ODE TO A GRECIAN BYE-BYE

(Aside - I can pretend my dog is Greek if I want to!)

Ode to a Grecian Bye-bye (Spike)

I have a little dog.
I love him so.
If you have met me,
This you should know.

He has long, skinny legs
and big ears that are funny.
I would not part with him
for any sum of money.

The end.




P.S. I love my Boo, too!

SOUTHERN FRIED THURSDAY - QUOTES FROM STEEL MAGNOLIA

"M'Lynn, your husband is the boil on the butt of humanity."

"Don't you decorate your sisters car with condoms, it's tacky."

"Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion."

"This is the 80's...if you can achieve puberty, you can achieve a past."

"When it comes to suffering, she is right up there with Elizabeth Taylor."

"I'm pleasant. Damn it! I saw Drum Eatenton at the Piggly Wiggly this morning, and I smiled at the son of a bitch before I could help myself."

"Ouiser, you sound almost chipper what happened today, you run over a small child or something?"

"In a good shoe, I wear a size six, but a seven feels so good, I buy a size eight."

"I do not see plays, because I can nap at home for free. And I don't see movies 'cause they're trash, and they got nothin' but naked people in 'em! And I don't read books, 'cause if they're any good, they're gonna make 'em into a miniseries."

"I'm not crazy, M'Lynn, I've just been in a very bad mood for 40 years!"

"Miss Truvy, I promise that my personal tragedy will not interfere with my ability to do good hair."

"Well, you know what they say: if you don't have anything nice to say about anybody, come sit by me!"

"The only reason people are nice to me is I have more money than God."

"The only thing that separates us from the animals is our ability to accessorize."

"This is it, I've found it, I'm in hell."



Here's to all you Steel Magnolias out there!

HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!

According to legend, Saint Patrick used the shamrock, a three-leaved plant, to explain the Holy Trinity to the pre-Christian Irish people.

Little known Smith-Campbell trivia - My mom has kissed the Blarney Stone!

USELESS INFO #410

~ Baseball legend Satchel Paige claimed the family goat ate the Bible that had his birth certificate in it, therefore, he did not know the exact year in which he was born. On his tombstone there are questions marks where his birth date should have been engraved.

~ The US Congress can thank the sport of fox hunting for the term "party whip." In hunting, a rider known as a whipper rides behind the pack of hounds and cracks a whip to keep the dogs from straying. This term is used to describe party members charged with mobilizing party members for crucial votes.

~ When it comes to measuring acidity and alkalinity, the letters pH represent "Power (or Potential of Hydrogen."

~ According to legend, the great Chinese poet Li Po died while drunkenly trying to embrace the moon's reflection in the Yangtze River. He fell from a boat into the water and drowned.

~ The Sea of Azov is the shallowest sea in the world. It is about 47 feet at its deepest and is located between Ukraine and Russia.

OK, I know these are boring, but you might not always need to know exciting trivia! Be patient. Embrace the Knowledge!

I Love Greek Food....

...and I love Greece. I can't wait to go back one day. Maybe I will retire there and open a southern cooking restaurant. I bet I could make a fortune cooking good old southern food for the weary travelers!

Here was lunch today....
....the yummy, yummy gyro plate from "Papa Gyros" in Huntsville. Mouthwatering!

Jealous much?

(Who can find my cute little Peter Rabbit post-it note pad? Always need easter accessories - even at work!)

TWILIGHT ZONE AT PUBLIX

I had a weird experience at Publix yesterday. I stopped there to buy ingredients to make spinach dip for me to enjoy while watching Gone With The Wind tonight. (After yesterday's post, I have to watch it - for the 37th time).

Anyway my first weird experience was at the check out lane. I put all my groceries on the belt and then I added a tv guide because it had an article about Lost. (You must know I am obsessed with Lost! - but that is another 147 posts - I am trying to spare you) Here is how the conversation went with check out girl:

Girl: Oh My God, are you addicted (holding up magazine)
LL: Yes, I sure am
Girl: Who is your favorite character?
LL: Sawyer
Girl: Oh My God, this has been on forever!
LL: Well, this is the last season (aside - there have only been 6)
Girl: I love your sweater!
LL: Thanks (?)
Girl: That color looks so good on you. I bet that is the best color on you!
LL: Uh, thanks (?)
Girl: If I were you, I would only wear that color!
LL: (picking up groceries) Ha yeah, um thanks.

I had not taken two steps away when she was already checking out the girl behind me:

Girl: Oh My God, what kind of dog do you have?
Customer: (responds - I could not hear her)
Girl: Oh My God, that is my favorite kind of dog!

I wonder if she next told her : I bet that dog looks so good on you!

But that is not the end of my Publix Twilight Zone story.

I was carrying my two bags of groceries in my hands and pushing my buggy back to the buggy return like a good customer. I pushed in the buggy and exited the store. I hear someone calling "Ma'am, Ma'am". I turn around and there is a manager holding up my Knorr vegetable soup mix. It must have fallen into the lower part of the buggy and I forgot to put it on the counter and pay for it. She said "Did you mean to purchase this?" "It was in your buggy?" I replied yes I did.

So, I had to march back in there and get back in line and pay for the mix. (I really am glad she caught it because I would have been mad to get home and find I did not have the main ingredient I needed for my dip.) But here is what I got to thinking....did that manager think I was trying to steal the dip mix? Did she spy it in my buggy and follow me to the door seeing if I was just going to slip it in my bag? Why else would she have gone to the door? No other reason!

Am I being paranoid?

I don't really want to think about it now. I will think about it tomorrow...after all, tomorrow is another day! (cue Gone With The Wind music)

Southern Fried Thursday

I found this excerpt on the web...one of my favorite scenes, not because of Ashley (blah) but of the importance of Tara (land) to Scarlett....

In the famous paddock scene, Ashley feels cowardly and spiritless, afraid of "life becoming too real...losing the beauty of that, that life I loved...Now I find myself in a world which for me is worse than death. A world in which there's no place for me." Tired of all her efforts at Tara,

Scarlett wishes to escape too:
I do want to escape too! I'm so very tired of it all!... The South is dead, it's dead, the Yankees and the carpetbaggers have got it and there's nothing left for us.

Scarlett still hopes she can win Ashley's love - she declares her love for him and begs that they run away together to Mexico. An honorable and devoted Ashley refuses to leave his wife and child for Scarlett, even though he realizes all of Scarlett's sacrifices for them: "You've carried the load for all of us." He tells Scarlett that he will be there to help her more. Scarlett proposes only one form of help:

Scarlett: Take me away. There's nothing to keep us here.

Ashley: Nothing? Nothing, except honor.

Although he expresses his honorable love for Scarlett, embracing and kissing her, he tells her that he mostly loves her courage and her stubbornness. He reminds her that Tara will sustain her, for she loves it more than she loves him:

Ashley: Yes, there is something. Something you love better than me, though you may not know it - (He picks up the red earth of Tara and puts it in her hand.) Tara.

Scarlett: Yes. I still have this. (She composes herself coldly.) You needn't go. I won't have you all starved simply 'cause I threw myself at your head. It won't happen again. (She turns and walks away.)

She turns away from him to return to Tara, realizing that she has lost him forever.

Jonas Wilkerson, a scalawag, shows up at Tara with his "trashy wench" wife Emmy Slattery: "We came out here to pay a call, a friendly call, and talk a little business with old friends." He offers to buy Scarlett out, believing she can't pay her $300 tax debt. Scarlett throws a handful of red dirt into his face, telling him: "That's all of Tara you'll ever get!"