Love this

saw this today...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080226/people_nm/dutch_annefrank_dc

Vacation Aftermath

The cat is up my ass tonight - He is none too happy that we left him (even though he did have a cat sitter come check on him). Anyway - he's sitting in my lap - pawing my hand as I try to type.

On Vacation

We went on a mini vacation last week to visit my parents in Florida. It was actually sunny and warm this year as opposed to last year's cold rainy weather. Bugg got plenty of sun - he fished away the hours with my dad and burnt to a crisp on his neck and ears. I sat in the shade of the screened in porch and read, did some shopping and lunching with my mom, got in lots of quality golf cart - which is one of my fav things to do in FL. Lee also came for a visit on Saturday (go Lee!) and I'm sad b/c I didn't get a picture with him :( but it was so good to visit with him!! Back to reality now...which isn't such a bad place to be.

This is why you should NEVER sleep in the airport - I will spot you and take your picture - all while you sleep with your mouth open - totally unaware.

Honest Abe

We were in downtown Nashvegas Saturday night meeting up with DeeAnne/Steve and Emma and the derby girls - and as Steve and I were crossing the street we see the Abe Lincoln impersonator.

As we pass him we hear this lady yell "Hey HONEST Abe - tell me, am I going to win the lottery?"

It made me pause and I looked at Steve and said "It's honest Abe - not psychic Abe."

It's not nearly as funny written as I thought it would be - but I'm going to go with it anyway.

Happy President's Day!

Went to the Chapel

We're legit - 2 legit to quit

Just Curious

Why is that whenever you are calling someone (credit card company, bank, cable company) with an automated menu they always say "Please listen to the following menu options as they have RECENTLY changed". Why is it always 'recently'. And why is it always changing? The options have to be pretty standard. Why can't they just say - "Press 1 to speak to a live person"?

And I noticed the other day when Bugg when 'talking' to one of the automated menus that takes voice cues that he raised his voice at it and it occurred to me that I do the very same thing. I can't speak nicely or in a normal voice when I get the voice cue ones. I get a bitchy irritated tone and I practically scream in the phone "OPERATOR"!!!

Does anyone else do this?

Guilty Pleasure

Just so you know I am practically addicted to American Gladiator.

I don't know what's wrong with me - maybe it's the writer's strike and the lack of options; maybe it's Wolf's really really white teeth and Big ol Helga.

Who knows - but I watch it every Monday and I cheer on the contestants and boo at the Gladiators when they play dirty - I wring my hands, bite my lip, and hold my breath as they race towards the finish on the Eliminator.

SNOW

We finally have snow!!!

It's not a lot, but you can see it and it's sticking to the icy patches in the parking lot.

It's beautiful!

Thank you sweet baby Jesus for making it snow!

And another thing

They are trying to bring Bible Park USA to a neighboring town here in TN: http://bibleparkusa.com/

A two hundred acre 'Bible Park' park 35 miles outside of Nashville is being proposed. I think there may already be one in Florida.

It's not a good day for the non-Bible-Beating liberal. Not a good day at all.

The Park’s founder, Ronen Paldi, an Israeli-born American, has a long-held dream of offering a taste of the Holy Land to fellow U.S. citizens who may never have a chance to visit the Holy Land themselves. His vision is the basis of the Park. I will say that at least this part ("seeing" the "holy land") is a nice idea but they have really taken the commercialization of Jesus and the Bible to the extreme - it's getting to worse than Xmas.

:(

Peeved

In TN you can get “Choose Life” license plates for your car – complete with a picture of a baby in the background. To say it irks me is an understatement. Just writing about it makes my stomach twist in knots and I can feel my blood pressure rising.

I don’t know if other states offer these types of plates but I think it’s totally out of line. I can’t quite put into words why I find it so offensive but I do. Something to do with a state sponsoring it I guess is what I find so offensive.

The bumper stickers and the freeway signs, the white crosses in the church yards, and the sign holders in front of the Planned Parent Hoods aren’t enough (not to mention the clinic bombings, doctor shootings, and patient harrassment). I guess you need to flaunt your “morally superior values” and your “Christian like virtues” on your tacky license plates too.

That's exactly how most of them act too - like they are so enlightened and so righteous (and I've talked to them, I've listened to them - I'm not just stereotyping). By most of them I mean the ones that insist on waving their banners and insist on everyone seeing it their way b/c it certainly is the ONLY way - the ones that quietly believe what they believe - I have no problem with.

I looked on the TN license plate website and didn’t see an option for “Pro-Choice”. I want equal time.

It’s so cliché but honestly if you don’t believe in it don’t do it. I think it’s really simple. Keep your beliefs, hold fast to them, but don’t shove your them in my face.

