Danny Boy - Muppet Style

One of the funniest things I've seen in a long time!

For those of you that might read this on facebook: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCbuRA_D3KU

The Democrat NASCAR Moment

Though I'm not a NASCAR fan myself, I find this quite humorous.

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The Elusive Dr. Copleand Finally Found on Facebook!

End Of Ze World

Since the other one doesn't work...

End of Ze World

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Venting

Writer's Comment: This post is mostly for my own benefit, in order to vent out some frustrations. You can ignore it if you wish.


I am so sick and tired of all of the stupid little fights I've had lately with my mother. Nothing I ever do is good enough for her, including the way I deal with situations that affect myself and only myself, and have no bearing on her life whatsoever. As an example, I didn't get my birthday present from my dad until over a month afterward. This may sound bad, but he always, ALWAYS sends birthday and Christmas presents late. I've gotten used to it, it doesn't bother me. It's going to be the same no matter if I get it on my birthday or a month later. But because I didn't make a big deal about it, my mother flipped out and chewed me up and down because I didn't care that I hadn't gotten my present on my birthday. And it's not like he forgot my birthday. He called me on my birthday, my little sisters sang me happy birthday, which was more meaningful to me than the fifty dollars and the Starbucks gift card he sent. Now, granted, Mom could have been drinking the day we had that fight, which has apparently become the norm for her since she quit her job five years ago to "retire" at the ripe old age of 42.

This brings me to another problem. She complains that she doesn't have any money, but she won't get off her posterior and get a job. Her reason? She doesn't want to work in an office, and she doesn't want to get a job that might make her work on Saturdays or Sundays because she might miss a motorcycle run with the American Legion Riders of which she is a part of with my stepfather. These runs, by the way, cost money.

So instead, she spends most of her free time doing volunteer work for her Legion post, and the rest of the time drinking. And in the midst of complaining about not having money, she gripes at me about not having a job. Which I do have a job. It doesn't pay a whole lot, but at least I get paid for what I do. Unlike herself. She says at her age she shouldn't be struggling financially. At her age she should have a dadgum job! The retirement age isn't 42, the last time I checked.

And our last fight, which was today, oh this is a doozy. Let me set this up for you. My mother and stepfather went on a ride to Nashville this past weekend, and asked me to house sit to take care of their 2 dogs, cat, bird, and pig. Yes, I said pig. Anyway, they left Thursday, and that day I had been working on my spare bathroom, repainting and fixing it up. I went over that night to check on the animals, but didn't stay (they live 5 minutes away), instead going back home to work on the bathroom. I went over to the house the next morning at around 11 and took the dogs out and fed the pig. Well apparently this was the biggest sin man could ever commit, because when I told my mother this, she went ballistic. You would have thought I had killed the pig as a sacrifice to Baal and smeared the blood all over the walls of the house. Because I didn't feed the pig at her normal feeding time, which is 8 AM (I wouldn't have been up at that time had I stayed at their house anyway) I could have killed the pig. You can't see me, but I just rolled my eyes when typing that. And then the guilt trip began about how she does everything I ask her to help me with but she asks me to do one thing I don't do it. It was one, count them one, day that the pig had to wait a few extra hours for her food.

All this to say, once I get my music degree, I'm getting a degree in Computer Science, and then I'm moving out to Houston to be closer to my dad and my little sisters. I'm fed up with being blamed for all of her problems, financially, emotionally, etc. It's getting ridiculous, and I've had enough. I have to get away. Otherwise I'm going to be taken away to the nut house.

-END VENTING-

Late Night Musings

Something happened today that hasn't happened today in a long time. I read a book cover to cover in one sitting. I used to do that all the time when I was younger. But as I got into the later years in high school and early years in college, my love for reading disappeared. I still read from time to time, but usually it took me a few months to read a book as I usually found other things to do. But today I was at Barnes and Noble and picked up a copy of Alan Alda's autobiography, "Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned." Alda is one of my favorite actors, and his life story was just as interesting as the characters he's portrayed on stage, screen, and television. And I couldn't put the book down. It was almost like reliving my younger days when reading was what I chose to do instead of watching TV or surfing the internet.

While and Barnes and Noble, I also picked up "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning Latin" and "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning Italian." I figure since I'm taking a summer class I might as well keep up the learning streak and work on learning two languages that are prevalent in music.

It looks like I'll have a productive summer. At least I won't be bored.

I hope.

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Dr. Dennis Hayslett conducting Eric Whitacre's Sleep-excerpt

I thought this was rather interesting...an orchestral arrangement of "Sleep" by Eric Whitacre. It's not the whole thing though, unfortunately.

My List of Things

So it's been a while since I've last posted, and I thought I would share a list of things that annoy the heck out of me, and things that I find enjoyable.

Top 10 Things that Annoy Me (not in any order)

• People who drive slower than the speed limit in the fast lane


• Radio commercials that have horn honking or police sirens in them


• John Tesh


• That Delilah woman that comes on 96.5 at night


• Alabama's "Different Season Every Day" weather


• When I can't find the droids I'm looking for


• People who stop their car in the middle of the road in my neighborhood to talk to another neighbor going the opposite direction when they could easily just use one of several thousand other forms of communicating with them such as a cell phone or e-mail and not block the road so I can't get home


• People who do the same thing at Wal-Mart using shopping carts in the already too narrow aisles


• Having to pass the piano proficiency exam when the chair of the department probably couldn't even pass it


• Nancy Grace

Top 10 Things I Find Enjoyable (not in any order)

• Warm pants fresh out of the dryer on a "Alabama decided to be cold" day


• Warm days where I don't have to wear shoes and can wear sandals


• Watching Scrubs


• Hanging out with friends


• When the senior adults have a luncheon at church and they make me a plate to eat later


• Sleeping more than six hours in a night


• Playing XBox 360


• Working with kids. They're quite insightful sometimes.


• All of the "That's What She Said" moments


• Venting frustrations by blogging once every few months

I might add to this later. For now, this is all I can think of.

Spiders On Drugs

Oh Dear Lord! Bees!

I was pointed to this thread today on a message board, and thought it was pretty hilarious. Check it out! Bees!.