Our turkey said on the label Vegetarian Fed Turkey. We didnt notice it was just 60 cents a pound. I said to mike that our Turkey was veg. and he started freaking that I thought it was some kind of weird tofu turkey. hahaaa no just fed veggies. He stuffed it with so many onions its onion turkey.


One of my old lady friends sent me this and I thought it was cute. Happy Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving holiday totally rocks this year, and to top it off, dear Greg, now a California boy sent me this lovely picture of his mantel. When he left Alabama I gave him this that vase made from north Alabama Red Clay. It makes me feel close to him.

I went back in my journal to look for this pic of our bicycle built for two (and was glad I used to be better about naming entries, need to get back to that it makes finding things easier) to make a joke about Me and Mike being close to having to pull out our bicycle. DOnt freak out we arent really going up on the highway on this contraption.

But really we left our truck at the mechanic's and walked home. Yesterday I wrote a big ole sad post about the truck also braking down but took it down. Dont ever go to Express Oil change. THey quoted me $1,000 and my mechanic is doing it for $450. I feel like going back to express and saying "I may have blond hair and big boobs my I'm no idiot."

So last night and several times today I put water in the radiator to get where I wanted to go and got to today. John, the mechanic, offered to drive us home but we thought it might be a grand adventure to walk home becuase it was highway all the way...but within feasible walking distance. I needed to walk!

But we had fun. We had to go to the base of the mountain, so it wasnt to bad. It was just fun to be on the highway. Normally only tramps and Sister Mary Catharine are walking on the highway. Going out of the valley onto the highway was just not an option. When me and Ronda would go to Mary Deans store we went through a back path. Thats as close as we got tot he highway.

Since this was my fore into hippie-dom I decided to don my hippie purse (which I got in an airport in London)

2009 has been such an awesome year, I mean seriously a totally great year and I have high hopes for this holiday season.

Mike always picks me out a necklace that I wear to all the holiday parties and this is the necklace and earrings set he picked out. I think he did good. This headband was kind of a crazy purchase but I think its fun.

It makes me look like a holiday present with a bow on top; albeit a present only Mike could love.

front and side view



I also bought some charms to give as christmas presents and left them, the dealer was supossed to put something on them and I forgot to go back and get them, so we willhave to go back tomorrow. I saw Josephs mom there. His sister owns the Laurel Tree. I love that store. I got a snowman bubble light from her. His mom is so sweet. Who ever gets Joe will be marring into such a nice family.

here was something random. My boss at the school was in his office so I thought I would say somthing like have a happy thanksgiving. I walk in and he starts to tell me something about Elvis and gives me and a former student I have befriended a picture of big sweaty Elvis. He came to Huntsville a couple months before he died.

I went into the lib and Gerald was like, why do you have a pic of sweaty Elvis, he told me I should have said give me a pic of sexy Elvis. All I could think of was hearing Gregs dad say, "You havent heard gospel till you heard Elvis sing it." I guess Elvis is good at any age like Leonard.

so my friend who is going to see new moon with 20 of her new best friends called me last week to say that one of them had backed out and she had an extra ticket. Its kind of been a sore spot since that whole debacle. She only had one though and I called her today to see if anobody else backed out. I was going to tell her that I didnt want it becuase I think Mike really wanted to go see it together. She said that the girl was going after all. When the fuck was she planning on telling me. When I showed up. what the fuck. She better be glad we have history becuase I would be axing her off my list.

So glad this is thursday becuase it means I donthave class for another week. I was needing a break.

Joseph came by the lib and hung out for a while. It was really nice to catch up.

had more that I wanted to drone on about but I am to tired. It had somethingto do with finishing what I was reading and my review of the books.

I had made mental notes through the day of things I wanted to journal but I feel tired and jumbled.

I had a really good day. As good as the day was, there were strange occurrences of anger outburst

G is sponsring BSA this year and I have been giving moral support and had mom make some cornbread for the BSA soul food thanksgiving fest and it was really nice to be relaxed with students and congregate with them. I also got to sit with Caroline and some of her friends and it felt good to feel like I belonged.

