I'm hoping that Michael comes home and I am not expected at the Bear's house this weekend. 'Cause I'm not gonna be there after all. She might hurt me!
Squeaky vanished like smoke on the wind when we began our internet troubles... off to the Bears house for the comfort of being wired in. Even I am twitching. I have my work computer to use after hours, but then I have to get in a car and go there... a minor pain in the neck. Tomorrow it is supposed to be fixed and going again. We shall see. I hate to count on it and then be upset if that does not happen. Better to assume it won't and then be happily surprised if it is.
Had my studs put on my car today. Yay! Just in time to burn my way down south. Big fecking grin. Of course I will have to leave with plenty of daylight this time... and that will cut a short trip shorter. Oh well. Its what comes between arriving and leaving that matters.
My local Chevron station guy put them on for me. Charged me half of what Les Schwab wanted to put them on! And I bought the buggers at Les Schwab. Grrr. Plus I did not have to drive to another town to have them do it... or sit in a waiting room that smells like rubber and popcorn for an hour or two. I drove in, he did it and I drove away. Yay!
Okay... here is today's BIG QUESTION: What do you want Santa Claus to bring you this year?
I have two more new frogs... the other older ones are not croaking as much. But then I keep leaving too. Oops. I better watch it. Don't want to thin the pond too much, but new croakers are nice. Don't want it to get too full either. Hummm...
Now I'm going home to have visions of sugar plums dance in my head... or maybe something a wee bit more fun. (Wink.)
Well it breaks my heart to see you this way...
Flogging Molly - Whistles the wind
So you drank with the lost souls for too many years...
As usual, I would like a winning lottery ticket. I'm not greedy, and do not even need a big multi-million dollar one. About a hundred thousand dollars would fix every problem that I can think of, and one million would allow me to quit worrying about trying to find work and just go back to art school full-time.
ReplyDeleteOther than that, I don't know. Art supply gift cards? Restaurant gift cards? Clothes would be nice, but they probably wouldn't fit, which would then mean a trip to the mall, probably with my mother.
Maybe that one is not such a great idea.
Really, I get so into the "obligations" (see The Big Bang Theory: The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis), that I don't have much time to think about what I would want or what I might be getting from other people.
I have to finish two scarves before the 13th, two more before the 19th (that's not going to happen, so someone is getting an IOU), I have to figure out some food items to take on the 13th, I have to get something else for a friend on the 19th (probably a fruit basket), and I have to get something else for my brother (probably a bookstore gift certificate) and figure out what I'm getting for my sister before the 24th.
all i want for christmas is:
ReplyDelete1. a library job
2. paint, hardware, and a new light fixture for my kitchen
3. a lover who won't drive me crazy
I hope the Internet connection is fixed soon. Perhaps today.
ReplyDeleteI would like Santa to bring me a good-paying job with great stability for Christmas. That's all.
I would like Santa to bring you a really nice frog. Preferably a rich one.
ReplyDeleteFor me? Eh. I'm pretty happy as is. I like all gifts, so anything he brings is swell.
Now here comes old sappy.
ReplyDeleteI want Santa to continue to bring you this happiness that you deserve.
I want Santa to keep us all healthy.
I want Santa to bring a smile to a child's face.
I just want Santa.
And Santa, please make sure Ananda girl always has her internet connection.
i thought maybe you had been kidnapped by a frog and were being held in a nice little pond where the water was warm and there was plenty to eat.
ReplyDeletei don't need a goddammed thing for xmas and that's what i'll probably get, not a goddammed thing.
laughing-- Christmas used to wear me out. One year I made four quilts in less than a month and help sand and stain wooden toys. I kept falling asleep through the present opening. ha. Take care to get a lot of rest!
ReplyDeletelime-- We have the same list! (though I must admit... I kind of like being driven crazy.)
ReplyDeleteAlienCG-- I will wish on the Christmas star for you to get that job.
ReplyDeleteSuldog-- AAaawww...you made your Christmas wish about me. Thank you. No wonder God has blessed you.
ReplyDeletePeggy-- Wonderful wish list! I agree... oh please do not let my internet get interrupted again! I can't wait to get my fix at home again.
ReplyDeletebilly pilgrim-- Well...yah, that's the long and the short of it. Big grin. But I had to come back to work... grumble. Then my net went flat and I began to twitch. I cannot talk to THAT frog without it. Picture me at my library late at night giggling.
ReplyDeleteWell... if Santa had your address something would be there. Believe!
Christmas gifts are always a tough question. At my age, the things I want I probably have already and the things I need don't make good gifts. A root canal? How about a new transmission?
ReplyDeleteI suppose, if I could have just one thing, it would be to see everything through the eyes of my children for just a minute or two. Make it two.
I'm sure they already fear for my sanity, wondering why Daddy gets misty over the Spotted Elephant.
Cricket-- I get misty over the fellas on Island of Misfit Toys too!
ReplyDeleteI also have a similar "needs" list that does not translate into fun gifting.
