Friday, January 30, 2004




Rich and I were suddenly struck with the idea, after eating one of my homemade/handmade pepperoni pizzas that we would open a pizzeria, because Massachusetts seems to not have any good pizza places anywhere! (We don't like chains) The only place would possibly be located in the North End, however, it's almost impossible for me to go over there... anyway, we would name our little pizzeria, "Perfect Pepperoni Pizzas" and serve only pepperoni pizzas. If anyone who is reading this is from the 233rd "crew", do you guys remember Tony's Pizzeria, right on the corner of White Plains Road and 233rd? Wasn't it good? I used to march up there and order calzones and a "plain". But I always thought that the competition, by the citibank, on the opposite side of 233rd and white plains had better pizza. It was called "Lisa's Pizzeria". They had a pac-man game, and Mike and I used to play it while waiting for our pizzas. However, we couldn't get there because it was two crosses of the street to get there while Tony's all we had to do was go up the hill. I have to find the black and white photo i took of it from the subway station, (Tony's that is). Last time I went "Lisa's" was closed, replaced by either a florist shop or a Jamaican music store. Anyway, so this is a nice intro to the poll and I wanna see what you guys like better. Okee, see y'all later. Poll coming...now!!

Wednesday, January 28, 2004

So there's tiny little snowflakes flying around outside. Almost as if someone had shaken out the rug and the dust is just swirling past my window. It didn't really cover up anything, the driveway is just lightly dusted and the trees are still dark. Soot was enjoying it though. It seems that the neighborhood squirrels are running around outside and she likes to think she's akin to them. I've witnessed her practicing her hop and bound technique. Sometimes she directs Rich, "okay, you come out of the kitchen and I'll be sitting here, and then you reach down to pet me and I'll practice leaping out of your touch, just like those small gray kitties (squirrels) outside." So I stand around watching them play at it. He goes back to the kitchen and they try it once more. Sometimes I see the frustration in his face as he tries to really get her and I see the glee on her face when she succeeds in hopping away. Cute. Both of them.

Tuesday, January 27, 2004

So what's up with the democratic primary race? Actually I look favorably on Howard Dean though a close second would be "Mama"Moseley Braun because there's something scary about her. She makes me feel as if I should be at my best or her ever-present smile may turn into something worse. Yeah if there was a chance for a woman for president I'd pick her. It's terrible that this is still a racist, sexist country. She never had a chance. Too bad we can't vote the "good" way, which is to tally up our votes by top three. Giving the most points to who we want to win and so forth. Kerry? come on. Wake up everyone! He hasn't done anything good in his time as Senator of Massachusetts. As a country that goes by looks, don't you guys see him and go "ughh" with a shudder? Why do you think J.F.K. (oops, Kerry's initials are J.F.K. as well) (Kennedy) won over Nixon? Because he was better looking. If we're gonna go by that, then vote for the good ole southern boy, John Edwards. Well I really can't bitch because I'm not a registered voter. Whoops. Signing off, it's
Helle good

Monday, January 26, 2004

New poll, tell me if you chose "other" what that other is. Thank you and enjoy.

Sunday, January 25, 2004

Picture of the week

What is it?? I call it "Dink Fountain"

Saturday, January 24, 2004

Hey Mike, you're such a fugaze! I can't believe you can't even call your sister or in the least text me back!!! Douche!

Thanks for love! :-(

Me!

Friday, January 23, 2004

So i'm slowly getting there with the choose your own adventure. I hope i'm not the only one excited over it. heehee. Um, it's Friday, a good day to really jut relax and do nothing. I have a Poirot movie to watch tonight on A&E. This is routine, I try to watch it whenever I can on Fridays. Sometimes it's on, sometimes it's not, sometimes I'm busy, sometimes i forget. And so here I am waiting for the 8 o'clock hour and then I'm off to knit and watch t.v. I'm almost done with half of my hat, the one that matches the scarf that I just knitted. Yay. I really am progressing. I should edit that earlier post that made me list the five things I do to relax. Knitting is definitely one. Ooh, Rich and I just saw "Spellbound" a documentary on these kids who are all competing in the national spelling bee. This was the '99 spelling bee held in Washington D.C. Oh it was fantastic, but you have to remember I love documentaries. I even saw one called "The Checker King", there's something so touching and funny about it. One that you guys have to see is called "The Devil's Playground" it's about Amish life and their rite of passage called "rumspringa", that was a good documentary. This Spellbound was awesome too. The kids all came from different economc and cultural backgrounds. From the more wealthy to ones who lived in the rustic, almost struggling families. You root for the underdogs but you know it's impossible to have a chance against those who have tutors and every kind of help thrust upon them. Some of them had very supportive parents and some it seemed as if their parents were too crazy, not seeing it as a competition but rather more like a fight to the death. I have to get going, set my little knitting area and get comfy. Have a good weekend y'all.

