Adult Truths, with Pix!

Saturday, September 03, 2011

I was trying to add pictures yesterday, but my computer was running SO slowly, I finally gave up - got them today!


1. I think part of a best friend's job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.



2. Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong.



3. I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger.



4. There is great need for a sarcasm font.



5. How the heck are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?



6. Was learning cursive really necessary?



7. Map Quest really needs to start their directions on # 5. I'm pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.



8. I can't remember the last time I wasn't at least kind of tired.



9. Bad decisions make good stories.



10. You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you know that you just aren't going to do anything productive for the rest of the day.



11. Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after Blue Ray? I don't want to have to restart my collection...again.



12. I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Microsoft Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten-page technical report that I swear I did not make any changes to.



13. I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.



14. I think the freezer deserves a light as well.



15. I disagree with Kay Jewelers. I would bet on any given Friday or Saturday night more kisses begin with Miller Lite than Kay.



16. I wish Google Maps had an "Avoid Ghetto" routing option.


17. I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.



18. How many times is it appropriate to say "What?" before you just nod and smile because you still didn't hear or understand a word they said?



19. Sometimes I'll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still not know what time it is.



20. Even under ideal conditions people have trouble locating their car keys in a pocket, finding their cell phone, and Pinning the Tail on the Donkey - but I'd bet everyone can find and push the snooze button from 3 feet away, in about 1.7 seconds, eyes closed, first time, every time.



21. The first testicular guard, the "Cup," was used in Hockey in 1874 and the first helmet was used in 1974. That means it only took 100 years for men to realize that their brain is also important.


Ladies......Quit Laughing.

  

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LISA0517 9/9/2011 8:47AM

Love! Love! Love! Especially #21! Report Inappropriate Comment

FLAMENM 9/4/2011 5:17PM

Love these. So true and funny! Report Inappropriate Comment

LIFEISPURRFECT 9/4/2011 4:45PM

Thank you so much for the smile! These are all great. Report Inappropriate Comment

LIFEISPURRFECT 9/4/2011 4:45PM

Thank you so much for the smile! These are all great. Report Inappropriate Comment

DESERTDREAMERS 9/4/2011 1:57AM

I've been trying to do pictures for over an hour! Looks like I'll be done after midnight. Report Inappropriate Comment

BUTEAFULL 9/3/2011 5:02PM

#3 is mine Report Inappropriate Comment

THETURTLEBEAR 9/3/2011 4:39PM

Good ones! Report Inappropriate Comment

LINDAKAY228 9/3/2011 1:35PM

These were so cute. And the sad fact is I could relate to almost all of them! Report Inappropriate Comment

JSALERNO 9/3/2011 9:30AM

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SHELLEYSUZANNE 9/3/2011 9:07AM

Hilarious! Thanks! Report Inappropriate Comment

SHRINKINGSHERI 9/3/2011 7:29AM

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HWNHMMBRD 9/3/2011 2:11AM

Thank you soooo much for sharing. I needed the laughs. Report Inappropriate Comment

KATROSADO5 9/3/2011 1:27AM

Haha! Loved it! Thanks for the giggle today! Report Inappropriate Comment

Say Hallelujah

Friday, September 02, 2011

Sad news - I got home this morning and found the chow that wanders the neighborhood dead in my yard. He was 17 years old, according to his owners. I had to go 2 doors down to their house and let them know. I harnessed up my pups and walked them instead of letting them out immediately to the yard to potty. The owners took the body away while we were walking.

This is one of the songs I'd like at my funeral. I first heard Tracy Chapman's version several years ago. (Let It Rain album 2002) I tried finding out who wrote it and when - no joy.


Say Hallelujah
Throw up your hands
The bucket is kicked
The body is gone


Close your eyes
And bow your head
To rest your soul
And to praise the dead



Say Hallelujah
Throw up your hands
The bucket is kicked
The body is gone


Dry your eyes
And stand upright
Put a smile on your face
He wouldn't want us to cry


The sun will rise
The stars will shine
Turning day to dusk
And night to dawn
We'll pass on
But until that time


Say Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Say Hallelujah
Hallelujah


Say Hallelujah
Throw up your hands
The bucket is kicked
The body is gone


Have mercy
It's a wonderful life
Eternal rest for the weary
Mourners party tonight




Say Hallelujah
Throw up your hands
The bucket is kicked
The body is gone
Wave your hands
But don't say goodbye
We're all gonna meet you
On the other side

  

