Blasts from the Past.

Is it just me or are cartoons lacking something now days? I think back to the cartoons that I grew up with and the characters, plots, and even the cheesy dialogue seemed to have more to it than what I see played out for kids now days. Barney, Dora, Spongebob make me sad for the current generations lack of cartoon entertainment, and characters. Maybe it is just me but it seems like we had a much wider variety to choose from growing up.
We had:
Thundercats
Transformers
Inspector Gadget
She-ra
He-Man
Ducktales
Darkwing Duck
Anamaniacs
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Fraggle Rock
Voltron
X-men
just to name a few..

The Exterminators

I caught this show the other day on A&E, it is one of the strangest things I have seen in reality tv in a long time, yet I couldnt stop watching it. It takes place in Louisiana, and this guy Billy and his black clad, skull and leather wearing family have a family owned and operated exterminating business. It is made up of his parents, wife, brother and himself. It was so weird.




Here is a link to their A&E page and their business Vexcon website.

Book Limbo

You know that great feeling you get when you read an amazing book, you cant wait to get back to it, to dive back in to the story, find out where it is going, where it will take you, and finally end up? It is a great feeling when the author is able to so completely transport you and capture your imagination with only his thoughts written on the page. However, there is the inevitable emptiness when you finish such an amazing book that leaves you wanting another quality piece of literature. When you happen across an author, or work of literature that speaks to you, and you devour it, then what? That is where i am right now...looking for something to fill the space of the great book I just read, will I find it? Probably not right away, I will be forced to put up with mediocrity until I one day come across another book that grabs hold of my imagination and refuses to let go.

The Countdown has Begun.

After Monday's class I have one week left of class for the semester! I have one paper done(kinda) for my online class. I have to complete my paper for my Monday class then all that is really left is my final for my linguistics class-I can see the finish line!

Out of the mouths of babes

The other day I came home from work to find that my dad had gone through his book shelves and sorted through some of the books he didn't want anymore, leaving the books on the shelves that he wanted to keep. Among these books to keep was a journal that I had given him years ago that was a guided reflection journal for a daughter to write her memories of her father down and then give him as a gift. I don't remember how long ago I did this, but I decided to sit down and read it. It was amusing and truthful. The last page, well it was just sad and a little heartbreaking. This is what it said:
"Being the worrywart I am I think about 30 to 40 years from now when I am your age and your Grannies age and I can't help but think that even then I won't be grown enough to let you go. So I just pray that I won't ever lose you before we're both ready"

I included all the original spelling and punctuation errors.

Colorado!

This was one of my all time favorite trips! I went when I was...23 or 24 I don't really remember exactly, but my dad was working for Raytheon who was the company in control of Mcmurdo Station Antarctica, which was where he worked. That year my dad was the Heavy Shop Crew Manager so he had to hire the mechanics. This involved (for him) a month or so in Denver, and for me a 2 week trip to Denver and back. My mom, dad, and I drove out there and stayed in a hotel in Denver and the company paid for My parents room and part of my room.
It was in may so they still had Snow up in the mountains, this is a snow and ice covered lake up in the mountains by Colorado Springs.

This is the Royal Gorge Bridge, basically a bridge that leads to no where. It just goes across the Colorado River and the road swings back across the bridge again.
The view from the bridge, it goes down, down, down, down. And the river looks Tiny.

These were the Anastasi Ruins that we visited right outside of Colorado Springs. They were really cool. You got to walk around inside of them and through the different rooms, very cool.View from the Anastasi Ruins. To the left of this is the Garden of the Gods.


One of the formations in the Garden of the Gods. (I have no idea who that dude is, do you ever think about when you get in people's pictures you are in their keepsakes forever, like this dude.)

This was a picture i took on the side of the road on the way up the mountain. *sigh* I love Colorado.

What to do?

What would you do if you got a gift that you knew you where going to have to react to the next time you saw some one at work (or anywhere else), and you really didn't care for the gift. I know it is the thought that counts, it was nice of her to think of me, I do appreciate that, I do! But my problem is what to do when she asks "did you like it?!" Ahhhh, ummm.... I don't want to lie. It was not something I can use, or really to my taste, so when she asks (which she will), "did you like it?" What is there to respond with???