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Anyone else obsessed with Stevie Nicks? I've had this Fleetwood Mac thing going on since high-school. I get obsessed, and that is the only thing on my turn table for weeks.
Stevie haunts me. Her voice haunts me. Her aire haunts me. She makes me feel a sense of meaning and of suffering (I can't explain it, it's a trance thing).
The music is an interface into these strange people, who I am endlessly curious about.

I love, love, love this song "Silver Springs", but never heard it before the live album The Dance from 1997. I was listening to it today, and I got to thinking what's up with this haunting, beautiful song?
Well, it was from the Rumours songs, but at the last minute they told her it wasn't going on the album. It ended up as a B side, all but lost and forgotten.

It reappeared later, I guess it was their reunion concert stuff. And the last night of the show, when they performed this song, it was a like a moment in time when her and Lindsey Buckingham were in love again. Working it out, getting closure.

She was only married once, to her best friends widower, and it lasted 3 months.
I believe she has carried a torch for Buckingham her whole life. She never had her own children.

She spends a great deal of her time doing charity work.
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[Error: unknown template qotd]Xanadu soundtrack, I was 7 or so.
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I just discovered the random journal button. Joy!
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Anyone have a recipe for cookies that's just real easy? I mean one that calls for stuff I probably have in my kitchen already?

I have:
eggs
all purpose flower
oatmeal
scharfenberger cocoa powder
gold raisins
vanilla extract
cashews
baking soda/ and powder
cardimom
sugar

I don't know how to invent cookie recipes, so I was hoping someone could give me some ideas. I have all kinds of stuff in my kitchen.

Thanks in advance.

Your friendly sweet-toothed friend,
Amanda
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We had a big dinner with the local moms in my immediate family. So, there was me, my mother, Jeri Fisher, my mother-in-law, Elaine, my sister-in-law, Yuko, and Dulce. Then we had my husband, David L. Jackson, my father, Tom Fisher, my brother, Matt Fisher, my son, Zeno Hanson, and my neice, Kana Fisher.
Bucco di Beppo housed our feast, and we had chicken saltimbocca (my favorite), spaghetti and meatballs, gnocchi, some pork thing, apple and gorgonzolla salad, cheesy garlic bread, two different kinds of dessert, pinot grigio, a smooth red wine whose name I forgot, lemon chello, and grappa.

It as awesome. I was surprised how much I ate! Zeno enjoyed asking for sips of the "white" and the "red". He is so smart. I offered him a sip of the grappa, but the smell hit him so hard that he couldn't sip it. LOL.
He saw me pour a small amount of white wine into a wine glass for him, and when I looked away, he grabbed my glass of mineral water and poured it into another wine glass for him - and didn't spill a drop!

What else.

I musta partied like a rock star last night because I slept until 4:30 PM when my parents woke me up knocking on the door.

Zenocchio

Apr. 26th, 2008 08:16 pm
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Notice the Elf ear and the Lip.
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IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER



  • Willie Nelson
  • Dolly Parton
  • Tilda Swinton
  • Aleister Crowley
  • Leonard Cohen
  • Data
  • 7 of 9
  • Judi Dench
  • Queen Elizabeth I
  • Freddie Mercury
  • A Space Alien
  • HB
  • Content Knowles
  • Cleopatra



more later
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Last night, David came home with Zeno dangling from one arm, and several bags from different businesses in his other hand. He sets everything down except one bag, and proudly holds it up before me. The bag contains blue water, and 6 miscellaneous fish swimming around in it.

This is different from the time he brought the fire belly toad home, because these were random fish from a bate and tackle shop that he paid $1 for 6 fish. And he had a tiny little fish bowl to house them in.
I was upset. I didn't even know what to say!

He filled the small bowl with water, then added the rocks and the fish, and set it on the table so I could see how nice they were.

They looked crowded.

I asked, "are they going to be happy in there? Is there enough room for them? Can they get any exercise?" So, he went to target and bought a larger bowl. By the time the water was ready for the fish, 4 of them had died.

I forgot about them until I gimped past the chest they live on, and saw two gold fish swimming around.
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We have this picture on the fridge, and David says to Zeno, "Where's Mom-mom?", and Zeno points to Parvati. Then he says, "Where's Zeno?", and Zeno pointed to Ganesha. So, David says, "Where's Deedah?", and Zeno pointed to Nandi the Bull.

Moths

Mar. 25th, 2008 08:50 pm
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For a while now, I've just thought of them as a few moths milling around my house and my kitchen, but David has informed me that we have a moth infestation. Once he said that, I could see that there really were way too many for it to just be a few that got inside.
I know that it's not polite to call them bugs, but let's face it: they are bugging the hell out of me. I can't even sit around on the couch without them checking me out to see what I'm doing, or eating, or writing in my LiveJournal. I feel itchy just thinking about them.
David says he will get some moth balls, but I just picture the torture of some old man in a science coat, spreading their little legs, and castrating them. They are annoying, but I don't want anyone to get hurt. Is there a natural repellent that will just make them feel unwelcome and go bother my neighbor or something?
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On Monday, I learned the miracle of the effects of barometric pressure on human body joints. When I woke up, I could barely walk, and my hip joint didn't want to move in any direction. I thought I had slept on it wrong and dislocated it, or something like that. David rolled my leg around the hip socket to try and fix it. LOL. Later, I was whining about it to Content, and she said all it was is barometric pressure!
I love the idea of being one of these old ladies who can tell you when it's going to rain or snow, etc. :)

We drove down to Austin for the Gogol Bordello show, and we had an awesome time. I can't remember the last time I laughed so much (thank you Sandy and Content!!).
At one point during the night, I lost my purse while chasing Content into the mosh pit. For a few minutes I freaked out looking for it, and when I gave up I saw my husband talking to a barman who was holding it. Some awesome person turned it in! Moments like that make me feel good about humans again.

I'm going to be naughty and go see Gogol Bordello again tonight in Dallas at the Granada. teeheehee.
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