didn't get to crochet today.
nope.
no jamboree of any kind.
you know why?
cause there was a freakin blizzard!

i mean, it's winter
and this is rhode island
but why must there be a blizzard
the one day i'm doing something?

updated the site.
i have 40 visits.
well 41, with me.
it makes me wonder who goes to it
because i mean, there's nothing there.
though i *did* update it today, so that's something.

it's nice that people are going there and i thank them for doing so.
eventhough like, a bunch of them are prolly me.
though, it's good that i did check the site out today,
cause i opened it without doing so.
so a lot of tiny things are done, and other things are also done that aren't so tiny.
like i added some nice links.

kristina signed my guestbook!
i haven't talked to kristina in, like, forever!
actually, i wasn't sure she liked me for a while,
but everything seems to be cool.
yay!
the rocketsauce thingy isn't annoying to me, if you read this.
i rather like it, and find it fun!

anyway, friggin blizzard!
it gave me and beth time to pick the snacks for next time
which is said to be wednesday.
after much deliberation, we arrived on cookies,
two kinds, butterfinger-chocolatey ones,
and lemon-poppy seedy ones.

mmmmm cookies!

and now i have time to try to draw a bit more.
besides which, i really need to practice da crocheting.

i miss andy richter on late night with conan o'brien
i still like the show
but man...
yeah.

funny stuff, that one.
a little while back, i had mentioned mike leffel and fat jesus
without making links out of them.
well, not that too many people that read this need a link to fat jesus, but
here it is, anyway.

robots obey what the children say!
^_^

okay everyone,

rapplepie.com is open now!

friggin amazing, eh?

not really.

actually, it's rather bland.

but hey, it's a start.

and i'll get better at it eventually.

you know, and actually put stuff on the site.

i'll learn some nice html and make it kick some ass.

yeah.

i'll hafta do that.
^_^

feelin kinda bleh today.

i started eating the pie i got for xmas.

i noticed that there was a bit of mold in it.

i stopped eating the pie i got for xmas.

again, feelin kinda bleh today.

i've got to pack a few things, for the
beth's house big time crochet jamboree
i'll get all my crochet stuff together
and all my comics
which i'm gonna try to do more of today

what will come of my efforts, i do not know.

i think i might shine my shoes, i haven't done so in a while.

found out that, by some fantastic stroke of luck
(you know, just *sigh*, that's all i have to say about luck)
the appointment my sister made for us to have our pictures taken is sunday,
rather than saturday, which woulda bit large ass
because i've got the beth's house big time crochet jamboree to go too.
i'm not missing that for crap, nosiree.

i need to do laundry, and get some sleep for tomorrow.
cause i don't know when beth's gonna call or when anything's happening.
so i'm packing when i'm ready to go to bed tonight, and. um. stuff.
i'll bring my hooks and my yarn, and the notebook with the comics in it
all in a handy bag that now holds some coffee syrup
and a letter i was supposed to send to sam ages ago.
i'll prolly just end up drinking it, and getting him a new bottle
it doesn't go bad, but i'd like to give him the fresh stuff, ya know?

my vcr is a jerk.
a big fat giant jerk.
it makes a horrible buzzing noise
i think something's too tight and it's pulling the tape through,
like, if you held the tape tight between your fingers and pulled it through them
that kind of noise
and it makes it every diez minutos y it drives me freaking loco!
especially when i go fix it, and then
starts up again
just when i get back to my bed
at which point i have to go back, fix it again,
and keep the endless waltz of man and bitchy-ass machine going.
caramba!

my thermos is leaky... sometimes.
that's a pain in the ass.
i think it's leaky all the time, but just more prone to
have something leak from it if you
fill it with, i don't know, hot liquid
maybe past a certain point
which is a little more than half, i think.
i don't know what's going on with it, but this is craziness.
not that i don't like it, i mean, it's neat to have a thermos
it just shouldn't leak.

i think i'm going to get my hair cut after this whole picture dealy with my sister.
sometime after, anyway, i mean, that's new year's eve, and stuff.
gonna get it dyed a brightish red, i think
set off my eyes.
wonder when i'll get to see mz. rabbitt again.
whenever i get to see my english teacher friends, i have sort of a new look.

