Breaking the Law....

You're a natural born trouble-maker. You hate
authority and do everything you can to get
around the law, or in some cases, break it.
Naturally stubborn, you hardly ever sway once a
decision is made. Your nature is fiery and
courageous, and always out-going. You love
attention and usually have kinky fetishes
you're not afraid to explore. People either
love you or hate you.


What Type of Soul Do You Have ?
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Late Birthday Wishes

Belated Happy Birthday to Nightskye, my fat cousin Heather, & Hapa!

Check out Hapa's site for some really funny lists. The New Englander's one is a riot!

No Sleep for the Wicked

Greetings from the blurred land of WXLO. Yesterday was my 5 year wedding anniversary, and Blixx is wonderful. I'm working at the radio station for a few days, and he and Cass came in to take me out to lunch - and with a HUGE bouquet of pink and purple roses. Cass sat in a high chair for the first time and CHOWED on mashed potatoes and carrots. She's such a hearty eater! When I got home from work, we went out to dinner (gift certificates from the radio station - free food!!) and even starving (Blixx thought I'd given her a bottle, I thought she'd already eaten - oops) she was a wonderful companion. Once she went to bed, we sipped champagne and ate a Tortuga Rum Cake that Blixx had ordered. It was supposed to be a surprize, but the idiots called the house to confirm the order and I happened to pick up the phone. D'Oh! We hung out and...well, we had fun. LOTS of fun. In bed to sleep at around midnight.

1am - Cass wakes up. Blixx cuddles her until she falls back asleep.
2:30am - Cass wakes up. I go in and try to rationalize with her. I leave her in the crib and put her mobile on, which soothes the savage beast.
5:30am - Cass wakes up with a vengance. I try to get Blixx to get her, but he mummbles that she won't go back to sleep with him. I'm pissed that he won't even try, so I go downstairs and grab a bottle (to shove up his ass). He's up with her with the lights on, changing diapers so I leave the bottle in the room and head back to bed, where I sleep fitfully at best.

8:39am - I wake up with one leg out of the covers, my arm draped over toward my alarm clock, and the alarm disabled and the clock teetering off the back of the bedside table. I was supposed to be AT work at 8:30!! I brushed my teeth in the shower while washing my hair and was out the door.
9:02am - arrived at the station, where no one had missed me because it's just not that busy in the early mornings. I somehow made it in and out of the shower and across town in 22 minutes - which is scarey cuz it's a 15 minute drive into the city to get here. Birdgirl returned my paniced call to her cell phone....from DuDo's, wondering how I take my coffee. Gotta love having an in with the boss.

I'm exceptionally tired, and I expect this will go on for some time. Experienced parents have told me that at around 6 months they have learned that if they cry, we'll come running. She probably doesn't need anything, other than being a little bored and lonely, which she's just going to have to live with!!!

I'm going to consult the experts (i.e. websearch) to figure out what we can do, but I'm thinking it's just to let her cry herself out. Arg....I wish we had a bigger house where she wasn't quite so close to us.

TIRED! VERY TIRED!!

God Love Google for the bored at work

As you can see, it's been a busy day here at the radio station. I Googled my last name and here's what came up.

Fattie Arbuckle Mania

The Arbuckle Wilderness

Arbuckle Coffee Roasters

Arbuckle Mountains in OK

The Arbuckle Boys Cowboy Band

Mrs. Arbuckle

Jon Arbuckle at Garfield Planet

Arbuckle Truck Driving School - Blixx entertained the thought of being a long haul trucker back in the day. Hmmm.

Arbuckle Electronics Wonder if we could get a family discount?

Arbuckle Marsh Frogwatch It's very important to keep an eye on frogs.

Arbuckle Fort in West Virginia

Movie Reviews

League of Extrordinary Gentlemen - the only thing extrordinary is that Sean Connery read the script and still wanted to be in this stinker. It should have been so cool, and yet we never once gave a crap about any of the characters. Plot holes abound, with cruddy CG too. I really wanted this movie to be great.

Tomb Raider 2 - Ok, I admit that I was probably the only person in the world who actually liked the first movie. It wasn't a cinematic masterpiece, but I enjoyed it none the less. This second one was a crap fest. Once again, you really didn't care one bit about what was going on. I missed a whole bit in the middle because Cass was crying...and didn't bother to pause. Didn't miss anything. She punches a shark, then rides him to the surface. Oh yeah baby, it could happen!

Pirates of the Carribean - a really enjoyable movie! Highly recommended, the good reviews weren't just hype. I laughed, I cried...the bloopers on the dvd were hysterical too.

Charlie's Angels Full Throttle - certainly a crappy movie, but it was so tongue in cheek that it was funny. The motorcycle race scene with them dodging bullets in mid air, while doing 6 other things, was terrific. If Blockbuster is out of every other movie and you have 2 hours to waste away then go for it. You'll laugh, trust me.

Christmas has come and gone with no major casualties. Woo Hoo!

We spent the morning together as a family, opening presents and hanging out. In the afternoon, we headed over to Grip's for a feast and more presents. There was drama there, as his dad left his second wife and was bringing the new "mommie" over...when the 1st wife HotdogLady was there too. A scene was avoided - disappointingly, and all was well. We watched Bruce Almighty (eh...good, but not great. Best scenes are in the commercials) then Grips came over to our place and we were up late drinking and carrying on.

