The No-Dang-Good Jesse James Revue

  • Greg is off on a busi­ness trip till Mon­day, and it occurred to me that this might be the right oppor­tu­nity to put together the road­trip I’d been think­ing of. So I moved work and other respon­si­bil­i­ties around and gained myself two days and three nights for the rip-roarin’ No-Dang-Good Jesse James Revue (NDG/JJ R)!

    The time frame: Wednes­day night to Fri­day night

    The rules: Every­thing has to be within easy dri­ving dis­tance. It’s really just a cheap get­away with a theme. And since I’m just try­ing out this whole idea, I’m even going easy on the get­away aspect. I’m stick­ing with home base for my main meals and a comfy bed. This is really more of a way to just get out and about, think about a few things, eat, drink, draw, pho­to­graph and blog.

    The theme: In a word — bad­ness. My bad­ness — bad nutri­tion, bad habits, bad man­ners, bad val­ues … bad­ness. And then there’s Jesse James’ bad­ness, which includes mur­der, may­hem, vio­lence and bank rob­bery. I’m not say­ing mine stacks up by com­par­i­son, but it’s all I can man­age. And get­ting in touch with my inner wild woman comes at a good time. As serendip­ity would have it, I’m just about to start a new diet and shoul­der some new respon­si­bil­i­ties. Get­ting to act like a hood­lum for a cou­ple days might be just the ticket. After that I have to act my age — yuck.

    The bad guy: The choice of Jesse James isn’t really a per­sonal one, just a cir­cum­stan­tial one. It turns that this region is JJ Cen­tral. With­out burn­ing through a whole tank of gas, I can go see the farm where he grew up, the site of his first (and sup­pos­edly most impres­sive) bank hold-up and the house where he was shot. So womb to tomb, sort of. I don’t think I’m going to find much about the man to admire, but there may be some­thing about the leg­end sur­round­ing the man that bears a lit­tle reflection.

    Off and running

    • 6 pm — After drop­ping Greg off at the air­port, I real­ized that there was no rea­son not to get right into it and start behav­ing badly. Went to Star­bucks and got a cap­puc­cino that was NOT decaf and DID use whole milk. I even added some real sugar in with the Splenda. Jump back!
    • 8 pm — Found that the whole milk and sugar weren’t a bad thing, but the caf­feine was. Con­duct­ing choir rehearsal while amped up and jit­tery — bad idea. Still, we naughty peo­ple never look back.
    • 10 pm — Late din­ner: Hum­mus and oranges. Some­one could say that I’m com­pro­mis­ing the whole outta-control thing by observ­ing the meat­less fast, but hey, if I have to go to con­fes­sion for this road­trip it’ll spoil all the fun. Besides, it was really good hummus.
    • 11 pm – Couldn’t find any­thing good on tele­vi­sion, so I watched Bugs Bunny car­toons on DVD and ate malted milk balls. All right!

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    Related posts:

    1. Fine lit­tle Lenten sandwich
    2. Trav­el­ing
    3. New Orleans bring­ing out the best and worst
    4. Cruis­ing: But then again …

    September 21st, 2006 | Grace | 7 Comments |

7 Responses and Counting...

  • Mimi 09.21.2006

    Bugs Bunny and malted milk balls, whohoooooo!

  • Cather­ine K

    Hold back now, you gotta be care­ful with malted balls, espe­cially if’en you mix ‘em with Bugs Bunny! Why, if’en I wasn’t so hum­ble and every­thing thang I could tell you long sto­ries about that com­bi­na­tion!
    :)

  • Grace

    Oh yes. That turned out to be a really good com­bi­na­tion. I’m not sure what old television/old movie view­ing *wouldn’t* go well with malted milk balls. I guess I’ll just have to do more research. :-)

  • Grace

    Cather­ine,
    Sorry I didn’t get this com­ment up ear­lier. With all the stu­pid spam com­ments some­times I have to wade through to find the real ones.

    It’s very intrigu­ing to hear you have mul­ti­ple long sto­ries con­cern­ing malted milk balls and car­toons. Both are old addic­tions from my child­hood, so revis­it­ing them was a lit­tle dicey. But, y’know, FUN!

  • Cather­ine K.

    LOL, yes, they can be a lot of fun — but dicey for sure. It’s easy for old addic­tions to creep back in under new guises. I do have warm mem­o­ries for Sat­ur­day morn­ing car­toons, espe­cially Bugs, and (before church), on Sun­day morn­ings we would watch Rocky Bullwinkle!

    I also just noted my extra word in the ear­lier com­ment — as you can see, I am gifted with a high degree of proper Eng­lish writ­ing skills :)

  • Grace

    I thought maybe you just liked the let­ter ‘g’. :-)

    Actu­ally, I blame key­boards. I proof­read and proof­read and still end up with typos. Very annoy­ing. Must be the computer’s fault.

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