just a (transplanted) city girl

{{scene opens to a NY police station and the Sgt on duty checking the calendar. Another officer sees him}}

Officer (O) – What’s up Sgt? Forget the day already?

Sgt – I just had to make sure it wasn’t Halloween.

O – Halloween! We have two months ’til then. Why would you even think that?

Sgt – There’s a chick at the desk who wants to file a report of assault and robbery.

O- Sounds normal.

Sgt – She’s got wings, a wand, and some fru-fru gown and claims her tiara was stolen by another chick in a red wagon.

O- Is it gay pride week?

Sgt – No, she’s not a tranny – claims she’s the tooth fairy and asked me about the crack filing in my molar.

{{Office rises and looks at the calendar}}

O- Geez Sgt, we are in for it if they are showing up on Labor Day. How do you issue a BOLO (be on the look out) for red wagon?
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♫♫ Carolann ♫♫

<– dancing daintily beside my red wagon

I’m so pretty, oh so pretty

Tips tiara rakishly…

Sure wish I had a wand………
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>’.'< ♥ Mickie ♥

It was a dark night, not even a hint of the moon to be seen, and the lone street light guttered as she walked underneath. Her wings drooped and her hair hung in loose ringlets framing her angelic face. The frown she wore was a contradiction to her countenance.

“In all my years I have never had an encounter like that. I usually only have to deal with little kids who want to catch me in the act.” She adjusted the tiara she no longer wore – realized her error and gave a sigh. She stopped. Had she heard something? Must have been her imagination.

She needed to get to little Jason’s house. That boy had lost at least six teeth in four months. It was heartbreaking to see his cherubic face as his family enjoyed corn on the cob all summer and all he could do was watch and wish for teeth that were taking their own sweet time to come in.

There was that sound again. No – it couldn’t be. Not the red wagon! Was she being followed. Louder still. She inhaled sharply and turned but could make out nothing in the darkened street. There it was again, closer still. She gripped her wand and held it tight against her chest. It couldn’t be – not again. What could that woman possibly want now?
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♫♫ Carolann ♫♫

The creeps are out there and society is stacked against us. Follow this link to HollaBackNYC the reason I say society is stacked against us is exemplified in her statement about not being able to move and no one noticing. Society tells us to act like ‘ladies’ that means, not make a fuss if a guy is pushing up against us, it is rude to yell in the subway, ‘Get off me you pervert!’ And yet that is exactly what we need to do.

Now I know why this didn’t work before! Sometimes I am a real dummy.

Anyway, I went to Lily’s and no one was there. If I hadn’t been running late, I would have gone to Debbie’s, but since it was 9:15 already, I decided to go to Muddy Cup and get a latte. Now I am home and getting ready to wash my bed sheets.

It is raining and dreary today, no one is up but me. I think after I put my sheets in the washer I will take a walk. It is a perfect day for walking.

Well, after taking my sheets to the laundromat to put in the dryer, cause I didn’t want to heat up the basement, it was too warm to walk. Maybe I will in a little bit, after I rest and drink some water, and if M gets home soon. Gwen and I went to Panera then Target, she wanted to look for shelves, I wanted to look for an ankle chain, well, she got her shelves, I got nothing. So I am in my bedroom pouting. Well, not really, but I really don’t feel like doing anything. I am going to check my websites now and I will be back.

O.K. I am a dummy! I ordered the pearls and beads for M’s necklace, and forgot to order anything for my anklet! I think I will go look at what I have in the way of beads and such. I have some left over from the necklaces I made, so I might be able to whip something up. My neck is hurting me now. I need to go to Allsport because I forgot to rinse the conditioner out of my hair last night so now it is stiff and sticky so I need to wash it again. SIGH. Sometimes I amaze myself.

Drove today. Part of the emergency drill, reported first to White Plains then to NYC. The car they gave me to drive had a non-working power source, what used to be called the cigarette lighter so my GPS didn’t charge, I didn’t notice until this morning so I had about a quarter of a charge on my GPS. It died about halfway to White Plains, well actually, I was almost there, but I was on a road I was unfamiliar with when it happened. Fortunately I found the Sawmill and know the way from there. Except out of habit I turned the wrong way on 119. I switched cars with my boss, since he knows the way from White Plains to NYC, I also followed him. I told him I didn’t want to lose him because I had left my CD in the car, HA HA!

The CD I took was one I just burned this morning, it has the two Frey albums and then a few other songs I added just to fill up space. I told Tigger I was listening to my, well actually your, music. He thought that was cool. I have caved again and bought Tigger candy, Altoids and Laffy Taffy and Now’N’Later. I don’t feel like getting up to look at the packages to see if I spelled them right. I also sold a book and haven’t packaged it yet. I also need to send an e-mail to the man who bought the CD player. I mailed it today, wrapped in bubble wrap, I hope “HOPE” it doesn’t break.

Blogger had this new feature where you can ‘subscribe’ to a blog and read it right in the dashboard. So I did that, and left my name so they will all know I am reading. I don’t know if any of them will read mine. I really don’t care

Grace majorly slammed Mel today, Cookie and I missed it. I did because I don’t really read the thread carefully during the day, since I am not supposed to be on it. I don’t think she is really mad at me. She posted a response calling her on it. I am glad, cause if I had done it, it would not have been worded so nicely.