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BUTEAFULL 9/2/2011 4:40PM

I don't know it either Report Inappropriate Comment

GRACEZN 9/2/2011 4:32PM

Never heard it but love it and the pictures (as usual!) Report Inappropriate Comment

KNITTABLES 9/2/2011 4:25PM

Don't know the song, thanks for sharing. Report Inappropriate Comment

LINDAKAY228 9/2/2011 9:37AM

I'd never heard that song but it sounds like a song I'd like sung at my funeral too. Report Inappropriate Comment

JSALERNO 9/2/2011 6:43AM

THIS IS A GREAT POST. YOU TAKE THE SADNESS OUT OF THE LOSS AND PRAISE THE LIFE. Report Inappropriate Comment

SHRINKINGSHERI 9/2/2011 6:30AM

for the wonderful post. Report Inappropriate Comment

SAFETYSUE 9/2/2011 1:33AM

HALLELUJAH! Report Inappropriate Comment

I Don't Want to Miss a Thing

Thursday, September 01, 2011

I heard this one on the radio as I was driving into work tonight - Aerosmith - 1998, for the movie Armageddon (Trivia - according to Wikipedia, Liv Tyler is Steven Tyler's real-life daughter. She played Grace Stamper in the movie. In the movie and the music video, she reaches out tearfully to touch her father on the monitor just as the song ends - Harry Stamper, Bruce Willis in the movie, Steven Tyler in the video.)


I could stay awake just to hear you breathing
Watch you smile while you are sleeping
While you're far away and dreaming
I could spend my life in this sweet surrender
I could stay lost in this moment forever
Where every moment spent with you is a moment I treasure


Don't want to close my eyes
I don't want to fall asleep
Cause I'd miss you babe
And I don't want to miss a thing
Cause even when I dream of you
The sweetest dream will never do
I'd still miss you babe
And I don't want to miss a thing


Lying close to you feeling your heart beating
And I'm wondering what you're dreaming
Wondering if it's me you're seeing
Then I kiss your eyes
And thank God we're together
I just want to stay with you in this moment forever
Forever and ever


I don't want to close my eyes
I don't want to fall asleep
Cause I'd miss you babe
And I don't want to miss a thing
Cause even when I dream of you
The sweetest dream will never do
I'd still miss you babe
And I don't want to miss a thing



I don't want to miss one smile
I don't want to miss one kiss
I just want to be with you
Right here with you, just like this
I just want to hold you close
Feel your heart so close to mine
And just stay here in this moment
For all the rest of time Yeah yeah yeah




I don't want to close my eyes
I don't want to fall asleep
Cause I'd miss you babe
And I don't want to miss a thing
Cause even when I dream of you
The sweetest dream will never do
I'd still miss you babe
And I don't want to miss a thing


I Don't want to close my eyes
I don't want to fall asleep
Cause I'd miss you babe
And I don't want to miss a thing
Cause even when I dream of you
The sweetest dream will never do
I'd still miss you babe
And I don't want to miss a thing



Don't want to close my eyes
I don't want to fall asleep
And I don't want to miss a thing

  

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SUE-M-C 9/2/2011 12:17AM

Love it! Report Inappropriate Comment

BUTEAFULL 9/1/2011 10:10AM

now THAT'S a love song Report Inappropriate Comment

JSALERNO 9/1/2011 6:03AM

I CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF YOUR BLOGS. THEY ARE SO GREAT. Report Inappropriate Comment

SAFETYSUE 9/1/2011 2:12AM

I love the song, great pictures and captions. The Bengal looks like mine, it is rare because they are all uniguely marked. Report Inappropriate Comment

KNITTABLES 9/1/2011 12:56AM

Thanks for sharing. Report Inappropriate Comment

THETURTLEBEAR 9/1/2011 12:44AM

It's funny - I didn't recognize the song title at first, but as soon as I saw the first line I knew the song and was singing it in my head. Report Inappropriate Comment

You Don't Mess Around With Jim

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Jim Croce from 1972

Uptown got it's hustlers
The bowery got it's bums
42nd street got Big Jim Walker
He's a pool-shootin' son of a gun


Yeah, he big and dumb as a man can come
But he stronger than a country hoss
And when the bad folks all get together at night
You know they all call Big Jim "Boss", just because
And they say


You don't tug on Superman's cape
You don't spit into the wind
You don't pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger
And you don't mess around with Jim


Well outta south Alabama came a country boy
He say I'm lookin' for a man named Jim
I am a pool-shootin' boy
My name Willie McCoy
But down home they call me Slim


