which hot celebrity guy are you most likely to date? (quiz)

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you have raviv ullman hes really hot a talented actor,can play drums and guitar plus hes a big sweetie!

 

body doubles

Last night I saw the second doppelganger/body double of my life. Very weird experience when that happens.

The first time was on our trip a couple of years ago out West, the time we had such a great time in New Mexico and Colorado. I was looking out from the balcony from our hotel room in Colorado Springs and there she was - the clone or unknown identical twin of Dan's mean sister, walking across the parking lot with three pretty little girls with long blonde hair that looked just like her three daughters, and in the company of an unpleasant looking older woman. The likeness was absolutely amazing. Well, even though her first husband came from the Colorado Springs area, there would be no earthly reason for his mean sister and her daughters to be walking across the parking lot of that hotel in that city on that day. It was a completely uncanny coincidence and resemblance.

Last night I saw the clone of my mean former friend, walking down the sidewalk away from Greektown, carrying a blue cooler, and in the company of a very unattractive woman who looked to be at least ten years older than him. When I first saw this guy I wanted to quietly be sick because he looked so much like my former friend. Then I wanted to laugh. I can't think of anyone other than that pathetic man (who pretended to be my friend while he was using me and lying to me and who shunted me off as soon as I was a bit inconvenient) who would more deserve to have a girlfriend he is afraid of, AND who is ugly on top of that.  Well, of course, it could not have possibly been him, as there would be no earthly reason he would have been in Detroit last night, and this guy was just a doppelganger, and the woman he was with is probably the nicest lady you could ever hope to meet (which is infinitely more important than physical beauty anyway - beauty can fade or alter - a loving heart lasts forever). But it was still very very strange. And yeah - it was funny.

This may well be the meanest thing I have ever said about anyone in my life - but that former friend really treated me horribly, with no remorse at all, and after that last thing, I suppose that my opinion (at least for now) has slid down into deep contempt. And it was very funny - seeing that guy who looked so much like him brought home the utter ridiculousness of my mourning someone who isn't really worth knowing. Not to mention being afraid of him.  It's like being afraid of the monster in the closet and finding out that the monster is made of nothing more than squeeky noises and shadows and is as harmless as a baby bunny rabbit. I am an idiot!

Too bad it really wasn't him. To be dating a woman he fears is bad enough, but to have her be that unattractive on top of it? That would be priceless!!!  Especially since he's one of those guys always moaning and drooling over how "hot looking" various celebrity women are.  I have never really cared what people look like, but he has serious hangups about weight and society's warped definitions of beauty, so it would be truly classic for him to have an ugly and mean girl.The only thing that could possibly be more just in this world and this life would be if an ugly and mean girl was just using him, the way he uses other people.  Oh, that would have been priceless if it had been him!!!

And, of course, to prove once and for all what an idiot I am, I still miss this man ~ or, at least, I greatly miss the man I once thought him to be. And even knowing how cruel he can be - I still the miss the more positive things about him.

The other thing is - why do Dan and I keep seeing doubles of people neither one of us wants to see? Twice now, and it is doubles of mean people we want nothing to do with. In fact, those are probably the only two people in all the world we do not want to see!!!!!!!!  Why can't we see doubles of people we enjoy? Why not Danlo? Why not Dan's very nice sister-in-law from Utah? Why not my buddy from New York? Why not someone who looks like Martin Luther King or Mother Theresa????

a day for parties

Today was a day for work and a day for parties. We spent most of the morning cleaning the house and yard, and planting flowers.

We spent most of the afternoon attending the graduation parties of some of Bill's friends. They were fun. We came home in between two of the parties, as home was on the route from the first to the second. We had stopped off for a potty break, but a thunderstorm blew up out of nowhere so we stayed home for a little while, deciding to wait for the heavy rain and hail to pass before heading on to the second party. the second party was fun, too, and we enjoyed playing with the tiny little dog that belonged to that family.

When we got home, my sister was waiting in the driveway for us. She had just gotten in from Tennessee. Dan and I took her out to dinner at our favorite diner (the kids were too full from eating a lot of food at the parties). She visited for hours tonight, before heading off to her hotel.

