The dreaded words....

...from my 19-year-old daughter tonight were, "Mom, you HAVE to see this movie." Now, I love it that she wants to share her interests with me but when its a move that she has deemed that I HAVE to see, I'm not allowed to do anything while the movie is on but sit on the couch, be quiet and watch the movie. She will go get a glass of wine for me if I ask, so that's nice. :)

The movie tonight was Garden State (http://www2.foxsearchlight.com/gardenstate/). I must say, it was AWESOME. If you want to see an offbeat movie with moments of comedy, tragedy and weirdness that really makes you feel, this is it. I highly recommend it.

Watched it with Amy and two of her friends tonight. I'll have to watch it again. It really was incredible. Go rent it NOW!!

It also has an incredible soundtrack. One of the themes of the movie is putting your fears aside to pursue something real, regardless of the emotional risk. The song "Let Go" by Frou Frou just captures that feeling--

drink up, baby down
mmm, are you in or are you out
leave your things behind
'cause it's all going off without you
excuse me, too busy you’re writing your tragedy
these mishaps
you bubble wrap
when you've no idea what you're like

so (let go) let go, jump in
oh well, whatcha waiting for
it's alright
'cause there's
beauty in the breakdown

so (let go) yeah, let go, just get in
oh, it's so amazing here
it's alright
'cause there's beauty in the breakdown

it gains the more it gives
and then it rises with the fall
so hand me that remote
can't you see that all that stuff's a sideshow
such boundless pleasure
we've no time for later now
you can't await your own arrival
you've 20 seconds to comply

The Tsunami

Its just unbeievable the death and destruction from the tsunami. My family is made up of news junkies who are also compassionate to a fault. Trying to understand the magnitude of loss and the science behind the tsunami has dominated our conversations of late. While out on the Deerfield Beach pier after dinner on Monday night, we watched the waves come in and tried to size the tsunami. It was windy and cold but we just stood there talking about how tsunamis are generated, how far inland the tsunami went and the emotion of standing on a beach and seeing the wall of water rushing toward you.

Some interesting facts--the largest tsunami ever recorded was in 1958 in Alaska. The wave was 1,700 feet tall! It was generated from a rock slide in a bay. Lituya Bay Tsunami

I would encourage everyone to donate to their relief agency of choice. The government shouldn't be expected to do it all and, as I learned on my trips to Haiti with Food For The Poor, government to government aid is riddled with corruption. If you don't know who you can trust, give money to www.worldvision.org. (Their site may be tough to get to due to the disaster response but keep trying.) Even $5 will help.

My co-worker from Food For The Poor went to work for them in 2002 and was communications director in Herat, Afghanistan beginning in August 2002. Her stories of their work and dedication were incredible.

And, one little bit of humor I've found in the news coverage is this caption on msnbc.com. Does this guy have the perfect name to be discussing a tsunami that killed tens of thousands of people?

Dec. 27: Waverly Person, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey, says lives could have been saved after the earthquake in Asia if there had been a tsunami warning system in place.

Wow...

Last night (after I wrote the post below), as I was going to bed, my houseguest stopped me and said, "I won't see you tomorrow before I move out and I wanted to say Thank You for everything you've done. I really appreciate everything. Thank you for saving my life."

Regardless of how things turn out for him, I'm glad we were there to help when he needed someone.

I get my house and kid back

Tomorrow is going to be a GREAT day. My friend's 24-year-old schizophrenic son who has lived with us since the start of September is moving out to his own apartment. YEAH!!! I'm glad we were able to help him out and give him a chance to stop living on the streets, get into treatment and get on his feet. But...its been really hard having a non-family member live in the house. Thank God we had all those exchange students over the years or this would have been even more difficult.

And, not only does he move out tomorrow, but Amy comes home so our family is together again. I'm so psyched to have my litte ray of sunshine come home for a few weeks. It will be so much fun to go with her to see the Gators crush the evil scUM from University of Miami on New Year's Eve in Atlanta. Me, Amy and Skare together at a Gator football game on New Year's Eve. Its gonna be sooooooooo much fun.

The beginning of the end

Claire went to a friend's house yesterday at 1 for a sleep over. I was supposed to pick her up at 11 this morning but her friend wanted her to go to a carnival with them and , of course, I said, "SURE!" So, here it is, almost 5, the weekend is gone and I've spent from 8-1 on Saturday with my kid.

