For SS, this song just popped into my head when I was talking to you...*LOVES YA!*

For SS and her Moo Moo.

GO SOX! Red Sox/Yankees Game 04-13-08

Went to the Red Sox vs Yankee's game last night. Was REALLY cold. Everyone was in snow suits and no less than 4 layers. At least the smart people were. I actually got some great pics this time. We had the best seats I personally have ever sat in before. Gate D off Yawkey way, section 15, loge box 112, row AA, seat 6. They were walkway traffic seats. No matter.
We were right behind the Sox dugout and a clear view of Dice-k and V-Tek.

I must say. Tek has one heck of an a$$. And thighs like sequoias. He's so hot.
Of course I got Manny being Manny...
And Youk...Remember I told you it was cold?

The BC Eagles Hockey Team were honored on the field for winning their championship...We saw Wally... And I got a ton of other pics. To many to post here. (: All in all, it was a good time. I'll more than likely post my Sox pics on my Myspace if I remember how! OH! LOL! Boston won, 8-5.

Unconscious Mutterings 271

Silence :: peace

Wall :: blocked

Killed :: wasted

Wishful :: thinking

Poodle :: ugh

Sullen :: grumpy

Do not disturb :: shhhhhh

Philadephia :: story

Anticipation :: carly simon

Sidewalk :: chalk

Unconscious Mutterings *270*

Stuffed :: mushrooms
Gills :: I wish
Distance :: far
Panties :: undies
Checkered :: flag
Fill in :: the blanks
Taunting :: Monty Python
Diner :: Betty's
Pizza :: Greek
Best friend :: Sara

Feeling Peevish

Grumble, mumble. It's NOT pouring out. I see BLUE SKY. Wtf? I just sat out on the front step sipping tea and pondering the weather. Saw the people who must own the property across the street doing clean up. I want to go over and pick their Daffodils. I'd have to be sneaky about it. Wait 'til night, put on cammies. It's just a field with a barn, no people live there. An old house foundation peeks out of the ground next to the barn. But nosey neighbors abound. I know since I'm one of them. But still, I might just go help myself to a few flowers. SHUSH! Like you haven't gone and picked someone elses flowers before!

Trying to figure out if I really am just kidding or not.

Auntie KK has me feeling really guilty. The leaves were whispering louder at me to please rake them out. Nope, IIIII CAN'T HEAAARRRRRR YOUUUUUU!!!! *SIGH* I'm going to borrow SS and J's leaf blower for that.

Auntie KK, get the "Cape Cod Special" grass seed. Run to the hardware store on Main St, Ace Bradfords, and ask for the hardy type grass they use on Cape. (they still employ people who know what they are talking about) It's a mix I think, tough as anything and easy to grow. SS's J could even tell you -he is working on his lawn tomorrow.

Just scratch the ground and throw it down evenly and keep it watered. Don't walk on it. There you go. Auntie KK will have a lawn! Every time I've seeded, and mind you- not a professional, I've just thrown it down and done the above. Comes up like a miracle. J can give you tips on fertilizers and such to keep it going. Ohhh... I hear thunder. Good. I hope it pours. I have Design on a Dime on( My fav HGTV show!), a cup of tea next to me and guilt sitting on my right shoulder.

I'm doing a pretty good job of ignoring it.

Wow, ending on a crash of thunder!

How cool is THAT!

It's pouring out now.

I feel much better!

E>~*SATURDAY*~<3

I am torn.

I really need to tear my room apart.

I need to wash some dirty laundry and put away a lot of clean laundry.

I could dust and vacuum.

Put the room BACK together.

Store some stuff in the closet.

Neatly.

You know- "C-H-O-R-E-S".

Hmmm.

Here's the rub.

It's going to pour.

A VERY crappy, non-green thumb day.

This sounds like a day to grab a well loved book and chill on the bed with HGTV on kind of day.

With a hot cup of tea next to me.

And some snack type food.

I feel guilty already.

