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[cleolinda]

So I'm kind of in the crunch hours of room-cleaning, because we have a specific goal: get everything off the floor and steam the carpet before Mom has to start her new job on Monday. (Remember that Lucky sleeps in my room, and that I have a cream-colored carpet, and that Lucky is a black and white English cocker, and you may start to see the problem. That, and I tend to spill a lot of iced tea.) So basically, we need to do the carpet tomorrow, so I'm trying to focus my energy long enough to sweep everything into closets and corners and under the bed. Also, I need boppy room-cleaning music, but the problem is that--it's like wandering into the kitchen and whining, "I'm hungryyyyyy," because people can suggest anything to eat that they want but if it doesn't grab your fancy, it doesn't do any good. Trust me, if anyone in the world has boppy music, it's me, but none of it is doing anything for me at the moment. Except Pulp's "Common People," which is cracking me up. I'm just not sure whether a song with "roaches climb[ing] up the wall" is way out of place or horribly apropos for room-cleaning.

Speaking of cleaning, Jack the Pool Guy came and pumped out the pool and ripped out the old leaky liner and Cook's Pest Control came and doused it in water-based carpenter ant poison (hungry ants: the reason we keep losing pool liners), and then Jack came back and caulked the naked pool back over and put the new liner in and I assume that they're filling it with water now. YAY POOL. This does, however, mean that Sawyer the tree pool frog is no longer with us. I don't really know where he went, except that my mother was standing on the patio watching Jack empty the pool (apparently Pthoolhu had gotten word and evacuated the night before, which kind of explains the slimy slurping sounds I heard in the backyard last night), and Jack goes, "Here you go," and THROWS SAWYER THE POOL FROG AT HER. A little grey-green pool frog about the size of a ping-pong ball, STUCK TO HER ARM.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHEHHHHEHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE AHHHHHHHHHHHEAAAAAGH GET IT OFF! GET IT OOOOOOOOOOOFFFFFFFF!"

So I don't really know where Sawyer is now.


A little bit of linkspam, since I'm backlogged and should be cleaning (no Omen for me; maybe tomorrow):

See! I'm not the only person who randomly gets book deals and/or representation from having a blog!

ohnotheydidnt hits the big time.

The Coultergeist in all her in[s]anity.

heidi8: "Linkspam favor - we had a bit of a scare re [small children and] Magnetix toys today - would you post about the issue?" See her entry ("The toy industry is setting up a special committee to investigate whether there should be a voluntary safety standard for magnetic toys. The move follows a major recall of a popular magnetic toy building set, Magnetix, after a 21-month-old boy died from swallowing magnets that had broken free from the building set his older brother had gotten as a birthday present") for more.

Comments

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

YAY MOM JOB WOOO!

(Hah, Sawyer horrors. Heee.)

And Coulter only has to shed her human skin and reveal her reptilian essence on TV to get any more attention. Beauty may be skin deep, but this woman's ugly to the core.

[allthelivesofme.livejournal.com]

I'm also planning to go see The Omen sometime this weekend . . . I'm anticipating much "Why are you going to see a remake>?" from my parents.

Coultergeist

That is one of the best nicknames ever. :-D

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I can't take credit for it, but I don't know who came up with it, either.

[allthelivesofme.livejournal.com]

I don't know either; hadn't seen it before today. Probably because I largely try to ignore that woman, but sometimes it's impossible. :-P

[thunderphoenix.livejournal.com]

So, blackout didn't get as far as you, eh?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

The blackout?

[thunderphoenix.livejournal.com]

According to what I heard, the power went out over a big chunk of Jefferson and Shelby County.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Huh, I had no idea. Yeah, we're fine.

[skyblade.livejournal.com]

We've got the tree frog pool infestation too. Three, last time I counted. (I was wondering what they were, because they look like toads, but you pick them, and they're smooth) I basically put one down in the pond area, because I thought he'd be happy there, and I come back--he's sticking to a tree. Which I think is just too awesome.

I for one, think the little guys are too cute.

[skyblade.livejournal.com]

And I removed another from the pool. They were all hanging in the filter together, because they're friends. One has a green mask on his face! I want to name him Green Lantern and put him in a jar where he'll stick to the jar and he can replace my rabbit and be my pet.

[jantalaimon.livejournal.com]

The Omen = comedy gold. saw it on 6.6.06 (unfortunately not at a screening at 6:06, but what can you do? XD). i'll refrain from comparisons between the original and the remake here, since you haven't seen it. but i will have you know i didn't realize David Thewlis and Michael Gambon were in it until we were in the theatre and the opening credits were rolling. at which point i goggled at the screen and wiggled in my chair trying really hard not to giggle really, really loudly.

COMEDY GOLD. XD

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I will be watching to see if "Here, have some chocolate" would be an appropriate joke at any point, trust me.

