On the hunt...

Got a call today...The temp agency has FINALLY given me a call and I'm workin'on friday now...Whoo-hoo...Praise the Lord...Ick...I don't know what else to say...Alright I'm done...I want a different job...I don't know why...Read some more books...Got some shopping done...Spent more money than I have...Erin's mom's making us eggs and bacon. Yummy...Ya know, I should steal a toaster...I love toast.

The chicken from hell

For everyone's future refrence, don't try to roast Peeps. You'll only get yourself burned. Trust me. Want proof? Check out my pointer finger on my right, No my other right ( That would be left, after many confusing hand gestures). I got my self a nice second degree burn. It looks like a maniquin with out a head, arms, or legs.

My sisters had managed to convince my mom to light them a bonfire, so I tossed on my jean jacket and flip-flops and headed out of doors to participate in the festivities. My sisters moved the trampoline closer to the fire (I was waiting for one of them to be bounced in.) My mom was building it up nice and high, and I was sitting there being slobbered on by my adorible doggies (one of which strongly smelled of the cow manure I'd tried to wash off of him two days before).

That's when I got the great Idea to roast marshmellows. Of course I was thinking normal ones with chocolate and grahm crackers aka s'mores aka some mores aka those awsomely fatening things that cause fights around the campfire because someone always has taken more chocolate than they were susposed to and there's never the right amount of chocolate, marshmellows, and crackers in their perspective containers. Instead my sister brings out mini marshmellows left over from the pizzeria. Stale mini marshmellows.

They don't taste bad. Sorta like the hearts and stars and horse shoes, clovers and blue moons, pots of gold, rainbows, and the red baloons, of Lucky Charms. Somehow one of my doggies got ahold of them and it became one for Jake, one for Shiner, and one for Lisa, untill we finished 'em up. I however was still hungry and had the bright idea to roast me some Peeps. The first one ended up in the fire. The second ended up mooshed in Shiner's fur. The third is the fateful one that burned my fingers and chased me in the house to nurse it with a gel pack and Larry the Cable guy.

FYI

I have peach pit stuff stuck in my teeth and Tosh won't go into the kitchen (I'm at Erin's) to get my purse so I can get 'em out. Now you're stuck with me complaining about how I have 'em stuck in my teeth.

The final leg...

of the triple crown is on June fifth. Can't wait. Smarty Jones is of course going to be the favorite. Which he's a favorite of mine. But he might hit the TC this year and I can only keep my fingers crossed. Find out more here at the New York Racing Association site.

Current Readings...

Right. So I picked up more books from the library a week ago. I managed to slam down a few in MN before my westward trek. The rest I've managed to slim down to almost nothing.

First was Pillow Talk by Hailey North. This was a new to me author. I found her from those lovely ladies on the Lauren Royal Street team. Unfortunately, My library doesn't stock many of her books, but I fell in love with this one so I'm gonna have to go ask for somemore. It's a modern romance and is really cute and funny.

I Read Leigh Greenwood's Born to Love. I love all of Leigh's books and character's I've ever read, which is a considerable amount since I've read all of the Seven Brothers and all of the Cowboys. This is the last of his Night Rider Trilogy but I haven't read the first two books. I really think it sucks that his publisher ditched the idea of him finishing it out the way it was planned. I love connected books. Yes it rocks to read 'em all in order, but unlike Nora Robert's connected trilogies, these can stand well all on their own and out of order. Trust me. And Amazon gives plenty of backlisted books so I don't understand all the hoopla. Losers.
Then came The Outlaw Bride by Sandra Chastain. This was another newbie to me. I just picked it up off a library shelf because I wanted something to read and it sounded sorta interesting. It was a case of dual brothers wrongfully accused of stealing in the old west Texas. My only grief was the amnesia. I understand it's a real thing but it gets used a little overmuch in romantic fiction as a driving story device. The main heroine was a lawyer and a past life street raggamuffin. I think I'm going to check out some of her other works. The Redhead and the Preacher is an intruging title.

