cereal, voting and such....

today is E day!!!! i don't care who you vote for, heck write in your dog! just go vote, it is your right and yes, it is your right not to, but why?

why allow people to make decisions for you? when you were a kid and could not wait to turn 18 so no one could tell you what to do anymore, that is when you are legal to vote, you can tell others what to do, so do it!

i will be heading to the polls after i pick up my lil girlfriend, juju bean. she and i are opposite in our decision, but since she is 7, well let's just say mama's vote will count and hers will not. we have agreed she is to keep my vote secret, as it is not open to any discussion to anyone other then myself. after majoring in poly sci and being a part of a very political family, i prefer to keep my political leanings to myself and that way when i do discuss politics (which i love to do) people will not assume to know what party i stand for or who i vote for and base their debate/argument aound that, giving me their true beliefes and allowing me to have true and pure political discussions....

gosh i really am a dork!

on a really cool making own decision/election day have my voice heard....

i created and ordered my own personal custom healthy cereal!
yuppers, my own personal choices.....it was pricey, but i am so excited! i should have it in hand this weekend, maybe monday, but how cool!

www.meandgoji.com/ go and take a peek at it and see...they have premade ones and prices vary based on your choices of ingredients. I love cereal and nutty cereal is my favorite.

MY CEREAL

artisanal cereal	coconut	papaya	macadamia	cashew
pumpkin	pine	amaranth

i named it muffin's NUTTY! thinking back now, i should have created some sort of clever election day title for it....

i also purchased the one dollar green tag, offsetting my carbon footprint for this order AND 5% of profits for the company go to charity!

ah well!

hindsight and all.....

Nov 1st Day of the Dead in NYC with Phil Lesh and Friends!!!

wow and such

today has been a beautiful day! as was yesterday and the days before.....

today i got a 20 dollar bill with red ink all over asking me to register it at where's george. since i am a part time user, i of course dutifully went and registered it and read up on the person who released it initially with all this writing all over it.

mine was the first hit since she initially registered it over two years ago...

then i read this, "Sharon's desire for a cure for cancer wasn't just an idle wish -- she succumbed to the disease on January 13, 2007. Her many friends here were deeply grieved by her passing, and it's not quite the same around here without her compassionate heart and wry humor. We miss you, Sharon!"

she never got to see this bill get a hit...so sad....so now I am not sure what to do with this bill...
i hate thinking of it just randomly going back out into the world, then again, she liked that..

i think maybe this should go on to a more noble life, but how?

I was able to head to NYC last night for a phil lesh & phriends show. it was insane, to say the least...my friend was there friday on halloween and he was sending me the set list while i was a my friend niki & george's bar for their annual halloween bash.

just a lil side note, i was bristol palin! i had a big ole rpeggers belly, a baby on my arm (my "brother", trig), black dress and a wig done just like hers at the convention where she "came out" in a bun in the oven kind of way....many laughs were had and sadly, many folks who had no idea who bristol palin was (even with full expenation), or who SARAH palin was when explaning it, AND folks asking if I am really preggers and when I said, "yes, and THIS is a real baby (*doll in hand*) ", and they were stupid enough to look shocked and say, "really???" all horrified. i walked away....

so, back to phil.....and jackie, and john, and larry, and barry, and tracy......oh what a show...
phil was late, he even apologized at one point, but the show was sick...

terrapin was not just off the hook, it was almost disco/rock. i have to find a copy of that show.
opened with here comes sunshine, shortened set break and played over the midnight cut off, which sucked because felt like they were planning on playing longer!!!

sad, maybe a tad pessamistic and such

after posting on twitter that i am finally seeing I Am Sam, a movie that has been recommended to me many times over not only for its sound track, but for the touching story, i get a response back from someone that kind of took me back a bit...

"I saw it. I found it cute, though as far as movies go, uneccessary."

wow...it just, wow...what a thing to say.....

today has been one of those days....i have had to deal with people being mean and just not paying attention...

i had to purchase tickets for friends to see phil and asked the tickets be shipped to them directly.
i emailed the guy i was buying the from and asked they be shipped there...for 190 bucks i would expect they ship them anywhere i want.

so i get a notice from fed ex saying the are coming here...i email the guy a few more times hoping he did not mail them off in a rush and not pay any attention to where they are supposed to be mailed.

he has the BALLS to email me back and say i am the type who is gives a bad vibe.
i replied thanking him for changing the address, but as for the "bad vibes" my reply was nice and sweet and to the FUCK YOU point...


you don't understand... the tickets could not come here as they would never
get to him in philly without an additional few hours added to his
drive to NYC for a night...

as for vibe killler, I tried emailing you numerous times which is why
i was freaking out as you got the paypal message and got to shipping
without checking the emails i was sending via ebay and yahoo.

