Photo for Your One Word to Describe Foxglove Comments...please?

This is my new tattoo. No mom, it was only like $50. Really. Oh, and it was finished at 10:35 and I had to be at work at 11 for what was the WORST NIGHT SHIFT EVER. Details to follow in a few days once I've recovered.

Anyway, I noticed around blogger that people have been asking others to find one word to describe them. I'd really love to know what you guys would say- How would you describe Foxglove in one word, based upon what you've read here, read of me at Aughra's and the occasional mention at BTE Express?

So- you're all aware of my utterly non-existent social life (work is it, folks. That's EVERYTHING) and my general self pity. So give a girl a break. My right side is still killing me, from the recent carving into my ribcage (thanks Agent,) for being very patient with my whimpering and cracking me up and just all around being a great guy. Despite the fact that I actually wanted to get out of the chair and run away probably 5 times, he was very sweet and encouraging. "You're doing great, hon" he'd say, five minutes after reminding me to stop talking and laughing cause it was messing up the lettering. He did a great job. Everyone at the studio was fantastic- friendly and they were all very kind about not pointing out the flab on the belly but being impressed that I was getting ribwork done and didn't actually scream or cry (though I wanted to). If Agent hadn't also been a smoker I don't think I'd have made it. He was fantastic, and is now the only person who shall tattoo me. Not that I'll be able to afford another one for several years, and hopefully he'll still be working there. Great guy. Bug stopped by several times and was very supportive, and even gave Agent tips on shutting me up, since when I talk I move and when I move- the needle moves and the tattoo gets messed up.

But back to the point-
Here's a Free Photo Not on HNT in Exchange for One Word To Describe the Foxglove you know from Here...What do you say? Help a girl out?

Link-O-Rama-Rama!

But 1st- go here! The seal hunt has begun and there are already over 9000 dead and it's only been on for 9 hours! Help!

Vermont Country Store.
Has vintage perfumes that are impossible to find here, this kick ass tablecloth:

and lots of other neat stuff, like the only soap to be used in the 1st class suites of the Titanic (not that your bathroom will sink).

Also take this test- you all know about breed registration, especially for pit bulls who are often mistakenly accused. Take the test- can you pick out which one is the pit bull?

I want just about everything here, and absolutely everything in the "Dainties" collection.

I love DIY shops...And this is a link page of shops that I frequently fantasy shop at. (That means loading up shopping cart, usually to about $400 and then just leaving the web page. Cuz am poor.

Go forth, and have fun with the shopping! Because I can't.

Oh and check out some really good smelly candles here. We can't all afford diptyque or D.L. & Co which is a shame, because look at that gorgeous packaging. And this one clearly costs so much because as anyone who's seen Chamber of Secrets, or has read this scary propaganda knows, mandrakes are a bitch to work with.....

Have I recently mentioned how much I hate not being rich?

I Need a Hobby. And you can be one of my Patients! Take this quiz!

Now I spend too much time listening to wav files from movies. Alan Rickman ones are always great, because he's got such a wonderful voice. (You've heard my audio clip in my profile, yeah?)

Wooderson in Dazed and Confused. Ash from Army of Darkness where there should really be better quotes but this one'll have to do..Janeane Garafalo as Agent Shelby in Clay Pigeons whom Bug has seen walking her dogs in the city and he says she is TINY. Bug also met Bruce Campbell when BC came to a film making presentation at Michigan State, and has informed that he's a. very little and b. really kind of mean and in love with himself. But, he's Ash, so..Ok.

