I know, I haven't posted in a while, if any, and my posts are becoming more and more infrequent and more and more pointless. I am just in a trying place right now, and (sorry to ask this of all my friends on LJ) I need some positive energy sent my way to help me deal with what I have on my plate. Long story short, it involves an alcoholic BF and a suicide note that (thankfully) was not seen through.

I need a new life. I need a new BF. I need a new location to dicover what the world has been denying me.

Peace out....

Okay, so while doing a little travelling from A to B yesterday for much-needed necessities, (lottery tickets) Alec and I decided to take some pics for show-and-tell. So here they are!






Toyota plant, in beginning phases of building. They plan to open around 2009, hiring over 2000 people. I hope I'm one of them! They say they're going to make the "Highlander" I think....Funny, I thought "there can be only ONE!"




Left side view of Toyota plant. I don't know how far back it goes, but it's lookin pretty freakin' HUGE!




For all my Indiana Jones friends, here's a public dig site that I have thoroughly enjoyed going to and found many, many shark's teeth and such (did I just sound like Commandant Lassard from Police Academy? I hope not)




This is one of the first things you'll see when you get there. It's basically a HUGE ditch, and the rock formations on the bottom are said to be coprolites (sp?) from millions of years ago. In other words, they're dino-doodie. But they are enormous, and have such interesting turtle-like shapes! Still, poop is poop...




A view to the right of previous picture. The people in the background give an idea of how big the rocks in the foreground are. It's a really fun place for the fossil-hunters, and if anyone would like to go whenever they get the urge to visit Mississippi (HA!) let me know, and I'll see what I can do to help you find some old relics (not including me)

Peace OUT!

To you, milehigh33 !!!!!

Isn't it a fact that the closer to the middle of the year that a person is born, the HOTTER they become?  That explains us two! ;)

Okay, some of my friends are doing this, so I decided to be another pathetic sheep following the herd....so here goes. Who are these about? Who did I not include? Who cares?!?!?!?!

1) To be so close, so sexy, and yet unattainable....damn. Why can't you come to me?

2) Your having a kid just makes you hotter to me :P

3) I almost think of spanking it to your video posts....almost.

4) We almost had a thing, but you are straight, and you probably aren't on here much anyway, sooo....I'm glad I got to see what I could ;)

5) Oh, God, how much I lust after you! And your boyfriend! And you don't even KNOW me!

6) Why don't you ever reply to my comments? I friended you, read your posts religiously, and comment when I feel like I won't make a stupid ass of myself...and you say nothing. Thanks. Thanks a lot.

7) There are worse things than not having a significant other. Believe me. So, appreciate what you have, and let go of what you don't, and be happy, please?

8) Would you be willing to have a baby with me? I wouldn't mind the extra long commute....We'd have some bee-yoootiful babies!

9) Did I ever tell you how much you reminded me of a co-worker that I had a MAJOR crush on at work? Course, you're much more refined and centered, and that makes you hotter....

10) Yes, yes, I didn't forget about you....I'm sorry I burned a hole in your carpet. I was young, okay?!?! I had to experiment with the tissue paper! Serves you right, though, for dying on me in the bathroom....

All my trek boyz will get it ;)

So, I decided to get onto the Coke Rewards program, and since I buy the 12-can case weekly, I figured it might do me some good. Now, I know a lot of my peepes out there are also avid carbonated beverage drinkers, but if you do nothing with those almost illegible reward codes either on the inside of the bottle cap or underneath the "easy-open" flap of the fridge mate pack, why not contribute to a needy cause? I needy!

I'm going to try to keep comments screened to keep those damn dirty apes from pilfering my codes as well! Gahh!

That's right, boy, she's BUSTIN' loose, and NOTHING will stop her!

*cue music-"I'm Comin' Out"*

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On an entirely different note, I was reading an old Wonder Woman comic while bagging and boarding (yay, hobby!) And in issue 287, from January of 1982, her invisible jet is running amok in New York...

