Nope

Been there, done that.

I've done that. Only I was a little older. And on a giant inner tube. So it's not really the same.

I just want to know why he is making out with a statue....

The only reason to go to bars it for girls night out and karaoke. I don't date men I meet at bars.

He's too cute. Gonna miss him as the Doctor......

You meet someone, you start dating to see if there might be something there.

The dating comes before love.

Therefore the relationship itself exists before love does.

It's a process that allows love to develop or not.

I would say that it is a relationship when two people become exclusive, even if they are not 'in love' yet.

King of the Hill did a great episode on this issue. Where Peggy has a burger on a charcoal grill and then starts sneaking around Hank so she can make her hamburgers on charcoal instead of propane because they tasted so much better.

Panic

Tonight, it is Angel Hair pasta with a clam sauce.

The sauce is made by taking a couple table spoons of butter and putting in a sauce pan. As some minced onion and garlic, a little bit of Cayanne pepper and Basil. And a tin of minced clams.

More properly, you would use olive oil. But I'm nearly out of it and I also like the taste of it with butter.

Yeah. Every so often. Then I have to remember that life is what I make of it despite all the crap that happens that we have limited control over.

Down to earth = Low maintenance.

In the Sims universe, WooHoo is the word for sex.

This collection was my christmas gift. I've not gotten around to watching them. I'm thinking about it tonight. Anyone out there seen these and have any opinion on them?

Tomie (1999)

The movie introduces Tomie (Miho Kanno) as a severed, living head. She is fed and cared for by a boy with an eyepatch. Her body eventually grows back, limb by limb, until she resembles a normal human being. The bizarre pair have moved next door to the movie's protagonist, a young woman named Tsukiko Izumisawa (Mami Nakamura), who has a past relationship with Tomie that she cannot remember due to post-traumatic-stress-induced amnesia. The beautiful and evil Tomie gradually insinuates herself into the life of Tsukiko, eliminating her close friends and seducing her boyfriend.

[edit] Tomie: Another Face (1999)

This sequel was a set of three episodes released straight-to-video. In the first episode, Tomie (Runa Nagai) is introduced as a high school student whose body has just been found on the street with several piles of garbage. She comes back to reunite with her former boyfriend, whose ex-girlfriend is considering starting over with as he had previously left her for Tomie. Meanwhile, a man wearing a trenchcoat and an eye patch is following Tomie and photographing her. The ex-girlfriend exposes Tomie's true nature on the school's rooftop to the boyfriend and in the end, Tomie is thrown from the roof. The two go to bury her in the woods in a deep grave and begin making plans to conceal their work, but as they walk to school in the morning Tomie is miraculously there to confront them.

The second episode focuses on a photographer who has lost his passion for photography but regains it when he finds Tomie, this time a model/dancer of a sort at a bar. She resembles the girl from his past who gave him that passion, and proceeds to take several photos of her with her permission. The man with the eye patch is still following Tomie during the photoshoots. While Tomie is sleeping in the photographer's bed, he develops the photographs only to find that each one has two faces: Tomie's face and a ghoul's face nearby. Convinced it isn't his lens, he tells Tomie this and she tells him to kill her so he knows she isn't a ghost. If she was a ghost, she couldn't die. Naturally, she does die, but when the photographer is transporting her body in his car she comes back to life and scares him out of the car. His running takes him to the place where he saw the girl from his past, and he discovers that both are Tomie when the previously-dead Tomie appears behind him. He falls to his death from the cliff and the previously-dead Tomie stands at his body, grinning and making a V sign while the Tomie from his past takes their picture.

The final episode has Tomie as a young woman likely in her early to mid-20s, about to be proposed to by her boyfriend. She is later nearly attacked by the man with the eye patch and sends her boyfriend to kill this man in order to prove his love for her. During his showdown with the man, the boyfriend is tasered into submission and we find out the trenchcoat-wearing man, named Oota, is a former coroner for the police department, and Tomie was one of the bodies he had to perform an autopsy on. She stabbed his eye out in the process and crawled away. Oota shows the boyfriend several other crime scene photographs; all are of Tomie, killed in various places and ways. For losing Tomie's body he was fired, and his wife left him and took their children. For ruining his life, Oota seeks a way to kill Tomie once and for all. He tells the boyfriend to call him if he also seeks a way to kill Tomie. The boyfriend later wakes up in a park, with Tomie asking him where he's been. After finding out he didn't kill Oota, Tomie throws his engagement ring on the ground and walks away. We see the boyfriend take out his knife and follow Tomie. Later, he contacts Oota and brings Tomie's body to an incinerator where Oota is waiting. Tomie's body lies in the back of his van but she is not dead - the boyfriend says he could never kill her. Oota manages to get her body into the incinerator and burns it successfully, but her ashes soon gather together and create her face in the air before Oota. She tells him she will never die and that every single one of her ashes will become a new Tomie.

[edit] Tomie: replay (2000)

Tomie: replay, technically the first sequel to the original Tomie, begins with a six year-old girl being rushed into a hospital ER with an unusually distended stomach. Doctors begin to operate and find a disembodied head, Tomie's head, alive and growing inside the girl's belly. The head is placed in a tank of alkaline solution in the basement of the hospital for further observation. Soon after, all five of the hospital workers present during the operation mysteriously leave the hospital or disappear entirely, including hospital Director Morita.

