Not every holiday is for celebrating. Some are for remembering.

THANKSGIVING


Thanks for:


1.  My husband chuck, who cleans the lint filter after emptying the dryer and who, after everything I do, re-does it right.


2.  My children, who although having proved that parenting by intimidation does not work are nevertheless using the same method on their own kids. 

3.  My mother who even though is not that intimate with reality still manages to make me laugh once in a while.


4.  Facebook, which has made me realize how many wonderful people I know.


5.  The internet.  Before the web, I did my surfing by walking down every aisle in the library with my head sideways.


6.  A job that I kick ass at and can go to work wearing a towel.


7.  Whatever gave me the faith to redecorate my bedroom when we don't even know where the next mortgage payment is coming from.  


8.   Hello Kitty who has no mouth because if she did it would ruin the whole effect, like how not understanding the words to certain songs makes them more magical and cool.


9.  My grandchildren, who do and say the funniest things, like Aysha when she had two dolls named Jean: one little Jean and one big Jean the lesbian.  And Jordan who feared the haunted house at WDW, saying "but what about the ghostly apprehensions" (should be apparitions).  


10. All the fish.

CHUCK & DEBBIE PICK A MOVIE Since our bigscreen tv bulb went out, what Chuck and I do every night is pick a movie and watch it on the TV in our bedroom.  It isn't easy to pick one we both like,  though.Here is an exchange from the other night: ME:  You wanna watch Mr. Bean? CHUCK:  No.  ME:   No I mean the one where he's a spy.  CHUCK:  No. Why don't we each pick five.    ME:   OK.   Sky Captain, Holy Grail, Office Space,  the 40 year old Virgin, and War of the Worlds.  CHUCK:  Here's my five:  Starsky and Hutch, StarTrek First Contact, Step into Liquid, Without A Paddle and Silverado. ME:  SILVERADO!  Okay, why not the entire season of Fat Actress then? CHUCK:   Hey, we could watch Step Into Liquid with the commentary. ME:   We've done that before.  Is there something  with Easter Eggs? CHUCK:  The only Easter Eggs I can find are just  extra footage that was cut. ME:  I don't consider cutting room floor stuff  an Easter Egg.   CHUCK:   Okay, okay.   Well out of all yours,  I guess I would pick War of the Worlds.   ME:  Good, because out of all yours I would pick War of the Worlds.  CHUCK:   Okay.  And that's how we pick our movie for the night.

 

My List of Books to Read by Diva: Poet/Socialite/ Revolutionary.         
(Bracelet shown available Signals Catalog)

I don't know about your weather but it's a wet rainy weekend where I live...perfect time to curl up with a book...I'm heading for the library tomorrow with a list:

Water music : a novel by Boyle, T. Coraghessan.
Perfume : the story of a murderer  by Suskind, Patrick.
The end of Alice by Homes, A. M.
Agent of chaos  by Spinrad, Norman
Island of the sequined love nun Moore, Christopher.
Flow my tears, the policeman said by Dick, Philip K.
The man who japed by Dick, Philip K.
Confessions of a crap artist--Jack Isidor: a chronicle of verified scientific fact, 1945-1959 by Dick, Philip K.
Eye in the sky by Dick, Philip K.
Angelhead : my brother's descent into madness by Bottoms, Greg.
Sentimental, heartbroken rednecks : stories  Bottoms, Greg.
My mother's keeper : a daughter's memoir of growing up in the shadow of schizophrenia Holley, Tara Elgin.
The tenant of Wildfell Hall by Bronte, Anne.
Blood meridian, or, The evening redness in the West by McCarthy, Cormac.
Blindness by Saramago, Jose.
The death of Artemio Cruz by Fuentes, Carlos. Pop. 1280 by Thompson, Jim, 1906-1977.
Another day in paradise  by Little, Eddie.
The visit; a tragi-comedy.by Durrenmatt, Friedrich.
Fugitives & refugees : a walk in Portland, Oregon  by Palahniuk, Chuck.

THE ONE

THING

I WOULD

TAKE

IF I HAD

TO BE

STRANDED

ON A

DESERTED

ISLAND

I would take a bandana. Why?