Blixx's mom came over Friday for gift exchange and a meal. Rox and the kids couldn't make it, which was disapponting, but nice that we had a quiet visit. We drove to CT on Saturday to have Christmas with my mother and her Dick. We were supposed to stay over, but a mouse died in the walls upstairs and stink, stank, stunk the whole place up to high heaven. I admit it...I used the smell as an excuse to not stay. It was a nice visit & all, but I like sleeping in my own bed. Cass fell asleep on my mother, which she took as a sign that Cass does in fact love her. I couldn't bear to tell her that Cass sleeps on lots of people....let my mom think it was special. Wow, that was me being charitable to my mother. Wierd how having a kid changes the whole value of a family thing. Actually, it was kinda special in that Mom was relaxed enough that Cass was able to eat a big bottle then crash out.

Mom wanted to come up to MA yesterday to let Blixx & I go see LotR-RotK, since that was the original plan, but we decided to postpone it as we've been exhausted. About a week ago, Cass decided that she no longer could sleep thru the night, and that she needed to be held at regular intervals throughout the evening. Our pediatrician says that it's a 6 month old thing and that she's probably not starving to death at 3am, but rather is just trying to see what she can get. It's a brain development thing, or some such but it's got to stop!

Actually, she did sleep straight thru last night which was awesome, since I had to motivate early today to work. Yep, back at the radio station for the next few days, so you'll see me online. Drop me an IM or something. As much as I enjoy working here, it gets a little boring, especially in the afternoons.

Buffy Quiz

You are

Faith

"Whatever. I'm not looking to hug and cry and learn and grow."

What "Buffy" Character Are You?

Geek Quiz

You are 10% geek

OK, so maybe you ain't a geek. You do, at least, show a bit of interest in the world around you. Either that, or you have enough of a sense of humor to pick some of the sillier answers on the test. Regardless, you're probably a pretty nifty, well-rounded person who gets along fine with people and can chat with just about anyone without fear of looking stupid or foolish or overly concerned with minutiae. God, I hate you.

Take the Polygeek Quiz at Thudfactor.com

15 Things to Do in Walmart While Your Husband/Wife Takes His/Her Sweet Ass Time

1. Get 24 boxes of condoms & randomly put them in peoples carts when they aren't looking.
2. Set all the alarm clocks in Housewares to go off at 5 minute intervals.
3. Make a trail of tomato juice on the floor leading to the rest rooms.
4. Walk up to an employee and tell him/her in an official tone 'Code 3 in Housewares' . . . and see what happens.
5. Go to the Service Desk and ask to put a bag of M&M's on lay away.
6. Move a 'CAUTION - WET FLOOR' sign to a carpeted area.
7. Set up a tent in the camping department and tell other shoppers you'll invite them in if they bring pillows from the bedding department.
8. When a clerk asks if they can help you, begin to cry and ask, "Why can't you people just leave me alone?"
9. Look right into the security camera, use it as a mirror and pick your nose.
10. While handling guns in the hunting department, ask the clerk if he knows where the anti-depressants are.
11. Dart around the store suspiciously while loudly humming the theme from "Mission Impossible."
12. In the auto department, practice your "Madonna look" using different size funnels.
13. Hide in a clothing rack and when people browse through, say "PICK ME! PICK ME!"
14. When an announcement comes over the loud speaker, assume the fetal position and scream "NO! NO! It's those voices again!!!"

And last but not least:
15. Go into a fitting room, shut the door and wait a while and then yell loudly "There's no toilet paper in here!"

I've got to scan some more pictures, but it's coming along nicely.

Check out Cass's web site!!!

Blixx's sister Roxy's family (4 kids) are homeless. There was a fire at their house and it's currently condemned. They are staying with friends, which is terrific, and are trying to get the house back in shape and recover what they can of their stuff, but as you can imagine it's been pretty devastating to them. The kicker is that they didn't have homeowner's insurance so any/all repairs are their responsibility. Blixx is helpign with the physical recovery effort and I get stuck watching her 4 kids, plus Cass. Man o Man, am I tired!!!

I'm looking for ways to help them, like set up a web site for donations. I', also trying to find programs with the state or fed government that could assist them. Any ideas on where to look would be appreciated. Call or e-mail me. Thanks.

Happy Holidays to you and yours. Best wishes for the new year.

I'm still not working full time, although I continue to get part time work from Birdgirl at the radio station. She wants me to work the days between Christmas and New Years, which I will probably take just to get out of the house...and free stuff!

Cass is huge and has learned that when she cries, she gets picked up. We were in a store the other day and she started wailing out of the blue, to the point that I thought something had hit her or there was a problem. I unstrapped her from her chair and picked her up....and she started laughing and smiling at the nice old lady in the aisle. FAKER!!!

Today I'm paying some bills and cleaning the house for our holiday thingie this weekend. Tempest and Purge are coming on Sunday...can't wait to see them! Crap, I haven't gotten their Christmas gifts yet. Balls.