You go ahead and talk..I'm absolutely worn out today and I'm debating between work and sitting here on my ass and staring at this screen all day. Tell me what's going on.
Nothing is going on in my world. I am excited that I was able to purchase Garth Brooks tickets for a show in Vegas though. He has a contract with The Wynn to do 15 shows a year, for five years. The first set of tickets they released, scalpers purchased them and quadupled the prices. Well, The Wynn caught on and this time when you purchased tickets, you had to enter the name of the people attending the concert and when you pick your tickets up, you have to present a valid ID.
I just hope nothing happens to prevent us from going or I'm out the money for the tickets.
Oh, I feel sorry for the parents of the young girl in San Diego. I think they need to castrate all sex offendors! I don't know any statistics, but personaly, I don't think they can be rehabilitated.
I'm sorry miss Tia I hope you get your work done and get to relax /escape with a good olde movie tonight. Try tcm or silverscreen.
On that note would anyone like to discuss movies. I'm particular the silverscreen and olde classics. If I may be permitted to say. Yesterday I wasted three hours watching a hyped up film called AVATAR. Maybe it's me but when it was over I was left with an awful headache that lingered thecrest of the day. I did however enjoy the shades of colours in this movie the aqua& lavender particularly are visually stunning , but that is all IMO it was all hype that put it on my must see list. Kiki
Miss Tia I do not wish to distract you from your term paper but yes I have and yes I am a fan. I would like to add nosferatu to the list & metropolis to the mix & if I may say so here Movies today have lost the magic and glamour of yesteryear many are not worth the $ but that's ok if it's only my money it can be replaced however the loss of my time is too precious. Kiki
Hope you all get to feeling better soon I was down 2 days last week to some crud the 8 yr old brought home from school.
I am looking forward to sunshine and warmer weather. It is still unseasonable cold.
Working with the 5 yr old as he needs to start kindergarten next fall. He can do math and recognize numbers into the thousands. I can't find a shape or color he doesn't know. He knows his favorite sausage comes in a gold tube. (Jimmy Dean) We just can't get focused on our letters. Can write his name. But can not recognize all the letters and their sounds.
Today is all about T should make it through the alphabet before fall. I'm just so relieved he knows 16+16=32. and can read a 4 digit number. LOL.
my little one went to the dentist today , got fillings with no drugs. She's such a trooper. Her only sister (just turned 13) is scared to death of the dentist. Since the older turned 13 (and got her 1st period) last week, it's like an instant change. In her room, door closed listening to music.
Also thinking of the parents of Chelsea King. Something's gotta give with these offenders. The punishments do not fit the crime. The guy had attacked a girl on the same jogging trail previously but she got away .He was previously convicted of acts against a child before. These kind do not deserve a second chance. PERIOD
i wish all 9 hours of Greed hadn't been destroyed...the few people who saw it said that it would have changed movies.....i have a book of the script Greed....that last scene---which is in the movie is just haunting.....he has the gold, but he has a dead man handcuffed to him and he's in the desert and he's going to die too.....
and i just love how von stroheim required REAL cavier, champagne, etc....i want to get a biography on him to read....fascinating man.....
have you read many books on silent stars Kiki? i loved swanson's autobiography and i have a book about sunset blvd. i have chaplin's auto bio, books about him and books by his kids....
Sorry to read that you're having such a crummy day, Pat.
I have nothing to add except that your header pic for this post made me think of that white origami-style dress Kate Hudson wore for the Golden Globes? award show.
Well Fuck, just fuck. I have the crud also. Just a rotten ass cold which is minor in the big picture of things, but damn. Poop. I want to take a sick day tomorrow but took a Comp day last Friday and my boss would wig out for sure. Fuck colds-and for Miss Tia-Fuck China.
My husband took me to the occupational health doctor yesterday, and he gave me a talking to and put more severe restrictions on what I can do at work. Essentially he made it impossible for me to work. I think that's the only way I'm going to heal. Monday they had a copy of my restrictions, but kept having me do more and more, until I was repetitively doing things that were causing me a lot of pain and generalized discomfort. I need to have the opportunity to heal. My husband took me to get a couple of chickies of a rare breed that were supposed to be in today, but there was a major error, and they didn't ship at all, so will have to go back when they come in and hope there are some left. We stopped by a friend's new business on the way home. It opened this morning. She sells art objects she crafts, and objects largely crafted out of recycled materials, for yard and home use, as well as some jewelry. Cute little shop. The dogs are asleep on the couch, and I am hanging out, pleasantly dopey. My husband will go to pick up our son, after he is done at the tire store. Met Life called to let us know they are continuing to stall by still not approving my husband's claim, even though he has in writing that he has not been released to work at any time so far. It's been 11 1/2 weeks since he has had a payday. This should be illegal. They suck. I hope you are feeling better soon, and that there is a force-field around your home, to fend off your mom and aunt. May you have some healing rest, today.
Do I read books on silent filmstars ? Yes indeed I do I have a library in my home I am a bibliophile ! Miss Tia I should send some pix in and u will see what I'm talking about. Kiki My library is my haven.
that ebert quote? i really liked that a lot....i think i might print that out with a nice font and frame it to be reminded of that daily....
kiki, email me pix and/or about silent movies!!! misstiaemail@yahoo.com and since my email is on my website, i don't care if it's public! :)
FUCK CHINA! FUCK BIG BUSINESSES! FUCK DENTIST! FUCK SEX OFFENDERS! (can we bring back drawing and quartering for them please?) FUCK MET LIFE! FUCK COLDS! FUCK ILL HEALTH! FUCK FUCK FUCK!
Miss Tia I just emailed you two pix. I also like the way Erich needed to have real champagne too. He was the type of man who's watch told the accurate time all the time. He detested any time piece being a lil slow or set ahead to trick one into being on time. Erich was quite fastidious if you were late on set he would let u know and if u had your watch set a bit ahead to help you be on time. That was a no no. Watt iz the purpose of a watch not keeping zee real time !!! He was all about the real truth in everything. I read this in an article years ago when I find it I will let u know where. Kiki
oh that sounds like a great article kiki!!! i have had the script for Queen kelly in my amazon wish list for a long time!! i'd love to read that....
i am sure you saw the little documentary about him on one of the movie releases, can't remember the name of it....they interviewed his first wife.....
my books are all disorganized and i am buried with too much to do and not enough time!!! but when i get them organized i know i'll find a few other books on/by silent stars.....love that era!!! and i'm glad i've met someone who loves that era too! i think it is so unappreciated and overlooked by hollywood today and it is THEIR ROOTS and they should study it and appreciate it and RESPECT IT.....