i should change my look more often.

bleh, new year's.
just another year, that's all.
it's gonna be pretty well the same as the rest.
i'm not busy being born
so i am busy dying.
i shouldn't say that though,
this year brought me the list and all manner of nice things.

beth (non-listee) told me something that i found odd
she said that my problems seem remarkably huge.
now see, i always think of beth as a wall of stress
who has problems that are much bigger than mine
it made me go wow.
she also said that i'm dealing with a lot very well.
that made me go wow too.

to open the site, or not to open the site?
that is the question.
whether tis nobler to have people say "hey, your site has nothing on it, you suck!"
or to wait, and by having stuff on the site, end them.

anyway...

something.

...

yeah.

i'd like to thank beth (friend, not listee) for helping me out with things that i'm going through.
and you know, i'm rather glad that it's her, because i went to school with phil, and to two dances with sarah, and all the shopping that took place beforehand.
beth was the only part of the gang that i hadn't had something that was apart from the others with, like, we've talked and stuff, but this is something more... major. it's good to get a chance to be closer to one of my best friends. this all sounds terribly cheesy, but it's true, for how cheesy it is.

she okay-ed the saturday idea, so that's good. go me! having an idea that works for once!
i should do some comics, eh?
after all, i'm bringing those too, and i should have something to show, eventhough i know i don't really have to.
which is good, because what are the odds that i'll end up getting anything done?
i wonder whether sarah's coming. i hope so, it'd be nice, i've never gotten to do something with just the girls yet, i don't think. maybe i have. hmm...

anyway, my nails are back to blue again, that's nice.
i put some nail polish remover in it, cause it was somehow a bit dried out, and too thick.
there wasn't much left, either, but that's fixed now.
hello kitty nailpolish! whee!

i did a whole mess of sitework tonight.
revising, making and scanning the logo, writing various little things that needed to be written.
i added the counter and guestbook tonight, rapplepie.com is almost ready to be opened.
that is horribly neat!
maybe this is just me being the maker of the whole thing talking,
but it's a pretty damn good site for using a
geocities pagebuilder and one damn piece of clipart, ya know?

you will eventually, if you decide to visit it.
it's not opened yet, though, i'm still clinging desparately to the hope that i will get some actual content onto it before i end up opening it. that's be rather a bit nice, i think.

anyway, thanks again to beth,
and good night all.
^_^

hey babies,
this is dan again.

it's that serene thing happening again.
right now, i don't feel worried about anything
i'm just...
fine.

today, i woke up, turned on my stereo
and heard a spanish commercial...
i changed the station, just held the button for however long
and when i let go, i heard barry white! bwahahahahahaha!
that's so awesome!
"oh my darling, i
can't get enough of yor love, babe"
bwahaha!
then i heard come on eileen, which i tried to play on my accordion,
but i'd need to sit and work it out more, so it didn't sound so great.
that's where the nifty-ass music stopped, though lethargic slug that i am
i was sitting in bed and i saw a thing about tmbg on public access. rawk!

and i also found out that there's an angela anaconda marathon on saturday.
it would be a good day for the crocheting party at beth's, i feel.
if i can get in touch with beth, i'll have to mention it, but i'm not sure it'll work out.
a good idea, nonetheless.

higgitus figgitus squiggitus squm
prestidigitonium

20 points to whoever knows where that came from.

we went to mohegan sun
ya know, the newer native american casino place
i figured i would this time, since i didn't last time
what a rather large buffet
anyway, then i went to the game room for a while
i played a bear claw like game
ya know, the one where the grabby thing drops down and you snag you some stuff?
the claw seemed to not close very well, though i think they're all like that, but this one seemed moreso
but i gots me a meowth!
after that, the damn thing went on the fritz
i nearly nearly nearly got a horsea!
i left with the meowth
it's in my room now

hope you're all well, darlings.
^_^

listee beth asked me if i was gonna do this, and i said i would, so i'm making a list of what i got for xmas.