[jantalaimon.livejournal.com]

...you know, now that i think about it? that would be VERY, VERY APPROPRIATE at several points in the movie. you'll enjoy it greatly. >3

BTW, have you heard the Franz Ferdinand cover of "Common People"? i've got it somewhere...

also, apropos of nothing else, you'll be thrilled beyond words to know that Pumpkinhead 4 is in post-production, and yes, Lance Henriksen is in it. XD

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Oh, God, I once had a huge swarm of carpenter ants suddenly burst into my bedroom in the middle of the night. I didn't sleep in there again for...no, wait, now that I think about it, I haven't slept in there since.

cleanin' music

[gryvnos.livejournal.com]

i found Ace of Base's Greatest Hits* album to be awesome cleaning music. mindless, boppy and really fun to sing along with**



* this, of course is a relative measurement of greatness. YMMV
** at high volume, of course

*rocks out*

[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

I SAW THE SIGN AND IT OPENED UP MY EYES I SAW THE SIGN

Best guilty pleasure music ever.

Re: *rocks out*

[allthelivesofme.livejournal.com]

Heck yeah. :-D

Re: *rocks out*

[gryvnos.livejournal.com]

no greater pleasure exists than belting out DON'T TURN AROUND into the end of a mop-handle :D

[irishabastard.livejournal.com]

I recommend Jude for music. Try The Not So Pretty Princess as a start perhaps to see if you like.

[kokopellinelli]

I saw the Coulter story (though not the same article that you linked to) and was going to post it in my journal, but I really wouldn't have known what to say about it besides my overused fallback, "...Buh." And really, that's just not very eloquent.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, mine's just a transcript. I do love how it ends with Matt Lauer just wrapping it up with a total non-sequitur. "Blah blah blah, whatever, hag."

[kokopellinelli]

Probably the only sure way to get her to stop talking.

[gravities.livejournal.com]

I always use Nine Inch Nails' Pretty Hate Machine for cleaning music.

[t4-flirt.livejournal.com]

wish i could recommend good cleaning music, but me, i always clean to Michael Jackson. No, I don't know why. Try downloading the 1st cd of his Hisstory collection.

Oh, and this may amuse you-my husband and I now have a working fountain in our bedroom. Read my entry for today to get the info. http://t4-flirt.livejournal.com/63299.html

[tabbyclaw.livejournal.com]

I'd suggest some of John Coulton's stuff (http://www.jonathancoulton.com/songs/) (especially "Code Monkey," "The Future Soon," "Tom Cruise Crazy," "That Spells DNA," "I Feel Fantastic," "Dance, Soterios Johnson, Dance," "Mandelbrot Set," "IKEA," and "Skullcrusher Mountain" for the peppy), but unless you immediately went out and bought all the mp3s you'd have to get up and poke the computer after every song. But still. When you get a minute, you should totally give him a listen.

[caerbannog.livejournal.com]

William Shatner did a cover version of "Common People." Once you get over the WTF factor (which is admittedly huge), it's kinda awesome. For other boppy music, I like Shonen Knife. Their covers of "Daydream Believer" and "I Wanna Be Sedated" are very catchy.

And also, Poor Sawyer!

[jantalaimon.livejournal.com]

the Shatner cover is amazing. also good on that disc is his duet with Henry Rollins on a song called "I Can't Get Behind That." it's each of them trading off on various things they can't get behind, and it ends with Hank goin, "I can't get behind a BIG FAT ASS..." and Bill getting upset...XDDDDD

[akthomps.livejournal.com]

I love Lauer for giving her hell. Not as much as hell as she deserves, cause they wouldn't be able to show that on TV. God. She is so vile. I mean, where do you go from here? She's all Yay Joe McCarthy and the 911 Widows are happy their husbands died. Is she going to eat a puppy on live TV and say that liberals made her do it? Jeebus Christ.

[wirrrn.livejournal.com]

Hey,

When he threw the frog at your Ma, was he/she alive or dead?! We're in the middle of a Global Frog Die-off- every amphibian is needed~!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Definitely alive. I assume Sawyer hopped off somewhere.

[wirrrn.livejournal.com]

Hey,

Kewl. Because frogs eventually die in swimming pools. They breath through their skin, and the chlorine eventually builds up in them...

We have oodles of Tree Frogs, Motorbike Frogs and even a Pobblebonk Frog in our yard... Although at the moment, West Australia looks to have been finally penetrated by the deadly and feral Cane Toad...

[anthon1.livejournal.com]

...and Cook's Pest Control came and doused it in water-based carpenter ant poison

I originally read that as 'carpenter poison'. Whoops...

[yarha.livejournal.com]

Carpet diem. :)

Yarha, Sona Si Latine Loqueris

[entropy-and-me.livejournal.com]

So, did I miss a post where you actually found out what kind of critter Pthoolu was or shall that remain a great mystery forever? (At any rate, you probably feel safer going out in your yard at night without knowing what once lurked therein...)

Also, icons for fandom wank:

http://ingrid-m.livejournal.com/498237.html

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Nope, he escaped before I ever saw him. ; )

(I saw those over at JournalFen! Hee.)

[kpachayagolobka.livejournal.com]

OHNO, man I gotta say that the image of the pool guy THROWING a frog at someone's mother is just... whew, frighteningly amusing.

[celtic-songster.livejournal.com]

Oh my God does Ann Coulter ever think before she does something? I mean, I understand her ideas about "unimpeachable" people, but DAMN. Have some decency, lady. Doesn't she realize she's just making Republicans look worse?

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

Is Ann Coulter for real? I just can't fathom her as a real human being; she must be some sort of unholy robot.