Tomorrow is graduation!!!!!

Mahler's Third Symphony

Bill worked at home today, primarily outside. I also did a lot of planting of flowers. We both got bitten up by those darned blood sucking demons of mosquitoes.

After getting completely filthy, I took a quick bath to sluice off the dirt, and got dressed in some clean clothes. About that time Steven got home from school, and I made a point of spending the afternoon with him, so he won't feel too overlooked on Bill's big weekend.

So we went to Target and I let him pick out some nice clothes and dress shoes for Sunday. He's gotten a lot taller again lately, and none of his clothes fit quite right anymore. It turns out that he has a longer in seam than either his older brother or his father now!  Silly kid is all legs!

After that we went to the haircut place so he could get his hair washed and cut. Then we went out for ice cream. Then we went to a bookstore and to the video game store.

By the time we got home, I had to hurry and change into nice clothes for the date I had with Dan. He got home a few minutes after Steven and I did, and he must have set a world record for taking a shower and getting dressed!

We went to Orchestra Hall in Detroit, and listened to the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.They played the Third Symphony by Mahler.

And for whatever reason - maybe the great program notes, maybe the short lecture the guest conductor (James Conlon) gave about the music before the concert - I now have such a better grasp on what this music is all about. This is one of those I didn't really "get" (sort of like Beethoven's Third before Matrixman did such a great job explaining it).

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra kicked serious ass with this music. The guy behind me was so excited at the end of the first movement he yelled "WOW!!!!" really loudly. I don't think he meant to, I think it just spontaneously erupted from his mouth, because he turned all red right after, but the conductor and the musicians all got big smiles on their faces.

They had an opera singer from Sweden named Birgitta Svenden sing the solos. She had this wonderful, rich voice. Lovely, just lovely.

And I was very pleased with my husband's reaction. He can take or leave most classical music, though he is partial to Beethoven. But he really liked this. He was the first person in the audience to stand up and start yelling and clapping at the end. He loved the first movement, especially the tuba and trombone solos.

The way the conductor explained the music is that Mahler was writing a large and profound novel, and each of his symphonies is a chapter in his life's work. Titan tells the story of youth, of finding out that life isn't all that easy after all, and getting pissed about that, and triumphing anyway. Resurrection is about death and resurrection, and asks some serious questions about both those and traditional Christian beliefs. With the Third, Mahler asks serious questions about CREATION.

The first movement describes a world ready for life, with mountains and volcanoes and tectonic plates - but it is frozen. The orchestra has to unfreeze it, with the arrival of the Greek god Pan and his band of rag tag musicians. With Pan comes life and the arrival of summer.

The second movement describes vegetation, then the third movement goes on to describing animals. Both involve struggle against the elements and for survival.

The fourth movement moves on to humans, and to the profundity of both human grief and human joy.
O Man! Take heed!
What says the deep midnight?
"I slept, I slept -
from a deep dream have I woken -
the world is deep,
and more deeply pondered than the day.
Deep is its pain-
Joy, deeper still than heartache.
Pain says: Pass away!
But all joy seeks eternity -
- seeks deep, deep eternity!"

The brief fifth movement is about angels, represented by the women's and children's choirs.
Three angels sang a sweet song,
with blessed joy it rang in heaven.
They shouted too for joy
that Peter was free from sin!
And as Lord Jesus sat at the table
with his twelve disciples and ate the evening meal,
Lord Jesus said: "Why do you stand here?
When I look at you, you weep for me!"
"And should I not weep, kind God?
I have violated the Ten Commandments!
I wander and weep bitterly!
O Come and take pity on me!"
"If you have violated the Ten Commandments,
then fall on your knees and pray to God!
Love only God for all time!
So will you gain heavenly joy!"
The heavenly joy is a blessed city,
the heavenly joy that has no end!
The heavenly joy was granted to Peter
through Jesus, and to all mankind for eternal bliss.

After the angels comes the final movement - What Love Tells Me. Love is the pinnacle of all creation.Themes briefly explored in earlier movements come back as the music slowly swells to a higher and higher spiritual realm.

After the concert we drove to Greektown for a leisurely dinner at New Hellas. We ordered our beloved flaming cheese and had great Greek food.