Miss Tia yes I saw it his first wife was Mae I think or maybe Margaret I know it wasn't Valerie tho that was his last wife oh and he had that girlfriend denise too I think it was Mae who was in the short interview/film. Oh btw queen Kelly omg Gloria Swanson was beautiful in that one. Do u know that qk movie was made well the money to make the film came from jfk s dad Joe Kennedy and do u know why? Yes he was glorias lover at that time in 1929. Seems like the apple didnot fall far from the tree all those Kennedy men were cheating left & right. The Kennedy women actually turned a blind eye and accepted it. Jfk was notorious for it ! Kiki
i read about her affair with joe kennedy in her autobiography....if you haven't read it i highly recommend it!!
have you seen the release of qk where they fill in the gaps with what the scene was suppose to be? that dvd also has an extra with swanson in i can't recall what year doing an intro to qk for television! it was after von stroheim had passed away because she made some comment that he and ??? might be getting along better in the afterlife.....
My goodness I seem to have found a friend to speak to about my crazy hobby the silent film era and the olde Hollywood silverscreen. In sunset blvd I love the line Gloria gives bill Holden when she tells him that they didn't need sound in her hey day cuz they had "FACES!" she was giving him the crazy eye at the time she said those words. I love the way she was trying to hold onto her youth and how she struggled to keep her young Beau. But she always had her real man to call on and she did "MAX!" kiki
Hey! I love silent movies. Every Sunday night after midnight, TCM channel used to show silent movies. It was always a treat when it was a Charlie Chaplin.
Anyone remember the movie Frances? I dvred it the other day. It was on TCM so it is full version. I have not seen it in years.
What is up with the teeth lately? My oldest does not have medical or dental insurance anymore. She has soft teeth (i guess you would call it0. Well she has not been to dentist in two years. Now she is in pain. Going to get her an appt with the Community Health clinic so she can get her teeth checked out. They charge on sliding fee scale. I told her i would help her pay the bill but I am not paying all of it. I did yard work yesterday (it was gorgeous out) and today it is cold as a hibernating bears ass..Come on Spring!
i like the real life subplots going on with sunset blvd too!
yes, it is great when you meet someone who likes such a niche of hollywood like it's origins!!!
you will love this, i have gotten some scrapbooks on ebay that girls made with cut out of hollywood stars! most are from the 30s and 40s but it is just awesome to see page after page of pictures that someone lovingly cut out and pasted in....there's movie ads too in one.....
i think i have one with 20s stars......yes i am sure of it.....will find that!!!
but it's almost 8:30 and i need to crank out my paper!!! due tomorrow! ACK!!! and yes, i am a master procrastinator! :)
yes, she has 4 computers!! but i don't it's her as they seem to spell most words correctly and she cannot....she spells i am as iam, where as whee, and uses txt splng for many things....even online condolences for our mutual neighbor, she misspelled words, used text speak and got her name wrong!
i wish the troll would just go post on my LJ and stop posting hate for me here.....
I have dental insurance but, even with that, my visit yesterday went well beyond $600. And that is one of 3 visits I need in the near future.
FUCK DENTISTS!
On a more somber note and one that makes me feel superficial to complain about dentists, when I picked up my daughter from her pre-school yesterday, the teacher told me that one of her friends, this adorable little 3 year old, has just been diagnosed with leukemia.
It has been tearing at my heart since I heard the news. I cannot begin to imagine what the parents are going through. The teacher has told the children and the eldest understand that he is very sick and are making cards for him and playing pretend doctor/hospital, etc... He has just started chemo. I don't really know much about leukemia - if caught early, is there a good chance of recovery? I have also just assumed that those diagnosed with it do not end up having a very long life. I hope I am wrong. Does anyone know?
since we're sharing dental stories....i have 2 impacted wisdom teeth on my lower jaw and one is growing into my jaw bone.....of course i don't have dental insurance and the low income oral surgeons are nightmare inducing.....we seriously need to make health care---including dental and vision---available to ALL not just the wealthy!!!
so many health problems can be caused due to dental disease and i know many kids who have horrible teeth because they can't get to a dentist because their parents can't afford it and the low income ones have waiting lists for MONTHS....and if they get to one, it's sometimes too late to help them or the help is inadequate.....
i am very sorry to hear of the little one with leukemia.....i have read that sometimes if it's caught early it can be treated...i TRULY hope that it has been caught early and they can be back at school soon and live a long and healthy life!!! no child should have to go thru anything like that, nor should their classmates....
there is a dental school but i don't feel comfortable around them either.....i have heard some horror stories about oral surgeries there.....i would go there for a tooth cleaning but not oral surgery....if i'm gonna be knocked out, i gotta totally trust the dr.....i'm gonna go get a consultation at the oral surgeon a neighbor went too and liked to see how much they'd be.....one i went to last year wanted $1500 to take out one impacted and the upper wisdom tooth that is not impacted and he wanted to take out the other impacted one also of course for more money but i don't want to have oral surgery on both sides of my mouth the same day, ya know??
Miss Tia, You forgot Fuck Ireland and Fuck Locks of Love!
I'm bummed today b/c my computer has a nasty virus and I have to wait until hubby's away to use his computer. I also found out his 17 y/o daughter is coming to visit and she hates my guts. I wrote a post about it on my blog if anybody wants to read a long rambling post about family fuckery and then tell me what to do.
I think people who like old films are so classy. The only silent star I like is Buster Keaton. God, I love him. Maybe Pat will start an open post some day that's just about old movies so I can read some reviews? That would be really neat.
"we seriously need to make health care---including dental and vision---available to ALL not just the wealthy!!! "
It is time. Past time. People need to wake the fuck up and do something about getting what they need. I know, idealistic..., but I HAVE to still believe that people can make changes happen when they do group together and make noise.