Sneaky

My brother called me tonight and told me kind of a creepy story. See what you think...

Let me set the scene: Jared went to Mardi Gras this weekend in STL and his tennis shoes got dirty with puke and beer (kidding I made the puke and beer part up). He's anal and can't stand dirty tennis shoes so he washed them and put them in the dryer. The sound of banging shoes in the dryer drives him ape shit so he went into his room and shut the door.

He could still hear the clanging banging shoes but they weren't as loud and therefore slightly less annoying. Note that he is the only one in the house - no dog, no cat, no parents, no Jewels - just Jayrod and the sneakers.

After awhile he notices he doesn't hear the shoes clanging and banging anymore - he thinks to self "maybe the shoes found a groove - sweet". Not long after this he goes to check on the shoes and discovers that one shoe is OUT OF THE DRYER and the dryer door is CLOSED - not half closed or a little bit closed but latched closed.

He has no idea how the one shoe made a run for it and somehow shut the dryer door after itself. I'm thinking it's that time in the movie when the audience starts yelling at the screen "GET OUT OF THE HOUSE - RUN RUN RUN!!!

Check it out

I found out today that the Super Weeble imageI posted awhile ago was done by an artist named Jason Chase. And I'd like to give credit where credit is due - that and he asked nicely that I not use his stuff without crediting him. Which is fair and cool.


Another cool thing is he's from Boston - So Girls go check him out Suburbanamerican.com!! I think you'll like him. Super Weebles rule.

In other Boston related news I went to a luncheon today and listened to the CEO of Dunkin Brands speak - they gave away free donuts and coffee of course and gift cards and cute t-shirts. I was in heaven. I know I have serious issues with my Dunkin Coffee Obession. Instead of OCD I have DCO. Ha.

And then after work RP and I went and did some browsing at some cute shops in the Hillsboro area and had dinner at Fido. It reminded me of Boston. It was even cold and rainy not unlike winter in Boston.

Cutest Brat in the World

We love him. We hate him. He's sweet and cuddly. He's a nasty bastard. But I can't help but think he's the cutest thing ever when he's all snuggled up like that.

Funny Dream

I woke up about midnight last night laughing my ass off. I have no idea what I was dreaming but I remember being sort of awake and sort of asleep and thinking whatever was going on in my dream was the funniest thing EVER! My laughter woke Bugg up and when he started asking me what was so funny I came out of the rest of the dream but couldn't stop laughing.

I told him what I was laughing about but neither of us can remember what it was...

Deal or Duh...

Miss Tater Day on Deal or No Deal just revealed she thought she needed a passport to travel to California. She said "I've never been on this side of that river." That river being the MISSISSIPPI.

Nice quote and appropriate for the holiday

We Must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Martin Luther King Jr.

An adverb says what???

Top Pic: Me & Snooky in our "Blueberry Cocoons". Finally I can get/stay warm!!
Bottom Pics: Snooky, Bugg, Me in some candid spur of the moment totally not posed or staged shots










"An adverb modifies a verb". This was overheard at a bar we went to Friday night.
Saturday night was a decent night out at the Flying Saucer despite the fact there was no place to sit and hear the band (we sat in a back pool room instead), the waitress was terribly slow and almost devoid of any personality (it took 30 min and 4 times asking to get a water), and they were out of Pretzel Bratzles and regular Pretzels (the big soft German variety).

Toys...

Here are a couple things I found in the toy section at Wal Mart last night...

Not exactly sure what the kids are going to do with a big ass Elvis head. I wonder if you can comb his hair like we used to do with the Big Barbie Heads?? Or maybe you can feed him fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches and various pain killers.

This is a sweet baby jesus action figure - it goes along with the other Bible Based toy line from http://www.one2believe/

My favorite - pictured below - is from their Spirit Warrior line

hmmm...I didn't think the Bible was down with this sort of thing...

Happy Birthday Bugg!

Bugg joined the ranks of the 'halfway to 70' gang today and we celebrated with Mexican food, one big ass beer, and one theme cake that was dry and overly sweet but it was cake so how bad can it be. Happy Birthday!

If you'd have asked me I could have told you..

Apparently adults are just figuring out that kids don't like clowns...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080116/od_nm/clowns_odd_dc_1;_ylt=AgaJSc1GV_6Eze031MpkMqgE1vAI

Is this really news? I thought everyone knew clowns were an issue.

My favorite quote in the article is when Penny Curtis, a senior lecturer in research at the university says, "We found that clowns are universally disliked by children. Some found them quite frightening and unknowable."

Not sure why but the unknowable part makes me laugh...like a crazy scary clown...bwahahaha