.... this afternoon I am going to see Speed Racer with my nephew, he's 9 years old. I love Emile Hirsch and Matthew Fox ain't too shabby either.

I also have a real date scheduled this weekend. I grew a gorgeous zit right between my eyes for this auspicious occasion. Figures.

I wonder how long frozen juice will last in the frig. I bought some frozen pink lemonade for a recipe and put it in the frig to thaw out. Then I made something else and promptly forgot it was in there. It was hidden behind the giant tub of butter, which I never eat. Do you think it could go bad in five weeks if it was never opened?

The hot Santa Anas are blowing. I love 'em. Firefighters are not too fond of them tho. Serious big danger.

I was walking out to my car the other night to go to work and I saw this thing coming down the driveway herky jerky. It was a skunk. It was running to get under my car and hide and I was running to get into my car and hide. Whew! I won.

I am reading Whole Truth by David Baldacci. It's about an immoral, greedy CEO who makes weapons and invents trouble around the world so he call sell them and make tons of money off of wars, It reminds me of Dick Turn the Lights Down Low Cheney.

The jacarandas are blooming.

I won $8 playing the lotto. That's the most I've ever won. Whoopee.

Y'day it was so hot I ate a whole box of popcicles.

I get a buzz from two letters this week but will put an orange cone around one.

Woman's Rights?

I am in the middle of this shit right now. I am working brutal hours to cover a co-worker who "has daycare issues" and is lazy to boot.All she does is fucking talk talk talk. Is it fair, hell no! Why should I get the screwed hours because I am childless? I work harder than her, have more experience and never call in.

I cannot say never anymore. Monday I was supposed to be at work at 2am. I didn't go, didn't call. Screw them. Tuesday rolls around, I am there and here comes bossman.

"Hey. What happened to you yesterday?'

"I took the day off. I was exhausted. I haven't had a day off in weeks, I worked Mother's Day like you asked, got all my work done in advance and as far as I was concerned, you didn't need me."

"But you didn't call."

"I was on my own mini-strike. If I had warned you I wasn't coming, you'd have covered my shift. Then YOU wouldn't know what it is like to work with someone completely unreliable. I noticed you didnt' call me either."

::silence::

"I need help boss. If you cannot get her to come in earlier and help me, then get me someone else. Someone without daycare issues. I work my ass off here and you know it. I do all the shit work and get none of the benefits. You've had three weekends off to my one day off. I have to work six days to make what you make in one."

"Have you tried talking to her about this?"

"Hell yes I have! Even tho that is your job. She says as long as you dont have a problem with her work she has no reason to change. So. Who is your problem with- her or me?"

Sooooooo, Woman's Rights. Work your ass off to earn fairness where it is important. There is more to work than just money. A dollar? Gimme a damn break. YOU try waking up at 12:30am to go to work.

::kicks over orange cone::

Don't slip in the drool.

.... I didn't expect my first Fraywatch mention would be for my drinking=slut reply. I aim high and no one notices but make one orgy remark and whammo, 2500 views. Fwiw, I have been in bars plenty of times where nothing happened. Get a drink, visit, pay my tab and go home.

I love your wondering mind!

Speaking of woman's rights, almost daily I curse those that burned their bras. Thanks to them, I am not a stay at home wife, thanks to them, I have to go to work everyday, instead of staying home, baking home made bread. I look pretty hot in heels & an apron, but do I get to wear that outfit for actual cooking? NO! I have to put on work clothes, fight traffic & get home from work in a not cooking dinner mood.

I do get to wear the apron & heels on occasion, but that is only in the bedroom.

Try Visine on that zit. Gets the red out. Lie on the couch and put a little puddle on there til it dries. May take more than one application, won't work if it's too big. Good luck on the date, let me know if he turns out to be "viable pbev material".

Incidentally, would it interest you to know that "viable pbev material" has become a bit of a catchphrase around here ever since you used it in one of my posts? For some reason it just tickled my funny bone like nobody's business. But you have to say it like Strother Martin in Cool Hand Luke, like when we're picking out a cucumber and my son says what about this one? and I say, "That is not...viah-ble...pbev...mat-er­-yal!"

Five weeks? No. When in doubt, toss it out.

The Santa Ana's are the only thing keeping the birds away from my Stella cherries, which I just started eating straight off the tree last night. I'm going out there when it cools off and pick enough for a pie, hopefully. They are a tart cherry but my Bings aren't ready yet, so fingers crossed.

