Archive for October, 2008
Anything Can Halloween!
by Donna on October 31st, 2008
If I didn’t post this music video, I know Audra would be very angry with me!
Watch the inimitable, Mr. Tim Curry, in his greatest role ever!
[spoken] It’s great to be here, with you young witches, on this fabulous night! Remember Gills, show the world, let them know it’s Halloween. Hit it!
[singing]
I wouldn’t change places
With anyone tonight
We’ll carve pumpkin faces
And watch the witches flight
Every human heart will shudder
Every soul will shake with fear
Tonight, the creepiest
Tonight, the scariest
Tonight, the most wonderful night
ahhhhhhhhf the year
Anything can happen on Halloween
Your dog could turn into a cat
There may be a toad in your bass guitar
Or your sister could turn into a bat
Christmas time brings the snow
Summer time brings the sun
But on Halloween your blood begins to run
Something’s funky going down now*
Anything can happen on Halloween
It’s better than a video
Gremlins gonna mess up every cassette
From London to Idaho
April first can be fun
New Year’s Eve is a ball
But on Halloween your flesh begins to crawl
Oh, I’m losing control*
Anything can happen on Halloween
Your toenails grow long and your hair turns green
Your teacher could become a sardine
Your dentist could turn into a queen.
Has anybody seen my tambourine*
I may start playing
Begin the beguine
The craziest night you’ve ever seen
This hairy, scary, creepy, crawly,
Halloween.
*My favorite parts
Me so…
by Donna on October 31st, 2008
I am so tired. I DO NOT want to go to work today. I am POOPED! And here’s the thing. I’ve been pooped ALL WEEK! On Tuesday I thought to myself, “How can it only be Tuesday!?!” The next morning I woke up and thought, “Wow, tomorrow is Thursday!” It’s amazing the power of a Wednesday to transform the beginning of the week to the end of the week.
Last night I watched Ghost Adventures. It was the episode in which they locked themselves into the Goldfield Hotel. TOTALLY FREAKED ME OUT! The only proof they gave that I thought was credible was the brick that flew across the basement room! Holy Ghostbusters, Batman! I’d love to know if they toyed with that or if it really happened. And if it really did happen why did that wimpy jerk have to run away? He should have stayed and filmed! Obviously he wasn’t keeping his eyes on the prize.
Gift Idea
by Donna on October 25th, 2008
Need a gift? How about sending a picture of Bo?
I swear, he’s the cutest puppy dog EVER!
If I reset to factory settings…
by Donna on October 21st, 2008
Remember to install:
Stellarium - Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
AlwaySync - This helps keep my external hard drive in sync with my laptop
Picassa - Photo Organizer
Mozilla Firefox - My browser of choice
Google Toolbar - Such a great search tool that I don’t mind they are spying on me
SpySweeper - What keeps the spyware at bay. Hopefully
CCleaner - Crap Cleaner
Microsoft Office PowerPoint Viewer - So I can view the PowerPoint presentations people send me
OpenOffice - Because MSOffice makes me cry.
EyeFi - I don’t even know if my eyefi card still works but if it does– gotta load this baby.
Microsoft Money - I recently bought a copy although I’ve done nothing with it.
Rhapsody - I usually just go online anymore so it might not even make sense to download the actual software.
Norton 360 - Bastards automatically renewed my subscription so I might as well load it up and use it. I hate Norton! It’s supposed to guard against viruses but I swear it sucks all my system resources like a leach. I think it’s a virus.
AcrossLite - So I can do the NYT Crossword puzzles.
TomTom - The only way I find my way around… anywhere
GIMP - Because PhotoShop is too expensive
Netflix Movie Viewer - So one day I can sit and watch a movie on my computer, although that hasn’t happened yet.
Snipping Tool - Tom loaded this Snipping Tool icon onto my taskbar, I have no clue how he did it but I do love it and I suppose if I can’t figure it out, I can always invite him and Joan over for dinner and have him install it again.
DVDShrink - I used to use this program but it doesn’t seem to function correctly in Vista– so probably not worth the bother of loading.
His run has ended
by Donna on October 21st, 2008
Dear Charles,
I am sorry to report but your spree has ended! Someone else has linked to me! I know I wasn’t your one and only link (even though you were mine) but I still felt special. Very special. But now I have another person linking to me:
Perhaps this is the start of a huge tidal wave of linkage! We shall see!
Hugs and Kisses,
Donna
Costume IDEA!
by Donna on October 20th, 2008
I have an idea for a costume. I can dress up as…..
Ayn Rand!
What do you think? Or is that just too weird?
And the other issue is where does that leave my sweetie pie? What will my little pookie bear dress as? Howard Roark? John Galt? Nathaniel Branden?
Perhaps I am better off dressing as another woman I deeply admire– like… ANN MARGRET!
At least it’s a frightening idea…
I practice on my nose
by Donna on October 19th, 2008
I picked apples today! Went to a farm in New Jersey and picked a basket of beautiful apples! The weather was perfect and the trees were loaded with fruit. I had a blast! I plan on making the Jewish Apple Coffee Cake and an apple pie. YUMMY!
Dinner Foul
by Donna on October 19th, 2008
This evening I made the worst dinner ever! I steamed cod and veggies and I made coconut rice. Nothing came out quite right. The coconut rice refused to cook within the time I gave it so it was dished out Al dente. The cod was rubbery and the veggies were mushy and brownish. I threw the cod and veggies out. I kept the rice cooking and about two hours later it was done and tasted pretty good. I can’t believe I screwed up an entire meal!
Halloween Costumes
by Donna on October 19th, 2008
I wonder when dressing up for Halloween went from dressing ghoulish to dressing up as pretty much anything? At one time, if you were going Trick or Treating or going to a party, you would dress as a witch or a ghost or a zombie or something macabre. Now it seems people dress as pop culture figures or vocational figures or superheroes or anything non-evil. I am really trying to figure out a costume and none of my ideas are dark. Of course I am also trying to come up with something that does not require the purchase of a costume so I am going with things I can find within my wardrobe… “I can be a hippie or a samurai warrior or a whore!” Gosh, this really doesn’t say anything good about my taste of clothes, does it?