chocolate news!

Larry is on TV!! check him out, in the blue polo shirt, behind the first guy in line, waiting to cast his vote for Balak Balama...

forgiveness

From A Course in Miracles:

"To forgive is merely to remember only the loving thoughts you gave in the past, and those that were given you. All the rest must be forgotten.

Forgiveness is a selective remembering, based not on your selection. For the shadow figures you would make immortal are "enemies" of reality.

Be willing to forgive the Son of God for what he did not do. The shadow figures are the witnesses you bring with you to demonstrate he did what he did not. Because you bring them, you will hear them." - A Course in Miracles, "The Shadows of the Past"

new music

i forgot how much i love working at a radio station. i say this, cuz, while "real" jobs have perks like 401K plans and life insurance, the radio biz has...

FREE CD's!!! so here are reviews of the two latest:

first up...Guns N Roses "Chinese Democracy." a loooooong 14 years between studio albums has produced something i, at first, dismissed. my initial thought was "THIS is what we've waited all this time for?" granted, i was listening to bootlegged mp3s. the sound quality wasn't the best, but it was an interesting listen, attempting to figure out where Axl's head was at.

i still don't know.

what i DO know is, after being the recipient of a generous gifting of the cd (of which i am truly grateful!), i am really liking most of it. the initial impression of a few of the songs being something that could be a hit on top40 radio with the switch out of Axl's vocals with someone like, say, Usher, hasn't changed. but, hearing all the songs together the way they were supposed to be heard has altered my opinion. it woulda sounded better in the mid 90's...been more of a surprise that would have been something new and unlike anything else out there...rather than being released after all the musical styles represented are now passe. aaahh Axl. please don't take this long to give us new music again! and, next time, please don't call it Guns N Roses. just call it Axl, cuz i'm really missing Slash and Duff.

then there's Nickelback...

the new cd "Dark Horse." it's polished, radio-ready rock for the masses. i am one of those masses. it really friggin rocks. favorite song? "something in your mouth" it makes me laugh, just like "figured you out" and "animals" did. it sticks in my head, just like "figured you out" and "animals" do. naughty naughty naughty. and i LOVE that stuff!!! yet another generous gift from the music department has me rockin' in the car no matter what...

twlight movie

i was afraid it was gonna be horrible. it wasn't. it was hard to reconcile my imagination with some of what showed itself onscreen (at first i was hating Charlie, but he quickly redeemed himself...the shots of Edward running thru the forest with Bella on his back...icky-bad! icky-bad!) but the story was told relatively well. big chunks of stuff left out, as happens with any novel-to-movie adaptation. i liked the performances. Edward worked. Bella worked.

thank God it didn't just plain suck.

house update

i am taking over the mortgage of Uncle Rich's house. Before i can move in, repairs need to be done. Dad and Mr. Griffin are doing most of the "heavy" stuff. Uncle Rich had a few seizures that had left holes in the wall board, so they have replaced those pieces. they have taken off the batten strips that cover the joints of the wall board, filled the cracks with spackle and sanded and i have primed the vinyl walls. i've texture painted the living room and kitchen. the kitchen has been painted...mostly...with semi-gloss "sherwood green" Dutch Boy paint. Mom did a bunch of the cutting-in. the guys are at the house installing new carpet today. yesterday was the ripping-out of the old carpeting. funny thing is, the new is almost the same color as the old. the old living room carpeting was pretty stained, so new stuff was important!

there are bundles of gorgeous oak laminate flooring awaiting installation in the kitchen. i am hoping to be a part of that installation.

we're on a bit of a time-crunch, as mom and dad take off for parts south of the Mason-Dixon line right after Thanksgiving, and i can use his help as long as he wants to offer it!

i will get pictures online when i can. the place looks pretty jacked up right now, but it'll be pretty soon!!

how could this NOT touch you?

wow.

WHAT??!?!?!?!?

a woman in my office this morning said her kids are so upset that they can't vote today. that they asked her this morning...who are you voting for Mom? she then told us she isn't voting for anybody...

WHAT???

women didn't get the right to vote until 1920. 19-friggin-20. one hundred fifty years AFTER this democratic country declared its independence from another country. shouldn't we always and forever vote just to be able to at least TRY to catch up with all we've missed?

i am shocked.

GET OUT AND VOTE!!!

happy halloween!

Halloween night, just before they went out trick-or-treating. don't they look sooo cute??!?!?