happy birthday holden! get well soon!

holden's first ride home, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

holden my loyal little friend turns a ripe old 10 today. this is from his ride home after being plucked from the breeder's bargain bin.

i just got back from the vet, where i left holden. he is right now in surgery to remove a rib from his intestines. i didn't feed him any ribs, i guess he got it somehow in the neighbor's yard where he was playing wednesday. he threw up twice yesterday and i wasn't too worried, then threw up again today & i took him in to the vet.

he might be able to come home tomorrow or he might have to stay the whole weekend at the emergency vet.

we're talking thousands of dollars. and one sick, sick puppy.

i was supposed to go tubing down the green river tomorrow with a bunch of people, not any more.

i hope he's okay. my little buddy.

***UPDATE***Friday 8PM

just talked to the vet, holden made it through surgery, the bone was in his upper small intestine, caught in the spot where he had surgery back when he was 2 & ate a pair of my roommate's tights. it was just about to perforate, another day and he would've been a goner. she said they saved the bone for me. he's doped up on pain killers resting overnight and she'll call first thing in the morning to let me know how he's doing. but so far so good.

how to make a peanut butter & jelly sandwich (1983)

First you take two peices of bread some peanut butter and some jelly and then
you spread the peanut butter and jelly on the bread and put one peice of bread
on top of another. Then you get a plate and put the sandwich on it. And
finally you put everything but the sandwich and plate away.

band album name & cover

this was re-posted on a site i visit, and i think it's awesome:

A little creative/random rock-juice for those of you tired of thinking of band/album names and corresponding cover-art. It also doubles as an interesting commentary on how random rock-related names/titles and images are compared to years past, when you could guess the name of a song as soon as you heard the chorus. Debut albums were self-titled and record covers typically featured a photo of the band standing around staring at their own reflection in a puddle of water. It's not like that much anymore.

This is fun.

1 - Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your new band or solo-act.

2 - Go to Random quotations: http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your next record.
(If you want to do this again, you'll hit refresh to generate new quotes, because clicking the quotes link again will just give you the same quotes over and over again.)

3 - Go to flickr's "explore the last seven days", which is a randomly generated page of photos. http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

Put it all together and see what you get.

i did it yesterday but i'm doing it again -

band name - Black Light
album name - optimism is sheer terror
record cover -
now you do it!

happy birthday swirls

an eleventh hour birthday wish to charlie swirls rocking chickens in roanoke

phil's can safe repair

our friend shiny haired phil just created a visually stunning way to repair the top of your can safe, should the top come apart.

here are his step by step simple instructions

here's his flickr photo set

he is crafty like macguyver

because of the tricky tops i've stopped making can safes and now it's all peanut butter jar safes all the time.

seger vs. springsteen

i find it hard to repeat this quotation that i love correctly to a group of people:

"Some people call Bob [Seger] the poor man's Bruce Springsteen, but personally, I always thought Bruce was the rich man's Bob Seger. Love 'em both, though."

- Bob Dylan in April 2008 Vanity Fair




bob seger doing 'ramblin gamblin man' on a 60's tv show 'happening'

already june

a wise man counts his blessings while a fool counts his problems - michael franti says something like this

my weekend's been full of barfing dogs, birthday parties & upcheering & unplugged rock n roll at a subdivision on a sunday afternoon, yee haw!

worry wart

don't press the red one, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

well i went back to the dermatologist this morning, and he was not concerned in the least about the spot on my shoulder, he said it was not basal cell tumor or cancerous and it's just a skin growth and he shot it with liquid nitrogen for 30 seconds or so and sent me home. said stay out of the sun and come back in a couple years.
it's really hard for me to trust doctors. but he was very confident. but i still don't fully believe him.

soup is always greener

there's a grocery store that's a chain of two stores, one in asheville and one 4 hours away in chattanooga tennessee, both publish their soups du jour online in a different tab of the same website so it is easy to compare the two every day.

the other place's soups always sound so much better.

compare -

Greenlife Chattanooga:

• Parmesan Artichoke Chicken
• Mushroom Kale Soup
• Tofu with Lemongrass
• Shellfish Pesto
• Chipotle Chicken Chili
• Parsnip Tomato
• Roasted Red Pepper with Spinach and Cheddar

vs.

Greenlife Asheville:

• Vegan Asian Peanut
• Smoky Corn Chowder
• Vegan Split Pea
• Chicken Noodle
• Creamy Tomato
• Spicy Dal

no contest, right?

insect update

i have moved away from a black widow's nest to a new house that i found holds a couple little black widows of its own, but nothing like the last spider's den.

the newest form of wildlife to plague my existence however is the amazing jumping spider, also known as the camel cricket or the cave cricket. it looks like a nice big thick bodied and legged spider but it JUMPS. 2 feet in the air from a standstill. i have killed three in my bathroom this week. i killed two with a flyswatter and i made nacho kill one. from a sound sleep in another room he rushed to my aid hearing "nacho! nacho! get him! get him nacho! he's jumping! right there! nacho get him! jumping!" and the friendly polar bear cub batted at the cave cricket with his paw and off came a couple cave cricket legs and nacho looked at me like 'this is not food' and that was pretty much the end. i realize the wallpaper looks like a butterfly bamboo forest but it is not acceptable place for jumping insects to live.

DITLOA reception

there was a reception tonight for the DITLOA (day in the life of asheville) photo project from april.

the pack library downtown hung the shots in their glass hallway windows, and tonight the photographers brought snacks and family and mingled and looked at the photos.

i picked 'family walk' to be printed, and one of the judges picked 'clothesline' to be printed also, so i have two hanging up there.

i am proud of myself for going to the reception. i went by myself and i didn't know (in real life) anybody who was going , though i avidly read some of their websites and might be 'contacts' on flickr. there was no liquor, during daylight hours, could be kind of intense in a room full of 60 people all with cameras, as one who greatly avoids being photographed. so it was kind of a scary uncomfortable thing that afterwards i am very glad i did. it was excellent and kind of surreal to see these creative talented people in 3-D.

i met in real life

ashvegas
the latest and greatest up to dated regularly on asheville

zenography & honeytoo
wondrous photography

hangover journals
funniest perspective

rocketman & heart mommy
in a space suit

gritgoods
looking so familiar

mogmismo and amy

edgy mama
hip parenting tales

and they were all just plain lovely

my dates with destiny were gone in no time flat

if you are downtown, walk into the library and look at all the photos - they're captivating and offer a hundred new reasons to love asheville

wild turkeys

wild turkey, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

there's a pair of turkeys on the loose in north asheville, last i saw they were flying from yard to yard making guttural squawks and scaring the crap out of dogs.