Why can't you stay 29?

And, this may be the last one.  This is the only social network that I am part of that not everyone I know is a part of...just a small subset.  Congratulations, son, you were right.

Not that I have any plans to, but I understand why people contemplate hastening their own death.  So many things from so many directions push at you from different directions...all wanting equal attention...all promising dire results if you don't do something right this minute.

I want to leave the group that I am currently associated with.  They won't understand and while I could point out where things began, I won't because in the long run, it won't really matter. I will say this to them, though...look at your membership list online now, as opposed to even last year..  What?  Your membership isn't listed at your website?  Huh...there's a surprise and it's an indication of why things aren't as good as they could be

I have financial issues pushing at me from every side possible and, while I took on each responsibility willingly, I am so tired of the focus of at least one of them feeling that they have a right of enitlement and demanding more and more from me.  We won't even go into the financial obligation that just came up that could literally ruin my entire life.

I am being forced by time and circumstance to being something that I never wanted to be and never had a clue that I would ever be.  Hopefully my kids will continue on their paths and follow their hearts to do what calls to them.  I have done my best to suypport and encourage them, even though I don't think they really believe that that's true. 

My sister thinks that I am clinically depressed.  I don't believe that's true, actually, although I can see why she might think so.  I know what's gotten me to where I am now.  I just don't see a way around it.  And that's what scares me.

This is a test post because Diana says she hasn't been able to post in days which is why nobody has seen anything from her...as opposed to me who just keps getting sidetracked.

YOU'RE ON MY FRIENDS LIST, I WANNA KNOW YOU...I want to know 33 things about you. I don't care if we never talk, never liked each other, or if we already know everything about each other. Short and sweet is fine...You're on my list, so I wanna know you better!

Here are my answers:

1. Can you cook? Yes, but as I've gotten older I don't as much which saddens me
2. What was your dream growing up? To be an oceanographer
3. What talent do you wish you had? Singing in pitch
4. Favorite place? The beach or the theatre
5. Favorite vegetable? Artichoke
6. What was the last book you read? A Pirate Looks at Fifty
7. What zodiac sign are you ? Cancer (or Moon Child if you prefer...who remembers that?)
8. Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? traditional one in each ear
9. Worst Habit? Nail biting
10. Do we know each other outside of lj? yes. I have no one in my LJ that I don't know in person
11. What is your favorite sport? Dancesport
12. Negative or Optimistic attitude? Generally Optimistic with a dash of fatalism
13. What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me? Chat about life the universe and everything...or sing (preferably on pitch)
14. Worst thing to ever happen to you? when i fell down some stairs and dropped my two week old son
15. Tell me one weird fact about you: I literally attended my first science fiction convention before I was born
16. Do you have any pets? 2 cats, one dog
17. Do you know how to do the macerana? mostly
18. What time is it where you are now? 10 a.m.
19. Do you think clowns are cute or scary? depends on the clown
20. If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be? my weight
21. Would you be my crime partner or my conscience? crime partner
22. What color eyes do you have? brown
23. Ever been arrested? nope
24. Bottle or Draft? draft
25. If you won $10,000 dollars today, what would you do with it? pay kid's tuition, take a cruise
26. What kind of bubble gum do you prefer to chew? Bazooka
27. What 's your favorite bar to hang at? Guido's
28. Do you believe in ghosts? yes...mostly
29. Favorite thing to do in your spare time? spare time? what is this spare time?
30. Do you swear a lot? too much...getting better though
31. Biggest pet peeve? self important people...just have no patience with them
32. In one word, how would you describe yourself? accomodating
33. Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same for you? done and done