Sorry to hear about your teeth problems. And I am there with you about needing to trust the person putting you under. I would not venture to dental schools freely. I have been bitching about the cost of dental surgeries, repairs and cannot fathom how they can charge so much or how anyone can really afford serious treatment. It's all a big fat rip off. My dad argued with his dentist a few months ago about the charges and the guy lowered his rate. SO WHY CAN'T WE JUST START WITH REASONABLE RATES WHERE MORE PEOPLE COULD BENEFIT and the dentists end up with more patients who can see their treatments through. Urgggh...
Thank you for your hopeful note on leukemia, that if caught early it can be treatable. I do so hope this is the case.
Melissa, there are several types of leukemia that can be found in children. Some more treatable than others. It would depend on the child's type of leukemia as to treatment, outcome, etc. Here's a good site if you want to read up a bit on it. So much info. to be taken in..hopefully the child has a more treatable type. So sorry. http://www.oncologychannel.com/leukemias/types.shtml
kiki, hopefully you'll consider joining. I'd love you 2 to colaborate on a silent film project. Plus you can then join me in the unholy waste of time that is farmville.
well then maybe Pat could have a silent movie post sometime!! :) i haven't looked at your pix email yet Kiki as i'm trying, hahahahahaha, to write my paper! i do have words typed.....doubled spaced they equal 4 pages but i need to connect the words in a sensical manner....
that has nothing to do with howard's end!! i'm comparing the 2 sisters and say that the author is showing the women's place in society is changing, as evidenced by the 2 sisters but they are constrained by societal expectations.....
Melissa, So very sorry to hear of the little one with leukemia. I am no expert on this disease but just recently have been reading the journal of a mom whose 2 year old had a very rare form of this disease. He was at St. Jude's. He died just after Christmas. I think there are many success stories, but it just truly depends on what kind he has. I was shocked in reading this journal and then doing some research on my own at how many kinds of leukemia there are. And each one behaves differently and requires different drugs. His was such a rare type that only 15 people are diagnosed with it annually and they are never children. He had 2 bone marrow transplants. It was indeed very sad. I have a 20 month old grandson and it is so hard to think about things like this happening to the very young.
I hope the very best for this little one and hope you will keep everyone updated.
i know....hard to be jokey stressed like this....plus now i'm tired...think i'll put the critters to bed, get ready for bed and continue trying to connect the paragraphs....have to leave for school early tomorrow to run errands before class---if i get this done!
well i can't get up early---unless pan starts barking her fool head off! i am gonna stay up a bit PAST my bedtime, as i do better staying up late than getting up early.....provided pan doesn't wake me too early! i might stay up til....wait for it...1am tonight! WAHOO! PARTY!!!
Dear LORD! 1AM? This is as wild as me staying out drinking beer until 10 last night. Truly the seven seals have been broken! Even now I hear riders in the distance.
The chicks I want are not coming in. There is a second shipment that will come in April, if the hatchery is more reliable about that one, but the owner of the store said he's not sure he will do business with them anymore. People had preordered these birds, and I have been waiting since last spring, hoping to get some. April is too long to wait, as I couldn't readily integrate those babies with the ones I have now. There is about a three week window to work with. Oh, well. Tomorrow I go out to look at another feed store, and see what they have. Maybe I'll find someone else who needs to come home with me.
All these silent movie lovers. I remember DD stating once that she doesn't even like music in scenes.
I have few movies and books that I gravitate towards and end up reading/watching the same tomes every time, but taking different notes and catching new meanings to chapters. Surely I am still maturing!.
I cry ( teary eyed anyway, not bawling) when I read some some books, I cry when I watch some commercials even, especially animal cruelty or children hungry and missing their parents...that tears at me from deep inside. I picture my own kids and what they must have felt knowing that daddy loves them but is gone for so long.
I was gone from home and my kids for a total of 8+ years, talked on the phone maybe every five months or more. Never more than 3 times a year. That supersedes physical pain of any kind because it forces one to look at life through the prism of the heart. Now everything that suffers has a face and a name to me.
Maybe that's why these books are all so relevant to me. There's always an end to suffering; albeit not alway a good one, but it's an end, and we learn from the actions and consequences of the characters in the book.
Anyway, nice shoe Pat, good luck on your silent movies Tonya, Kiki and Miss Tia, and have a good day everyone else.
I am going to tackle the fridge today. Out of all the household chores..cleaning the fridge is the worst! I have to toss out all the science experiments, pull out all the awkward shelving, scrub off unknown substances, be careful I do not break any of the glass, climb in the damn thing to scrub the entire inside, and then put it all back together. Fun Fun Fun!!!
Oldest is at work so I am going to get her an appt as a new patient with this dental clinic. I know clinics SUCK but she is in pain and she/we cannot afford to pay for the regular dentist for her. I keep telling her..try to get a job with bennies if you can. She could easily (easily!) get a job at the hospital hubs works at..Nepotism sucks but if it is gonna get my kid full benefits..we will take advantage. She does not want to work there! She wants to do her own thing. So she must go to the dental clinic. She does not want to but I told her that I have not won the Powerball recently so this is how it has to be. I think I am rambling because I am avoiding the fridge. LOL
i have books i read over and over again too jarhead! to me, in a way, they are a 'friend' and i can turn to certain passages that i know by heart and yet still read them as if for the first time....you can rely on them, you know them, and yes, you can get a different meaning from them depending on how them read them, what's going on in your life, etc....
Made what I consider to be THE best dinner ever last night....well, at least the main course. Greek chicken....oh my oh my! :) Stuff bonesless chicken breast with feta, black olives, mushrooms and basil...a little lemon pepper on top with some salt....lawry's marinade on top of everything.....mmmm mmmmm....serve it over rice....I think I could eat that every day....
Jarhead---All the best men have tender hearts. How wonderful that despite some of the things you have been through, your heart is still tender and kind. I re-read the same books from time to time, too. You might think it silly, but I love the Harry Potter series. If ever there was a child I felt sorry for, it is Harry. The first one was sad enough that my son and I couldn't get through more than a chapter or two when he was smaller. We later started with the third book, and I made him read every other page, and I read those in between. This jump-started his interest in reading, and going shopping it became a case of "follow my voice, Andy" as his nose was firmly in a book when at the store. As the series became darker and darker, I loved it even more. Such a case of an abused child, who struggles and strives to do the right thing, and be a good person. Makes me a little teary thinking of his journey in life. I like the Arly Hanks murder mystery series, as well. They are a very light (well, as light as a murder mystery can be) look at life in the Ozarks. They are a great stress-buster for me. Most of the other stuff I read is nonfiction.
