Dear Jive Journal...

Tara's ideas to save money during the harsh economic times
Idea #1

Spending all your paycheck on grapes and foods that come in wacky multiples so that you think you need to buy them all? Senselessly buying rice grains by the Dozens, hundreds, and who knows maybe even THOUSANDS! End this destructive spending cycle for good! How, you may ask? It's easy...Just buy one item. You can eat it in many tiny bites and it will be just like eating a bunch of delicious grapes or a entire tasty bowl of rice and will be slimming for your waist as well as your wallet...wait, scratch that. It won't be slimming to your wallet. It will make your wallet fat and happy like Orson Welles covered in Barbeque sauce at a Polynesian Luau. But your waist would be much slimmer than your wallet. Well probably not really, unless you had a really unusually huge wallet, like from a novelty store. Well, you know what I mean!

It's finally here!
A day when all can reflect and celebrate the noble contributions Ronald "Christopher" Walken has made, not only to the motion picture industry, but to mankind itself.

Take time today to give thanks for the Oscar® and Bafta® Award winning actor has done for your life in the past 66 years since he was born a wee baby in Queens, New York. Today, he has overcome a lifelong battle with heterochromia, to become one of the worlds most versatile entertainers.

Tomorrow, in honor of this great man, I will fly to Germany, the homeland of his humble baker father.



Will there ever be anyone his equal.
Quote the Walken..."Nevermore."

I saw this guy on my way to work yesterday...He has MOXIE!!

Sometimes I wonder, if I had time to create something I wanted to, not something I had to, what would that be?

Would I finally finish a story? A script?
Would I pick up a pen or a brush again?
Or counquer a whole new medium?

Then I worry that if I did, I'd realize just how boring I was. And how much would that suck!?

I'm still here. Just haven't really felt like talking, I guess.

If you're wonderin' Jivers, I'm good.
Cat roommate, Cosmo and I are getting along very well. He sometimes curls his lip like Elvis which makes me laugh. But then sometimes he eats his own throw-up, too. Like the song says "You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both, and there you have...a cat."

Otherwise, been busier than a one-toothed man in a corn-on-the-cob eating contest.
The end.

Meet Ned.
He's the world's most well adjusted cat.

www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1221573&l=4044e&id=516838509

What the animals real name is, who knows. I don't speak Japanese. But the video is worth it! This thing is CAAAARR-AZY!!

My calm, serene, happy holiday mood was IMMEDIATELY squashed by the obnoxious printer repair man who wears WAY to much cologne and has no indoor voice.

I want to punch him in the throat for that.

On the upside, I'm all alone in the office for 3 WHOLE DAYS. Sure, I have to do the work for 2 more people, but this also means I don't have to emotionally babysit them either. Did I mention, I am the ROCK of this department. The glue that holds the other morons together. I'll happily accept more work for less drama.

Baby Jesus? Check.

Wise men? Check. Check. Check.

Baby Lambs? Awwww...Check!

"The Shitter?"...Che...Wait...Huh?!?! What the beans?!?!




Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present those zany Spaniards and the caganer!

http://www.esquire.com/the-side/feature/obama-spanish-christmas-doll-122308

I'm finally going to do it! I'm getting a feline roomate.
But how do I narrow it down to where to go. I'm torn between saving a friend from the chopping block at the Humane Society and supporting a dedicated non-kill center like Feline Rescue?

Where do you think I should go, Jivers?

http://www.animalhumanesociety.org/
http://www.felinerescue.org/
http://www.gt-as.com/

Wherever I go, I'm stopping at one cat. I don't want to be tripping over many creatures and up to my eyes in fur. I'd like a younger cat, not necessarily a kitten, but someone who will be with me for a while.

Anyone else glued to the streaming video of the Canvassing board this morning...holy cow dudes! This is historial.

http://www.startribune.com/video/?ls1=1?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUycaEacyU

Anyone want two FREE tickets for tonights show?
it's at 7pm, tickets are on the side close to the stage about 20 rows back
Did I mention, they're free?

Lemme know!

In case you haven't seen this yet, it's the bestest thing EVER!!!

Here's that musical meme that's all the rage.
I wanted to make sure i did it on my work computer because the music on this thing is much sillier.

1. Put your iPod or other music player on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS!
4. Tag 10 friends who might enjoy doing this as well as the person you got this from.

( The Ladybugs' Picnic )

Update, to those of you who recieved my Thanksgiving cowbell compilation. The illustration on the package was not meant to be a Dalek. I don't know what that is. But it might be shaped like a cowbell.

My drawing is of a cowbell being struck by a stick and the responding 'DONK!' that goes with it.

Thank you and look for a Christmas edition in your mail soon.
I think after this series, I'm concentrating on songs with whistling in some form. I need to move on from Cowbell for my own wellbeing. I hear it EVERYWHERE NOW!


On a different music note, does anyone else feel sorry for the rest of the band (the part that isn't Mick Jagger) in 'The Rolling Stones' during "Sympathy for the Devil"? Having to sing a high pitched "Whoo-Hoo" over and over for like 6 minutes straight can't be all that fun, even when you're rocking.

"Whoo-Hoo... Whoo-Hoo... Whoo-Hoo... Whoo-Hoo... Whoo-Hoo... Whoo-Hoo... Whoo-Hoo... Whoo-Hoo"

From iwatchstuff.com...
"Nothing says "Happy Thanksgiving" like a gore-filled 1972 movie about a man transforming into a murderous, blood-drinking human/turkey hybrid. Nothing. The only reason Thanksgiving ever mattered was to celebrate moving one harvest closer to the release of Blood Freak."

So, I got cable at my new place. So when I'm bored this winter, there's always VH1 and Jon Stewart there for me. I've had it for just 3 weeks and it was already going screwy.

Since i'm at home not feeling too hot (big puffy tonsils and achy) all I want to do is veg out with some stupid tv. So I call customer support.

Yeah...what a BIG HELP that turned out to be! (read with MUCH sarcasm)

Now, the only channel I get is community programming.

Nothing like curling up on a snowy day to watch the 2009 Park and Recreation Board Finance budget meeting.

Comcast is LAME!!!

I'm naming you Quincy. Yeah, you've got claws, but you'll need them to keep away monsters. Every kid needs some extra protection.

Seems, I have compiled way too many Greatest Hits of the Cowbell.
So instead of just one edition (for you lucky 3 people who have signed up), I will be making TWO EDITIONS of the compilation dedicated to the hollow, metallic funk-a-tude that is our favorite bovine-bell. Your Holidays will soon be filled with Heffer-tastic percussion!

(Coming soon)
"A Cornocopia of Cowbell: or a Closer Walken with Thee"

(Coming in time for your Christmas giving needs)
"Carol of the Cowbells: or Walken in a Winter Wonderland"

Both are loaded with popular hits as well as undiscovered treasures of Cowbellery that you and your 3 families will enjoy for years to come (or at least about 40 minutes, maybe less if you skip through the crappy tunes because there is no accounting for taste with tasty tunes!) Such a deal for no moo-lah!

Supply is limited. Not available in stores. Offer not valid in Nevada because I don't know anyone there and don't trust strangers. Results may vary. Side effects include unnessecary head-banging and loss of restraint when it comes to riding in pickup trucks. Don't listen to cowbell if you have high body mass index of over 60%, unless you listen while jogging.

PS-Angelady, send me your address to taranitz at gmail so I can send ya one. Or just keep yelling my name and I'll come to the sound of your voice.