Yeah I'm lookin' for the king of 42nd Street
He drivin' a drop top cadillac
Last week he took all my money
And it may sound funny
But i come to get my money back
And everybody say Jack don't you know


And you don't tug on Superman's cape
You don't spit into the wind
You don't pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger
And you don't mess around with Jim


Well a hush fell over the pool room
Jimmy come boppin' in off the street
And when the cuttin' were done
The only part that wasn't bloody
Was the soles of the big man's feet


Yeah he were cut in in bout a hundred places
And he were shot in a couple more
And you better believe
They sung a different kind of story
When Big Jim hit the floor now they say


You don't tug on Superman's cape
You don't spit into the wind
You don't pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger
And you don't mess around with Slim


Yeah, Big Jim got his hat
Find out where it's at
And it's not hustlin' people strange to you
Even if you do got a two-piece custom-made pool cue


Yeah you don't tug on Superman's cape
You don't spit into the wind
You don't pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger
And you don't mess around with Slim

  

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LINDAKAY228 8/31/2011 10:12AM

Love that song! Cute pics too! Report Inappropriate Comment

CONFIDO999 8/30/2011 10:54AM

Wow--sometimes I think we must share brain cells or something. You like all the music I like! Thanks for another great memory! Report Inappropriate Comment

THETURTLEBEAR 8/30/2011 9:05AM

Ha ha - I could just picture that raccoon and what he did prior to pic! Report Inappropriate Comment

JSALERNO 8/30/2011 8:41AM

THANKS FOR BRINGING MY BACK FROM STRESS. Report Inappropriate Comment

IDLETYME 8/30/2011 8:19AM

Enjoyed it a bunch - Thanks!! Report Inappropriate Comment

EUPHRATES 8/30/2011 2:26AM

LOL - I just heard that for the first time in AGES on the Sirius 70's channel last week. Report Inappropriate Comment

BUTEAFULL 8/30/2011 2:26AM

Croce was great Report Inappropriate Comment

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Stormy Weather

Monday, August 29, 2011

Well, we're into our "monsoon season" here in Albuquerque - and over 3 inches behind our usual 5 or so by now. Been having occasional rains - some of which weren't even measurable, and some thunderboomers. I walked up to the IHOP (about a mile) tonight for dinner - I'd seen heat lightning when I walked there - by the time I was walking home, it was thunderbooming with big rain splatters - yep, I got wet!

Written by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler in 1933 - many people have recorded it. Billie Holliday's classic rendition is one of the best (1952)

Don't know why, there's no sun up in the sky
Stormy weather, since my man and I ain't together
Keeps raining all the time




Life is bare, gloom and misery everywhere
Stormy weather, just can't get my poor old self together
I'm weary all the time, the time, so weary all of the time


When he went away, the blues walked in and met me
If he stays away, old rocking chair will get me
All I do is pray, the lord above will let me
walk in the sun once more



Can't go on, everything I had is gone
Stormy weather, since my man and I ain't together
Keeps raining all the time
Keeps raining all of the time



I walk around heavy-hearted and sad
Night comes around and I'm still feeling bad
Rain pourin' down, blinding every hope I had
This pitter and 'n patter and beating, spattering driving me mad
Love, love, love, love, the misery will be the end of me



When he went away, the blues walked in and met me
If he stays away, old rocking chair will get me
All I do is pray, the lord above will let me
Walk in the sun once more


Can't go on, everything I had is gone
Stormy weather, since my man and I ain't together
Keeps raining all the time, the time
Keeps raining all the time

  

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BUTEAFULL 8/29/2011 8:53PM

very appropriate song Report Inappropriate Comment

CONFIDO999 8/29/2011 10:45AM

Such an awesome and appropriate song! Thanks for the pics, too! Report Inappropriate Comment

VICD25 8/29/2011 10:02AM

BF got some pics of our electrical storm last night! may even have caught something blowing up! isn't it lovely? Report Inappropriate Comment

LINDAKAY228 8/29/2011 9:40AM

Sorry you got caught in the rain and lightening (lightening is worse than the rain for me) but glad that you got a little more rain up there. It looked like it was going to rain yesterday here but didn't. Report Inappropriate Comment

SHRINKINGSHERI 8/29/2011 5:39AM

Great song...great pics. Report Inappropriate Comment

JSALERNO 8/29/2011 4:58AM

LOVE IT. Report Inappropriate Comment