I'm sure at least one of my readers is a musical fan. You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown was never one of my favorites. At least, until I discovered someone that I felt would someday (even back then) be a rising star. That person is Kristin Chenoweth. She played Sally Brown in YGMCB. I felt she had one of those voices that didn't match her looks. I had a feeling she would just... I don't know... go somewhere. Then she was pegged to be Galinda in Wicked... and Lily in Disney's Annie. She also rocked as Ms. Noodle on Seasame Street (Mr. Noodle's cute sibling). This girl was really going somewhere! And had a voice that had near perfect pitch!!! WOAH!
She followed up these wonderful performances with countless TV appearances and movies, live action and cartoon. Although, right now, the roles she is noted for most are Galinda in Wicked and Olive Snook in Pushing Daisies (pity it has been canceled).
Getting back to the topic, when Cheno was in YGMCB, as Sally Brown, she sang a song about her new Philosophy. For Sally, this meant changing it every minute or couple of seconds. For me, my new way of thinking is anything is possible if you put your mind to it... even if it seems impossible. I think Sally would have done well with this thought. It could have incompassed every idea she had. LOL!
Blogger out!
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Friday, January 30, 2009
Today... It Is Just Another Day
Today is day 9 with little to no sleep. The doctor tells me that it is only a matter of time before I "kiss the dirt" and fall over. I just hope it isn't while eating soup.
Monday, January 26, 2009
What the HECK is a Rabbid?
I'm Cold Again!
No, really!! I'm cold!!! If the weather around the DC area would stop changing more often than my husband changes his underwear, maybe my body would have a chance to adjust. But, no... it's up. It's down. It's up again! ACK! I just want a regulated body temperature! My snake aquarium is more regular than I feel. SIGH!
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Quick Post!
For clarification, I am not angry with J., my mom, Stephen, or anyone living within arm reach. I am angry with Aetna health insurance. That was not meant to be a bait or a call for help to any individual. Forgive me if I alarmed anyone. *Sigh*
Saturday, January 24, 2009
It was the best of times... It was the worst of times.
Anger. Today's blog post is most likely about anger. One word. 5 letters. A-N-G-E-R. The word itself even seems imposing. So, first off, as I often do... let's define our topic.
According to Wikipedia, my favorite source for all things "factual", anger is "an emotional state that may range from minor irritation to intense rage." Ok. I get the it is an emotional state. Tell me more, oh guru of knowledge. It goes onto to say that anger is one of those emotional states that is often times hard to define because of its ability to split into subtopics. Huuuuwha? Subtopic? What exactly is a subtopic of anger? Irritation? Annoyance? Anxiety? Clear as mud, Wikipedia.
Websters defines anger as "A strong passion or emotion of displeasure or antagonism, excited by a real or supposed injury or insult to one's self or others, or by the intent to do such injury." Getting closer to something I can understand. Websters is essentially saying that it is an emotion of displeasure that is brought about when someone feels a "injury" to themselves or others. Ok... so, what I feel when I thought about Gothic Kittens yesterday could have been a demonstration of anger. I was expressing displeasure with the idiotcy of the woman to pierce her cats in such a obnoxious way. However, how does this differ from when I feel "anger" towards someone for saying something unkind? How about when someone steals my parking space? All of these "feel" different. Are you saying they are all anger? Is rage anger? I think, in this case, the English language is doing ANGER a huge disservice. If the Eskimos, despite the highly popular urban legand saying otherwise, have so many words to describe snow, and the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis truely is correct, why should we not be able to a better word to describe anger. *****NOTE: Sapir–Whorf hypothesis - "postulates a systematic relationship between the grammatical categories of the language a person speaks and how that person both understands the world and behaves in it." Thanks again, Wikipedia. No, really. I learned about that in Linguistic in college. Wooohooo... Shout out for Capital U.!!!********
Ok... so, I have poorly defined it. So, why is it the subject of my blog today? Well... I am having a tad bit of anger control issues today. I feel anger directed towards another person and I really rather not be angry. So, if I don't want to be angry... why am I still angry? I mean, if I had a better word for it, maybe I would not feel guilty for being angry. So, I have decided to go the way of Andrew Clements, author of Frindle, and make up my own word for how I feel. I am feeling Disanxirritation. Hopefully, disnaxirritation is something that can linger and will be forgiven. It doesn't appear to be healthy, though. So, maybe when the 10 step organization starts, I can make sure that I enroll.
