My Not-So-Profound Musings

I got one today.

We got a new tattoo parlor in town last month. Checked it out yesterday AP and I went in and got pierced today. He got both nipples done I jsut had my right one done.

The shop is run by a mother daughter team who are new to our community. The daughter is the tattoo artist and she is good. The mom is the piercer and she's a fucking riot. A very competent riot mind you.

Afterwards, as she was going over the care stuff she gave us these homemade butterscotch chip cookies that she'd made that morning. The y were yummy.  Not your typical tattoo parlor. it was a grand experience.

Get within three feet of my nipple though and I will kill ya dead.

Wow, so the run for the White House finally got interesting.

 

  Got this meme from bodacia  The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.  1) Look at the list and bold those you have read. 2) Italicize those you intend to read. 3) Underline the books you LOVE. 4) Reprint this list in your own LJ.

Entire List:

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini it's next on my stack, actually!
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne *see below
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Hmmm,  I had actually read more on the list than I had imagined.

On a day like any other I decided to barbeque burgers. Yum.  Turn the gas on, click the starter...nadda. Hmmm... open the unit sniff don;t smell gas but whatever. Hit the clicker again. Whooooooooooooooooooooooooosh. Damn those flames  kissed my cheek.  Let's not do that again.

So later as we are eating I keep thinking I smelling something burning. 

AP: What is in your hair?

Me: Huh?  Is there a bug in my hair. (I am paranoid about bugs getting caught in my hair)

AP: I dunno what is it.

me: You need to tell me now before I strangle you. What is ittttttttt?

AP; Something.

I toddle off tot he bathroom look in the mirror and see nothing.

me: What are you talking about?

AP: Your hair looks weird around your ear.

I touch it and clumps of fried, singed hair  fall into my hand. An hour later and I'm stiill digging singed hair out.  it has the weirdest smell.

My advice to you is...hair and gas barbeques...are not BBFs. Stay away from big fiery whooshes.

So, this weeks assignment. Write Haikus.  Which are short Japanese poems generally with a nature/animal theme.

Well....I got a theme.  It's so very me. So far I've written five of those buggers on what? Black widow spiders.

Dear Patty,

Part one is posted.

 You know what I hate? Making plans. Waiting all weekend and then waking up at 5am with a hellya bitch from hell earache.  By 8am the pain was so intense the painkillers might as well have been sugar...but by 8:10 the drum perforated.  Some relief.  About five hours later it started leaking blood which is just gross.  It's still bleeding tonight but the pain is manageable without painkillers. Overall this day has been the suckage. *whine*

I am still loving writing class and the Prof gave me some great information this week which made me deliriously happy.