Meanwhile, a few nights later, Takeshi visits his friend Fumihito, who is recovering from some ailment in his hospital room. While visiting, Takeshi is confronted by a naked Tomie (Mai Hosho), now fully grown and escaped from the basement, who asks him to get her out of there. Takeshi takes Tomie to his apartment, and leaves Fumihito by himself, with no explanation. Later, Fumihito calls Takeshi to find out why he left. Takeshi reacts very defensively and irrationally, telling Fumihito that "Tomie belongs to me," already under Tomie's evil and seductive influence.

The next morning, Yumi, Director Morita's daughter, visits the hospital in search of her father, missing since the operation. She meets Dr. Tachibana, the only doctor present during the young girl's operation who hasn't yet left the hospital. Tachibana gives Yumi a journal recently written by her father, and soon after giving it to her he kills himself.

Through the journal we learn that during the operation, Director Morita and another doctor were accidentally infected with Tomie's blood, and that through that blood Tomie is regenerating within the doctors, taking over their bodies and driving them mad. Yumi reads in her father's journal about him wanting to kill a girl named "Tomie".

Later, Yumi and Fumihito meet at a party and realize they are both looking for a girl named "Tomie". They join forces to find out what happened to Yumi's father, and to Fumihito's friend.

The next day, Yumi visits the family of the six year-old girl who had had the operation. She learns that prior to that operation, the girl had received a kidney transplant from a girl named "Tomie". From this kidney, Tomie had begun to regenerate inside the girl's body. Meanwhile, Fumihito visits his friend Takeshi, who had gone mad after killing and decapitating Tomie in a fit of jealousy, then watching her come back to life, regenerating a new head. Takeshi soon after is committed to a mental hospital, and Fumihito becomes Tomie's new prey.

That night Yumi has a short and strange run-in with her missing father, during which he babbles about needing to kill Tomie. The following day his dead body is discovered in the hospital basement, bloated and deformed. At his funeral Yumi receives a note from Tomie, asking to meet her that night at the hospital, seemingly for a final show-down.

Yumi arrives at the hospital to find Tomie there to taunt her, and Fumihito, now under Tomie's spell, there apparently to kill her. At the last minute Fumihito decides to kill Tomie instead, chopping off her head and burning the remains. Yumi and Fumihito leave the hospital in relief.

[edit] Tomie: Re-birth (2001)

An artist is painting his girlfriend Tomie (Miki Sakai), but she dismisses it as a poor painting and he kills her in a jealous rage with an art knife and his two friends help him bury her. When the three friends are at a party Tomie shows up and the artist kills himself in the bathroom. Tomie latches onto his friend and his mother kills Tomie and they cut her up together in an unnatural ecstasy. They then burn her head, which has already started to regenerate and has some crude limbs for locomotion. The portrait of Tomie allows for her regeneration, as her supernatural blood mixed with the pigments. The friend's girlfriend becomes possessed by Tomie, in a rather viral fashion. In a fit of jealousy, the two Tomies try to eliminate the other. The girl doesn't want to become a monster, and so they decide to commit suicide. However, when at a waterfall, about to commit suicide, Tomie's head grows on the side of the girl's neck next to her head. They all die and then the sister of the friend comes and throws flowers into the water. A small facial mole can be seen directly beneath the sister's left eye, suggesting that, because her brother gave her the portrait of Tomie, she was also possessed by her. Thus, the sister is the newest Tomie.

[edit] Tomie: The Final Chapter -Forbidden Fruit- (2002)

Tomie Hashimoto (Aoi Miyazaki) is a dreamy teen who writes homo-erotic horror fiction in which she imagines herself as Ann Bathory, vampire. Introspective and lonely, she is picked on and bullied by her classmates at school, and lives alone with her loving, but distant widower father, Kazuhiko Hashimoto. One day, while admiring an ornate, jewel encrusted cross necklace in an antiquities shop, Tomie meets a strange, beautiful girl (Nozomi Ando) with a mole under her left eye. The mysterious stranger says her name is Tomie Kawakami. The girls become fast friends, but it soon becomes clear that theirs was not a chance meeting. Tomie Kawakami has an agenda, and it involves Kazuhiko.

I finally got to sleep sometime after 7:00 am and got up at 11:30 am. For only about 4 hours or maybe a bit more of sleep, I'm feel surprisingly good through the afternoon at work. I'm a bit tired now and plan to go to be early.

Hope the other insomniacs got a bit of shut eye.

Do I put in Loki, Gantz, or Tomie? Do I work on my halloween stitching projects or on getting my last vacation into a photo album? Or maybe I should just reorganize my hobby stuff or clean the kitchen?

I don't know where to start....

Okay, I think I feel the sleep aid. Night all. Now that the sun has come up.

Work is going pretty good. The stress is from things outside of work. The people I'm cranky at are outside of work.

Stress? Irritation at people? Trying to juggle to many things?