Today is the day!!!
"Tim Burton's The Corpse Bride" is being released on DVD and I'm SO jazzed. Lil Taz and I saw it at the theater and I loved it. She didn't care much for it because 'it was mostly black and white'. WTH? I thought it was incredible. I hope the dvd shows how they made it. I've always loved Burton's stuff.
Here's the Cliff Notes® for the movie. A guy is supposed to get married to some chick he's never met and he gets cold feet, runs outside and has a mild breakdown. He slips the ring on what he thinks is a tree branch but the tree branch is actually a corpse's finger. She comes to life (kinda) and thinks that they're married. She falls in love with him, he ends up falling in love with the chick he was supposed to marry...blah blah blah. Very cool movie.
Another of Burton's must-see movies is "A Nightmare Before Christmas".

Right Now I'm Listening to...Animals
I, I'm driving black on black
Just got my license back
I got this feeling in my veins this train is coming off the track
I'll ask polite if the devil needs a ride
Because the angel on my right ain't hanging out with me tonight
I'm driving past your house while you were sneaking out
I got the car door opened up so you can jump in on the run
Your mom don't know that you were missing
She'd be pissed if she could see the parts of you that I've been kissing
Screamin'

[CHORUS]
No, we're never gonna quit
Ain't nothing wrong with it
Just acting like we're animals
No, no matter where we go
'Cause everybody knows
We're just a couple of animals

So come on baby, get in
Get in, just get in
Check out the trouble we're in

You're beside me on the seat
Got your hand between my knees
And you control how fast we go by just how hard you wanna squeeze
It's hard to steer when you're breathing in my ear
But I got both hands on the wheel while you got both hands on my gears
By now, no doubt that we were heading south
I guess nobody ever taught her not to speak with a full mouth
'Cause this was it, like flicking on a switch
It felt so good I almost drove into the ditch
I'm screamin'

[CHORUS]

So come on baby, get in
Get in, just get in
Look at the trouble we're in

We were parked out by the tracks
We're sitting in the back
And we just started getting busy
When she whispered "what was that?"
The wind, I think 'cause no one else knows where we are
And that was when she started screamin'
"That's my dad outside the car!"
Oh please, the keys, they're not in the ignition
Must have wound up on the floor while
we were switching our positions
I guess they knew that she was missing
As I tried to tell her dad it was her mouth that I was kissing
Screamin'

[CHORUS]

So come on baby, get in
We're just a couple of animals
Get in, just get in
Ain't nothing wrong with it
Check out the trouble we're in
Get in, just get in

Do you ever think up weird stuff?
During lunch I've been reading the 2nd Harry Potter book. I know I'm behind times but hey that's just me. Anyhoo..today during lunch I looked up from my book and thought to myself..."Wouldn't it be weird to live in one timezone and work in another?" WTF did THAT come from?

Our Hunting Trip Kicked AssI made the first kill of the weekend...Go me go me!

50 things i'm not allowed to do at hogwarts...

1. I will not poke Hufflepuffs with spoons, nor will I insist that their House colors indicate that they are "covered in bees".
2. No matter how good a fake Australian accent I can do, I will not imitate Steve Irwin during Care of Magical Creatures class.
3. Growing marijuana or hallucinogenic mushrooms is not "an extra credit project for Herbology".
4. "I've heard every possible joke about Oliver Wood's name" is not a challenge.
5. I am not allowed to attempt to breed a liger.
6. I will not go to class skyclad.
7. The Giant Squid is not an appropriate date to the Yule Ball.
8. I will not use Umbridge's quill to write "I told you I was hardcore".
9. I will stop referring to showering as "giving Moaning Myrtle an eyeful".
10. Polishing my wand in the common room is acceptable. "Polishing my wand" in the common room is not.
11. If a classmate falls asleep, I will not take advantage of that fact and draw a Dark Mark on their arm.
12. House elves are not acceptable replacements for Bludgers.
13. Starting a betting pool on the fate of this year's Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher is tasteless and tacky, not a clever money-making concept.
14. I will not start every Potions class by asking Professor Snape if today's project is suitable for use as a sexual lubricant.
15. Adding the name "Bueller" to Professor Binns' roster is not funny.
16. "Springtime for Voldemort" is not an acceptable suggestion for the class play.
17. Seamus Finnegan is not "after me Lucky Charms".
18. I will not refer to the Weasley twins as "bookends".
19. I will not refer to the Patil twins as "bookends".
20. The Slytherin prefect is named Draco Malfoy, not "Rocky Horror."
21. It is exceptionally tasteless to tell Professor Lupin that "Once you go Black, you never go back."
22. I will not call Lucius Malfoy "Jareth".
23. I will not bring a Magic Eight Ball to Divination class.
24. I am not to refer to the Potions classroom as "Kitchen Stadium".
25. I will not tell Ron and Hermione to "Get a room" whenever they start to fight.
26. The Forbidden Forest is forbidden for a reason.
27. I am not a tribble Animagus.
28. I am allowed to have a toad, rat, cat, or owl. I am not allowed to have a reticulated python, snow leopard, Tasmanian devil, or piranha.
29. I do not weigh the same as a duck.
30. Remus Lupin does not want a flea collar.
31. Sirius Black is not #24601.
32. I will not lick Trevor.
33. I will stop asking the Arithmancy teacher what the square root of -1 is.
34. I am not being repressed.
35. Calling Lucius Malfoy "Luscious Mouthful" is just plain gross.
36. I will not change the password to the prefects' bath to "Makes getting clean almost as much fun as getting dirty".
37. There is no such thing as an Invisibility Thong.
38. I am not a Pinball Wizard.
39. Asking "How do you keep a Gryffindor in suspense?" and walking away is only funny the first time.
40. I will not offer to pose nude for Colin Creevey.
41. I will not offer to pose nude for Dean Thomas.
42. It is a bad idea to tell Professor Snape he takes himself too seriously.
43. It is a bad idea to tell Professor McGonagall she takes herself too seriously.
44. Sir Cadogan is not one of the knights who say "NI".
45. I will not offer to prepare tandoori owl.
46. I will stop asking when we will learn to make "Love Potion Number Nine".
47. I will not ask Dumbledore to show me the pointy hat trick.
48. I will not greet Professor McGonagall with "What's new, pussycat?"
49. There is not now, nor has there ever been, a fifth House at Hogwarts, and I am not a member of that house, nor am I its founder.
50. I will not take out a life insurance policy on Harry Potter.