My transtion book from MN to Nodak was Emily and the Scot by Kathryn Smith. This was another LR Street teamer. Unfortunately, my library only has her YA titles and not any of her adult stuff. The book was cute. I defanitely enjoyed it even though it was a Teen novel. I'm really for the sentiment behind it though. I read my first Romance novel when I was in sixth grade and I think that's a bit WAY to soon for my porn books. It's really too bad Avon canceled their YA line.

Then I read Outlaw's Bride by Maureen McKade. She actually lives in Minot so that was sorta weird to find out. It was a formula romace. It was sweet and entertaining and I only picked it up because it had a similar title to the other book. She was a new author for me too.

Then I tackled Birthright by Nora Roberts. I loved this book. I'm gonna go out and get it in paperback so I have a personal copy. I loved the archeology/anthropology angle (which I'm thinking about minoring in) and Jake seemed like such a great guy. Wonderful heroine I loved and it actually dealt with the baby snatching ring idea I'd been playing with as a storyline. Loved this one better than the entire Key Trilogy together.

Right now I'm delving into The Morning After. It's due Friday and I'm just getting around to it. I can't even re-check it out because there's a hold on it. That's a real bummer. Now I'm gonna have overdue fees.

After this I've gotta finish The Notebook. I started it durning Finals week then packed it by mistake. And I'm still on page four of DArthur so... Lots of reading to do.

The art of being confusing

gotta run to work soon. pizza duty calls. Just jumped on to email Matt. Good Lord I miss that kid. Was gonna do it last night but I was too tired. Must get on here again tonight to update the world on my computer (since it's susposed to be fixed but I haven't seen it yet). I think I need to give Tosh her own handle on this thing. Every time I come on she's got a new entry up.

Oh yeah, Go Smarty Jones.

Gee do they stack up...

I haven't checked my email for a complete week. I had 122 messages in my Junk Mail.

My Lucky dog Horse

Smarty Jones won again!!! Unfortunatly, I didn't get to witness this poetry in motion, or 8th wonder of the world. I was working instead. 'sides, the rents don't have regular TV channels. Just dish. So all I'd get is my ESPN2 ramble.

One more, The Belmont, Then the prize is ours!*Evil cackling laugh*

Well, it's been a while...

I really wasn't planning on having this long of a break. The game plan was to use the library shamelessly for this. Yeah. Instead I'm out in Nodak using the 'ol virus infected dial up dinosaur. BECAUSE the company Dell used to deliver my new rom drive sucks and it showed up after I left Minnesota. So now I'm out here for atleast a week. But mebbe that's a good thing. I do miss my family. Well, now I guess I'm suck with them for a while.

Hello one and all from the land of nowhere

OK, so this is not Lisa, it's of course Toshia, but I thought that I should let you all know, for those that choose to read this, that Lisa's computer is broken and well, she doesn't have internet connections at this time...or well, til she goes back to school. But, I do believe that she planned on hitting the library sometime to use the internet there, can't here at my place...free internet...not enuff time...but anywho...

So, all is well otherwise. I guess. Uh...talk to y'all later then I guess. BYE! Have a great summer!!!

Can you pass third grade?

I can pass it! I think I got this site from Tosh. Now it's your turn to try right here.

So much sweat.

I labored long and hard to find this site. Remember Nine days till the Preakness.

Come on baby!

Check out this site to see who's working towards the Preakness stakes. Of course, Smarty Jones is my favorite. He was my Derby favorite and I'm waiting for the Triple Crown Winner. It's been so close for the last few years. Real Quiet, Carismatic, Funny Cide. So close, but so far away.

Please shut the lights out already.

My throat hurts. I'm pretty sure it's complements of Tosh since she was scamming with a cold earilier this week.

Last night I got no sleep. I take that back. I did sleep for a little bit. I couldn't sleep so I grabbed my handy dandy Discman and lo and behold (there's a cliche) Ricky Martin's in the player. I don't know how many times I listened to it, but I don't remember four songs including The cup of life, which is one of my favorites. I know I'm a dork.