I wouldn't say I am kind hearted, but some things tug at me more than others. Glad to hear that you read with your son, my kids are also avid readers and good students.
I have a wonderful ex-wife who is a better parent than I could have ever been before I left. Always amazed at her strength and that of so many women I see around the world holding down entire villages while the men kill each other.
Enrique there's beauty in the breakdown. "Letting go of the constraints of composure when your heart is at the helm and sailing straight ahead through the whitecaps. You will get hit with the ocean spray upon your face. It's only then when you reach up to cast the tears aside so that you can see do you fully feel the true beauty in breaking down." -Kiki Rogers "Sometimes it's not the hanging on that makes us strong, sometimes it's the letting go. " -Herman Hesse Enrique i'm positive that your children understand that is daddys work taking him away from us & daddy is doing it for us to care for us. Im sure they are very proud to have you as their daddy :) Children are much more resilient than we give them credit for. Love them and the rest will fall into place you will see them soon my friend. Spring is nearly upon us and you will be reunited. Kiki :)
I take boneless, skinless chicken breasts and make a pocket in them for the stuffing. Then I take 8 oz of feta cheese with tomato and basil, a shake of basil, juice from half a lemon, dice a small can of black olives and half a jar of mushroom slices and mix it all together and stuff the chicken. Butter the bottom of a glass baking dish, and set the chicken in, shake some salt and lemon pepper on top of them and pour Lawry's Sun Dried Tomato marinade over all of it. Put it in the oven at 380 for about 18 minutes, pull it out and put more feta on top of it and put it back in the oven for another 20 minutes or until the chicken is done. It is soooooooo good, if I do say so myself.
My friend found out she had leukemia last year....7 weeks later she was gone....leaving a small son and a husband....It took her so quickly, which I guess is a blessing in disguise. She was only 30.
Noelle, cognitive symbolic language skills develop later for some children than others, and later for boys than girls----it's an actual physical brain-ready issue, so don't let anyone push your kid to learn to read before he's ready. Reading is hugely important, of course, but that's precisely why it's best not to push too hard too soon: your son's frustration at "not getting it" could turn him off to reading and continue to hamper his enthusiasm long after. Instead, since he's so exceptional with numbers, this would be an excellent time to introduce him to a musical instrument. (The music and math centers of the brain are closely related, whereas the language center is somewhat opposite.) His brain is still developing, so you might want to give him another 6-12months on the reading. Follow his cues and your intuition rather than the school's timetable.
7 weeks. There is no time for adjustment there. I will have news soon on how is treatment is going. But it all does sound pretty grim. The plan is for him to rejoin his classmates after treatment to keep his morale up. He will be bloated and will have lost his hair so that will be an adjustment for all the children. I hope I am strong enough when I see him again - I am already worried that my emotions will get the best of me.
Thank you all for the comments and info on leukemia.
There are different types of leukemia, I did research on it when my friend was diagnosed....and I don't know why, but now I can't remember anything I read....but some types are worse than others. I'll keep that little one in my thoughts and prayers....cancer in any form is mean, cruel and evil.
DD Her immune system was so affected by the chemo that when she got an infection in her intestine, it took her away....one day we were celebrating that her blood looked clean and we thought she was in remission and literally two days later...we were called to her bedside.....
You go ahead and talk..I'm absolutely worn out today and I'm debating between work and sitting here on my ass and staring at this screen all day. Tell me what's going on.
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stressed....have a paper due tomorrow and having problems coming up with a thesis statement and/or direction to go with my paper!!
also need to study for the GRE and never seem to have time and/or get any peace and quiet....
having stressed induced TMJ, a jaw infection due to a cracked tooth, feeling like shit and did i say i am stressed??
pan's toe nail is still healing but doing better....
hope you are doing well DD!!!
sorry everybody is having a bad day. Is it the moon? could be. You guys all get better!
rox
xoxo
I hope you feel better soon DD.
Tia, good luck with your paper.
Nothing is going on in my world. I am excited that I was able to purchase Garth Brooks tickets for a show in Vegas though. He has a contract with The Wynn to do 15 shows a year, for five years. The first set of tickets they released, scalpers purchased them and quadupled the prices. Well, The Wynn caught on and this time when you purchased tickets, you had to enter the name of the people attending the concert and when you pick your tickets up, you have to present a valid ID.
I just hope nothing happens to prevent us from going or I'm out the money for the tickets.
Oh, I feel sorry for the parents of the young girl in San Diego. I think they need to castrate all sex offendors! I don't know any statistics, but personaly, I don't think they can be rehabilitated.
I hope everyone has a great day!
~Palmetto Girl
I'm sorry miss Tia I hope you get your work
done and get to relax /escape with a good
olde movie tonight. Try tcm or silverscreen.
On that note would anyone like to discuss
movies. I'm particular the silverscreen and
olde classics. If I may be permitted to say.
Yesterday I wasted three hours watching a
hyped up film called AVATAR. Maybe it's me
but when it was over I was left with an awful
headache that lingered thecrest of the day.
I did however enjoy the shades of colours
in this movie the aqua& lavender particularly
are visually stunning , but that is all IMO it
was all hype that put it on my must see list.
Kiki
Spent 2 hours in the dentist chair yesterday and can barely open my jaw today.
FUCK DENTISTS!
Hope you get some rest, DD. Was the doctor able to help?
Sorry too Miss Tia that you are having such a rough day.
It could be the moon? My two children acted like lunatics yesterday, short of howling to the moon...
kiki--have you ever seen the original lost world?? how about prince achmed [sic] done with paper cut outs!!!
do you like german expressionism? the strange cabinet of dr. caligari [sic]? faust? dr. mabuse?
have you seen les vampires the french serial from 1915?
Miss Tia I do not wish to distract you from your
term paper but yes I have and yes I am a fan.