I found this on ramblings from a freakish & dangerous mind check it out. He's great

Our weekend with friends..
went awesome. I liked her, she liked me...life was good. On Thursday we went to Cades Cove and Bass Pro®.

Cantilever Barn

Mr. Taz and I

I don't know exactly why I love this picture but I had an enlarged print made of it for our hunting cabin.

Since we went on a Thursday, there wasn't much traffic and we could enjoy the ride. If you're ever in East TN you gotta take the time and go.

Woooohoooo I love short work weeks!
Today is my Friday. I'm taking off the rest of the week to spend some time with a couple of friends that are coming to visit us from Texas.

My mom is going to keep Lil Taz so it's going to be a 'big kid's weekend'. Don't get me wrong...I love spending time with my lil one but she has school and I'm not going to take her out of school for something like this. So far she's had perfect attendance every year. Quite an accomplishment I'd say.

We're going to BassPro® and a huge knife store tomorrow then heading up to the cabin for some R&R. We've planned a pheasant hunt for Friday and after that we're playing it by ear. Pheasant hunting is huge fun, especially when you use dogs. They're very cool to watch work. We're also taking atvs so I'm sure we'll end up covered in mud, from dirt-daubbin', at some point.

I've met the man (Mr. B) that's coming but I haven't met his wife. I really hope we hit it off. I tend to get along better with men than women. Truthfully....there's not alot of people that I DO like so needless to say my circle of friends isn't very large. Mr. Taz says that Mrs. B is really nice and that we should hit it off just fine. I guess she'd have to be pretty cool to put up with Mr. B. They're arriving today and will be at the house before I get home. When I make it in from work we're going out for Mexican food (my fave).

I'll have some pictures to share when we get back.

I HATE Spiders
As you know Mr. Taz and I went deer hunting last weekend....well there was a HUGE freakin' spider in one of the blinds I hunted in on Saturday. I was sitting there (almost asleep) when Mr. Taz came over on the radio asking me if I was awake...of course I said yea :o) I sat back and happened to look down and THERE it was...hanging upside down, up and under the piece of wood that I had my head laid down on :oO I swear it was THE.HUGEST.SPIDER.EVER! The thing was hanging bunched up from it's legs, body hanging and swinging in the breeze that was coming thru the cracks in the blind. I almost died. It was dead but that didn't matter it was STILL a spider and moving From the tips of it's legs to it's body it was at least 2.5" long. I was freaking out. I sat back on the stool and tapped it with the toe of my boot until it fell to the ground and I squished it. UGH!!! It CRUNCHED!!!!! ACK!!!!!!! About 30 mins after that I saw the does and spikes. So I guess I didn't make too much noise.

How in the heck have YOU been?
I've been great, thanks. Long weekends have gotten me off kilter and I've been neglecting my blog a little so here's the Cliff Notes® for what's been going on in MY life....
Christmas was awesome at the Taz home. I pulled off the Santa stuff another year without a hitch. Well...except for my emotional breakdown. Lil T was thrilled with all of her presents. Mr. T was also happy with everything, which is a really good trick. Mom loved her electric blanket...life is GOOD! Christmas dinner was UN-BEE-LEEV-ABLE! I made some kickass cornbread dressing that turned out perfect and the ham was delish. Matter of fact, everything that I cooked was pretty downright remarkable. Almost like someone else cooked it. That's quite an accomplishment for moi, I usually cook 'cajun' (blackened).
Oh by the way....long weekends ROCK!
New Year's weekend Mr. T and I went deer hunting. Actually for me it was more like treestand sitting. :o\ NO, I don't kill poor little "Bambi"....I kill his dad. However, Bambi's dad didn't show so I came home empty handed. We didn't get drunk or wild or anything like that. We spent a quiet night alone at the cabin. (wide evil grin)
So you know what I've been up to now...how in the heck have YOU been?