I did a group last night at work, where 13 of my (at the time 17- by the end of shift 19 with another on the way) attended.
These are the questions:

If you could give real happiness to one person, who would it be and why? (answers varied, some were "me" which I thought was pretty damn valid)

Tell the rest of us something about you that others might not know by looking at you. (this got a little disturbing- the Cthulu kid is back, so we had to listen to demonology and he's REALLY difficult to refocus, also one of my least favorites of all time, hereafter LFOAT, just scroll down to see who I mean, kept going on about how he's an orphan {he's not and his mother visits him daily} and how that allows him to marry multiple women starting from a young age. Other less disturbing answers: I like to read, I love planting flowers and plants, I miss my dogs, and I wish I was shopping,)

If you could pick one person from history to ask anything of who would it be and what would you ask? Jesus came out way ahead in this one. Reason? He's Jesus. I actually got a 'duh' for that one, from the patient who actually introduced himself to the rest of the group as Jesus Christ in nice textbook example of grandiose delusional thinking cause, if this guy really is him, we're all totally fucked. You can ask the kid he almost strangled the night before, which seems sort of not so Christlike to me, even though I'm a heathen and not really up on the JC stuff.

If you could spend a day with any famous person, alive or dead, who would it be and what would you want to do for the day? Again, Jesus was the big winner (we've got 5 religiously preoccupied people right now), but Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were also mentioned, as was Colin Farrell, Earhart (I was psyched by that one, even though it came from LFOAT and he was answering the question above and he wanted to know "how she flew so high"). I just tuned him out and played the Amelia songs I know and love by the Handsome Family (track 10) and a song by Neutral Milk Hotel that sorta reminds me of her but mainly I just love cause it's beautiful....(Holland, 1945).

The rest of the group just sort of descended into religious rants and paranoia about who was going to know the answers they were giving....

Sometimes the classics just seem so right....

Here's my latest contribution to Boot Hill as well as this week's Half Nekkid Thursday.

I told him I was sick of him borrowing my socks, like, hundreds of times.

Check the outtakes here and here, which should also help assuage any fears any of you might've had about Bug's well being...


Also- Please please please consider this guy-he needs a home!
If any of you are in the NC area PLEASE look into adopting this awesome little guy!

MORTGAGE APPROVED!!

So long, crappy apartment. So long, crap landlady who makes me want to scream!.

Hello, lots and lots of bills. And ridiculous amounts of expense on things that are not frivolous accessories. (No more ringtones) No matter how attractive I may find actor in movie I've discovered (hey, did any of you see Boondock Saints? Yeah. I just did. It's kind of shite. But I totally love it. People have been recommending it for ages "oh you like Irish things, you gotta watch this movie." But I would say "yeah, but the guys are American. No accents. Less appealing.") But- they speak with accents, and yeah Flannery's holds up much better than Reedus' but I really think Murphy is adorable, and I want to create a Norman Reedus film database (like the Cassel, Rickman, Oldman, Thewlis, Hawkes ones) but I can't. Plus Willem Dafoe can really do no wrong, right? Well, maybe he can, but after he was Elias in Platoon anything is forgivable.

And I can't buy Shoes.

Ok, I wouldn't have been able to buy those anyway, but I'd like to. There's a lot of cute shoes out there this year, shoes that are just itching to make my ankle suffer, but I can't afford any of them. I am however stopping at Target on my way to work to hit the clearance socks because I have none.

no more work.....

Just finished evening 3 of a 4 evening run. Exhausted. Head hurts. Back hurts. Urge to kill almost overwhelming. New head nurse is so evil she's got her own heraldic crest. The schedule is like this for the rest of the month. We have one of the worst batch of patients we've had in ages.

It's like the beginning of Halloween, we've got that great caliber of patients running around now.

Which is why I'm praying that the Jersey Devil is real, and can open locks, and likes nurses, so that I'll have a good excuse not to go tomorrow, since I've got NO sick time and am basically screwed. Oh, and cause I'm a total geek, I really, really need this. I can almost promise I won't use it as a weapon.

dog adoption update....and added at 6 pm dog that needs help!

If any of you are in the NC area PLEASE look into adopting this awesome little guy! His time is limited, and he needs help! He's a pug mix with an underbite and is very cute and Stewart needs a home! Here's his picture!



Betty's adoption fell through, and the lovely people from the rescue called us- but they were afraid that Betty would be kind of bossy and upset if she wasn't the only dog...and we'd already committed to another dog- Daisy from Ecuador



with her 3 legs and her cute little accent. She got her rear right leg crushed by..something...but she's been rescued by some wonderful people in Ecuador . They found and saved her, and one of their representatives flew up to NYC and met with the rescue organization that led us to Daisy. And Daisy will be ours as soon as we move into our house....and she'll be able to play with Isaac and Betty because......