I would like to add nosferatu to the list &
metropolis to the mix & if I may say so here
Movies today have lost the magic and glamour
of yesteryear many are not worth the $ but
that's ok if it's only my money it can be replaced
however the loss of my time is too precious. Kiki
most 'movie' fans have seen nosferatu and metropolis so i figured you had seen those....
i like the melies [sic] shorts he made with the special effects and wish he was known for more than just the trip to the moon.....
i hate today's movies special effects....they don't look real and everything is computerized....where is the ingenuity?
i also love erich von stroheim films.....
Hope you all get to feeling better soon I was down 2 days last week to some crud the 8 yr old brought home from school.
I am looking forward to sunshine and warmer weather. It is still unseasonable cold.
Working with the 5 yr old as he needs to start kindergarten next fall. He can do math and recognize numbers into the thousands. I can't find a shape or color he doesn't know. He knows his favorite sausage comes in a gold tube. (Jimmy Dean)
We just can't get focused on our letters. Can write his name. But can not recognize all the letters and their sounds.
Today is all about T should make it through the alphabet before fall.
I'm just so relieved he knows 16+16=32. and can read a 4 digit number. LOL.
Miss Tia Erich Von Stromheim ich be
wunderbar ! Kiki :)
my little one went to the dentist today , got fillings with no drugs. She's such a trooper. Her only sister (just turned 13) is scared to death of the dentist. Since the older turned 13 (and got her 1st period) last week, it's like an instant change. In her room, door closed listening to music.
Also thinking of the parents of Chelsea King. Something's gotta give with these offenders. The punishments do not fit the crime. The guy had attacked a girl on the same jogging trail previously but she got away .He was previously convicted of acts against a child before. These kind do not deserve a second chance. PERIOD
i wish all 9 hours of Greed hadn't been destroyed...the few people who saw it said that it would have changed movies.....i have a book of the script Greed....that last scene---which is in the movie is just haunting.....he has the gold, but he has a dead man handcuffed to him and he's in the desert and he's going to die too.....
and i just love how von stroheim required REAL cavier, champagne, etc....i want to get a biography on him to read....fascinating man.....
have you read many books on silent stars Kiki? i loved swanson's autobiography and i have a book about sunset blvd. i have chaplin's auto bio, books about him and books by his kids....
Sorry to read that you're having such a crummy day, Pat.
I have nothing to add except that your header pic for this post made me think of that white origami-style dress Kate Hudson wore for the Golden Globes? award show.
Well Fuck, just fuck. I have the crud also. Just a rotten ass cold
which is minor in the big picture
of things, but damn. Poop. I want to take a sick day tomorrow but took a Comp day last Friday and my boss would wig out for sure.
Fuck colds-and for Miss Tia-Fuck
China.
My husband took me to the occupational health doctor yesterday, and he gave me a talking to and put more severe restrictions on what I can do at work. Essentially he made it impossible for me to work. I think that's the only way I'm going to heal. Monday they had a copy of my restrictions, but kept having me do more and more, until I was repetitively doing things that were causing me a lot of pain and generalized discomfort. I need to have the opportunity to heal.
My husband took me to get a couple of chickies of a rare breed that were supposed to be in today, but there was a major error, and they didn't ship at all, so will have to go back when they come in and hope there are some left.
We stopped by a friend's new business on the way home. It opened this morning. She sells art objects she crafts, and objects largely crafted out of recycled materials, for yard and home use, as well as some jewelry. Cute little shop.
The dogs are asleep on the couch, and I am hanging out, pleasantly dopey. My husband will go to pick up our son, after he is done at the tire store.
Met Life called to let us know they are continuing to stall by still not approving my husband's claim, even though he has in writing that he has not been released to work at any time so far. It's been 11 1/2 weeks since he has had a payday. This should be illegal. They suck.
I hope you are feeling better soon, and that there is a force-field around your home, to fend off your mom and aunt. May you have some healing rest, today.
Fuck Big Businesses--they all suck.
Do I read books on silent filmstars ?
Yes indeed I do I have a library in my home
I am a bibliophile ! Miss Tia I should send some
pix in and u will see what I'm talking about. Kiki
My library is my haven.
Miss Tia, What a wonderful Quote
you had on your blog. Thanks for
putting that up:)
that ebert quote? i really liked that a lot....i think i might print that out with a nice font and frame it to be reminded of that daily....
kiki, email me pix and/or about silent movies!!! misstiaemail@yahoo.com and since my email is on my website, i don't care if it's public! :)
FUCK CHINA!
FUCK BIG BUSINESSES!
FUCK DENTIST!
FUCK SEX OFFENDERS! (can we bring back drawing and quartering for them please?)
FUCK MET LIFE!
FUCK COLDS!
FUCK ILL HEALTH!
FUCK FUCK FUCK!
Sorry to everyone that is feeling like crap and/or had to make a visit to the dentist. I hate the dentist.
I hope everyone recovers quickly.
I have good news - the kid is home on Saturday for a week's spring break. I am a very happy Mommy today and even happier in a mere two more.
hey troll, email me.....you got the addy right there......oh right, you'd never reveal who you are because you're the coward of the county....
FUCK TROLLS!!!!!!!!!!
Miss Tia
I just emailed you two pix.
I also like the way Erich needed to have real
champagne too. He was the type of man
who's watch told the accurate time all the time.
He detested any time piece being a lil slow or
set ahead to trick one into being on time.
Erich was quite fastidious if you were late on set
he would let u know and if u had your watch
set a bit ahead to help you be on time. That was
a no no. Watt iz the purpose of a watch not
keeping zee real time !!! He was all about the
real truth in everything. I read this in an article
years ago when I find it I will let u know where.
Kiki
oh that sounds like a great article kiki!!! i have had the script for Queen kelly in my amazon wish list for a long time!! i'd love to read that....
i am sure you saw the little documentary about him on one of the movie releases, can't remember the name of it....they interviewed his first wife.....
my books are all disorganized and i am buried with too much to do and not enough time!!! but when i get them organized i know i'll find a few other books on/by silent stars.....love that era!!! and i'm glad i've met someone who loves that era too! i think it is so unappreciated and overlooked by hollywood today and it is THEIR ROOTS and they should study it and appreciate it and RESPECT IT.....
Miss Tia yes I saw it his first wife was Mae I
think or maybe Margaret I know it wasn't Valerie
tho that was his last wife oh and he had that girlfriend
denise too I think it was Mae who was in the
short interview/film.
