What's shakin'?! It's nearly midnight and I am POOPED. This busy weekend has got me exhausted. But hey, it was fun, so I really shouldn't complain. I hope you had a nice weekend too. Somebody posted a photo of you on Facebook yesterday, and you were at the San Francisco Zoo....I don't know when it was taken, but if it was this weekend, that seems like a cool thing to spend time doing. I am not a big fan of zoo's, probably because I love animals and I have this burning urge to open up all their cages and let them all run free. (As long as they all promise NOT to eat me). But I'd rather go to a zoo with LIVE animals than to go to a museum full of dead, stuffed ones. Those creep me out.
I noticed in the photo, you were wearing a jacket. HA!! San Francisco summers just plain SUCK!! Sorry dude, but they do. I nearly froze my ta-ta's right off when Pete took me there for our honeymoon! It was JULY, and 50 degrees!! All I packed were shorts and tank tops!! I had no clue!! (Silly naive me).
Lora posted something cool on Facebook too, this weekend. She and Cyndi apparently attended a baseball game, and at the end when the fireworks were going to start, the song LIGHTS was played, and the whole stadium sang along, and lit up their cell phones...she said it was "Epic." KEWL!!!
Ah well, it's been in the 80's and 90's all week long, and muggy here. But, that's fine with me. I'd rather be too hot, than to be too cold. I can shower, go swimming, drink cold water, and have ice cream if I'm too hot. All of those things are FUN! Putting on a sweater and layers and socks, though, when I'm freezing---just totally blows. I would rather be buck naked and barefoot in the 90 degree heat, drinking pink lemonade, in all my lily-white-sunburned-glory, than to be standing in a friggin' wind tunnel in 50 degree weather, wearing a sweater, layers, and socks, and feeling my nose hairs freeze. Ya know?
But, that only comes from 27 years of my life being stuck living in Michigan. I still wear socks to bed. I'm wearing socks with my pajamas right now, as a matter of fact, because my damned feet are cold. I hate that. But, with diabetes, well, the circulation in my fat carcass is totally beyond just the plain old, overused word "sucks."
There really HAS to be a better term, a better vocabulary, than using the word "sucks" so much.
I apologize for that, actually, it's quite the pet peeve of mine....like when a 20-something is trying to tell a story and uses the word "like" 50,000 times. I HATE THAT. And the biggest grammar-Nazi pet peeve of mine, is "a whole NUTHER." GRRRRRRR, that just makes me wanna smack somebody upside the head. I don't mind "they're, there, and their" so much, when they get screwed up...but "a whole NUTHER" just burns my ass. I want to tear my hair outta my own noggin when I hear that.
Here's some photos of my weekend....
My sister Tammy, her husband Steve, my nephews Mason (left) and Joshua (right), all came to visit us for the first time since our wedding, and we had a great time. We took them all to the Carnegie Science Museum, (I had never been there before), and it was totally awesome. "The Science of the Guitar" is the newest exhibition, which was amazing. Tammy, Steve & Josh attended the Dave Matthews Band concert on Saturday night too, and they love that guy more than the sun and the moon. I don't mind their music, but it's not something I'd go pay money to sit and watch. They're okay, in my opinion, but not really on my bucket list, ya know?
The museum also had a robot exhibition...so here I am, with the Lost in Space robot...cool huh?! DANGER WILL ROBINSON!! hehehehe I love silly retro things like that. Kitschy. Fun. Weird.
That pretty much sums me up 100%!!!
And this was one of the COOLEST guitars I have ever seen...it has a VIDEO SCREEN on it, flashing awesome video images! Wow, I never knew they could do something like that on a guitar!
And then there was a 30 foot long actually PLAYABLE guitar, too, that you could strum. No whammy bar though, what a bummer.
And OH MAH GAWD, it's GORT!!! AAAUUUGGHHH!!!! I love that robot so much!! It's from the old movie, "The Day The Earth Stood Still," which is one of my Top 10 favorite movies of all time!!
As a matter of fact, I love that movie SO MUCH, that Pete found this awesome autograph from Patricia Neal, with an old film poster and her photo...how cool is that?!! I loved Patricia Neal though, what a woman, what a life...and the film "The Fountainhead" based on Ayn Rand's book was INCREDIBLE.
Oh come on, Stephen, you'd love to have your picture taken with C-3PO too, admit it!! You can't lie to me!! I guess I had the most fun of all with these damned robots at this museum!! Okay, ok, one more:
Yeah, okay, so this one is a bit overrated, but it was cute...R2D2 was a bit short to take a photo with him, but I did my best...don't know why my tongue is sticking out like an idiot though. Silly me. When I'm trying to concentrate on taking a self portrait photograph with a short little robot, I guess that's what happens.
So anyway, it was cool, we had fun, and I'm pooped. That just about encapsulates the entire weekend.
See!! ENCAPSULATES...I do have a better vocabulary hiding inside of me somewhere....I need to find it and dust it off, and start using it again. Because being a dweeb who uses "sucks" so often really annoys the hell out of me, being the English major in college that I was...
I realized today, when my Uncle Bill's girlfriend asked me how I was doing, that I'm really not sure. I mean, I really don't know how to answer that question. I have nothing going on really, of my own. I don't have much of a purpose in life anymore. Ya know what I mean? I am just wandering aimlessly, doing next to nothing, and wondering why that is. I've never had that happen before in my life. I've always been too damned busy trying to keep a job and pay the bills, to really think about it much. So lately I am seriously contemplating my world, my existence on this planet, and all that crazy jazz, trying to figure out how to move forward and start doing something of my own, that makes me happy.
I know you can relate.
My first thought is, "Write for Playboy." My second thought is, "Publish my book."
So stay tuned, one or both of those things may be happening very soon.
Drum roll please....
And now YOU will see what it's like to wait for somebody way COOL to actually sit down and CREATE ANOTHER NEW THING, like some certain SINGER I know, who says he's got a new ALBUM coming out soon.
...Uh-huh. That's what I said. Ohhhh yes, I so went there. Yes I did. WhatchoogonnaDOabout it?!
Get off your sexy butt, Mr. Stephen Ray Perry, and get that music out soon. I love you so much it causes me great tingles all throughout my body. Oh wait, that's just my damned feet again. Shit. Well, anyhow, it's true, I do love ya lots, and I miss hearing you sing, like everybody ELSE on this whack-assed planet, so get busy and DO IT, will ya?!
I'll publish my book, if you'll get some new tunes cranked out, okay??
It's a DEAL!!! And you can't back out of it, Mister Man, cuz I'll bite your face off if you even try.
Love, Rebecca
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