I went mud-bogging in my truck this morning. I was wearing a dress, with heels and pearls and a cardigan.

For some reason, this tickles me.

I live on a dirt road - had no choice after yesterday's rain if I wanted to get to work. Still, it tickles me.

I'm wearing some hoochie mama glue-on nails from the drugstore. The packaging says not to wear them for more than 10 days. Does anyone know how soon after removing this set I can safely put on another set? Because the sheer glee I'm experiencing from this minimal investment of time and money is just ridiculous.

I call shenanigans and bullshit on last night's aufing of Gordana.

Tom and Lorenzo have it exactly right.

My husband and both of our sons have strep throat.

I'd be tempted to plead, "Calgon, take me away!" but I'd have to clean the tub first.

*sigh*

Feeling better today. Unemployed husband spent yesterday morning schlepping my dad to doctors' appointments and the pharmacy; came home and cleaned some, did more laundry - and left it in baskets beside the bed so I could fold when I wanted. (Yea, verily, he is hopeless at folding and has no idea where any of my clean clothes would go even if he tried.) Homework was finished before I got home.

And he kept the kids playing in the living room or hallway while he cooked dinner and gamed on the computer, and let me have the bedroom (and the TV!) all to myself.

Promised he'll stay away and keep the kids away tonight as well, unless/until I'm feeling sociable and invite them to join me.

Unfortunately, younger child was then sent home from school with a sore, raw, red throat and has to be taken to the doctor this afternoon, so I may have to deal with that when I get home. Why do my sick little boys always want their mommy, even though Daddy is the one with medical training?

Thanks for your patience with my rant yesterday.

I am in HELL!

Why does my child, who presumably should know me better, think I would want a *PINK* book light, when I already have a perfectly good royal blue one, and I don't much care for pink anyway?

DBAD.

Exactly.

Saturday, we found some beautiful dog beds on sale at Sam's. Promptly grabbed one.

On the way home, my boys had a fight and managed to spill their milkshakes all over it. (And the carpet of my truck, but that's another story.)

My husband pulled the cover off, washed it, reassembled it, and put it in the living room. The dog loved it, slept on it all morning - then promptly chewed a hole in it that afternoon.

Ganked from quicksilvermad and selenak.

Using only EPISODE names from ONE SCI FI TV SHOW (or other genre show), cleverly answer these questions. Try not to repeat an episode title. It’s a lot harder than you think! Repost as “My life according to (TV show).”

Pick your SciFi/Genre Show:
Babylon 5

Are you a male or female?:
Strange Relations

Describe yourself:
A Voice in the Wilderness

How do you feel:
Hunter, Prey

Describe where you currently live:
The Parliament of Dreams

If you could go anywhere where would you go?:
Walkabout

Your favorite form of transportation:
Objects in Motion

Your best friend is:
Soul Mates

What’s the weather like:
Shadow Dancing

Favorite time of day:
The Fall of Night

If your life was a TV show, it would be called:
Soul Hunter (or Mind War)

What is life to you:
Between the Darkness and the Light

Your fear:
And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder

What is the best advice you have to give:
The Exercise of Vital Powers

Thought for the Day:
There All the Honor Lies

How I would like to die:
Sleeping in Light

My soul’s present condition:
Passing Through Gethsemane (or Meditations on the Abyss)

My motto:
No Surrender, No Retreat

It's official. My husband has joined the ever-expanding ranks of the unemployed. Hope and change, here we come!

The more I hear about Obama's proposed health care plan, the sicker I get.

001. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
002. I will respond by asking you ANY five questions of a very intimate and creepily personal nature. Or not so creepy/personal.
003. You WILL update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
004. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
005. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.

Questions from quicksilvermad:

1. Have you ever walked out on/turned off a movie because you couldn't stand it any longer?

I so rarely go to the theater to see movies, I research thoroughly before I plunk down my money. So I've never walked out, no. I also don't buy DVDs unless I'm already pretty sure I'll enjoy it.

