But Mamma, where are my Panties!!
My 2 year old is now Officially Potty Trained...

Unfortunately she is having a little difficulty remembering to put her panties back on after making use of the toilet....

She cracks me up...

Now Playing: do what your mind says...
Look for me on my new and improved... well at least new... blog at www.flyrchld@mindsay.com

and princessr9, why dost thou vex me so?

the $35 Salad
Ok, Ok, princess, you got me going AGAIN.
So how about those times, when you wait till the last minute, when you are just so hungry you madly 'bust through the door of some fine establishment' and proceed to order WAAAY TOO MUCH.
Yeah, so yesterday evening, I'm starving. I had had all of 3 pieces of bacon and a scrambled egg with some swiss cheese that morning and made myself busy clearing the debris from the natural disaster that I call 'getting ready for a family trip', I am so distracted I forget all about food. Night time creeps up on me and I realize I am starving, and have absolutely no desire to prepare a meal.
I jump in my vehicle and start thinking about what I want. Hmmm, Chicken and Spinach Quesadillas with some rice and frijoles a la charra. No, no, then I'll eat all the stupid chips and salsa and be so full by the time the food comes it will all go to waste, plus that is just too heavy on an empty stomach... ok, so no Tex-Mex..
Outback,,,nah, Olive Garden uh, no, Carraba's, no if I'm going to have italian, I'd rather make my own.. I make some of the best freakin' italian food, (recipes from a friend of mine's Italian grandmother who liked to tell everyone what a beautiful and good italian girl I am, p.s. I'm not Italian..) so no Italian...
Seafood. hmm. No, had quite a bit of really good seafood in Hawai'i..
A salad, I tell myself, yes, I shall be good and eat lightly... cheap, too....
So I finally settle on a chain place called Champps...it's a sports bar/Americana style restaurant. Decent food and I wanted to maybe catch the baseball game. I'd met up with a good friend of mine earlier and she joined me for dinner.
She wasn't that hungry, Of Course. So I am looking through the menu. I hate going to a restaurant and ordering next to nothing, I feel bad for the waitstaff and having done the waitressing thing once myself I try to be considerate and not take up a table without giving them a chance to make a buck. That said.
I order cheese sticks... I really wanted the spinach artichoke dip, but convince myself, somehow, that that is just way TOO much, too big, cheese sticks I can eat just a few... I don't really like them though, so go figure. After I get my Diet Coke and limes, (you can start busting my chops now...), the waitress, Ashley, tells me all about the 'awesome' chicken or other special and something else that just distracted me from my intent to have a nice healthy salad... I decide to get the potatoe soup... Ashley said it was great, and then I can't decide between the cobb salad and the chicken and artichoke penne dinner... I decide since I have gotten the cheese sticks and soup, I should now stick to salad. Ashley goes away....
comes back with soup... I and my friend are so engrossed in the game and chit chat that before I know it, I've finished the soup, sadly I don't remember it being particularly good, on the contrary... I think it was pretty bland.
the Salad comes... It is basically a trough... a whole schlotta shrubbery and bacon, cheese, eggs etc... I forgot to ask for minimal black olives... there was just No Way I'd be able to eat half, much less finish it. After a bit I decide I am just not going to kill myself and push the salad away, 'Just Say NO', I keep reminding myself....'NOOOO!!'
Ashley comes by... 'hey, here's the dessert menu ladies'...I know she sees 'sucker' plastered on my forehead and puts the stupid thing right where I can see it!! The BITCH!!!
She then proceeds to tell me that the chocolat chip cookie bowl thing is 'the BOMB'... to which I proclaim myself 'the target' and of course order it. It Is Huge. My friend laughs... I had just finished telling her 'I can't eat another bite!!' and I dig in like there's no tomorrow. (in my defense, I only ate half)

What the heck. then the check comes... How in Tarnation did I manage to spend 35.00 on a salad?

yeah, princessr9, you can rag on me now, AGAIN.

I've always liked big cats...
Thanks to my brilliant friend in India....

Name: crouchingtiger16

in?cum?bent [in kumbənt]
adj

1. obligatory: necessary as a result of a duty, responsibility, or obligation (formal)
(ie: It is incumbent on me to ensure that our generous hosts should not go unthanked.)

2. in office: currently holding a position or office

3. on top of something: resting, lying, or leaning on something (archaic or technical)
(incumbent strata)

does that help? i didn't understand it all, but i have this working theory that there is nothing encarta can't solve


To all of those who searched and were confounded, as I was, by this word... Thanks for helping out.

I really enjoyed my trip, but as is often the case, even though you may want to stay on vacation forever, coming home is the best time of all. Except of course when you are coming home to a house that looks like a tornado blew through it two weeks ago. Ah, c'est la vie.

I am still learning how to use my pda phone and have begun investigating the phenomenon known as mobblogging.... hopefully I can get the knack of this quickly.

On another note, as per the Rance site and RubberDuckIE's genius, there is something called a 'Pardon the Interruption' going on and I have been invited to join. I am so paranoid that I will have a seriously bad case of writer's block when my turn comes.... or worse, I don't. Some of the writers listed are in my opinion terrifically talented.
I am worried that amongst them my pathetic attempts will bring the house crumbling down on me. I will be forced to admit that I just like to ramble and have no particular direction at all, or skill for that matter.
My ball and chain has made it clear in no uncertain terms that I am a better debater than a storyteller and even though his idea of a good story involves loads of gratuitous sex between women, it still hurts my feelings that he would make it a point to say so.
This is in part why I have not posted more about Blake or Lilith, but for those of you interested, I expect they will make an appearance soon. We shall see.

This was supposed to have been a short note, letting those of you who check this blog know that I am still alive and full of crap.

