Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Back To Original
With remakes by the Dixie Chicks and Smashing Pumpkins, in this case, I still prefer the original!
As The Mind Wanders...
1. It bugs me when people tag me on Facebook in pictures that are not of me...or tag others in pictures that are not of those people. You go through people's photos, and the under the "Pictures of ____" you see all kinds of crap. Just a personal preference, I guess.
2. Why can't there me more rainy days, and fewer sunny?
3. Why are people so eager to gawk at traffic accidents? If it were them, would they want others staring at them? What it if it was them lying on the ground barely holding on to life? Would they want people to just stare? I know I wouldn't!
4. How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie POP?
2. Why can't there me more rainy days, and fewer sunny?
3. Why are people so eager to gawk at traffic accidents? If it were them, would they want others staring at them? What it if it was them lying on the ground barely holding on to life? Would they want people to just stare? I know I wouldn't!
4. How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie POP?
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
My Favorite All-Time Movie
This has to be my favorite scene from the movie. Sad...I know just about every line of this movie!
It's ONLY Tuesday!!!
I'm really getting tired of cluelessness! Really?! Can I just run away to some island in the middle of nowhere and choose who I take with me as to never have to deal with it ever again?
Monday, April 23, 2012
Home Spa Time
Spending some "me" time! Pedicure...check. Manicure...check. Mud facial...check. Glass of wine...check. I love "me" time!!!!
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
I Would Have Never Imagined...
...that the video for this song would be a cheesy, wild west kind of theme!
As My Mind Wanders...
Yes, sometimes...like while I'm driving and observing the world around me...random thoughts just come to mind. Like recently...since my poor little Subaru STi now has a clutch issue we are chasing (not to mention it has over 100,000 miles on it), I decided to go ahead and buy by new "daily driver" and keep my STi as a play toy (and one which will only go up in value because it is a limited production year that everyone wants). I have been eying the Subaru Forester XT for some time. I was lucky enough to find one (because, it TOO is a very much desired vehicle, and the dealers cannot keep them on the lots).
So now that I'm an "SUV owner", I think...at some point, vehicles that we categorize as SUV should actually be categorized something else. I mean, SUV is short for "Sport Utility Vehicle", yet we group all of these super-sized land yachts into the same group as my little all-wheel-drive Forester, the Kia Sportage, and even the Honda Pilot. All of these I have named are small, sporty, and are still capable of being a tool with their spacious insides and ability to tow within reason once the proper equipment is installed. Sure, I understand they are "Crossover SUVs"...but come on. What is "sporty" about a Ford Excursion, a Chevy Suburban, a GM Yukkon, or any other various land yacht! You don't call a yacht a sport boat, now do you?
I've decided these should be called LUVs...Large Utility Vehicles...especially fitting, since drivers of these monstrosities LUV (aka love) their over-sized, road-hog vehicles that can't even fit into a normal parking space and use as much gas as they possibly can! My list of LUVs would include:
Ford Expedition
Ford Excursion
Chevy Suburban
Chevy Tahoe
GM Yukkon
Cadillac Escalade
Basically, any SUV-like larger vehicle with a V-8 (because you need that much to pull that much excess weight around town) getting 15 or less mpg should be called an LUV! Leave SUV those vehicles which are actually "sporty"...the ones that dart around town with 4-cylinder or modest 6-cylinder engines getting gas mileage of 17 mpg or better.
That's my wandering mind for today...oh, and businesses really need to stop blaring the A/C! Save some money! There is no reason to keep it 60-something degrees in an office or store. I mean, retailers...if you want to keep me in your store longer and get more money, make it so that I don't feel a relentless urge to go outside to thaw out! This even goes for the hottest of summer days...when the 105 degrees outside looks good because I'm shivering and my lips are turning blue, you aren't going to get me to stay in your store very long. A reasonable 70-something, please!
