http://my.greasy.com/susil/ susil's Blog en-us © 21:27:50 Greasy.com All rights reserved. Tue, Feb 21:27:50 7 GMT 30 http://my.greasy.com/susil/passage_india.html Movie: A PASSAGE TO INDIA 1984, color, directed by David Lean Starring: Judy Davis as Adela Quested Peggy Ashcroft as Mrs. Moore Victor Banerjee as Dr. Aziz Stayed up last night to watch A Passage To India, one of my favorite movies, on TCM. The setting: Backdrop is 1920's colonial India, where English ex-pats rule and stick together, but unrest is brewing among native Indians to shake off the British yoke. Miss Quested sails to India with Mrs. Moore to marry Mrs. Moore's son. Miss Quested ... http://my.greasy.com/susil/passage_india.html#comments Sat, 4 Feb 2012 21:26:13 GMT http://my.greasy.com/susil/documentary_catfish.html HBO has been airing a documentary named "Catfish." It's about a good looking young Jewish guy who meets a girl on Facebook. Let's call the guy J.G. The girl's photo shows a pouty lipped blond girl who has a bunch of hip, cool friends and a niece who is nine years old and is a talented painter. The Facebook girl says she has a stable and horses and an active social life. Finally the guy, J.G. gets her phone number and he falls in love with her voice and her Facebook photo. Nine months pass, ... http://my.greasy.com/susil/documentary_catfish.html#comments Wed, 1 Feb 2012 22:52:49 GMT http://my.greasy.com/susil/aliens_repressed_love_tragedy.html Yesterday was so warm I made a pitcher of iced tea, using decaf tea bags--but even decaf products still have some caffeine, as was proven by me being bug eyed at 1am. I caught the movie "Alien III" as it was starting, and by golly, althought I didn't intend to, I was up till nearly 3am watching as it ended with Ripley swan diving into a vat of molten lead as that ghastly little alien she had been impregnated with burst from her abdomen and went into the furnace with her. I've seen this mov ... http://my.greasy.com/susil/aliens_repressed_love_tragedy.html#comments Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:29:27 GMT http://my.greasy.com/susil/facts_stuff.html In the journal I keep at hand I write down what to me, are interesting tidbits so I'm gonna bore you with some, okay? Athos, Porthos, Aramis:The Three Musketeers Kaspar, Melchior, Balthasar: Thr Magi Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria: Ships of Christopher Columbus (The Santa Maria being his flagship) Executive, Legislative, Judicial: Branches of the US government Charlotte, Emily, Anne: The Bronte sisters Goneril, Cordelia, Regan: King Lear's daughters He led the Muslims against the Crusaders and e ... http://my.greasy.com/susil/facts_stuff.html#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:13:30 GMT http://my.greasy.com/susil/joel_osteen_poseur.html Oprah Winfrey is trying to do the Barbara Walters gig --doing interviews with famous and semi-famous and infamous people. An interview she has done with Joel Osteen has been airing over and over on her cable channel. I suppose you know who Osteen is? He is the preacher at the biggest church in the world; a ampitheatre accomodating 16,000 people and it's packed every Sunday. Osteen is one in a long line of televangelist, and huckterism is their bread and butter. You couldn't have forced me ... http://my.greasy.com/susil/joel_osteen_poseur.html#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:36:54 GMT http://my.greasy.com/susil/concussed.html One evening a couple of days ago I was in my office going through the mail and stuff, and sitting in my office chair and leaned over--way too far over-- to reach something, and the chair tipped over and dumped me BLAM on the floor! I fell on my left hip again--and bonked my head hard on the edge of the oak desk. I saw stars, and a hair clip that was at the impact site on my head shattered into little bits and pieces. I jammed my left elbow and scratched my nose in the incident. I had a ser ... http://my.greasy.com/susil/concussed.html#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:30:47 GMT http://my.greasy.com/susil/mississippi_hash.html You might have heard that our newly ex-governor, Haley (You In A Heap O Trouble Boy) Barbour pulled a fast one on his last day in office. He pardoned, commuted and otherwise let loose 200 cons and criminals, including