Flying the Friendly Skies

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posted by courtney @ 3:11 PM 0 comments

Beachy Keen

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posted by courtney @ 6:23 AM 0 comments

One Liners

Like they're goin' to hell and they gotta be the first one there...

It's all fun and games until the blue lights come on.

This one's actually a three-liner:

"I just pray it will all work out."
"What?"
"Daddy's Pontiac."

Labels: Day in the Life

posted by courtney @ 4:53 PM 0 comments

Did I miss the memo?

I'm not sure if it was just because I got out on my walk with Milo much later than usual this morning, or if there is something going on. Is it "Women's Fitness" day or something? Or is this just what the housewives do at 9:30 in the morning, en masse?

You can't see it from my crappy pictures (I need a new camera phone), but there was a caravan, and I don't use that term lightly, a caravan of mom's with humungo baby strollers storming through the park and blazing the trail today. I guess the leaders got to set the tone, the two women in front started doing lunges behind their strollers, and it was a domino effect. The quarter-mile of women behind them started doing lunges.

It wasn't just the moms, though. Before they descended on the park, there were a plethora of women hanging out in the park as well. There were so many they were laying in the middle of the trail and doing crunches. Milo was distrurbed, he didn't know what the hell was going on. He skirted around them as quickly as possible. I for one would have been scared to lay in the middle of the trail on Bike to Work day - those bikers are a bit nutso in the driving department.

I know all of this could have been alleviated by simply asking one of them, "Hey, what's going on here?" But they were all so intense and focused, I really didn't want to take them away from their exercising.

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posted by courtney @ 9:47 AM 0 comments

Happy Day

It's a sunshiny morning, both outside and inside my head. I have a new job, I've given notice at the old one, I have a dog sitter, and dates are getting close to finalized for the honeymoon. It's like those t-shirts say, Life is Good!

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posted by courtney @ 8:18 AM 0 comments

Living on the Edge

He caught my eye as the fan blade passed over the hole. Sitting next to a green shoe box.

I'll just ignore him. If I do anything about it, I'll miss my tv show.

At that moment he fell. Hanging on by his little hamster paw, he dangled perilously above the fan blades, grasping onto the edge of the ceiling's sheet rock.

Plunk! Crap, he had landed on the bed. Now I have to deal with this little brown and white furball.

Before I can move, he runs off the bed and out into the hallway. He scuttles back and forth along the edge of the wall, contemplating his next move. I've made it off the bed, but I too am contemplating the next move. What the hell am I going to catch this hamster with?

Labels: Dreams

posted by courtney @ 9:34 AM 0 comments

I just wanna shove a pepper up my nose

I stay stuffy most of the year, so when I actually notice that my head is stuffed up and I can't breathe, it's pretty bad. I've often times said, "I'm just going to stuff a pepper up my nose and see if it clears it up." I was ready to snort some Tabasco one day, but then I realized to snort, you would have to be able to breathe, and I couldn't. I did try a matchstick of ginger once, but that didn't work out as well as I had hoped.

So, imagine my surprise when the peeps over at fitsugar had this pepper nasal spray on the site. It's like someone developed a product directly from my warped mind.

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posted by courtney @ 9:23 AM 0 comments

Jail Bird

He shudders at the thought the coppers may have found him...

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posted by courtney @ 2:40 PM 0 comments

Tunes

My mood has been all over the place lately when it comes to my music. Usually I get in a groove for quite a while -- immersing myself in the "World" genre (whatever that is), or some Southern rock, or gangsta rap, or what I like to call "chill" music (which, seems to sometimes fall into that "world" genre and sometimes into electronic). But lately, not one thing has been satisfying me. And there's nothing just attracting me to say "Hey, you have to buy me!!!" in the iTunes store so I can drown myself in its sounds.

So, here are the top albums/songs I've been listening to over the past couple of weeks. From what I can tell, I've needed to relax, breathe, meditate, shake my booty, have a drink, celebrate jazz fest, celebrate summer, and get back to my Tennessee roots... And then there's Twilight Zone. Never sure what that one says -- it fits a ton of moods.

1. Putamayo's Asian Groove


2. Outkast - ATLiens (specifically Wheelz of Steel)


3. Adina Howard - Do You Wanna Ride? (spec. Freak Like Me)


4. Jimmy Buffett - Boats, from the Boats, Beaches, Bars, and Ballads box set


5. Sideways Soundtrack


6. Golden Earring - The Continuing Story of Radar Love (spec. Twilight Zone)


7. Timbaland - Shock Value (love this album - it runs the gamut)


8. Outkast - Stankonia


9. Perry Como's Papa Loves Mambo off of the compilation Rum Punch


10. Outkast - The Love Below (spec. Hey Ya!)


11. Trick Daddy - 2004 Thug Matrimony (spec. Let's Go!)


12. Jose Ortega and his Mariachi Ensemble - The Music of Mexico (this one resulted in me eating a lovely Chile Verde yesterday evening)


13. Georgia Satellites - Keep Your Hands to Yourself (the only song of theirs I own)


14. The Charlie Daniels Band - Devil Went Down to Georgia (the only song I have off this album)


15. Outkast - Idlewild


16. The Doobie Bros. - What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits


17. Lynrd Skynyrd - Gold & Platinum


18. Putamayo's World Lounge


19. Anoushka Shankar - Rise


20. Putamayo's Carnival


21. Best of the Gipsy Kings


22. The Marshall Tucker Band - Searchin' For a Rainbow


23. Steve Earle - Copperhead Road


24. Putamayo's Zydeco


25. Jimmy Buffett - Feeding Frenzy

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posted by courtney @ 10:06 AM 0 comments

WEDDING WEDDING WEDDING

Yes, it's back on the brain. Some of you have asked what happened to the link to my wedding site. Simply put, I've been writing, and not about the wedding, so you'd have to dig through the archives to find the link (or just find that email I sent you).

But, if you look to the right (and yes, I just checked to see which thumb and forefinger made an "L" and by my masterful deduction skills I determined that it is really the right column), under Links, there's now a permanent link to the wedding site. So, you can check it often, and see that Raju still has written nothing about himself, and that I'm slowly, slowly updating the Things to Do area.

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posted by courtney @ 6:28 PM 0 comments

It's like throwing cards virtually

You are The Wheel of Fortune

Good fortune and happiness but sometimes a species of
intoxication with success

The Wheel of Fortune is all about big things, luck, change, fortune. Almost always good fortune. You are lucky in all things that you do and happy with the things that come to you. Be careful that success does not go to your head however. Sometimes luck can change.

What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.

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posted by courtney @ 5:00 PM 0 comments

Brain Rot

Five years ago, I'm sure I knew why Laurie Simmons house was so friggin' mind-blowing to me. Today, I really have no clue. I've searched her, I've googled her, I've yahoo'd her, I have not even a glimpse into what she once meant to me. I can find lots of pictures -- of her, her work, etc. None of it rings a bell. All I remember was this playhouse she had built was the most wonderful thing I had ever seen my junior year of college, and I thought she was brilliant.

Cheers! Have another drink in honor of my dead brain cells.

Labels: Influences, just a picture, Life Changing Moments

posted by courtney @ 11:59 PM 0 comments