January 12th

1896
H. L. Smith took the first X-ray photograph. It was a hand with a bullet in it.

1915
The U.S. House of Representatives rejected a proposal to give women the right to vote.

1932
Hattie W. Caraway, a democrat from Arkansas became the first woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate.

1998
Nineteen European countries signed an agreement banning human cloning.

A Year Later

Around this time last year i submitted my baby (kalynth sun) to ellora's cave for their writing contest. i haven't submitted anything since despite my very high and encouraging marks. i fixed all the problems and think it's much better but feel like i shouldn't submit it again until i can give it the attention it deserves. i just don't have time for a novel right now. all that prep work and then writing and dinner. they don't exactly go together.

Note to Self

bemoaning the cost of japanese food...

note to self...

consider soliciting for a japanese lover skilled in sushi making...

in particular avocado roll, rainbow roll, calamari roll, house roll...

Tokyo Steakhouse

friday went to fw and had sushi...

no, friday went to fw and had some kick ass, take no prisoners, i'll never brush my teeth again, jump up and praise God sushi.

there, that's better.

Reading

finished 4th of july by james patterson. my least favorite of the series so far.

now reading richard again. (laymon). the lake. pretty good. but i suspect some patchwork. it's okay. i love him anyway, god rest his horror-writing soul.

Promises, Promises

uh-oh. it's time to ponder resolutions again. i loathe this time of year. i always feel like i want to jump off a really steep embankment. i wouldn't die though. i'd probably just twist my head around just so and be forced to stare at my ass for the rest of my life.

Listed in no particular order are all the promises I'll be breaking in 2006:

1. Exercise more

2. Eat better--that's not eat more, that's eat better

3. Submit something, anything, hell, even my name to a damned publisher.

4. Be kinder, i.e. more of a doormat than I already am.

5. Pay off my debts. Just in case that aforementioned mode of death starts looking good.

6. Stick to a daily schedule. Get up at a decent hour and look alive. Queen of the zombies doesn't count.

7. Get in touch with my feminine side. While I am a female, I feel like an impostor most of the time.

8. Keep better house. Seek domestic goddess status instead of poster child for the deadly sin of sloth.

9. Reach out and touch someone. Or someone(s). Make some damn friends.

10. Spread the love. Grow roots. Have a litter. Breed. Multiply. Populate the planet. Save the population.

11. Strive to love myself and accept that I am a total loser weirdo freak nut with a heart of gold.

Pet Peeves

Pet Peeves

1. Rude bitches in SUVs—flip and die going around a sharp curve, you cum-gurgling whores
2. Humidity—I always look like Janis Joplin—after cremation
3. Everything my OCD grandfather does—drums fingers, flicks the seam on his blue jeans, starts and ends every sentence with the same phrase or choice words, breathes. Just kidding…
4. Being teased too much
5. Old men with infant children—hi, daddy-grand-dad
6. Grody laundry mats—do I really want to wear this now that it’s been in there?
7. Loud bassing cars with crap systems—that sounds so good
8. Maudlin women—can’t explain this, just know em when I see em
9. Shitty horror movies with no-talent ass clowns
10. Big budget movies written by no-talent ass clowns
11. Pedestrians that don’t wave, nod or make eye contact when you let them pass and don’t mow them down and snicker when their entrails and major organs dingle-dangle behind you like cans on the bumper of a newlywed car
12. Bad hair days—hell, months, years
13. Insomnia—what day is it?
14. Loud music in stores—to hell with your merchandise, can I buy a frickin’ thought?
15. Yapping dogs—shut up, you little shitters
16. Dogs owners who think their dogs don’t need a leash—you are not She-Ra of the forest
17. Dog owners without leashes
18. Fair-weather fathers—is it Christmas again, already?
19. Step-mothers who think they’re your new mother—what happened to my real one, bitch? (oh yeah, she smoked your husband’s ass)
20. Oil spills—mud baths for defenseless animals?
21. Criminally stupid, twerpy, make-all-Texans-look-bad presidents who think everything they do is a direct order from a God they were told to believe in for more votes
22. Wimpy Democrats who fear George Bush
23. Camera batteries that die on Christmas Eve—die, die, die!
24. Abdominal fat—fuck you!
25. Texas summers—just nuke me and get it over with
26. Men ruled by their dicks
27. Women ruled by their tits—don’t ask me why it isn’t clits
28. The fragility of the human body
29. Dirt in my eyes
30. The price of health insurance
31. That moment in the day when your brain feels like a stale piece of bread
32. That moment in the day when your brain feels like it’s one beep away from braindead
33. The way you feel at dusk everyday—thick, sad, and used up
34. My husband’s crappy office chair that pops and causes it to fall back in the dead quiet and scare the shit out me
35. Questions when I first wake up—I don’t even know who you are and you want to know what my plumber’s name is?
36. A sweat-drenched bra--yuck
37. Heat rash—and knowing you have to put your clothes back on
38. Having to change my underwear in the middle of the day because they’re soaked with sweat
39. Folding fitted sheets—God, if you can hear me, just go ahead and crucify me
40. People without humor
41. People without empathy
42. People without imagination
43. Repeating your words after you say them and not meaning to—told you, I was certifiable
44. Cleaning Venetian blinds
45. Bear hunters—put down the gun and let’s see
46. Men who shoot wolves from helicopters—yeah, that’s some sport
47. Guys who rev their engines to make up for their dick size—it’s not working
48. Rednecks who talk like they’ve had a mild stroke
49. People who shuffle their feet—if you’re that tired, stay home
50. People who scream for someone in the next state
51. Being ugly
52. Me