And crashes into the TWIN TOWERS.

I am not making this s**t up. Check it out for yourself, if you dare.....

Use the seven questions below. Copy and paste them with the blanks filled in with something you want to know/ask. I'll answer honestly as I can. Meme: then post this in your own LJ and see what kind of things people want to ask you.

1. What do you think of __________?

2. When did you last __________?

3. __________ or __________ and why?

4. What did you __________?

5. What's your favorite __________?

6. How would you __________?

7. Who would you most like to __________??

View of my front courtyard from the side...not too revealing, but a good estimate of how the colors are betwen trees.



My favorite iris. I call it Antique Paper, but I don't know it's real name. So what, it's MINE :P



I have a rose! Yippee! These things don't die in my hands! Yay for me!



Best. Iris. Evar! The white one is called "Enterprise" and was won off of eBay last year. *swoon*

These are just a few pics of what has exploded in my yard recently. And they are so fragrant! It looks like God has thrown up all the colors in the world on my driveway! Yay for deitic puke!

 
Okay, so in my esoteric collections, THIS definitely falls under the "WTF" category.  I like to collect beanie babies.   More specifically, benie baby bears.  Yes, I like BEARS.  Get over it :P .  I also collect Comic themed Monopoly games, and MTG cards (thanks, farmerdrizzt)

So, anybody got any other beanie baby bears they need to get rid of?  (God, somebody help me!  It's becoming compulsory!)

Anybody else get turned on by this? And this is about ME! It is pretty dead on, but having a rock for a boyfriend, I cannot get a second opinion.....

Well, jury duty was a bust. I went there around 830 AM on Monday, only to find out it was cancelled. Being Federal jury duty, my name is still up to do the duty until the end of the month, and my next apppointment is on the 21st. *sigh* So I get to go back to Aberdeen (30 miles, one way) to see if I can mete out justice as only a gay southern boy can. They DO have really nice jury boxes, though. Computer screens for each juror, I guess to view evidence close up without extra work by the lawyers, and a very imposing courtroom to incite fear in the guilty (insert evil justice laugh)
And, work seems to be going through its death throes now as well. We were off Friday (yay!) and worked only half a day on Thursday, making the check probably one of the smallest I will have this year (but wait, it's only the second week in April, there's STILL more weeks to come!)
On a lighter note, my first Iris bloomed! Yay the the infinite power!



This is what I called "Blueberry ripple." Isn't it cute! More colorful pics to follow as soon as they open!

Well, with the bad must come the good:

-A friend e-mailed me a few hours ago. She's going to direct Hairspray at our local theatre (yes, I spell it that way) and wanted to know if I was up to it. Me, being in a state of self-imposed exile from extracurricular activities, replied that if she could do it, so can I. (Yay! Chance to put on a dress that makes me look FATTER!)

-I have my first ever jury duty "tryouts" tomorrow for a federal court! I'm excited to see what it entails, and wonder in the back of my mind why I have never, EVER been in jury duty before and what I did to finally get noticed....hmmmm.....At least I can rub it in my bosses faces ("Hey guys, guess what? I ain't coming to work for a while, but you STILL gots to pay me! SUCK IT!!!)

So now the scale tilts back in my favor once again.....que sera, sera...

Now I am addicted to Pandora. Anyone who is anyone with a keyboard and a monitor can surely attest to its greatness. BOW DOWN BEFORE PANDORA!

I know, I know, you haven't heard from me in a while (you ARE keeping track, aren't you?) but my life has lately become a shit spiral of betrayal, emotional abuse, and self-berating. Thanks to my roomate, I now have an ADDITIONAL credit card in my name, almost maxed out, a fraud alert placed on all three credit agencies in my name (my doing, thank you) and a sense of loss of trust that may never come back. I don't know what to do about him. He drinks every day, he has no goal in life, he is a person with a criminal record on him, and he thinks that cooking for the both of us justifies some sort of relationship that bears continuing. I, myself, have made no plans to leave, though, so I guess I get what I deserve, right? Well, it's just so damn hard to find a place with such low rent, and when you invest so much time in planting and landscaping, raising three children (dogs) and establishing yourself in a job that you've been in for over five years, can YOU really just say "Hell with it" and throw everything away in order to just be free of that ONE bad influence?