Remembering how it went with Amy, who was also a pretty sociable kid, it starts with the extended sleepovers, moves into trips to the mall, movies, dances, concerts, etc and the next thing you know, they're off at college.

The one thing that I have to hold on to is that Claire's friends prefer to come over here so I have some hope of spending time with her. :(

New favorite song

I've been listening to Damien Rice since his CD "O" was released last year but I missed the song, "Cannonball." Musically its pretty simple but it has some of the most well written lyrics I've heard in a long time. Damien's Web Site

There’s still a little bit of your taste in my mouth
There’s still a little bit of you laced with my doubt
It’s still a little hard to say what's going on

There’s still a little bit of your ghost your weakness
There’s still a little bit of your face i haven't kissed
You step a little closer each day
That i can’t say what's going on

Stones taught me to fly
Love, it taught me to lie
Life, it taught me to die
So it's not hard to fall
When you float like a cannonball

There’s still a little bit of your song in my ear
There’s still a little bit of your words I long to hear
You step a little closer to me
So close that I can't see what's going on

Stones taught me to fly
Love, it taught me to lie
Life taught me to die
So it's not hard to fall
When you float like a cannon..
Stones taught me to fly
Love taught me to cry
So come on courage
Teach me to be shy'
Cause it's not hard to fall
And I don't wanna scare her
It's not hard to fall
And I don't wanna lose
It's not hard to grow
When you know that you just don't know

The Is & Cs and Ps & Bs

Maybe its the moon phase but it sure seems like a healthy dose of incompetence has been infused into ALOT of people I work with. DB and I have both been griping about the " Is & Cs and Ps & Bs".

See if you can figure out the initials.

New Gator Coach

WOOOOOOHOOOOOOOO--the Gators hired Urban Meyer as the new football coach. I am so psyched. When I saw the news on Friday at work, I ran to my boss' office to tell her. Almost laid a Terry Tate on a co-worker. This guy looks like he'll be great for UF football.

Good story about his philosophy

Another Great Quote

Shopping malls are liquid TVs for the end of the twentieth century. A whole micro-circuitry of desire, ideology and expenditure for processed bodies drifting through the cyber-space of ultracapitalism.
--Arthur Kroker

Thanks to Bartleby for this thought-provoking quote

Exactly why I hate the malls. I think this quote is even more exceptional when you understand that the writer is Canadian. They're usually so average. Just ask Triumph the Comic Insult Dog!

Sense of humor

As you might imagine, having a sense of humor is a requirement in my house and, if I do say so myself, both my kids have a great sense of humor. When Claire and I met up with Amy on the way to my aunt's house for Thanksgiving, Amy started telling Claire that she had seen the movie "Elf" last night with her boyfriend Joey and that she thought Claire would like it.

Well, Claire had seen Elf the weekend before while at the house of her boyfriend, Joshua Miller. I had so much fun listening to my 19 year old and 7 year old daughters laugh like crazy and talk about their favorite parts of the movie. I told Amy that the conversation was either a validation of Claire's advanced sense of humor or an indictment of Amy's juvenile sense of humor. Either way, it was so fun to hear them laugh like crazy together about the same movie that each one had seen with their boyfriend.

UF-FSU scoreboard showing half-ass QB Wyatt Sexton at the UF-South Carolina game last week wearing a Florida sweatshirt. Again, more Gator envy by the Noles. They did show the pic on ESPN but someone photoshopped it onto the scoreboard.

They never get over that rejection letter from UF!!

Down with the evil Nole

WOOOOOHOOOOOO--Gators finally beat the evil Nole in Tallahassee. True Freshman Brandon Siler was a STUD at middle linebacker playing for Crowder. Ciatrick Fason, who attended the same high school I did, carried the offense in the fourth quarter. So great to win there on the night they rename the stadium to Bobby Bowden Field. That's going to be a good trivia question in a few years.

The game was sweet retribution for the Noles sorry behavior after the game last year when they attempted to deface our field--

Click here to see the fight from last year and the bogus calls that cost the Gators the game.

To all FSU fans, regardless of the outcome of ANY football game, you will always be Florida's Second-rate University.

What do Florida and FSU grads have in common? They were both admitted to FSU, or, to use its correct name, half-ass U!