I also got to see Ms. Mattie. She nominated me for a whose who award. I havent seen her since I was probably 18 or 19. She said I had not aged a day. Neither has she. She looked great and when I tried to tell her how much she menat to me I had to fight back tears. It was so embarrasing.

20 min later I was walking to my car and somebody ran the croswalk and if a cop had not been there I would have keyed their car. I was so close to this car I could have just held out my key and they would have keyed themselves.

The cop that was thier said he couldnt belive they did that and I said "I almost keyed thier car" he said "YOu should have!" I said I couldnt do it with him there. He just laughed.

Work went good, I always have a good time at the library. I was glad to be home. I went to Lows to make a payment and I left my ID in the car and I couldnt make a payment without it. SHe appologized when I went out got it and brought it back. I I wanted to say something like would you like to scan the mark of the anti christ barcoded on my forhead. shit, sometimes I feel like we are going to be branded like cattle electronically.

Its just nice to be home.

One of my friends posted this and it made me laugh till I felt like I had worked my abs.

Policeman verses Kitty

last night I had a disterously snacky night, so befire I got back into some kind of hole today I decided that something inside me needed to take a walk outside rather than work on the tradmill or go tot he gym. So I took my walking stick (Dad always said they burn more caloires) and took a walk in the mist. I was able to get around the small circle in the valley and be home by the time it really started raining. Then class was fine.

Yesterday one of my students gave me a wonderful complement and told me that she decided to go into history. I guess she is an education major and you have to have a subject focus and she said she never realized how much she enjoyed history. I thought that was really nice.Thats the first time I have had that happen.

Lets see, what else, oh, I decided to do something that I was doing when I got into a heathy reutine and that was go have some veggies at Blue Plate Cafe. I decided to just go bymself. I had felt like some greens and just decided to go. I havent eaten by myself on purpose in years. Mike is my constant companion being both lover and friend so I am never in want and most of the time will choose to wait till he can go but Blue Plate really isnt his style and he was at work so I just decided to go it alone and it wasnt all that bad. I saw a friends grandmother and I talked with her and read. There were other professionals in there eating alone and I actually enjoyed the time just sitting there not talking or being engaging.

Well I guess I better go do archival stuff.

I woke up in a bad mood this morning. Dont know why, but definitly privatly grumpy. I got a couple emails that annoyed me, I had to run an errend for my mom before class. I needed to vent, really felt like I needed to collect my thoughts so I jumped on a public computer in the student concourse. A girls voice next to me grates on my nerves. On eof my 11 oclock students is with her. He is a pleasant young guy. I dont know how he stands her.

I wore one of my outfits that I wore a lot last year when I was in an unhealthy reutine. It makes me worry that I will slip back into it and I dont want that. I need to go for a walk today and feel trancendental. I think maybe a to do list and some mood altering drug like caffine might help me jump up and nock some of it out

--need a new watch
--need to find this dude's makeup test
--need to paper work for handouts together and to print shop.
--need to exercise and keep up good attitude, I so dont want the sadness to come over me again and the holidays are coming up
--email somebody for my boss that I was supposed to do Friday

I did have a student get to class early to tell me that he heard on the radio that Helen Keller was sex addict. That sounds interesting and actually broke through my meloncholy.

Vut I feel somewhat better. All you have to do is walk through your day and eventually you will be home again. I think I need some alone time to mull and meander. Well, better go disenfect my hands from being on this public computer.

what a nice languid weekend. I slept a lot. We had a camp fire last night around 6 cause it gets dark around 5 now.

We did a lot of work in the woods and placed a bunch of railroad ties on our paths. Our camp fire was over by 7 and we watched a show and I was ready to go to sleep. I couldnt stay awake, so it was nice to just sleep.

I woke up around 3 and Mike had gone into the other roomand was watching tv, so I checked my email and made a new lj friend, so that is always a suprise when you get contacted randomly and it is not spam.

