Ridiculous Thoughts

Snow snow snow. In April. Big, fat, wet, heavy snow too, not the nice kind you can just brush off your car, but the kind that requires an actual shovel to get it off. *sigh* Nebby is so weird for weather. What was even weirder waas that during the storm yesterday, there were several booming, rolling thunderclaps. It was eerie and surreal. It’s not supposed to thunder during a snowstorm!

Anyway, the kidlet got her ears pierced this weekend. I used to tell her that she would have to wait until she was 13 for that because, well, because I had to wait. Then I thought, well that’s stupid, if she wants her ears pierced now, I feel she’s old enough to handle it. But as we were shopping for shorts at the mall, I decided to tell her she could do it if she wanted. The thing is, she was scared. I think she really wanted to do it, but was afraid it would hurt. This from a kid who doesn’t even bat an eye when she has to get a shot. So after much convincing from me and a friend of ours who works at the mall, she held her hand behind her back and made me guess whether it was ‘1’ or ‘2’. I said 2 and luckily, that was right.

So she got in the chair, tightly grasping the stuffed ladybug and making nervous jokes about ripping its head off if necessary. They did both her ears at once and she didn’t even blink. She said “That’s it?” Hehehehe.. Silly girl. The rest of the weekend was spent admiring her pretty ruby earrings and doing the ‘I got my ears pierced’ dance.

I wonder if this thing has stopped being a pain. Don’t really have anything exciting to blog about. I refuse to talk about the war and the only cool thing that’s happened this week is that we bought the new Zelda game and have been happily addicted to it ever since. Right now is a good time to be holed up in the house. The other night apparently someone fired a gun into a house a few doors down from me. No one was hurt, but police found six bullet holes in the wood. So I have been afraid to let the kidlet go outside to play. This used to be a failry benign town, as much as I hate its dreariness. But even I have to admit the violence is more frequent than ever. But I do refuse to blame it on any one ethnicity like some other residents here do. Apparently our problems started when “those damn Mexicans” started coming here and taking our jobs. (If you could see me right now, watch my eyes as they roll). I hate to burst the hicks’ bubbles, but quite a lot of the violence in this town is related to *gasp* drunken white people!! *SHOCK – HORROR*.

A couple years ago I worked as a waitress at a steakhouse, and I had a friend there who was, shall we say, friendly with a number of drug addicts and gang members and you know what? They were all white. One night I was parked outside her house waiting for her to get home (no way was I going inside without her as her boyfriend was home and had a slew of idiot around drinking beers). Suddenly a car comes flying around the corner, it shut its lights off and ground to a halt right behind my car. The occupants inside, all 3 white boys jumped out and flew across the street and into neighbour’s backyards, blending in with the shadows. Seconds later a police car races by, lights flashing, looking for them I presume. But they didn’t see them and didn’t notice the car they were after was parked right behind me. I don’t know what they did – I didn’t stick around to find out, but suffice to say I had no desire to hang around this gang of idiots anymore. I liked my friend a lot, she was a sweetheart, but I hated her boyfriend and his friends – all white, all self-professed members of some stupid ‘westside’ gang of privileged delinquents. Some of their parents are prominent business people in the community. I wish I could open up the eyes of the ‘I hate Mexicans’ crowd here, but it’s a lost cause. It’s like arguing with a wall.

Anyway, I doubt I’d find much different anywhere else in the country. I’m looking to the day when we can move away from here, but I can’t think of a single place I’d want to move to in the United States. I don’t know what I want. Maybe it’ll come to me. Until then, I’ll toil away here.

Well I gave up on using blogger for my project. Two days of ‘oops, your blog isn’t quite ready for publishing’ is enough to drive me away. So I wandered around the greymatter site and found out I can run more than one blog at a time with it (no, I did not know that before. Shut up.) So long story short, GM is now my favourite blogging software and now my fiction evolution project is up and running 😀

And to whomever left me the comment below about the character Mary I wrote about, I don’t have anything else written about her. That was just a writing exercise. But I might develop her further on my new site linked above 🙂

Chalk another fecking reason to get totally irritated with blogger. I’m trying to start a new blog (yes I know I’ve got too many as it is but I’m embarking on another project) and whenever I try to publish it, I get ‘Opps, Your blog is not quite ready to be published. Try again.’ What the fuck is that? My settings are *identical* to my other blogger journal (apart from filenames of course). What the hell is that error?

Grrrrrrrr.

Now this one is screwing up. I swear this software gives me more headaches than enjoyment.

Right, all sorted, I think. Had to change fecking stat counters because Nedstat wasn’t compatible with the commenting code. Bah. Annoying. Anyway, it’s all good now and anyone sneaky enough to find there way here, either by googling or by the hidden link – leave me a damn comment 🙂 Even if it’s just nonsense. I like comments. If you’re rude and obnoxious though I’ll ban your IP and make fun of you here in the blog 😀

Moved this blog to a new folder. Hopefully I didn’t fuck it all up 🙂 We’ll see…

bah looks like it’s not updating. See? This is why I hate Blogger. Argh.

Spent a bunch of time moving my public blog to use gm software. Now this one is the only one still using blogger.com. I suppose one day I’ll get that wild hair up my ass and switch this too but meh. Fuck it.

Went to see Chicago tonight at the cinema. What a fabulous movie. If LotR has to lose to one movie this year, it should lose to Chicago 🙂 Also bought ‘Where the Day Takes You’ off Ebay. I wish I could have rented it first because I’m breaking my rule of ‘no buying if I haven’t seen it’ but Kat put sooo much pressure on me to get it. You hear that Chickie? You peer-pressured me into it! Twisted my arm! Damn you!!! *cheeky grin*. You know I love ya honey. And anyway, from the reviews I’ve read, and chickie’s own review, it’s probably one I’ll like.

All in all, a lovely day today. Got some new pants and a skirt, took the kidlet out for dinner and a show and had a lovely conversation about the thrill of thunderstorms (hoping to get the first ones of the season this weekend, cross your fingers) and now I’m just chilling out, winding down, watching Seinfeld, pondering sinking into my big cozy, warm bed in a few. Ahhh bliss.