Plus I may want to actually blog something that might actually be interesting instead of blah, blah, blah. And best of all? It's a day to myself. NO-ONE will be home. Peace and stillness in the house. No other people noises, no having to make conversation or helping out, nothing. I could just sit and do nothing.

Hmph.

I feel the guilt nibbling away at me already.

I'm not even Catholic.

*sigh*

Now I just might have to actually DO something!

Anybody else have Saturday dilemma's out there?

The Green Thumb Project (Thursday)

It was a beautiful day! Unlike Auntie KK, I was not lured by the siren's call of leaf raking. It is my most hated thing. That and picking sticks. Puh-lease. Those are for child labor... But no kids around here to pay! Any who. I went to Lowe's. I picked out some of the dark-purple-light-swallowing pansies, some pinks (they smelled sooo good!!!!), some rose/flower feeder/bug killer type stuff, some lily bulbs and some gladiola bulbs and a huge bag of Miracle Grow Moisture Hold Soil. or something like that.

So, I planted the pansies. I just couldn't resist. We are still in frost danger. They're on their own. I was dying to plant the pinks. And the glads. And the lillie's and all the rest for that matter. It's killing me not to go plant everything yet!!! I don't even have the garden bed dug and enriched. *SIGH* Plus I know we could get a killing frost or two feet of snow at any moment. I really just kind of puttered around. I fertilized my roses and sprinkled anything else with new growth on it with the stinky stuff. I weeded a little here and there. The hated Witch Grass plucking is a never ending battle. I also moved the decorative fencing around a little more to suit myself. I forgot to take a pic of that. You'll see it soon. I mooned over the pit that is to be the "big" fish pond. I played in the bone chilling water of the small pond. I bought fish food too. My mom tells me don't feed the fish until the water is consistently over fifty degrees. Um. I fed the fish any way. I cleared some more trash up.

I basically just enjoyed the warmth and puttering. I did put some old screens over the pansies. I don't want them to be pummeled to death by the torrential rain we are supposed to get. We need to do some slash and burning around here! And all it does is rain and be freakin' windy as heck! GRRR! Ah well. Hopefully before the burning season is over. I can't wait for the end of frost season. I have seeds and seedlings to get dirty!

Gift Wrapping With Ferret's

Clear large space on table for wrapping present.
Go to closet and collect bag in which present is contained, and shut door.
Open door and remove ferret from closet.
Go to cupboard and retrieve rolls of wrapping paper.
Go back and remove ferret from cupboard.
Go to drawer, and collect transparent sticky tape, ribbons, scissors, labels, etc...
Lay out presents and wrapping materials on table, to enable wrapping strategy to be formed.
Go back to drawer to get string, remove ferret that has been in the drawer since last visit and collect string.
Remove present from bag.
Remove ferret from bag.
Open box to check present, remove ferret from box, replace present.
Lay out paper to enable cutting to size.
Try and smooth out paper, realize ferret is underneath and remove ferret.
Cut the paper to size, keeping the cutting line straight.
Throw away first sheet as ferret chased the scissors, and tore the paper.
Cut second sheet of paper to size - by putting ferret in the bag the present came in.
Place present on paper.
Lift up edges of paper to seal in present. Wonder why edges don't reach. Realize ferret is between present and paper. Remove ferret.
Place object on paper, to hold in place while tearing transparent sticky tape.
Spend 20 minutes carefully trying to remove transparent sticky tape from ferret with pair of nail scissors.
Seal paper with sticky tape, making corners as neat as possible.
Look for roll of ribbon. Chase ferret down hall in order to retrieve ribbon.
Try to wrap present with ribbon in a two-directional turn.
Re-roll ribbon and remove paper, which is now torn due to ferret's enthusiastic ribbon chase.
Repeat steps 13-20 until you reach last sheet of paper.
Decide to skip steps 13-17 in order to save time and reduce risk of losing last sheet of paper. Retrieve old cardboard box that is the right size for sheet of paper.
Put present in box, and tie down with string.
Remove sting, open box and remove ferret.
Put all packing materials in bag with present and head for locked room.
Once inside lockable room, lock door and start to relay out paper and materials.
Remove ferret from box, unlock door, put ferret outside door, close and relock.
Repeat previous step as often as is necessary (until you can hear ferret from outside door)
Lay out last sheet of paper. (This will be difficult in the small area of the toilet, but do your best)
Discover ferret has already torn paper. Unlock door go out and hunt through various cupboards, looking for sheet of last year's paper. Remember that you haven't got any left because ferret helped with this last year as well.
Return to lockable room, lock door, and sit on toilet and try to make torn sheet of paper look presentable.
Seal box, wrap with paper and repair by very carefully sealing with sticky tape. Tie up with ribbon and decorate with bows to hide worst areas.
Label. Sit back and admire your handiwork, congratulate yourself on completing a difficult job.
Unlock door, and go to kitchen to make drink and feed ferret.
Spend 15 minutes looking for ferret until coming to obvious conclusion.
Unwrap present, untie box and remove ferret.
Go to store and buy a gift bag.

