Missed posting last night because we went to the Cass County Fair. The corndogs were yummy! The animals were very very cute as you can see... I considered going veg for about 30 seconds. Don't you love the 4-H-ers? I love the cute spiderman art. Yay!

I'm not a fan of Jazz, but browsing around on the updated iTunes (the one that has the $.99 store) I found Slim Gaillard. I like it a lot he says meatloaf in one song for no reason. I need to find it on Vinyl..... now how would I go about doing that?

In college there was this boy I used to call "Clutch Cargo" but his real name was Bob. I don't remember why I called him this because he didn't look anything like the real Clutch Cargo. I must have been drunk when I met him.

WE WENT TO THE PICKLE FESTIVAL!!!
Now you can go look at the photos & pretend you went with!

The ironic thing about the following article, Applebee's Introducing Diet Menu is that Applebee's food is already diet food, isn't it? The minute you come home it escapes you one way or another...

Oh yeah! Look: The Pickle Festival is in the Reader I knew Chicago was keeping up on my social calendar. I promise I'll take my digi-cam along.

Hey-- Avon Man Calling! He must get a lot of customers- Quel goujon!!!

Let me tell you how disappointed I was with Budget Living Magazine-these people do not know how to get anything for a bargain... the crap in there was too expensive! They don't know how to find the dollar stores, garage sales & clearance racks. Then again the people writing these magazines are probably given so much stuff for free they don't actually have to price stuff out-or live on a real budget. It's like the magazine for the dot com ceo that went from the 500k/year salary to 200k/yr. BOO FREAKIN HOO.

Last night I invented a new diet--all you can eat is bbq chicken and you have to watch documentaries on the Donner Party while you eat.

100 Things About Me
1. I think doing this list is stupid but I'm doing it to see how many witty things I can think of.
2. I'm a bicentennial baby!
3. I have been obsessed with cats & kitties for most of my life.
4. I am extremely nostalgic.
5. (case in point--) I would go to my h.s. reunion. lumen christi h.s. class of 94!
6. I look too old for my age (people ask me how old my husband is and they're shocked when I say we're the same age).
7. My cat, p.g., gets extremely excited at ring tones on cell phones.
8. I don't own a cell phone.
9. I have a hard time throwing anything away- especially clothes.
10. I collect tacky planters.
11. I can't speak in front of a crowd unless they're drunk.
12. I have 2 tattoos.
13. My big toenail fell off once.
14. I'm blind in one eye.
15. I can't tolerate having earrings in my ears anymore.
16. Yet I have 6 holes in my ears.
17. I won't watch a movie if it's already started.
18. My favorite movie is The Yellow Submarine.
19. I grow more jaded every minute of every day.
20. I love plants.
21. I hate pot.
22. I like booze/boozing.
23. I believe everyone should go to Hawai'i at least once before they die.
24. I love making task lists.
25. My favorite book is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, yet
26. I tend to not read anything longer than a magazine article/drudge report headlines.
27. I get about 100 pieces of spam a day.
28. I think people that visit supah.com are really nice & cool.
29. I taught myself how to knit.
30. I tried to teach myself how to play guitar.
31. I love random stuff.
32. I think little fuzzy cute things are way underrated.
33. I once had a boss that was a "Playboy bunny mother" (she trained the bunnies).
34. I loved her.
35. I can listen to songs I really like many many times in a row.
36. I know how to make clothes from patterns (even though they don't exactly turn out like the picture).
37. I used to IRC a lot.<--what a loser!
38. I can't leave a supermarket without a magazine.
39. I have anxiety problems related to other people driving me in their vehicles.
40. I miss both of my grandmas.
41. I'm a 2nd generation American.
42. There's a man who kisses trees in my neighborhood.
43. I use macs exclusively.
44. I love the scent of coconut.
45. I'm very cheap but it's mostly because I love the thrill of paying $3.00 for a perfectly good shirt.
46. I consider shopping my version of hunting.
47. I listen to NPR & oldies. <--LOSER!
48. I will probably never cut my hair short short because of a bad childhood/preteen experience in which (I won't tell you the whole story here but will tell you that) someone called me "sir" in our local Hallmark store.
49. I'm very self-concious.
50. I think the elderly are a great untapped resource of entertainment.
51. My parent's names are Fred & Sandi.
52. I like the name Lula.
53. I make Adam buy me Blizzards once in a while.
54. I am very lazy.
55. I think I say neat and cool way too much.
56. My husband has chronic earwax & I make him let me watch him wash his ears out with this blue thingie.
57. I never used to be sick until I was rx'd with type 1 diabetes.
58. I love buffalo sawce!
59. I broke my own nose once with a hammer.
60. I jumped out of a perfectly good airplane.
61. I love my in-laws.
62. I talk to my cats like they're people and imitate their meows in hopes of having a meaningful converstion.
63. I miss my friends from school.
64. I used to be considered funny.
65. I'm still trying to figure things out.
66. I think things out way to much and don't actually follow through with them.
67. It takes a lot for me to be angry with you unless you're family.
68. I don't discuss politics or religion with people I don't know well unless it's on the Ted Nugent chat board.
69. I had tears in my eyes when Morrissey was on a late night talk show recently (last winter?).
70. I won't buy alcohol to have at home unless there's more than just Adam & I to drink it.
71. I like it if it's funny.
72. I'm indifferent if it's not funny.
73. I hate it if it's trying to be funny.
74. Poo jokes make me laugh.
75. My first pet was a brown goldfish I named after my dad, Fred.
76. I changed my mind about hating Aqua Teen Hunger Force, but they still need to make new ones or I'm going to change my mind again.
77. I hate talking on the phone.
78. I especially hate talking on the phone at work.
79. I work through almost every lunch hour.
80. I have a very short attention span.
81. I can't hear anything when I'm concentrating.
82. If I have a dream where Adam is cheating on me, I tell him off in the morning.
83. I love getting mail.
84. I love sending mail.
85. I lost my address book about a year ago, which made me cut way back on #84.
86. My original last name is now my middle name.
87. Until days before my wedding, I didn't realize my name was going to be A. Payne while filling out forms.
88. It took me over a year to change my name with the ss office after getting married.
89. I changed it on Adam's birthday.
90. It was a part of his birthday present.
91. I once won 2 blue ribbons at the county fair.
92. I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, but heaven knows i'm miserable now.
93. I wanted to embed a song lyric into this list.
94. I miss bookalooka & m.g..
95. I participated in a kitchen towel exchange last week.
96. I thought it was really fun.
97. I have a masters degree but I want to take more classes.
98. I think Indiana is an armpit-except for Liz's hometown.
99. I think Baltimore is an armpit.
100. I obviously don't care if you think I'm an idiot because I'm open about it.