As for your wish... that's the kind of treausre that you cannot buy. BUT, I bet YOU manage it well enough on your own. Big fecking grin.
As usual, I would ask Santa for a ton of money. I could help myself and everyone else out with that.
ReplyDeleteChurlita-- If Santa gave you a ton of money, I have no doubt at all that you would become quite the Santa yourself if you had the means. One of the things I really like about you!
ReplyDeleteFirst, here's hoping you get your internet back. I am a total addict, so I feel your pain.
ReplyDeleteRight now, all I want is health for my friends and family. What the heck...I could use some new socks and maybe some lotions and potions :-)
I can't do justice to my post right now. Too busy. Will be back.
ReplyDeletelablahblah-- I can understand that.
ReplyDeleteYep... back on line. woot!
I'm like billy pilgrim... its been so long since I got a present that I'm not sure what to do with one. Ha. Oh my kids give me stuff... but you know what I mean. But I'm not about the presents so much. Just get me to Jan in good cheer and I will be happy!
Cube-- No worries! I've been absent too of late. Its good to be back though.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you want Santa Claus to bring you this year?
ReplyDeleteThe end of wars, greed, and world peace. I have no need for other personal presents, if I want something I'll buy it.
I've never used studded tires but being as I grew up on winter roads drove race cars (you learn a lot from that) I've never needed them.
When the internut insane asylum is down I just go do other things, and remember how it was in the good old days when we got more done without it. When I'm camping I'm not on it and yet somehow the world keeps spinning around without me.
Anyway, I seldom keep my beer in a fridge, had to bring it inside cuz it was freezing out there.
Billy B-- That's what I use my porch for too. Even the milk froze last night. Its about 2 degrees here now and dropping. But no wind... thank goodness or we'd really be in trouble.
ReplyDeleteAs for the studs, I'm a chicken. A good driver, but a big chicken... who does not trust a single soul on that freeway besides myself.
Good Santa list, by the way.
lime said...all i want for christmas is:
ReplyDelete1. a library job
2. paint, hardware, and a new light fixture for my kitchen
3. a lover who won't drive me crazy
Yeah? Well, she's crazy, ha ha ha ha. The paint, hardware, and a new light fixture for her kitchen I could do, but she would drive me crazy before I got them done, ha ha ha ha
Billy B.-- lime is a sweetheart! She has a killer sense of humor that doesn't stop. You might actually like her more than you would know, but she's taken. :-)
ReplyDeleteHey, I didn't say that I didn't like her, and I know that she has a great sense of humor, we picked up on each others blogs about three years ago but I don't look at her's very often. I just said that she's crazy. :-)
ReplyDeleteIf a woman isn't crazy she isn't worth knowing, just saying.
ReplyDeleteBilly B-- I didn't mean that you did. I just like her myself a lot.
ReplyDeleteBut also didn't know you knew each other. Interesting.
BTW, there are no big questions, not after you pare them down anyway.
ReplyDeleteBilly B.-- Hummm... more interesting stuffs. I feel the same about men.
ReplyDeleteha
Billy B-- True enough.
ReplyDeleteThen maybe you should stop looking for a man?
ReplyDeleteThe hereafter is interesting, I had something else to say but I forgot what I was hereafter, ha ha ha ha ha.
ReplyDeleteBilly B-- Why on earth would I do that? I am having way too much fun.
ReplyDeleteIf you call that fun carry on, I've had my fill of it.
ReplyDeleteYou say Lime is taken? Yeah, right, let's look at that again in a few months. Her frog pond is just on the other side of the states is all. She may as well be a Canadian as crazy as she is.
Didn't say I don't like Canadians, cuz I do. :-)
Oh, my brain fart just returned, studded tires won't protect you much against other monkeys being as many of them don't seem to have much respect for the lives of others and just want to be in a hurry to get where they are going.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, wanna race on ice against me? You can use studs and I won't, I want it to be a fair race. :-)
Billy B.-- Me too. :-)
ReplyDeleteBilly B.-- You provide the car I drive if you don't care if it gets smashed and you're on.
ReplyDeleteScrew you, provide your own car if you are secure with your skills. You own front wheel drive cars but I'll stick with my rear wheel drive rig cuz it's what I grew up with and know how to control good.
ReplyDeleteBut I know how to power front wheel drive rigs into the ditch and spin them a 180 degrees on ice when trying to stop cuz they're to frigging light in the back.
The only cars I've ever spun 180 degrees in an emergency stop was front wheel drive ones.
Billy B.-- Then not much of a fair fight eh?
ReplyDeleteWhat in the hell do you mean it's not much of a fair fight? Go with a rear wheel drive if you like, I don't care, and I'm allowing you studs to boot.
ReplyDeleteBTW, if you can't get your front wheel drive up a hill, try backing up it, it just may make it.
I'll give a front wheel car credit for one thing, it won't spin a 180 degrees while trying to claw it's way up a hill, ha ha ha ha
ReplyDeleteBilly B.-- Ha. Yeah, I haven't ever had that trouble yet with hills.