-Author Unknown

I don't deserve My Innergeek score. *TOTAL GEEK*

I just learned how to hyperlink a word.

By myself.

I am so proud of me!

I had asked a geek-type friend of mine to teach me, but I got tired of waiting.

So I googled it.

Yes, you heard me!

I GOOGLED IT.

I *HEART* GOOGLE!

And I lucked out at finding a very simple "How To".

WOOT!

Now I'm just showing off.

*roflsnorting*

Just highlight the word/words in your blog first, then click the hyperlink button and paste the link.

*BTW: "total Geek" is a low score.

Jeezums!

Beep Beep!

Clutch the pearls kids! My Jeep is road legal! Woo Hoo! Now it still needs work done, but it's a step closer! YEAYYYYY! And even better was putting the Firefighter Memorial License Plate's on. Getting the tires mounted and balanced on Thursday.

Unconscious Mutterings

1. Nutritious :: fruit


2. Graduate :: congrats


3. Tonight! :: boredom


4. Located :: where?


5. Weapon :: hmmmm...


6. Jumper :: cables


7. Collectibles :: ferrets


8. Dennis :: town of


9. Hostile :: me


10. Vivid :: color

Next Time You Are In China Town...

Pick this tea up. I have no idea what the name is or where you get it in China Town (Boston). My mom picked it up a while ago. It is super de-lish! Just sharing since it's a tea kind of day. I don't do coffee unless I'm desperate. Tea's my dealio. I'd love to get to another cook shop and browse some teas again soon. For now, Christmas Tree Shop teas will have to do!

Ramble for the Moment *No Green Thumb Today*

So what was I just doing? I was playing Bejeweled 2 and thinking about a late lunch. NASCAR is on, we watch the Sunday races. *NASCAR : Not just for Rednecks anymore!* I had been surfing for blog fodder. *Found some good stuff* All is quiet out on the front step. I did sustain two minor injuries due to gardening yesterday. I somehow lightly sprained my R middle finger. Is someone trying to tell me something? (I might have done that bringing wood in for the stove though, who knows.) And, stupidly, I moved a barrel last night in the dark that was supporting 5 metal gardening fence pieces. *sigh* I forgot they were there and I didn't see them. I lifted the damn barrel and they CRASHED down onto the top of my R foot, taking some skin off and leaving me with a hell of a welt and a good bruise. DUMMY! Sheeshes! Hmm. my finger won't bend, and hurts, so maybe more than a slight sprain. It won't kill me. It will just annoy the hell out of me. It's freezing cold and drizzly out. I'm mad since I thought it was going to be "nice" out and I had a ton of things I wanted to do. GRRR! Anyway. I am pleased to say my new Byeta dose is really bringing my sugars down. I had the shakes really bad @ 4 ack-emma and had to go down to get a bowl of cereal! It's also cut my appetite way down. I really have to keep an eye on my sugars now. Never had to worry about being so low before. kinda scary. Hmmm... What else, what else? The cat's are all passed out on the bed. OH! I scrubbed the bathroom last night. Good old fashioned on-hands-and-knees scrubbing. Took down the shower curtains and washed them. I'm supposed to paint a color sample on the hall wall today. We will see if I get to it. I'm feeling lazy today. Any way. There is your ramble for the moment! I need a sammich!

