Living Reflections from a Dream

It's Jody, your friendly website ghost.

Apparently buying a condo makes people take leave of their senses. This is evidenced by the fact that Amy chose to give me a password to her site. I'm still deciding what edits I'm going to make. Shall I profess (on Amy's behalf of course) love for the Republican party? Shall I make it one big Cornell lovefest? Or how bout changing it to the Yankee's fan headquarters. Hmmmmm. The possibilities are endless.

Unfortunately for all involved, I'm in the middle of "vacation" and won't have time to institute any of these changes til next week when I return home. Right now I'm visitng my family in Missouri and spending most of my time with my grandmother in the nursing home. Some days she even recognizes me. Yeah, not exactly a vacation I'm aware, and yet the closest thing to a vacation that I've had in ages. However, it's not a trip completley without joy. I did have the quite good fortune of spotting a man and woman couple at the mall yesterday both sporting mullets. It's reinforced my belief that every shoe does indeed have a mate, and my faith was even further instilled by the wedding proposal I received by my grandmother's 93 year old neighbor in the nursing home. Something to consider, after all, what happens in Missouri stays in Missouri, right??-----
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> White House vows cooperation in leak probe

Here is the jist of the issue:

You can see how this would compromise any investigation this woman was involved in as well as her personal safety.

The intresting thing to me about this is why it has become an issue today. I saw Joe Wilson interviewed about this, making this same allegation, over the summer. I thought to myself: "Rove" (insert "Newman" imitation).-----
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It's the return of the prodical Aiminator. I have survived the following:
- 2 weeks of homelessness (due to having to move out of my apt. before the closing on the new homestead). Ok, actually I was a guest, enjoying the luxurious accomidations of the Hotel K & J.
- 10 (and counting) with no internet access at home
- 5 days with no cable
- 3 days with no phone

in fact, there was a 10 day period where I didn't even touch a computer. I'm here to tell you: you can survive.

Well, I have tons of interesting tidbits to relay, but I'm still wading through some of the over 1000 emails I received between work and home while MIA.

Thank you to the guest bloggers for keeping the site alive. Since they are so amusing, I'm asking them to continue on, if they wish. :)-----
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Your credit card statement could also look like this if you'd just bought a home:

yikes, I've become one of those Home Depot fanatics. Yes, I did go there almost every day in the week after the closing. There really is always something that you absolutely must have this very second at the Home Depot. Things that prior to this day, you've never even heard of.-----
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I've been so busy, that I forgot to mention it's Banned Book Week. Make sure you check out the list of banned books, and revel in the fact that you are free to read them (at least so far). Though, I will say no one will be worse for the wear if they skip over Private Parts.-----
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until Syracuse's first basketball game folks!

Let's Go Orange!-----
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This weekend I painted the bedroom of the new homestead. That night I had the most vivid dream that the old owners had been on Trading Spaces and inexplicably Day 2 was the next day, weeks after Day 1. No one had told the Trading Spaces team that the place had been sold in the meantime and I was panicing because I had painted the room, undoing all their work. I woke up by sitting straight up and saying: Paige is coming, Paige is coming.. ack!-----
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It's E. While your beloved Amy is busy making her big move from rentville to ownerville, I have temporarily taken over the reins at Living Reflections as a guest host!

While Amy completes her move, I am preparing for my own. Yes, I am one of those twenty-somethings you've heard about that are..... moving back home with their parents. I know it is the best move for me financially. With my shopping habit, if I continued renting, I'd be ready to buy something in the year 2026. Actually, even that is a joke. I'd never be ready to buy my own house. Now, by just saving rent and utilities, I'll have a 20% down payment on a condo in less than two years. Now that I am faced with the reality of moving back home I am trying to focus on the positive: laundry services complete with folding and ironing, a personal grocery shopper and chef, a maid, shuttles to the T and that is just the tip of the iceberg. And, it is all free. I asked my father if I could pay him something and he said "Ah, ya, you buy the booze. Just kidding. I don't want your money." My parents have been trying to lure me home since I left so I have the added benefit of actually making them happy in the process. Could this be true? It seems like a dream. Why would I have ever left? I'll have to check back in on November 3rd with that update. I am moving back on November 1st, so something tells me that it will only take about 3 days for the "honeymoon" to be over. Wish me luck!-----
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It's Amy's birthday, she's my hero. She's turning twenty one today and already owns her fist condo. Yay! Go Amy!-----
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Although it's not quite the same as seeing Bruce at Fenway, I'm going to see one of my other all time favorites this evening: Ms. Stevie Nicks and the whole Fleetwood Mac gang. Yeehaw!-----
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Hi, Jody again with a fun little rant!

Ok, I desperately wanted Radiohead tickets. And I desperately tried to get them. Unfortunately, tickets were sold out in about 3 minutes, and I didn't get any. And now in addition to the generally recognized rants about TM, like that they charge fees to charge you fees, I now am seriously questioning how they operate. I mean, yeah, of course they are corrupt, but I had no clue just what level of corruption they operate on. It seems that in those three minutes of Radiohead ticket sales, about 3 fans got hold of tickets and the rest were snatched up by scalpers. I say this because the scalpers have hundreds of tickets for sale online and they are charging ridiculous prices. So I can't help but think that TM just hands tons of tickets over to the scalpers for a nice little profit. That's probably not a shock to anyone I suppose, but I'm naive and still remembering the day where a fan of a band could somehow get their hands on decent tickets without paying $300 over the ticket price.

So I'm proposing that John Ashcroft make use of that damn Patriot Act and start spying and investigating what the hell is going on. Because one day, Mr. Ashcroft is going to try to buy some tickets to see the Statler Brothers or Oakridge Boys, and he's going to experience the profound disappointment that I experienced when trying to purchase my Radiohead tickets.-----
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Fleetwood Mac rocked the other night! With Christine McVie sitting this one out, the skip over her songs and it becomes the Stevie and Lindsey songwriting showcase. Now, I love Christine, but Stevie and Lindsey were in rare form. I'm always amazed that they are still together and seem like they are having fun. Imagine if you had written about a tempetuous relationship you had in your mid 20's, and over 25 years later you are still singing these songs with that person -?? Lindsey really is such an underappreciated jewel of a guitar player. I do love to watch Stevie twirl with her shawls. I always wished I could carry off a look like that, but I'm just not hip that way.

The show was only marred by the moron sitting behind us. Why is it that at any large event the biggest moron/asswipe on earth is always sitting behind me? He spent the entire 20 min. before the show loudly complaining that the show hadn't started yet...duh. Then as they played each song he would yell: awesome, I'm psyched they played this song. Um.. hello? It's Fleetwood Mac, did you really think they wouldn't play Rhiannon? Or Go Your Own Way? Stupid people really wear on my patience.-----
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