Since tomorrow 25ft Stanly is going to be in the recording studio, I thought Id post some of their song lyrics in their honor, and hope it brings them luck.

Henry Rittew

Henry Rittew hung himself in the barn
his friends had wondered for days what went wrong
his had was shaking on the pistol grip
he made a noose from a blanket strip
Henry Rittew hung himself in the barn

Henry
Lord what's come over you
Henry
don't give the devil his due
you've got a family behind you
ain't that worth a thought or two

Henry Rittew walked alone in the night
the house was all quiet but the fields they cried
he took a look both left and right
he knew the time was drawing nigh
Henry Rittew walked alone Sunday night

Henry
dark angels on your mind
Henry
looks like it's killin' time
black wings they lift you
as the churchbell starts to chime

Henry don't do it
Henry why not?
Henry a broke down farm is all you got
Henry you're sick
voices in your head
Henry right now they say you're worth more dead

Oh Henry
do what you gotta do
it's been a long night comin'
but the time is right for you

(solo)

Henry
the loss come over you
Henry
what's a man to do
just close your eyes
and the world and you are through

Henry Rittew had nothing left to say
but what he left behind still speaks in its own way
as time goes on don't say his name
if you do you'll bring us shame
Henry Rittew had nothing left to say

Henry
your blood is in my veins
Henry
I wish I knew your name
'cause with these black wings above me
Lord I know I feel the same
Ranted by ~*Connie*~ at 10:58 PM

*yawns and rubs sleepies out of eyes* I just had one of the weirdest dreams..

I think it started with a car accident. Someone I don't know drove his car off into a wooded area.which just happened to have a high school group of kids doing some sort of project in it. The kids rushed to the guy's rescue. Someone noticed he was missing a finger, so she went in search of it. She found it, wrapped it up in a garbage bag, and wrapped the bag around his hand that it came from. The man was air lifted out of the woods, and the dream followed the teacher back to his house.He took off his bloody clothes and put them in a pile in the bathroom next to the sink where he was washing up.the dream perspective then switched to almost that of a dog, it slunk in, and stole the bloody clothes.

The dream looses a little cohesion here.. There was talk about what happened at the scene of the car accident... how the man couldn't have possibly lost his finger in the accident.. then there was the question of where the clothes went.. and why they disappeared. The dream also gave the impression that the man in the accident disappeared, so there seemed to be something supernatural going on.

The dream shifts focus again. I am now evil demon woman, but in a cute and sexy way.. I go after a younger man/boy.. 16ish. maybe? I am there to kill him, but he gets me into a dialogue, and in the end, I let him live but tell him I am coming back. (almost as if called away to go do evil somewhere else first) I then end up at a dinner party. The boy from before is there, along with about 6 others. I outright kill a few with a thought. There is a teenage girl I start to torture... words were exchanged but I don't remember them.. I believe she was trying to challenge me.. I remember her sitting there fearful, with blood coming from her mouth, but yet she was trying to get me to leave by saying challenging things.. I think she was telling me to leave her boyfriend alone (a man at the dinner table) and something along the lines of I had limitations because I couldn't begin to feel what they had..

Again, I seemed to be called away in the middle of my killing spree. The boy from before followed me. as we walked up a hill to a school he asked me why I did what I did, and I told him I couldn't tell him. He asked me why I let him live, and I really didn't have an answer for that. The boy told me that he thought it was because I liked him. I laughed at him and told him I wasn't capable of that, and he asked if it was because he was too young. I thought about it, and I realized he was kinda cute and sweet, but yes he was too young... he could sense I came to that realization, and said he would be growing up. I told him chances are that wouldn't happen. We had walked into the school yard. He asked why, and I told him I was here to bring the plague to the school. The boy challenged me like the girl at dinner, and said I should face my emotions, I told him I didn't have any, and with the twist of my wrist, the kids in the yard started to become ill. Many rushed in side. One little girl was in a stroller... like a doll. She cried out for her cat. I was intrigued by this and went to her. She was small and sickly, so the plague I had started had really gotten to her, but she was still beautiful and radiant. Eyes as big as saucers, and she asked me to watch out for her kitty. my heart tore. She then started talking to me directly.. telling me that it was ok, and if it was her time, then it was her time. Something in me started to snap. I didn't want it to be her time. I held her hand and tried to take it back, but it was too late. I was devastated, and I held her close to me and closed my eyes. I saw a bright light so I opened my eyes and looked at her. She had closed her eyes, and leaned limply against me... I saw and felt the boy come to me, and put his arm around my shoulders. I closed my eyes again, and saw the bright light again, but this time I saw the little girl float into my line of vision, and drift towards the light. I knew she was dead. I cried and wailed..