Then this morning Tosh made me carry the fridge and the shelf out to my car. Ick Ick Ick. I wanna go back to bed and SLEEP this time.

Some people gross me out more than I can express in words.

I really thought I was done expressing opinions and forcing stuff on ya'll for today. Then I read this. I makes me want to throw up. I can't believe how some people take an act that is meant to be something beautiful and twist and turn it into something dirty and disturbing. Expecially when it involves their own children.

Parents are susposed to mess their kids up. That's why God makes people have kids instead of planting us in cabbage patches as full grown adults. However, some people screw up their children so bad crap like this happens and they blame it on their parents and the cycle continues.

See it gets me so upset my vocabulary recinds and I'm stuck with the very descriptive word crap.

Why don't people realize that some things just aren't "normal" ?

Stopping abuse to women and children is one of my personal crusade causes. Find out some jaw crashing tounge bitting stats and info and how you can help here. Remember it could be your mother, sister, wife, daughter, niece, or girlfriend that could be touched by this. It's not something that happens to "other people."

Some times the garbage you don't pay attention to in class really does mean something.

Right. So I haven't really been impressed with my Information Media class. Didn't think I learned too much. Well except how to make a simple standard half-assed web page. Well some how that class taught me enough HTML that I figured how to give you guys a link to my half-assed web page. It's not going to have many changes over the summer, but maybe next year I'll do some updating. It'll give me an excuse to go over to the library and scope the smart boys.

Go See this Movie!!!!

Alright. So I look forward to Johnny Depp movies just like everyone else. I think he's a genious and would love to be one of those film student pricks who get to ask him questions on Inside the Actor's studio.

I read bad reviews of his movie Secret Window. They claim it was mediocre. Well they don't know me. Everyone knows I hate stupid Stephen King books and stories and all that crap. I read romance and sometimes fantasy and lots of historical crap. And more than all that I read children's fairytale books.

I'm way into this movie. I thought it was funny and smart and even though some lines of the story were sort of predictable (his dog gets killed).

*I spoil endings and stuff so you might want to beware*
I was really happy with it. I of course was the only one who laughed when Johnny's character had to get rid of dead bodies, but hey, that's my thing. I'm allowed.

Johnny was great. His character Mort and I have some similar house keeping habits which I thought was funny. Uh. Didn't really dig him with the glasses and weird half blonde hair, but it was great. There was one line that made me think of Captain Jack Sparrow and we all know that if I wasn't going to Marry keith urban I'd so be Jack's wench.

The reason I started that last entry....

There were some Italian Greyhound puppies at the pet store. They look like tacos with stick legs. Now I want one.

I like big dogs. Tosh and Becky both think shit tsus are so adorible. Ick. I'd be so afraid of stepping on the damn things. Atleast when big dogs get in the way you can see what yer tripping over. Right now I have a Blue Heeler mutt named Shiner (yes, my infamous faithful sidekick Lightening Dog.) and his buddy Jake, who's a lab mutt.

The people who moved into my old house have a Great Dane that's a dappled grey they call Moo. So now I want a Great Dane. And I want Greyhounds because they're so funny looking. And Irish Wolfhounds are big and goofy looking. What can I say. I like the big goofy looking things. One thing I couldn't stand would be lots of hair. Lots of sheding hair. Ick.

I can't wait till I get a house and can get me another dog. I wanna name him Blenderhead after the PBR bull. Yeah. A little dog can't handle a name like that. Not even one of Tosh's labradoodles.

Where pets shop...

Went to the mall and took my mandatory pit stop at the pet store. They had kittens out. They were so adorible. Now if ya'll knew me, you'd know i'm not a cat person. I can't stand my sister's cat. Patches is really old, like 12 human years old. And she can no longer eat human food because she chucks it up on the carpet in my bed room at my parents house. This wouldn't be a problem except the carpet is from the 80's and is a kelidescope of brown and red and it blends in so no one notices it's there.

