So I have always had this weird obsession with The Shinning. Everytime I see it on TV I HAVE to watch it...its like nicotin, once you start it is almost impossible to stop. I sit on the edge of the sofa stopping anything that I was in the midst of. I have sink of dirty dishes, homework I need to check or even dinner I need to cook. Does not matter when I see the Overlook Hotel. Everytime I am sucked into that movie I ALWAYS end up not being able to sleep. I'm up visulaizing those twins holding hands in the hallway..."Come and play with us Danny".

If you have read ANYTHING that has been made into a movie you know that the book is always beter then the film. More charcter develpment...more background...just more better. I decided that I MUST know more about room 217!

I just picked up my copy of The Shinning and am about 80 pages in. I usually like to read before bed so I read a bit last night, thinking hey...I'm way to old to be afraid of a book. Sleeping..no problem.

12am I put down the book and then the tension sets in. I hear our new puppy Rufus T. Firefly move in his kennel..is that a wasp?...I look at the stack of unfolded laundry...is that a rouge mallet? Yes, I got about 40 minutes of sleep until around 2am at which time there stands my 6 year old wanting to get into our bed. AGGG!

No, I did not scream but it took quite a bit of self control not to.

No matter how old you get you learn new things....that is why I am now currently writting this instead of reading. My day book is now The Shinning, my night book is now the soft pron of Dancing Queen.....it is alway better to go to sleep to soft porn instead of REDRUM! REDRUM!

Next weekend my family is going to San Diego to meet Charlaine Harris. She writes some of my favorite books. They are vampire romance novels...completely smutty stuff that requires no complex thinking skills at all. Her books are completely fun to read, they have all the components of a book I love. Mystery, comedy, smut, adventure and of course what book would be complete without gay vampire weddings (joking, that was only in the last book).

My husband was a little concerned about taking the kids to meet her, but I don't think it will be a problem. Looking at her book jackets she appears to be the typical mom. Just shows you to never "judge a book by it cover", the soccer mom next to you could be writing about kitchen countr sex between a telepath and a werepanther. I imagine there could be a few goth people there who might might make my children pause and gawk, but I seriously doubt any goth kid or adult would have any interest in my bubbling, pinked cheeked children. In fact I'm sure they will stear clear if all possible. Ever seen a death rocker taking their 5 year old niece out for ice cream? I know when I was in my black lipstick, fishnet stage, the last things I wanted was to be hanging out with a bunch of kids.

Wish me luck, that I don't freeze up when I meet Charlaine. I know she will probably only say "hi" and sign my book, but thats good enough for me. She needs to know that the suburbian moms of Bako appreciate her artistic abilities and are hungry for more.

My daughters are into chinese jump rope. I totally remember playing it in 3rd-6th grades. Being an only child, I  would play chinese jump rope in the evenings with the two kitchen chairs. Sadly, I could only get so far playing because of the wooden bar bracing the chair legs. I became way to cool to actually "jump" once I entered junior high thus ending my chinese jump rope career.

So, I'm on the hunt in Bako to find a chinese jump rope. 1st stop, the place you can find everything worth finding.....Target. I asked the sales guy where the chinese jump ropes are. He gets an odd look on his face which I now know to be confusion. He directs me to the jump rope asile, no luck. Based on his confused reaction I'm now ashamed to question the location of a chinese jump rope. So I'm seraching the toy aisle of stores. No luck @ Dollar Tree, Alberston, Rite Aid, Walgreens.....can anyone help me?

 

Is their are correlation between the O.C.D.'ers of today and past Sesame Street viewing?
It seems to me that Cookie Monster has a very, very serious case of obsessive compulsive disorder. He tires to resist the cookie. He holds the cookie, sings to the cookie & frequently his lips wrap around the cookie until finally after about 15 sec he will destroy the cookie in a blur of blue fur and "yum! yum!" sounds.
Everyone loves Cookie Monster or is at least familiar with him if you have grown up in the U.S. Maybe for some people the fondness can grow into something more deeper than having a Cookie t-shirt or a Christmas ornament where Cookie is playing Hockey with a chocolate chip hockey puck. Maybe for some it grows into having to have all your shoes face the same way in your closet or that you have to use a paper towel to touch the door handle in a public toliet. Some could be modeling previous behaviors that they picked up from PBS other then liking to watch the ballerina men dance around in their very complementing pants.
In Cookie's defense he does acknowledge his problem and that is the 1st step to recovery, right?

I love the beauty of Divine's horrified 10 foot face on a garage door when she finds out about her daughters wanted abortion and her sons criminal shoe obsession. John Waters is magic with his words, "I'm having an abortion and going to love every minute of it".

Can't wait for the next generation of BAMS and not the rip off movies in the park.