Ah, hell, who knows? Maybe he'll die soon of alcohol poisoning....

I know, I posted about this earlier, but I just love this song! Boogie down tonight, y'all, it's Saturday!

So, I'm having personal MP3 issues, okay? I have a small assortmentof songs, and for themost part, I like them, but my MP3 has only, like, 60 songs on it, and I am SOOOO feening for a fix of new or even old music that we Southern People haven't heard, yet would like to groove to it.

Case in point: A few weeks ago, I was on a, ahem, naughty site *cough rhymes with mexboob cough* and after watching a bear dance to a song, the only thing that popped into my mind was:

"Damn! I like that music! I gots to get me that song!"

So, after about, I dunno, five minutes on Limewire, I found the song, plus some extras by the same artist. The song was "Don't Mess With My Man" by Bootie Luv. Another Great Bootie Luv song, in my opinion (since it IS my LJ and my opinion is the only one that counts :P ) is Some Kind of Rush (booyah!)

Love it, love it, love it!

Which brings me back to the point....Does anyone know of some good songs in the genre of Botie Luv that they could recommend? Or better yet, email me so I can just download them into my MP3? I am a lonley man, working at a furniture factory, and I needs me my personal private happiness moments without the neanderthal-esque ramblings of country music, rap, and the like.

Oh, yeah, I am also trying to find One Night in Bangkok. Who did that song? apparently, Limewire hates 80's music.....

Pics of snow on clothesline. Amazing, isn't it?






It was amazing to see how it accumulated on the treelimbs. It almost looked skeletal!






Flowering quince with snow



View of my yard from the back and to the side, looking out at road. Country living at it's snowiest!



Cooter in an element he is not quite sure of :)


Alec in an element....well, see above caption :)

My grandmother died tonight. around 7:44, lucy_ricardo (mom) called me to let me know. Now I am making plans to go down to Greenville and stay a few days, help with funeral plans, console, be consoled, the works.

If I could sum up my Grandmother in one word, it would be cantankerous. She spoke her mind, and damned be the fool to call her out on what they thought was wrong with her way of thinking. I never got to meet my true Grandfather, he died weeks, I think, before my mom and dad got married. She stayed widowed up until about ten years ago, when she married a nice man whose granddaughter was in the band with me in high school. He died a couple of years ago, and Meme (my grandmother) was eventually placed in an assisted living facility. Mom had to do with all the finances, bill paying, visiting, and such all by herself. The other sisters were either in Tunica or Jackson, where they lived. My mother was constantly on the run, visting her mother, taking her out to eat, taking her to the house to visit family on holidays and such, running east to meet west quicker, that sort of thing. I always felt sorry for my mom, cause she had to do these things. Now, I see it as a way of spending as much time with her as possible. I know that if (and when) such a thing should happen with my mother, I would want to do everything in my power to do whatever she wanted, to try to squeeze every last second of time together out of the days, just so she knew that I never thought any less of her, and that I would always be there for her.

Now I'm scared. I don't want this happening to my mother. I don't want to go through the things she's going through with her mother. Arranging funeral rites, picking out clothing, finding a priest to officiate, trying to hold it all in, when inside you know you just want to scream and cry and try to release all your grief in one burst so you can go on with what needs to be done. It hurts. It hurts too much for me. Hell, losing a dog of mine is the equivalent of a woman losing her child. It just doesnt seem right for me. I like stability, comfort, family. Death takes that all away.

I've arranged time for me to be away from work. Three days, max, and hopefully the funeral can be done in that time. I'll try to keep in touch. Thanks for taking the time to read my blabbering.