Wednesday, September 28, 2005

i just

watched fever pitch for the first time, and i cried at the end.

not because ben and lindsey got back together, but because the red sox won!

woot!

i think i need to own this so i can relive that when ever i want.

Tuesday, September 27, 2005

new obsession

'glassbaby's are gorgeous, and i want a good number of them.  sadly can't afford them.

Monday, September 26, 2005

from ST (just made me laugh)



BATON ROUGE, LA. - The White House announced today that President Bush has successfully sold the state of Louisiana back to the French at more than double its original selling price of $11,250,000.

"This is a bold step forward for America," said Bush. "And America will be stronger and better as a result. I stand here today in unity with French Prime Minister Jack Sharaq, who was so kind to accept my offer of Louisiana in exchange for 25 million dollars cash."

The state, ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, will cost hundreds of billions of dollars to rebuild.

"Jack understands full well that this one's a 'fixer upper,'" said Bush. "He and the French people are quite prepared to pump out all that water, and make Louisiana a decent place to live again. And they've got a lot of work to do. But Jack's assured me, if it's not right, they're going to fix it."

The move has been met with incredulity from the beleaguered residents of Louisiana.

However, President Bush's decision has been widely lauded by Republicans.

"This is an unexpected but brilliant move by the President," said Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist. "Instead of spending billions and billions, and millions of dollars rebuilding the state of Louisiana, we've just made 25 million dollars in pure profit."

"This is indeed a smart move," commented Fox News analyst Brit Hume. "Not only have we stopped the flooding in our own budget, we've made money on the deal. Plus, when the god-awful French are done fixing it up, we can easily invade and take it back again."

The money gained from 'T'he Louisiana Refund' is expected to be immediately pumped into the rebuilding of Iraq.

Sunday, September 25, 2005

yay yay

what an awesome day!  we went into jersey and went apple picking for an hour and a half - walked out with a lot of apples (exact poundage to be determined when i get up and go weigh them)

SO fun, SO yummy

wish i had taken a camera!

so fun

the mayor came to shul friday night - he had a lot to say, spoke well, and probably won a few more votes than he had before he walked in.  although, don't get me wrong, i'm sure he had plenty before he got there.  it was a really cool experience.

am SO tired - couldnt' fall asleep last night.  my back is unhappy and the rest of me is suffering for it.

is it a bad thing that i can watch the breakfast club whenever it's on tv and *always* enjoy it?

"i'm gonna be an air force ranger, i want to live a life of danger".  yeah, i've always had a thing for those bad boys

and like that (snaps) we're off
to pick apples with the HIR youth group

woohoo!

Friday, September 23, 2005

ah, the music of it...

so, i finally got all my old music back.  back story is that i had all this amazing music on my computer and at one point copied it onto discs to transfer to my dad's mac to put on my ipod.  then my (HP) computer completely died cause the fan was malfunctioning.  i sent my darling laptop to them for fixin', only to have it completely stop working three weeks after i got it back.  when i sent it in i wasn't able to turn it on, and therefor unable to back it up (yeah, i should have been backing up all along, but i'm lazy). and they for some reason decided that the way to fix the fan was to WIPE my hard drive.

assholes.

so, along with losing all of my music, i also lost everything i'd written in school - poetry, short stories, articles, and an interview with mikey.

some of that i've dug up here and there, but the music was gone, the cds had been trashed by my parents' very effective cleaning lady.

then i asked my brother if he had actually copied all of those cds to his computer along the way, and he told me that not only had he done that, but his friends had burned them to a dvd.

after a few months of nudging (and being a bit of an asshole myself, thank you), i got the dvd from him.

the velvet undeground and atari tracks were mostly not functional, but i got just about everything lese back.  yay for music again!

so i'm now listening to the indigo girls for the first time in forever.  van morrison, MxPx, moxy fruvous, moulin rouge (those all have 'm's in them).  kid fears (with michael stipes) is one of the most powerful songs i've ever heard in my life. 

also, remind me in the future that people with herniated dics in their backs should not be moving furniture, nomatter how old the painter dude is.  cause he's just fine, and i've been in agony for 3 days.  RAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

i really do enjoy roaring.

Wednesday, September 21, 2005

point system

point one - i really enjoy this free lancing thing

point two - when you go for a blood test and ask the person if they need more than one vial, and they laugh at you and assure you taht one is plenty, don't you have the right to be annoyed when you get a call that you need to go back because they do actually need more of your blood?

point three - i'm watching head cases, which i'll never see again after next week - hello VM!

Monday, September 19, 2005

hard to wait

kevin smith agrees -

VM rocks

from a friend

A close family friend of mine is having a dangerous and scary
procedure on his heart iy'H tomorrow morning and I was hoping I could
ask of you that you daven for him--even just one tehillim or an amen in
his zechus would be so very much appreciated.

 

Please daven for Tzvi ben Feiga Devorah to have a refuah sh'lema.

 

I will keep you posted on his status...

 

Thank you and Tisku l'Mitzvot.