And now, I will go watch the replay of the game so I can observe the play without the nervous feeling in the pit of my stomach and trying to stifle the curse words that want to fly out of my mouth. I haven't had the pre-game nervous feeling like I had last night in a long time. I swear my heart was going to beat out of my chest as the Noles completed their last drive. As I phoned my old college roommate after each score, she asked when I would believe that the Gators would win it and I said, "Not until the clock reads 0:00. You know that I've had my hopes crushed too many times before."

Gatorzone game story

Good quotes by Robert Frost

"The best way out is always through."

"You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence."

Even better!

Another good one.

The Triumphant Return of the Double Helix

The inaugural reunion of the Double Helix of Fear and Retribution (aka Karen, Kat and David) was the usual phenomenal occassion when we three get together. 45-minutes into the 10 hours together and our cheeks hurt from laughing. The best lines were...
"He sends me his regards? He'd send his regards to anything with a hatchet wound!"
"Are you sure you've never directed porn?"
"If they can hear you, they can shoot you."
"With skinny girls, that's nothing but bones banging against you."
"Sorry, I was looking at some big tatas. Can you heave for me?"
And the refrain as we looked at the 165 pictures that we took was...
"Damn, we're good looking. I would so do us!"

As we got into David's car early in the evening to go to the show at The Garage, the song that came on his CD player was "Ants Marching" by Dave Matthews Band. We sang with greater than usual gusto. So fitting that we had spent the afternoon on a pub crawl while all our OD co-workers were muddling through the layoffs and reorg...

He wakes up in the morning
Does his teeth bite to
eat and he's rolling
Never changes a thing
The week ends the week begins
She thinks, we look at each other
Wondering what the other is thinking
But we never say a thing
These crimes between us grow deeper
.....
Take these chances
Place them in a box until a quieter time
Lights down, you up and die
....

Driving in on this highway
All these cars and upon the sidewalk
People in every direction
No words exchanged
No time to exchange
And all the little ants are marching
Red and black antennas waving
They all do it the same
They all do it
the same way

"Ants Marching" lyrics


Kat and Karen



Surprising David--aka blackmail picture #1


Annual reunion photo

Layoffs a comin'

Well, it was confirmed in the newspaper today that layoffs are coming to Office Depot, my employer. Layoff story Rumor has it that 600 people will be let go tomorrow. We'll see.

Funny thing happened today during our division staff meeting. The VP usually takes questions at the end and she was joking today about not taking questions because of the layoff rumors/article. As the last director got up to give his report I said, "Make sure you leave time for questions." She said, "No, Jeff, I want you to go slow and long." Everyone cracked up. It was a funny moment in the middle of the layoff crap.

On the upside, its the first annual reunion of the destranding of the Double Helix of Fear and Retribution (ie skare moving away). That means I'll be pub crawling through Atlantic Ave. with two of my best buddies while the blood-letting occurs. Here we are at the original destranding of the Helix last year.

As we said last time they were cutting staff at Office Depot when we left for lunch while everyone else sat at their desks worried about their jobs, "They can't fire us if they can't find us!!"

Great Quote

Great quote from Bartleby.com today (a site I highly recommend)--

"Great wits are sure to madness near allied,
And thin partitions do their bounds divide."

Check it out here

Things that make me chuckle

Claire, Al and I went to see "The Incredibles" a movie about a family of super heroes. I told Al that if I were going to be a superhero, I'd like to be Elastigirl, the mom's character. He said, "Sweetie, you ARE Elastigirl."

I looked her up on The Incredibles web site. It said that she is 5'8", 125 lbs, her primary special power is flexibility and her secondary special power is agility. Wow, I guess I am Elastigirl. (DB said it should be "Sarcastigirl"--good one!)




My fortune at dinner said, "You deserve to have a good time after a hard day's work." And I have a lot of hard days at work. Guess me, skare and DB will be cashing in on that one during our pub crawl this Friday evening. Starting at the one and only The Blue Anchor.

Maybe we'll get to see the ghost, Bertha. To quote Lee, the owner, during his interview on the Travel Channel special about Haunted Places, "It was the most frightening experience of my life. I had to sit down and have a brandy." As opposed to standing and drinking red wine as he does most afternoons.

Another good quote was from the cartoon Jimmy Neutron. Jimmy brought Thomas Edison into the future. Edison's expression of surprise was, "Well, knock 10 points off my IQ and call me Tesla!"

