Have you seen my motivation?

[alrescate]

It is a beautiful day here. It is sunny and brisk and I'm trapped in the office. I have lots of work I should be doing and I have no motivation to get it done. Some days I wonder what possessed me to leave the fishing tackle industry. (That isn't really true. I know *why* I did it. I've just been feeling a bit manipulated lately. Chalk that up to childhood issues I don't feel like going into right now.)

Tonight Mr. Alrescate and I are going to http://www.moxiecinema.com/ to see 'The Aristocrats.' I'm really loving this little independent movie theater. (And not just because they serve wine.) I've gotten to see four great movies that would have never come to Podunk, Missouri, and I'm supporting two great young business owners. These two are probably ten years younger than I am...it is a bit depressing to see their glowing optimism. I think I've officially become a geezer.


When I decided to update my journal I realized that I didn't have much I really wanted to share, which I suppose is okay because I doubt too many folks are reading this. Sigh. Why do I feel so cranky and ignored today? I'd go eat worms but I'm not very hungry.

Comments

[bountifulpots.livejournal.com]

I love you!!! And, believe me, Aristocrats will make you feel better, I hurt afterwards because I was laughing so hard at how WRONG it is!

And maybe you need to take a day off sometime, and we can meet in the middle and have a fun day? I'd bake cookies...

[alrescate.livejournal.com]

Good. I need to laugh until my gut hurts.

You are right...I should take off a day so we can meet somewhere for a 'girls day.' Besides, you had me at cookies...

Don't eat the worms...

[shadiehawke.livejournal.com]

they wiggle and jiggle and giggle inside. Besides, that's too much like the fishing tackle industry! (although I confess that I secretly love crappie jigs. The yellow glittery ones work so well in the Shenandoah river but Im digressing here.)

Maybe your motivation has gone on holiday with mine. I've managed to unload the dishwasher, let the repair man in and then throw a load of laundry in. All day. Oh, and I let the repair man back out. (just in case you wondered.)

That's so cool about the independent theater! There is one in St. Louis but it's too far away to drive there often.

*hugs*

Re: Don't eat the worms...

[alrescate.livejournal.com]

Well B.P. has offered me cookies so maybe I'll skip the worms for now. I'll join you in that secret love of fishing lures. I was in charge of soft baits, jigs and spinner baits. I was always jealous of the hard bait guy. (Although I did love those plastic lizards.) *grin*

You let the repair man out? Wow. I'm impressed. I think you managed a lot more productive stuff than I did today.

Re: Don't eat the worms...

[shadiehawke.livejournal.com]

Well, the repair man wasn't cute enough to keep. But he finally got the washer fixed, after 2 1/2 weeks. :P

Cookies, huh?

C is for cookie...

[alrescate.livejournal.com]

Cookie was one of my first words...so an offer of a cookie will get me every time.

Too bad the repair man wasn't that cute but at least you don't have to go to the laundromat anymore.

[buffra.livejournal.com]

Don't eat the worms! The third and fourth come back up!! Euw!!

Besides, we don't all hate you.

Sorry you're lacking in motivation. I'm having a pretty crummy day, myself, but have decided that doing some stuff is better than sitting around crying, which was my other option. Too cold for worms right now!

[courtneymckenny.livejournal.com]

Worms are highly over rated as a source of protien. The slime factor is too overwhelming :o)

At least Podunk has a independant theater. We barely have actual stadium seating here let alone independant films...bah on bad theatres.

[texaswren.livejournal.com]

I once ate cookies made with dried, ground earthworms. It was for a college class and I couldn't afford to refuse. ;-)

I know where everyone's motivation went---I have it!!! And it's about time!!! I flat wore myself out being productive today!!

I always think of this song when someone mentions eating worms.

Nobody loves me,
Everybody hates me,
Think I'll eat some worms.
Big ones, fat ones,
Skinny ones, round ones,
They don't have no germs.

;-)

*Chuckle*

[alrescate.livejournal.com]

That is where I got the line...I couldn't remember the whole thing but whenever I get the 'Nobody loves me blues' I always think of the "I'll eat some worms" bit. I think in the version of the song I've heard it was "I might as well eat worms."

I'm sorry you had to eat worms for a class...bleck!

Re: *Chuckle*

[texaswren.livejournal.com]

That's what I get for taking a course called Experimental Cooking. ;-)

Can Sam have your worms?

[kf-in-georgia.livejournal.com]

I'd go eat worms but I'm not very hungry.

He 'bout yanks my arm out of the socket lunging for worms on the ground. He gulps them down every chance he gets.

For a while I tried muzzling him when we went out (a hard, plastic greyhound-kennel muzzle). He'd find a worm, stop, push the muzzle down on the road where the worm was, and just lean there for a while, like he believed he could think the worm through the muzzle and into his mouth.

And he growled at me once when I tried to get him to spit out the worm. And it didn't seem sensible to play tug-of-war with the dog over a worm, so he got to eat it.

(Silly dog: can't eat dog food or treats containing wheat because they make him sick. But he can eat dead worms without a problem...)

Sorry you're having a no-mo day. Hope you enjoy the movie.

This advice may be too late...

[kf-in-georgia.livejournal.com]

I looked up The Aristocrats on IMDb. A reviewer gave this advice:

Warning: skip the beverage during this film unless you enjoy nostril burn.

Re: Can Sam have your worms?

[alrescate.livejournal.com]

Why is it that dogs with delicate stomachs can always eat the most disgusting things with no problem at all?

Your motivation and mine ran away together

[avanta7.livejournal.com]

So much to do. So little will to do it. And not having much to share is no bar against making a journal entry. I've posted one-line entries on occasion: "Hi. I'm alive. Bye."

Share lots. Or not. I'm reading, regardless. *beam*

[teotakuu.livejournal.com]

I especially enjoyed the bit about worms as it is the Beloved's party trick and Master 9 has taken to doing it too as he follows in his idol's footsteps.

I don't know what you wanted to be motivated about but you achieved one thing - we all dropped in to have a chat.

Hope the movie was good.

Party trick?

[alrescate.livejournal.com]

Please tell me what Beloved's trick is...I can't even begin to imagine! *grin*

Re: Party trick?

[teotakuu.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately for me, it is actually EATING worms, in fact, he did it for our visitors last Saturday. The little girl inside my 50 + body who grew up with 3 other little girls, still thinks of that poem that ends 'snakes and snails and puppy dogs tails, that's what little boys are made of'when men do these shudder-making tricks. Males were a mystery to me then and a mystery they remain!

Yick.

[alrescate.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry I asked. I was a tomboy as a kid but I still don't understand why boys and men like so many 'gross' things.