Which is when I woke up.
Ranted by ~*Connie*~ at 7:33 AM

I'm going to do something I don't normally do.. comment on the news.. I try not to watch the news, cause its always so depressing.. but this morning there were several interesting tidbits..

First there is the Genetics Savings and Clone, that just cloned a kitten. they are calling her CC for .... well its either carbon copy or copy cat depending on which news story you listen to... I have to say that thanks to this news story, I once again have kitten fever.. (an inexplicable need to own a kitten) I loved the bit where they stuck the kitten in a beaker. The animal welfare groups are against this because they think its mean to clone 'new' animals while so many sit in shelters.. which is a good point, but if they can use this information to eventually clone endangered animals, then I'm all for it..

Then again there is that whole cloning controversy.. which I'm not sure I want to get into.. theoretically it seems like a wonderful idea.. Morally however.. I'm kinda of the judgment that Malcolm says in Jurassic Park.. "You were so concerned with whither or not you could, you never stopped to ask yourself if you should" (ok so the quote might not be perfect.. but hey.. its been years) I suppose I'll leave that question up to theologians..

The second story is the "Ice Storm" or what ever funky name they came up with for the whole olympic pairs skating debacle.. I watched the canadians skate.. and I was amazed at their grace and style.. I thought it was downright beautiful. none of the jumps of transitions seemed jerky, which a lot of them did.. including the russians. I don't understand how the russian team can sit there and say they DESERVE the gold.. but I'm sure I would probably be saying the same thing. I think that if you have a flawless performance, it should be ranked higher than a performance that had obvious flaws.. I'm sorry, but I can't see how the technical part of the russian performance could outweigh that... and I really hope that the canadians get the gold in the end, even if they do have to declare it a tie.
Ranted by ~*Connie*~ at 11:34 AM

YEA! I survived the 48 hours.. and I lost 5lbs.. but some how I don't think it will stay off.. still think its a fad thing, but I acheived the goal, which was more the point.. I thought I would wake up starved out of my gourd.. and while I did wake up at four am, then at six am, then at seven.. I wasn't feeling like I had to eat the whole house.. I had some scrambled eggs with onions and cheese..
Ranted by ~*Connie*~ at 11:13 AM

If you don't read wil wheaton's blog, check out this entry
Ranted by ~*Connie*~ at 5:06 PM

my body was not designed to not eat for 48 hours..
I SOOOOOOO want to eat something.. anything.. please..

but no.. Im being good.. I can do this.. (are you believing this?)
Do I recommend the 48 hour miracle diet? hum.. interesting question.. I lost about three/four pounds the first day.. Ive had a ton of water, so I doubt its water weight, It is nice to have a goal.. (I get to eat tomorrow!! whoo hoo) and a finite time for the diet.. (I keep telling myself that its only 48 hours.. only 48 hours.. and now its only 8 hours to go.. and six where Im probably going to be awake).. and Im getting a massive headache.. the product would have me believe that the toxins are leaving my body, and thus the headache.. but who knows.

Well its Valentine's day.. Hope you are having a great day!

and Thank you Jeff for the flowers!!! I was so surprised.. they came closed, but are opening up as the day goes on. I can't help but smile when I see them..