I also read a lot this weekend. THe fourth book in the Vampire Diaries (I know, I know, juvenile but a fun guilty pleasure) is really good. There was actually a really creepy scene that was probably made scarier by the late hour.

I need to get up and do something active for a while. I took another monster nap, so if I get up and do something maybe I will be tired again for bed. ug, really I just feel a bit bored.

This totally freaked my shit out tonight and by monday I will probably friends only this.

I met this girl at a party who was going to Calhoun and I told her "girl you have to take my class" and went on and on how I was assembling a totally hot class in the spring and gave her all the info to get it. Oh the things I said...talkign so freely and open.

Before that we had hit it off becuase we were reading the Vampire Diaries (I know I know, not great literature but they are really fun its like a guilty pleasure)

So she says would you remember me and I said Oh sure ofcourse.

After she left the other girls told me she had taken my class and failed it. You pretty much have to quit coming to recive an F from me. You have to not take the final--the first F I gave to someone who took all the tests and completed the class just happened this past semester so she must not have taken the final. I had no idea I had taught her. ITs really totally freakish.

I stand by my methods and know that I ALWAYS act with humility and decorum in the classroom so I have nothing to be ebarrassed over but damn it was weird to be talking to a former student and not know it.

I had such an exciting day. We debuted a beautiful manuscript by a local turn of the century artist (Howard Weedon), and had a reception to recoginize the donor who is this big time Nashville lawyer.

I worked like a dog on this recieption and I think it turned out real nice and the table was as pretty and fine as any spread in Huntsville. Now my mamma taught me good how to set a fine table.

I was invited along with my boss to dinner at 801 Franklin, thats the real nice place to eat in town. I enjoyed myself
immensely and felt like my whit, intelligence, and beauty was appriciated. I dont really feel liek that often but there was just just the perfect amount of sexual humor to make the evening interesting and invigorating.

At the end the leader of our little party picked up the check (as it turned out he owned stock in the resteraunt). Lord there is no telling how much it was since they bought two bottle of fine wine and it was understood that he was getting the check but I leaned over quietly and said, "how much do I owe you?" I dont know why, I guess it was becuase dad would always pick up the check when a group was together and he appriciated people offering. I think it surprised Cutter and gave him the chance of saying how much he enjoyed my presence at dinner. He is such a fine man. I am glad that he is on our library board.

Lets see there was something else I wanted to record. Oh yes, using Lindseys phrasing "creepy" I said to our little group, Would you liek to hear about the creepy thing I did at the Leonard Cohen concert and they loved it.

This sounds not so good becuas eI havent been practising lately. But today was a holiday so mamma got her squeeze box out and danced herself to the end of love.

I have also been listening to my L. Cohen music non stop since the concert. Its made me crazy this week, crazy in a good freaking mood. I even threw a pack of ciggs to a homeless dude who crawled up from under governors drive bridge. I mean I bullzied it and it bounced of the middle of his chest.

The next day I was still feeling totally humane so I decided to give this other homeless dude who I know well through Mike a ride to AA becuase it was raining. He is a Navy vet so I did a good deed and recognized the vets in my classes. Thank god my classes were all sweet this week. I would have hate to of had to be a ball buster while I was feeling so good.

went to a managers meeting as a sit in for my boss. Methinks managers meetings are a soul sucking waste of time, but at the same time I found myself almost dominating it.Our department has so much cool stuff going on. It was pretty weird.

This morning I dug out Dad's flag that he always put out on patrotic holidays. It really felt nice doing that on the holiday instead of being at work. I even swam this morning and there were no creeps in the pool.