Random Name and Title Generator

I found another fun way to waste time on the internet--Click here for a random name generator

My title is--
Lesser Countess Junior Grade of The Left Side of Beer For Breakfast, Sister Kat R. Stuhr

Post a comment if you get a good one.

What a great kid

Poor Amy is stressed out because she's going to get two Bs her first term at college and only start off with a 3.3 average, even though she's taking a Biology class that is not recommended for first year students and is a weed-out class, Chemistry, Pre-Calculus (another weed out class) and Comparative Politics. That girl has some high standards.

She's called me twice in the last two weeks just to tell me about something funny that she heard. That just makes my day. Once was something funny her Biology teacher said about fermentation. He said he has a friend who won't drink wine because he does not want to drink the byproduct of microbes that die in their own excrement. Not sounding too yummy now. The other thing she called to tell me about was a funny sketch on the Daily Show after the election about the f-ed up exit polling. Bee, one of the Daily Show correspondents, goes around asking people all sorts of random questions. One of the best is when she encounters a lady coming out of a salon and she asks her what she had done in there. The woman replied that she had a haircut and Bee points to the woman's head and asks, "Does the carpet (wink, wink) match the drapes?"

Go here-- The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and click on the "Exit Polls" link. Its way funny.

Its nice to be friends with your kid if you can do it while still being a parent.

"Check me out. No, seriously, check me out."

Those famous words from Strongbad have taken on new meaning lately. I've gotten used to being visually raped by the guys. Even the last few years where it seems to have moved into a new level--different generations, races, nationalities, hemispheres, etc all doing the obvious "check me out." But, for God's sake, I draw the line at chicks doing it. Today, the fat, female (not even cute, not that it would make a difference) security guard did it twice in the span of 5 minutes. I thought I was being paranoid so I asked DB and he confirmed it. And, if anyone can spot someone checking out a chick, its the master of that skill, DB.

As I related the story to skare, we commented on the number of times people have thought we were lesb****. OK, so we like to dress casually, don't accessorize a lot and aren't big into the lots of makeup thing. I think that when she's in south Beach next week I'm going to go down and meet her for brunch. We can work the lesb*** angle and probably get better service at the restaurant. I'll bring Claire and we can play "Claire has two mommies".

Hear Strongbad utter those famous words here. Be sure to listen to the end-- Homestarrunner Intro .

Edited the post to add the *** because I found that someone had found the blog by searcing on that term. I've got no problem with it, but don't want my blog to be misrepresented among the search engines.

Teachable Moments

They say that effective parenting comes down to teachable moments--identifying moments when your child is asking to learn something and making the time to teach them.

This morning, as I was getting ready for work, I was singing The Cure song "Just Like Heaven" and Claire said, "What are you singing, 'Show me, show me, show me'?" I replied, "Yes, its one of my favorite songs by a GREAT band called The Cure."

So, I capitalized on the teachable moment, we went to the computer and I put the song on. We danced around and sang. Not sure how appropriate the lyrics are for a 7-year-old but at least there's no bad words and she's not going to get the references anyway.

"Show me, show me, show me how you do that trick
The one that makes me scream she said
The one that makes me laugh she said
And threw her arms around my neck
Show me how you do it
And I promise you I promise that
I’ll run away with you
I’ll run away with you"

*And to my NSWStateofMind friend, my deepest apologies for showing you those lyrics and adding to your torment. Naaah, not really, you deserve your torment. ;)

Election Results

Just today at lunch, I was telling DB that I'd like to see a map with election results down to the county level. All the maps show states in red for Bush and blue for Kerry but they don't graphically display just how close the election was. So, I found this...

Click here for election results map

Blue means 100% Democrat, purple is 50/50 and red is 100% Republican. There is a lot of purple.

Thank God its almost over...

The presidential election it is. Let's hope its finalized this week and not dragged out through the courts. This line from the Indigo Girls keeps going through my head, "While the politicians shadowbox the power ring, in an endless split decision never solve anything."

Here's a good perspective on the election from the UK--The Daily Telegraph--It's not just the economy stupid

I'm the Gator Jinx

My apologies to the entire Gator nation for my role in our loss to Georgia this weekend. My self-imposed exile from the game that I invoked in 1984 apparently extends to the entire stadium grounds, not just inside the stadium. As I said before, the Gators went 1-7 before my exile and have gone 14-4 since then. Obviously, the recent success against Georgia is due primarily, if not entirely, to my self-imposed exile (OK, so Spurrier may have had something to do with it but Zook went 2-0 against them before this year.)

