posted August 27, 2009 03:34 PM            

I hope everything goes well in the new school. Has your daughter made friends with neighborhood kids? That might help make it easier...I went to four different elementary schools, I remember how it was to be new. Ahh, the good old days...

posted August 28, 2009 07:15 AM            

My neighborhood is not very safe. I won't let them play outside, unless it is in the backyard. Across the street and down one house is a drug house. The police are there 2 or 3 times a week. It is terrible.
I'm on the corner, so across the cross (?) street sitting side by side are a umm, house of ill repute and a mans boarding house, (ironic isn't it) but the mens home is for people just coming out of jail and rehab and stuff, and it just isn't an ideal area for children.
On an up note, they did make friends the first day. My son (the mini-scorp) came home with 4 girls phone numbers (he's 13) and was quite pleased with himself. My daughter has already been invited to a b-day party, so things seem okay.

posted August 28, 2009 08:44 PM            

My temp is 100.7. My normal temp is low around 97 point something mid-range. So I feel sorta strange. Having some interesting fever dreams I can't wait to post when I can see straight.

I just told my son a yellow rabbit was running across the lawn. I meant to say white. And then I started to wonder if it was there at all!!!! He felt so sorry for me, he steered me into my bedroom and let me use the laptop he was borrowing, hence this post. so any wierd stuff I said, I cannot be accountable!
My doctors office called today to tell me that they were trying to schedule me with the arm dude, his name is Dr, Erb, for some reason I think thats funny. Anyway, my insurance wont agree to the prior auth. My doctor got on the phone with them and explained that this was a needed procedure not just any ole test, but insurance co are insurance co so, I don't know now what to do. I suppose I could lift a bunch of weights to make the veins all bulgy and yucky and then go to the emergency room with my family doctors notes, then they wouuld have to see me and do something about it. I am weighing the risk of that against bursting the potential clot.
I notice with the fever it is really sticking out. So something vascular going on... anyway, I better go before I see any more real or imagined rabbits!!! I have a DVD that plays like 12 hours of continous black and white Dracula movies. It is raining and I can't think of a better way to spend the evening. Well, I CAN but my body says, no, no, you just stay right there, little lady.

posted August 29, 2009 01:02 PM            

I have been worried sick about you, do you know the things I've been thinking?????

I'm glad to see you, I assume things turned out okay with your sick friend?

Well, if your here, maybe your still online, I'm goin to look for you now........

posted August 29, 2009 02:32 PM            

As requested, I'm plopping a few Saggie images here in your thread for you

posted August 29, 2009 06:38 PM            

Those are just exquisite!!!!! Thank you so much for taking the time to do that for me, I know your busy. Now I have something to look at!!! Each one is so unique. I will have to go back and look, but so far my favorite is the one with the boob out. lol. Not sure why. I like the one where the arrow on her back tattoo is pointing to her head as well. I get accused of thinking too much, although you probably can't tell by the way I express myself, that I think at all! s'okay!

But Bless You for that, your a dear!!!!

Starkiss;
my kids ride the bus, which stops right at the corner, so no worries.
My jeep is finally fixed! Save for one month, I have went 2 years without my own vehicle. I have acess to some vehicles, but that always comes with a price. And I need my freedom like a fish needs water so its been hard on me. I feel like trapped rat!!
I tell you a sag will have freedom at any cost!!! If I can't drive I will walk! And I can walk very, very far. This is not a problem.
If I can't leave my house, I leave my head. One word: IPOD, the best invention ever!!!!!!
And even if that is denied me, I can just sit there blending in with the couch and be a thousand light years away. People speak to me, and I do not hear them. They wave their arms about, and I'm like HUH?
Thats probably why we sag's get the rep for being somewhat flaky. Truth is we're always thinking.
Very unusual things...

posted September 02, 2009 11:05 PM            

ugg, my sore throat and fever came back. I think from last night to this afternoon I slept like 9 straight hours or something. I gave it to my kids. They made me pick my daughter up because she was running a fever, but my son was just sneezing, so he could stay.
Yuck.
I better get well by saturday is all I have to say about this. I have plans, darn it!
I'm going to two parties, I even have a DD!

well, no sense in griping, I'm off to get some ice cream (I hate ice cream) to soothe my throat and back to my black and white Dracula movies, which soothe me to sleep!

posted September 04, 2009 01:16 AM            

"the one with the boob out" lol, you are a blunt and funny Saggie Gypsee...

Now I want details Gypsee: What kind of ice cream can you tolerate? Which Dracula movies? DD = Double Date, correct? It is with a new guy?

posted September 04, 2009 01:19 AM            

It only sounds like the best birthday ever! I read it over three times just so I could be right there witcha. I will skip the octopus though, bad memories.
And caps are usually muttering about somethin (AG, ignore that statement, this applies to husbands)
but it is your bday you should do whatever you wanted. Sounds dreamy, really.
I'm so glad for you....

