Strange Dreams...

I very seldom dream... or at least I very seldom remember my dreams.. but I gotta tell ya' last nites was a doozy... I dreamt I was getting married... funny cause I've been married for almost 21 years now.. even funnier was who the groom-to-be was... Clint Eastwood... yup.. grizzled old Clint... hhhmmm... old... and I think that's the key right there... old... yes, we've had a birthday this week here on 9 2 Bay 2 9 2 10... so that could explain grizzled old Clint...

so.. anyway... while I ran around in my dream.. Oh my god.. I need invitations... oh man.. flowers... with each new item I realized I needed I had to do another trip up and down Bay Road... back and forth I drove.. all nite long... until I reached the realization that I hadn't tried on my wedding dress...crap.. I've gained weight and now my old wedding dress doesn't fit... (yup.. it seems I was recycling my OLD wedding dress from my first wedding for the nuptials with Dirty Old Harry, nice huh?) in pops Cheech Marin... yup.. Cheech to the rescue to help me alter my wedding dress... as I held up the see-thru lace over-dress and said "Maybe I should just wear this" Cheech took one look and almost choked on the bag of circus peanuts that he was eating... and that's where I woke up... and that was that...

Actually I've had this kind of dream before... yeah.. believe it or not.. only that time it wasn't Clint I was marrying.. it was Bob Uecker.. yup.. another old guy.. and a really wierd one at that... I'm thinking it's a good thing my office building is full of therapists.. now I just have to figure out which one deals in dreams... but if anyone out there has any ideas... let me know... who knows... you could help me save the hourly fee!

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Finales'

So it was finale nite on tv last nite for 2 of my favorite shows.. doh... which to watch? Well, I think I made the right choice, I opted for "Lost" with the occassional peak at "American Idol"... We'll take Idol first...

I managed to hit it just right, I flipped over to it just as "Seacrest Out" was announcing "and the winner IS... Carrie Underwood"... damn... I'm disappointed but I can't say I'm surprised... Carrie, aka Kelly-two, is just so Idol... a little blonde carbon copy.. a dime a dozen... the cute little girl next door with the decent singing voice... now Bo... he was something different... unfortunately too different for Idol... oh well.. not a problem, he'll go far and probably with a better deal than Carrie... the one thing I do know is not once did I say "I'd buy that" to one of Carrie's twangy songs, but several of Bo's got the "money nod"...

and now..."Lost"... a 2 hour adventure... and I mean adventure... very VERY rarely does a television show manage to surprise me... I'm convinced that my husband won't watch CSI with me not because he finds it too gross and dark but because within the first 15 minutes I can usually not only tell him "who did it" but "why"... Lost on the other hand even got a little 'jump and squeal' out of me when they blew up Arzt with the dynamite... I knew he was gonna be one of the "red shirts" - you know the sacraficial character like in the old Star Treks... the main crew would go into a situation with a couple of spare red-shirted characters who would subsequently get blown up, shot, tazered.. whatever... but I digress... I knew Arzt was wearing a red-shirt but yet they still managed to surprise me with the big boom... AWESOME! now that's good TV! So anyway... the finale ended with still more mysteries and no answers, but that's ok... that's the fun of it.. trying to figure out what's what and who's who... although one thing did fit with my theory of the show... what's that you say? Walt's kidnapping by the "others".... so... my theory...

The numbers - yes, I think there is a reason for the numbers and that particular combination... somewhat designed to give you what you want but then make you pay for it..

The island - the hatch and the tunnels and the holes that seems to explode - some kind of underground tunnel system left over from the war or nuclear testing... which would explain...

The others - and the french woman... driven slowly insane from the leftover radiation from the nuclear testing... and now Walt...

Walt - I'm thinking he's the 'key' here.. the kid exhibited some esp or mind control type voodoo stuff... he's doing a report on a particular bird - gets upset - and lo and behold the bird crashes into the window... then he's upset after reading a polar bear comic and then gets chased by none other than a polar bear... and this is exactly why "the others" take him... they either

a. are sick of the island playing tricks on them (which it isn't - see the 'insane' part) so they think if they control the boy they can control the bad things on the island

or

b. they are really insane and want to do more evil things and they think the kid can help them reach new heights of evilness...

OH.. and back to the numbers... 4 8 15 16 23 42.. I'd be willing to bet the "others" will be a group of SIX men... who were part of some government experiment on the effects of radiation (and possibly mind control)... experiments where names were replaced by numbers... and these are men numbers 4... 8... 15... you get the idea...

hhmm... sound plausible?? you know... after having typed this all out... I'm kind of Lost now myself... any other theories out there?

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Lost an elephant?

ok.. so who lost their elephant and why is it in my head and trying to kick it's way out? Ahhh... allergy season in Western Massachusetts.. such great fun... we get to all walk around with a thumping beat playing in our heads - no iPod required!

And lets make things even more fun.. their working on the widening of Route 9 in Hadley again and diverting all the traffic to a portion of Bay Road.. from what I understand they will be doing this every day this week... lovely... 10 bucks worth of gas and no where to go, at least not very quickly!

Now let's throw in grey and rainy for 8 freakin' days straight and February temperatures and have ourselves a really awesome spring! I'm so thrilled I could jump for joy... right off the freakin' Coolidge! Oh.. but then I would have to be able to drive to it and we all know that's not happening this week!

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Yeah, pics are working!

Alrighty... so the picture posting program "Hello" is once again accepting my images for upload... yeah! Oh.. I could have posted them the old fashioned way, put them up on a website somewhere and link them into the blog but that just seemed too much like work... Oh wait.. posting pics to websites IS alot of my work... huh.. no wonder it seems like... never mind..