And does anyone know for sure what 'encumbent' means? not the one that means a sitting official going for re-election... the other one. Maybe I'm mispelling it... I can't even find it in a dictionary.

thanks for your support and friendship,

fly

Aloha
Now Playing: Mahalo Plenty
I am go-ing to Hawai'i!!
I am go-ing to Hawai'i!!

Enough of that...

I am visiting my bestest friend, I haven't seen her in two years... well almost two years...

I will spend only about 4 days there, but it will be wonderful....

A couple of things to know about Hawai'i....

1) You MUST have a coco-puff from the Liliha Bakery...
2) You MUST take time to just BREATHE... the air is the nicest in the whole wide world...as I know it..
3) Kayacking, (open water is my favorite, I must tell you about the tide change, the sharks and my big scars from that time in Veracruz, but some other time), snorkeling, surfing, whatever... it is amazing there.
4) Did I tell you about the coco-puffs?
5) EVERYONE is nice there... remember these words, Mahalo and Aloha, you'll need them...
6) maikai= toward the ocean, ma uka= toward the mountain.... eek, two others I can't remember right now.... this is important though as all directions are given in respect to the island.
7) must try the coco-puffs... oh and the malasadas... those are good too.

Will miss my friends... I'll try to keep in touch.

Let me know what is going on with Rance and all the others, as I recently sent in a post that might make a few people upset...

hugs to all,

fly

Airplanes in my sleep
Now Playing: Cleveland Ohio (woohoo!!)
I'm on my layover in Cleveland, Ohio.
Two things to note, I got in this morning at 6:35am from LAX. (yes, this is what is 'fondly' referred to as a 'red-eye', and I had just gotten to LAX from NYC, trust me, I was ti-red.)
The hotel I'm staying at overlooks Lake Erie and a small airport that, every Labor Day, hosts an airshow, (that's Today), and my room is on the top floor, Best View in the place)
Now, don't think me ungrateful... I LOVE airshows,
I just appreciate them more when they aren't intrudiing loudly on my sleep. As I'm sleeping I experience that groggy-waking-asleep-but-aware deal where I have weird dreams...
Then my phone starts to ring. (I must change my ringer....)
Just as I scramble out of bed to run/stumble to the other side of the room where, of course, is the only jack I could find to charge my phone at.
The phone stops ringing. %*Y%?#%!!!!
"Fine! I don't want to talk to you ANYWAY!!!"
So I look at my phone, "ooooh!, must call back!" (insert dialing here)
Them: Hello?
Me: Hello?
Them: Yes? Hello?
Me: um yeah, Hello?
(this repeated a few more times oddly enough before I finally said..)
Me: Uh, xxxxx?, this is (insert my name here).
Them: Yes, Oh, Hi!

Conversation proceeds for a couple of HOURS (yes, xxxxx, my phone said it had been 2hr19min!)
So after this, I am wide awake, and hungry.... I can't go back to sleep.... "Must... find... sustenance...."

Mele Kaliki Maka....
Now Playing: NYC
New York was fun...
After all the pouting a co-worker walks in to use
the computer, all bummed out like me. We'll call him Maka,
.....because that's his name.
Maka: Hey, you wanna go to da ba?
Me: What bar?
Maka: Scruffy's
Me: ?
Maka: Ya, it's across da street.
Me: Oh, yeah, Scruffy's, um, sure, why not....

He's Hawaiian and he's a neo/fusion japanese chef. His father is a martial arts guy, one of Bruce Lee's original students, Maka assures me we'll be safe even though this bar isn't exactly across from the
hotel, more like down the street... In HELL'S KITCHEN!!!

Maka: I study with my fada since I was little, yah, don't have the heart for it like my broda, tho.
Maka is just a bit under six feet, husky in a healthy kind of way. I decided he could take care of us if necessary.
Big mistake.
I think maybe he'd already had a few before I talked to him...

As I'm sure you've heard before, New York City is not the place to make off-color remarks to people you do not know. Maka couldn't seem to help himself, he had a dumb remark for everything.... I have to admit I started walking faster, ahead of him, so as not to be included in any confrontations. Crappy of me, I know, but my dad
didn't study with Bruce Lee...

Scruffy's is the place to go if you want to meet someone in the airline industry. It's a 'sports' bar, but all kinds of people hang out there.

If you're ever in NYC, near Times Square...

(to be continued)

NYC Times Square
Well, I forgot that the hotel I'm in tonight has a 'crew lounge' and that includes free internet access...
It is a great place, New York City.... we are just a block or two from Times Square. Unfortunately, I am a loner on this trip.. a 'load'... so, no one to go out with and even though this is a Saturday night and I am in a great place I don't think I'll be doing anything. I am usually much more willing to go it alone... but, I don't drink, (much, anyway) and even if I did, (more often) I wouldn't want to make it a habit of drinking out alone. And drinking club soda with a twist of lime alone isn't much better. Movies alone, I can do... actually, I prefer to go to the movies alone... don't know any people who like to go to the movies... am a movie freak!!!
which is sad, I don't get many opportunities... Hey, if you wanna go to a movie... let me know....

hmmm.

You know what?.... I think I'll just go out anyway..... dancing... there are a couple of clubs around here... babalu?.. yeah.... salsa, merengue.. anything that involves shakin' the booty....

hugs to all my new friends, Take care..
Prayers to all the people of Florida, God Bless You All...

fly

Now Playing: They're coming to take me away...HA HA!!
I know... one shouldn't post a whole bunch of stuff all at once... well... I have been a bit busy and nowhere near a computer. These things were all written on my pda and are getting transferred out here to you, now.

I won't be around for a while.
So... now.... gotta go... will try to be back by the 6th or 7th... no guarantees

Have a great Labor Day...

fly