ha! see what i mean?

what place other than l.a. can this happen?
this morning i was sitting in front of my computer with my guitar and my coffee, still in my jammies, haven't brushed my teeth (let alone looked in the mirror to brush my hair or anything...) or anything, and there's a knock at the door. i look thru the peephole.
UPS guy delivering a package.
okay, fine. who cares? so i open the door in all my morning glory, and the guy wants to chat a bit about the fact that i was wearing a guitar. fine. whatever. (did i mention i am wearing real, *hideous* jammies, not the sexy boy-fantasy kind?) so yadda yadda. i sign the package. get rid of the guy. blah blah.
a few hours later, i leave to go to the gym.
on my door is a UPS sticky with a little note on it asking me out! complete with phone number.
what in the WORLD? WHERE besides l.a. would something so ridiculous occur???????
cryin' out loud..... they *are* all a bundle of hormones!

and mum, don't worry. i can knock him over with a flick of my little pinky finger.

ego feeding

so.... there is one thing about l.a. which i find remarkable.
that is i have never *ever* had so much attention paid to my physical being in my entire life.

it's completely inane! like everyone out here is a bundle of walking hormones, and apparently i sprouted some sort of "hot" wings (pun intended) recently because no one really gave me the time of day in nyc. and suddenly l.a. has decided i'm "hot."

i've never been "hot" before in my life. i don't even know what to do with the notion that it might be true. and while i realize some of you might think this blog entry is an ego trip, i swear it is based in my true bewilderment over the way people seem to be perceiving me just in the last 6-12 months.

completely fucking weird.

so i went home to michigan for the holidays, and was so relieved to be able to wear comfy clothes and not have to be "on" all the time. and for most of the trip i had not a single experience with anyone even looking at me twice. just another frumpy midwestern girl. i think i feel a lot more comfortable with those labels... at least i know what they actually mean.

here we are again

back to the brussel sprouts.

can i just vent a minute here? (yes, i can and you can't stop me! ha!)

sometimes i get really sick of being self-aware.
why can't i just run around acting like an idiot and having fun like the other 75% of the world? (no comments from my own personal peanut gallery, please~i'm not claiming i never act like an idiot.)

frickin'...

btw, i put up my tree and my other x-massy type stuff yesterday while making snickerdoodle cookies and blaring holiday music, and i totally got into the spirit!

until i walked outside....


thank god i go home soon. they just had a big beautiful snowstorm there and i would kill to be out shoveling the driveway. i know, i know, that makes me a total loon to most of ya. but if you love your 4 seasons the way i do, you understand.

i think i might have to do some winter camping this year to get another fix around feb or march. call me if you're on board. ;)

thanks to larry for the winter wonderland picture....

the hollydays in so-cal

can i just say how absolutely weird it to drive around at night here in mid-december and see all these holiday lights up.... while people are without jackets and stuff during the day? and scarves are mostly for "fashion" out here? and people wear high fuzzy boots for comfort, not to fight off frostbite?

i cannot get in the holiday spirit with all this sunshine. seriously. i mean i haven't even put up my x-mas tree cause i feel like it's not "time" yet. but the thing is i am leaving in less than a week to head back to the winter wonderland of michigan for the holidays... if i don't get my tree up today i won't even be able to enjoy it.

it just feels wrong. so much about this just feels completely and utterly wrong...

sigh.

just cause they were much loved...

here's a shot of the other 2 kitties that were already adopted from my current litter. obviously, the big guy is ivan.... aka, daddy.

freckles is the one... well, with freckles... but she's also stretching her head upside down. the other is husky. sweet girlies....

burbank animal shelter rocks in 2005

"Our dog adoption rate is holding right around 97% - incredible! - and 300 kittens
adopted, another incredible feat."
that's a little bit of technical info from lt. bruce speirs.
i'm proud to be part of such a proactive organization.
and for those of you who are wondering, my litter of formerly feral kitties is half adopted, and the other 2 should be ready to be shown by the end of this week.
anyone wanna take them home for x-mas?

in black & white

yeah, so we all know i am not a supporter of the (repeated) election of GWB. particularly when he is half-assedly leading the country of which i am a citizen. but apparently i'm not alone. and i mean REALLY not alone. here's a snip from an interesting article a friend sent me today. it's all here in B&W. well, not all~they didn't even touch on the fact that GWB's brain has the abilities of a small minnow and his ability to articulate is practically non-existent...

"The History News Network at George Mason University has just polled historians informally on the Bush record. Four hundred and fifteen, about a third of those contacted, answered -- maybe they were all crazed liberals -- making the project as unofficial as it was interesting. These were the results: 338 said they believed Bush was failing, while 77 said he was succeeding. Fifty said they thought he was the worst president ever. Worse than Buchanan.
This is what those historians said -- and it should be noted that some of the criticism about deficit spending and misuse of the military came from self-identified conservatives -- about the Bush record:

• He has taken the country into an unwinnable war and alienated friend and foe alike in the process;
• He is bankrupting the country with a combination of aggressive military spending and reduced taxation of the rich;
• He has deliberately and dangerously attacked separation of church and state;
  He has repeatedly "misled," to use a kind word, the American people on affairs domestic and foreign;
• He has proved to be incompetent in affairs domestic (New Orleans) and foreign (Iraq and the battle against al-Qaida);
• He has sacrificed American employment (including the toleration of pension and benefit elimination) to increase overall productivity;
• He is ignorantly hostile to science and technological progress;
• He has tolerated or ignored one of the republic's oldest problems, corporate cheating in supplying the military in wartime."