I went to the stadium this year to tailgate with some friends. I had MANY people who know about my exile ask me, with a hint of panic in their voice, "But you're not going INTO the game, are you?!?". I said, "No, just hanging around to tailgate and watch the game at Richie's RV." I stayed on the stadium grounds until halftime. When I left, the Gators were down 21-7. We watched the rest of the game at Matt's house and they rallied back to a 24-21 deficit in the beginning of the 4th quarter before losing 31-24. I guess I stayed at the stadium too long for the Gators to overcome my bad karma.

But, I'd do it again because it was a blast. It was like old times hanging out with Deb (Wench!!) and Matt. I got Deb to come with us despite the fact that she's been battling a severe cold for two weeks, works as a teacher of autistic 4-6 year olds so she's got a physically, emotionally and mentally challenging job, and she wanted to use the weekend to rest up. And I didn't even have to pull out the old college taunt of "Oh, Bluto, I have a little cold and can't go party with my best buds." Richie's RV was a blast, the lobster, steak and Voodoo punch were worth the 10 hours in the car. And the GSMB get together at Smitty's RV was fun, too. I climbed to the top of Smitty's RV to get an aerial photo of part of RV city. That was fun.

The photos tell the story....
Kat's Trip to the World's Largest Cocktail Party

As we were going to the stadium, we crossed the St. John's river on the water taxi that was filled with fans from both schools. I had an interesting conversation with my daughter who is a freshman at the University of Florida--
Me-- "Amy, did you know that the St. John's River flows north."
Amy-- "No, mom, I didn't know that."
Me--"Its the only river in the northern hemisphere that does that."
Amy--"Oh really, mom, that's interesting."
Me--"Do you know why the St. John's River flows north?"
Amy--"No, mom, why?
Me, with an increased volume--"Because Georgia SUCKS."

As the Georgia fans around me gave me dirty looks, my college roommate Deb, who used to console me through my tears when we lost the game every year while we were in school said, "Kat, please try to not get us beaten up before we even get to the stadium."

Before the game outside the stadium, as we walked between the various parties we were going to, my 7-year-old daughter, Claire, asked me when we could start yelling at some Georgia fans. I said, "Now's as good a time as any" so she kept chanting "1 in 13, 1 in 13" (their record against us over the last 14 years), as we walked around the grounds. Its important to start them young with the family traditions.

So, the old Gator rallying cry of "Wait 'till Next Year" has been changed to "Wait 'till Next Coach!"




GOOOOOOOOOOO Gators!!

Another good poem

Reading this poem almost seems like some people's impression of George W. Bush. Its just that the poem was written in the mid-1800s.

The Life of W

Stealing

Claire was in my office today and had a handful of bubblegum. I asked her to leave it on my desk while we went to another area and she said, "I don't want somebody to steal it."

I told her, "This is corporate America. They don't steal your bubblegum, they steal your soul."

A little Halloween fun

The House that gave sucky treats game

Make sure you give the Andy Warhol character the can of soup and give Strongbad (the guy in the mask) the bunny candy.

Have fun.

Funny Stuff

Roaming around the internet finding some funny stuff...

We cannot see the future. We cannot change the past. We can only live in the now with an eye towards gaining enough power in the future to wreak revenge on the son-of-a-bitch who screwed us in the past.

Dreaming frees the soul, energizes the spirit and allows you to do things that would get you thrown in jail if you really tried them.

Love means never having to say, "Does that twenty include the spanking?"

When it becomes a crime to love, you should probably consider dating outside the family.

If Life hands you lemons today, smile and give thanks. Then when Life isn't looking, give him a quick knee to the groin. That'll learn him.

They say a smile is a gift, which is free to the giver and precious to the recipient. But giving the finger is free, too, and I find it more personal and sincere.








Most of this stolen from here

More Dawgs...

Dawgs suck

ROTD

Rant of the Day--"Users are f-ing idiots. Corporate America is nothing more than a huge welfare system. The logo just shows the source of your food stamps. Damnit, I should have hit all those kids with a brick in kindergarten. Now, they're all in HR and management."

Thanks for the laugh, my friend. You know who you are. ;)

It all comes back to this....
It's just how we are

Thought-provoking poem

Is it better to fight for something noble and lose, or be victorious without any strong convictions?

