Music i listened to today (idea stolen from other blog)

Sountrack to The Nghtmare before Christmas

This is Halloween

SHADOW
Boys and girls of every age
Wouldn't you like to see something strange?

SIAMESE SHADOW
Come with us and you will see
This, our town of Halloween

PUMPKIN PATCH CHORUS
This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Pumpkins scream in the dead of night

GHOSTS
This is Halloween, everybody make a scene
Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright
It's our town, everybody scream
In this town of Halloween

CREATURE UNDER BED
I am the one hiding under your bed
Teeth ground sharp and eyes glowing red

MAN UNDER THE STAIRS
I am the one hiding under your stairs
Fingers like snakes and spiders in my hair

CORPSE CHORUS
This is Halloween, this is Halloween

VAMPIRES
Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!
In this town we call home
Everyone hail to the pumpkin song

Danny Elman & the Citizens of Halloween Town

Winter weather in Ashton

view between building A (left) and building B (right)

view of the Kelly House on the other side of the river (with bike paths)

along the Blackstone

View of the Blackstone

View of the fence and trees along the river side

Music i listened to today (idea stolen from other blog)

Dressed to Depress

I got a snotty nose
I got nappy hair
My mommy don’t love me
And my daddy don’t care, NO!
My sister’s a slut
And my brother’s a drunk
And I’m standing in the mirror now
Getting myself all dressed up

Everything’s okay
At least that’s what they say
One foot in the gutter
The other’s in the drain
Punch the clock I’m your slave
For the rest of my life 12 hours a day
No future, no way
I was born to lose but that’s okay

Dressed to, dressed to depress
You couldn’t ask for anything less
Dressed to, dressed to depress
My whole life is a fucked up mess

Murderdolls


AND

Love Song

I hate you
I want you

But I hate you
I want you
But I hate you
But I hate you
I hate you
But I want you
I want you
I hate you

Rollins Band

Salem pics 01-03-09

MM in front of the Broom Closet...the store that started us on our journey to Salem today. it did NOT live up to it's own publicity. the store did carry SOME Harry Potter stuff...including some Olivander wands, but the proprietress was the iciest shopkeeper we met. everyone else (and i mean EVERYONE) was super friendly. in one shop we met another chihuahua nicknamed 'cheeks' that looked so much like the Chica that owns one of our library staff. i think the friendliness may be due, in part, to all the incense smouldering everywhere.

that's me under the Magic Parlor sign. this was the coolest store we visited. charms, potions, statues, candles, herbs, Holy Water, voodoo candles and dolls, etc. more shit than you could shake your wand at...which would also include fake doggie poo, too.

MM in front of a super cool "so many books, so many bruised noggins" used bookstore. the books were STACKED in 12 ft tall piles and if you wanted one, you had to get someone to help you balance the rest of the books in that pile. dropped at least 30 books and the proprietor did not care.

Maniac Mike in front of the Salem directory.

pictures 01-02-09

Maniac Mike in front of one of our favorite stores (still not as cool as The Armaggedon Shop

The Pillar of Truth (and shit)

my altar to Mary and Poppy

Another morning, another shot of insulin

it's a real pain in the ass to have a cat on insulin. the time i picked to give her the shots is 8ish am and 8ish pm. i have an hour leeway but i like to be as consistent as possible. now 8am is not a bad time when i have to go to work. when i have the day off, though, it's a pain. i know that 8am doesn't sound early to some but my body is set for nighttime (always has been) and 3am is often bedtime. the good thing is that Angel will pester me when the first alarm goes off (because she also gets new food) and pester me and pester me until i get out of bed. these last two nights she really has been a lovable PEST...probably because i've been home from work and she LOVES that.

we have 4 alarms and a phone call and still there are days when i oversleep.

i'm going back to bed.

I did vote for Nader

yep. i sure did.

Elder Ballou Cemetery photos-fall 2008

three pyramids on the headstone


M walking along rock wall





Maniac Mike happy to be sitting on an old New England rock wall.

Long Time Gone

this was taken at Elder Ballou Cemetery in October or November. a LOT has happened since i last wrote; a lot of it has not been good. M has had a lot of problems and we are actually seeing a counselor together. she's pretty sharp and is nice and i hope she will help. his problems revolve around his addiction(s) and mental and physical health.

i guess the good news would be that the Kitten Steam Engine is probably going to be part of an History Channel series and Kitten Computers now has a tripod dog and TWO cats and one more human, (plus a cat and two dogs at home). i have NO idea why Hino and Dox keep adding to the menagerie. they keep adopting these strays...and i'm sure i would have never, um, done, um, anything, um like that. well...i was partial to smaller animals. why can't they find a homeless HAMSTER behind the dumpster?

counselor (not Troi) thinks journaling is a good way for me to get out some of the anger i have but i don't know about that. i can be just as mean with the written word when i'm hurt or fuming mad.

why does the Hulk turn green when he's angry? shouldn't he turn green when he is envious? purple is more of an angry color, no? well, i guess if that were true, that damn big, goofy, Dinosaur would need anger management training.

as far as work goes...it goes on and on and on and on. we are busier than ever what with the economy so bad. this week, i have wed-sunday off and i took the tuesday before and the monday after the new year for vacation. i have used up all my sick time with bronchitis and a sinus infection that just won't completely go away.