They can be bandages, tourniquets, wash rags, sweatbands, sunscreens, kotex, face masks, dog leashes, bow ties, ear warmers, chafe protectors, belts, bathing suit tops, diapers, trail markers, bottle holders, gas cap replacers, gear tie downs, suspenders, neck coolers, napkins, arm slings, train robbing disguises, hobo bags, hankies, luggage identifiers, talkative seatmate gags, potholders, slingshots of biblical proporations, and fashion statements.

Don't leave home without one.

YOU STILL HAVE THREE DAYS TO GO BACK IN TIME!

http://blog.texrenfest.com/

The one and only Texas Renaissance Festival will continue this Saturday, this Sunday and the Friday after Thanksgiving. After that, you will have to wait until next year. I cannot say enough about this experience. Pictures can't capture it, words cannot impart the authenticity that is created in this world among the pines, so far from, yet so accessible from the 20th century. It is just wonderful. Check out their blog. And go, if you can.

SCREEMING MAMMOGRAM DO YOU SEE THESE THINGS? DO YOU KNOW WHAT THEY ARE? THEY'RE NIPPLE MARKERS!!!! NOW I HAVE FOUND TWO MORE THINGS I HATE TO DO: 1. Take off the right nipple marker. Scream. 2. Take off the left nipple marker. Scream again. THESE STICK MUCH WORSE THAN BANDAIDS. MORE LIKE SUPERGLUE! AND DON'T LEAVE THEM ON WHEN YOU GO INTO THE STORE: YOU WILL LOOK LIKE YOU HAVE BB-SIZED NIPPLES. YES, GO AHEAD AND GET YOUR MAMMOGRAM. BUT WHEN YOU SEE THEM COMING WITH THESE THINGS, RUN!!! IF THEY CATCH YOU, TELL THEM NO NEED... YOUR NIPPLES WILL BE IN THE EXPECTED LOCATION, THANK YOU! AFTER ALL, THEY DON'T MIGRATE LIKE TEETH!

ANOTHER ONE OF LIFE'S LITTLE MYSTERIES

I was taking a picture of my bananas in the backyard, and the picture came out with all these little circles. What can these be? They're not orbs, they're not rods...has anyone else ever seen these before?

Total Bedroom Makeover!!

I don't know what got into me, but it was one of those moments when all the tumblers of the lock to the universe aligned themselves and...it was time. Time to redo my hideous bedroom.

When I told my husband what I wanted to do, he asked me "Have you ever painted a room before?"

"Sure," I said. "Lots of times." I did not tell him that this had been 30 years ago. So I am at that point where I can't change my mind about this anymore and I must see the reformation through to the end. It's not a good place. I am tired. Everything is in disarray. I just want it to be all over with. I hate HGTV for making it look so easy.

Anyway, The first picture below is wall #1 "DURING" as it looks right now. It has been primed and that's all. Because it is going to be an "accent wall" it will be the last wall painted (in Aspen Aura). You can also see adjoining wall #2 has not quite been completed with its first coat. The second picture below is wall #1 "BEFORE". The entire room was a sickly mauve color when we moved in. The furniture was a mixture of mine and my husband's (we've only been married 3 years). And the dresser was trashed out because I was cleaning out the drawers.

Now the next picture you see below is wall #3 "BEFORE" showing more of how bad the room looked with all that mauve and old furniture and mattresses on the floor. UGLY!

And the picture following that is wall #3 "DURING" or as it looks now. This has both coats of the new color which is Spring Green.

This shows wall #3 "BEFORE" and "AFTER", the junkiest, ugliest part of the room. It is finished and has the second coat and is finished except for the edges.

Oh, and here are the new beds, still in their boxes. Hey, it's a work in progress. It will get done.

SPOILED HORSES!

There are some really spoiled horses in Spring, Texas that have their own house. This actually looks like it used to be a pretty nice house, but evidently the horses took over. Sometimes you can drive by and see them looking out the window. It is located on Cypresswood between 45 and 59 off 1960 if you want to take a look sometime.