Marv owes me a sausage. The last two times we've made sauerkraut with Polish sausages, I have discovered when warming up the left overs that he snuck in under the radar and ate the remaining sausages, leaving behind nothing but a pile of sauerkraut.



One of the many aspects of living with somebody that takes some getting used to is having to share all the good stuff, and often finding that the really good stuff has vanished before you get the chance to indulge. Given all this, you'd think we would be losing weight instead of continuing to gain as we both are. Poor Marv has gained in the neighborhood of 50 pounds since he moved in with me. He's not fat, though -- he was too skinny when he got here. I, on the other hand, passed the fat threshold tens of pounds ago.

But enough about that.

My life is becoming increasingly mundane, and I'm finding fewer and fewer things about which to ramble.  The most exciting thing to have happened to me since I last posted more than two months ago was the library sale Marv and I attended yesterday. It was absolute lunacy. We bought 17 CDs and 6 books for $12.00. Most of the CDs (including Shawn Colvin, The Strokes, Everclear, Lenny Kravitz, Kronos Quartet, Stone Temple Pilots, and Soul Asylum) were still in their plastic wrappers. I got mint condition copies of Isabel Allende's Daughter of Fortune, and Yasunari Kawabata's Thousand Cranes, among other notable titles.  It was positively frightening.

I've decided to join the local Friends of the Library. I'm pretty sure that it is the pinnacle of Dorkdom, but I've passed the point of caring. I need to socialize with some like-minded people, and they are few and far between in these parts. We're also going to start going to the local meetings of the Democratic Party, and we're going to visit some of the Unitarian Universalist churches in the area. Of course, there isn't one in this county, despite the fact that you can find a church about every two miles or so. No, we'll have to travel 60 miles to find a church that doesn't condemn you to Hell if you don't believe what they tell you.

Fundamentalists' view of the UU church is that it is a cult which celebrates Satanism. In actuality, this is how the UUA describes itself:

With its historical roots in the Jewish and Christian traditions, Unitarian Universalism is a liberal religion -- that is, a religion that keeps an open mind to the religious questions people have struggled with in all times and places. We believe that personal experience, conscience and reason should be the final authorities in religion, and that in the end religious authority lies not in a book or person or institution, but in ourselves. We are a "non-creedal" religion: we do not ask anyone to subscribe to a creed.

In other news, we're spending the night at the Knoxville Crowne Plaza next weekend so that we can fully enjoy the  Rossini Festival's Italian Street Fair on Saturday. There will be somewhere in the neighborhood of 80,000 people on the streets of downtown Knoxville enjoying the entertainment, arts & crafts, and European foods.


Next month, I'll be traveling to Chicago with my mom and the girls (aka my 2 daughters). We'll be housesitting for my Aunt Judy while she's cruising the Carribean. It will be the first plane ride for the kids, and I don't want to miss that.

Well, that pretty much sums up my current state of affairs.  Not that anybody cares, seeing as 99% of my traffic now comes from people either searching for the lyrics to "The Heart Brings You Back" (it's the hook, not the heart), images of a ruler, or information on Michelle Duggar's hair.

Pros and Cons of Living with a DJ: Part II

Pro:

I just controlled the line-up of the local radio station for about 10 minutes by e-mailing suggestions to my boyfriend, the DJ .

Con:

I just listened to my boyfriend, the DJ ,announce to the entire listening area that they could get a Verizon cellphone for $4.99, when he should have said $49.95.