ReplyDeleteThe best car I ever had for snow or ice was a VW Bug. It can be way below zero and they start right up and go like a tank. Admittedly, they are rear wheel with the engine in back for good weight on the snow. But I don't have one anymore.
Front wheels seem to do fine but I am not heavy on brakes in the ice and snow.
Hey... I'm not risking my transportation for a race. I need that to get me where I'm going these days. :-)
Bah, you she frogs just hate to admit that I may actually be better at something than you are. And therein lies the rub.
ReplyDeleteBilly B.-- I don't care if you are a better driver. Many people are. No doubt Danica is waaaaayyyy better than I ever hope to be.
ReplyDeleteI'm no race driver, but I have fun with a car. But that is tempered by not ever getting a ticket, which I have never done for a moving violation and hope to keep that way. No do I have any wish to ruin a good car for no good reason.
I did try autocross once and did not do that well. I'll tip my hat to you.
Hey... I'm not risking my transportation for a race. I need that to get me where I'm going these days. :-)
ReplyDeleteRacing side by side on ice isn't the same as smacking into some monkey in an intersection, being as your both sliding together, there is no more damage than I saw on your car when I was there. :-)
Thanks for the tip of the hat, it's about time. :-)
ReplyDeleteOh, I've gotten a few tickets over the years but considering the miles I've drove in the past they where damn few.
ReplyDeleteBut that cop I passed at a 120 MPH never got a chance to give me one cuz I just stepped on it when I went by him.
Ah, the good old days, I sure do miss them.
Billy B.-- Okay... I give up. You win. I'm too chicken. And its too damn cold. Call me a whimp.
ReplyDeleteBilly B.-- There was a time in the long, long ago when I was young enough and cute enough that speed didn't matter. The cop always let me off.
ReplyDeleteOne even insisted on putting oil in my car for me. No oil can punch... got it all over his very expensive to clean uniform and still managed to ask me for a date with a smile.
Yah, those days are long gone. Ha.
Billy B.-- You are welcome for the hat tip sir! But don't expect it often. There is nothing I like more than to bicker. Ask the X. And a good hard fight makes me grin and laugh. It's a problem I have.
ReplyDeleteBut I've only hit one person and knocked her flat. I still enjoy that one in my head. Like to do it again actually. She deserved it ten time over since. I am soooo not violent. But some things I cannot abide. She is one of them.
You think that we are cold? Be thankful that we're not in the middle of the county right now. It's 29.8 degrees here at the moment, with no snow and icy streets to deal with.
ReplyDeleteLife is good here in my pond.
But I've only hit one person and knocked her flat.
ReplyDeleteThe kids mother used to try to do that to me, she paid for it a few times. Only woman I've ever hit but she just wouldn't back off and let things go.
Billy B.-- Hey... it's 2 degrees here right now. It is COLD. The Columbia is half frozen by Rooster Rock they say on the news. Believe me. I know the cold. Pipes are busting all over town. I can't wait to go to the deer hunters tomorrow and escape to sane temperatures. I'm a California baby... no desire to live in this cold crap!
ReplyDeleteBilly B.-- I don't approve of hitting people as a rule. That was the same for me. She just would not shut up and back off. Brought that red temper right up front and I let it loose, when I should have walked away. It comes right back as soon as I see her to this day. Just as much being ashamed of myself as it is anger at her though.
ReplyDeleteWhen someone is trying to kill you, you have no option but to defend yourself.
ReplyDeleteBut yeah, I know what you mean about the cold, the water system in the camper is froze up, my rain barrel that I use so much is freezing up and I have to make a fire next to it to get water out of it.
But these things will pass, all things do.
Some monkeys you can't walk away from, they won't let you, so just deck them and call it a lesson to them, if they get it that is, my brother never did, that's why I won't have anything to do with him anymore.
ReplyDeleteI'm turning in now, you'll have to talk to others for the rest of the night, or yourself. :-)
ReplyDeleteBilly B.-- Ssshhh... it's a secret that I talk to myself. hahaha
ReplyDeleteGood night Billy. Don't worry, I have a frog to keep me company. :-)
Damn. Where's the love?
ReplyDeleteMoratorium, BBC.
Peggy-- I don't think that Billy B has faith in love anymore. Guess I can't blame him.
ReplyDeleteFrankly, I'd rather hope and fall down. :-) Phoolish me!
STUDDED TIRES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Santa better come through before I slide into the rocks between here and there and I wreck my new car.Its getting nasty out there now! The ice is everywhere!
ReplyDeleteBe careful!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteSear... have new frog who is soooooooo nice! Deer hunter beware!
ReplyDeleteI love that picture with the light saber squirrels!!! a classic.
ReplyDeleteI want a baby alligator.
I can't live without the internet. Not humanly possible. Unless I am taking horse tranquilizers. Then I can be happily sedated and make it through the day.