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Home Sweet Home... and the front garden is looking pretty good, although I think we're gonna need to do a little pruning soon...
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Hello??

Well.. you would have gotten a new pic here today but "Hello" the program I use to upload the images doesn't seem to be working... so I guess I'm gonna have to come up with some text for you poor deprived readers... yes.. it's been a week since I posted, although I'm feeling pretty deprived myself.. the 'other' weblogs that I read (yes, there are other weblogs out there besides yours trulys!) seem to be suffering from a lack of postage this week as well.. Maybe it's the weather, which frankly has been soso lately.. pretty cold out there really..

So... what to write about... well.. considering I haven't been anywhere in the real world all week it's gonna have to be computer related or television related.. hhmm.. well.. we've already covered the weather... *sigh... yup... pretty cold out there... uummm.... well... ok.. so lets see if Hello comes back online anytime soon...

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ok.. ok... give me a minute and I'll be back!

Friday the 13th...

Friday quickies:

Need mp3's? Check out the 50 free downloads from Relix Magazine and emusic! That'll give you a good head start on filling up that fancy musical cell phone...

Here's a thought: If you can have a debit card tied to your bank account, make a purchase online, and then instantly fire up your online banking and see the withdrawal is already been posted to your account... how come it still takes FIVE business days for a deposited check to clear? HELLO... your slowing down the business world here people!!!

Real-time online?? So.. I was looking at wwlp.com and their 'live' temperature gauge on the upper right said "46 degrees" as I was thinking.. huh.. that's not too bad for 6:30am... Rick from the storm team came on the tv and reported "the temperature is in the upper 20's out there this morning"... okie doke.. whatever... I should know better.. there's nothing like a news site that goes dark on the weekends...

The guy that killed his 8 year old daughter and her friend... uummm.. fire up the wood chipper... nuf said! One limb at a time...

Another frost this morning... I've had a giant jar of flower seeds for 3 weeks now and I'm just dying to get them in the ground and get them started... at this rate I'll be planting them in JUNE! I suppose it could be worse, No. Dakota got 8 inches of snow yesterday... ok.. I'll stop complaining...

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Just another tough day at work!
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She's only a foot tall.. but when she stands on the back of the couch and towers over you with that "I'm gonna get you!" look in her eye she can be quite intimidating!
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It's apple blossom time at Atkins... I took these photos on my way down 9 2 Bay 2 9 2 10 this morning... yes.. I asked permission to take the photos and frankly they looked at me like I was slightly nuts.. I'll have to let them know on my next trip thru what the pics were used for...
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Azalea's... LOVE that pink!
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Hey.. if anyone knows what kind of shrub this is.. lemmeno... I want one!
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5 Days & 6 Newsletters later...

Wow.. 5 days since I've posted.... bad.. bad... bad... but pulling 13 - 14 hour days all week will do that to you.. and that isn't even including drive-time, cause frankly I haven't been driving... I've just been holed-up in my home office - tied to my wireless keyboard.. which is a neat trick considering it has no wires to tie with... I shudder to think how far behind I'd be in my work if I was actually taking that lovely leisurely drive along 9 2 Bay 2 9 2 10 every day... OH.. but I do miss it.. I'm sure the apple trees are in full bloom by now at Atkins... and I had such high hopes to stop alongside the road and snap some images and breathe in their lovely sweet scent... but it's just not gonna happen this week... I'll just have to take an extra-curricula ride out there this weekend and take the camera along with me..

Anyway... so whats been going on lately..

OH.. thanks to another of Masslives blogs I was treated to this pic. Really cool.. someone had a Fisher Cat up a tree in their back yard in Florence... Frankly I'll take my hawk... Fisher's are mean - nasty - agressive creatures.. although it would be really cool to spot one... guess this pic will have to do.. They are also very secretive - hard to find animals...

The Runaway Bride - so.. are you as sick of hearing about this narcisistic idiot as I am? I don't even know this woman and I'm pissed at her... I was actually worried about her... watched the newscasts about her disappearance... wondered where she could be and what may have happened to her... She wasted my time and I want it back!!! She's a 32 year old grown woman for pete's sake... a 12 year old might pull something like that and I'd say.. "Oh.. I'm just glad she's safe.. kids make mistakes.." but come on!! You know... I wanna be the City Clerk in her home town... NOPE... sorry... no marraige license for you... we don't allow people with the common sense of a 12 year old to get married... go GROW UP you idiot..and then come back and see me! HA!

And speaking of being out of touch with reality... working here in my home office I've been running the tv in the background as I work... I've actually (gasp) become quite a fan of Regis and Kelly.. Kelly really is quite the comedian... but Regis... my god... what rock does he live under... Everyday Regis pulls a couple of stories out of the news and does a few minutes rant about it... well... one of them he pulled was how the iPod has increased Subway crime... first he starts out with... how the crime rate has gone up on the RAILROAD... railroad??? huh??? what's a railroad? Kelly was able to translate that one thankfully.. you mean Subway? Oh.. yeah.. subway... then he proceeded to state that cell phones are the cause of the crime wave... cell phones??? I read that article and it's iPods that are the hot new item on the theives list... he then proceeded to discuss how he never uses his cell phone.. yadda yadda yadda... so.. Reg.. in his hepcat brilliance read iPod and thought it was some type of hot new cell phone... *sheesh... one of the few people that could actually afford an iPod and the 10 grand worth of tunes to fill it up with and he ain't got a clue... maybe I could write him a letter and convince him that I'm a disadvantage person that really needs an iPod so my sick mother will have a way to call me if she needs me and get him to spring for one of those spiffy new musical phones! double HA!

Well.. that's more than enough for today I think...

Later....

Baby Lilacs... Sensing a theme?
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