The Green Thumb Project

This spot is by the back door. Only some Solomon's Seal against the house there, the rest are weeds. I've already gotten at some of the weeds and loosened up the soil. The plan here is going to be some kitchen herbs. And, I interrupted the blog and went out when it cleared up and did some more work on it. Now it's really late, so this is just about all I'ma gonna do for this blog! I raked more weeds out and added some good soil I recycled, put the birdbath in there and a brass froggy on top of the rock. Night Nights all!

The Green Thumb Project

I have several works in progress around the homestead here in Really Rural Land. I have the general yard clean up-this consists of not only raking and picking sticks, plus getting crapola and trash/junk into one managable out-of-the-way pile. Burning season ends May 1st, so we have to cut and clear brush and get that all burned up. Weather permitting. Not the fault of the rent-in-laws it's gotten away from them. I have a veggie garden in the planning. So far only the spot has been picked and cleared and a rough sketch of what and where plants are going to go. *SIGH* I have to hold M back... she seems to have a very large mouse in her pocket named "We". I know due to their summer commitments and age/health, I (the REAL mousie) am going to be the one taking care of said garden as well as building it. So I have reeled her back a time or two during planning. This is where the garden is going. A nice sunny spot behind the old dog pen. I have gardening ties i can use and I just need to get the ground dug up and add some good soil and plants.

The Whiner made a comment that the ponds were her and M's project (SPECIAL!). Yeah, well, screw you. I haven't seen any work done on both ponds... not since I met this family. They were clogged, almost bone dry and filthy. When I asked Whiner to water the garden and keep the leaky pond filled while we were away and M&D were away... I may as well have saved my breath. The pond dried to within an inch of it's life and I was lucky to save the poor plants in the parched garden. But that's another bitch for another blog moment. The mouse(s) named "WE" poked holes into the prefab liner and drained it and popped that sucker out. Next is to clean the gravel and stones out of it. Get some contractors sand, round out the sides, make it a safe fish depth and buy a new liner and get the pond going. The small pond is going to be for baby fish /hospital pond. Water Hyacinth's and lillies will go in for shade for the fish (as well as food and places to lay eggs)

Well, those are but two projects I am working on. Good enough for now. At least I remebered to get before pictures! Can't wait to get my green thumbs into the dirt.

'the proof of the pudding is in the eating'

I was a big Blondie fan way back when... But did you ever really know the dang words to this one?

Once I had a love and it was a gas
Soon turned out had a heart of glass
Seemed like the real thing, only to find
Mucho mistrust, love's gone behind
Once I had a love and it was divine
Soon found out I was losing my mind
It seemed like the real thing but I was so blind
Mucho mistrust, love's gone behind

In between
What I find is pleasing and I'm feeling fine
Love is so confusing there's no peace of mind
If I fear I'm losing you it's just no good
You teasing like you do

Once I had a love and it was a gas
Soon turned out had a heart of glass
Seemed like the real thing, only to find
Mucho mistrust, love's gone behind

Once I had a love and it was divine
Soon found out I was losing my mind
It seemed like the real thing but I was so blind
Mucho mistrust, love's gone behind

Lost inside
Adorable illusion and I cannot hide
I'm the one you're using, please don't push me aside
We coulda made it cruising, yeah

Yeah, riding high on love's true bluish light

Once I had a love and it was a gas
Soon turned out to be a pain in the ass
Seemed like the real thing only to find
Mucho mistrust, love's gone behind

Congrats S&M!

I heard it through the grapevine. But my personal wedding song pick is this...

Paw Sox Season Opener: Police and Fire Edition!

