Scrubs

I love this show. But this clip, I have never seen. I LOVE Men Without Hats!!! This clip had me laughing the whole way through. Enjoy!

"You Don't Have To Do Any More Work To Be A Good Person..."

I just heard this quote, and it floored me.


"You don't have to do any more work to be a good person, ok? You can take the rest of your life off." ~Eve Ensler

From this film (the link takes you to the netflix page where you can watch this film online).

The Kitty Girl

We have a new family member, who we met in October. I have to admit, we have not been good furbaby parents to her. It has been a difficult adjustment period for her, and the adjustment is far from over. She needs far more attention than we have been giving her. I think we've finally gotten into a decent routine over the last month or so, where she is getting maybe a tad less attention than she needs, but enough that she is making some progress, and feeling more comfortable here. Today was a great day for her.

A little history here...Kaluah Kitty came from my friend, Nancy. Nancy was moving into an apartment, and couldn't afford the pet deposit. She left her kitty at the old house with her ex husband for awhile, but kitty was getting no love, beings that no one was really staying at the old house except a couple times a week. Kitty needed a family. So, she came here. Now, before she joined our family, Kaluah was a huntress. She came and went as she pleased, and she brought her Other Mommy wondrous gifts on a regular basis. Unfortunately, Kaluah Kitty has been afraid to go outside since she has been here. I opened the door one day awhile back when the weather was nice, and she promptly jumped off my lap and ran. I was sad for kitty.

Well, today I decided to try it again. The last thing I want is to frighten her, but I do want to keep giving her small challenges so that she can slowly feel more like family here. So, after a lovely nap, I picked her up, and cuddled and cooed while I slowly walked out to the dining room. I had already opened the back door. I stopped in the dining room so that she could see that I had opened the door. She was curious, but not freaked out. So, I slowly stepped over the threshhold and sat down on the stoop. I held her and talked to her for a good 5 minutes before she slowly and tentatively made her first steps.

I was so proud of her! She went exploring for the first time! She was very timid, and when I tried to sneak inside to get my camera, she ran. But she slowly came back out again when I sat on the stoop. I was able to get some good pictures of her first foray into The Outdoors. Enjoy!

This is the kitty running back in the house when I got my camera.

Exploring.

If you look really closely, you might be able to just see the outline of the Kitty in the jungle that is our yard.

And here she is reminiscing after her travels.

ARD Twitter!

The picture above is a link to the Adoptee Rights Demonstration's new twitter page! I was so excited when I saw this, I had to share it with you all.

For more information on how to help end discrimination against adoptees, please click the same picture over there at the top right of this page, and it will take you to the ARD's main web site.

Sam Kinison

Apparently I've spent just about enough time crying lately. I've been in the mood to laugh (as you can tell by my last two posts). I decided tonight it's been entirely too long since I've heard Sam Kinison's voice. And of course, I've got to share this with you all, too. May he rest in peace.







And a quote from Sam's official web site:

"That's when you know you're pretty f---ed up, when it makes sense to fall asleep... I was driving between Needles and Barstow... It's about 120 miles of desert... It's four in the morning, man... Hey, this is a pretty good time to go to sleep ... (SCREAMS HYSTERICALLY) So I totaled this f---in' car out, man!... I f---in' totaled it! And it made SENSE at the time!"
-Sam Kinison

Free Samples

I'm finding all sorts of stuff to giggle about these days. I found this link to a free sample of something called "Drinking Mate" on shop4freebies today. I almost laughed out loud, but Jason needs to sleep before work tonight...so I giggled quietly. This is definitely going to be someone's holiday gift this year. *snicker*

Random Giggles

In case you can't tell by the picture, this is a bulk bin. The contents of the bin is "coffee creamer". Do you see that label, in big capital letters, across the lid? Yeah, the one that says, "PLEASE - NO SAMPLING"? Is that really necessary? How many people mozy into Winco with a hot, fresh cup of joe so that they can sneak back to the bulk section and "sample" the bulk coffee creamer?

This made me giggle. I mean...really? Seriously?

It made me wish I had a cup of coffee, just so I could turn around to the bulk department employee who was filling the bins and say, "I'm sampling! I'm sampling! Neener neener!"

Next To The Last Song

I just had to go and watch it again. And when I did, I took a page from Selma's book...I couldn't finish the movie. Selma (the main character in Dancer In The Dark) hates the end of musicals. She would leave the theater after the next to the last song so that she would miss the ending. After pretty well dehydrating myself two nights in a row, I decided to spare myself the very end this time. I stopped it half a verse before the end of the last song.

I don't know if many of you have heard Bjork sing, but sometimes the words aren't completely clear. I didn't know what all the words to this song were, so I looked them up. For all the tears I cried reading the words to the song, I may as well have watched the very end anyway. Man, this is an emotional film.

Fitting way to spend Mother's Day.

Next To The Last Song

Dear Gene, of course you are here
And now it's nothing to fear
Oooh, I should have known
Oooh, I was never alone

This isn't the last song
There is no violin
The choir is so quiet
And no one takes a spin
This is the next to last song
And that's all, all

Remember what I have said
Remember, wrap up the bread
Do this, do that, make your bed

This isn't the last song
There is no violin
The choir is quiet
And no one takes a spin
This is the next to last song

And that's all ...

Dancer In The Dark

Dancer In The Dark is absolutely my favorite movie, and is where I got the title for my blog. I have to be in a certain mood to watch it, though. If I haven't mentioned this before, I'm a cryer. There are a few movies that make me cry every time I watch them. This one, however, is different. I spend the last half hour of the movie bawling, sobbing, grieving for this young mother in an impossible situation. Every single time I watch it.



This independent film has an exceptional cast. I'm trying to come up with more to say about this amazing film, but having just watched it (and still pretty teary), I think I'd better just link you to the wikipedia article. The link at the top of this post will take you to the netflix page where you can watch the film online if you have a netflix subscription.

Shel Silverstein

I just got a new Shel Silverstein book in the mail today, so I had to share.



I remember reading a lot of Shel Silverstein's poems in elementary school, but I didn't know who he was until I was in my 20's. At that point, I started collecting his books. They've come to some use when reading to nieces and nephews (and when I'm just having a down day...you can't frown while reading "Backwards Bill"). But lately, my Shel Silverstein books have been gathering a lot of dust.

*whimper* I want kids.

Enough with that. This book was a lot of fun. It reads a lot like a Dr. Suess book. Very cute.