dan's xmas haul (not to be confused with dan's xmas hall, which is apparently full of holly, figgy pudding, and wassail, whatever the hell wassail is):

i got coffee! tasty caffeine filled coffee!
i wasn't supposed to get the butter toffee flavored stuff but i did anyway, cause my sister wrapped it with the stuff i was supposed to get. that was irish cream, and kona (listee tested and approved! yay!).

also, i got a thermos in which to put said coffee at such time as it is brewed and ready to be poured into a thermos.
it's got a poury spout.

shower stuff. shampoo, conditioner, body wash.
deoderant. i think they were trying to tell me something.
but i already knew i'd run out of deoderant.

a stereo. a rather large one. 3 disc cd changer.
just about everything on it can be operated by it's remote control.
i have to move even less now.
i christened it with tmbg and played my accordion to that and state songs.
my aunt got me dylan's greatest hits volume 3.
they just keep a-coming, don't they?

an apple pie.
odd, yes, but i like apple pie, so i don't care.

ooh ooh, i got the fourth set of monty python's flying circus videos!
not i have to go get the first two from otherdan's house.
and buy the third, i suppose.
at least i *think* this is the fourth. i can't remember, i'll look later, but it prolly is.

a new pillow and a quilt.

a bunch of clothes, most of which indicate some desire to change the way i dress, which won't happen, but if i have someplace to go where i can't dress like me, i have clothes to wear.
there's another pair of green cargo pants, and since i usually wear green cargo pants, i kinda like those.

my cousin got me a belt, a leather bracelet, and a small utility knifey thing with pliers.
damn did that utility knifey thing come in handy.
so many things to cut open for other people and for me.
got me a yoyo too, and i've been playing with it a bunch.
i can do the cradley thing trick and walk the dog.

there was other stuff, but this is what i can remember at the moment, so it'll do. i'll prolly mention other stuff later anyway. like these slippers... they're leaving my heels a bit cold. the parts of my feet actually covered by slipper are warm though. gift certificates and money. i got those, and they'll go to good use.

that list, by the way, was in no particular order other than maybe that in which i remembered things.

i'm still feeling rather nice, despite crappy-ass minimum use requirements by namezero that i'd better not lose my domain name over, and the horribly cold weather that is in this room, and is prolly worse outside, but since i'm not out there, i don't know... it'd better be damn cold out there, cause if it's just in here... that's a bit messed up.
i don't think i have to worry about that. not to mention the lack of both socks *and* lovin from the list above. ah well, good mood, lala!

um... i might open the site soon, content or not.
listee beth says i should do a happy donkey after.
i agree.
so i'm gonna put that on the list of things that i have to draw.
and my that list is getting long.
if i can get mike leffel's permission, i'm gonna put fat jesus into a comic or two of mine.
and, appropriately, it'll be at the end of a tmbg-related series.
not the phil, beth, sarah, and dan go see tmbg. this one is much older.
in this one, i've used the lyrics from "the guitar" as dialogue.
it's neat.

anyway, i'm supatired, and think that i shall go to bed.
night night, everybody!
^_^

i feel nice
i feel nice
i feel nice and nice and nice

as they say
(well maybe they don't, but they should start)
fuck cruddy!
which i seem to be taking wonderfully to heart.

everything is so lovely.
i told you it'd clear up.
i told you i told you.
and now. now i'm alright.

to my baby
and my friends on and off the list
you're all wonderful
love goes to all of you

^_^

hey everybody. happy holidays. ^_^
(yes, even the one's i'm a tad late for, like thanksgiving or arbor day)

still feel kinda cruddy.
i still don't know why.
the reason i've come up with
(and this is quite a longshot)
is that me and one of my exes started going out
late late xmas eve, maybe even xmas a few years ago.
i think it's messing with me for some reason.
is that even possible?

probably is at least a bit possible,
though maybe i just suck at this time of year.

for anyone who feels like i'm being less than stellar
as if i was ever stellar in the first place,
i'm sorry, it'll clear up sometime, i know it.

but it's not like i'm constantly thinking about my ex this time of year.
or any time of year.
or ever, really.
it'd seem to be bugging me subconciously, if anything
i don't know why it would, i mean it's been two years
i've been over her for a damn long while
i've got my darling, for pete's sake!
what is bothering me?!
augh!, as charlie brown would say.