However, I have a weak spot for ornery Tomcats. Once upon a time My sister's cat went and got knocked up and had kittens and I got the only boy. He was the most adorible grey spitfire. And he wasn't pretty. His name was Romeo, and it fit him since he spent so much time Cattin' around the neighborhood. Infact, one of our neighbor's started taking pot shots at him when he came around so I had to tie him up. He didn't like that much. My poor baby.

*this has a sad ending so stop reading if yer gonna burst into uncontrolable sobs. One glistening tear is okay. I can't stand massive swarming floods over this though.*

So one day, my aunt, who was living with us, decided that he was unhappy and let him loose. Said he needed his freedom. Does she put him in the house or in the shed, or even in the dog kennel where he could run around a bit yet still not get shot? No. Let him out in the wide open. He never came back.

God this starts out antsy and ends sad and sappy. Well Holy Water is on now and That's a slower sad song. I guess it fits.

Desk drummer

Got Rollin' the ballad of Big and Rich playing on Tosh's computer. It came out on Tuesday. Way excited cuz she's gonna buy the CD as a reward for Finals week.

I'm just jumpy. Becky, her lil' sis, and I are gonna go see Johnny at the cheap seats in Secret Window. Anyone see it? Don't think it really matters.

Ignoring things I have to do for finals and my packing. I think I've got a strict schedule figgured out to get it all done by Friday at two.

Bounce bounce bounce. Ya know i've never noticed that I don't sit still. I wonder why that is. I've always got some body part moving. Mostly my mouth. Right now it's my fingers and my mouth and my toes. I'm like a wriggling puppy or something. Ya know the ones who's butt keeps moving till it falls off of what it's sitting on. I think that happens in an animated movie. It's not Oliver and company. Maybe it's one of the Lady and the Tramp movies.

I love Tramp. He's my favorite Disney character. I like Whinnie the Pooh too, but I'm not sure why. But Tramp. Yeah baby.

The Last Dinner

Ate the Last dinner of the school year with Tosh tonight. (Sorry. Toshia. She hates being called Tosh but I still do that for some reason and only I can get away with it.)

Managed to grab the wiggly table in the loft and prolly the only one with old food crumbs on it. Ah, the good ole days. It's sorta ironic though because Tosh pointed out that I'm going to prolly be eating pizza over at her parents' place on friday. Well, atleast our last dinner wasn't sad.

The First group dinner of summer with Erin will be though. My dad's coming out to fix my car during Erin's finals week next week. That means I have to go back to Nodak and work a couple days. No dinner for us I guess.

Cheers.

It Starts...

"...Ya think ya know a guy..." No I'm just kidding. Don't know why Pumba and Timone started talking in my head. But they did and it came out my fingers.

Started Darthur. I'm on page four.

Becky called. She called an emergency shopping trip because she bent her sunglasses in half this morning. It gives me a break from studying Europe. "And she broke/my freedom chains..." sorry. Eric Heatherly just popped out of my mouth. Becky's circuting the block gotta run.

Thought I was gonna lose it....

Check out The Creation of Minnesota on Froyd's Rants. It's so fuckin hilarious. I started that weird gag hacking thing when I couldn't breathe.

obcenely mushy gushy feelings

Season one of Gilmore Girls goes on sale today. And Luke FINALLY realizes he has the hots for Loralei. Oh the cheese factory that's coming up.

Books of the week

I read Lord of a Thousand Nights and The Protector by Madeline Hunter. This morning I finished Key of Light by Nora Roberts.

I enjoyed the ones by Madeline Hunter. They fit well with with her book By Arrangement. The Nora Roberts book is the first of her latest trilogy, the Key trilogy. I didn't get into it quite as much as her last few like the Three sisters or the brothers on Chesapeak bay (those are some of my favorites of hers), but I got into it enough that I can't wait for the library to get the other ones on hold for me.

I've got The Morning After by Lisa Jackson. That was on my list to read next, but Tosh is in the middle of it and she doesn't spend all her time reading.

I've also got THe Notebook by Nicholas Sparks sitting here. I caught a movie trailer (staring Ryan Gosling) based on the the book. The movie intruges me so I thought I'd give it a read.

