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hey y'all. why in tarnation am i still awake? i should be sleeping cuz i planned to get up around 6 and drop these movies off at the library so i don't have to pay the late fees. i think part of it is excitement. why i'm still up, i mean. mr. bliss is heading over to a county far far away for his family reunion and i'm very excited about it. baby bliss and i will have the joint to ourselves and what a wonderful thing that will be. we thought about having a private (read: no family) cookout, choosing instead to invite a very small group of friends but it's still a thought. i like going out on occasion but i don't relish having guests much. and it would require us getting food, something i'm not feeling. holiday weekends are not my favorite time to be getting the grocery shopping done. speaking of food, if you really need some (meaning your budget is tight or your household grew unexpectedly or some other reason you might need inexpensive extra food), check o...

i saw this when i checked out a link from the website of another "bliss". i'm gonna post it here cuz i happened to think it was a very witty use of words. i also think there's a lesson in there somewhere, if we look carefully enough. i'm studying it myself. but not for the political message cuz that's kinda obvious. maybe if i print it and sleep with it under my pillow, i'll get it faster. '-) i'm optimistic and i don't endorse any one political party over another. without further ado, here 'tis. Swami Beyondananda Calls for Impeachment "It's Time for We the People to Put the 'Decider' Through the Decider Mill" by Swami Beyondananda As a devout FUNdamentalist (accent on "fun") dedicated to bringing about Nonjudgment Day, I try to avoid judging and blame. In fact, I think people who judge are terrible, and those who blame are the cause of all the world's problems. And as a Swami -- even a fake one -...

hey y'all. how's your thursday going so far? baby bliss and i are in,  watching movies . we just finished Monster House and it was good but kinda scary. who the heck wants to think about being eaten by a house ? i don't... i'm just not into scary movies any more. now we're watching Tremors with Kevin Bacon and that mucho cute guy who plays Remo Williams. i know this is an old one but i've never seen it . i guess this one might be scary too but i'm hoping it's funnier than it is scary. so far the scenery is pretty . it's desert and mountains, and once again i'm missing my old stomping grounds. baby bliss said we should go to the gym today . she's right but i donwanna. i'd rather do yoga and said so. baby bliss agreed so i guess it's a yoga break after the movie . any way, on to today's topic. i have some posts from another online site i belong to. it isn't a blogging site but in the time i spent there, i used ...

congrats to my blog sista Aly Cat 121 and her hubby on the birth of their beautiful daughter Asaria. this is daughter number 4 for those love bunnies. y'all have got to check out the pics of those lil angels as babies. what's funny is that it looks like there are four pics of the same baby but it's not true. all the girls just look so much alike. "-)

we're watching it right now. has anyone seen it? it's kinda s-l-o-w... . . .

well y'all, we missed the eclipse . baby bliss set her alarm to wake us at 5:30 a.m. but i think she forgot to fiddle with the notification and it woke us at 4:30. but we didn't know it was 4:30. what i do know is i could barely open my eyes and baby bliss was full of life. she kept repeating, " come onnnnnnnn mommy" over and over ; my feet hadn't touched the floor yet. i had only gotten in bed around 12:30 a.m. and after having been up for the preceding 39 hours , neither body nor mind welcomed the intrusion of a persistent tween . but i knew baby bliss really wanted to see the eclipse and so did it. although it felt like i was hauling a ton, i dragged myself from the bed and got dressed. we went down to the parking lot and there she was, our Luna , in all her full glory. and she was... un-eclipsed . i turned to baby bliss and said, "what time is it?" she looked at her phone then looked sheepishly at me. "um, it's 4:45,...

hey y'all! whatcha got planned for the wee hours? y'all know i'm a night owl of the worst sort (i'm still up from yesterday morning; yes, y'all read that right) but tonight i'm going to bed at a decent hour. baby bliss and i are planning to get up around 5:30 a.m. so we can go check out the lunar eclipse. y'all know we're jonesing to see a real live natural phenomena in the sky, having missed the annual Perseid meteor shower--that i discussed here and here , in such great detail and being careful to use accurate scientific jargon--earlier this month. so nitey nite my friends cuz a sista is dogggggg tired.

