GIP!

[apocalypsos]

Icon courtesy of xothe_last_kiss. *maniacal cackle*

So anyway, I called my mom today, and the first thing she told me was that her friend John passed away on Monday. That was a shock, because he was only 48, but he just came home after work and had a heart attack. I really need to send a card to his wife, because John was a geat guy. He loved to cook and especially bake, and the man made the best, biggest, tastiest cakes you've ever seen. See, now I have to go have some baked goods this weekend in his memory.

Then after that, I convinced her to go half in with me to buy my dad an iPod for Christmas, because this is the exact kind of toy he'd love to play with. Then she taunted me about trying to write two books by the end of the year. But it was nice, teasing taunting, so I let it slide.

In work-related news, the Grouch is setting off my gaydar, big time. I've never really wondered whether he was or not -- well, not until Lieutenant Asshat said something, and that's when my gaydar perked up. And what I started to notice was that he plays the pronoun game, where he sounds like he's in a relationship but he never says "she." It's not like I care so much, really, it's just making me seriously doubt the workings of my gaydar all over again. I'll be walking along, thinking I can tell gay from straight, and then the Grouch will say something, and suddenly it's high school again and I'm defending my high-school crush because, hey, straight guys can be female impersonators, too! (I believe at that time I was so dense I had my very own chemistry formula, but I never did find it.)

Today's DVD acquisitions: Galaxy Quest and Miracle Mile, which I believe brings my OMG-we're-all-going-to-die-screaming-with-Muppet-arms movie total to sixteen and my Stop-playing-with-nuclear-weapons! movie count to six.

I also hear the debate is going smashingly, and I mean that in the sense that someone's going to smash someone else in the head with a two-by-four before the night is over.

EDIT: I see Bush can't admit to three mistakes he's made during his presidency. Lovely. Exactly the candidate we need as our leader -- a man who can't admit he's wrong. (Damn it, I'm a former Catholic. A part of me that still remembers confession heard that and immediately thought, "Dude, you can't make it look like you didn't do anything wrong! Nobody will believe that! Quick, make some stuff up! Say you had impure thoughts about Tony Blair!")

DRINKING BUDDY OF EDIT: Can you tell I'm halfway through a Smirnoff yet? You can? Excellent. :)

Comments

[spyderqueen.livejournal.com]

Icon Love!

[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

If anything, I think the moderator wants to bludgeon Bush with the 2x4.

Also: mmm, Galaxy Quest. I need to find my copy, now.

[isabeau.livejournal.com]

*cracks up* Major icon love. Heeee.

[cmstephens.livejournal.com]

Y'know what's funny? Watching the first bits of the debate on Galavision. Kinda makes it hard to understand, though. And why did they have a female translator for the moderator (who is male)? Was that just for easier contrast?

[pileofashes.livejournal.com]

funny, the "three things" question and subsequent dodge was the thing i immediately bitched about in my journal too. minus the tony blair.

bush kills me. can you spare a smirnoff?

[iamgerg.livejournal.com]

Is it just me or does he have the look of a problem gambler... it's there in his eyes, he's watching everything go to hell in a hand basket, and thinking "no, it's just a cold streak, My luck will change, Third war's a charm."

[milkshake-b.livejournal.com]

That... that's kind of frighteningly accurate sounding. Not dead on, but.... Okay. Consider he is known to have abused alcohol and cocaine. That means he's got the addictive personality, most likely, and those people can get addicted to anything--even stuff 'normal' people would be perfectly safe with. Like, oh, say, the ability to bomb the crap out of third-world countries.

It sort of brings a whole new angle to "Bush is abusing the power of the Presidency".

[wufeidragon.livejournal.com]

I loved how he got in the moderator's face about something he was going to get to talk about anyway....

[lots42.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of all those people who talk about 'Crossdressing guys who think they are girls inside' and I'm all 'Dude, just choose a gender (or both) and deal'.

[seferin.livejournal.com]

This may be a stupid question, but as a Jew, I have always wondered...

how do you admit to embarrassing things to a priest in confession, and then look ANY of them in the eye? And do they gossip among themselves?

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't know about anybody else, but I never told my priest anything too horrible in confession. I could have slaughtered an entire busload of nuns and orphans the day before, and I would have said, "Oh, I cursed a couple of times and thought mean things about my mother." Hence why I'm a former Catholic ... because I sucked at it.

[seferin.livejournal.com]

Huh. I and here I thought that was the alter boy's job.

[milkshake-b.livejournal.com]

Ow. Ow.

[seferin.livejournal.com]

Tell me I'm wrong.