Now I have to go get another book ready to mail. This is getting kind of fun now. See you tomorrow.

I am sort of miffed at Tigger. Sold the CD Player and he told me ‘I can’t pack it up I won’t be home.’ Well, that was the deal, I would list them, they would pack them up and I would take them to the post office to mail. I will pack it up but this is the last time I am selling anything for them. Except for the books.

I bought bubble wrap at Rite Aid, so I will be able to pack up the C.D. player. I am still miffed at Tigger. I wonder if there is a way I can keep the money. I need to go pack it up. I drove home because of an emergency drill I am taking part in. While I was changing for the meeting, they left. Stitch has my car so I am stuck here. Well, I am having fun just playing around on the computer, I really wanted to go because I studied last night! Well, I will just show them, I will have my talk written before they get home.

Mel, Cookie and I have been e-mailing back and forth about Grace. They think it is hilarious that I stalked her. They also keep talking about a lie she told and I can’t figure it out. I just never liked her. As Mel says, there is something ‘snarky’ about her. I am going to to read the other blogs and see what is happening.

E-mail posting is working again, even the last one I sent is there, posted at the time I sent it. Today is allergy shot and I was hoping my book would be at the library so I could get it but it’s not. My movie is in though. Cookie reviewed ‘Grace is gone’ gave it 4 stars so I think I will borrow it again and try to watch it. I keep adding things to my siggy, pretty soon it will be longer than most of my e-mails.

I read a little in White Fang on my way home. I am not getting into it like The Call of the Wild. But it is still early. After my allergy shot and before I went to get Gwen I worked on the oral review and my talk. I have three questions I couldn’t research because the information was not on my computer, so I stopped working on them and started on my talk. I have a pretty good idea how to do it now. I will write it tomorrow or later tonight. I want to hook this up to my printer and print out my notes for the oral review first.

Firefox had an updated browser so I installed it, and it uninstalled my Google toolbar. When I got this started tonight I installed it and it is working fine. It even still has all the sites I bookmarked before. The browser tool bars have a new look to them. Not much more I can see.

I am going to go now. I am trying to type all this without looking at the keyboard. Gwen has to do it that way for her class, so I am going to work on it too.

Just checked my e-mail and someone bought the C.D. player. More money for Tigger, with no effort on his part.

I am sending this from my new e-mail address just for fun.

I sent an e-mail from my new g-mail, it didn’t post, so I must have to do something to approve it? I don’t remember.

why rnt my emails posting? I have been trying to send e-mails so I can post to my blog and it has not been working. I think something may be wrong with the website since none of the e-mails I sent are showing up. I will continue to send them since at least that way I can post my thoughts when I get home.

Just found out Stitch will not be home in time for me to go to Allsport, that ruined my mood, I will be fat forever. OK, maybe not FAT, but 20 pounds heavier than I should be, which in time will ruin my health and I will be cranky and hard to be around.

Some of the e-mails made it through. Just the last one didn’t, but I posted it here, so it is not lost. Maybe it will show up tonight. I don’t feel like sending a message to google, I will just keep trying and see what happens.

I finished Descent into Hell, then was looking at the computer and was sure I had a book but it wasn’t on my shelf, so i started looking for it, found it under my bed covered in dust and cobwebs, then started reading it. So I was up way to late and now am paying for it.

Today I went to the book study, went to lunch and shopping with M., took the boys to the pool while I worked out (I bought new exercise bras, I had to try them out). Now I am falling asleep and my head is killing me.

So I fell asleep with my contacts in. When I got up, cause Tigger was knocking on my door, they were cloudy and I couldn’t see. I went to rinse them off, and then I couldn’t get the right one in. I also now have a bunch of Pepsi points to enter so I will do that now before I hit the sack.

Either the spinach or the tomatoes are giving me a stomach ache. I will find out which on Monday. Or this weekend. Right now I am going to get some ice cream. I haven’t been able to get into my AOL account so I created another G-Mail account for the things I was sending to my AOL account.

Now I have to go get ice cream.

Oh, I forgot to say. I got picked to review a book on LibraryThing. I am so excited, and nervous. But I have been reviewing books on Shelfari so I am getting the hang of things. I posted a comment to Redlady, now I am going to post on her blog.

I got a response from the woman who bought the doll, the chair was broken. I didn’t pack it securely enough. Oh well. I am not selling the others on E-Bay, it cost me money. I will list them on Craigs List when I get home. I keep meaning to but forgetting to. I really need to go now. It is lunch time and I am tired and unhappy.

My stomach is back on its roller coaster ride. I wonder if it is the Kashi bars, after all, they do have wheat and apple in them. Ok, now I have forgotten what else I wanted to say and now I have to go.

Got a cookie and a beer on the way home. That is my preferred snack since the popcorn the other day made me sick. Funny how cookies and beer don’t. You would think beer would aggravate an upset tummy. I laid down when I got home and fell asleep and so I missed dinner. It was hot dogs and beans, yum. So when I got up I made a sandwich: on a hamburger roll I put margarine, cinnamon honey and Habanero cheese. Now that was good!