we've noticed (baby bliss and i) that the citgo and petro express gas stations have been or are being replaced by texaco gas stations. has anyone noticed this in their travels? any information/ideas/theories/conspiracy theories about what it portends? i remember how a few years back all the amoco stations were replaced by bp...

i love our church y'all. i feel welcome there and i learn something new and wonderful every time we go. what i really love is how one of the ministers (or someone else who gets up to speak) always speaks about something that had manifest itself in my life, right close to sunday. this sunday was no exception. i received guidance on some of the deeper issues that had come to play in my life just this past week. (i'll tell y'all about this challenge one day but not right now. it's still on the front burner and it's fixing to boil over on some of my other simmering pots. so i'ma watching it real careful and waiting for the day when i can fil y'all in on this dish.) the funny part of sunday's service was when one of the minister's said "namaste y'all". now that would be synchronicity except that we say "namaste" in our church all the time. and like i said in that other post, we're in the south so the "y'all" part ...

baby bliss had a question about conception the other day y'all. grandma was riding with us so i'm guessing b.b. thought she should moderate her choice of words. i think b.b. was asking if it was possible for a woman to give birth to a set of triplets and a set of twins when giving birth to five babies at once. the other part of the question was how a woman got pregnant with five (or more) babies at once. she wanted to know if the same sperm did it, if there was a separate sperm for each egg, or some other combination of workings. but she didn't want to say the word "sperm" in front of my grandma so she said "the creamy white stuff". well i didn't like the way that sounded and i tried to get her to pipe down until after we dropped grandma off. but wouldn't y'all know it, grandma heard her too and asked baby bliss what creamy white stuff was she talking about. at that point baby bliss dissolved into a mess of convulsive giggles and...

okay, the "y'all" at the end of the greeting/goodbye phrase is not really correct because the translation ends with the word "you". but i'm a southern gurl so "y'all" is there cuz it sounds good to me. y'all know what i love about the internet? it connects us to so many and so much. without the internet, you and i probably wouldn't know each other in any capacity. but on to what i was supposed to be saying in this post... that last post ended with the word "namaste". and in looking for a site to link to so some could get a feel for what the word embodies, i came across another "namaste" site. now go check it out y'all and tell me, how cool is this ? here's a hint: if you knit, you might like it more than some other folks. i've never seen needles like their's.

hey y'all! how's your weekend going so far? mine is going... i've been sleepy most of the day. maybe cuz i went to bed with a headache last night. i'm not sure... the chaps in our county start school on monday. lucky baby bliss, being homeschooled, her momma decides when she starts back to school. i've decided to go with the traditional day-after-labor-day for our official first day of school. in preparation, i'm relaxing and she's trying to cram as much fun as possible into her last days of summer. i don't know why cuz home schooling allows her to learn at the pool if she so chooses. maybe it's her way of commiserating with her friends who attend "regular" school. in my travels on the web, i've come across some interesting home schooling/unschooling resources that i'd like to share. the first is the NW Unschooling Conference. it's being held next year, in the NW united states. go here for more info. thanks to Amanda for post...

okay y'all, until i figure out how to get that set up where y'all can comment and get an e-mail when someone follows up on your comment, i'll just say this: go here to get more info and know that from now on, any time you leave a comment, i will reply to it right there under your comment. i'll also drop by your blog and comment on your most recent post(s) if i've been there before. if i haven't i'll take my time to look around and probably comment on some old stuff (as well as some new). so y'all feel free to leave as many comments as you like. and know that i reply!

i had a really weird dream in the wee hours. this might be kinda gross for some of y'all so this is your warning . i dreamed i was in a bathroom (or several bathrooms; that part isn't clear). every toilet stall i went into had a used panty liner in the toilet. and there was a used panty liner in every trash bin i looked into. i don't recall anyone else in the dream, just me, finding used panty liners here and there. i've dabbled in dream interpretation for the longest time. but i'll tell y'all, if i dabbled in it for another 20 years, i don't think i could figure out the meaning of that one. maybe it was meant to be comic relief . like, maybe it was sandwiched in between two other dreams that weren't so good? if that's the case, it sure did work. i usually have several dreams per sleep session but that's the only one i remember from last night. .

