Eew Snakes!

Ok it's not uncommon to see earthworms in my house after rain storms, and even then it's like eew! I don't know how the buggers keep getting into the house! So last night on one of my after midnight runs as I was walking through my kitchen I noticed what I thought was an earthworm under my baker's rack. I looked and noticed it's tail was very slender and pointy. Ok, I thought, that's a bit too slender and dark to be an earthworm. Closer examination helped me realize it was a freakin' snake! It wasn't moving so I figured it was dead. I grabbed my broom and swept the it from underneath the baker's rack, when the freakin' thing began S curling across the floor! Of course I screamed, it's a snake! I called upon my dog to get it, but she was having no parts of that bad boy or girl snake. So I had to buck up my courage and sweep the darling onto my dust bin and then toss it outside. The freak jumped once I swept it onto the dust bin!!!! Oh my word! Yes I finally got it out of the house to watch it slither off into the dark night. However, I did notice that this was not an ordinary grass snake because it's head was shaped like that of a rattle snake or python. Upon further research, I discovered it was a speckled king snake. Mind you it was a baby snake, which worries me because where there is one baby snake generally there is a litter of those creepy crawlers. Another source of worry is where is the mom?

I'm too scared to look in the house for the mother snake (hopefully there is none), provided she is in the house. The good thing about king snakes is that they are immune to venomous snake as well as eat them. I've lived in my home for over 10 years and never encountered one in the house until yesterday. I'm so paranoid I'm pulling back my bed linens making sure I don't have any of them trying to have a slumber party in my bed! It's a scary thought to think you may be cohabitating with snakes. Eew Snakes!

Cigarette Anyone?

Why once in a blue moon do I crave a silly cigarette? As if a drag or two will shave the edge off my frayed mind. It calls to me, "Come on, you need me. Give us a kiss and inhale!" I'm like, "Whatever for? I don't even smoke." (ha...) I guess all those years of seeing my GrandM and Moms smoke imprinted some subtle hidden suggestion that whenever all is overwhelming take a deep long drag on a cigarette to calm your nerves. It's all madness! I can't quiet the hunger and now this freakin' cigarette thing is riding my back like a monkey. Is there no end? Cigarette anyone? Smoke 'em if you got 'em. Laters

Friday Already!

Man, it's Friday already! I dislike Fridays 'cause all that I didn't accomplish during the week just makes me feel awful, and then it becomes a mad weekend crunch. Why, whyyyyy?!!! (only kidding) I found these really cool interactive maps, and then I found applications where I can design interactive maps with the ability to place markers on it. Yeah! Man, I'm such a 'technology virgin'. I need to try setting up a map. I'll check back in. Laters.

Chasin' Rabbits

I started this blog as a distraction from my pain. All I'm going to say about it is, "Pain is a Relentless Bastard (RB)!" Ok moving on. I've shut myself off  from people, gotta nip that in the bud, but it's so hard when you don't feel like talking 'cause you're worn out all the time. Guess I'll just have to get over myself! (ha, ha) Started a project, which has been very helpful keeping my mind refocused. This project has taken on a life of it's own and I'm trying to reign it in. Everytime I think, "This is where I'd like to see the project go," another idea pops into my head, and it's down another rabbit hole I go (chasin' rabbits). I decided it's probably best to place each idea into manageable parts, launch each part one at a time, that way I can actually see something that's actually been accomplished. I'll finish this thought up laters - feel my perceptional high coming down. Well it's another day - the chase goes on. Unfortunately, I didn't get a darn thing accomplished. (Thanks RB) No excuses, I could kick myself, but to do so would be helping RB. It's late night research and follow through tonight. Ahhh, a good hot cup of Caramel Macchiato from Starbucks, mmm, certainly energizes the thought process. The rabbit I'm chasin' at present is an interactive game board. Totally new territory for me....Oy vey! Oh well guess I better get to hammering away on the keyboard. Laters!

Hunger

What is this hunger that will not ceast?
I feed it and feed it, yet, I'm not at peace.
I am not satisfied, I am not full.
What is this hunger? Why is it so cruel?

I am ravaged by it both day and night.
I am left unwhole, seeking more to sustain life.
What is this hunger? Why am I ever grasping to fill its plight?

Oh how it keeps me walking the floors o'er into the night;
That not even sleep soothes it's raging heights.

Is it some unfulfilled absence I lack possession of?
Substituting substance, where there is a need for Love.
Maybe the very denial of what the heart desires;
Fans the flames of this hunger's rentless fires.

Here is thy psalm my debt to thee;
Please leave me now and go in peace.
Consume not, my heart's mind;
Release me, these ties unbind.

Hunger,  please, let me go, set me free;
And I'll become Love's Sista for eternity.