According to Wikipedia, my favorite source for all things "factual", anger is "an emotional state that may range from minor irritation to intense rage." Ok. I get the it is an emotional state. Tell me more, oh guru of knowledge. It goes onto to say that anger is one of those emotional states that is often times hard to define because of its ability to split into subtopics. Huuuuwha? Subtopic? What exactly is a subtopic of anger? Irritation? Annoyance? Anxiety? Clear as mud, Wikipedia.
Websters defines anger as "A strong passion or emotion of displeasure or antagonism, excited by a real or supposed injury or insult to one's self or others, or by the intent to do such injury." Getting closer to something I can understand. Websters is essentially saying that it is an emotion of displeasure that is brought about when someone feels a "injury" to themselves or others. Ok... so, what I feel when I thought about Gothic Kittens yesterday could have been a demonstration of anger. I was expressing displeasure with the idiotcy of the woman to pierce her cats in such a obnoxious way. However, how does this differ from when I feel "anger" towards someone for saying something unkind? How about when someone steals my parking space? All of these "feel" different. Are you saying they are all anger? Is rage anger? I think, in this case, the English language is doing ANGER a huge disservice. If the Eskimos, despite the highly popular urban legand saying otherwise, have so many words to describe snow, and the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis truely is correct, why should we not be able to a better word to describe anger. *****NOTE: Sapir–Whorf hypothesis - "postulates a systematic relationship between the grammatical categories of the language a person speaks and how that person both understands the world and behaves in it." Thanks again, Wikipedia. No, really. I learned about that in Linguistic in college. Wooohooo... Shout out for Capital U.!!!********
Ok... so, I have poorly defined it. So, why is it the subject of my blog today? Well... I am having a tad bit of anger control issues today. I feel anger directed towards another person and I really rather not be angry. So, if I don't want to be angry... why am I still angry? I mean, if I had a better word for it, maybe I would not feel guilty for being angry. So, I have decided to go the way of Andrew Clements, author of Frindle, and make up my own word for how I feel. I am feeling Disanxirritation. Hopefully, disnaxirritation is something that can linger and will be forgiven. It doesn't appear to be healthy, though. So, maybe when the 10 step organization starts, I can make sure that I enroll.
Friday, January 23, 2009
I Think I Am Going To Be Violently Ill
I decided to read the news on the Internet this morning and the first two articles were about a pet groomer who pierced her kittens AND Cheesus!!!! Either one of these articles would make me violently ill, but both of them? I think I made it to the bathroom before I lost breakfast... but I need to double check after I finish writing. Let me tell you more.
Goth Kittens: This idiot, who is a pet groomer by the name of Holly Crawford of Ross Township in Pennsylvania, decided it would be a SMART idea to piece her kittens ears with large studs and submission rings on their necks. THEN, she decided to sell them on the internet as Gothic Kittens at $100 a kitten. If you have seen the photos, the poor kitten looks absolutely horrid and I hope it is not disfigured for life. A human being has a right to pierce whatever the hell they want to. It is their choice. A kitten, who has no say in the matter, being pierced, on the other hand, is a little different. The article had people saying that this is no different than a person declawing their animal. EXCUSE ME? I declawed my cat. You are telling me that placing 14-gauge piercings through their ears and submission rings at the napes of their necks is the same as removing their claws? Yes, declawing sometimes does lead to disfigurement. But, piercings on an animal? That cat is going to get caught on stuff.... those piercing are going to rip out. I can come up with more stuff, but it makes me feel violently ill to even think about it. Let me see, constant pain of piercings on a cat or declawing a cat... which is more ethical? I'll go with the declawing, thank you. I've never regretted doing so and Katie Cat doesn't seem to miss them all that much. However, I will not be sticking a submission ring into her neck, thank you!
