I wonder how Bunky the Owl is doing, and if he’s getting smoochies this season?
Dear Eckerd Drugs: Christmas stuff, before Halloween? C’mon. it’s still more than 2 MONTHS away. Mercy.
Dreamt the right side of my face was torn off by a rake fight last night. I had to get a prosthetic replacement, based off of the mirror image of my remaining side… I looked “wrong”. Everyone thought I looked like me, but was someone else. I had to shave my head, eyebrows and beard while the artificial skin grafted to the real stuff. I was happy that my eye wasn’t ruined in the accident, but for some reason everything looked black and white through that one.
Regional Meme (Key West is more Like Lauderdale than Miami is.) I’ve Bolded stuff that really applies.
You Know You’re From Key West When…
You realize there are far more Rainbow flags in the city than United States Flags.
Old friends you haven’t talked to in years suddenly call to ask if you have a spare bedroom for Fantasy Fest.
A really great parking spot can move you to tears.
You go to your office manager’s baby shower – the parent’s are named Judy and Becky.
Street people greet you by your first name.
You go into a fancy restaurant and have to feed the chickens at your garden table before you can get enough peace to begin your own meal.
People actually have the occupation of holding up a PARKING sign on Duval Street.
Your parents, brother, sisters, aunts, and uncles all live on the same block.(bro lived next door anyhow)
You go into a bar and find more dogs than people.
You curse those damn tourists, but always stop to help a cute woman who is looking puzzled at a city map.
It’s tourist season but they still won’t let you shoot them.
You think anyone who owns a car is decadent.
You realize that you live in a city where taxes are ludicrously high and you pay twice your annual income to rent an apartment that could easily be carried on a commercial airline flight.
You wake up physically drained and realize that you don’t have a disease, you just live in Key West.
You think of your favorite bartender as your investment banker.
You and your co-workers have Cuban bread and Bucci for breakfast.
You know the difference between real and fake Key Lime Pie. (If they’re green, they’re fake)
The Crime report is a source of daily entertainment.
You know where Jimmy Buffett lives.
It’s barely sprinkling rain and there’s a report on every news station about “HURRICANE WATCH 2004.”
If it’s 60 degrees F, you break out the fur coat and space heaters.
Your power goes off before you finish reading thi..…
Strawigami. – That’s an art I could get into.
Free Online Graph Paper / Grid Paper PDFs
Teddy Bear Picnic.. sung by a acapella Mt. Rushmore.
Bro came by and dropped off his stuff… vcr, xbox, and other things he doesn’t want to vanish, should he be locked out of his apartment.
I wonder how long it’ll be before his parole officer works out things.
Archive –
1 year ago – clock-synchs, Newt-soak, Shark-wrestling, Palm-cam Newt, email post, dropped a belt loop, I’m the most googlebotted on all of LJ (brought in bubbles3563)
2 years ago – Newtcam, Mage Knight, Rolie poly olie, monkey!, feral camels, Dave & Cathi are mushrooms, Bro issues, NOtLD
3 years ago – SOP, Jeffersons on TV, journal poll, evil news, and she was, Goodbye mr. cooper,
4 years ago– Jack Handey, Reciprocated crush. :D, user pictures link all no one page for the first time. (now here)
5 years ago – Newt’s first trip to the vet. He weighed less than a can of soda-pop. (he gained weight fast.. added about 10% body mass a day that first week… He went from under 10 oz to over a 16 in about a week.)
