I feel the need to share this, but not for the world to see.  Since I'm pretty sure no one (on the planet) checks livejournal anymore, I will share here.  My mother told me that if she's on life support and is pregnant she does not want her life continued.  She is in her late 60's.  She was semi-joking - but only semi. 

My second cousins, Nemo and Rocket, have a new cousin named B.   This would be okay in a children's book, but, sadly it is real.

Why does my mother try to teach me Spanish?

I eat a salad and my mother tells me that I need to start eating healthier.
I eat stir-fry vegetables w/ rice and she tells me that I need to stop eating so much fat and sugar.
I eat a bowl of ice cream and she happily exclaims, "Wow! I never see you treat yourself this way!"

Got quite the schizo-ish collection of music today.  More so than usual.    The librarian was giving me weird looks : )

Styx Greatest Hits
Need You Now - Lady Antebellum (stupid The Voice, getting the song stuck in my head for the past week)
Memphis soundtrack (yay!)
Camino Palmero - The Calling (always liked Wherever You Will Go, bout time to see if ( Read more... )

Currently reading Just Kids by Patti Smith.  Definitely written well and all, I can understand why it won the National Book Award.  However, she claims that the death of Brian Jones was this monumental experience and that she had a great affection for him (as one has for rock stars).  She was in France at the time and claims that the newspapers all ( Read more... )

Lauren Graham and Scott Patterson (as Lorelai Gilmore and Luke Danes from Gilmore Girls)
Ricardo Arjona

Kathy Lee Gifford
Ricky Gervais

I have problems.

It intrigued me, so I'm copying.

These are 100 great books listed by the BBC. According to them, most people have read only 6.
Instructions: Copy/paste this list of books. Bold the ones you've read in their entirety, italicize ones you've read in part.

Purple ones I honestly can't remember whether I have or not.  34 complete, 5 incomplete (not ( Read more... )

 Random self-recorded cassettes I found while cleaning last night ( Read more... )

 Conversation w/ my mother from this morning ( Read more... )