This one I accidently uploaded so thought I would go ahead and post it

so all weekend me and mike have been moving around rotten out and burned railroad ties. Its was fun but damn I am sore all over. When I do things like that I like to wear my steel toed tennies and my leather hat. I had the song The Gypsy wife stuck in my head and Mike started calling me his gypsy wife. I kind of like that. Even though he wrote it about his break up with his wife I love the song and I like feeling like someones gypsy. I even wore a swishy skirt when we went to fresh market. While we were standing in line Mike started dancing around me unloading the basket. An old woman came up to us and said something about Waking up in the morning and decided to be joyous, that happy and joyous were two different things.

As were walking tot he car I said something about it being odd that she would say something, I mean he was practically doing pirouettes around me. Mike said that people will tell you what they need to hear and e decided she just needed to reasure herself.

Here is a pic of me and my hat. Isnt it cute. I havent worn it in a long time. Also this is a pic of my concert t. I thinkI am going to wear it to school tomorrow. hhaaa but I wont show G becuase he would never let me live it down.





Brandy located this

today was kind of a trying day. It swooped in on me while I was still in a transcendental state of being from the Cohen concert. Everything was difficult today. The easiest and best part of the day was bringing rotten railroad ties from a neighbors yard to ours to line our nature trails. That was right up my ally today. It got eaten by trying to help mother pick out an oil painting. The whole experience of trying to keep hubby and mumsey happy stressed me out.

So now I steal some time for myself because I dont really feel like talking. For some reason I feel dont feel like talking or sharing and sometimes thats when you need to share the most. Actually, just becuas eI dont feel like talking doesnt mean that I cant murder the english language and hack out a bunch of fucked up disconted sentence that are in essence random thoughts. Did I mention the concert was just Cohen and his band and it was 3 hours long and he had 30 min of encores, pretty much emtied out my savings to see him but it was worth it.

--Thought 1--Brandy has written up an awesome short recap of Leonard's concert and has searched through heaps of concert footage to post about 4 or 5 of our favorite songs from the 2009 tour that were our favorites. It has been made a public post I think and can be found here http://karmabuena.livejournal.com/446956.html

I may repost the ones she found at different intervals this week as I listen t them. Its just hard to belive that we were in the same room with that voice and the heart that brought those songs. A thousand kisses deep is tagged in on the back of this clip.



I dont know there are so many awesome things to choose from, but the ones like this one the B found are really highlights. The band he assembeld was fucking unbelivable. and those bitches can sing and that guy on the sax and wind instruments, all I can say is that his mouth can do awesome oral things as he is king of reeds & winds.

Cohen was awesome and sounds just like he does on recordings. His peom A Thousand Kisses deep really awsome!!! I loved singing our fav Cohen songs all the way. It made me think about that one perfect moment in summer when we were driving down river road listenogn to Bird on a wire, Marianne, Suzanne and Chelsea Hotel, Waiting for the miracle, and I'm your man.

--Thought 2--Impressions of the concert...I was struck at how Leonard would kneel on his knees to sing and his graciousness at taking his hat off when he gave the spotlight up for solos of the back band. He was a little man and skin and bones.

--thought 3--I wish I could have given a copy of my little book to Leonard so I asked around till I met the guy in charge of merchandise (after purchasing to 'Songs of Love and Hate' t-shirts ) and asked him of he could see Leonard got it. Figured whyt he hell not. It is probably beyond goofy and almost to goofy to admit to but I needed to send a copy out in the world to land where it may.

--THought 4--tomorrow I hope to spend a whole unfettered day with Mike

--Thought 5--I drank tonight, dont want to all those calories in my body but I just needed a good nights sleep and I wanted my eyes to get tired and dizzy. well I just fell asleep at tmy computer, prob should go to bed,

The past couple days have been busy but good. Tomorrow we go see Leonard!!! yeah! and we decided to go balls to the wall and stay in Nashville for the night at the downtown Sheraton! yep, total uptown girls, its going to be an awesome "girlcation" as Brandy says.

Today in my class I turned my notes over and a sheet was missing. I said out loud, a page of my notes are missing. But I just used the handout and made sure I covered everything and went on. It was fine, but disconcerting. I like my neat tidy outlines.

