Psyche's World

It's a sad day for Detroit hockey fans. Stevie Yzerman has decided to retire after 22 years with the team :(

I need help identifying this bush that I have growing in my backyard. There used to be two large lilac bushes growing in that corner, one bush on each side of the fence, but growing together in one big bunch. When they built that house next door earlier this spring, they tore out the lilac bush that was growing on their side of the property line. Once they did this, we discovered a different bush that had been growing underneath the lilac bushes. A couple of weeks ago, it bloomed with thousands of pretty white flowers. Most of the flowers are gone now, but I managed to snag a couple of pictures. I have no idea what kind of bush this is.




The bush stands about 8 feet tall. The right side of the bush is what is left of the lilac bush. It bloomed pretty white lilacs about six weeks ago, but they died off already. These white flowers I'm talking about are most definitely not lilacs.



This is a close-up of the flower itself. Fully open, it's about the size of my palm. I have small hands though. It has little yellow thingies popping up in the middle.



This is one of the leaves. The leaves are a bit smaller than the flowers.

Any ideas?

Even before I took this test, I knew that this was going to be the answer.

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This is an interesting feature of LJ: Add Your School. My high school changed its name back in the mid 90's, several years after I had graduated. The name of the school now is already listed, but I added the old high school name to this list.

Awww, crap. I'm going to have to change my hockey icon. The man featured in the pic, Pavel Datsyuk, has signed up with a Russian hockey team and will not be playing for the Red Wings this year. That totally blows because he was my favorite player. Why, oh why have you forsaken me??

I'm watching CNN and they are showing a pretty big fire that has popped up next to a freeway down there in New Orleans. They are talking about how a number of fires have popped up all over town and the difficulty that the firefighters are having in putting out the fires because they can't get to them because of the flooding and debris. Why haven't they brought in some of those big helicopters that they use for forest fires? The ones with the big buckets that they use to scoop water out of lakes and oceans and then dump them on top of the burning forest.

There has been a rather sad legal case winding its way through the courts here in this county in the last couple of months. On January 26, 2005, Lance Cpl. Allan Klein, 34, of Clinton Township, Mich., died when the CH-53E helicopter he was in crashed near Ar Rutbah, Iraq. His divorced parents have been fighting for custody of his remains ever since. Instead of being given a proper burial, his remains are being stored in a crypt in a Roseville cemetary while the courts try to figure out where the young man belongs. His mother, Rae Oldaugh, wants her son to be buried with full military honors at Great Lakes National Cemetary which is still under construction. His father, Manfred Klein, wants his son buried in his family's plot in Croswell. Here is a link to the story:

Lawsuit over soldier's remains to "go the distance"

( story saved here too )

We are sitting here watching Sin City on the DVD player. Holy ultra-violence, Batman!

Colin Farrell is another in a long line of celebrities who thought it would be cool to videotape himself having sex with someone, a Playboy Bunny no less, and then acts shocked when the girl turned around and tried to sell the tape for a lot of money. Here is a hint Colin: If you are a public figure and you don't want embarrassing things coming out about you, maybe you should stop preening in front of the camera and think before making the sex videotapes in the first place! Anyone with half of a brain knows that if you videotape or take pictures of yourself doing raunchy things, the potential for those images to end up in the wrong hands is pretty high. Especially in this day and age. Of course, I fully expect the images to get released anyway once Colin Farrell works out the financial arrangements so that he ends up getting the majority of the profits. Look what sex tapes did for Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee. They ended up making millions of dollars off of their sex tape.

This may be of some interest to a few of you:

Billy Corgan to reform Smashing Pumpkins

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Now that's a fro! On a white man, no less.

I'm thinking electroshock therapy.

Happy Mother's Day!!

I was just reading about the British elections. Do I understand this correctly that even though Tony Blair won reelection as the Prime Minister, he could still end up being replaced by the Parliament because his party, the Labour Party, lost a bunch of seats to The Conservatives?

I was just reading this semi-bizarre news story out of Pittsburgh. The basic premise is not unusual in itself. There was a family argument and a man pulled out a rifle and shot his sister and brother-in-law to death. What makes the case so unusual is that his parents, himself, the two victims, and the victims' four children are all deaf and mute. I don't think I've ever heard of an entire family being deaf/mute like that. I'm assuming some sort of genetic disorder.

Holy crap! It's hailing outside like a mo-fo!!

Go Fug Yourself just hasn't been the same since they disabled reader comments a few days ago.

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany!