at all this week, and my friend Kim stated there was some shifting in energy going on around us these days, so if anyone else has felt this way--It may be one of the reasons! But today, my calm and relaxation is coming back... I don't know why. Once again I have found that my horoscope for today was odd in retrospect... I don't know what's going on with that. But it's really weird: Explaining yourself to others isn't just a one-day event; you are interesting in being understood better by those close to you now. Unfortunately, it...

My week has been going along somewhat 'hum drum'. I have felt overstimulated and under-stimulated at the same time... Working through, waiting for some excitement... yet excitement just seems to be evading me. It waxes and wanes, and you can't be riding the waves of ecstasy every single moment (I guess). :) Yesterday I had been having a discussion with my friend, Kim about a few things. She's a Reiki master, and very into energy, healing and all that. We were discussing how she always had an uncanny way of meeting somewhat high profile people. Used to work in the hotel business and met alot of famous names there, and then sometimes just happened. So she tells me because we recently "reconnected", not to be surprised if I ended up getting strange occurrences like that myself... like her luck would rub off on me. So today, going along frustratingly as usual during the course of my day, read my horoscope this morning, thought nothing of it (at the time). About 4:...

"I Like My Coffee like I Like My Photographs... Black and Strange!!!" ha-ha! I bet you thought I was going somewhere else with that, right? :) Well it's time again for our photo-funtastic Weekly Words Challenge, brought to us by the Wonderfully Strange, but not black Tink of Pickled Beef . This weeks words (if you haven't guessed already) are "Strange" and "Black". Since I'm too lazy and don't feel like re-ordering the photos, I'm going to start mine off with... Black: Was in the mood for a little black-n-white photography today, and it is strange that I felt like going to the graveyard on such a dreary, stormy day. My strange cat, Rodney here posing for the camera, looking quite reflective in B&W. A little fun with a more high-contrast b&w photo Good contrast here on yet another photo from the cemetery. We have this black building downtown, I dug this out of my fall photos because I liked the yellow tree against the black o...

(For all the Elvis fans, sorry it's not about him, but Happy Birthday Big E nonetheless!!) Blame Richie, he reminded me of this heinous genre of music, and showed me a video that was way, way creepier than the Burger King Dude ever thought about being... Seriously. This video makes Burger King Dude look like Santa Claus! lol!! Yuck. I'm totally disgusted now. It's really weird, the MUSIC SUCKS, but if you can make it through the long beginning and the weirdness, you owe it to yourself to witness this. They're called the "Aphex Twins" with a song called "Window Licker". Hang on tight... press play. Come back later today for Tink's Weekly Words Challenge (WWC) Happy Tuesday!!

I went ahead and deleted the Yuwie post... everyone was pretty down on it, not much support going on there, so I didn't see a reason to leave the post up. However, if you ever feel like helping out, the referral link still is on the right side of my blog down there. Oh well, nothing usually works for me anyways, I just didn't think it hurt to try. Friday night we went out to "Raffe's Beer Garden" and had some Mediterranean food with Rob, Meg and my coworker Vikram. It was nice as usual there, the food is good and they have alot of beers on the list (which is what Richie likes about it). Other than that, Yesterday and Today have been grey, dreary and very boring! I took a nap yesterday, and all I have done today is have sex with my husband, eat sushi, and watch stupid Hillary Duff movies on T.V. (Yeah I know! Somebody call an Exorcist please). I'm bored out of my mind! However, I don't have much else to report so if you want, you could catch up on stuff you...

The time while I was renting Bo's house was a strange little blur. I mean, I remember everything but can't remember exact months, dates or anything of that sort. DO KNOW that my motives for renting his house were not-so angelic. He and his girlfriend were moving down to the next county for some odd reason. His mother liked me, she rented the place to me for $200 a month (ok quiet everyone, yeah that's dirt cheap!). She also left most of their stuff in the house, and Bo told me that they had a special 'hook-up' with the cable, so if I just paid the bill he said I could leave it all "as is". It was my thought and desire at the time that Bo would come by the house a lot and that somehow it would bring me closer to him. But this story is not about Bo, it's more about Me, or rather a brief encounter I had with "Frankie". I'll get to that in a minute though. Despite the fact that I had these fantasies that Bo and I would somehow get closer by m...

Wow, it's so strange that I just looked at my cellphone and it read "11:11", and then my computer time said the exact same thing. "11" chases me too... I know a couple of you have mentioned this. I don't know what it is, it began for me with 3:11, then it went to many other 11's. The funkiest for me is the 1:11 and 11:11 though. Wild huh? And I don't know what to make of it. Of course I was interrupted and didn't get to actually post it at that time, but hey guess we'll take what we can get today. It's Freaky Friday again, and I'm very glad the weekend is here. I was trying to think about sharing another story for you guys since I did last Friday on my anniversary, and everyone seemed to enjoy it. So let me see if I can remember a good one and I'll try to put it up this afternoon. I've been having a bit of writers block lately where Lyrics are concerned, but I am sure that will break soon... just the holidays. My head is still...

Good day to you all, this is my very first post of 2008. I put up a small one of course on New Years Eve, just well wishes and all. Then I took yesterday off, went home to Mom's, and had the usual "Black Eyed Peas" for lunch which is supposed to be good luck and all... Food was good, and two other sisters showed up so we almost had a little family thing going on... Mom seemed happy to have some of her daughters together... Deb, the one who just had a birthday on 12/28 if you recall, she brought her dog "GT" with her. Jeanne, well being such a "Big E" fan, her English Bulldog is named "Elvis", so he was with her. I felt left out not bringing my Salvador Dali namesake!!! :) Anyways, I think maybe Tink (of Pickled Beef) had planned to do something similar with the WWC this week, and I'm not sure... So I will put my official entry in nonetheless. I didn't have time to give any thought to this week's words, "Brown" and ...