This time I sat on the steps and cried

I had big plans for tonight.

I was going to work very little for a fabulous and healthy supper. 

I was going to watch Bob Ross and the Joy of Painting.

I was going to set my fantasy teams.

I was going to put away the clutter on the counter.

I was going to do dishes and put away last night's dishes.

I was even going to fold clothes and label newsletters.

But all of that was gone in one beep .... and then 5 minutes later three beeps ..... again, and again and again.

Remember that episode of Friends?  Pheobe realizes her smoke detector is beeping, so she takes out the battery ... but it keeps beeping.  She smashes it into pieces and it continues to beep.  She throws it down the garbage shoot and it's returned to her ... still beeping.

It was that.

But I didn't know what was beeping or where it was coming from.

And that's a good way to put me into the crazy house.  Give me a beeping that I can't stop.

I was getting dinner *BEEP*   Sitting down to watch Bob Ross ... it's over, I got the wrong time.

*BEEP*BEEP*BEEP*

Okay, what the fuck is that? 

I sit in the living room.  Nothing.

I walk in the kitchen, stand there for awhile.  Nothing.

I open the back door and walk down to the basement. Nothing.

I figure since I'm down there I could do a load of laundry.  I get the washer going and notice my laundry basket isn't down here.  So I went upstairs and took the laundry off the rack up there and transfer it to the kitchen table.  Then I take the laundry basket it to take it back downstairs to get those clothes off the line. 

*BEEP*BEEP*BEEP*

There it was again, and loud that time.  So back downstairs I go, that's the only place I could think the beeping might come from.  I get the laundry off the line and take it back upstairs to sit on the table with it's white counter parts.

*BEEP*

Okay, so now I'm convinced it's in the basement.  So I sit. in. the. basement. for. 20 minutes.

Nothing.

Go back upstairs.  *BEEP*BEEP*BEEP*

Okay, where are the fucking cameras, ha ha the joke is over.


I wish.


I walk around the house again and hear it faintly in the living room, but not in the kitchen.


Fail safe.  Call the parents.

Is it the stove? No. Microwave? No. Radio? Dishwasher? Alarm? TV? Laptop?

NO!!!!!!

Finally (and 45 minutes later) I wander upstairs (which I don't like doing at night, don't judge me, I believe in spooks).

No beeps, nothing that could beep.

Until ... a smoke detector.

I touch it .................... the beeping is loud, it's the beeping, and it doesn't stop.

So I take out the battery ... and thank god, the beeping stops.


But the tears start.  This damn battery with it's damn beeping shows me how vulernable and helpless I can be.

I just can't take beeping.

Conspiracy Untheories

1. I respect Romo less for dating the blond bimbo.
2. I am so sick of doing dishes.
3. Life is so overwhelming.
4. I'm in a music rut.
5. I didn't do it I swear--unless I was supposed too ... then I did.
6. I haven't gone to the movies in forever.
7. I have a monkey named George who thinks he's a kitty, he also plays like a dog.
8. I also have a kitty who gets that sinister look of his namesake, Dexter.  He likes to untie my shoes.
9. The Skins are owning the Cowboys in every department so far except the uni's.  They look like they're wearing ugly red and orange couch upholstery.
10. What do you get for the person who has everything?
11. I want the new Goo Goo Doll CD!
12. Is drinkability even a word?
13. Dear G.W.,  Ha, ha!
14. Holy craptastic--he had six plates on his arm.
15. F'ing Patriots, don't win when I root for them.
16. I see things that aren't there ... like words.  Los Angeles ... where the heck did my brain pull it from?

They're all trying to kill me

Four times today four separate vehicles turned a corner (or pulled out of a driveway too widely), came into the wrong lane and nearly t-boned me.

The O-Line Lost the Vikes Game

For the love of Pete, can the offensive line of the Green Bay Packers get any more penalties?  (channeling Chandler there, by the way)

Sadly, and slightly teriffingly, the answer is yes.  They mentioned several times during today's Viking-Packer game that the Packers are leading the league in penalties.  Late in the third quarter, that totaled 65 yards.