once upon a time y'all, i lived in the desert . i was there for a little less than 2 years but in that short time, i came to love that place. not so much the heat (although i loved my coatless winters) as the scenery . we lived in a beautiful small town with mountain vistas on every side. i moved away because i left my (ex) husband and with baby bliss being a year old, i felt it would be best to raise her back home near my family. so she and i moved back east . if i had built up a strong network of friends out there, i would have stayed. i had a few friends there but i didn't feel i knew any of them well enough to leave my small child with them while i worked. and some of them were already working moms. fast forward to now... i've had countless days of wondering what our lives would be like if i had managed to stay out there. today was one of those days. i was driving home from the bank this morning and something drew my mind out west , to the desert. ...

hey y'all! i feel like i've been on an extended vacation . i've missed y'all. what's been going on around here? :-) my life has been busy, busy, biz-zeeeeeeeeeee! saturday was the court-ordered parenting education class . it was an interesting and challenging four (4) hours. i learned a few tidbits that i'd heard before but just didn't sink in until i heard them from our facilitator. the challenging part was admitting that some of my parenting skills are in need of overhaul and promising myself i'd grit my teeth and dig in, for the good of baby bliss. it was also challenging to stay awake for four (4) hours cuz i'd stayed up into the wee hours flitting off nervous energy the night before. sunday we drove down to my sister's . that's a whole post of its own. '-) yesterday i had an interesting conversation with a telemarketer . i forgot his name and the company he claimed he was calling from. some sweepstakes place or anoth...

hey y'all. just wanted to share another sylvia tidbit. shortly after we added it to her home, we put a flat/smooth/oval rock in the bottom of sylvia's bowl-in-a-bowl. i've noticed she likes swimming down into the bottom and sitting on top of the rock. i wonder what she thinks about when she sits on her rock. i also wonder if we should put another one in. we don't have any more large flat rock, only small ones. maybe we'll go to the dollar store monday. i want to find some paper lace doilies for a project i have in mind. and now i'm off to bed cuz we're going to see my sis in a few hours. :-)

this post is under construction. '-)

hey y'all, i'm just taking a moment to say a heart felt "thank you" to everyone who reads my blog. even if you don't comment, i still appreciate you dropping by. and for those who do comment, i heap more thanks upon your head. i've learned so much about the world from the internet but i've learned so much about people from blogging. being a blogger has connected me with others who blog and it's been fun and exciting as well as informative to meet my brothers and sisters in the blogger-verse. for all who do respond, i'm taking a cue from this cool chick (thanks DSB!) by getting a system in place that will allow me to connect more and better with people who take the time to respond to my posts. please bear with me y'all cuz although i'm computer savvy and html literate, i sometimes get befuddled by all the web has to offer. in the meantime, please keep reading, please keep commenting, and keep the e-mails coming. i look forward to meeting a...

but happy too y'all. check this out... how stupid am i? me--the internet queen, lady laptop, online fanatic... why in the world did i not think to look up my sister's info online? actually, i did it when we first lost touch and couldn't find anything but the old info. but good ole sis. her new number is listed (along with her two old numbers) and i was able to reach her yesterday. she's doing okay. i'm a little concerned about some things she said but i know she's doing the best she can. (aren't we all?) i'm happy to say that we're all are driving down this weekend to see her. baby bliss will meet her cousins; i'll meet my nephew; mr. bliss will meet his sister-in-law, 2 nieces, and 1 nephew; we'll all meet my sister's significant other. thank you God/Goddess/Universe for the nudge and for being persistent with it. i know i miss it sometimes Divine One, but this time i got it in a timely manner. '-) of course i can't go withou...

