I was sad to hear about Beatrice Arthur passing on. I loved the Golden Girls. Maude didn’t do it for me but I am sure you know why. Years ago I was with Audra and Lisa and the two of them decided they were going to match the three of us up with our most similar Golden Girl character. Audra said that Lisa was both Rose AND Sofia. Lisa said that Audra was Blanche. They both looked at me with amusement on their faces. I was horrified and angry! “THAT MAKES ME DOROTHY!!!! ME! BEA ARTHUR!!!!! I’m OUTTA HERE!”

Looking back, I realized I was upset because Bea Arthur was always being compared to a man. I didn’t want to be compared to that! I remember some silly sketch on Conan had him sharing his “celebrity autograph collection” and one of the autographs was from Bea Arthur. It read, “Dear Conan, The men’s room at your studio is filthy! Love Bea!” Sure Bea was tall and had a voice like a dying cow but is that honestly good reason to rip on her gender? NO! I’ve decided to embrace my Dorothy– if for no other reason because you know she would win any fight against Blanche, Sofia, Rose, or Hulk Hogan…separate or altogether.

In my dream I was traveling to Egypt by train. Passing through a very long tunnel, I was told that very few trains make it through and we very well may be killed. What a horrible thing to say and it really got me upset. All I could do was sit and worry. I didn’t want to be killed! I wanted to see Egypt! Fortunately, despite the warning we got to Egypt in one piece. I only caught a quick glimpse of a pyramid before I was escorted into a mall. Walking around, I found tears coming to my eyes. Egypt is practically the same as Philly! They have malls with TJMaxx and other familiar stores — the main difference is Egypt decorates them with tons of Christmas Twinkle lights. I couldn’t help but feel disappointed.

It took me a little while but I finally realized that there was nothing wrong with Google’s logo today. It’s not loading funny; it’s morse code. Those kids over at Google are just too clever for words.

I’ve been feeling oddly nostalgic for the 90’s. Or maybe I am just plagued by anxiety. You see, over the last couple weeks, almost every dream that I remember has me back in High School or College. And I can’t remember where my classroom is located or, as occurred last night, I am running late and am in huge risk of missing my school bus. As I board the bus I notice I am missing my socks and I can’t remember if I have my gym suit or sneakers. What’s my locker combination? Did you say pop quiz? You mean I forgot my homework too? My heart races and I want to cry. Nostalgia or Anxiety?

The Dream Doctor says:

Curiously, back to school dreams do not reflect a desire to return to school, nor do they reflect emotional trauma from our school years. Instead, the dreams reflect challenges in our current life—usually in a career or social context—about whether or not we will “graduate to the next level.” What’s the connection? The pressure we feel today reminds us of how we used to feel back in high school or college before we took an exam: nervous, and wondering if we will “make the grade.”

Back to school dreams occur when we are stressed about completing a project at work, for example, or if we are switching careers, experiencing money problems, or are trying to “graduate” to a new position in our romantic lives.

I am so happy! Rhapsody finally FINALLY added one of my favorite bands to its library!!! SMOKIE!

The Collection & Tracklisting

My absolute favorite track is Lay Back In The Arms Of Someone but there are songs listed that I’ve never heard before!

Smokie’s lead singer sang Stumblin’ In with Suzi Quatro. In fact, Rhapsody has started adding Suzi albums too!

Essential (Digital) by Suzi Quatro

A’s, B’s And Rarities by Suzi Quatro

1. got nothing
2. feel need to blog
3. still got nothing
4. yep, still got nothing

You know how I am always talking about how totally unproductive I am, right? So this weekend I decided to do something about it… I watched two movies from my “Movies I Want to See List!” I watched My Name is Bruce AND Twilight! My Name is Bruce was totally stupid and I liked it a lot. My favorite part was when Guan-Di, the Chinese god of war and protector of the dead and bean curd, chopped the teenager’s hand off while he was copping a feel of his girlfriend and the severed hand remained on her boobie. Yeah, I liked that a lot. Twilight was also fun. If I was a teenager, I am sure I would watch this movie over and over and over again dreaming of that very dreamy Edward character. As it is I am in my thirties and thus found Bella’s dad to be the cutey patootey. I will say I was pretty surprised by the baseball game played by vampires… I mean, I have read some pretty horrific Forever Knight Fan Fiction… I thought I had seen/read every weird vampire story… I guess not. Vampire baseball. Who came up with that!?!

The original

The remake

The remake remake

Twilight — Because I still dream about head Vampire LaCroix from Forever Knight
Quantum of Solace — Because I do love international spy thrillers
Cadillac Records — Because I want to see Tyra Banks being Etta James
Role Models — Because I love potty humor and Paul Rudd
Nights in Rodanthe — Because I like houses built on sand
My Name is Bruce — Because Ted Raimi wears thong underwear
I Love You, Man — Because I love potty humor and Paul Rudd
Madea Goes to Jail — Because I am a sick puppy
Confessions of a Shopaholic — It’s a chick flick and how often do they come out?
He’s Just Not That Into You — I guess often enough
Fanboys — Because it’s about Star Wars stuff!
Yes Man — Because I still haven’t seen it

I had dreams of Nigel Bennett. Something to do with a race. I can hardly remember now.

The day was beautiful. I bought a pot and potting soil and re-planted my struggling mint plant. Hopefully this will help him thrive. I also raked my courtyard and disposed of almost all the leaves. I think I am going to have to buy a couple bags of mulch since the mulch that had been there either decomposed or I disposed of it with the leaves. It’s gone.

Finding myself home alone around 7:00, I considered visiting my parents especially since my mom made Jewish Apple Cake. The thing is, I go home and I somehow find myself sticking around until 11. Staying late isn’t really a huge issue but I would prefer to get to bed a little earlier than usual. So instead I stayed in and watched La Femme Nikita episodes. The show’s been off the air for almost 10 years and I still can’t get enough of it. I relate to Nikita– I related to her in my 20’s and I still relate to her in my 30’s. I think it has to do with how I always feel like I am fighting for my life. Whatever it is, I am certainly getting good use out of the DVD boxsets.

Woke up this morning to find Donnaville boasting an Internal Server Error. I logged in certain all I would see is the steaming remains of Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru. Who knows why but God was smiling down on me because all the files were where they were supposed to be and nothing was marked as changed. I wrote to the surfer dudes who host Donnaville and asked for help. In the meantime I tried to stay calm and visualized the surfer dudes helping me and not blaming the mess on WordPress.

A few hours later I got a note saying: “It appears the SecFilter directives you were using were unrecognized by Apache…” This makes absolutely no sense to me. Luckily the last sentence was “blah blah and your
site popped right up.” Whatever the surfer dude did, it worked. I was really certain it was another virus attack. In fact, BitDefender found more viruses on my laptop this morning. I think all is disinfected but I am not sure. Fingers crossed all is fine and I don’t have to deal with anymore computer issues or viruses.

This afternoon I went to the mall and looked at the iPhone in the AT&T store. I really quite like it. Its interface made more sense to me than what I found on the other Smartphones. The only aspect that I did’t like is AT&T requires a data plan when you have an iPhone. This bothers me because what happens if suddenly my cell phone stops being subsidized by work? Am I stuck paying 30.00 on top of the monthly fee until the two year contract ends? Maybe that’s something I shouldn’t worry about at this time. I don’t know. I hate to think this is yet another bill to add onto the long list of bills that already come addressed to me. Where does it end?