Io Victis

Matt, Mary, Kat, Joe and Claire before the Arkansas game. Almost choked that one away, too.

Go Gators

Yeah, the Gators finally fired our loser coach who drove the program into the ground after only three years. This weekend, I'm heading up to Jax to take in the festivities of the Florida-Georgia game. I will not be going to the game since I vowed in 1984 to NEVER return to the game after suffering humiliating defeats every year I was a student and they finally won in 1984. As I partied on the field, prying up my piece of turf, I vowed never to return to the game, and I haven't. I have watched every one on TV but never entered the stadium. In the years since I made my vow, the Gators have gone 14-4 against the Dawgs. Prior to that, their record was 1-7 going back to the first year that I cared about the game--1976. I attribute their recent success to my absence.

I will go hang out and party with my fellow Gators, including my high school and college buddy Matt and former roommate, Deb and watch the game on TV. We may be at an RV parked outside the stadium that will have a satellite dish and a big screen TV. If the Gators start losing, I may need to drive away from the stadium.

After watching the game, we'll go to Bob and Brenda's annual Pumpkin Carving Extravaganza. It's so great to still have all my buds in Jax even though I've lived 350 miles away for the last 11 years.

The Florida-Georgia game is commonly referred to as "The World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party." I googled it and actually found it in an online dictionary. Its on the internet, it must be true.

The World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party

New favorite song

New favorite song....for the moment. Great example of the lyrics and musical style working together to display a raw emotion.

Kings of Leon - Molly's Chambers

"Train up a child..

in the way she should go and when she is old, she will not depart from it."

Wise words from Proverbs that provide insight into a variety of parenting subjects. Today, Claire showed glimpses that I am training her up properly. We were running errands and listening to a mix CD I had made of some obscure stuff. "Desire" by Ryan Adams was playing. Its a stripped down sound featuring guitar, harmonica and raw vocals. After the song ended, she asked "Mom, play that again." No Kidz Bop or Britney Spears for my girl.

Later, she was riding her bike and I was rollerblading. I was telling her to go faster but she wouldn't so I decided I'd let her keep up with me. As soon as I started to pass her, she'd pick up the pace to make sure she stayed in the lead. Those hours watching the Tour de France over the summer have given her an understanding of the value of a good sprint. She'll be on the multi-speed mountain bike and we'll be riding out to the Everglades by next spring.

The girl has got it together and she's only 7.

More Cowbell

What the world needs now is.... more cowbell!

I love that SNL skit and think its great that it spawned its own website. Here's a link to the Windows Media Player version of Blue Oyster Cult - Behind the Music SNL skit . Will Ferrell's fat, hairy stomach was never funnier.

"I gotta fever and the only prescription is more cowbell!!"

New Music

I went on a virtual musical journey tonight, courtesy of a guy I met at a conference last week. My Aussie friend Luke told me about an Austrailan band called "Jet". I acquired some of their music and really like them. "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" reminds me of The Strokes while "Take It or Leave It" and "Get Me Outta Here" has more of a traditional rock feel. With those good songs, why oh why, are they going to play this sappy piano ballad "Look What You've Done" when they're on Conan O'Brien?!?!?

I searched them on www.musicplasma.com and saw them near "Kings of Leon" musically so I acquired some of their songs, too. More good stuff. After that, I went to their website www.kingsofleon.com to check some of their musical influences and saw a link for the bonnaroo festival--a three-day music festival in Tennessee that had Damien Rice, Ani DeFranco, David Byrne, Dave Matthews, Gov't Mule, Los Lobos and Robert Randolph & The Family Band (saw him open for John Mayer two years ago--good blues) among others performing last year. The 2003 show had Neil Young & Crazy Horse (seen them before--so great, you could feel the feedback in your chest and my ears buzzed for days!), Allman Brothers, Bela Fleck & the Flecktones (seen them too, great Jazz fusion band) , Jack Johnson, Jason Mraz (seen him, too. Fun live show.)

On Friday and Saturday, the music runs from noon-3AM. Last year, it was the three days before my birthday. If they have one in 2005, I think Amy and I will be going on a mother-daughter musical roadtrip. That will be a blast! www.bonnaroo.com.

Time to enter the world of blogging. Right now, I'm feeling supremely bored with life in general. Maybe this new distraction will fill the void until my usual lust for life returns.

Kat4Gators has entered the blog...


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