del Torro dirt

My fav director extraordinaire is apparently going to remake the 1973 tv movie, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark!




Alas, I could not find it on Netflix...anyone have any ideas where else I might be able to to look for this 70's funarama?

creeeeeeeepy . . .

So I'm helping KT with the invitations to her girls' birthday party and we are pretty excited about using a poem of some kind. I was cruising around on the internet just to see if I could espy something suitable when I found something . . . not.

For your enjoyment and collective shudders:

I am four.

I don't know why.

Perhaps I fell

Out of the sky

Four years ago.

I don't know.

Or came like jelly

Out of Mommy's belly.

Oh, my! Oh, my

WTF?

shun the nonbeliever!

Thanks for the laughs E!

social commentary...

...from Toothepaste For Dinner

if only my shower didn't have doors...

Behold, the Serial Killer Shower Curtain...with motion activated Psycho music and screaming!

home at last!

After a looooong day of travel yesterday, I arrived home at about 4pm yesterday afternoon. It took for freakin' ever to get my stuff unpacked and put away but the upside of that is they gave me most of the leftover food and I froze it so I don't have to cook for awhile. I've had some excellent fish the past two days as well. I still feel tired but last night I slept better than anyone in the history of sleeping! After nearly 2 weeks of petsitting then a week of vacation, I was really tired of strange mattresses. It was glorious. I still feel tired however and have an early night planned so I can try and be cheerful tomorrow at work. I'll just have to let you know how that works out later. I'm not feeling too cheerful right now but tomorrow may be another story.

I visited my mother today but that is it. Now I'm about to go finish a book I've been thinking about all day. A recent edition of Unshelved Book Club featured it and I'm dying to know what happens at the end. It is an ARC but will be published August 5th, Andrew Davidson's The Gargoyle, so I was hoping to finish so I could email the publisher my comments/opinions in the morning. It is weird, dirty in some parts, heartbreaking in others...compulsively readable but not for the squeamish.

fishing the seas

Boy, would I love to show you some pictures from our fishing adventure today but alas, I left my camera at the beach house.

We left the marina at around 9am and fished around some of the local islands before taking a river sightseeing trip. We were supposed to fish in the river but it rained and we took shelter on one of the many bayou-ish boat houses moored to the bank. By the time the rain passed it was time to head in but my feelings were not hurt. I got to see one of the prettiest rivers I've ever seen. There were ospreys, long-tailed kites, turtles, cranes, and alligator garr...lots of stuff to look at in other words.

Today is our last day and we'll be headed home tomorrow so the feast is being prepared. Dear brother has dubbed it our Eat 'Til You Hurt farewell dinner. We have the two speckled sea trout and the flounder that E caught, some grouper and a ton of shrimp along with every leftover in the fridge: lasagna, chicken fettucini alfredo, meat loaf, black eyed peas, turnip greens, macaroni and cheese, hotdogs, corn, salad and chocolate cake. If we aren't hurting when we leave the table, it won't be for lack of tryin'.

Work on Monday....ugh!

Zooworld

This orangutan wuvs his/her widdle fwiend. The kitteh stretched and made dough and yawned a couple of times. We were all charmed.

A giraffe's tongue is ReAlLy GrOsS!

The kitteh is perfectly content on the orangutan island.

Dinner at Toucan's On the Beach!

signs of the times

Wow! How appetizing, sounds a bit gritty though...

Let me know how that works out for you...

This is a silly example of bad grammar, poor management, and etc.

dolphin cruise

We motored around several small islands with birds actively nesting. It was at sunset and the scenery was beautiful.

Most of the trees on the islands we passed were bare, showing the legacy of many of the hurricanes and tropical storms to move through in the past few years.

This pretty much the only dolphin we saw on the cruise and it was following this small boat. According to our captain, they were shrimping and the dolphin follows them because they throw back what they don't want from the net. The best part of all this...the gnarly old man pulling in the net. He just seemed so out of place with the two young, attractive couples (the girls were piloting the craft.