"(Pawtucket, RI) - The PawSox rode the right arms of Bartolo Colon, Craig Hansen, Dan Kolb and Lee Gronkiewicz to a 3-0 win on opening night at McCoy Stadium. Colon tossed 5 shutout innings, striking out five and allowing one base hit. The single by Adam Boeve was the only Indianapolis hit of the night. Colon looked sharp, with good command of his pitches. The burly righty touched 96 miles an hour on the radar gun. Hansen, Kolb and Gronkiewicz shut down the Indy offense the rest of the way. The PawSox scored all their runs in the third inning as Jonathan Van Every lined a homerun into the home bullpen to make it 2-0. Brandon Moss added an RBI double to cap the scoring. Joe Thurston had a pair of hits for Pawtucket in the win. Chris Carter and Jeff Bailey had the other Pawtucket safeties. The series continues on Friday night at 7:05 p.m. David Pauley faces Indy's Ty Taubenheim."

We were lucky enough to get the tickets from my policeman type brother-in-law. It being Police and Fire Appreciation night. (I noticed the cute cops and fire guys strewn throughout the stands. Plus you can always tell where the red and blue are by how loud and drunk they are, lmao. doh, I'm in trouble now!) It was a "Family Thing" though a few couldn't make it due to work, and we had to leave by 8:45p due to work. IT WAS FREEZING! It was FUN! I had tears in my eyes in the opening ceremonies. Yes, I am a sap. They had like 10 different police and fire color guards, a bagpipe band (of course!) Once they struck up Amazing Grace, I was done for. Plus they honored fallen RI military personnel and fallen police and fire brethren. Took all I had not to bawl! They had cannons firing and two Black Hawk helicopters do a flyover. Such tradition! Honor, Baseball and Bagpipes! These guys are trying for the Major's or had a taste of the Majors. They really play hard and play well. I think a lot of Major League players should get rotated out once in a while. Show 'em what's what! Bring them back to their roots!

"Word Verification" (Do they have an ointment for that?)

Word Verification. It's a bitch, I hate it.

It's like fighting to open a jar of pickles. You KNOW you can't open it with your bare hands! Yet you fight and twist and strain until you remember to get out the rubber thingy from the bottom of a drawer (that's dried to little crumbly pieces because you haven't used it in a millennium) to wrap around the lid. You use the biggest crumbled piece of the thingy to crack it open- only to get pickle juice all down your front.

It's like suddenly fearing the last step on the stairs because you're unsure of your balance and you don't want to fall, so you hesitate. And fall on your face anyway as soon as you step down.

It's like threading a very tiny needle with thread the diameter of a piece of hair. Try as you might, with one eye closed and tongue poking out with your face scrunched up so you look like Igor from Frankenstein's lab, it takes umpteen tries. You end up wanting to poke your own eye out with said needle and strangle yourself with the thread.

*SIGH*

Word Verification has me wanting to set up the handicap programs that came with my computer. I mean, really. I'm dead serious. I AM an intelligent adult. Yet nine times out of ten I can't get the damn thing CORRECT! All I want to DO is make a STINKIN' comment! YEESH! But NO! You have to go through stinkin' WORD VERIFI-FREAKIN-CATION! Sample of one of my recent tries to comment on a blog below:

"getbimebiotch"

Okie. Tapitty, tap, tap. Oops. I missed a letter? Hmph.

"sukr"

Okayyy. Tap, tap, tapity-tap...

WTF?! Not again!?

"faquretrdad1"

HEY! WAIT A MINUTE! Are those words? Those are words! WTF??? Those are ALMOST WORDS! And where the HELL did the numeral come from?!? Well fa-qu too! Freakin' frackin' sucky website, grrr, grumble, growl. So I end up hitting enter a few hundred times to get to (ohhh, ECSTASY!) A four letter word!

"assht" My teeth grind and my hands shake.

I start talking out loud to my computer now.

"You callin' ME an asshat?"

"Where are the freakin' four freakin' letter words!!!!!!"

STAB, STAB, STABBING at the keyboard now.

YESSSS!

A four letter word!

I get giddy!

Relief washes through me.

I can finally make my freakin' comment!!!!!!!

PLEASE TYPE YOUR VERIFICATION HERE:

"losr"

AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!