I am boring myself to death this November, or maybe just boring myself into zombieness. It find it difficult to blog everyday when I’m not doing too much. Besides work (paid and home) I am spending time in the basement flailing my arms and legs about and calling it exercise. It’s very time consuming.
For the last several months I have been riding my stationary Schwinn. In order to keep myself entertained while pedaling I have been going through a large cardboard box full of cassette tapes and listening to each one once. This box has the surviving tapes I ordered from the Columbia Record House back in the 80’s. It has tapes I copied off my friends’ CDs in college. It has Mixed Tapes from friends, girlfriends, some of Lolly’s boyfriends, and ones we made ourselves. (Some of them do have very nice cover designs that I created myself from photos and letters that I cut out of magazines.)
I’m getting down to the end of the box now. Most of the good workout music I have already played and put into the “done” pile. The things that are left, easily yet another month’s worth of listening, include various womyn’s music, Andean flute bands, and Kate Bush. I seriously might pull a muscle if I have to workout to ‘Wuthering wuthering wuthering Heights’ because I can’t NOT try to sing along.
So this is one of the projects I have been working on instead of thinking about my BLOpos. I did, however, promise a trivia quiz before the end of the month so here it is. These are first lines of songs on a mixed tape that I made about 17 years ago, most of it in my friend’s apartment while her ferret named Gregory frolicked about. Guess name and who:
SIDE A
1. “So she says it’s time she goes but wanted to be sure I know she hopes we can be friends”
2. “A woman on the radio talks about revolution when it’s already passed her by”
3. “Waiting your time dreaming of a better life, waiting your time you’re more than just a wife”
4. “I am rich (he is on the T.V.)”
5. “You cannot go against nature because when you do go against nature it’s part of nature too”
6. “It glittered and it gleamed for the arriving beauty queen, a ring and a car, now you’re the prettiest by far”
7. “I get the feeling I’m not alone, I get the feeling it’s someone I don’t know”
8. “There’s a crack in the mirror and a bloodstain on the bed”
SIDE B
9. “I hate the rain and sunny weather and I hate the beach and mountains too”
10. “Load up on guns, bring your friends, it’s fun to lose and to pretend”
11. “Be careful you might hear something you don’t want to hear, be careful you might say something that you really mean”
12. “Give me a reason now that I can understand, pick up the pieces now and put ‘em in my hand”
13. “Tabloids scream Elvis seen at a shopping mall, that’s the kind of talk that makes my stomach crawl”
14. “With your feet in the air and your head on the ground try this trick and spin it”
Catch ya later.
I used this in previous NaBloPoMos in 2008 and 2007. I’ll carry on the tradition this year with seven more things-about-me:
Thing 1. I used to drag myself around the house when I was left home alone to see how I would manage if I couldn’t use my legs.
Thing 2. I tormented my other sister by meticulously cutting out pictures of bugs from a RAID ad in a magazine and taping them up all around her bedroom.
Thing 3. Although I have kept almost every diary, journal, and datebook that I ever had, and almost letter that I have ever received, I’m starting to believe that it is probably ok to start getting rid of that stuff because it is looking less and less likely that I will be so famous that people would want to archive it all after I’m dead.
Thing 4. I tell people things that I shouldn’t in order to make them laugh, mostly at work.
Thing 5. I know that I could drop dead at any moment and that I am ill-prepared to do so… and not just because my correspondence is not properly cataloged.
Thing 6. If I ever borrowed a book of yours and never gave it back, I am completely aware that I have done so, feel guilty about it frequently, and wonder when/how I will get it back to you.
Thing 7. I once passed out drunk in a church: it was cold out, the door was open, I went in to pee, and then I was suddenly so sleepy.
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“now what?”
“dictated in bed by Lolly on iPhone”
“but it’s only eight thirty”
“…so?”
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…I’m totally going to post stuff again sometime. I will!
Well, it wasn’t just Facebook distracting me; actually, I needed to upgrade to a newer version of WordPress and it took me forever to get around to doing it. I wasn’t able to post or edit or anything at all. But if this post works, then I probably did most of the upgrading correctly.
Whoopee!
Facebook. Friggin frackin Facebook is a blog killer, I tell ya what! I think of things I might write about but then go shopping for Delicious Chicken and play Geo Challenge until my eyeballs have dried out just so my sister can’t catch up to my score. And then, WEIRDOS from the past befriend me. Why? Why weirdos why? We weren’t friends in high school, not even close, why do you want to be my friend now? You must have heard how cute Gomez is and need to see his picture. That’s the only reason I could possibly think of.
LizzieLou shrugs.
P.S. Hepburn movie quiz answer to #7 is “Morning Glory”
I finally sent my taxes out today. Whoo. That was fun. And then I decided to check on my little Cafe Press shops to make sure I hadn’t made a million dollars that I wasn’t claiming and I discovered that …. Someone Actually Bought A Thing!
I made a dollar! Somebody in New York got a lesbotronic.com apron. SWEET!
…y porque estoy un poco loco en la cabeza de la fresa.
Dear Reader(s),
I have been too busy lazy to post. After spending 10 hours a day in front of a computer I’ve been more likely to spend non-work time doing other stuff, like knitting. I have been knitting and knitting (and purling) away. Even a little bit at work. So I figure I owe the computer some time now from home. Not much has been going on that I care to comment about, so instead I will answer some viewer mail.
@SpamMommy1 – If you lost 30 pounds in 30 days you are either a constant on the Biggest Loser or you are dead now. Or both. Piss off.
@SpamDaddy2 – Yes it is a great domain name for a site like this.
@SpamBaby3 – You’re welcome. But, I never commented on your blog so you must be mistaken. And, oh yeah, shut up.
Now should I go work on my taxes or watch Rachel Getting Married? I know…. I’ll go knit some more crap!
Love, LizzieLou
