MoonCat’s World

If you could only drink one beverage for the rest of your life (not including water), which one would you choose?

Tea. It comes in many flavors and can be served hot or cold. :)

Have you ever had a premonition? Did you heed it?
Submitted by aynge.

:gasp: I can tell the "Tracy's car" story! Wait, have I done that already? Oh,well.

Let's see, it was Halloween off 2004 and Natalie, Jay and myself had gone to Tracy's home in Montana for a nice visit and to do Halloween together.

The second day we were there it snowed. A lot. Non of us are strangers to snow so it didn't slow us down in the slightest. We went out for dinner the second night after the storm and discovered that the street next to Tracy's house was a huge ice slick. Her house was on a corner and she usually parked her car on that street, so she could use her side door, rather than her front door.

That evening after diner, with all of us in the car she went to park in her usual spot and just as she was about to turn the car off I got...well, a funny feeling.

I said
"Tracy, do you believe in premonitons?"

She said, "Sometimes."

"Humor me," I said "Go park in front of your house."

She did and we went inside. That was the night Natalie introduced us to Apples to Apples and after two or three rounds Natalie finally commented on the noise we could hear coming from out side. We had all been hearing it without really registering it for a while and Natalie said, "Look out the window."

We did and there, in Tracy's spot, was a car that had spun on the ice and was now stuck on her curb, facing the wrong way. The sounds we had heard were the driver's attempts to get his car free.

From then on, whenever I have a strong feeling about something I describe it as a "Tracy's car" feeling.  Those feelings can be pretty accurate.

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What do you mean I give you treats? Pardon me while I laugh.....(Insert manical cat laughter here)

Happy Halloween.

Bucky...

Remember the "My Buddy Doll?" And the song from the comercial? Think of that while viewing these. lol!

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Why? Because I can. And because I was once told by my brother that "weird for the sake of weird" had no meaning and he didn't like it. So I set out from that day forward to prove that, yes, there is a "meaning" to "weird for the sake of weird"

It's danged fun!!!!

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Yes, I do plan to haul Gomez out to a play ground and put him on a swing. I wonder if I can get RFG to do a comercial parody based on that idea....

If you joined the circus, what act would you most want to perform?

The Freak Show, obviously. I would be a tattooed woman who could insert interesting things up her nose.

Or perhaps I would do an animal act wherein my cats predicted the future or achived stunning Criss Angel like feats. (Which for cats are nothing special. Mine walk through walls and read minds all the time.)

I would be in one of those odd circuses (Cicusi?) that had no clowns. Or...maybe I would be part of the clown troup and they would actual play up on the fact that clowns are basicaly creepy as hell. Yeah, I like that! We'd be the Evil Clowns and do our act based on that.

So, a friend of mine recently turned me on to this website.

Go a head and look.

Ok, now that you've looked and maybe laughed or exclaimed in shock "OMG! What was she/he/it thinking?!" I can make my point.

 See, at first I thought it was pretty funny. I mean the things people wear in public, not just to Walmart, can be pretty bad, right? I mean, if you go out like that you are almost asking to be made fun of, correct? It's just fun, right?

 I thought so too  until I started reading the little coments at the bottom of each picture. All those scarcastic, scornful and just plain nasty comments about people who are not pretty, perfect, "fashinable" or even clued in, started to make me feel kind of ill.

The more I thought about it the angrier I got.

Who the hell are we to judge?! Why is it ok to sneakily snap a picture of some poor woman's chunky, bare butt and post it on the World Wide Web just to point and laugh? We do it to celebrities and now your average Joe/Jane is a fair target!?  What does that say about us? 

I'm depressed by the fact that it is acceptable  to belittle strangers to make ourselves feel better. I mean, none of us is so special that we aren't judged and found lacking by someone else.

It's all fun and games until some one puts your picture on peopleofwalmart.com because you dared to be less than perfect.

Ok, I'm done. I need to go find my Wonder Woman Under-Roos and leg it to Target.

The Atlas Billboard Project is almost done.

Once upon a time in Cheyenne there was a haunted house that, rather than being boring and regular, took place in an actual haunted theater. It ran for many years and then in 1998 got axed.

Then in 2009 it became fact once more. The Haunted Atlas was always the baby of a good friend of ours. It was pretty significant for him to (finaly) be asked to head the HA  again. He asked me to do the outside marquees. Of course I agreed. (I was thrilled! I'm still thrilled, but in an exausted, "Dang, this is the biggest art project I have ever done from home" kind of way.)

I have more pictures, but here is a sample from board #2.

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The actual "Haunted Atlas" sign is now hung too. (Excitment!)

I will post more pics of everything, when it's all done.

:)

My lips are sand paper right now. I ran out of my Softlips brand chapstick a week ago and I haven't yet made it to Walmart to buy more. (Yes, I know it's some kind of sin to shop at Walmart, but Walmart has one thing going for it that all the other stores in town do not. They are open 24 hrs and I work nightshift. I am a vampire.* It's much healthier for me to remain on a reversed sleep schedual than try to flip from one to the other on my days off. And forget me moving to days. I'm a night owl, nights suit me....it's funny how I am always premtivily defensive and end up going off on these tangents. Means I'm insecure.)  My lips are so dry I'd pay a $40 bucks for chapstick right now.

(Yes, that was the orginal point I was trying to make. My lips are very dry and I am trapped in a small room with dinging computers and I can't do a thing about it until 8am. Which is passed my bedtime. I'm not actually complaing either. I find the whole thing amusing. I'm smiling as I type this. Perhaps I'm just hysterical?)

*Not really. I just sleep during the day.

Ok, I actually got this thing on Oct 1st, my anniversary. (Yes, it was my aniversary gift from my sweet hubby, who knows me so well!) but I didn't want to take the spot light off Jay and I's special day. So I saved these pics for today.

Here is my brand new 4th Quality teaching skeleton. (No, 4th Quality does NOT mean they are made from real bones, it means this is basically a factory reject and  availible at a significantly reduced cost for Halloween freaks like me.)

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They care called "bucky's" because the head mold has "bucked teeth". A lot of times 4th quality have things wrorg with them, like missing parts or the wrong parts, or just discoloration. I know of one person who recomended the site that we ordered this from, got a Bucky with two left arms. I was seriously hoping for two left feet! But I was just as glad it came with a skull! (PS. NEVER take the skull off, it took me an hour to get is back on!) As far as I could tell the only thing wrong with ours is a discolored (ei, mismatched) skull piece and some loose screws.

We are naming this one "Gomez". (Sorry Sweety, I know we debated a lot of other names but "Gomez" is what sticks in my head. I think it's too late.)

Weird family Portrait.

We then proceded to have a LOT of fun with this thing. The other two skeletons are "Jr" and "Sissy". Sissy is the little skeleton of Walmart shopping cart fame. I seriously want to get this photo framed and hang it on my wall.

10/01/09

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And here is proof that my cat is a lap fiend. ANY lap will do apparently. ( I love the sweet, innocent look on Calvin's face.)

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This how  Gomez is currently displayed. I can't wait for game night.

Oh, and for those who are interested, here is a sneak preview of the Haunted Atlas sign.

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PS. Regarding the two pic of Gomez with the cats in them; will someone PLEASE help me come up with great captions for LOLcats. I HAVE to use those!