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Granddaughter of a Beauty Queen

I like the night life. I like to boogie.

About Me

I'm not respectable, and never sensible. I've been incredible, so damned irascible. And I like the things I do so hooray for me and.....


My Interests

Traveling, reading, sleeping, sex in the mornings, writing, sleeping, traveling, not cooking, personal hygeine, and movies. And sleeping. And traveling...
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I'd like to meet:

The jesus AND mary chain.

Music:

{Insert cutsie comment about liking everything but rap and country here.} No, seriously.

Movies:

Jackie Brown, Dr. Strangelove, The Village, The Usual Suspects, Napoleon Dynamite, Lost in Translation, Adaptation, 12 Angry Men, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Bull Durham, Fog of War, Bowling for Columbine

Television:

Oh greatest of Mass Media, thank you for elevating emotion, reducing thought, and stifling imagination.I humbly thank you for the artificiality of quick solutions and for the insidious manipulation of human desires for commercial purposes. Amen.

Books:

I don't read books anymore. I only read Dinosaur Comics. It's not as awesome as a wizard turning you into a whale, but it's close.Dinosaur Comics. Totally Awesome? Maybe yes!

Heroes:

My husband, myself, the obligatory random family member, and the Harlem Globetrotters (circa 1978).

My Blog

After dinner, lets get a tattoo

Friday after work, Josh and I went out to dinner.  Earlier in the week, a friend of mine with a really cool tattoo gave me a good lead on a good place here in town, so over dinner Friday night, ...
Posted by Granddaughter of a Beauty Queen on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 09:56:00 PST

Mississippi caint spell

Last month, work sent me to Louisiana a couple of times.  It's not a bad gig, since New Orleans isn't back to its pre-Katrina puke-and-sewer stench yet.  The crab claws were good, my co-wor...
Posted by Granddaughter of a Beauty Queen on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:00:00 PST

Life, huh

I kept telling myself before Christmas that I was not in the spirit.  I guess I was being a humorless idiot, because looking back, we had a grand time.  Minus the flu, of course.Josh got the...
Posted by Granddaughter of a Beauty Queen on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:37:00 PST

For those about to rock, I salute you.

Sometimes, I get nostalgic for my headbanging days.  You know, those teenage years where you come of age secluded in your room, headphones pounding out songs of revolution and lost souls, massagi...
Posted by Granddaughter of a Beauty Queen on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 02:35:00 PST

That dude just throwed a roll at me!

This past weekend, a friend of mine called us and asked if we wanted to go on a short day trip with him.  He wanted to fly to Missouri to check out a restaurant (Lambert's).  It was only an ...
Posted by Granddaughter of a Beauty Queen on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 10:38:00 PST

Is it too early for a ghost story?

In my last blog, I talked about how I thought there might be something strange going on in our house.  Now, I'm convinced there's something more than I can understand.Three weeks ago or so, we st...
Posted by Granddaughter of a Beauty Queen on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 09:32:00 PST

My house, it wants me dead

I've alluded in past blogs to the problems we've had with our house since we moved in:  water leaks, holes in the ceiling, problems with doors and dishwashers and baseboards and sinks and insuran...
Posted by Granddaughter of a Beauty Queen on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:30:00 PST

A wrinkle in something

I am currently reading a book called A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle.  I found this book by accident, on a discount paperback table, and the cover had all those little gold seals on it tha...
Posted by Granddaughter of a Beauty Queen on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 02:07:00 PST

Cracker Barrel wants to see you nekkid

If being a grammar sheriff were this legal and easy, I would self-deputize:And my sheriff name could be "Quick-Draw McGillicutty."  But, unfortunately, it's not that easy (or legal) and that's no...
Posted by Granddaughter of a Beauty Queen on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 01:01:00 PST

My name is Frank, and I didnt think formalities, like wearing a shirt, were necessary

The other night I was sitting on the couch, reading a book to my son about a little boy who refused to get out of bed, even for the Marines or for food and despite the fact there was a parade outside ...
Posted by Granddaughter of a Beauty Queen on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:54:00 PST