I've always thought skunk was my favorite smell, then cow manure, then fishpond surrounded by pine and sage. To each his own I guess.

Thanks for letting your mind wander this way... ;)

I once won $7 in a lottery in another state on vacation. To celebrate, we let the kids get Happy Meals that night.

Wow, did you really get to say all that stuff to your boss?! You are one eloquent chick.

As far as I'm concerned, frozen juice will last forever. I've had a half-full cannister of lime stuff (admittedly in the freezer) for aeons bc I've finally realised that everytime I make margaritas from scratch they are too unpleasantly sour no matter how much of that sugary frozen lime stuff I put in there... So I hardly ever make 'em...

You could always turn that pink lemonade into popsicles, non?

If you are in LA (I, too, love it when the jacarandas burst into bloom) get yo ass over to Ole Henricksen facial joint at Sunset Plaza and purchase some of their zit product. It's white and kinda like liquid paper and comes in a small bottle with a black lid and a 'p' on it. It lasts longer than frozen lime stuff in the freezer (tho it dries up eventually) and cost me $20 a coupla years ago. God only knows how much it costs now, what with soaring prices across the board.

But it really does the trick on those nasty big zits - overnight.

The visine advice sounded good, too.

What did you think of Speed Racer? More pertinently, what did your nephew think?? Dontcha reckon Emile looks like a younger Jack Black in this movie? Wasn't he fantastic in Dogtown?

There is an old saying that if the birds know it's ripe, it's as good as gone. You have to protect your cherries (or figs or apricots or any small soft fruit) from those bandits.

You flatter me altho pbev viable material can be changed to mermaid viable material. Wasn't that post about old dudes?

My favorite stinky things are geraniums or marigolds, swimming pool chlorine and puppy belly.

Where the heck is Iso? I think I found a new name for her rock band.

Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together for...

PUPPY BELLY!!!!

I have a $250 pair of Manolos that I keep on even if ....

...... nevermind.

W a n d e r i n g mind.......

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I really liked Lords of Dogtown even tho Heath Ledger was a total hambone in it. I am from So Cal and I was at the Long Beach skateboard championships that they replicated at the end of that movie. Emile does remind me a bit of a young Jack Black but he has a lot more depth than JB. Have you seen him in Mudge or Into the Wild? Get 'em, watch 'em.

I loved Speed Racer. The story was shit. The effects were a non-stop, action packed neon seizure. If I see it again, I'll try to score some Ritalin off a neighbor kid so I can keep up with the FX. It was too much to watch.

Until last Monday I never called in sick or arrived late. Not long ago someone asked me to call in so we could go gambling for a long weekend. Uh, thanks no. I don't gamble or call in sick.

Anyway, I said I could probably ram my car into the bosses truck and he still wouldn't care because I've amassed so much good worker juju, am the best worker he has. Turns out, I can tell him off and not show up and whattayaknow, I am still the best worker he has.

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I've always thought skunk was my favorite smell, then cow manure, then fishpond surrounded by pine and sage. To each his own I guess.

I thought perhaps I was the only one to enjoy the smell (in moderation, I admit) of skunk and cowshit!

Th Paine:

I've always thought skunk was my favorite smell, then cow manure, then fishpond surrounded by pine and sage. To each his own I guess.

I thought perhaps I was the only one to enjoy the smell (in moderation, I admit) of skunk and cowshit!

Skunk in moderation. Musk is used for perfume, after all. Personally, I used to be hooked on diesel fumes. I used to love standing in a bus depot inhaling the fumes!

Th Paine:

I've always thought skunk was my favorite smell, then cow manure, then fishpond surrounded by pine and sage. To each his own I guess.

I thought perhaps I was the only one to enjoy the smell (in moderation, I admit) of skunk and cowshit!

The sanest poster from Faith Based deigns to join us lowly pissants in Dear Prudie. Welcome...<g> And BTW... both skunk and cow-flop smell reasonable when they are fresh. Week -old is another story altogether.What stinks, IMHO, is not Nature, but stagnation.Entropy Stinks!

Well, actually, for me Heath's canny channelling of (more of a hambone) Val Kilmer's excellent interpretation of Jim Morrison was one of Dogtown's many layered delights.