new calendar needed

the holiday season is officially over, or it will be very, very soon.  i am happy about this.  as much as i was cringing about it's arrival, the anticipation of crabby customers, living in my own misery, etc. it really was not as painful as originally thought to be.  as much as i loathe myself for saying this, i will, it was a very pleasant holiday season...

looking forward to my newfound autonomy and sanity.  with that sanity, i must offer a hearty "thank you" to my family and especially to my friends who have been so supportive over this sometimes quite miserable year.

happy to be getting a new calendar...time to fill in the days!

subconjunctival hemorrhage

or at least that's what it feels like.

for some peculiar reason, i've been drawn to an ecclectic tv channel titled "this eugene," channel 13.2 in digital land.

here's the lineup for the day, or at least for what i caught. the last movie employed great acting talent as that of jim varney and traci lords...what a pair.

9:00am  "the little girl who lives down the lane"
11:00am "the babysitter"
1:00pm "kill me again"

dive into the darkside, click the links and tell me why?

unfettered

i can feel it...happiness, no, contentment just around the corner.

no pressure.

doing whatever the hell i want, and it feels good.

finally

is this how it feels to be adult?

Beautiful Losers film trailer from beautifullosersfilm on Vimeo.

and so it begins...

my first actual insane question of the season:

can you get a rat/hamster/guinea pig/ferret to wear a diaper?

keep the peepers open for more...there will be more

english please

ever think the word jihad could be mispronounced? leave it up to the local news...way to go news source 16. "jai-had"

rollin' rollin' rollin'

how does one forget to put their car into park?

sure enough, there was a silver ford focus which had decided it's parking space was not good enough and took the matter into it's own hands, so to speak, having moved into the middle of the lot.

after paging for the owner to "check it out," i noticed an older woman calmly walking out to the car as if this was no new thing. probably an everyday occurrence for her.

maybe i should start leaving my truck in neutral...just for the hell of it.

first time

is it still considered hitchhiking if you pick somebody up who only needs to go about 6-8 blocks on the same street of which you reside?

as i was warming up the vehicle in my driveway, a woman, close to my age, approached me with an anomalous story about needing a ride up to almaden and 8th. never, never have i picked up a hitchhiker.

taking a chance i told her "yeah get on in."

nothing happened except a lot of conversation on her part about her journey...and all i could do was laugh out loud and say "what the hell was that randomness?!"

impregnability

"do you feel safe?"

this question was proposed to me last night by a friend. typically i am not the sort of person wandering around scared for myself in situations. i walk around alone, downtown, with the ipod in, and at night. probably not the smartest thing for somebody to do, especially a woman, if i may drop the gender card.

i just don't ponder it that much. maybe it's the naivete or complacency of my having lived in eugene all my life, but i don't think so. i walk with an air of confidence, aware of my surroundings. apparently this results with individuals not molesting me, for the most part.

so many times i have listened to people, newly moved to the area, who talk about certain neighborhoods of eugene as unsafe. what? really? of course there are areas i know would not be wise for me to venture into by myself, at night, therefore i do not go. but my neighborhood? the whit? downtown?

maybe i am just a "badass..."

...

i don't know why you bother
nothing's ever good enough for you
i was there
and it wasn't like that
you came here
just to start a fight

you had to piss on our parade
you had to shred our big day
you had to ruin it for all concerned
in a drunken punchup at a wedding

hypocrite opportunist
don't infect me with your poison
a bully in a china shop

when i turn round
you stay
frozen to the spot
the pointless snide remarks
of hammerheaded sharks
the pot will call the kettle black

it's a drunken punchup at a wedding

unfortunate

a little bit of entertainment this fine autumn morning with my coffee in hand and smoke.

one of the "colorful" neighbors was backing out of the drive in the pickup he and his brother(?) had just replaced the engine in, and hit a passing car.

more work for the "bros. mechanic" i forsee.

too bad i don't live next to the "car talk" bros. click & clack.
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