BJ Woods

Tonight as I walk home from my sister’s place I am sort of spooked (she lives less than two blocks away,and my building shares the same alley that her & her hubby’s rented duplex is on). I moved from the East Side of St. Paul to South St. Paul and even though my new neighborhood is at LEAST a hundred years old and it is DEFINITELY safer than my old one (TRUST me, I used live in the Ghet-TOHH), I’m very aware of myself, so solitary and yet feeling so strange as I’m walking up the sidewalk leading back to my apartment, just trying not to walk through too many of the leaves that had been blown everywhere and are now lying all over the place. I must’ve subconsiously did that in order to not attract too much attention…

Maybe I was just a little paranoid and I guess maybe because it was close to ten and maybe also because the street I live on could do with a bit more lighting, or maybe because when I rounded the corner, a cat leaped from out of nowhere and ran off in a hurry, which startled me a tad. Plus I felt like every car that drove by was occupied by a freak at the wheel which was not hard to imagine, since almost every car’s headlights nearly blind you during your journey and you hope the driving stranger isn’t some ‘Buffalo Bill’-type serial killer…jeez, It just gives me that feeling of being afraid I’d get caught dead in my tracks by those car headlights, like a damned deer in the woods, haha.

Soooo glad it’s gonna be Friday tomorrow, and I’ll not waste a minute being loudly joyous about it, so whoever decides that my bitching about it not being Friday yet makes me a big ‘ol dork; they can bite me, ’cause I just don’t give a rip…I just demand my weekend. The kind of week it’s been so far, I’m determined that if tomorrow was Tuesday, I was gonna call in sick or dead or something…it sometimes just gets to be too much. Gosh darnit, it’s WAAAYY past my bedtime…gotta run.

Wise words for today
“A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.”

Friday big deal…looked forward to it all week, and for what? haha..whattaDAY it was. Awful busy day @ the job, went home and did absolutely nothing noteworthy or constructive. Just hung out and spent some time on the phone.

Saturday Today I decided to stay sleeping until 11:00 since it was soooo cold outside of the comfort of my bed. Made coffee, watched QVC (have you noticed the entertainment value? LOL), Read the mail, went for a walk and spent the rest of the day in sweats and a ponytail. Sorted clothes and put the summer ones away. Made some phone calls. Spent quality time on the net, looking for lord knows what, but ended up dozin’ off by 1:30 a.m.

Sunday Was bound and determined to take care of some important things today. Who says Sunday is the day of rest? haha. Washed dishes (since I live alone, I can get away w/doing them like, only every three days, LOL). Grocery shopping. Scrubbed the bathroom, including the toidy and the floor. Laundry. Paid the bills. Swept the kitchen. Took out the trash. Oh joy. Finally got some me-time in around midnight tonite and now *yAWn* I’m gonna hit the ‘ol hay. Hard.

Something to ponder
“Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.”

Same day, different year..

Other posts on this day:

• This post is a long time coming… – 2000

Today it rained all afternoon and got down to like, 38 by rush hour. Such a cold, damp, icky day, and while walking home from the bus I had the urge to run upstairs and throw on a heavy sweater and make a pot of cocoa. BRRRR!

News, Schmews
Heard Paul Reuben’s gonna open a restaurant…God help us all. Wonder what it’s gonna be like, what kinda place? A ‘peep-show’ theme maybe? Perhaps an adult theatre ambience? Wonder if they’ll relay the old “Thank you, come again” to their exiting customers? Wonder what the name’ll be. “Play with Your Pee-Wee’s House”? Ha. I kill me. I’m so mean and spiteful.

Tee-Vee Commercials that BOTHER me: of course, all the cleverly decked out mod kids in the GAP ads, all so thin with their gaunt faces barely moving as they sing so eerily the choruses of songs we’d forgotten, and now we will forget for sure and forever, and I really HATE those damn commercials…

Burger King has some bad ones too, the worst out of my list of nasties…The one where the two guys arm-wrestle for money but ya can’t look at the burger they placed on the table or ya lose, and the guy that loses is all poopy ’cause the winner was wearing a “Whopper Patch”…oh, and that airplane one where the flight attendant is running through her safety schpeel and mentions the fact that there’s some kind sandwich in the seatback pouches in front of every person and all of a sudden the passengers are all lunging at each others throats, fighting like wild dogs after the sandwiches.

