peter pan and a natural pirate?

so, he's free. innocent. not a molester.

i'm pleased.

however, i'd be more pleased if michael could get into some sort of therapy.

i'm sure this'll be a topic on many blogs today, but will anyone else share this? not many.

which reminds me of the charming story about thriller that i forgot to tell you the last time i included that link.

first off, let me start by saying that to this day, i hide my eyes during that scene when michael turns into a werewolf. when i was younger, i used to hide my head under my security blanket. nowadays, i just look in another direction (i look vaguely more dignified and mature, i think.)

when i first saw the video i swore i would never wear contacts- they looked too awkward and painful- besides, they turned your eyes this horrifying shade of yellow. (i also swore i'd never drive when i was about that age......thank goodness i changed my mind on both counts.)

anyway, my dad had a copy of the "thriller" album- on cassette for sure, and i think it may have been one of the first cds he bought, as well. my little sister and i were easily amused, so one day we got the bright idea to make a haunted house in our basement and use "thriller" as the soundtrack. (the single, not the whole tape- it's hard to scare someone to the tune of "billie jean", unless there's some sort of paternity suit involved.....you know, that made so much more sense in my head. )

so, we'd banish daddy to the upstairs and run down to the basement armed with my collection of glow in the dark gummy bracelets and the glowing ghosts my sister owned. (i can't for the life of me remember where those ghosts came from, but i wish we'd gotten more- they were quite cool.) the bracelets went on the floor, to serve as the "path" for daddy to walk along, and i think there were a couple of glow in the dark shoelaces that were used on occasion for the same purpose. the ghosts were carefully placed on the bar, stereo, et cetera, where they would appear to levitate eerily. the tape would be cued up, one of us would hide (usually in the bar area), and the other would summon daddy to the stairs. he would be led downstairs and around the basement in the dark while michael sang, vincent rapped, and one of us jumped out and threw the ghosts. as soon as the song was over, the lights would come on, and daddy would be sent back upstairs while we set everything up again. lather, rinse, repeat.

more than once, dad was given the haunted tour of the basement 4 or 5 times in an hour.

man, those were the days.

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i found this on stef's page .

Your Seduction Style: The Natural

You don't really try to seduce people... it just seems to happen. Fun loving and free spirited, you bring out the inner child in people. You are spontaneous, sincere, and unpretentious - a hard combo to find! People drop their guard around you, and find themselves falling fast.

What Is Your Seduction Style?

i'm a natural? excuse me? i thought i was more "girl next door"- the type that's always "just a friend". forgive me- i must have gotten sidetracked by all the guys who were apparently beating down my door.......my little sister must have answered it while i was upstairs with my nose in a book or something.

while we're at it, this was on both larry and danikabur's pages:

What kind of pirate am I? You decide!
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all right. time to check in with a few fellow bloggers, mangle a few more magazines, and search for my lost gummy bracelet collection.