I Ain't Afraid of No Daleks

I don't know WHY I'm letting people I don't even know, tag me lately...am I getting addicted to meme's? Meh--probably. I need a LIFE, please...anybody got one to spare?

JASON'S MEME

I think, therefore I....am not a conservative.

I don't understand....sex-crazed David Tennant fan-girls...he really isn't all that, ya'know!

I believe....in God, in my friends and, in the fact that I'm going to be stuck in this crap life forever!

I don't believe...in wishes, dreams, astrology, that we come from aliens, in creationism, hope, angels, devils, my country, myself.

I really enjoy...hearing about what's going on with my friends, petting my cats, writing, reading, the theater, listening to music, being outdoors, horses, pets, pizza, steak and mashed.

Part II:

Describe the perfect summer day using song lyrics:

Saturdays holidays, easy afternoon
Lazy days, summer days
Nothin much to do
Rainy days of better days

Hangin out inside
Rainy days and city ways
Make me want to hide some place
Cool an green an shady

Find yourself a piece of grassy ground
Lay down close your eyes
Find yourself and maybe lose yourself
While your free spirit flies

Find yourself a piece of grassy ground
Lay down close your eyes
Find yourself and maybe lose yourself
While your free spirit flies

August skies are lullabies, promises to keep
Dandelions and twisting vines
Clover at your feet
Memories of aspen leaves

Trembling in the wind
Honeybees and fantasies
Where to start again some place
Cool an green an shady--John Denver & Joe Henry

What's your favourite season? Autumn

Favourite actor: Derek Jacobi (sorry DT fans...but he's #2)

Favourite actress: I admit, I'm rather clueless about celebrities, I may recognize a name, but I honestly have no idea who's who, or who's doing what...plus I don't get television, or go to the cinema or buy CD's...I don't think I have one--although, this Catherine Tate lady really blew me away with her abilities, in Doctor Who. She's one talented actress.

Favourite dream: Aye, there's the rub--I don't have one, any more. Growing up, I wanted to be an actress or work with horses...well, my looks kinda' killed the actress longing, when I got to be about 14. I did actually realize my dream with the horses, when I turned 30...for about a year....a very (mostly) happy year. My last 'dream' was being a writer, or doing something in communications--like newspaper editor, or work in a radio station...ha. Stupid dream. But now? No. I blew it, and I've accepted that. Dreams are for the young, the fit, the wealthy, people with family, people with a stable life...it's not for people like me.

Cripe. That was a depressing answer.

Think I'll go and make dinner. Have a good night, all.

Do you like to read? Very much so, yes.

What are you reading right now? An older crime novel, "Somebody Owes me Money," by Westlake.

How do you find time to read? I just do.

Where is your favorite reading spot? Sitting up in bed

Do you prefer adventures, biographies, histories, mysteries, romance or another genre? The only types of books I seldom--if ever, read, are best-sellers/popular novels, romance, and bigoraphies--not that I never read them, they are just low on the list.

Have you ever published a book? No, just some feature articles and poetry.

How do you feel about libraries? Love 'em--mum was a librarian, so I literally grew up in a library. Mum loved libraries, and used to drag me around to different one's, even before she became a librarian.

How many books do you own? Not sure, between 150 and 200, I think.

About how many of them are considered classic literature? Beats me, between 25 and 35, I guess.

How many are non-fiction books? About 40%, roughly.

Woke an hour early, but couldn't get back to sleep, to for about a half-hour I just lay in bed dozing in vain hope, then gave up the ghost. My hillbilly neighbours have a very annoying tendency to slam their doors--why? Probably for the same reason they holler instead of talking normally. They just like to be loud, that's what hillbilly's do. So, there went the wonderful door slam at half-past six in the morning...dang. I have to work two shifts today, day and night, to make up for one of two days I took off sick, this week.

Feel rotten, but more rested than I did yesterday. It really speaks volumes when I work all morning/afternoon without lunch, and then rather sleep than eat when I get home, as I'm usually famished by 2 or 3pm.

I'm trying to type around Flame, she's decided that now is one of those rare times she wants to be held--usually, trying to hold Flame is a bit like trying to hold on to some hyperactive ferret!

Flame suddenly has decided she doesn't like her usual tinned food (Friskies chicken in gravy)...making my life a misery because of it. Well, she liked it well enough last week--hope it's not a bad batch...that's why I stopped buying tinned cat food from Walmarts. They would eat the brand when I bought it from a proper grocers, but when I purchased that same brand from Walmarts? They'd turn their noses up at it! I think Walmarts sells outdated tinned cat food...there must be a reason the cats would NEVER touch the tinned food from walmarts....