Me.

Thursday, January 22, 2004

Do you guys remember "choose-your-own-adventure" books? I used to have dueling emotions about it because it was both frustrating whenever I chose the wrong one and had to go back but the challenge was something I loved. I had to find the perfect story without dying at a wrong turn. It was great! I propose to write one and post it here so that you can follow along to your own story! I wanted to make it a murder/mystery one. Everyone loves one of those. Sort of like Clue.
Oh yeah, for those of you who don't know what a "choose-your-own-adventure" book is, it's one of those books that after you read an event you then go to the bottom of the page which says, "jon asks you to hand him the rope" then two or three choices at the bottom which says "hand the rope to jon go to page 54", "don't hand the rope to jon go to page 99", "kill jon and flee go to page 10" so on. It's great, keep watch of this blog and I'll keep you updated.

Me

Wednesday, January 21, 2004

Do you remember these lyrics?

Life is like a hurricane
Here in Duckburg
Race cars, lasers, aeroplanes
It's a duck-blur
Might solve a mystery
Or rewrite history

CHORUS:
DuckTales (oooh ooooh)
Every day they're out there making
DuckTales (oooh ooooh)
Tales of daring do bad and good
LuckTales (oooh ooooh)

When it seems they're heading for the
Final curtain
Cool deduction never fails
That's for certain
The worst of messes
Become successes

CHORUS

D-D-D-Danger! Look behind you
There's a stranger out to find you
What to do? Just grab on to some DuckTales

D-D-D-Danger! Watch behind you
There's a stranger out to find you
What to do? Just grab on to some ...


Not pony tales or cotton tales, no
DuckTales (ooh ooooh)

Do you remember the Disney Afternoon line up? With Duck Tales and Gummi Bears
and Rescue Rangers
and Tales Spin
What happened to cartoons nowadays?
Hey have any of you ever seen that "Airborne" commercial? The ones I've seen is with Greg Brady
and he's on the train and the fella next to him sneezes and Greg yells in his face. It ends with a child saying "Airborne babee!" haha I love that commercial.

Happy Chinese New Year! (in actuality today is New Years Eve). What makes this year so special? It's the year of the Monkey, which I happen to be. A metal monkey. And it's gonna be a good year for all of us but especially for me. haha. It's a leap year too so watch out! Listen, only you make your destiny. Don't follow all the razzmatazz of horoscopes and things like that, though you can read em for fun don't let it interpret your life for you. Have fun this year 'cause that's what monkeys are all about!

Famous monkeys:
Famous movie monkey: Tom Hanks
Famous magic monkey: Harry Houdini
Famous music monkey: Little Richard
Famous author moneky: Alice Walker
Famous Emperor Monkey: Julius Caesar
Famous all-round monkey: Leonardo de Vinci
Famous kinky monkey: Marquis de Sade, where the word "sadism" derives from.

Be good.
"If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?"
Art Hoppe

Me.

Tuesday, January 20, 2004

Sometimes there's hardly time to brush your teeth during the day, and sometimes it necessitates one to just grab a piece of gum to tide one over til a more convenient time for you to do so. The poll is to see how many of you do so. Don't worry, all polls are anonymous, unless you give me a shout out telling me what you picked and your name and address... haha. So whaddaya do? Tell me! Check out the forums too! No need to be shy, it's open to anything.

Have fun.
Me
one of the funniest scenes/lines in South Park, this is the show entitled "raisins", Wendy has just broken up with Stan and he is trying to win her back, he uses Jimmy to relay his message of love to her...:

"Jimmy: ...Okay. [walks over to Wendy] Hey uh-Wen, hey wu-Wemdy. [she turns around with her books]
Wendy: Yeah?
Jimmy: Stan says your a cont... you're a- cont- S-Stan says you're a cont- cont-
Wendy: Well tell Stan to stop!! [closes her locker and runs away]
Jimmy: -cont- You're a cont-tinuing source of inspiration to him."