Ollie is here now.. (and looking very jealously at the keyboard saying pat me pat me) the phone woke him up I think. Dad just called. I had stopped by his house this afternoon and dropped off a v card and some flowers.. vday has always been a special holiday for me where my dad is concerned.. see.. mom always bought us the presents for gift giving holidays.. but on valentines day dad would pick up something small and a card, and give that to us as well. and this he would sign himself.. so since Ive left home, I make it a point to get him something on this day..

well.. this post is kinda rambling.. I think its the lack of food.. but im not going to make you suffer through any more of this ;)
Ranted by ~*Connie*~ at 4:30 PM

giggle.. I really love Ryan Styles in "who's line is it anyway" especially the question game..
Ranted by ~*Connie*~ at 10:56 PM

The other day I was patting Em, and I realized she's 'molting'. Big patches of fur are puffing out of her back half.. I picked some of them off her, and she seems to not like that at all.. like it was very uncomfortable for her. I did what I could, and looked around a little bit.. Now.. just so you know, Em has had a dandruff problem for a while Ive talked to the vets about it, but they say the cure is supposedly way worse than the condition, so Ive just let it be.. but looking by her back legs, I couldn't find any skin, cause there was a) way too much excess fur and b) seven layers of dandruff!! I tried to groom her, but again it almost seemed uncomfortable.. :(

Em is about 11 years old, diabetic, and a log. (a log? what on earth is that?? well she doesnt curl up.. she is very stiff, and it feels like your picking up a log with legs when you pick her up) Im assuming she can't groom her backside any more.. Im going to have to give her yet another bath.. she hates those. Ive actually been bathing her since she was little, but Ive slacked off in the past few years. See I used to have a friend who lived locally who was allergic to cats, and bathing them helped keep the dander down.. but since he's moved away, I pretty much gave up. Im down to about once a year, but if she's going to need them.... sigh.. its always a chore.. cause you know, there is no good way to bathe a cat!
Ranted by ~*Connie*~ at 10:20 PM

Ranted by ~*Connie*~ at 9:19 PM

ok.. I have a whole lot of things to write about.. so this one is probably going to be a long one..

Ive had some freaky strange dreams lately.. I mean the kind that even freak me out.. (and if you have been paying attention, you know that takes a lot)
The first one wasn't 'so much a dream, as a series of dreams..all ending up with the same segments of spoken words that sounded a lot like alicia keys.. I mean in one segment I was speaking Japanese.. (or Chinese? who knows, I don't normally speak in any other language other than English) anyway.. that in and of its self is freaky.. that one sounded like eye-isha ke..

The other night, I had a dream I was working with my sister at a neopet convention (go figure) This would never happen.. seeing as my sister is a principal of a local school here.. anyway.. we were setting up a booth, I guess to show the educational values of playing neopets (hey.. its a dream.. go with it) and I was the IT person working on the entire show.. One person called me and was having trouble with their secure certificate, so I told him to restart the certificate (which I know is a totally wrong answer.. but hey.. again.. dream here.. just go with it) Soon my mother showed up, and she had some job or duty that was totally out of her field.. but she was doing it just fine.. (goes to show you miracles happen in dreams.. now as long as she doesn't try to sing) Things were progressing well, but we decided we didn't want to use our real names.. so we were going to take faerie names.. one of us was going to be carico.. the other was going to be unico.. Now.. this dream was shortly after the alicia keys dream, and I NEVER dream names, so again I was freaked out and woke up.

But.. enough about the dream world.. (cause frankly they are just weird, and sadly I never remember enough of them) Ive been dealing again with my car.. I don't think Ive talked too much about the saga of my car.. It isn't pretty.. You should probably start here