yesterday y'all, i learned that we have library police. reminded me of that stephen king story but i was still happy to see him here. '-) did i tell y'all about the gang banger incident here at the library a few months ago? it wasn't a shoot out or anything serious like that. but it was unsettling just the same. baby bliss was looking for videos in the kid's section and i was checking out the CDs over on the other aisle. she came and said, "mommy. there are some guys sitting in the children's section and something ain't right about them." i asked her what she meant and she said she didn't know, just something . baby bliss ain't scared of much so i sashayed on over to see what she was talking about. sure nuff, something was strange about those guys. i played it cool and strolled over to the videos with baby bliss. we acted like we were looking for movies but i was actually checking the guys out. the first thing i noticed was...

if i wasn't the type of momma that i am, i'd be waiting for this boy with a baseball bat y'all. the other day we were at the library. baby bliss was hanging out at a table in the kid's section, with a girl she met here monday. i was standing at my friend V's desk, shooting the breeze. out of the cornea (LOL) of my eye, i saw a young man plop himself in a chair at their table. i didn't think much of it but i did keep one eye on them while i continued gabbing. next thang i know, baby bliss and her friend come running over to me and V, giggling like mad hyenas. baby bliss had a piece of folded paper in her hand. "mommy!" she giggle-shouted, "look at this!" i took the paper, unfurled the gazillion folds, and here's what i read: HAY my is ____ when i fast saw you I have a crush on you do you a boyfriend I love you will you go out with me I like your sister the one in the pink I love you babygirl call me at _____________ ...

i'm sitting at the library in the kids section, looking out the window at parking lot activities. i've noticed (and not only today) that a lot of people tend to let their small children walk behind them. i've seen both men and women do it, tho mostly women. (but i'm sure that's cuz there seem to be more women than men bringing the kids to the library.) even tho she's 10, i'm careful to have baby bliss walk beside me or in front of me. i feel it's safer in case we need to run or something. that way i don't have to look behind me to see where she is or if she's paying attention. i can just snatch her up and explain the particulars as we haul tail outta the sich'ation. * * * yesterday i noticed a high percentage of men in the library. some of them were kinda creepy too. i think one was clocking mr. bliss. (to 'clock' means to watch someone's activity very closely, sometimes for purposes of getting to know them in the romant...

hey y'all. this synchronicity thing is getting eerier by the day. don't get me wrong now. i've always prayed to be in the Flow of Abundance , to dance in the swirl of Life's Unseen , and kept abreast of Things I Need to Know . and i'm not saying i'm a Sylvia Brown or a Madame Cleo '-) but God has been good to me with the intuition thing. i've been a just-miss no-show for more shoot outs, bank robberies, and knife fights than i care to remember. i've managed to come across long-lost documents right before they were needed, i dreamed my daughter's birth at a time when i was adamant about not having children, i've advised people to make seemingly questionable business moves that have served them extremely well, etc. i can't recount all the wonderful incidences of coincidence/fate/human revolution/karma/synchronicity that i've experienced in my life. and i'm sure there are some i've missed out on cuz i was somewhere doing somet...

hey y'all, according to this guy , the value of my blog has more than doubled since the last time i checked. (several months ago but not sure of the exact date cuz i wasn't paying that much attention...) all i know is my blog was worth this much My blog is worth $2,258.16 . How much is your blog worth? when i first checked it out. and now it's worth this much: My blog is worth $5,645.40 . How much is your blog worth? there's all kinds of technical talk about dollar ratios, technorati, AOL, and some other gibberish on that guy's page. and not one bit of it helps me understand how the $ amounts are calculated. but that's not the most important thing . what i want to know is how i can get that money and stick it in my bank account cuz it sure would come in handy. with $5,645. 40 , i could pay: my rent for 6.06 months or (2) cell phone bills for 53.76 months or my car note for 18.63 months or my student loan off and have $3,310.53 ...

okay y'all. i done been outside quite a few times now and ain't seen not one falling thing. baby bliss abandoned the land of the wide awake several hours ago. she's sleeping peacefully on the living room floor at my feet. she's wrapped in a snuggly-soft fleece blanket with her head perched on the large throw pillow we keep for floor huggers. she and i went out a few times, once out front and a few more out on the balcony. we did notice that the sky appeared lighter and brighter--an almost reddish glow--close to the edges. we talked about it and i thought we might be experiencing an optical illusion. but lil smart girl that she is, baby bliss said she thought the glow was related to the meteor showers and asked me how i knew it wasn't. i told her i would check. and sho nuff, she was right. so did anyone see (or hear about) the meteor shower?