Monday, January 19, 2004

Yeah started a forum too, actually Rich did it since I couldn't. heehee. Good Boy! ruff. You have to register in order to go on so...that's for you Mike since you wanted to relive the forum days of my website! Have fun. We're under pets just now and we're under surveillance. shh act good for now.

Sunday, January 18, 2004

Soot likes to pretend that she's a homeless kitty that sleeps in a cardboard box. She has one in every room. That's her favorite places to sleep...in fact, she's in one right now. That's her teddy bear beside her. I made it for her. Woohoo Amazon.com!


Alright you can't expect me to put some pics up, (when I have finally suceeded in figuring it out) without some of my lovely little kitty? right? so here ya go, lucky devils.

picture of the week
boo to you!
Try out the poll and guestbook, they're new too, just wanted to see if they work! yay.

Me again.

Saturday, January 17, 2004

Brooklyn accent number 6 and to hear what I hear every friggin day please refer to the Bernie and Phyl's commercial, appearing anytime from 9 to 9. Bernie and Phyl's! quality, comfort and price, that's nice!
Thanks to Margaret for this really neat site. I especially liked the sample of the Thai from khon kaen and the sample english from Brooklyn. Oh how I love New York.

Friday, January 16, 2004

Especially for my brother: "The New York Times confirms what we've suspected all along: PowerPoint makes you dumb. In a new essay, information theorist Edward Tufte outlines why PowerPoint 'forces people to mutilate data beyond comprehension.' The Columbia Accident Investigation Board at NASA agrees, noting that the slides produced by engineers to report on the wing damage were so confusing that 'a senior manager might read this PowerPoint slide and not realize that it addresses a life-threatening situation.'" Tufte's essay (and the shuttle/PowerPoint critique) has been available for sale since earlier this year, but the NYT article gives a greater sampling of its content than Tufte's website does.

For further reading refer to this
I love these 50's pin-up girls

More 5

List five things you'd like to accomplish by the end of the year.
1. Finish my novel
2. Get fit and eat healthy/healthily
3. Get published in all fields (especially short stories and novels)
4. Make lots of money
5. Get out of this house!

List five people you've lost contact with that you'd like to hear from again
1. Really this one isn't do-able since I've kept contact with the people I want to hear from. Maybe I'd add some friends from high school, like the Leddy twins and Erin, Kit-Kat Kathy, Jane, Lisa and Colette and Nakisha. (whoops more that 5).

List five things you'd like to learn how to do
1. Definitely the violin
2. Finger plucking the guitar, 'cause I already know how to strum the chords.
3. Tinikling a traditional Filipino dance with two long poles and you have to step around it first slowly then faster and faster in hopes that you don't get your ankles chopped off. I don't know who they are...
4. Belly dance and in addition to dances, strip dance.
5. Drum well

List five things you'd do if you won the lottery (no limit)
1. Get out of this house and into a new one
2. Parents and Mike set up with their own house anywhere.
3. Friends and family get to enjoy as well/
4. A few little items for my lovely little kitty. cat pusher cat cabana
5. Finally the world shall feel my wrath!

List five things you do that help you relax
1.Cook
2.Eat
3. Run and row
4. Shower (I smell good)
5. Meditate

Thursday, January 15, 2004

Michelle's Top Ten Books 2003

10. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
This book was good because as a writer Toni Morrison is not afraid to flip readers' expectations and one's sense of the norm (preconceptions). From this book I learned that it's very hard to point a finger at the "bad" guy, because there is no bad guy, really. It's very hard to say, "oh man that guy is so wrong for doing that", when you know that guy's history and how the event came about. This book deals with a lot of scary, shocking events, such as incest and child molestation, but by letting you into each character's history, life, mind, you get to "know them" in a way that it's hard to lay all this blame on top of them. It's as if your mother had stolen something, because you know her, because you're "attached" to her, it's hard to just ship her off to jail. Ya know? Read it, it's good. Lots of double meanings to words to, which I love. P.S. if you'd like to read more from this author, try Sula, Beloved andSong of Solomon

9. Bloodchild and other stories by Octavia E. Bulter
Oh if you're a sci-fi reader, read this book. I recommend the stories "Blood Child" "Speech Sounds" and "The Evening and the Morning and the Night". The entire book was well written and being short stories it was easy to put down after reading one without having to remember what had happened. Did I say it was well written? It was great, I read it to Rich and he liked the first story, "Blood Child", not just because it's eerie, and a bit frightening but also because it parallels a lot of issues that are seen today. All of them are convincingly real. Very Twilight Zone-y, but even better beause it's all in your head. I haven't read any other stories or books of hers, though I hear her novel "Dawn" is very good.

8. Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
Why this book? It's easy, it's factual, it's touching, it's inspiring, it's sad. Written almost like a newspaper piece. Always something to interest you, almost a non fiction book rather than a novel, and that's due to the fact that it's a true account of something that happened, but also because of how she wrote it. Although it seems like a work of non fiction there's so many amazing, beyond belief items in it that keep it a good, interesting read. I saw the movie and it just does not compare to the book, but what movie does?

7. A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch
If you've ever seen the (lovely) movie, Iris, with Dame Judy Dench, it's about this author, Iris Murdoch. What can I say about this novel? Its good. So good because it's thought provoking, without making you search for it. It's there in the names of the characters, their evident actions, the sordidness of it all, but it makes you go, haha, huh? ohhh! ahhh! This is one of those books that made me feel the doldrums over the thought that I may never write half as well. It's full of surprises, sarcasm, ironies, pain. God it's lovely. Warning, I don't think it has the "popular" pull that other novels have but it's good. Read up on it before you jump in.

6. Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
It's written like a painting. (It is loosely based on the dutch artist Vermeer) You become so immersed in the many tiny, soft, subtle strokes as well as the bolder, decisive marks of the characters and the places and the actions and the scenes and suddenly you step back and you realized that they have combined together to create a masterpiece. This is so quietly done, that when one thing occurs, it really touches you. It's one book that I would read again, just so that I can go over it and catch the little pieces that I've missed and turn it around in my head. I've heard that they are making a movie of it starring, Colin Firth, who is one of my more favorite actors because he played Mr. D'arcy in the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, (my all time favorite novel) and he also stars opposite Rene Zellwegger, again playing Darcy in "Bridget Jones' Diary" (one and two). This book well done.

5. No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
I have been in search of good "mystery novels" since two summers ago when I was hit by the crime solving bug. It all began one day when I was desperate for a book to read, and so a trip to the bookstore found me staring at a book that Rich recommended called Ten Little Indians (a.k.a. And Then There Were None) by Agatha Christie. That started me out with the (Christie's) Poirot and Miss Marples, and once I exhausted those I decided to take a class on detective fiction in America. That led to a string of hard-boiled and "soft-boiled" books like The Maltese Falcon,Devil In A Blue Dress,Farewell, My Lovely and some other, "softer" books which led to this book. Oh my word, I was not expecting this at all. It's set in Botswana, and the main character is Precious Ramotswe who solves crimes and "littler" mysteries, but in this book we also see how she came into this profession, we learn about her past, her endurance to continue on with such an odd career choice, and also glimpse of a life so different from what I see everyday. It's another gentle, quiet book that went by too fast. Books that make me crave for more are hard to find. Good thing there are more volumes to this series.

4. My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki
God how much I laughed and laughed because of this book. It's strange because I remember feeling like I was forced to get through it because it was a "class" book, and then suddenly I laughed and found that I had finished it weeks before schedule. It's about this meshing, or rather confusion of American and Japanese and American Japanese culture. But it's not just funny, it's got several messages all wrapped up in there. Pick one (from racism to domestic violence to fertility) and you'll find that it touches on it, but without bogging you down. What I didn't really like so much was the way it twisted and ran away at the end, but the first two-thirds is so good that I almost forgive the ending. Read it. Warning! It may turn you into a vegetarian.


Down to the last three...better and better.

3. Bombay Time by Thrity Umrigar
It's set in India, and deals with love and loss, the changing world, and the quickness of time. What makes it really, really good is that it's just an "introduction" of the characters. I know their past and their present but the author leaves me yearning to know more about them. It's so good because you get wrapped up in their lives, each and every character has a separate story to tell that is both inspiring and heart-rendering. Each separate story is like a piece of cloth that holds its own beauty and style and that is pieced together to form a quilt of interacting people and lives. I relate to it because it recalls a lot of issues that my "family" deals with, both the laughter and the tears, and it was sad, but oh so sweet. Loved it and will read it again.

2. Empire Falls by Richard Russo
It's full of so many little scenes of everyday life America, outside of the big cities, but that doesn't mean it's not full of "characters" and interesting events and eye opening revelations into human lives and the world around us. It was hilarious and yet almost with a off-centered realness to it. But I guess reality is a bit off centered. The characters may be a bit two dimensional but a study of their life and actions are so real, there's a truth to it that touches the reader. It's honest, sad, redeeming, brilliant. This is one of those that I would suggest to just about anyone to read. And it won the Pulitzer Prize...for 2002 I think.

1. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Gee, there's a list of characteristics that a book has that makes me truly love it. One is that it makes me cry; once you get me to cry it's over, you had me at "hello". Another is that it makes me laugh and this book made me laugh and giggle and roll around until I busted a gut, and then there's the hate factor, I was actually made to feel a certain anger and disgust toward someone! This book brought out true emotions in me, that were not in halves but in wholes! I could not put it down and I was truly upset when it ended because I wanted more, (and it's about 600 pages long). One last point that makes a novel stay with me is that it inspired me to "create" and anything that produces one to actually get up and pay homage to it has got to be amazing. God it's great. Must read it.







Wednesday, January 14, 2004

So i haven't really worked on this. I went to the supermarket and then made pizza, handmade/homemade. Problem is I can't remember my password for something so stuff is just rotting around until I can remember. I looked through my yearbook from high school because I was struck with some sort of nostalgia for times that weren't even that great. After rummaging through it I realized that a lot of people wrote things like "k.i.t." and their phone numbers and these were people I didn't even know. Not one full sentence ever passed between us and here they were writing their phone #. What the??? that goes to show you that there were a lot of fake people running around, full of sentementalities that are insincere. How can I be a "cool person" if you never took the time out of your clique to even say hello to me? Not that I took time out from my clique to say hello either, but I didn't leave messages as if we were best friends since kindergarten. Oh well, I wouldn't mind seeing them, just to see how everyone has gotten on in their lives. I've heard from the grapevine that at least four people are married and many more are "with child" or "children", other than that I haven't heard that so and so is a millionnaire or anything like that. But there are many other kinds of successes besides the monetary route, right? Oh yeah, the next blog has to be about the books I've read in the past year, and how good they are. Or maybe yet, I'll just keep it to the top ten really good books. Okay I gotta put em together and try to remember my password. haha.

Me
Alright, so I got fed up with the pinks and things...really pink isn't my color. I feel much better with this new set up. I don't know how many of you can see the "courier" font. if not just email me. haha. this is much more calming for me. Now I gotta figure out how to place pics in and stuff. That's what I'll do with today's free time! Yay. Okay see y'all later

Me

Tuesday, January 13, 2004

I noticed a lot of people update their blogs every few months, or days with new colors or what have you so in anticipation of Valentines day I have updated my blog to a pretty in pink sort of motif. Hopefully it doesn't look as bad as it did before, which, mind you I did not notice because on my laptop it was splendid, but then I saw it on someone else's computer and I was shocked, to the point of disgust. But when I came home I didn't get around to changing it so now that I did you all should see Rich's face when he saw the pink, he looked disgusted. Oh well, can't please everyone. I'll change it soon to maybe a dusty blue or something like that. Okey, just apologizing in advance.

Me

Monday, January 12, 2004

It snowed last night, and there are big flecks floating outside my window. Last night's Sex and the City was a great episode. Sam and her cancer was a downer but (sorry for whoever hasn't seen it yet, leave it in the comments section) it was good. However, I want to focus on what Carrie wrote on women today being romance intolerant. It's true. Just watching something seen as sweet makes me go "ick". I guess I'm not a big romantic, though back in the day Rich was quite "romantic" in his way, and I found them to be sweet or "cute". His poems and the sweet little things have slowly been kept to anniversaries and other special days, no longer the surprise factor, I guess he no longer has to "woo" me so what's the point? I guess he would say the same for me. After watching a Dr. Phil show, Phil said that womens' idea of romantic is having her mate help out around the house without asking, washing dishes, making dinner, taking out the garbage, help with the kids, etc. That, when I heard it, made my heart beat fast. Yes that is true romance! haha. It's true. We're not romance intolerant, our romance is just focused in another direction. Not poetry (though I write them and read em to Rich, but not once have I written it for him...heehee), no flowers, though I wouldn't mind a potted plant that wont die, and chocolates...ooh mmm please. haha gotta go.

Me

Sunday, January 11, 2004

Whenever I am in New York in some Asian (can't say Oriental) market, my brother and I usually grab a few pocky sticks, two kinds, Strawberry and Chocolate, (too bad, chocolates are "yan yan"s not pocky). But so when I saw this little insert I thought ooh, mmmmm pockys. Mike would understand. Rich begged me to take this off because he thinks blogs with little inserts proclaiming what kind of person you are are not worthy of a read. But so...i have to explain why the heck a "green tea pocky" picture is here below, and now you know, it's for the yumminess and not for the classification of your one and only. Though I think I am pretty mellow and capable, and refined (BURP). Please to excuse.

