Author: The Jody

This concludes our test of the Emergency No Update System…

Look, I’m just going to pretend that people cared at all that I didn’t post yesterday. It was a full day, top to bottom, and the blog got pushed waaaaay down on the list. I mean, I had to take Junior bowling, people!

We’re gearing up here for Typhoon, er, “Miffy”. Hey, it’s my typhoon, I get to name it. Okay, so the National Weather Service just says it’s going to be really windy – but 60mph gusts and 30mph sustained winds deserve some kind of name, don’t you think? So I declare tomorrow Typhoon Miffy day. And don’t bother calling and writing to tell me that to be a Typhoon the storm needs winds to be n mph. I’m in charge, do you hear me!?

When a storm like Miffy comes along this late in the season, it has a cool sound all its own. Mostly because there are no leaves on the trees to break the wind (heh) but also because I have a lot of trees close together and they’re going to sound like one of those wooden windchimes. I’m just hoping that the lack of leaves means I won’t lose any trees (or parts of trees, as was the case during the last windstorm).

I’ll keep the Miffy Updates coming…

Noticed a bunch of traffic coming from one of my other pages, so I thought to myself “Self, there are a bunch of people off reading that page – you should see how many.”

Sometimes, you think your eyes are playing tricks on you. And sometimes they aren’t, and you’ve really had 7000+ people reading the List of People With A First Name for a Last Name in the past two days, because collegehumor.com linked to me.

Now more people should be clicking back to read THIS page, but for the few of you who have – I just want to say thank you, and take your shoes off before you track mud all over my kitchen floor. And don’t leave your empties on the coffee table! Sheesh, college kids these days!

p.s. For those of you who normally get thousands of hits a day without even trying, please, don’t tell me about it or I’ll cry. I’m fragile that way. And my NaNoWriMo novel will under up being a dark and depressing thing, as opposed to the goofy novel I was hoping to write.

No, I don’t have the Flu, but thanks to the free flu shots they’re handing out like candy here at work today, I’m hoping to avoid it altogether this year.

The only thing that bothered me was that when it was my turn, the first thing the nurse said was “You’re already pale,” meaning, I guess, that some people get pale at the thought of a shot, but I arrived looking like the Ghost of Christmas Past.

I’m not afraid of shots, or blood draws. I’m hypothyroid, I get my blood drawn 4 times a year or so. I mean, it’s not that. So I’m so pale that she had to comment on it? Wrong thing to say to a hypochondriac, of course. Now I’m just going to wonder if I’m coming down with something. Or near death. Or dead and but I don’t know I’m dead, like that movie that I won’t name so I can’t be blamed for spoiling it for folks who haven’t rented the movie. Even though they’ve had plenty of time, thank you.

I think that’s it from here. Other than wondering about the weather bricklet on my work homepage that shows trees being blown sideways for Friday. I can honestly say, since starting here in June, I’ve never seen the trees blowing sideways icon. I can only assume it means a typhoon is headed this way.

Gah. Cold. Cold bad. Cold hurt Jody. Jody hate cold. Brrrr. Cold.

See what happens when I have to go outside in early November and it’s only 20 degrees out? Brain cells DIE, people.

It’s time to ask Santa for some Land’s End gift certificates so I can get that coat that’s rated to like twenty below zero.

I was thinking I should have taken a good picture of the moon tonight, it all its eclipsed glory, but it’s actually hard to photograph the moon, given that it’s a light source (even in an eclipse) against dark everything. I don’t have the right kind of camera or tripod setup to do that. So I’ll just say I’d really pretty, and you’ll have to fill in the blanks with the photos that will inevitably appear in the paper tomorrow. (I know *I* will be shocked if one of the 4 papers I regularly see on newsstands doesn’t have one on above the fold.)

I had something brilliant I was going to say here, but in between the time it took me to fire up the Blogger Pro page, create the post, and write the above paragraph, I lost it. So here are a few other things that I’ll share with you while I try to remember.

1. I didn’t write a word of the novel today. I’m so mad at myself, because I actually stayed up last night and caught up to where my word count was supposed to be. And now I’m going to be 1666 words behind again, if I don’t get going. And I feel like going to bed early.

2. Adam West did the voice of “Catman” on The Fairly Oddparents last night and it ROCKED. He is just the best. I don’t want to ever hear anyone say another bad word about him. Ever.

3. I did a teeny bit of shopping today. I heard that Zito and Jen from WXLO were going to be at the Paper Store in Leominster, and I figured this was a chance I couldn’t pass up. I actually was mostly hoping Jen would have The Colonel with her, because he looks so cute in the pictures on the radio station’s website. And he WAS CUTE! I’m really glad I went, because I got to see the baby, got to meet both of them and Peterman (what the heck happened to his Friday bits? Did Mr. Movie Phone totally replace him? I want him back.) I didn’t win any prizes, which stinks, but I got a fridge magnet, and you can never have too many of those. Plus I spent money on Christmas stuff, which is always good. Oh, and I got to tell Zito and Jen that I think they need to play less music and do more talking. I don’t tune in for music. If I want music I’ll play a CD. I want to be amused – it’s the only thing that makes being a commuter bearable, quite frankly. But I don’t think they have any say in it. Anyway, if you guys are reading this, it was really cool meeting you!