It was a great day, and a great evening.

Pearl Jam

Just realized I had never talked about the Pearl Jam concert. So I copied and pasted this from a discussion board where I am a member and where I talked about the concert right after it happened:

I got the tickets a couple of weeks ago, but did not tell the kids. So last night we told the kids we were going out, but refused to tell them where. They whined a lot. When we got off at the Palace exit, we told them we were going to biggest clown convention in the world being held at the Palace (my older son has a terrible fear of clowns). That freaked them out!!!! Then they saw the big sign saying "Pearl Jam in concert" and they were very happy.

Yeah, I am a mean person, and I sometimes play tricks on people. hee hee hee

Pearl Jam is very good in concert. They have a lot of energy and fire. For this concert, they played a lot of music from their new release, Pearl Jam, mixed in with occasional old treasures like Jeremy. It was very enjoyable.

senior honors night

Yesterday I had no work as it was senior's honors night at the high school.

Actually I spent most of the day with my Bill; it turned out good.

I got to bed about 4AM due to covering part of the midnight shift. Then Steven woke me up at 6:30AM and Dan woke me up again about 8:30AM, both of them looking for things. It was grim.

When Bill got home from the graduation ceremony rehearsal, I explained to him that I had a bunch of errands to run, and could he please come along with me to make sure I did not fall asleep while driving?

So we ran errands all day. We went to Bill's bank so he could deposit a paycheck; went to the high school so he could turn in a straggler textbook; stopped at a convenience store for some caffeine; went to Target to buy him some dress clothes for honors night and for graduation day along with some new dress shoes; got him a hair cut; got some mosquito spray for the yard; stopped off for some lunch (at that point I realized I had eaten nothing all day and that might have been part of why I felt so icky); stopped off at the bookstore and did not find the specific book we were looking for; stopped off at a second bookstore and did find it; and stopped off at the gourmet grocery store and got many cool cheeses.

Steven will get his turn today for some new dress clothes and shoes. And a chance for some lunch.

Last night the honors night was very enjoyable. Bill was awarded two local scholarships. That makes a couple thousand more, to go along with the state scholarship he was awarded the other day and the Presidential scholarship he got from Ball State. Maybe we can afford this after all! Most of his tuition is now covered by scholarships; we will have to pay primarily for his room and board and books. One of his friends got a great scholarship for full tuition and a book allowance for a year from the local community college. That is a great kid and we were sitting by his parents, who were overwhelmed when it was announced; it was wonderful to see their faces! No child or family could deserve such good fortune more than they!

After the awards ceremony the high school served up pizza and pop and everyone milled around and talked and congratulated each other.

It was a very pleasant evening.

another work week finished

Short work week this week, sandwiched in between two long weekends. It is over, and I am very glad. There was a call-in on midnights tonight, so I had to work over yet again.

I had hoped to get a lot of yard work done over the next three days but it looks like there will be thunderstorms everyday. I guess I will be doing housework instead. I have to bug bomb the yard for the mosquitoes before I can do much out there, anyway. We have lived here for about five years now; we have never seen such bad mosquitoes as we are having this spring. We are thinking it must be the very wet weather we have been having? A cloud of the nasty little blood suckers comes in with the poor dog every time I let him out to pee. I run around the basement and try to smack them all before they try to bite the humans and cats. Bad enough that they are tormenting the poor dog.

There's certainly plenty of housework to do - there is always plenty of laundry to wash, and I need to scrub down both bathrooms.

It looks like I will be missing the going away party for my friend who is transferring out to Los Vegas. It will be on Saturday night, and we already have two parties to go to on Saturday, as well as being the evening my two sisters will be arriving in town. This is going to be a crazy weekend...tomorrow (well, I suppose I should make that tonight) is the senior class honors dinner. Friday night Dan and I are going out to a concert (Detroit Symphony Orchestra playing Mahler's Third Symphony) to celebrate one of our chicks making one of the great transitions to adulthood, Saturday will be parties & relatives, and Sunday will be the graduation itself............

I'd better go take a nice long shower and get to bed...I need rest and a huge drink of water.