BOOOooooOOOOoooooo…
October 31, 2007 | 2 Comments
And here are a few Halloween jokes for you - perfect for when you have to come up with joke or trick in order to get your treat!
They have bat breath…
A guy with very high blood pressure…
Dead ends…
“Do you believe in people?”
Fangsgiving…
No, they eat the fingers separately…
When you’re a mouse…
Because people are dying to get in…
Because vacuum cleaners don’t have long enough cords…
Because everybody was a goblin!
Ten jokes should be enough right? If you need more, just ask any 3rd grader and they can help you out. Hehe.
Have a very safe and FUN Halloween night. Don’t go to dark houses, don’t eat any unwrapped candy… and for heaven’s sake, if you hear a chainsaw RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!
*cAcKLe*cAcKLe*
Monday Music Mambo, late as usual. :P
October 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment
This arrived on Monday from the home office in Mamboville…
Greetings one and all! Today is the Internet’s Birthday! Where would we be without it? Not here, that’s for certain.
Name a few of your favorite music websites.
They can be anything - web 2.0 sites, artist websites, or even amazon.com if you like. Just be sure they’re sites that have to do with music, and you’re good to go!
Well, of course there are the Official Websites for my top three favorite musicians…
Bob Dylan ~ Watching The River Flow 
Bob Dylan - House Carpenter
Bob Dylan - Stuck Inside of Mobile (With The Memphis Blues Again)
Eric Clapton - My Father’s Eyes
Eric Clapton - After Midnight
Eric Clapton - Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
And even though it’s not “official” this Van Morrison website is AWESOME:
Van Morrison ~ Celtic New Year
Van Morrison ~ Into the Mystic
Van Morrison - Wild Night
I also like these places:
Stevie Nicks “The Nicks Fix”. The pictures are purty. 
Stevie Nicks w/ Fleetwood Mac - Stand Back
Stevie Nicks w/ Fleetwood Mac - Sara
Stevie Nicks w/ Fleetwood Mac - Gypsy
Stevie Nicks - Edge of Seventeen
Classic Rock Revisited. Pretty cool. Even has quizzies!
Little Steven’s Underground Garage. Weirdass. ‘Nuff said.
Pitchfork. Kind of pretentious and bitchy, but still very good.
Soul-Sides. Word to yo’ mama. She likes the slow jamz, duntshe?
Pandora. Fun internet radio - lots of great tunes to listen to.
Stereogum. Dude. Duuuuuuuude.
And for lyrics research, I like:
Lyrics Freak. They have almost everything you can think of.
That’s the Mambo for this week, children! Visit the websites and have fun. Listen to the music and have even more fun. 
Other than that, I am all chattered out for the night. I visited with Dr. K on Tuesday and now I am trying to decide if I should go ahead and spring for a full frontal lobotomy, or just have them take a little off the sides.
(Just kidding. I think…)
:weird:
Pop-in…
October 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Click on the pic and go do this:
Writing more tonight…
*Pop-out*
~xoxoOOoo
Mutter, ramble, sputter… *sigh*
October 28, 2007 | 2 Comments
- Inaugural :: Please don’t elect that evil bitch.
- Pledge :: Boy Scout
- String :: Silly
- Trot :: Fox
- Fitness :: ugh… work out.
- Cinder :: that dog at the antique shop
- Edge :: brownies
- 31 :: prime number
- Blue :: walnuts
- Leather :: cheek-chillers
Now that was an embarrassing little foray into my subconscious. Don’t ask about the walnuts, it’s complicated.
Subconscious. Psyche. Mental. Mental health…
Speaking of which, I feel myself slipping downward again. Just a little. Lots of factors in play, I think – the most likely cause is the recent adjustment in medication levels. The latest mood leveling drug is still working fine, but as I am bumping up the dosage on that one, I am trying to get the antidepressant to the lowest therapeutic dose possible. I think I may have cut it down too far. Back to the laboratory for more experimenting, I guess.
Other contributing factors: the recent road trip to visit family, the upheaval in the house due to some remodeling projects, the occasional flashbacks, pre-holiday funk… and just an odd feeling of uncertainty about nearly everything else right now except Jerry and other people who love me. (Those are the most essential parts of my life, though, so I shouldn’t complain too loudly.)
It has become apparent, however, that I simply cannot miss a week or two of therapy without feeling like my head is going to explode. (Picture one of those car tires on the highway, steel belts frayed all over the place. That would be me, right there.)
It’s an uncomfortable thing to vacillate wildly each week between thinking that “life is too short” and “life is waaaay too long”.
But then I realize how much progress I’ve made on this most recent medication, and I am grateful. That same vacillation used to occur from minute to minute.
Still I can’t help but wonder what it feels like to have life be not too short or not too long, but just right.
That really does exist doesn’t it?
(Say “yes”. Thank you. Carry on.)
Come here, my pretty…
October 27, 2007 | 2 Comments
No Halloween party would be complete without these cookies! They make me want to poke somebody with one. *cackle*
Wicked Witch Fingers
Yield: 5 dozen
1 cup butter, softened
1 cup powdered sugar
1 egg
1/2 tsp almond extract
1 1/2 tsps vanilla
2 2/3 cups flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
3/4 cup whole blanched almonds
raspberry or other red berry jelly
Optional: Enough green food coloring to make the dough really wicked.
In bowl, beat together butter, sugar, egg, almond extract and vanilla. Stir dry ingredients together, then add to wet and stir thoroughly. Cover and refrigerate 30 minutes.
Working with one quarter of the dough at a time and keeping remainder refrigerated, roll a scant tablespoon full (using a 1 oz. cookie scoop is perfect) of dough into a thin log shape about 4″ long for each cookie. Squeeze close to center and close to one end to create knuckle shapes. Press almond firmly into the end of the cookie for nail. Using paring knife, make slashes in several places to form knuckle. You want them a bit thin and gangly looking, since they’ll puff a little when you bake them.
Place on lightly greased baking sheets (or use silicone sheets or parchment); bake in 325F oven for 20-25 minutes or until pale golden. Let cool for a few minutes.
Meanwhile, melt jelly over low heat in a small saucepan or nuke it in the microwave until melted.
Carefully lift almond off of each finger, spoon a tiny amount of jelly onto nail bed and press almond back in place so the jelly oozes out from underneath. You can also make slashes in the finger and fill them with “blood”.
Serve with a cup of Witch’s Brew or your favorite Magic Potion…
Enjoy, you little goblins! *HIC*
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My name is Christine Thurow and I am a professional artist, living in my lovely home state of Iowa. My humor is sarcastic, my wit dry and my appetite for unbridled hedonism, ravenous. Did I say hedonism? I meant intelligent exchange.
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