Last night someone at furniture class was sneazing and coughing. I probably should have stayed home with my sweety.

My Mike story for the day is a good one. I wish I could have recorded this becuase it was funny. But I found something on some turkey hot dogs and Mike came in and turned on the skull lights that play the Halloween theme song and I ran over and was chacinghim around witht he gross hotdogs and he was screaming approprately to the music. IT was pretty funny.

we have also been watching the urban free run championships in London. Its when they run up walls and flip and and jump pillars. It was really cool. The new joke is we do everything in urban freestyle and pretend to be doing flips and shit. so now we dont just vacuum urban free style! its pretty fun.

I have really been enjoying the Vampire Diaries the books. It took me like 7 chapters to get into it. But now its really good. you know, I really like Damon, the villian brother, in the is book. he is so terrible but deliciously so...I was telling Mike about it because we have been watching the show that on the show I didnt really like his character at first but now I think Elana should explore those other posibilities. Sookie would =)

but Sookie is older than Elana. I was discussing all this with Mike and I said, I cant belive I said elana should throw over Stefan for Damon, and Mike said, "Its no surprise to me, you like the bad boys"

I said What!

went to a great talk tonight at UAH. It was about women in the civil war.

I was waiting to talk to the woman afterwards and in the mean time I found the only other person in the room to talk to who wasnt paired up talking with someone and introduced myself and struck up a nice conversaton with her. She asked me if I was going to get my PhD and I told her about being a reject and so on...Turns out she went to the play and I sold her a book.

The guy who was dominating the speaker was someone I knew (and he is autistically sweet and unaware when someone wants out of a conversation) and for some reason I just start gathering my stuff and I said something like Lets go and save her. She said, after looking over, "I came with him"

I said something nice about him and said that I just wanted to talk tot he woman so I was going to have to interrupt them. I dont think she was upset or mad or anything it was just awkward. I cant belive the randomness of that. I cant belive I even let that slip out of my mouth. Its like...internal dialogue please.

Other than that, my hair looked so cute tonight. I rode up there with my hair still in hot rollers so the set was fab. really curly.

I got to sit with one of my fav people and hear his thoughts on it.

Halloween was a good one this year. We had more kiddos last year, but this year we had 46, so not bad not bad.

Last night we watched Haunting in Connecticut and it was so scary. Even Mike yelled out loud once and he never gets scared. It was fun.

We palled around with our neighbor. Now I have to stop eating cany.

was lost in thought today and ran out of gas. It took me about 30 min to walk to a gas station and lug back. Then the gas container I bought spout was to short and wouldnt work. I had pulled into a trailor park and went trailor to trailoer till I found someone with a gas can to use thier spout. All tole the whole debacle only took about 45 min. I stil made it mikey's costume bash.

Today wasnt in and of itself bad but I kind of woke up in a bad mood

I decided to watch a Dakota Fanning movie but turned it off after Ned from Ghost Whisperer raped Dakota Fanning and her father got struck by lightening while on his farmall trackter

I have a zit that is ruining my life.

My first class was perfect and sweet. My second class kind of got out of control and I had to give them a talking to. Actually 3 people used thier phones ion class I went off, like ina scary way. I was so mad I felt like I was going to bust my podium in half. Then someone ran the cross walk while I was going to my car and I took a swing at it with my purse.

Then the library is always fun and awesome but tomorrow I have to take something really valuable as a one of a kind to the printers so that makes me sober.

We watched ANTM and one of the girls got so burned. It made me think of when I had such a terrible burn I could smell my own burnt flesh. The only worse smell I have ever smelled was gangrene, what a nightmare to even think of.

Thankgoodness Mike knows what I like beucase he saved a movie to put on called Miss Pettigrew Lives ofr a day. It was just the right size for today.

ROn called me and said he had been sad after the play was over. I called an dharrased the trophy shop today. I could give it to him tomorrow.

Also M3 is having a costume party tomorrow night and I miss my lkittle nephew so much. cant wait to see him.