But I don't hesitate to turn off a movie on cable if it annoys me.

2. I'm a shoe whore—from stilettos to sneakers. How many pairs of shoes do you own?

I was hoping you'd ask me this! I honestly don't know how many pairs of shoes I own. The last time I moved, I needed one pickup truck just for my shoes, and I think I have more now than I did then.

No joke!

3. Where does your username come from?

It started with a Dorothy Parker quote, "Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away." My old blogger blog was titled "Quicksilver in the Hand" and my first name is Jenna. Quicksilverjenna was too long, so I shortened it.

Also, quicksilver is another name for mercury, which is unique in that it's the only metal that's liquid at room temperature, and too much contact with it can drive you mad. Some of my friends thought I rather resembled those remarks - unique and maddening. ;)

And it also means "liable to sudden unpredictable change" - and I have a somewhat mercurial temperament. A little less so now that I'm on anti-depressants, though, but the description's still apt.

4. Which actor played your favorite Doctor on "Doctor Who," and why is he your favorite?

Tom Baker, the Fourth Doctor. Partly because I'm a sucker for his scarf and hat (in that order), and partly because he was my first Doctor. I have very fond memories of Saturday night marathon viewings of reruns on PBS in the BSU during the mid-80s.

5. What in the world first drew you to my LJ?

I *think* it was your Firefly fanart that first caught my attention, but it was your obsession with Adam Baldwin ;) that convinced me to stick around.

Blame quicksilvermad for this one. ;)

YOU'RE ON MY FRIENDS LIST, I want to know 28 things about you. I don't care if we've never talked, never really clicked, or if we already know everything about each other. I really don't. You are obviously on my flist, so let me know with whom I'm friends!

( Memage follows )

My son was Neil Armstrong for a living wax museum project for school. I made his costume, using hubby's motorcycle helmet, disposable painter's coveralls, and duct tape.



"Air tanks" were assembled with two 2-liter bottles, cardboard, and more duct tape.

If Chuck isn't renewed, I will watch the DVDs of old episodes until they wear out, then stare at a blank screen before I watch even one minute of Leno.

I would like to know 33 things about you. It doesn't matter if we never talk or if we already know everything about each other.

Short and sweet is fine.

1. Can you cook?
2. What was your dream growing up?
3. What talent do you wish you had?
4. Favourite place?
5. Favourite vegetable?
6. What was the last book you read?
7. What zodiac sign are you?
8. Any Tattoos and/or Piercings?
9. Worst Habit?
10. Do we know each other outside of lj?
11. What is your favourite sport?
12. Negative or Optimistic attitude?
13. What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
14. Worst thing to ever happen to you?
15. Tell me one weird fact about you:
16. Do you have any pets?
17. Do you know how to do the Macarena?
18. What time is it where you are now?
19. Do you think clowns are cute or scary?
20. If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
21. Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
22. What colour eyes do you have?
23. Ever been arrested?
24. Bottle or Draft?
25. If you won $10,000 dollars today, what would you do with it?
26. What kind of bubble gum do you prefer to chew?
27. What's your favourite bar/place to hang at?
28. Do you believe in ghosts?
29. Favourite thing to do in your spare time?
30. Do you swear a lot?
31. Biggest pet peeve?
32. In one word, how would you describe yourself?
33. Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same for you?

Created by Train Horns

My eyes may be in their forties, but my ears are still in their teens. Um, yeah?

or, "How many roads must a man walk down?"

I'm officially there. I have achieved the answer.

And I know where my towel is, and I'm not going to panic.

Now if I could only remember what I did with the question....

I turned 42 today. Shhhh. Don't tell anyone.

Christmas carols are on the radio already.

Normal ones are bad enough, but the [expletive deleted] DJs at my favorite station have put Christmas Shoes in regular rotation.

Couldn't deal with it last year; even less able to deal this year. I am sorely tempted to hunt them down and beat them to death with a pair of my mother's shoes.

Christmas spirits? Only if I can drink 'em.