Ok.. so now you know I have had absolutely no fun dealing with Frank Galos in "Sunny Saco" Maine.. Six times now this car has been in to be fixed.. and six times Ive brought the car home unfixed.. After that letter, I got a call from Mark and the service manager (got messages on my machine) telling me they were sorry, and they would get this taken care of ASAP. The next day I got another call from the service manager telling me that the glass he had ordered had broken in shipment, and it would be yet another seven to ten days.. ten days later I get a postcard telling me that it is in, and if I don't make arrangements with in two weeks it was going to be - get this - SENT BACK!! (don't think I wasn't livid about that.. but then again it was a standard postcard for any car part, so I didn't bitch) anyway.. the appointment was for today.. went in, dropped off the car.. the guy's thinking its ok to make jokes about how he thought we'd gotten lost.. *rolls eyes* ANYWAY.. at 2pm today.. I get a phone call ( I was exercising so I let the machine get it) asking me to call. I didn't get around to it till almost four pm. I was told that they ordered the new window for the 98 seabring.. (WHICH I HAVE) but they SHOULD have ordered it for the 97.. due to the build year.. (Ok.. please tell me.. how many '98 cars are built in '98?? seeing as they are in show rooms in november of '97.. you think they would KNOW THIS.. BUT NOOOOOOOO!!! - any wonder I think this is the most incompetent service staff ever?) cause in 98, the soft tops were camel, but in '97.. they were.. get this.. sable.. *wink wink, nudge nudge* I mean come on.. so apparently they didn't notice till they had my rear window taken out and were going to sew the new one in, cause the colors were wrong.. so they put mine back in and told me to come get my car.

Now remember. it was after 4 when I called.. and I actually asked if I should come get my car.. I was told yes.I figured they would be open for a while, and so I goofed around a bit, then went out.. (did I mention it is freezing cold out there? 21 degrees with a wind-chill making it 10.. and for those of you who don't 'get that' 10 degrees is 22 degrees BELOW FREEZING!! *rubs chapped hands*) I drove to the dealership.. (oh man.. that reminds me.. I didn't tell you about getting there this morning.. that is a story in and of its self.. it involves a house parked in the road, and a cop deciding that the other side of the street from the house was a good place to stop and have a conversation *rolls eyes* I sooo should have known) and vowed Id start my car the second I got there (remote starter in the new car.. which btw, the service manager wanted me to pay for this morning.. but I pretty much told him I wouldn't till the car worked) anyway.. I get there, start my car, look up.. AND THE SERVICE DEPARTMENT IS CLOSED!! why on earth didn't the moron tell me that he was going to be closing in a few?? He knew I was on my way.. *mumble grumble* Anyway.. I stand around the dealership while one of the guys scrounges around and gets my key.. I get in my car.. and screamed.. cause frankly.. 10 minutes of running a car in below freezing weather does NOT warm it up, nor does it do anything for the ice cold leather seats.. I am surprised im not still stuck to the darn things!!!

So.. again.. I have a car with out rear window defrost.. man I wish I had some recourse here.. I mean come on.. technically we are getting into the lemon laws here.. (have to have brought it in three times for the same thing that affects the safety of the vehicle or have it in the shop for x amount of days) But the law says that I can make them replace it, or give me a refund.. I don't really want a refund.. (although there was a 98 seabring in the lot across the street.. this one was a nice green color) I just want this over with.. I never want to see frank galos chevy again..

on a side note.. I found the 48 hour miracle diet at walmart the other day.. so I bought it.. and im in hour 18 and MAN am I HUNGRY!!!! never fasted before.. its an interesting experience..
Ranted by ~*Connie*~ at 5:50 PM

well pooh.. the website Ive been doing my taxes on for free for three years was bought out by another company and charging to do it.. now what? sigh. Not that I mind doing the taxes by hand.. I kinda like doing them, but the site made it so much easier to have them submited eletronically.. and because I have submitted them eletronically for three years, the goverment no longer sends me the papers..

*off to do websearches to find an alternitive*

on another note, the interview went well, but im still unemployeed. Its a good thing, cause the commute would have been a major pita, the job would have been boring, and they would have under paid me big time.it was my first interview in about 8 years though, so it was worth my time.
Ranted by ~*Connie*~ at 3:44 PM

At this point, Im calling my hamsters 'sweetness' and the other 'light'.. Unfortunately all light ever does is sleep.. Im worried.. had a VERY BAD dream about her last night.. but they both like it when I pick them up.. they are so cute.. like two walking cotton balls :) I have no idea how im telling them apart.. so maybe one of them is always sleeping..

I have a lot of errands to run, including an interview tomorrow.. so I doubt I'll be back on line till tuesday..
Ranted by ~*Connie*~ at 12:54 PM