Now on to Cheesus! The woman in Missouri does it again. This Missouri woman says she has found Jesus in a bag of Cheetos. Kelly Rame, current owner of Cheesus, opened a bag of Cheetos, she noticed a mini orange sculpture that resembled Jesus. She calls it 'Cheesus'and attempts to sell it on Ebay. This was in July of 2008. Today was a Cheesus update. Ebay doesn't want to sell Cheesus, siting that it has received emails from outraged religious persons demanding that the sacreligious CheeseWhatever be removed. Does this mean no more Toast Marys? No more wallpaper stain Elvis? Footage of the only living stigmata suffering in Orlando? What is the world coming to when Ebay fails to sell something so... monumental? I guess this means that my chances of selling baby naming rights on Ebay to Golden Palace are decreasing day by day. And here I was looking forward to the day Golden Palace Wenzel was conceived. Bummer!
Can any of you explain to me why either of those stories are news worthy? I got more joy out of losing my ebay bid for Jane's 45 of He's coming Home. I was sniped in the last 10 minutes with a bid of $10.50 plus 3.50 for shipping. Instead, I decided to buy the CD. No great loss. And, if that "loser" of a winner emails me one more time and tells me how I couldn't have possibly appreciated the record and he/she can, I'm going to vomit again. And, I'll ship it to their house... free of charge!
End of Rant.
Goth Kittens: This idiot, who is a pet groomer by the name of Holly Crawford of Ross Township in Pennsylvania, decided it would be a SMART idea to piece her kittens ears with large studs and submission rings on their necks. THEN, she decided to sell them on the internet as Gothic Kittens at $100 a kitten. If you have seen the photos, the poor kitten looks absolutely horrid and I hope it is not disfigured for life. A human being has a right to pierce whatever the hell they want to. It is their choice. A kitten, who has no say in the matter, being pierced, on the other hand, is a little different. The article had people saying that this is no different than a person declawing their animal. EXCUSE ME? I declawed my cat. You are telling me that placing 14-gauge piercings through their ears and submission rings at the napes of their necks is the same as removing their claws? Yes, declawing sometimes does lead to disfigurement. But, piercings on an animal? That cat is going to get caught on stuff.... those piercing are going to rip out. I can come up with more stuff, but it makes me feel violently ill to even think about it. Let me see, constant pain of piercings on a cat or declawing a cat... which is more ethical? I'll go with the declawing, thank you. I've never regretted doing so and Katie Cat doesn't seem to miss them all that much. However, I will not be sticking a submission ring into her neck, thank you!
Now on to Cheesus! The woman in Missouri does it again. This Missouri woman says she has found Jesus in a bag of Cheetos. Kelly Rame, current owner of Cheesus, opened a bag of Cheetos, she noticed a mini orange sculpture that resembled Jesus. She calls it 'Cheesus'and attempts to sell it on Ebay. This was in July of 2008. Today was a Cheesus update. Ebay doesn't want to sell Cheesus, siting that it has received emails from outraged religious persons demanding that the sacreligious CheeseWhatever be removed. Does this mean no more Toast Marys? No more wallpaper stain Elvis? Footage of the only living stigmata suffering in Orlando? What is the world coming to when Ebay fails to sell something so... monumental? I guess this means that my chances of selling baby naming rights on Ebay to Golden Palace are decreasing day by day. And here I was looking forward to the day Golden Palace Wenzel was conceived. Bummer!
Can any of you explain to me why either of those stories are news worthy? I got more joy out of losing my ebay bid for Jane's 45 of He's coming Home. I was sniped in the last 10 minutes with a bid of $10.50 plus 3.50 for shipping. Instead, I decided to buy the CD. No great loss. And, if that "loser" of a winner emails me one more time and tells me how I couldn't have possibly appreciated the record and he/she can, I'm going to vomit again. And, I'll ship it to their house... free of charge!
End of Rant.
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