HEY BRAIN

oh, man was it a crazy weekend.  this is gonna be a little scattered, so keep up…

1) i completely busted my old motorola razr on friday night.  i dropped it and it’s toast.  so much for their vaunted aluminum design.  lame.  so i had to go buy a new phone, which i was planning on doing anyway… AFTER the holidays… now christmas money is even more scarce than it was.  boo.  anyway, i now have a shiny new crackberry pearl.  it’s actually a really freakin’ cool phone.  i think i’m going to get a lot of use out of it… it’s just not very punk to carry a crackberry.  the flipside is that my techno-geek cred just went up, i guess…

2) santa rampage.  what a freakin’ blast.  pics are available on the flickr.  there’s too much to list here… but i’ll give you my favorite memories from the night.

• walking into the beerseller and seeing a solid wall of red and white.
• “bad-ass santas drink pitchers!”
• toby penner walking in with a camera strapped to his head under his santa hat
• pretty lady on the bar at coyote ugly!!
• that dude who who gave me a fiver for my santa beard and ran around the bar with it on his head telling everyone that i was the best.
• the b.b.king’s dance floor bowing and bending to 138 santas going wild while the house band played “shout!”
• forgetting who i was and dancing like i’ve (literally) never danced before at decades of all places.  (i don’t dance, btw…)

3) christmas brunch at cathy’s house on sunday was truly outstanding.  not only is this lady super-successful and business savvy, she has an awesome house, great kids, and is a KILLER cook!  her culinary offerings were mind-blowingly tasty.  many many heaping compliments for you cathy!

4) this weekend i also came to terms with some things and have come to a good spot in my head.  some things are over, some things are put on indefinite hold, some things are just starting… but it seems to be all sorted out in my head.  which i good because, to be honest, it was getting a little crazy in here!

so anyway, there ya go… a little glimpse into my weekend.

her gypsy eyes glitter

her laugh sets you on fire

she’ll make you grin like a fool

but that smile on her lips

is pure filou, boy…

she’ll eat you

.

watch out for them filou women

she’ll keep you on the run

that filou woman

you can’t trust them filou women…

but there ain’t no woman more fun

than a filou woman

.

she’ll get your heart a-racin’

she’ll set your head to spinnin’

she’ll tell ya up is down

and you’ll believe her, too

’cause that filou grin

has got you

.

don’t you fall for a filou woman

she’ll scramble your mind

that filou woman

you can’t trust them filou women…

but there ain’t no woman can match

a filou woman

.

you can never tame her

you can never change her

that filou woman

but if you can catch her and hold her

maybe you can make her

your filou woman

.

Lord help me, i love them filou women

though they drive me to distraction

those filou women

you just can’t trust them filou women

but there ain’t no woman better

than a filou woman

the first line says it all… “Big Bone Lick State Park could soon become much bigger.” you seriously can’t make this stuff up…

a few pictures from repeal day!! go check it out ya’ll! super-extra-special thanks go to melissa and bill segroves for providing pictures. if anyone else has any, i’d like to see them, please!

have you ever been in a lousy mood and you don’t know why?  have you ever been angry for what felt like no reason at all?  that’s me today… for some reason, i’m in a truly shitty mood… and i’m in a state that i like to call “pre-anger.”  it’s like my subconscious wants to be angry… but it doesn’t have a focus.

here’s a little background on me.  i used to have a really bad temper.  terrible.  anger used to ride on my back like a monkey.  over the years, i’ve learned how to avoid being angry and how to control my anger instead of the reverse.  but it’s still there… still waiting.  i work really hard at being logical and seeing all sides of an issue because, if you can see where the other person is coming from – what their motivation is – it’s hard to be too angry with them.

today, i fear that’s gonna be a harder struggle than it usually is.   i know there’s gotta be some reason behind this but, whatever it is, it’s sunk deep in my subconscious and i can’t seem to bring it to the surface.  i’m working on digging it out so that i can deal with it but, if i speak with any of ya’ll today, please forgive any snappishness or sharp comments.  know that i’m trying my best to reign in the temper… some of it may just leak out.