But Betty? Betty is going to be adopted by my friend who lives in the city- he LURVES dogs, and is the only person who likes Nick Cave as much as me. When we first met, I had a huge crush on him- but he didn't like me that way so my friend Patsy was convinced he was gay. Um, no...if all the guys I liked I didn't like me because they were gay- there would be many, many, many more homosexual guys in the 15 mile radius of where I grew up...

But he likes little dark haired girls (petite, people, not young) - and Betty is little, and dark haired, and he met her last night and he's going to adopt her today. I'm totally thrilled. Betty gets a good home- and my Nick Cave friend gets a great dog. They will make a great pair and I will post more pictures of them together when I get them.

Yay! Betty gets good home AND I get to see her!

Aughra left today. Sad Foxglove.

Also sad because lovely RAZR phone just upped and died on me and I had to get new one. And since I had all my phonebook entries with photos- they were only saved to phone. That means I DON'T HAVE ANYONE'S NUMBER ANYMORE. And that all my good pictures are gone. Before the RAZR died, I sent all my pics to my email. Tried sending them back to phone. Phone gets message, but no picture.

Sob. It's the ROKR and I hate spelling things like this. I now have ITunes on my phone (it was suggested that someone of my elegant natural ability to say, walk without falling over or dropping things, get a heartier phone than the Razor. Refusing to spell it the other way now.)

So, no photos, no numbers, but can have 100 songs I like. And I'm not even mentioning the $50+ worth of ringtones I lost including - the one that had always been Aughra's identifier, the Deadwood theme which is not available for my phone. Borderline suicidal now.

I hate today.

And I think I'm getting fat.

"As you can see, the best way to do it is with scissors."

Quote is attributed to Alfred Hitchcock, from "Dial M for Murder".

This is the first SHINY NEW BLOG HNT. I'm keeping mum on who the victim is...But I'll have everything cleaned up nice and pretty for Aughra's visit today! I'm leaving to pick her up now, so won't be able to comment on everyone- but me and Aughra will come back later and do some commenting so don't be afraid of the scissors here, and leave me something..please?

She'll never even know......


All the rest of you sleuths should check out the rules of HNT here, and the cool exhibit about it at The HNT Rogue Gallery .

PS:
What's the best way to clean up blood?

I think next time poison would be less messy....

Behold! The New Blog Design- Bug, March 7, 2006

How kick ass is this? He made it all from scratch. Cause he's the best. And I lurve him.

Listen up! If I don't get comments, I'm holding Aughra hostage....

validation for the fact that my job, though often wonderful, also sucks my soul out. . MSN, the most reliable and unbiased news service ever (I have absolutely no idea, I like BBC because they don't sugarcoat US news) agrees that only suckers go into nursing and that there will be less and less nurses in the future because the hours are long, the pay is low, the respect in non-existant, and people are too eager to sue. But I'm not giving up. I plan on working until, as my letter from my previous hospital which is apparently confused and thinks I still work there (but alas not confused enough to still pay me) my estimated retirement date.

February 1st, 2041.

Oh and apparently machinists aren't happy either. Can't imagine why, in a job where loss of limb is daily risk.

And now I shall go down a shot or two of tequila and crash out on the couch, sobbing quietly.

And I mean it about the comments, folks.....Imagine AUghra tied to a chair (not in the way you're thinking, you big pervs) being held for ransom- which in this case is comments. Help Foxglove. Please.

My Brothers Grimm are Awesome.

Younger brother Grimm lives in Maine. Antiqueland. He and I and Elder Brother Grimm have scavenged for creepy things I like and for elder brother mid-century furniture for his teensy apt and he was there recently and found this. It opens like this and even has stirrups!! , and by the way, no Bug and I are not into kinky medical fetish , though I do lurve the slutty nurse costumes. (no Mom, I don't have one).