Anyway, must be off in a bit...dreading today. I am still sick, but desperately need the funds for my bills--it sucks getting no sick pay. If I had sick pay, I could stay home another day and get the rest I need, as it is, no chance of that, until Sunday.

Have a good day, all.

1. Favourite food scene in a film. The pie fights in the old Keystone Cops silent films.
2. Favourite breakfast food. Cheese and bacon omelet.
3. Favourite ethnic cuisine. Italian
4. Guilty pleasure. Ice cream.
5. Favourite ice cream flavour. Starbuck's--coffee almond fudge, mudpie, and caramel cappuchino swirl.
6. Favourite cookbook. Mum's old hardcover Campbell's Soup cookbook from the 1960's.
7. Favourite snack. Movie theater butter flavour microwave popcorn
8. Favourite kitchen gadget. Haven't got any kitchen gadgets anymore.
9. Chocolate: dark, milk or white. Dark.
10. If you were a dish, what would you be? Meatloaf and mashed potatoes.
11. What did you have for lunch today? Didn't have any lunch.
12. Favourite beverage. Coke classic in a glass bottle.
13. Favourite 2 restaurants? Jake's Roundup (tex-mex), and the Wooden Soldier--a rural Vermont diner featuring home-cooked style meals.
14. Favourite 2 restaurants as a teenager? Papa's Corner Restaurant (Italian-American) and the Burden Lake Casino (Now known as "Kay's Burden Lake House") (both had fab pizza). If you're in the Watervliet/Menands area, the number to order a pizza from papa's is: 273-3270...did that from memory--twenty five years later!
15. Favourite 2 restaurants as a child? Ted's Fish Fry or Hot Dog Charlie's.

NOTE: this post is reprinted from my "Anti-con" liberal blog group.

So now, Obama is getting bashed by the McCain camp, for his remark that "a pig with lipstick is still a pig," (a veiled reference to Palin's statement that she's a "pitbull with lipstick.") which is actually an American saying--not terribly widely used, but I've heard it, locally!

Well, anyway, the McCain camp is fuming, and all indignant and...whoops, what have we here? Oh, is that a Chicago TRIBUNE article from 2007? And is that article about McCain? And in that article did not McCain say the SAME EXACT THING, when referring to Hilary Clinton?

Now, I wonder whatever made McCain say a thing like that, about Hilary? I wonder what could possibly have made McCain utter those same words last year? Why, oh why, oh why? Could have it been SATAN?!?

Why, every good republican automaton supporter knows, that Jesus only supports republicans, so that must mean that the Satan is the liberal's cheerleader. Naughty Satan, did you do that???

Tough day at the office. Not the work, but not fun working sick. I went home, didn't even bother with lunch, and just sacked out for a couple of hours. Then, I got up, took care of a few light chores, made myself an easy dinner of shredded chicken, warmed in tinned chicken gravy (to which I added some seasonings and a few tinned peas), and poured over mashed potatoes. Not gourmet by any means, but filling and satisfying--and not to mention, reasonably tasty.

Speaking of filling foods, now that it's getting chilly again, I'm thinking I should be getting either a box of instant maple-brown sugar oatmeal (porage), or a box of Cream of Wheat for my breakfasts. Since I'm supposed to watch my sugar and salts, I suppose I would have to not eat either of these too often (the sugar in the oatmeal, the salt (and butter) in the cream of wheat). Oh well, have a few more weeks yet, before it becomes hot cereal season, plenty of time to decide.

Well, the doctor was supposed to let me know my test results today, LOL. This health centre has a very poor reputation in the local community--too many low-level health providers, only 2 doctors, to see a couple of thousand patients. Yesterday morning, they were shut for much of the day, when the building had to be evacuated for a chemical spill--someone poured X-Ray developer down the drain--which then became clogged, and to fix the clog, they poured a chemical that unstops drains--called "Drain-O," down there...and the resulting chemical mixture filled the building with a white cloud of toxic fumes. The building was fine by the time I got there, after six pm. (18.00). But, nobody was really surprised to find that health care staff didn't know that you don't mix chemicals--even down a drain...it's about par for the course for those people at the health centre, I'm afraid. They were treating a man for what they called, a "mystery rash" on his legs for months--trying him out on all kinds of drugs and tests--even going so far as to tell the poor man he might lose his legs! He finally gave up and went to a skin specialist on his own--who pronounced that the man merely had a bad case of psoraisis, a common condition!

And the Nurse/doctor yesterday, wanted to know why I've been allowed to "slip through the cracks???

Sadly, for us with little or no health insurance, this joke of a health center is our ONLY option, short of the ER, as it is the only provider who has sliding scale fees (based on your income/ability to pay) in the entire city.