hey good people! baby bliss and i are about to make a dash out front to see if we can catch a glimpse of this annual stellar event. i don't recall hearing about this before but i probably have at some point. b.b. told me an hour ago that she was setting her alarm clock to get up at 4:45 so she could see it. she said she heard it on the news (i was dozing) and really wanted to see it. i checked the website of a local newspaper and read that we can actually see the shower for many hours between 10 p.m. and dawn. i also learned that it's an annual event that occurs on either side of august 12. what i wanna know is why i didn't hear about it on yesterday's news?

hey my fellow bloggers. i have some questions about blog etiquette that i'm hoping to get answers to. and who knows? maybe some others in blogville out there are wonderin' too but just haven't gotten around to asking? or maybe some have already asked and i just don't know where to find the answers? i hope it's the former. now on to the questions. :-) 1. when a person leaves a comment that ya wanna/needta/should respond to, where's the proper place to do it? on their blog? on ya own? i don't wanna be rude and not respond at all cuz that's not my style. but if i respond on their blog, how the heck will they know what i'm referring to if i don't reference it? is it considered rude to re-post some of my own material on someone else's comments, even in the name of good manners? i also don't wanna look like i'm building up my own comments by responding to my visitor's comment(s). and i'm not sure if people come back to check ...

that's what it's like at #2 Auntie's house at night. she lives in a rambler, her floors creak, there's a wooded area right behind her house, none of her neighbors leaves their porch lights on at night, and all the windows in the front of her house are a few inches from the ground. baby bliss and i both agreed it's kinda scary to sleep over at #2 Auntie's.

or maybe i should say "my scalp!" a few hours ago, i thought i would scratch my scalp bloody. i know it's not the "dirty scalp" itch cuz i washed my hair yesterday. this is the "dry scalp" itch, the one i hate the most. i do NOT like putting anything oily on my scalp and it's been a long time since i've done it (or felt the need to). i washed my hair with the same soap i've been using, although i recently bought a new batch from an unfamiliar source. maybe the ingredients have changed. or maybe i used the wrong soap... i love auromere soap. it comes in two types: one for oily/blemished skin and one for dry/normal skin. i buy both. i used the oily/blemished skin bar for my shower and shampoo. i guess i shouldn't have used it for the shampoo as my scalp tends to be dry. :-( my scalp was fine last night and is better now (after an hour of intense scratching). i think i am gonna have to put a lil sesame oil on my scalp aft...

baby bliss and i are at #2 Auntie's house with grandma. we're still up. (yeah, what a surprise, right?) i'm doing this and b.b. is watching That's So Raven. she's in tween heaven cuz we don't have cable at home. earlier, my grandma was watching one of her religious programs. it was interesting but we could have done without it this time. Clifton Davis (the actor/songwriter) is now a minister and he was the host. now, i don't have a thing against gay people at all (some of my best friends and all... LOL) but i think he's a lil sweet. even baby bliss (who knows my gay friends) got a ding on her gaydar. she even asked my grandma if he was. my grandma said no but what does she know? sometimes the signs are very subtle. and sometimes the most overtly feminine man may not be gay at all. not in the truest sense of the word... grandma wanted to see the program to the end but i knew she wouldn't make it. it was already going on 11:30 and i've never known...

hey y'all. how's the weather in your neck of the woods? it's hot as hell here. well, maybe not that hot. but it 'pends on who you ask and who you b'lieve, i guess. but it is sho nuff hot here. over a hunnert degrees in the shade. baby bliss keeps talkin' bout it's our fault (my generation) cuz we killed the ozone layer with all the hair spray we used back in my day. i keep telling her it was my mother's generation, not mine. but baby bliss is a non-believer. we have been managing to stay cool, thank God/Goddess/Universe. i am thankful for air conditioning, electricity, mr. bliss who works to pay the bill, and living in an area that doesn't see too many black outs. as usual y'all, i was up til the wee hours . but not too wee. i crashed around 2 or 2:30 in the a.m. guess my clock is naturally slowing down and winding back the other way in preparation for the coming school days. some semi-scary news: i remember three (3) distinct dr...