So now that I'm an "SUV owner", I think...at some point, vehicles that we categorize as SUV should actually be categorized something else. I mean, SUV is short for "Sport Utility Vehicle", yet we group all of these super-sized land yachts into the same group as my little all-wheel-drive Forester, the Kia Sportage, and even the Honda Pilot. All of these I have named are small, sporty, and are still capable of being a tool with their spacious insides and ability to tow within reason once the proper equipment is installed. Sure, I understand they are "Crossover SUVs"...but come on. What is "sporty" about a Ford Excursion, a Chevy Suburban, a GM Yukkon, or any other various land yacht! You don't call a yacht a sport boat, now do you?
I've decided these should be called LUVs...Large Utility Vehicles...especially fitting, since drivers of these monstrosities LUV (aka love) their over-sized, road-hog vehicles that can't even fit into a normal parking space and use as much gas as they possibly can! My list of LUVs would include:
Ford Expedition
Ford Excursion
Chevy Suburban
Chevy Tahoe
GM Yukkon
Cadillac Escalade
Basically, any SUV-like larger vehicle with a V-8 (because you need that much to pull that much excess weight around town) getting 15 or less mpg should be called an LUV! Leave SUV those vehicles which are actually "sporty"...the ones that dart around town with 4-cylinder or modest 6-cylinder engines getting gas mileage of 17 mpg or better.
That's my wandering mind for today...oh, and businesses really need to stop blaring the A/C! Save some money! There is no reason to keep it 60-something degrees in an office or store. I mean, retailers...if you want to keep me in your store longer and get more money, make it so that I don't feel a relentless urge to go outside to thaw out! This even goes for the hottest of summer days...when the 105 degrees outside looks good because I'm shivering and my lips are turning blue, you aren't going to get me to stay in your store very long. A reasonable 70-something, please!
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
I Know....
Another video, same artist, same day...but I REALLY do like Megan McCauley! Thank you, Pandora, for playing this artist today and helping make another great music discovery. I just love her voice!
Why Isn't THIS Song On iTunes?!
I'm not 100% sure, but I believe these are the lyrics. I couldn't find them anywhere but one YouTube video, that appeared to have several of them wrong. Pulled out my old 80's skill for deciphering lyrics from songs to get these:
Dark Angel - Megan McCauley
Nothing's a lie
when it's pretend or just a dream
Unexpecting mirrors make the dark
more than it seems
I keep on searching
for non-existent traces
Losing grip of one last hope
and all familiar places
I've been trying too long to surface
through all the rain
To keep my self from drowning
in the pourin' pain
When everything sent to help
just seems to disappear
It all just holds me down
and makes me drown in every tear
I feel two eyes standing near
and I know there's a...
Dark angel watching over me
I can see her in every tear I weep
She's the uninvited entity
that made me so numb
to the feeling of hell closing in
She's made it so wrong for me
to get along with my own mind
Now I can't trust the only place
that owns the dust and blood of time
No matter how I scream and fight
it never seems to end
But somehow with the lie
the truth just seems to bend
And I hear the screaming of a...
Dark angel watching over me
I can see her in every tear I weep
She's the uninvited entity
that made me so numb
to the feeling of hell closing in
My eyes are closed and I can't see
this dark angel standing next to me
as my reality suspends
I can't seem to find
anything that won't remind me
how she's become my own reflection
Dark angel watching over me
I can see her in every tear I weep
She's the uninvited entity
that made me so numb
to the feeling of hell closing in
My eyes are closed and I can't see
this dark angel standing next to me
as my reality suspends
I can't seem to find
anything that won't remind me
how she's become my own reflection
Dark angel watching over me
Monday, April 16, 2012
No Longer As Elusive!
The elusive dark butterflies weren't so much so today, as I was able to get a really nice picture of one today!
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Photo Enhancements
Okay...sometimes, enhancing a photo is required. I mean, only part of the shot is perfect, but the background that you catch is not the best. Like this picture I captured yesterday of a couple of butterflies:
With butterflies, you have to capture then when you can! They are elusive little creatures! The butterflies are beautiful, but their brilliance is lost with the dried vegetation behind them, as their colors just blend in. So, with a little enhancement, I made them vibrant:
With butterflies, you have to capture then when you can! They are elusive little creatures! The butterflies are beautiful, but their brilliance is lost with the dried vegetation behind them, as their colors just blend in. So, with a little enhancement, I made them vibrant:
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