And it's not just the penalities, they're not protecting Rodgers.  The two ends are getting old--and yes that means you Tauscher.  There's a reason the past two years hasn't had a running game and that there were two safeties in ONE quarter.  They aren't holding their blocks, following through or making the black in the first place.

Yes, Rodgers is probably holding the ball too long ... it's his ninth? game. That quick release will come in time.  For self preservation alone.  But the man should be able to do three step drop, make two reads and release.  He didn't even have enough time scramble.  And the man can scramble.
I'm not sure why or how there's so many yards on the Packers run defense.  I always thought they were solid up the middle and run only got away from them when they were overly-centric about bull-rushing the quarterback.

Did anyone noticed the Packers axed Kabeer Gbaja Biamila?  Nothing was on any of the pregame shows, or in the Packer's e-updates.  Now, I'm not saying it was a bad move.  He wasn't producing, but he was the heart and soul of the Packers defense (before Aaron Kampman) -- not Nick Barnett as some are trying to convince us.  Barnett hasn't done anything the past year either.

Is the season lost?  No, but they need to shore up the play on both lines.  They also need to stop the penalties.  I understand agressive play.  I understand the ref seeing something that wasn't there. 65+ yards is not acceptible. And if the touchdown wouldn't have been called back due to a false start there would be one more W on the postive side. 

Change isn't always something to fear

Last week was that of extremes.

We enjoyed beautiful weahter of 60-70 degrees  for four days and then at the end of the week it snowed.  Saturday the snow stuck.  I look out my windows today to patches of our white enemy on the ground here and there.

I suppose we're lucky though.  If it would have snowed on Wednesday it would have been blizzard conditions. It rained, it poured.  It thundered and lightnening.  It took out our power at work.  That was an experience.

I look a little Medusa right now. My hair is not quite long enough in the front to stay in a pony tail, so I either put pins in it or use headbands.  Well the only problem is that it pulls out and goes all over ... hence the Medusa vibes I'm working right now.

I realized this unfortunate hair-do when I went to brush my teeth.  I've been having dreams the past two weeks about my teeth.  They have rotted, fallen out and discolored.  Now I know that dreaming about your teeth generally means that you regret what you've said.  I really can't think of anything I've should have been quiet about.  So I'm thinking it might be that general nagging feeling for falling asleep without brushing my teeth.  I figure either way I'll just play it safe.

I plugged in my Clapper on Wednesday night.  I was annoyed that I had to wander through darkness to turn on a light and risk spilling my water or juggling whatever I had in my hands.  When I nearly tipped the light off the endtable I finally decided I needed to pull out the good old Clapper. 

What they don't tell you in the "Clap on, Clap off" commerical is that everything else turns on the clapper too: sneezing, laughing, putting away pots and pans, dropping things, closing the closet door, yelling at the television ....

It's 10 o'clock ... more polls close

Barack carries ... California ....

ohmigod, and they announce he's been elected president.

I didn't think it would happen so fast.  A huge weight has been lifted off our country.  I cannot wait for 2009!!

Obama to 200

In honor of 200 electoral votes for Obama.

BLUE BLOG

(with a little red to honor a country I'll finally be proud of)

Proud to be Blue

Wisconsin came in.   Obama.

Overall: 175 to 76

Dems gain four Senate seats.

Antcipation

Anticipation.  Eight years in the making.

I cannot imagine continuing in the darkness we are in ...

So far Barack Obama has secure New Hampshire and Pennsylvania.

I cannot believe as I read the status updates from people ... so many for McCain.  But more for Obama.

At least the "noncaring" generation is voting!

So excited!

I woke up early today.  I got up, got dressed, made coffee.

My only regret is I don't have any good blue clothes to wear other than logo wear.

But I have my Barack Obama '08 pin on!  I drove to my new polling place.

Registered.

Voted.

I voted!!!  And hopefully, for the NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE USA.