a rich socialite who was driving drunk and in a head on crash, killed two doctors by driving the wrong way into them. He also cleared Brett Farve's brother who was driving drunk and killed his best friend in the passenger seat. He also pardoned murderers who were trusty's at ... http://my.greasy.com/susil/mississippi_hash.html#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:39:44 GMT http://my.greasy.com/susil/love_life.html My most precious only grandchild, my grand-daughter-and she is grand--"Cara" is special in every way. Smart, beautiful, great personality, couldn't ask for a more excellent grand daughter. Cara says she has met the "love of her life" a guy she just recently met. My heart sank. She met this guy on the rebound from a disastrous prior relationship with a weirdo. I say "Back up, take it easy, get to really know this guy before comitting your heart and soul again." But who ever listened to me? ... http://my.greasy.com/susil/love_life.html#comments Mon, 9 Jan 2012 14:31:59 GMT http://my.greasy.com/susil/sound_silence.html I once read in National Geographic there is no place on Earth anymore where you can find complete silence. Even in the remotest desert, the sounds of jets overhead can be heard, and human encroachment into the land, air and water make silence difficult if not impossible to find anywhere. Well, we've had days of lovely weather, but one day last week, the temperature started to fall and that night it got down into the twenties. I was up at midnight and went out on the carport to make sure th ... http://my.greasy.com/susil/sound_silence.html#comments Mon, 9 Jan 2012 02:11:19 GMT http://my.greasy.com/susil/soul_food.html Last week I was at the post office in our little hamlet and it was warm and sunny, that mellow winter time sunny. Bright blue sky with a few little cirrus clouds far above. Rains of previous days had washed the town clean; the streets, the trees, the buildings all clean and freshly laundered looking. A lizard had come out of hibernation and lay in the sunlight, torpid on the warm concrete sidewalk. It was close enough to the yellow mums planted by the ladies club that it could run for cove ... http://my.greasy.com/susil/soul_food.html#comments Sat, 7 Jan 2012 19:28:00 GMT http://my.greasy.com/susil/want_go.html I have this habit of hanging on to things, of trying to hold on to objects I like. For instance: Years ago I bought this Emerson brand clock/radio, and it has the most superb radio of any I have ever had, as good as a Boze. When I bought this Emerson, it only cost like $12.00. It's about hand high, and shaped like an atomic cooling tower; sort of oval shaped. Over the years I dropped it a few--well, be honest--many times--and I know that wasn't good for it, and I had a habit of pulling it ... http://my.greasy.com/susil/want_go.html#comments Sat, 7 Jan 2012 18:44:40 GMT http://my.greasy.com/susil/toofless.html Christmas was so pleasant this year for my daughters and families and myself. No monkey wrenches as we can usually expect--nope it wa the nicest holiday any of us can remember. At 10 pm Christmas night, I had finished washing up the dishes and sat down to watch TV for a while and pondered how smoothly the holiday had gone, but a little voice in my head said "But there's still two hours left in this day, ha ha." So I was sitting there using one of those little floss sticks and just happened ... http://my.greasy.com/susil/toofless.html#comments Wed, 28 Dec 2011 07:03:47 GMT http://my.greasy.com/susil/grinch_white_house.html I've not been following the political news per se, but it's hard to ignore=-it's everywhere. I saw Ron Paul on Leno's show, and he looked like a white haired little gnome. Smart man, good ideas, but he's too old. Ron Paul--Too old for the call. Rick Perry--His brain's too airy. Is there treatment for ADHD? Michelle Bachman--Michelle who? Herman Cain--A "player," a serial seducer who thinks he's Barry White. Bye, Hermie. Herman Cain, a royal pain. Mitt Romney--He's Mormon--Need I say more? ... http://my.greasy.com/susil/grinch_white_house.html#comments Fri, 23 Dec 2011 20:08:18 GMT http://my.greasy.com/susil/putting_away.html Teal mentioned that she has boxes of financial filing she has to label and store, which brings me to the latest thing to keep me occupied. Last