today is the day...

i dropped my car off at the dealer this morning.. the technician pulled it into the expansive garage and got out and said, "Wow, that engine is LOUD.. i hope it's just because there is no oil in it.. do you hear that knocking (and he knocks on the counter top for emphasis) when you hit the gas and ease off the brake?"

then he said the words i didn't want to hear... "it might be time to get a new car if something is really mechanically wrong with the engine".

i know that they are supposed to say that cause they are a dealer.. but the car has been loud for longer than i can even remember.. i don't think it has much to do with the oil. :(

i'm bracing myself for the worst. but i did spy a sweet new accord while i was there and my heart skipped a beat!

can music make you seasick?

i am listening to "mike fm..we play everything" as i usually do when TAC is over, and at first i thought it was just Def Leppard's Hysteria that was oscillating from left to right ear but then i kind of heard it again David Gray's Babylon. it's making me sick to my stomach.. i had to take my headphones off i couldn't stand it so much. how crazy insane is that?

if they come back from commercial and i hear that asinine switching of stereo i will delete that bookmark from my favorites!! today is not a good day to piss me off!!

happy cinco de mayo.

happy mexican holiday that primarily americans celebrate!! wooot!

have yourselves some delicious guacamole!

no country for old men

so i watched this movie tonight. i feel like i'm in heaven to be able to just have the house to myself and sit here and drink a bottle of wine and turn off all the lights, light some candles. watch a movie...

but back to the movie.. has anyone seen this film? am i dumb, why don't i get it? does chigurh kill the wife? was the scene with the wheelchair brother the reason for the title of the movie? am i the only one that is oddly attracted to javier bardems character? or is it the wine?

the wine is some french wine i picked up for my trip to boston that never got drunk.. i was hoping it was light and red like some of the table wines i had while touristing around paris. i don't think i will ever be able to find wine that satisfying again.. god i have to go back to france. i highly encourage anyone and everyone to do it.

if anyone has seen the movie and knows why it is so critically acclaimed please tell me...

i'm in love...

the kind of love where i want to call in sick to work and bust into stores and restaurants and take pictures of everyone and anyone!

i took my camera outside after work and took some pics of the tree out front focusing on using the macro setting..

i can't get over how much better than my 2 shit cameras this new one is. it's insane.. i feel like i did when i got my very first digital camera all over again!

here are the pics. most of them are the front lawn tree, but they are unbelieveably better than anything i could have taken with my old camera.

pics, and myspace music..

here are a couple shots from my new camera.. nothing very interesting, but i didn't have a lot of time this morning before work.


fatty is having urinary tract problems again.. she was squatting the other day near the hearth.. but not peeing, we didn't put two and two together and realize that she was having problems again. cath switched her food to less expensive food and apparently it's just not the same as the special stuff she was getting from the vet for a cool million dollars a bag..


i've been inspired by SP to make myself some of these smoothies that consist mostly of frozen fruits, a banana, spinach and ice.. they are very delicious.. i'm getting to a point where i crave them... this one in particular i made this morning for breakfast.. it had a bunch of spinach, cherries, blueberries, a banana and 5 or so ice cubes. and prob a 1/2 cup of water. i put it in a travel mug and enjoyed it at my desk at work when i couldn't finish it this morning..

also inspired by the internets, i have been craving simon and garfunkel songs... earlier this week AC had randy west on the show and they played just about the whole simon and garfunkel greatest hits soundtrack.. thank god for inventing myspace music.. i can listen to whatever songs i want to hear, whenever at a mouse click!!

hot diggity dog!

it's arrived!! finally my camera is here! i bit the bullet after my last photo taking mis-adventure. i went with the rest of the crowd and got myself a canon elph. it's pink! and it has image stabilization, and it fits in my old camera case, i would take a photo with it, but i need to let the battery charge for like an hour and a half.