Oh btw queen Kelly omg Gloria Swanson was
beautiful in that one. Do u know that qk movie
was made well the money to make the film came
from jfk s dad Joe Kennedy and do u know why?
Yes he was glorias lover at that time in 1929.
Seems like the apple didnot fall far from the tree
all those Kennedy men were cheating left & right.
The Kennedy women actually turned a blind eye
and accepted it. Jfk was notorious for it ! Kiki
i read about her affair with joe kennedy in her autobiography....if you haven't read it i highly recommend it!!
have you seen the release of qk where they fill in the gaps with what the scene was suppose to be? that dvd also has an extra with swanson in i can't recall what year doing an intro to qk for television! it was after von stroheim had passed away because she made some comment that he and ??? might be getting along better in the afterlife.....
My goodness I seem to have found a friend
to speak to about my crazy hobby the silent
film era and the olde Hollywood silverscreen.
In sunset blvd I love the line Gloria gives bill
Holden when she tells him that they didn't need
sound in her hey day cuz they had "FACES!"
she was giving him the crazy eye at the time
she said those words. I love the way she was trying
to hold onto her youth and how she struggled
to keep her young Beau. But she always had
her real man to call on and she did "MAX!" kiki
I did read it too. I just wanted you to know. Kiki
Hey! I love silent movies. Every Sunday night after midnight, TCM channel used to show silent movies. It was always a treat when it was a Charlie Chaplin.
Anyone remember the movie Frances? I dvred it the other day. It was on TCM so it is full version. I have not seen it in years.
What is up with the teeth lately? My oldest does not have medical or dental insurance anymore. She has soft teeth (i guess you would call it0. Well she has not been to dentist in two years. Now she is in pain. Going to get her an appt with the Community Health clinic so she can get her teeth checked out. They charge on sliding fee scale. I told her i would help her pay the bill but I am not paying all of it.
I did yard work yesterday (it was gorgeous out) and today it is cold as a hibernating bears ass..Come on Spring!
i like the real life subplots going on with sunset blvd too!
yes, it is great when you meet someone who likes such a niche of hollywood like it's origins!!!
you will love this, i have gotten some scrapbooks on ebay that girls made with cut out of hollywood stars! most are from the 30s and 40s but it is just awesome to see page after page of pictures that someone lovingly cut out and pasted in....there's movie ads too in one.....
i think i have one with 20s stars......yes i am sure of it.....will find that!!!
but it's almost 8:30 and i need to crank out my paper!!! due tomorrow! ACK!!! and yes, i am a master procrastinator! :)
i could talk about old movies on and on though!!!
Noelle, that sounds like a lot to expect of the little dude. I thought that's what the school was for!
Miss Tia, does your insane skank neighbor have a computer? That's one retarded troll.
yes, she has 4 computers!! but i don't it's her as they seem to spell most words correctly and she cannot....she spells i am as iam, where as whee, and uses txt splng for many things....even online condolences for our mutual neighbor, she misspelled words, used text speak and got her name wrong!
i wish the troll would just go post on my LJ and stop posting hate for me here.....
I have dental insurance but, even with that, my visit yesterday went well beyond $600. And that is one of 3 visits I need in the near future.
FUCK DENTISTS!
On a more somber note and one that makes me feel superficial to complain about dentists, when I picked up my daughter from her pre-school yesterday, the teacher told me that one of her friends, this adorable little 3 year old, has just been diagnosed with leukemia.
It has been tearing at my heart since I heard the news. I cannot begin to imagine what the parents are going through. The teacher has told the children and the eldest understand that he is very sick and are making cards for him and playing pretend doctor/hospital, etc... He has just started chemo. I don't really know much about leukemia - if caught early, is there a good chance of recovery? I have also just assumed that those diagnosed with it do not end up having a very long life. I hope I am wrong. Does anyone know?
Miss Tia, can you add my FUCK HIGH HEELS to that list? I was out of commission for almost 2 days after thinking I could wear them again.
American Idol has officially jumped the shark. It is awful this year. Ellen adds nothing to the show and the singers are just blah.
So glad I never watched DWTS.
DH wanted bacon and french toast for dinner and I ate way more bacon than I should have. I'll be puffed up like a water balloon tomorrow.
That's about it for now.
FUCK HIGH HEELS!!!!
since we're sharing dental stories....i have 2 impacted wisdom teeth on my lower jaw and one is growing into my jaw bone.....of course i don't have dental insurance and the low income oral surgeons are nightmare inducing.....we seriously need to make health care---including dental and vision---available to ALL not just the wealthy!!!
so many health problems can be caused due to dental disease and i know many kids who have horrible teeth because they can't get to a dentist because their parents can't afford it and the low income ones have waiting lists for MONTHS....and if they get to one, it's sometimes too late to help them or the help is inadequate.....
i am very sorry to hear of the little one with leukemia.....i have read that sometimes if it's caught early it can be treated...i TRULY hope that it has been caught early and they can be back at school soon and live a long and healthy life!!! no child should have to go thru anything like that, nor should their classmates....
been pooping yellow and was wondering why...took 2 days to realize my late night cheddar and ritz addiction was probably the culprit. DUHHH
Miss Tia, do you have a dental school close by? You can get procedures done at an incredible discount at the school and it's still quality care.
I hope you're feeling better, Pat!!
there is a dental school but i don't feel comfortable around them either.....i have heard some horror stories about oral surgeries there.....i would go there for a tooth cleaning but not oral surgery....if i'm gonna be knocked out, i gotta totally trust the dr.....i'm gonna go get a consultation at the oral surgeon a neighbor went too and liked to see how much they'd be.....one i went to last year wanted $1500 to take out one impacted and the upper wisdom tooth that is not impacted and he wanted to take out the other impacted one also of course for more money but i don't want to have oral surgery on both sides of my mouth the same day, ya know??
Miss Tia, You forgot Fuck Ireland and Fuck Locks of Love!
I'm bummed today b/c my computer has a nasty virus and I have to wait until hubby's away to use his computer. I also found out his 17 y/o daughter is coming to visit and she hates my guts. I wrote a post about it on my blog if anybody wants to read a long rambling post about family fuckery and then tell me what to do.