so maybe i'm just way too sensitive to something or other.
i dunno though, listee beth just said she feels cruddy on evenings on xmas. hmmm...
what *is* bothering me?

ah well, i'll break out of it sometime soon.
beth just said to feel better!
i said okay!
i think i'll try that now!

i think this might be helping.
i know a bit of sleep would do me good.
thanks beth.

um, now what do i do?

i think i'm gonna play some music before i go to sleep.
cause i told my gal in a mail that i thought i was gonna go do soem music,
but i ended up not, and i feel like i should fulfill that, even if it *is* a bit later than expected.

dan's xmas list, put together just now:
1.) lovin
2.) socks

um. that's about it, actually.
i only came up with socks cause. well. i need some socks.
really, the lovin's been what was on my mind the most.
well, moreso the person i'd like to get the sweet sweet lovin from.
anyway, i'm tired and i'm gonna go to bed now.

night night, everybody.
^_^

i'm not sure how,
but this is how i feel right now.

in some cases, it might be a good thing
but not today.

i feel like crud
*"what a difference a day makes" starts playing in the background*
i donno why i do, either.
that's just how it is.
it's not like i have too much reason to feel like crud.

i mean, i started out today fine,
sure, i wasn't exactly rocketing through erika's present
actually, i still have to start it.
but that's no reason to feel so bad, i mean, i'll get it.
i've got the ideas, i just need to figure out how the drawings will go.
and how to draw everything i need to draw.
this will *not* be just slop on a page. i'm trying to make sure of that.

all this pressure comes from me.
it usually does.
colleen says jay's like that too.
speaking of whom, i wonder where colleen is...
i haven't talked to her in a while.
it prolly says where she's gone in her blog.

anyway, i need to do some listee drawings too.
xmas stuff, ya know.
i'm sure they won't mind if the things are a bit late,
but i'd like to get them done somewhere even close to xmas itself.
not that they'd get them on time, if i sent them the actual drawings
instead of just scanning them and stuff and sending that way.

i did a lot of accordion playing, and even more singing today.
ya know, i think i'll put the words (or at least the most current version of them)
to "i gots a christmas card from beth, oh happy day!" on here.

i gots a card,
a christmas card,
a christmas card from beth!

i gots a christmas card from beth!*

*repeat that, but i donno how many times, it's kinda working itself out.

hey, i never made any claims that i could even write a song, i just liked the way that looked when i posted it on the list (all but the last part where it's a full sentence, i added that later, cause i couldn't remember what the words were), and decided to put it to music.
the music is still working itself out too.
mostly because i can't remember that either.
but, i do it on my accordion, and it's all written by me, so that's pretty neat.
gotta start somewhere, i guess.
that is, if i'm starting to write songs, which i don't know that i am.
maybe...

i can get a lot of little right hand bits for tmbg songs on my accordion.
even the one's that don't have an accordion on them.
left hand bits are trying.
are they ever.
i was just lucky to get as much of them as i did on "we want a rock"
i'm sure if i really sat down for hours, listen closely, and tried like hell
that i could work them out, and i've done that before.
maybe sometime when i don't feel so lazy.

random sketch i just came up with:
guide- watch out for that tree!
george- yeah, my name's george, and we're in the jungle, i get it.
guide- no, i was referring to the large poisonous snake that's about to bite you in the eye, which is in that tree right there.

candy canes taste good.

hats off to the new-age hairstyle made of bones.
hats off to the use of hats. as megaphones.

ya know, i think i could write songs *with* someone.
that'd be cool.
kinda like a flansburgh/linnell thing.

i should try to figure out "ring of fire" on my accordion.
that'd be at least 7 kinds of cool.

i fell for ya like a child
oooooooooohhhhhhhhhh but the fire went wild

rather a collection of random thoughts, this, eh?

we heard bruce springsteen on the way back from bowling.
btw, linnell does a kick ass version of "nebraska"
"dancing in the dark" always makes me laugh.

can't start a fire
can't start a fire without a spark
this gun's for hire
even if we're just dancing in the dark

bwahaha!
^_^