Sunday, September 18, 2005

i'd like to point out

that at my party i had a total of 4 drinks - from dinner (at 7:30) til we left (at midnight)

and i woke up in the middle of the night totally feeling nauseous

i'd like to remind you all of how much i used to be able to drink


of course i don't mention there that it was the lack of food for two days and 11 drinks in 45 minutes topped off by a schwarma that really got to me

conversations

about genetics

if both genetic donors are carriers of a disease, there's a 25% chance for each pregnancy that the child will have the disease.

if they are both carriers for more than one disease, there's a 25% chance for each disease in each potential pregnancy.

the options are as follows:

1. the couple can decide not to try for their own child and adopt

2. the couple can take sperm and eggs and create embryos in a lab, testing each before implanting.  this is expensive, but still less expensive than the medical bills incurred by having and raising (and/or treating) a child with a fatal disease.

3. the couple can take their chances, getting pregnant naturally, then testing the placenta and/or amnio fluid, then aborting.

4. the couple can take their chances and carry every pregnancy to full term.

so there are a few things that really disturb me in all this.

first of all, it's sad that people would have to choose to keep trying and aborting.  it's scarring, both physically and emotionally, and i'm not sure how i feel about it from a moral/ethical standpoint.

it's only a skip and a jump to feeling a bit uncomfortable with testing embryos.  i think i depends on what you're testing for.  some diseases are fatal, some are not immediately fatal.

but what keeps ringing in my head is that, for eastern european jews, cystic fibrosis is on the list of diseases that are tested.  does that mean that a couple wouldn't implant an embryo with CF?  all i can think of is mikey, and that if this had all been available 25-30 years ago, he would probably have not been born.  mikey added so much to this world, and changed so many lives - the idea that all of this testing could wipe such a soul from the earth makes me nervous.  edgy.  uncomfortable.

and how long until we're testing for other abnormalities?  are we going to wipe mental retardation form the earth?  should we be checking embryos for a certain sex before implanting, once we're testing the DNA anyhow?

i am 100% behind having options to avoid the heartache and pain of bringing a child into this world who will die within a few years.  but i'm not sure how far beyond that the line should be drawn.

Thursday, September 15, 2005

hee

St. Peter is captured by the Romans and they try to get him to recounce
Christ. First they threaten him with 50 years hard labour in prison.
St. Peter looks them in the eye and laughs, "With the love of my Lord
and Saviour, 50 years will seem but the blink of an eye."

Angered
they threaten him with torture. Saint Peter gives a defiant chuckle and
says "With Lord Jesus on my side the worst torture you can devise will
seem but the soft tickling of a downy feather."

Finally the
Romans have had enough of St. Peter's smugness and they threaten him
with crucifixion. St. Peter laughs, "Crucifixion? Feh! I could do that
standing on my head."

26

happy birthday to me!  happy birthday to me!  happy birthday to meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!  happy birthday to me!  and many mooooooooooooooooooooooooore...

yay yay party tonight - if you don't know where or when, call or email me

Wednesday, September 14, 2005

if only

mad about you had never had that baby, they'd still be on the air

but then again, if ellen hadn't come out, thereby having her show cancelled, we'd never have the pleasure of her daily quirkiness at 10 am

it's nice to watch performers who are enjoying the performance as much as the audince is

Monday, September 12, 2005

free ipod

you can get a free ipod through http://promo.glam.com/?r=ETGSRlUVJBWXAVMGBCgL

clickm through from that link to give me referal  - take a quiz and get 10 friends to do the same, and you're in.

musica

i finally got the DVD of music from my brother

it's awesome to have mymusic again

sucks that all my velvet underground is corrupted

most of the ataris too

will have to try to fix it or track it all down again

*<

huh, look at that

it occurs to me that i love winter time

i really like my coats

and boots

and pants

and hats

and snow

it's just winter time in the city that i don't like

Thursday, September 8, 2005

Tuesday, September 6, 2005

catch up

the greenday concert rocked, although jimmy eat world should have stopped writing music after their first two big hits.  billy joe is as funy and offensive as ever, love him!  tre is and always will be one of my favorite people.  the idiot girls who sat behind us and shriked and threw popcorn at everyone should be pummeled with their fake punk outfits that they bought at urban outifitters or wherever-the-fuck.

i kinda miss being 15 and angry all the time.

in other news, my littlest sister-in-law has run off for a year to israel.   will be very hard to not see her for so long.

my back is feeling like shite, and i've become ever more clumsy in my old age.  i fried up some chicken tonight, managing to burn myself.  when avs got home and helped out, i went to the other room to get a drink of water, tripped, and literally snapped my toe backwards, spraining it.  luckily enough it was painful enough to make me forget about the burns on my fingers.

i hope marty wins INXS.  the things he did with britney's crapfest song...  gave me the shivers.  if marty fronts INXS, i'd actully bother listening to them.

dont' know if you heard about the 6 year old who was carrying his 15 month old brother, leading his cousins and a few toddlers from their apartment building - they were evacuated, and dropped somewhere (rumor is on a bridge with about 4000 other people who needed to be further evacuated), and their parents were left in the building.  the kids were found today wandering together, the 6 year old in charge.

christ, i hope my kids and my extended family's and friends children will be smart and good-hearted and strong.  poor little guy - no 6 year old should have to be an adult like that.

also, did i mention how annoying and not talented jordis is?

so, i think you know what's up with me.   how're you?