Last week I caught Johnny Depp in Sleepy Hollow so I picked up Rip Van Winkle and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving.

Then I've got the piece de resistonce (read it like it sounds with that really cheesey crappy french accent). I returned the stupid half volume of Le morte darthur and got the Entire Le Morte Darthur. Yep. That's my work for this summer. I'm gonna read 757 pages. All before the movie comes out this summer.

Wow that's a lot of reading. I also have Kenny Chesney's All I want for Christmas is a real good tan. Great song. Strong album. I'd definately suggest everybody listen to Jingle Bells played on steel drums atleast once in their life.

Whatcha gonna do when they come for you...

Went and saw Mean Girls last night with Becky and Melanie. The movie was really cute. I mean it could have been better, but it worked for what it is. The story had some meat. It wasn't all fluff. The ex-boyfriend/new crush was adorable. Although his hair cut sucked. I thought some of it ran a bit much on stereotypes. There's this one scene where they go to a Halloween party and all the girls wear lingerie and animal ears as costumes. It's funny in context to the movie and the point it makes, but I'd never wear those costumes. They also use the skank, slut, ect. too much. But they try to layer it over with girl empowerment and how to get along. My favorite part is the bitch girl being run over by the bus. But then again, that's just me.

Finals week...bleck....

Should start on homework. Have to study for my final on friday. Western civ. Luther to Milosevic. Makes me want to cry. Have to work on some English Assignments too. Yuck.

Right now I'm Watching Saved by the Bell. Thinking about all the crap I have to get done today. I need to run and pick up a blue book, hit the bank, and visit student services to pay for my room. Yuck. That all sounds so horrible.

Lazy day

woke up at eight thirty and finished reading The Protector by Madeline Hunter. It was pretty good. The heroine is gawky and dresses like a man. Sorta related to her. He hero, yeah he was beautiful and strong and lived through a dosing of the black plague.

Ten thirty finished book and grabbed The Key of Light by Nora Roberts to read.

Ate leftover pizza rolls and top the tater for breakfast

Becky came over.

Watched Saved by the Bell.

Got up and turned the computer on.

Went to Atwood with Beck so she could get some food.

Laid around some more while Tosh showered and Becky went to her final.

Read more.

Got up and showered after Tosh left for work. Then got dressed and read while listening to Hank Williams III, Kenny Chesney's All I want for Christmas is a real good tan, and the Millenium Backstreet Boys album.

Met Tosh at Work for dinner. Ate a BLT.

Read some more. Ate a cold cheese hot dog and some nacho chips.

Turned on Ever After. Made plans to see Mean Girls with Becky and Melanie. Started Blogging.

From Hell

It's on TV. I love Johnny. In fact a shot from his bathtub scene is my desktop right now. He's wet and scruffy and has that rumpled yeah baby, bad boy thing going. Some women would get all mushy and say he's like dark chocolate. Oh no, he's like peanut butter. I'd never be able to live with out it. Yummy. This movie is so sad though. Johnny passes over. I love the sentiment behind the coins though. Ya know, I think I'm gonna have a 'ole Scottish funeral like in Amber. yeah.

A word about 9/11

So we were yapping about how it's rediculous that terrorists would attack us here in Minnesota. In fact all this stuff about preventing 9/11 is totally trying to freak everybody out. Terrorists attacking Minnesota is like people bombing Utah. There's nothing there but salt and a bunch of Mormons.

Why didn't I use real money?

I did well for myself in the Derby this year. My pics you ask?
1. Smarty Jones- was a bit unsure. Originally, I was thinking Castledale, but he'd never run in the slop so my number two horse moved up, which worked well for me.

2. Birdstone- I know The Cliff's Edge was the Zito horse will all the fuss, but I liked Birdstone better.

3. Imperialism- Like the horse, and his trainer is only 21. So I've gotta give her props.

It worked well for me My number one horse came in first my number three horse came in third and my number two horse came in eighth. So for three two dollar bets I woulda won 16.40. Adjusting for my bets thats a little over ten bucks.

Canterbury opens next weekend. Anybody up for it?