Find meself clickin’ the ‘ol clickar the millisecond these puppies flash on the boob tube or else I’ll wind up with me arse in the lunatic asylum…please excuse me..I’m reading Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt for the 2nd time and I can’t seem to put it down, and I also find I’m nearly bursting out my words with the manner of a poor old mad Irish woman…

gettin’ going again, till tomorrow…

Same day, different year..

Other posts on this day:

• Signs, Signs, Everywhere Signs – 1999

Tonite I went to my sisters and drank too much Tequiza (that’s goooood stuff, btw) smoked too much, missed the new ‘Friends’ episode while we discussed our plans for Halloween and then forgot my digicam and my blessed book Angela’s Ashes there, which by the way, is a VERY GOOD read, I highly recommend it to everyone. Even if you are not a book buyer you can get your hot ‘lil hands on a copy, it’s in the libraries, now.

My sis & her hubby and all our pals are invited to a bash being thrown for Halloween and we yakked about this. My sis wants to go as a she-devil, and Tony wants to go the lazy ’skeleton t-shirt’ route, or just do the scary mask thing, but we aren’t havin’ it and we’ll fix him up good. My little nephew is gonna be a spider, and I have come up with the idea of being a load of laundry. It’s too cute, I can’t explain how it’s gonna work, but maybe I’ll post pics later.

Basically the nite went o.k. but in general I was feelin’ a bit past a little sickly in the a.m., and the last place I wanted to be was at work but I found myself there, anyway.

Well now it’s time to get my silly ass to bed and I will post what happened on Friday (which is today, btw) later.

Qrazy Quote:
“I intend to live forever – so far, so good.”

I just waited, like, 15 minutes at the bus stop tonite, just to have the bus roll right by me. Didn’tcha see me wave? No, SIR.

AM I at the bus stop?

uh huh….then why am I still standing here?

Oh yippee Christmas Day, Now I get to pound the sidewalk all the way home…and it’s not enough that I’m about 8 or more blocks from home, but to add to that, I have just bought some groceries and have that bag besides the one I toted to work today. So I got my Jane Fonda done for the day, that’s for sure. Then I get upstairs all hot and achy and sweaty from lumbering all the way home and up the stairs with the extra 25 pounds to hear the phone ringing as I’m putting the key into the lock.

Lashonda or whoever from Sears wants to know when I’m making my next payment and I want to tell her to take their payment and put it where the Pope don’t rollerskate, because I just mailed the payment on Monday, but I stifle the urge. Somehow I survived, cooled off, managed dinner and mail and all that happy stuff and made dessert for a luncheon tomorrow and now here I sit, happy as pie, only now I have to finish some work on my computer. *gags* I’m sure you’ve heard enough!

Today’s Pearl of Wisdom:
“The sooner you fall behind, the more time you’ll have to catch up.”

1) “Party Of Five”-isn’t it more like eight, now? And why are they all sleeping together? hmmm…nevermind, I dooonnn wanna know.

2) That damned Levi’s commerical with the invisible couple–no comment.

3) People who send me URLs through my icq about some goofy thing or another…mostly AOHell-ers, the poor things…they have no clue.

4) The time I waste in the morning to blow-dry hair, find the right pair of shoes to go with such and such, make lunch and coffee, etc., etc., when I’d rather be sitting at the table reading the paper or listening to the jocks on my favorite radio station’s morning show make jokes and snide comments about everyone on earth.

5) Having to get up at the ungodly hour of 6:00 a.m., when it’s still DARK outside, and now that I mention it, I actually didn’t mind getting up that early when summer’s equinox was still in effect. It’s a scientific fact that the light seeps through your eyes while you’re asleep and gradually you get used to it and wake up more readily than you would in the dark winter morn. ‘Course even in the summer I’d just as soon wake up at the crack of dawn, stuff the crack and go back to sleep. Ha ha.

6) How ’bout that governor of ours!! and how ’bout them MN Twins! And how ’bout them VIKES!!!

….*busts out in a HUGE laugh* yeah right!! Just thought It’d be interesting to hear SOMEONE say those things…

Well, kidlets…got a bunch of mails yet to get through, So I’ll be back later.