I think people who like old films are so classy. The only silent star I like is Buster Keaton. God, I love him. Maybe Pat will start an open post some day that's just about old movies so I can read some reviews? That would be really neat.
Yes, Miss Tia, as you said:
"we seriously need to make health care---including dental and vision---available to ALL not just the wealthy!!! "
It is time. Past time. People need to wake the fuck up and do something about getting what they need. I know, idealistic..., but I HAVE to still believe that people can make changes happen when they do group together and make noise.
Sorry to hear about your teeth problems. And I am there with you about needing to trust the person putting you under. I would not venture to dental schools freely. I have been bitching about the cost of dental surgeries, repairs and cannot fathom how they can charge so much or how anyone can really afford serious treatment. It's all a big fat rip off. My dad argued with his dentist a few months ago about the charges and the guy lowered his rate. SO WHY CAN'T WE JUST START WITH REASONABLE RATES WHERE MORE PEOPLE COULD BENEFIT and the dentists end up with more patients who can see their treatments through. Urgggh...
Thank you for your hopeful note on leukemia, that if caught early it can be treatable. I do so hope this is the case.
kiki, you on facebook? maybe we should start a silent film lovers group where we all could discuss silent films! heidi too!!!
then we wouldn't clutter up posts and write about movies that most peoples probably haven't even heard of! silent films are an art!!!
and yes tonya, i know you're on facebook! :)
Ita with you healthcare and dental care should
be available free of charge to all. Idk what Obama
is doing about it but seriously it is time ! Kiki
No I'm not on face book or myspace. Kiki
Melissa, there are several types of leukemia that can be found in children. Some more treatable than others. It would depend on the child's type of leukemia as to treatment, outcome, etc. Here's a good site if you want to read up a bit on it. So much info. to be taken in..hopefully the child has a more treatable type. So sorry. http://www.oncologychannel.com/leukemias/types.shtml
kiki, hopefully you'll consider joining. I'd love you 2 to colaborate on a silent film project. Plus you can then join me in the unholy waste of time that is farmville.
*cuing Miss Tia for a Fuck Farmville*
FUCK FARMVILLE!!! :)
well then maybe Pat could have a silent movie post sometime!! :) i haven't looked at your pix email yet Kiki as i'm trying, hahahahahaha, to write my paper! i do have words typed.....doubled spaced they equal 4 pages but i need to connect the words in a sensical manner....
Hand it in as is and tell her that you're doing a compare/contrast on the effects of that book and the Dada movement.
that has nothing to do with howard's end!! i'm comparing the 2 sisters and say that the author is showing the women's place in society is changing, as evidenced by the 2 sisters but they are constrained by societal expectations.....
They both began around the same time. A truly lazy person could make it work. And if it makes no sense then your point is proven!
would not fly....i can't be surreal with school work!
Melissa, So very sorry to hear of the little one with leukemia. I am no expert on this disease but just recently have been reading the journal of a mom whose 2 year old had a very rare form of this disease. He was at St. Jude's. He died just after Christmas. I think there are many success stories, but it just truly depends on what kind he has. I was shocked in reading this journal and then doing some research on my own at how many kinds of leukemia there are. And each one behaves differently and requires different drugs. His was such a rare type that only 15 people are diagnosed with it annually and they are never children. He had 2 bone marrow transplants. It was indeed very sad. I have a 20 month old grandson and it is so hard to think about things like this happening to the very young.
I hope the very best for this little one and hope you will keep everyone updated.
I was just playing with ya, Miss Tia. You're being serious, so I'm sorry. I know you're on a time crunch so I hope it comes together for you soon.
i know....hard to be jokey stressed like this....plus now i'm tired...think i'll put the critters to bed, get ready for bed and continue trying to connect the paragraphs....have to leave for school early tomorrow to run errands before class---if i get this done!
It's past your bedtime now. Maybe you can wake up early and work on it. I feel for ya. That book sucks.
well i can't get up early---unless pan starts barking her fool head off! i am gonna stay up a bit PAST my bedtime, as i do better staying up late than getting up early.....provided pan doesn't wake me too early! i might stay up til....wait for it...1am tonight! WAHOO! PARTY!!!
Dear LORD! 1AM? This is as wild as me staying out drinking beer until 10 last night. Truly the seven seals have been broken! Even now I hear riders in the distance.
LOL or PAL @ Tonya's riders in the distance!
I totally agree with the fuck list.
The chicks I want are not coming in. There is a second shipment that will come in April, if the hatchery is more reliable about that one, but the owner of the store said he's not sure he will do business with them anymore. People had preordered these birds, and I have been waiting since last spring, hoping to get some. April is too long to wait, as I couldn't readily integrate those babies with the ones I have now. There is about a three week window to work with. Oh, well. Tomorrow I go out to look at another feed store, and see what they have. Maybe I'll find someone else who needs to come home with me.
I hope you got your paper finished MissTia.
All these silent movie lovers. I remember DD stating once that she doesn't even like music in scenes.
I have few movies and books that I gravitate towards and end up reading/watching the same tomes every time, but taking different notes and catching new meanings to chapters. Surely I am still maturing!.
I cry ( teary eyed anyway, not bawling) when I read some some books, I cry when I watch some commercials even, especially animal cruelty or children hungry and missing their parents...that tears at me from deep inside. I picture my own kids and what they must have felt knowing that daddy loves them but is gone for so long.
I was gone from home and my kids for a total of 8+ years, talked on the phone maybe every five months or more. Never more than 3 times a year. That supersedes physical pain of any kind because it forces one to look at life through the prism of the heart. Now everything that suffers has a face and a name to me.
Maybe that's why these books are all so relevant to me. There's always an end to suffering; albeit not alway a good one, but it's an end, and we learn from the actions and consequences of the characters in the book.
Anyway, nice shoe Pat, good luck on your silent movies Tonya, Kiki and Miss Tia, and have a good day everyone else.
Jarhead
I am going to tackle the fridge today. Out of all the household chores..cleaning the fridge is the worst!
I have to toss out all the science experiments, pull out all the awkward shelving, scrub off unknown substances, be careful I do not break any of the glass, climb in the damn thing to scrub the entire inside, and then put it all back together.
Fun Fun Fun!!!