Me.







what flavor pocky are you?


[c] sugardew


I was struck the other day with the thought that my photographs of childhood would one day fade away into a blur of yellows and grays, no longer holding on to the beautiful blues of the sky and reds of my skirt. It's similar to the true "I". What is the "I" and how do you define it? I would define it as memories and experiences that define you. Every few seconds our cells die and are replaced by new ones, so there are no cells that really link us to what we were in childhood. I cannot write out and explain exactly what I mean, but I do mean to write a story about it. Hopefully I wont lose track of it. So like the photographs that would fade, and not be the exact ones that they once were, we too fade from our original selves, a new entity, different, but still full of memories.

Thursday, January 08, 2004

A lot of people have to remember that what is written here is mostly true with my skewed sense of writing. I have the flair for dramatics and i like to write things "slant" as good ole Emily Dickinson told us all. So if things do not occur as you remember it I would like to reiterate that this is due to my imagination. Does this show signs of good writing? It's close enough to the truth with just a few added brush strokes. Beautiful.

Moi

Tuesday, January 06, 2004

Oh yeah I forgot to mention that I had a great time on New Years day, or new day as I called it, hanging with my mom, Mike, Julienne and George, watching the Debut, and Legends of the Fall and eating, eating, eating. I came home and weighed myself and found that I had gained five pounds. It's either the food or I'm pregnant... sorry Vilma. there goes the box o' pads I took home with me. haha. Yeah my mom's a crack up when it comes to watching movies because she's just a leaky faucet ready to gush at any moment. She's seen the movie a million times and she still cries at all the parts. Ah me. Aunty Susie never showed up but then she had company and couldn't get rid of them. So it was just us five drinking virgin pina coladas and eating chocolate cake, fruit salad, lumpia, bihon, barbequed chicken wings, lasagna. mm mm. So now after this little bout of the cold (shivers) I'm back to exercising. Rich keeps bringing up the fact that my lack of exercise and healthy eating is the cause of my illness, coupled with my reluctance to take my multivitamin. centrum. yuck. I also have a sweet tooth which wasn't restrained during the holiday season... so now that there will be no real holidays for a while (no sweets on valentines!) i'm being good from today on. Well from tomorrow on! I gotta run. Peace out yo.

Me
Anyway...Speaking of complimentary gifts, mom got me a hoodie while I got my brother a hoodie, same color, and my brother had gotten me a cat in the hat shirt, while I got him a Mario Bros. Luigi shirt, they look alike with the arm bands a darker color, and both looked faded and worn. We had no prior knowledge of what we were gonna get one another. We spent new years at my aunt's house where I was interrogated by the young'ens why I had never been to the house and why I didn't come to the annual party, etc etc. and then they booed me and gave me pieces of paper with "bad" scribbled on them. I had to laugh. They were cute. I have to remember to email Mike the pic of Chelsea booing me. Now that this is written I can go ahead and do so. Now you have evidence...My cousin no longer lives with us. I have nothing more to say on that... It's time to head out. My nose hurts.

Me
Hello all, happy new year. So I made a list of resolutions but I have not yet executed them. "why?" you ask, well folks, after my trip to New York for New Years, which was a quiet affair, to say the least, I returned with a cold! So I was stuck in bed, and now I'm recovering from the occasional mucus overflow and nosebleed. There I lay with a slight temperature, struggling to breathe and fighting the drowsiness, just so I could watch The Roman Empire on the History channel, but woe is me, I succumbed to sleep and so did my Soobee, who also claimed to be under the weather so he curled up next to me and fell asleep even before I did.
We're beginning a new set of books called the Prydain Chronicles. It is a set of five books (its for children, but no one complained about Harry Potter and The Chronicles of Narnia) that star Taran, assisstant pig-keeper and his adventures. So far Rich has been reading to me since my nasal blockage makes listening to me does not entertainment make. I got some good stuff for Christmas, money, which is at the top of the list, unbeknownst to Linda or my mother they both bought me complimentary items. Mom got me a 101 cookie cutter set, while Linda gave me a cookie decorating kit. Now Rich is in the mood for gingerbread cookies. Be right back...