i have a green thumb?

i love my house plants. a normal amount, mind you, but i like my plants. i've got a bunch, and besides a Jade plant, i really don't know what any of them are... ah well... but i can make them thrive, and that's what really matters...

growing up, my mother was an avid outdoor gardener-- roses, shubbery, and even at one point a vegetable garden-- but we had NO houseplants, none that were real anyway. she would spend hours outside tending her gardens, but she thought that houseplants were too much work. whatever.

the majority of my plants are like philadendons, but i don't think that is REALLY what they are. one of them i got six or more years ago, and i have propagated another five from that one. the parent plant was gettting root-bound, so i just repotted it in something larger tonight. the first one that i propagated off of it is now as big as the parent, which is pretty "exciting" (in a boring kind of way...)

i've got a row of cacti in the kitchen window; one i even started from just a seed maybe about eight years ago. it's like a saguaro cactus, but they don't start growing arms until they are MUCH older (probably older than i will get...)

The Evil Ex and i actually had a lot of plants; we even tried growing tomatoes indoors (but they got dropped while we moved, so they didn't last. otherwise, they had a good chance...)

Come spring, when it is growing season, i'll be propagating some more again. i've got space in the kitchen for quite a few hanging plants. why buy new ones, when i can "make" my own?

Free Hugs

i got this from my friend Brett, and i shall pass it on to all of you...

free hugs

Roller Grrls

Come Here Once...

Fun with language...

i was reading a post from someone (and it had nothing to do with language specifically) but they referred to "fire flies", which i more often than not, call "lightning bugs"... and that got me thinking about coloquiallisms...

Do you say "bubbler" or "water fountain"? (personally i say "drinking fountain")

"Pop" or "soda"? (That 70's Show, set in Wisconsin around about the Sheboygan area i think, in fictional "Point Place", has used "soda pop" because while "pop" is a Wisconsin-ism, they probably didn't want to confuse anyone... Milwaukee says "soda", the rest of Wisconsin says "pop")

"Stop lights"? Common here is "stop and go lights" (since they don't ONLY tell you to stop!)

Do you know the difference between sofa, couch, and davenport? (sofa= 2 cushions; couch= 3 cushions, davenport= 4 cushions)

"couple three times" means "a few times"

"come here once" (but NOT twice!)

"Did you go to the store, or no?" "Do you want a beer, or no?"

Pink is pronounced "PEENK", milk is "MALK" and Milwaukee is "Mah WA' Key"

So lets try a couple three Milwaukee sentences, shall we?

"Did you sit on the peenk davenport by the bubbler, or no?"

"Come here once with that pop, hey?"

"The sausage store is down by the stop-and-go light."

"I went to a wedding reception here in MahWaKey, and they were actually serving more than a couple three glasses of malk."

got any more?

OFF WITH THEIR KEDS!

Went and saw Marie Antoinette on Monday, and i enjoyed it very much. Sophia Coppola mentioned that some inspiration for the movie came from the 1980's "New Romantic" music/clothing style... you know, the whole glam pirate thing that Adam and the Ants were doing... so, anachronisms in the movie are an intentional tool as opposed to mistakes. (IMDB.com lists "goofs", and mentions as a goof that there are a pair of Chuck Taylor shoes in a shoe shopping scene... aren't they smart enough to know that was INTENTIONAL?)

In the soundtrack are songs by The Cure, Bow Wow Wow, Adam and the Ants, New Order, and Siouxsie and the Banshees (among other artists).

some of the plot gets a little slow near the end, but the plot isn't the point of the movie-- we ALL know that she and the king are killed in the end. Think of the movie as a moving painting. There are no special effects, no green screen, no CGI. It's about artistic camera angles, impossible fashions, long pastoral shots, wigs with birds and ships, sunrises.

So, i LIKED the shot with the pink Chuck Taylors.

Versailles is a huge, gaudy music box of a palace, and oh so very French. Marie almost had no choice but to become corrupt. She didn't stand a chance...