hey y'all, here's a cool website i found along my travels. all you creative types, creative-type wanna-be's, and those of you who know you'll be for ever creatively challenged should go check it out. '-) Oddpodz A global nation for creatives express - experience - belong www.oddpodz.com . . .

now ain't this a caution y'all? bliss, as an m & m. (um, okay, as soon as i can figure out how to capture the image, it will go here.) thanks stephanie ! now go see her's then make your own here .

hey y'all. how was your saturday? ours was busy. i went to sleep around 8 this morning. real sleep, that is. i'd been nodding off for about 15 minutes before i gave up the fight. there was something i really really wanted to read but i just couldn't keep my eyes open for longer than a few seconds at a time. mr. bliss came out into the living room and caught me with my fingers on the laptop keyboard, head hanging, and eyes closed. thank God i wasn't drooling. might not be able to use this thing right now. baby bliss woke up shortly before the sandman dragged me under. last i heard was her laughing at a funny on winx club, one of her favorite cartoons. after a few hours of shut eye, i re-joined the living with a purpose. too bad i can't remember what it was. maybe i was supposed to be making jewelry or writing. *shrug* it didn't happen. aside from nosing my way along the web all night, i did a movie marathon. baby bliss was sposed to join me and sh...

i think i'm gonna go shopping today y'all. yeah, yeah, i know. the stores will be packed. but i'm not going to the regular places. i'm going to the value village across town. they always have much better stuff than both our nearby goodwills and they do color-coded discounts too. (goodwill will give you a 10% discount coupon and they have senior's discounts on tuesdays, but that's it.) funny that we're in a "better" neighborhood but they have the good stuff "over there". now i've gotta wait for baby bliss to come to her senses. she's beautiful and serene when she's sleeping. i'm jealous.

wow y'all. i'm watching a beautiful sunrise. :-) why didn't i know before now that i could see something so wonderful from my living room floor? thanks God/Goddess/Universe.

hey y'all! how's your friday going so far? just wanted to share some good shopping sites i've come across in the past few days. there's JungleCrazy , a site that compiles the best/lowest discounts from amazon.com. the discounts are at least 70% and there's also a 1 cent page. i wasn't surprised to see the razor phones on the 1 cent page. the ones we got from verizon wireless really sucked rotten eggs. there's also CCO . they're the website that gets all the closeout stuff from catalogs like Chadwick's and LaRedoute. they have some reeeeeallllly good deals but of course, sizes and quantities are limited. keep in mind that i've never bought anything from either of these places so caveat emptor y'all and happy friday. * * * * * 12:06 a.m. update... i tried to buy a few inexpensive items from JungleCrazy.com. i guess i forgot about the crazy shipping costs when buying from amazon when the items are being sold by several different...

hey y'all, this week's collaboration (#42) over at Crazy Hip Blog Mamas is asking me to reveal my childhood dreams . i know they don't mean the dreams we had while sleeping, but i'll tell y'all this any way. i had a recurring dream during childhood. a recurring nightmare . in the dream, i was always being chased by a round guy wearing black pants and a horizontally striped long sleeved shirt. he also wore a black hat and a black thingie tied around his eyes with slits so he could see. i'm not sure but i think he was a character from a popular cartoon of my day. maybe someone out there knows who/what i'm talking about? now on to the real topic of collaboration #42. when i was a girl, i loved to play with my dolls . i loved to make clothes for them (from old socks), do their hair, let them have parties and what not. and whenever we went out and left the dolls home alone, i always had the feeling that they'd been moving around the place while w...