Don't know how my Mom's bday went. I spoke to her for a split second on my daughters phone. But since it was her birthday, that means, uh, how do I put this delicately, it means that happy hour was to come even earlier if you get my drift, so no time.
Mom's time in or out of my life is completely dependant upon her husband or boyfriend at the time.
Currently she is married to a Gem and he doesn't believe in family closeness. He doesn't even speak to his own child.
She isnt allowed to have our pics on the walls because it spoils his decor, he says.

So, you know, it is just one of those things you learn to live with.
The rest of my family (other than the one I created) lives in either Florida or New Jersey, so now, my friends ARE my family.
Fine with me, at least this way, I can pick em!

posted September 04, 2009 08:47 PM            

Thank You Starkiss, I do understand and I AM really happy for your b-day. Mine is in December, and the weather is usually crappy, and its 19 days before xmas, so noone has money. It sorta sucks. Oh well.

DTM:
You did NOT just engage me in a conversation on Dracula movies, you really didn't did YOU? Holy moley, I could write about this until the cows come home!!!!
HMMM, okay, trying to summarize.
To begin with, my fave stories of Dracula are 1993 Dracula with Gary Oldman. I cannot watch this movie enough. It is so visually bee-u-tee-ful, it takes my breath away. Gary Oldman is an Excellent actor and very, very good with accents. He just blew me away. God, I wanted Winona Rider to be with him so bad, it was their destiny, and they were cheated! Every time I watch it I hope it ends differently, but it never does.

I also love and adore 'Interview With a Vampire.' The only thing that taints this movie for me is Tom Cruise playing Lestat. If you've ever read Anne Rice you would probably agree, he was a terrible choice. And I just don't like the guy for some reason. But still, Brad Pitt as the sensitive and heartsick Louis, *sigh*, again, can watch over and over.

Now if you want to talk Classics. Well, I doubt I will ever watch the silent Nosferatu again. I own it for my collection, but I had to write a paper on that movie and I just don't have the patience for the extreme overacting that you have to do in silent films. It seems so forced and contrived and silly to me. Especially in a movie that is so serious. But I do respect it for the groundbreaking peice of work that it was.

Now how do I take my Dracula? I take him in the classic Bela Lugosi please. There is just no comparison, IMHO. Bela's life story is so sad, what with him being so typecast, and eventually becoming a parody of himself in the Abott & Costello movies. But he had a great run while it lasted, and I would have let him bite me, any time, any place baby.

When Hammer films took over Dracula movies is when the quality becomes questionable, though I still like them. They become almost pornish. More heaving bosoms and less storytelling. And who did we have then, let me think, oh, Christopher Lee, playing Dracula. Um, no. He does not have enough personal charisma to pull it off.

Now there have been so many Draculas and Dracula movies. Hollywood never tires of this tale. But, IMHO, the one thing you can NEVER do is have a blonde Dracula. I mean, wtf? Did he fly him in from Norway or something? No, no, no. Dracula must always have black hair and be all suave and count-ish. That is just the law of Dracula.
Now it is okay to have a blonde Dracula in a movie like 'Lost Boys' cause it is set in modern times and borderlining on a comedy anyway.

So, now that you regret asking, I take my Dracula serious and classic. Thank You very much, class dismissed.

posted September 04, 2009 11:08 PM            

Course there are alot of late comers with The Twiilight phenomenon. But that's okay, we'll take em and school em.
Nobody at home will watch ANY Dracula (besides Twiilight, the girls love it) or discuss Dracula with me, cause Moms eyes glaze over and she goes to her happy place, which they have no patience for.

posted September 05, 2009 03:48 PM            

I love Coppola’s Dracula! I have met so many people that hate it though. I guess that’s how it is, people either love it or hate it strong feelings either way.

When I saw B&W Dracula films I automatically thought Nosferatu, but you cleared that up for me! Don’t kill me but, movie buff that I am, I have never seen the Bela Lugosi Dracula <ducks for cover!>. My family talked about it all of the time though. In fact there is a scary looking b&w pic of the dog covered in mud through the sliding glass door that my mom calls “Wooey Lugosi”:

I think it looks Nosferatu-esque myself but the pic name stuck.

The Lost Boys is actually one of my favorite movies. I do have a minor issue with it though – the placement of the fangs on the lateral incisor as opposed to the canines. LOL! I have seen the fakes with fangs on either one but in The Lost Boys it just looks weird.

My favorite vampire movie has to be…Fright Night! Yes, seriously. I thought Chris Sarandon was an awesome vampire, “Welcome to Fright Night – for real”. I can’t forget “Evil” Ed – “You’re so cool Brewster!”. That was the second movie I ever saw in the theater, the first – Cujo! My family likes to traumatize early I guess…