when i get fed ex info about shipping i get really worried you dropped
it off on your way home in the fed ex box....

if they had come here, well it would have sucked for you and i as they
would never hvae been returned in time and i would have had to get a
refund and that really would have sucked as you would have been out an
already profitable deal for yourself as I know these were well above
face (talk about a vibe killer)

so please be sure they go to the correct address tomorrow and all will be good!

thanks


i think my point made it across, normally i am really not this bitchy and such, but after having been holed up in the house sick as all get out, i really had no patience for this type of shenanigan today at all!

ok, back to watching I Am Sam, up way too late and finally feeling some waht normal again!!!

just posting this here as proof as I sent it to starbucks and if they use it I want my credit dammit!!!

Reusable Java Jackets



my idea is to reduce the amount of java jackets that are thrown away...while it is nice to think of reusing them (the cardboard ones), people get weirded out...

and while not everyone carry's reusable cups because they are messy and have to be cleaned and so on, there is an AWESOME and very happy medium starbucks can use!

sell reusable java jackets!!!

they can me made of fabric, be washable, made with organic and sustainable fabrics (hemp, bamboo, cotton, you get the idea), and sold int he shops, maybe fair trade, or made in the USA (we forget about this lil ole country of ours).

this way, people can carry a smell thing that lets them at least help the environment a little bit more then just using the paper ones, while also making life a little easier by not having to carry a bulky cup all day as you run around (wish I could, but frankly sometimes it is just not possible).

This can be easily stored in a pocket and used when needed!

muffin

sick and icky and such...

i have been trying to keep this nasty cold/throat/crappy thing away from me. it has been hovering around my head for a few days and yesterday, it felt it staking out its turf.

today, it appears to have framed out the house and started on the drywall...but i am working hard to get rid of it....

i have been keeping myself busy on twitter to quell the urge to bake. when i don't feel well i love to bake, but i rarely ever eat what i bake (it is weird, i know, but i give it away, i just truly enjoy baking it).

so if i was to bake, i could not give it away as i am sick and especially no one in the house can eat it because it has only been three weeks yesterday since my dad had his heart ouside his body being worked on! sorry, i am saying that because it is just so freaking mind blowing it was three weeks ago and that is how they do it....just a shut the fuck up moment from me about the progress modern medicine has made!!!

on top of all that, it is a certain time for me, so being sick and crampy makes for a really unhappy, uncomfortable muffin right now....

see, sick and icky are the words of the day....

cranky, ice, and such

woke up to a very cold, frosty morning here in beautiful nw nj! awesome!!!

it was so cold last night the birdbath outside my window is frozen over and the poor little critters who make my back yard their home are not getting why their water is hard!
they touch it and bend over and are simply puzzled by the entire situation. adorable!!!

i have been feeling a bit ranty lately. what with the election coming up and how i refuse to declare a party based on the fact that when one does in nj, they are bombarded by their party waste of trees flyers, and the opposing parties dirty tactics to make you convert, waste of valuable resources in paper and trees!
it really comes across as an invasion of privacy. and don't try to convince me that you need me to be declared to vote in a primary. honestly, i believe that since it is my right to vote for any candidate i want in the big elecetions, why can i not do the same in the primary?
i can go much deeper here and truly expose my poly sci background (wait, if you do, i need to get my goggles and lab coat first), but when it comes down to it we sould be allowed to vote for anyone, primary or the big show.

my father is doing very well. he is heading back for a follow up with his GP today, so we will see what he thinks of his progress.
my father turns 72 on oct. 25th, so as a gift, i called and spoke to the people at www.stonebarnclassiccars.com . i will bring the damaged hubcap over today and see if they can fix it for me. dad is happy, as he was going to have it fixed and i am always trying to find him unique gfts or things i know mean something mroe then just a present that nothing ever happens with. i will swing in there later this afternoon, and i am looking forward to it as they are taking cars to a car show, and they don't just have classic cars, if you know anything about vintage cars, the big guys from the 20's and such, go check out their website...my jaw dropped...and it is a few miles from me, so when i drive by, i always try to sneak a look in the garage when they are open in the summer, but today i get to go inside! and they have a few cars heading to a car show, which means their top of the line stuff is going to be out! yay!!!

i have been entertaining myself with flickr. i have had a pro account for years, but never utilized the edit features, until yesterday. i heard they had a zombify feature, and well, i found the new halloween "card" to be emailed for halloween!

i find this feature to be so much fun! they have all kinds of masks and such you can play with.
i might just have to upgrade in picnik to use some of the other features as there are some amazing effects!


i have oodles of things to do today (i just really wanted to say oodles)....stitch markers to make, and other random things to get done just in case i do get accepted to the craftacular!

gots to go.......