What's on the agenda

Friday: I got my teeth cleaned ( a shoutout here to my gummy buddy Schell). They had this new dental assistant, Teresa, who did a nice job, but before we started she proclaimed, "I do things a little differently from the rest of them. No spit bowl. Hardly anyone uses a spit bowl anymore."

We had to go the vaccummed suck-tube route. I hate that thing. I WANT MY SPIT BOWL. It gets more crap out of my mouth. So, Teresa be damned, I used the freaking spit bowl anyway. Well, a combo spit bowl and suck-tube thing. She was very thorough and told me to "turn this way" and "turn that way" while I tried to watch Pink perform on the Today show. Are you a spit bowl person or a suck-tube person?

After the cleaning I went back to work for a few hours before I had to take LP to the orthodontist (sometimes that job just interferes with my life.) They're overly friendly at his ortho's loudly addressing the waiting room every twenty minutes with a cheery "I've just made some fresh coffeee! There's juice and herbal tea if you prefer! Enjoy!"
I forgot to bring my book with, so I read two People magazines (one with newlyweds Nicole and Keith, and one with country stars Tim McGraw and Faith Hill.) So, two People magazines, and two Woman's Day magzines each stating on the cover that you can lose UP TO FOURTEEN POUNDS IN A WEEK!. LP finally emerged before I had to start on the Seventeen magazines.
LP and I had a bigass argument on the way home because he's grounded and insisted that I treat him like an adult and let him go outside for a "few hours" tonight. No. Grounded means grounded and NO. "That's messed up." "I said I was sorry!" "So I just have to hang around the shitty house all damned weekend??!" Sigh. Yes, that's what it means dammit to hell.
Weeded, mowed the lawn last night, and watered my containers.





Saturday: Weatherwise it's going from incredibly wonderful in the past two days to very humid. You know, the kind of weather where you step outside and your skin wants to slide off. I might go and see The Break Up today--depends. I got my B& N order yesterday and I started on Mockingbird last night. It's a biography of Harper Lee and it's good so far.
Spideybunny: I also ordered another Lucy book...this one is by Jess Oppenheimer who was partly responsible for the success of I Love Lucy. I'll let you know how it is.
Also today I get to do laundry. YAY. It seems at times that the washing machine and I are joined at the hip. I need to gas up the car too. (Meme look away now). Are yo uall aware that gas prices leaped yet again? Around here it's 3.06 a gallon. As Bp so elequently puts it, "thieving bastards!" ha.

That's all for now. I'm finishing my coffee before it gets cold.

Caption time!

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Girl Crush

Here's Jorja Fox. She plays Sarah Sidle on CSI. She's 38 today, and has the cutest gap-toothed smile this side of David Letterman

Cunta Kinte

I adore Margaret Cho. I just finished her book I Have Chosen to Stay & Fight. It’s pure liberal bliss. I heartedly recommend it. She gives us her views on gay marriage, Dubya, the Iraq War, Right Wing nutjobs, racists, homophobes and a plethora of other tasty subjects. Here’s her opinion of Ann Coulter. Like Buttah.

“People get so pissed off at Ann Coulter. I hadn’t seen her before, but when her name is mentioned in my circles muthafuckas go off. . . . .I dove into Ann’s writing, which is a cross between bizarre accusations about liberal politicians and psychobabble hyperbolic lies that make no sense. The conservative men love her because she is a loyal slave to the status quo. She is Cunta Kinte.. As well as betraying her gender, as a notoriously antifeminist woman hater, she is also racist, homophobic, without compassion, inhumane, arrogant, dishonest, contradictory, not funny, has an arguing technique that compares closely to ‘I know you are but what am I?’, wears red leather miniskirts and is just plain fucking wrong.”

Skip this if you're bored w/ my garden pictures

Same area--calendula, coneflowers, lilies and upfront you can barely see the shasta daisies I planted a month ago.

Here are more coneflowers, which I love but are very invasive. In front is lavender, and a volunteer sunflower almost ready. 

Here is the Russian sage, along with the coneflowers. 

Monday it was pouring here. You can see the rain in these pictures. I was on the front porch and took some pictures. Late June, early July is a good time for the garden because things are in full bloom. A few days ago my monarda opened up (shut up Bert) It's not the red-red- type, but it's almost fucshia.

the Fourth

Larry David and Ouija Boards

Today is Larry David’s 59 birthday. Happy birthday you enthusiastic bastard! I love you and your hybrid-driving self.

I think it was Urban who asked a few posts ago how LP was doing. He’s doing great thanks. On Wednesday we have a follow up appointment with his surgeon.
He’s also in summer 2 session because he blew off most of his freshman year in high school. He goes from 7 to noon everyday until the end of the month. I told him it’s time to pay the piper.

Yesterday he asked me about Ouija boards and if they predicted the future. He told me his friend David said that according to the Ouija board, he (David) was going to die when he was 48—of a gunshot wound to the head. So, needless to say, we discussed Ouija boards and the whole fortune telling crappola. I told him that basically only Dr. Kevorkian’s patients, and Dead Men Walking know when they’re going to die. I’m glad he asked me about it.

BP's away on business. I left him a voice mail message telling him I wanted sex.

Check this out

I was just reading about blu’s Amsterdam plans and she commented that if she patronized a hash bar there and had a job to go back to, she might be drug tested. I have never had a job where I had to be drug tested, but BP does. It’s all random. Is this standard operating procedure?
In my company they’ve been running background checks on new employees to see if they’ve raped, murdered, robbed, etc anyone. They even run credit checks for godsakes! Thank God I’m kind of grandfathered in. It costs $35 to do these background check and they aren’t even thorough. I think some company somewhere must be making oodles of dough checking up on people. Oh, I think it’s necessary to a degree, but I still think it’s Orwellian.
What about other kinds of checks? Off the top of my head I can think of three employees (not in my department) who drink to excess and come back from every lunch smelling like Sam Adams. Another one has beaten the shit out of his wife. Another one (it’s a big place) has a favorite place he likes to disappear for hours and catch up on his zzzzzz’s. Do people actually go to work to work?