cats in the hood

This is Sherry's personal basket, next to my bed. It's just filled with blankets and such for him to stretch out on. He's so cute. Look at him! Look!!

Here's me stretched out with the laptop, and the Demon Monkey demanding attention.

new sade

I'm sampling the new Sade album, because the first single is gorgeous. But I didn't post the actual video cause it detracts from the music. There's some serious cheese, and the dancers are out of sync with each other, which is annoying. (Now that we've all watched America's Best Dance Crew, we have Standards right?) Look at the above picture--see how their arms are all at a different position? Tsk tsk tsk.

Songs We're Sick Of: Summer of '69

Swissgirl's choice. While I'm not sick of it, I have to admit I liked it much better in the 80s, and probably did hear it too much to want to listen to it now.

Gotta love the fruit-throwing Rebellious Behaviour! And the oh so funny Cops Slip on Fruit! And Brian... he's so little!


Does this version help at all? It gets better halfway through when the guy switches to Hindi!

Songs We're Sick Of: Feelings

We have our first entry! My father with "Feeeeeliiiiings. Woah woah woah feeeeliiiings."

I can't say I'm sick of this song, because I've only really ever heard it made fun of. So I listened to the whole thing. Well... I tried. Made it to 2:17




Snottdook (3 days ago) Show Hide
This song makes me lol so hard.

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Yes, truly one of the most god-awful songs to ever come out of the 70s. Sorry for all of you who love this Julio wannabe. Whoa-whoa-whoa .... FEELINGS!!!!


Does Nina Simone make it any better? She's pretty awesome and kooky.


Who's up next? What song are you sick of??

Sick-of Songs

Not sure why I hated Michael Bolton so much in the '80s. Probably because it was so baffling why a man this good looking...

would insist on wearing hair like this. I think it made me suspicious of him. Any song this man covered, couldn't possibly be a good song.

Or it could be the fact that I got sooo monumentally sick of "(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay" which was on the air allll the time.


Man I got to hating that song. Only now, when I play my Best of Otis Redding, have I been able to appreciate its beauty.


It wouldn't be until 3 years later that I would come to detest a song this much, simply through over-over-play, and that was Marc Cohn's "Walking in Memphis."


I was painting houses that summer, and my fellow painters refused to EVAH change the radio station. All they would ever play, every day, was mother-bleeping CHOM (the rock station.)

It doesn't take more than one week, working full-time, listening to the radio 8 hours/day, to know a radio station's playlist off by heart. I don't know why the rest of them didn't get so monumentally sick of the playlist as I did. Possibly they had no souls.

I sent the rest of the summer listening to CBC Radio.

What song are you still, to this day, sick of? I'm not asking this to be cute... I'd like to know!

In music news...

I'm becoming obsessed with Motown music. I've become a Rod Stewart song, and I am not ashamed. "Hmmm the plaid or the leopard?"

food and writing and tv

I seem to have fallen back into cooking again, over the past month. I think it started in November when I got into the Making Soup habit; and now the husbando is eating healthier, so I want to make sure there are things to eat.

I think I can eat a lot of homemade if I...

- make a couple veggie-filled big things on the weekend, which I can bring to lunch at work. They don't need to turn out great, cause at work I don't care what I eat.

- make a couple easy things, a couple times during the week when I get home from work -- like pasta with oil and lemon.

And I'm back to making my own muffins and cookies, and eating them Moderately.

Tonight I'm trying to make hot breakfast cereal (corn meal with dates and nuts, from that slow cooker book), as something healthy to eat for breakfast.

Okay. I've got to do some writing now. (I've actually taken my Mail program out of my mac dock, so that I'm not inclined to check it all the time and procrastinate. So I only have to resist my Home page (which has blog updates) and facebook. Which apparently I'm better at than resisting Mail. Oh, and I found a program that will email me all my twitter updates once a day, in one email. Like that too.

And I haven't got back into any TV shows yet. If anyone asks me "Are you watching XYZ it's amaaazing!" I'm just going to nod my head enthusiastically and give a thumbs up. I'm not a tv snob. It's just that movies and tv are at the bottom of my Entertainment Pole--they're easier to cut out than books and internets.

PS - I'm back with a bowl of hot cereal. It's pretty nice. This may turn out to be my favourite use for the slow cooker.