do y'all know sylvia ? she's baby bliss's pet beta . we've had her since winter. she's our ongoing home schooling project . she's pretty and funny. a beautiful shade of cobalt blue that stripes when she's scared or (i think) mad . when we got her, we didn't know a thing about raising fish . she was a totally spur-of-the-moment purchase. once we got her home, we were afraid she'd die on us so i did lots of online research. a few of the things i learned: betas like greenery in the bowl. usually to hide behind. if the fish rub against anything sharp, they can be injured and could die. sea salt is good for them. celtic salt is better. they like to eat spirulina and it's a nice treat for them. their little bellies are about the size of one of their eyeballs , so it's extremely important not to overfeed them. they can go a week or two without eating cuz that's what sometimes happens in their natural habitats (shallow puddles in Thaila...

baby bliss and i were seriously jonesing for watermelon in here y'all. even though we have supermarkets in walking distance, i hate getting it from the tarris heeter, moolb, and lood fion. we used to get it at the local farmer's market but the closest one is almost on the other side of town. thank God for our local farmers. when we drove to #1 Auntie's house a few weeks back, y'all remember i said we rolled thru farm areas on our way up? did i say i made a mental note to go back for produce? baby bliss and i went today. the first place we stopped didn't have watermelon. :-( the man said for us to go see "that boy up the other side of the road". so up we went to the other side of the road. "that boy" turned out to be a man older than my momma. o.O aside: but in the south, every male is probably called boy by someone older than himself. shoot, my grandma still calls me a girl and i'm 40. baby bliss and i really wanted that waterm...

I snagged this one from Miz Susan over at Our Little Corner of the Upstate . Thanks Susan! :-) 5 things in your refrigerator: 1. rice milk 2. sour cream 3. Odwalla's pomegranate-lemonade juice 4. apple juice (which might sit awhile; we got it for our visiting cousin who said she loved apple juice. funny how she drank half a cup out of 32 ounces) 5. a bowl of basmati rice that's been in there for too long to remember (is it time to toss it?) 5 things in your closet (bedroom for me): 1. too many wire hangers! 2. off season clothes/shoes - on the shelves 3. seasonal wear - hanging 4. the linen shelves and clean linens 5. hubby's junk , waiting to be unpacked 5 things in your purse or backpack (in my case, it's the rolling laptop bag/backpack): 1. an orange mesh bag that i using as a small purse/large wallet 2. a 2-inch thick folder and a 1-inch thick folder, both holding notes from the novel i'm currently working on 3. a pack of wide-ruled ...

i really should be sleep but i'm not even sleepy yet. guess what i'm doing y'all. (besides typing this, i mean.) i'm checking out other people's blogs. specifically, i'm checking out all the blogs on the Crazy Hip Blog Mamas blogroll. i'm still on the A's y'all and i've been at it for 2 days now. but i'm taking my time. i'm reading at least 3 posts per blog, to see if the blog touches a nerve, makes me feel some sort of kinship, or moves me in some other way. then i'll leave a comment or two; maybe more. i really do need to get to sleep. baby bliss and i are 'sposed to make it to the 10:30 free movie later. if i don't get at least 4 hours sleep, i'll be nodding off during the movie. on a totally different topic, my scalp needs a good scrubbing. i don't know why it's gone all itchy on me. there was a time i could go weeks without washing my hair and it never bothered me. maybe this is cuz it got used to...

hey y'all. baby bliss and i were watching a documentary the other night called Okie Noodling . we turned it on halfway thru and were disgusted (me) and enthralled (her) with the practice. the fish (ginormous, alien-looking catfish for y'all who don't know) were frightening in appearance. something that would make me never stick my foot in a puddle of muddy water ever again, i tell ya. their skin was green and yellow , their whiskers thick and rubbery-looking, and the noodlers were pulling off the fishy skin with pliers . nas-teeeeeee. the highlight of the whole program? (and no, i didn't change the channel cuz baby bliss wanted to watch and it was eh-dhu-kay-shun-ul people.) the highlight of the entire program was when one of the noodlers was showing and telling one of the researchers how to get the fish out of the holes. he said, "... grab a holtuvit ..." baby bliss looked at me, clearly confused. she said, "mommy, what's a 'h...