He caught my eye as the fan blade passed over the hole. Sitting next to a green shoe box.

I’ll just ignore him. If I do anything about it, I’ll miss my tv show.

At that moment he fell. Hanging on by his little hamster paw, he dangled perilously above the fan blades, grasping onto the edge of the ceiling’s sheet rock.

Plunk! Crap, he had landed on the bed. Now I have to deal with this little brown and white furball.

Before I can move, he runs off the bed and out into the hallway. He scuttles back and forth along the edge of the wall, contemplating his next move. I’ve made it off the bed, but I too am contemplating the next move. What the hell am I going to catch this hamster with?

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Dreams by Courtney

I stay stuffy most of the year, so when I actually notice that my head is stuffed up and I can’t breathe, it’s pretty bad. I’ve often times said, “I’m just going to stuff a pepper up my nose and see if it clears it up.” I was ready to snort some Tabasco one day, but then I realized to snort, you would have to be able to breathe, and I couldn’t. I did try a matchstick of ginger once, but that didn’t work out as well as I had hoped.

So, imagine my surprise when the peeps over at fitsugar had this pepper nasal spray on the site. It’s like someone developed a product directly from my warped mind.

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Day in the Life by Courtney

He shudders at the thought the coppers may have found him…

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just a picture, Silliness by Courtney

My mood has been all over the place lately when it comes to my music. Usually I get in a groove for quite a while — immersing myself in the “World” genre (whatever that is), or some Southern rock, or gangsta rap, or what I like to call “chill” music (which, seems to sometimes fall into that “world” genre and sometimes into electronic). But lately, not one thing has been satisfying me. And there’s nothing just attracting me to say “Hey, you have to buy me!!!” in the iTunes store so I can drown myself in its sounds.

So, here are the top albums/songs I’ve been listening to over the past couple of weeks. From what I can tell, I’ve needed to relax, breathe, meditate, shake my booty, have a drink, celebrate jazz fest, celebrate summer, and get back to my Tennessee roots… And then there’s Twilight Zone. Never sure what that one says — it fits a ton of moods.

1. Putamayo’s Asian Groove
2. Outkast – ATLiens (specifically Wheelz of Steel)
3. Adina Howard – Do You Wanna Ride? (spec. Freak Like Me)
4. Jimmy Buffett – Boats, from the Boats, Beaches, Bars, and Ballads box set
5. Sideways Soundtrack
6. Golden Earring – The Continuing Story of Radar Love (spec. Twilight Zone)
7. Timbaland – Shock Value (love this album – it runs the gamut)
8. Outkast – Stankonia
9. Perry Como’s Papa Loves Mambo off of the compilation Rum Punch
10. Outkast – The Love Below (spec. Hey Ya!)
11. Trick Daddy – 2004 Thug Matrimony (spec. Let’s Go!)
12. Jose Ortega and his Mariachi Ensemble – The Music of Mexico (this one resulted in me eating a lovely Chile Verde yesterday evening)
13. Georgia Satellites – Keep Your Hands to Yourself (the only song of theirs I own)
14. The Charlie Daniels Band – Devil Went Down to Georgia (the only song I have off this album)
15. Outkast – Idlewild
16. The Doobie Bros. – What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits
17. Lynrd Skynyrd – Gold & Platinum
18. Putamayo’s World Lounge
19. Anoushka Shankar – Rise
20. Putamayo’s Carnival
21. Best of the Gipsy Kings
22. The Marshall Tucker Band – Searchin’ For a Rainbow
23. Steve Earle – Copperhead Road
24. Putamayo’s Zydeco
25. Jimmy Buffett – Feeding Frenzy

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Music by Courtney

Yes, it’s back on the brain. Some of you have asked what happened to the link to my wedding site. Simply put, I’ve been writing, and not about the wedding, so you’d have to dig through the archives to find the link (or just find that email I sent you).

But, if you look to the right (and yes, I just checked to see which thumb and forefinger made an “L” and by my masterful deduction skills I determined that it is really the right column), under Links, there’s now a permanent link to the wedding site. So, you can check it often, and see that Raju still has written nothing about himself, and that I’m slowly, slowly updating the Things to Do area.

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Wedding by Courtney