and i'm debating whether i should keep eating it.
well, that was a short debate. yum.
so now, a word about my neighbor. she has apparently only recently discovered john lennon, for she listens to his greatest hits all the damn time and it's starting to wear me out. not that there is anything wrong with lennon wailing about his mother- oh no, i like it!- but how many times can you listen to 'imagine' without it losing a bit of the magic. i reached that point at age 11 and thereafter everyday i was forced to listen to the classic rock radio station at work, so the song, while still very nice, has joined the ranks of over-played, over-memorized classic rock hits. songs that were once good but now booooooring, like 'tangled up in blue' and every fucking fleetwood mac song ever written. so i'm thinking there are at least two explanations for her continuous playing of john lennon's greatest hits (now we're on 'jealous guy' which i'll be really pissed if she ruins for me by over-playing): either, as i mentioned before, she just discovered john lennon and has not dived deeper into post-beatle expression of inner torment; or she only has the one greatest hits cd and can't find it within her to buy an original album; or she has very limited taste in music that allows her only to buy greatest hits albums and this might be the strangest music she has, but she's really into it because she recently got a divorce. ...now that i think about it, i think the last option is the most likely. sh regularly rocks out to denver's classic rock station and otherwise pretty much only listens to this john lennon album.
thus concludes my analysis of my neighbor's musical interests.
it is the day before the day before christmas and i'm either completely annoyed with christmas things or excited about the big christmas day. actually, i think this is a conflict i experience every year. this year my annoyance is dominated by people driving poorly in the post-blizzard mess to get their christmas shopping done, the constant absorption of christmas music at work, and people getting pissed that we don't have belgian endive at the store because they absolutely must have it for their christmas dinner even though there was a blizzard! and the damn belgian endive truck didn't show up. my excitement stems from the gifts that i've created (and am still creating) that will soon be opened by my peeps. but mostly i'm feeling foggy about the whole thing because i banged my head on the u-boat (big cart thing that we haul shit around on) so hard that i thought i broke my glasses, when what i really did was smash my frams into my forehead pretty hard. ow.
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Re: Cat licking the cookie debate.
We have been using a plant mister/squirt bottle to keep our new kittie out of the Christmas tree, and off the counters and table in the kitchen. It has worked remarkably well, except she is full of indignation every time she gets squirted. Today she jumped up on the counter between the kitchen and living room, which is full of Santas and other holiday stuff, and Jason hosed her pretty thoroughly. We all went for a walk this afternoon, and Jason and I were musing over the liklihood that the cat, finally left to her own devices, was returning the favor by jumping back on the damn counter to "squirt" all our freshly baked holiday cookies. "That'll show THEM" we imagined her saying to herself.
I had a friend once who played Elton John's Greatest Hits OVER and OVER and OVER. I still can't hear "Rocket Man" without wanting to smack her.
marley the cat does not respond to the water bottle treatment. i've tried it to keep her from leaping onto the tent and usually only make my tent misty wet. lousy cats! i put my cookie down for two seconds to type something and "sniff sniff, lick!"
as well as admitting to enjoying the puppy chow christmas glop, i would like everyone to know right here and right now that i like certain elton john songs. i blame the combination of working in a predominantly gay restaurant while planning my sister's wedding. that combo will turn anyone into an elton john fan, because prior to that i couldn't standm.
Who does this sound like? I just hope you two end the madness earlier than this, or at least don't go public...
http://www.wltx.com/news/story.aspx?storyid=39760
PS. I had to hold the cat while administering said hydro aversion therapy after she very cheekily eyeballed me before making the leap to the counter
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