Close your eyes...And go back...
...Before the Internet or PC or the MAC...
...Before semi-automatics and crack...
...Before Playstation, SEGA, Super Nintendo, even before Atari...
...Before cell phones, CD's, DVD's, voicemail and e-mail...
...way back...
...way...way...way back...
I'm talkin' bout Hide and Seek at dusk
Red light, Green light
Red Rover...Red Rover...
Playing kickball & dodgeball until the first...no...second...no...third Streetlight came on...
Ring around the Rosie
London Bridge
Hot Potato
Hop Scotch
Jump Rope
Duck...Duck...GOOSE!!!
YOU'RE IT!!
Parents stood on the front porch and yelled (or whistled) for you to come home - no pagers or cell phones
Mother May I?
Hula Hoops
Seeing shapes in the clouds
Endless summer days and hot summer nights (no A/C) with the windows open
The sound of crickets
Running through the sprinkler
Happy Meals
Cereal boxes with that GREAT prize in the bottom
Cracker jacks with the same thing
Ice pops with 2 sticks you could break and share with a friend
...but wait...there's more...
Watchin' Saturday morning cartoons
Fat Albert, Road Runner, Smurfs, Picture Pages, G-Force & He-Man, Schoolhouse Rock
Watchin' Sunday morning oldies (Abbott & Costello, Three Stooges)
Wonder Woman & Super Man Underoos
FONZIE...AYYYYYYYY !!!
Playing Dukes of Hazard
Catchin' lightning bugs in a jar
Christmas morning
Your first day of school
Bedtime Prayers and Goodnight Kisses
Climbing trees
Swinging as high as you could to try and reach the sky
Getting an Ice Cream off the Good Humor Truck
A million mosquito bites and sticky fingers
Jumpin' down the steps
Jumpin' on the bed
Pillow fights
Sleep-overs
A 13" black and white TV in your room meant you were RICH
Runnin' till you were out of breath
Laughing so hard that your stomach hurt
Being tired from PLAYING
WORK: meant taking out the garbage or doing the dishes
Your first crush
Your first kiss (I mean the one that you kept your mouth CLOSED and your eyes OPEN
Rainy days at school meant playing Heads up 7UP or Hangman in the classroom, Remember that?
Oh, I'm not finished yet...
Kool-Aid was the drink of the summer
So was a swig from the hose
Giving your friends a ride on your handlebars
Wearing your new shoes on the first day of school
Class field trips with soggy sandwiches
When nearly everyone's mom was at home when the kids got there
When a quarter seemed like a fair allowance; and another quarter a MIRACLE
When ANY parent could discipline ANY kid, or feed him, or use him to carry groceries...And nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it
When your parents took you to McDonalds and you were COOL
When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited you at home
Basically, we were in fear for our lives but it wasn't because of drive by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc.
Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! And some of us are still afraid of em!
Didn't that feel good? Just to go back and say, "Yeah, I remember that!"
Well, let's keep going!!
Let's go back to the time when...
Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-mo"
Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "do over!"
"Race issues" meant arguing about who ran the fastest
Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in "monopoly"
Catching fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening
It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends
Being old, referred to anyone over 20
The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was cooties
Nobody was prettier than Mom
Scrapes and bruises were kissed by mom or grandma and made better
It was a big deal to finally be tall enough to ride the "big people" rides at the amusement park
Getting a foot of snow was a dream come true and making snow angels
Abilities were discovered because of a "double-dog-dare"
Spinning around, getting dizzy and falling down was cause for giggles
The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team
Water balloons were the ultimate, ultimate weapon
Older siblings were your worst tormentors, but also your fiercest protector
If you can remember most or all of these, then you have LIVED!!!
Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their "grown up" life...
I TRIPLE DOG DARE YA !!!!!!

of quizzes that just ask for your name and pop something up, but the result tickled me....

<td align="center"> Karina --
[noun]:

A person of questionable sanity who starts their own cult

'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.com</td>

Your results:
You are Green Lantern

Green Lantern 75% Spider-Man 70% Catwoman 70% Superman 65% Hulk 65% Robin 60% Supergirl 58% Batman 45% Iron Man 45% The Flash 40% Wonder Woman 38%

Hot-headed. You have strong will power and a good imagination.

Click here to take the "Which Superhero are you?" quiz...<BR

So, I just came back from 9 glorious days on a caribbean cruise. I desparately miss some of the people I met there, but I had a ball.

Anyone who is inclined to spend time vicariously reading about it and looking at many pretty pictures can find the details at: http://www.cafekarina.org/explorer

Tuesday is International Talk Like a Pirate Day: http://www.talklikeapirate.com/

I just came back from Barnyard...the animation. wow.
It was the

longest


one


hour


and


twenty


minutes


in


my


entire life. wow.


There were a couple of funny bits, but ....wow...


Someone needs to take Steve Oedekerk and his entire production/animation/marketing staff to a farm and shove their heads underneath a bull. And, that was only the beginning of how awful and trite and cliched (yes, the action bits were funny, I give it that...as long as you ignored the damn udders on the cows. yes, cows as opposed to heifers. In this movie, apparently heifers are girls and cows are boys!!...ugh) this film was.

It made me really sad that the $1.49 movie theatre is now $2.99 to get into because $1.49 would have been too much.

So, here I am in Texas. I can get behind travelling first class...sadly the difference between economy and first class is usually ay way way more than the couple hundred dollars this one was, but it was fun and very much nicer on a completely full plane than the alternative.

I was kind of wierded out by the concept of a Holiday Inn Express having a suite, but it's a very nice room (TC - It feels a whole lot like those corner rooms/suites in the original Memphis Holiday Inn). It's a great deal...I suspect this room would cost a lot more than it does in the bustling community of Kilgore, Texas.

It was very nice to see my daughter again. The theatre people down here (none of whom are from down here) feel just like theatre people everywhere...nice to know some things stay the same. School for Husbands (Moliere) was fabulously funny. Tomorrow I see Pericles and Harvey. Monday I won't see Diana hardly at all...it's full out Strike. Tuesday, we will wander about Kilgore and see all the hot sights like the east texas oil museum. And, Wednesday we fly back. Hopefully, the Longview/Dallas flight will not have the same 1.5 hour delay as the Dallas/Longview flight because then we would miss our flight out of Dallas.

Well, I got up at 4:30 eastern time this morning and it's now midnight central (1 eastern)...gonna curl up, watch the end of CSI with the girl-child and then sleep til 10...then we pack her up out of the crappy dorm room and into the hotel with me.