Head Debris

[catelin]

I haven't had much coherent thought lately...mostly bits and pieces. Here's a few excerpts:

• I have now spent enough time at Home Depot that I could probably get a job there.

• I really hate the former owners of this house (Last Name= Lejava) after spending an hour cleaning suspected years-old nose blow off a bathroom vanity. Gross fuckers. I wish I knew your forwarding address so I could send it to you in an envelope.

• I am ashamed that it took me this long to realize that I have two giant magnolia trees in my backyard. They're different here, softer leaves. I look out my window every morning to hundreds of soft little buds already preparing for spring. It makes me happy to have a tree with a familiar name and so much southern meaning so close to where I lay my head.

• I can't decide what's worse, Ikea or Chucky Cheese.

• Am I the only one who looks at Perry Ferrell and cringes because he looks like a sad, twisted version of Getty Lee doing a comeback tour? I wish there were nothing but original Jane's Addiction. Why couldn't it have simply ended when I still believed they were mindblowingly cool?

• Vanilla Nut creamer is the shit.

• I got a new screwgun. That makes me way happier than it should.

See? Nothing going on in here that makes much sense. That's what happens when you spend a couple of weeks unpacking (literally) thousands of pounds of crap that you just hauled cross country.

Comments

[doctorgogol.livejournal.com]

Magnolias... how lovely and perfect.

[catelin.livejournal.com]

Yes, magnolias. The symbolic flower of perseverance, some say. I shall send you some to wear on your lapel in the springtime, having weathered so much of late.

[nandan.livejournal.com]

I wish you would get a job at Home Depot. It would be nice if they had more then, I don't know, two cashiers!

[catelin.livejournal.com]

I would, but I'll be working at your new, no-frills gym. ; )

previous owners

[todfox.livejournal.com]

It could be worse. I grew up in a house where the previous owner had done some very strange things. Seems his son would get messed up on "nose blow" and go to home depot and start a project. He installed stalagtites throughout the house on the ceiling (a good twice as long as any I have seen down here) through much of the living room, but only one corner of the kitchen. There was other weird stuff, like fucked up mandalas and dates in black paint when we peeled off some fake paneling. I could probably go on ...

Re: previous owners

[catelin.livejournal.com]

Oh.My.Gawd. That is the weirdest thing I've heard in ages! You should do a whole post about this, Kit. Bizarre!

[buscemi.livejournal.com]

I only like the first Jane's Addiction album, so don't ask me. Perry's voice kinda creeps me out.

[catelin.livejournal.com]

I used to really love them, but I'm getting to the age now where these guys who have been singing the same songs for the last twenty years (and will probably continue to do so for the next twenty) really bother me. I somehow thought my generation would be above being lame. Boy, was I wrong. Heh!

[buscemi.livejournal.com]

That reminds me of the Bloom County comic strip with Ozzy.

"Blegh blegh demon blegh blegh beast"

*huffpuff*

"Thank God for guitar solos!"

"Oz-zy! Oz-zy!"

[ex-friedrich47.livejournal.com]

Nothing is more dangerous than a steel magnolia with a screwgun.

[catelin.livejournal.com]

Ha! Ain't that the truth!

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

*hugs* any post from you is always worth it though...
I love magnolias. Sorry about the icky vanity, bleurgh

[catelin.livejournal.com]

I'll definitely take some pictures of it in the spring. Oh, and my Jacob took the wonderful bear that you sent to kindergarten for show and tell. He told the whole story of how the bear had flown across the sea and how the bear had made kids feel better when they were scared after bad things happened (I used to keep it in my office for my child victims when they'd come to talk to me). The bear was a hit! In so many ways, that bear has given a lot of comfort and love to people that really needed it. I never named him because I tell the kids he has a secret name that only each child knows. Your love radiated strong and clear here, my dear friend. Thanks for that. : )

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

Oh wow.. well, he was a special bear sent with love and good thoughts, but it sounds like you made that stretch a hundred times as far by sharing him, so thank *you* :)

[suladog.livejournal.com]

hmmm..sounds like a new show for HGTV..tracking down previous owners who messed up perfectly good houses

[catelin.livejournal.com]

The couple were divorcing, thus the sale of the house. It was decorated in this ultra-80s country crap tacky. And...so weird...their entire bedroom was decorated from floor to ceiling with teddy bears. Their sex life must have involved a lot of Country Bear Jamboree scenarios.