Isn't my brother awesome? They both are. Elder brother Grimm used to be a Deadhead (he never wore tie-dye) and took me to a show at MSG in 1991, telling me "don't drink anything, eat anything, touch anything, or smoke anything that anyone hands you" and took me to all the parties in high school with his cool older friends (because they loved that he had a little sister "Little Grimmy!") and got to stay out all night cause he was there and my mom was cool with it. However, stupid people from other schools (and stoned ones from our school) would ask if we were dating "you two almost look alike!"

Yeah, cause we're brother and sister, asshat.

Florence Nightingale Didn't Work on My Floor (but to be fair, I'd have lasted maybe 20 second in Crimean War)

Have patients from hell, and am apparently wearing the crazy and annoying? Come hassle me! pin again. Patients out of control, our attending psychiatrist seems to be going all Tom Cruise and the frelling Clams and has decided not to medicate anyone nearly enough as they need right now- when they've gotten somewhat more stabilized, i.e. not thinking I'm Jill, their sister whom they had "impure thoughts about and she knew and threw pots and pans at me and you look like her- you have her eyes! Jill, I'm going to get you!" and the black belt in some kind of kick ass martial art guy who put 3 staff members in the ER in less than 72 hours, and the always fun passive aggressive man bitch. , they can be transferred to another floor- we're SHORT TERM ACUTE DAMNIT! and have the meds tapered once the FLORID PSYCHOSIS goes away...

Also for some reason, we've got this (ok, the reason is probably related to the fact that he talks non-stop about cthulu and writes really, really, really bad poetry that he makes me read and then gets all pissy when I point out things like "Gluttony is spelled with an O, not glutteny" and "aloth" is not a word, and then wants me to describe his poetry. Then he wants me to rip it up to "activate it". Fuck that. He didn't even go away when "Greg "Loco Cursed" Hawkins", one of my favorite attendants came over with the Bug is a bounty hunter and insanely jealous if I talk to other guys and has put aforementioned other guys in the hospital story we made up awhile ago when it became apparent that committed men on our floor seem to find me pretty. Which is flattering for about .008 seconds before it just becomes really, really creepy. It's also why my nametag says "Foxglove (you all know it's not really what it says there) but instead of MY last name, it changes from things like Snape or Mrs. Lucius Malfoy or Butler or Cassel .

Oh, message above, quoting the inimitable Atia of the Julii from Rome, (look, it's James Purefoy! Yay!)

My sticker says: (which I thought was obvious that I wasn't ACTUALLY WEARING )
I'm your nurse today. Stop ogling me or I'll have you flayed and hung from the door brackets." Atia actually says, "By the Five Furies, if I were not a gentlewoman I would have you flayed...." but my label maker gets tired and there wasn't enough room to write about the five furies.

Rome is the only show besides Deadwood I care about.

I'm a Nurse! (my shirt proves it)

I'm not wearing lipstick in the picture, which is weird, because normally I refuse to be photographed without it. You can see why. Pale, dry, and missing pigment on upper lip (I"M A FREAK). But I like my braids. You can get that shirt and other similar ones here, cause as you all know I really like the old traditional tattoo style.

Behold- Betty!

This is Betty, who is 1 and apparently a Boston Terrier mixed with a Brussels Griffon. We think the combo is way cuter than the original, though Isaac does have a friend named Lily who is a Boston and she's totally kick ass.

You can't really see it in this photo, but apparently- Betty has an underbite! Just like our Isaac. Please send your good luck wishes my way so that Betty can come be part of our family. We found her on petfinder which is where all of our pets come from. Currently we're in the "emailing the rescue foundation" part of the adoption process. Happily for Betty, and sadly for us, Betty has been adopted. We wish her all the happiness in the world in her new home with her new guardians who better not suck or I'll frelling cut them, man. Now I have to find a new dog to obsess over and lose to other adopters. Sob.

How cute is she? Who's a good girl? SHe is! She Is! OK, sorry. A little overexcited. Now to go shower and wash hair so I can go get my eyebrows threaded and go to Victoria's Secret to buy something crazy cheap so they'll lace me into my corset. I'm thinking sale rack. Like $9.99 and under.