week I tore up my office and sorted and collated and separated files so I only have my current billing statements and paperwork now on my desk. The rest is stored away. I've been meaning to do it for years and finally couldn't stand it anymore and got it done. I also bought two large zipper notebooks and in one, finally got all various and assorted ... http://my.greasy.com/susil/putting_away.html#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:01:30 GMT http://my.greasy.com/susil/making_mountains_molehills.html I'm really good at that--making mountains out of what should be simple tasks. FIRST OFF: I keep a shallow box on the passenger seat of my car to hold Kleenex, a roll of paper towels, hand sanitizer, a local phone book and a pen. Putting items in th box keeps them from constantly rolling or falling off the seat. SO, I lifted up the box looking for a plastic bag and there were the remains of a cookie, crushed into a thousand crumbs the size of sand. How'd that cookie-or cookies get there? I ... http://my.greasy.com/susil/making_mountains_molehills.html#comments Sat, 10 Dec 2011 20:36:49 GMT http://my.greasy.com/susil/spoon_coffin.html Thursday I got a call that Bea, one of my double first cousins, had died. One of her sons phoned her around 6:30 am as he did every morning (she was an early riser) and she told him she wasn't feeling well at all, but refused to go to the doctor. Around 7am, the son who lives with her tried to call her but then, and the rest of the day, she didn't answer. When he got home from work around 5pm he found her dead sitting in her recliner. I knew her, and knew what she had been thinking-if she ... http://my.greasy.com/susil/spoon_coffin.html#comments Sat, 10 Dec 2011 19:54:26 GMT http://my.greasy.com/susil/menorahs.html I was in a Hudson's store--(endemic to South Mississippi)these stores buy out other stores so you never know what you'll find. In the front part of the Hudson's store in Lucedale were goods from some business that had sold a lot of makeup. Bins and bins of eyeliner, lipsticks, eyeshaow etc. So this little girl about four years old was on her tippy toes peering into the bins and saying loudly over and over to her mother "I WANT MAKEUP!" Her mother ignored her. Over and over like a broken re ... http://my.greasy.com/susil/menorahs.html#comments Wed, 7 Dec 2011 01:20:58 GMT http://my.greasy.com/susil/want_martha_stewart.html Let's just say I'm happy Thanksgiving is over. No turkeys were harmed on my behalf for this holiday. But at the last minute I bought a ham. The fella at the store said it was already cooked; all I'd have to do was heat it up. So after watching Martha Stewart over the years, I put a glaze on it like I'd seen her do--mustard/brown sugar/ pineapple, and baked it for an hour. Hah! Warm it up? It was so tough I couldn't eat it, so I put it in a pot with a can of pineapple chunks with juice and ... http://my.greasy.com/susil/want_martha_stewart.html#comments Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:20:18 GMT http://my.greasy.com/susil/dogs_heaven.html My daughter phoned me crying--her beloved schnauzer died. The dog was old but still active--he loved playing around in the yard. His nickname was "Boy." He was devoted to my daughter, and she wrote on her Facebook page about him, and posed the question "Do dogs go to heaven?" She is religious and believes in the heavenly afterlife. Some people scoffed and scorned NO. To comfort her I said of course, the things you love will meet you in heaven. Why not? I imagine the innocent spirit of a do ... http://my.greasy.com/susil/dogs_heaven.html#comments Sun, 20 Nov 2011 17:30:47 GMT http://my.greasy.com/susil/golden_leaves.html On the side of my yard there is a hickory tree loaded from top to bottom with golden leaves. The weather has to be just right for this magnificence to occur. The combination of warmish days, and cold nights has been just right this year. Looking out my office window, I saw this column of gold, a gift, a treasure. A breeze ruffles the leaves and the tree shimmers in the sunlight. I drove up as close as I could to a small hickory tree growing near the big one and picked some of the branches ... http://my.greasy.com/susil/golden_leaves.html#comments Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:30:47 GMT