[suladog.livejournal.com]

good lord!

The power of cheese...

[ragazzopazzo.livejournal.com]

Ok...you can't truly hate a place that has the word "cheese" in its name. Well...unless a place were called "Butt Cheese", and who would frequent such a place anyway? Think about it, this guy Charles likes cheese so much, he decided to make it his surname. That I can respect. I even thought about calling myself Mark Roquefort for awhile, then I decided it was a bit too posh.

Besides, at least Chucky Cheese lets you roam freely. Ikea has that track that corrals cusomers past every item of merchandise. Going in for tea lights is a real pain in the arse, since you get corralled through a bunch office furniture you can't pronounce before you get to them.

Perhaps they should start naming there furniture after cheeses. Then I wouldn't mind so much, and I might even purchase myself a cheddar chair.

Miss you, girl.

Re: The power of cheese...

[catelin.livejournal.com]

Mark Roquefort!! I think it's too funny. You MUST use that as your new msn handle. ; ) I am going to get set up with a new hotmail account so I can bug you at work. I miss you too! Even if we hardly saw each other during the day, at least I knew you were right around the corner.

Re: The power of cheese...

[ragazzopazzo.livejournal.com]

Mark Roquefort...

Also in the running was "Mark Asiago", just because it has that whole latin lover feel to it.

Roquefort won out by a nose. Get it...by a nose?

BTW - In My Third Paragraph, above: "there" should be "their." I'm a proffreading freak.

Speaking of...I got a job assisting this young lady in her Business Law class. She just needed help writing a paper. Oh dear...hiring me to do that was like unleashing the hounds. Poor girl. She will forever be haunted by the visions of me pacing back and forth talking about Contract Formation.

At least she'll get an "A."

M.R., signing off...

[tessed.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOSH. I know you don't know me, but we're living parallel lives. I am in the process of packing too much crap out of this 2 BR apartment I have and moving into a new home for me. The previous owners were very patriotic and my mom pointed out that I have too much "bird shit." Every light switch plate was an eagle with a saying from Thomas Jefferson. They have eagles on top of two light fixtures in the family room that are outside fixtures. There is an eagle on the back door and one on top of a hook on the back of the bathroom door. Everything is paneled - even the inside of the closets and needs to be painted, desperately. I've spent too much time at Lowes (our water company sent you to a link for a 10% off coupon up to $1,000) and Home Depot and I know much too much about paint preferences. I'm scared it will take me 30 years to unpack all of this crap that I'm now haphazardly tossing into any box or bag I can find. I also found out through a wicked storm here on the east coast that my front window in the living room leaks - thank goodness the carpet is not installed yet. God only knows what the people buying this place will say about me since I can only fathom how much I'll feel like cleaning on Sunday after packing, unpacking, working and traveling for work. But I now have a shed with a hoe in it.

Anyhow, LOVED your post and good luck with your new home!

My Twin! : )

[catelin.livejournal.com]

Wow! We are living paralell lives, aren't we? I also am going through the throes of paneling hell. This house has plenty of it left. I painted over the paneling in the den and it turned out great, though, so I'm hopeful! Where did you move to/from? I moved from Texas to New Jersey---big, big change, to say the least.

Re: My Twin! : )

[tessed.livejournal.com]

I painted the paneling in the den/family room too! It turned out awesome too. I was all proud of myself! Well, I am in the Philadelphia suburbs area. I do have one advantage - I am moving less than a mile from where I live now. Divorce/custody story. I have a 9 year old little girl.

Please feel free to email me - tessed1@comcast.net