I've been meaning to mention that every day 9-5 eastern time, you can see at work (or at least my car parked outside of work) on the cass cam. Sometimes I check it to make sure my car is still outside. You'll see me leaving at 12 tomorrow to go to Grandma's service... aw! Thanks for your sentiments everyone. So sad.

As promised, here's Diego Febres-Cordero playing Mr. Hypoteneuse (148k) on the set of Adam's latest creation Killing Kudzu.
(Photo taken by Marty Geerling--more less exciting shots still to come...)

One thing that's kinda neat about crying alot is the instant eye job--you know--the lil' puffy puff your eyelids do? Even though it feels like my eyelids were scrubbed with sandpaper-from the inside.

Way back in 1995, I was living, working and studying at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. During that year they opened a Monet exhibit that was extremely popular. My parents brought grandma down to see the show (I could get free tickets & discounts etc.). My mom told me tonight that she had bought this print, brought it home and put it up next to her bed. Seeing it now makes me weepy because my dad's oldest brother died as a little boy. Grandma told my mom that she loved this painting because it reminded her that she was going to be reunited with her little boy some day.

I will always miss you Grandma- but I know you're always with me. Sorry for taking you for granted. Love you!

"Hugs and kisses and love always..."

The shoot went quite well. I can't wait to show you the picture my brother, the horse and porcupine handler on the set, took of the shoot. You just have to wait till I have some extra patience. Just for fun is a funny man dancing for you here:

I wish I weren't all achy right now. Why does that happen? Totally fine one day- next day I feel like I'm 10 awake all night with muscle pain-(which my mom told me was "growing pains"). I can't be growing anymore. Wider maybe but that's not muscle growth- thats gerth(sp?). I got Adam a Scrabble® Dictionary for his beeday- I made sure the pages are marker/pencil/pen proof. He's shooting his next short this weekend. The old man was here this morning, I missed most of his ritual, but I clearly saw his "approach the tree dance". I think Brad is right- he must be a Druid. In which case he must die- I'm going to call the church across the street to see what they can do about that. Not really.

Happy Birthday Adam!

It is my great pleasure to bring to you the following:
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All taken at 6:25am July 6, 2003.

ARISE LAZARUS!
We'll see if my car comes back from the dead (again). I hope it's just the battery, but when I tried to go to wally world* and/or Joanne's for fabric for a new shirt I'm making, he didn't start. UGH! All this right before Adam's next film venture- which won't cost a whole lot but we need our extra pennies for that. Doh! I love you Lazarus, please come back!
(*=Adam's name for Walmart)

Who said gardening at night didn't work?! One really really great thing about living on this edge of the timezone is daylight until 9:30 at night. Though the days are now growing shorter there's less to do out there every day-mostly pulling crap weeds out & making sure everything is watered. GO TEAM ORNAMENTAL PURPLE CABBAGE.

Adam and I drove all over the woods & farm fields today scouting for locations for his upcoming shoot. It was fun. I only wish we had this to listen to in the car. I'm sure Jima knows all about Mr. Arpaia.