.: Where You'll Find Me..:..

...all this week....

Sewiously, someone's going to have to indentify my engorged dead body in the lighting section because I'm going to be full up to my teets in Swedish MEATBALLS and Ligonberry Sauce!!! and Billy bookcases, too.

Here's a link from theprotagonist5 with more details.

.: Driveway Moment :.

I know I've lots and lots of other things to update on and I do have them on the lil laptop... But I do not have the capabilities at the moment. I've limited internet here at the Village o' Downers Grove Liberry... but I did want to share this...

Fresh Air Interview with Alan Alda

Seriously sat in the monster truck on the driveway for a good fifteen minutes b/c I didn't want to miss a second of this very funny and insightful interview...

.: volunteer :.

Its been difficult watching and reading all these stories concerning the Hurricane Katrina disaster. I'd been pretty succesful in attempting to hide from it all. Then I watched Oprah this morning.

Someone had something about how taking a shower and having a hot meal made you feel like you were human again. I knew that feeling. Living in Heathrow for days and not knowing when I was going to be able to go home was an awful feeling. I mean, I had a roof over my head, running water, and English Bobbies with big guns so I was WAY luckier than these folks. But the day that they let us take a hot shower in the VIP area and offered us hot tea and bicuits - I felt like a queen.

Well, since this morning I've been on the horn calling, googlin' whatever... tryin.. tryin.. to find a place that needs an actual body as opposed to my non existent money to help out. I'm still waiting on a few places b/c it sounds like a few hundred other people might have got the same idea at the same time. Looks like I may have to get a group of MT (NOT masseuses) to volunteer b/c I can't seem to find a group to join myself.

And now just finding this quote from from the former First Lady while visiting the Astrodome, I'm bitter determined to help the "underprivileged" -

"Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality," Barbara Bush said.
"And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them."

.: Sudoku :.

I have been so hooked on this puzzle game the last few days. I'd discovered it in the Sunday Chicago Tribune where they will publish one daily. Apparently its very popular in the UK at the moment. This is the site were I found this particular puzzle.

.: When September Ends :.

Just watching this video makes me tear up... What a commentary... And reminds me of WM...



Green Day - When September Ends

Summer has come and past.
The innocent can never last.
Wake me up when September ends.

Like my fathers come to pass,
Seven years has gone so fast.
Wake me up when September ends.

Here comes the rain again,
Falling from the stars.
Drenched in my pain again,
Becoming who we are.
As my memory rests
But never forgets what I lost.
Wake me up when September ends.

Summer has come and past.
The innocent can never last.
Wake me up when September ends.

Ring out the bells again.
Like we did when spring began.
Wake me up when September ends.

Here comes the rain again,
Falling from the stars.
Drenched in my pain again,
Becoming who we are.
As my memory rests,
But never forgets what I lost.
Wake me up when September ends.

Summer has come and past.
The innocent can never last.
Wake me up when September ends.

Like my fathers come to pass.
Twenty years has gone so fast.
Wake me up when September ends.[x3]

.: ..ugh.. :.

This is me and Manda. We're at Neo. I have a bottle of wine and a bunch of birthday shots in me. I'm still recovering. AND I've a bunch of bite bruises on me.

Thanks to Manda, Margot, Devon, Dick, Adam, Andre and Kuya Noah for showing up to celebrate with me. Fuck you Michael for all the damn bites...

And thanks for all the birthday wishes from everyone. I gotta say... one of my favouritist birthdays ever... as much as I can remember...