On my way home from the bus stop tonite I retrieve my camera from Sandy’s with the intention of getting some good fall color shots, but alas, peak time around here was early last week and now it’s all brown and dusty looking in South St. Paul. Looks like it’s real close to winter for sure.

So instead I decide to get some pics of odd things around town, including a nice shot of the sunset and view of the full moon. It was taken at the top of the stairs that climb the hill overlooking the warehouse district just at the end of my block.

I’m calling it a day.

Fuckin’ Aye!
“I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!”

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Um…yeah. O.K. So I HAVEN’T exactly been right ON TOP of STUFF lately…haha. I’ll get over it. Uh huh. Been on vacation since Monday, so yeah, I’ve been laggin’ in the ‘daily update’ department. Big deal. 

Still haven’t got around to getting my halloween costume together. Been busy doing a whole lot of nothing. Haha..but guess what? Even though it only took me forever to upload those snapshots from my slow camera to my slower yet computer (’cause I was too damn lazy to go buy new batteries) I did get them all uploaded from the cam today and want to show them off…nothing fancy you realize…just little odd shots from around my neighborhood.

Here they are:

This is “The Coop” restaurant just
down the street from where I live.

This is the total eyesore of a beauty salon across the street from The Coop. Yes, those are christmas lights, which

they display year-round. Ugly.

Ever hear the quip about a man’s car being an extension of their manhood? This must be

The deluxe model!

This is a view from the top of the great big hill which is my neighborhood. You can see about 5 towns from here, and on the 4th of July, you can see the fireworks from

almost all those towns, at once. Cool.

Damn:
Q: What’s the difference between ignorance & indifference?
A: I don’t know and I don’t care.

I noticed the words today as I waited for the bus: “Avangelica Apostolica. De La Fa En Cristo Jesus.”

Weird. There’s this sign in front of a church that’s next to my bus stop, and when I moved here in July, it read “Evangelical Apostelistic Assembly of Jesus Christ”

Oh well…I knew it had a mostly Hispanic congregation but was unsure of the reason why they waited ’til now to redo the sign. Maybe the congregation is getting a little too varied to suit the clergy and perhaps it is a small subtle way of saying “Hey, dammit, if you can’t understand this sign, then don’t attend this church” But I know most churches will welcome anyone who wishes to attend. Hmmm…maybe everyone WASN’T that welcome here…haha. Ironic. What is the old saying…”God works in mysterious ways”? He sure does.

Crap. Maybe I’m just a silly ‘ol mean chick and I need to chill out and stop thinking like that and who in their right mind would do such a mean thing…I need a vacation. Good thing I’m taking the last week of this month off to do whatever I darned well please.

Soooo damned cold up in this joint. Had to wear an extra sweater while scrolling thru emails tonite. big day tomorrow, gonna get movin’

How right this is:
“If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.”

Same day, different year..

Other posts on this day:

• Chilly Willy would be havin’ a hey day… – 1999

music to rollerskate to.I don’t have any on my site but last winter there was an entry

almost entirely devoted to talking about things my sister and I did as kids in the 70’s, including owning a vast collection of 45’s and a cherished ‘Smurfs’ record player so we had cool music to rollerskate to in our basement.

hatbox for children 1950. I didn’t write about hatboxes, nor children in this entry
I may have mentioned a box and I know I published some jokes a friendsent me, one of which was about birth control after 50.

busty contestants tv

This listing points to an entry where I had posted some comments about some entertainment news articles: Talking about tv’s Survivor 2, Anna-Nicole Smith’s recent trial ‘trials’ and the then-upcoming People’s Choice Awards.

Old Baby Photos 1960’sThis is NOT what it appears to be. The link that comes up is for my ‘about’ page

for the weblog. In it I talk about my family, including my then four-year old nephew,

and a friend’s baby. Then I go on to discuss how and when the internet got started
(in the 1960’s), and talk about some of the reasons I enjoy using the internet, such
as looking at photos.

Google-y Eyed
Note how many of these weird search results that I have posted so many of, are from www.google.com. Google’s robot crawler manages to do an impressive job of combining all this junk I blog about, in order to make my site’s description so interesting in search results, thus bringing various idiots to my page, who come in search of the ODDEST things. But make no mistake. For Google, I have nothing but gratitude. Bring me more idiots!! Idiots make the world go ’round…