Oldest is at work so I am going to get her an appt as a new patient with this dental clinic. I know clinics SUCK but she is in pain and she/we cannot afford to pay for the regular dentist for her. I keep telling her..try to get a job with bennies if you can. She could easily (easily!) get a job at the hospital hubs works at..Nepotism sucks but if it is gonna get my kid full benefits..we will take advantage.
She does not want to work there! She wants to do her own thing. So she must go to the dental clinic. She does not want to but I told her that I have not won the Powerball recently so this is how it has to be.
I think I am rambling because I am avoiding the fridge. LOL
still working on paper! :)
i have books i read over and over again too jarhead! to me, in a way, they are a 'friend' and i can turn to certain passages that i know by heart and yet still read them as if for the first time....you can rely on them, you know them, and yes, you can get a different meaning from them depending on how them read them, what's going on in your life, etc....
Made what I consider to be THE best dinner ever last night....well, at least the main course. Greek chicken....oh my oh my! :) Stuff bonesless chicken breast with feta, black olives, mushrooms and basil...a little lemon pepper on top with some salt....lawry's marinade on top of everything.....mmmm mmmmm....serve it over rice....I think I could eat that every day....
Jarhead---All the best men have tender hearts. How wonderful that despite some of the things you have been through, your heart is still tender and kind.
I re-read the same books from time to time, too. You might think it silly, but I love the Harry Potter series. If ever there was a child I felt sorry for, it is Harry. The first one was sad enough that my son and I couldn't get through more than a chapter or two when he was smaller. We later started with the third book, and I made him read every other page, and I read those in between. This jump-started his interest in reading, and going shopping it became a case of "follow my voice, Andy" as his nose was firmly in a book when at the store. As the series became darker and darker, I loved it even more. Such a case of an abused child, who struggles and strives to do the right thing, and be a good person. Makes me a little teary thinking of his journey in life.
I like the Arly Hanks murder mystery series, as well. They are a very light (well, as light as a murder mystery can be) look at life in the Ozarks. They are a great stress-buster for me. Most of the other stuff I read is nonfiction.
I love Jane Eyre. I can read that book over and over again. Little Women is a good one too.
Okay..Do you butterfly the chicken breast to stuff it?
Do you use sliced or crumbled Feta?
Could you put in the recipe as you do it pretty please? It sounds so good and I dont want to mess it up!
Hi Christina.
I wouldn't say I am kind hearted, but some things tug at me more than others. Glad to hear that you read with your son, my kids are also avid readers and good students.
I have a wonderful ex-wife who is a better parent than I could have ever been before I left. Always amazed at her strength and that of so many women I see around the world holding down entire villages while the men kill each other.
Jarhead
Enrique there's beauty in the breakdown.
"Letting go of the constraints of composure
when your heart is at the helm and sailing
straight ahead through the whitecaps. You
will get hit with the ocean spray upon your
face. It's only then when you reach up to
cast the tears aside so that you can see do
you fully feel the true beauty in breaking down."
-Kiki Rogers
"Sometimes it's not the hanging on that makes
us strong, sometimes it's the letting go. "
-Herman Hesse
Enrique i'm positive that your children understand
that is daddys work taking him away from us &
daddy is doing it for us to care for us. Im sure
they are very proud to have you as their daddy :)
Children are much more resilient than we give
them credit for. Love them and the rest will fall
into place you will see them soon my friend. Spring
is nearly upon us and you will be reunited. Kiki :)
Enrique ita the strength of a woman is
beyond measure. - Kiki :)
I am so sorry about the little boy with Lukemia. That's so sad.
Sure, we can do an old movie post. I don't watch many silents though. I do love the old black and whites.
Jarhead, you are kind hearted. Face it.
Sure thing Heidi!
I take boneless, skinless chicken breasts and make a pocket in them for the stuffing. Then I take 8 oz of feta cheese with tomato and basil, a shake of basil, juice from half a lemon, dice a small can of black olives and half a jar of mushroom slices and mix it all together and stuff the chicken. Butter the bottom of a glass baking dish, and set the chicken in, shake some salt and lemon pepper on top of them and pour Lawry's Sun Dried Tomato marinade over all of it. Put it in the oven at 380 for about 18 minutes, pull it out and put more feta on top of it and put it back in the oven for another 20 minutes or until the chicken is done.
It is soooooooo good, if I do say so myself.
Daphne
My friend found out she had leukemia last year....7 weeks later she was gone....leaving a small son and a husband....It took her so quickly, which I guess is a blessing in disguise. She was only 30.
6:23:00 PM, I am sorry. That quickly? I didn't know it could happen so fast.
Noelle, cognitive symbolic language skills develop later for some children than others, and later for boys than girls----it's an actual physical brain-ready issue, so don't let anyone push your kid to learn to read before he's ready. Reading is hugely important, of course, but that's precisely why it's best not to push too hard too soon: your son's frustration at "not getting it" could turn him off to reading and continue to hamper his enthusiasm long after. Instead, since he's so exceptional with numbers, this would be an excellent time to introduce him to a musical instrument. (The music and math centers of the brain are closely related, whereas the language center is somewhat opposite.) His brain is still developing, so you might want to give him another 6-12months on the reading. Follow his cues and your intuition rather than the school's timetable.
Yeah....we thought she had the swine flu....then when she finally had blood tests done, we were all devastated...and still are....
7 weeks. There is no time for adjustment there. I will have news soon on how is treatment is going. But it all does sound pretty grim. The plan is for him to rejoin his classmates after treatment to keep his morale up. He will be bloated and will have lost his hair so that will be an adjustment for all the children. I hope I am strong enough when I see him again - I am already worried that my emotions will get the best of me.
Thank you all for the comments and info on leukemia.
the shift key on my dino computer is not working so that is why no capitals.
daphne,
thank you for the recipe. i will make this tomorrow. i think i will make rice pilaf with it.
There are different types of leukemia, I did research on it when my friend was diagnosed....and I don't know why, but now I can't remember anything I read....but some types are worse than others. I'll keep that little one in my thoughts and prayers....cancer in any form is mean, cruel and evil.
DD
Her immune system was so affected by the chemo that when she got an infection in her intestine, it took her away....one day we were celebrating that her blood looked clean and we thought she was in remission and literally two days later...we were called to her bedside.....
Oh my so sad :( so fast so precious. Kiki
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