Whew

Hello folks - I'm back to blogging. Now that our computer is back and almost normal, I can use it now! Whoo Hoo!

Daughter is in the tub... so this'll be short...

December went by in a blur, especially with no computer. For a while, I thought I came down with Avian flu, but with no fever and a huge appetite, I thought it was a tape worm, but it was just a stomach virus...fun fun fun. Let me say, my commode and I are best friends now.

I did see lots of family, which was great - got lots of goodies for Christmas (Magic scarf, anyone!) gave lots of goodies for Christmas which was fun.

Work is going OK - was on break for the past week and half, so relaxing, and I did get lots of things done I don't normally have time for.

But the best thing happened Christmas Eve. I get a call from my mother with news that I can now cross one more thing off my "Things to do in Life list:" Be on a Game Show! Her ticket was pulled for Cash Explosion, the state lottery game. I'm so Excited!!!! More info to follow, and I'll be sure to tell you all about it (Well, as much as the confidentiality agreement will allow.)

I hope everyone has a good new year! May good tidings and blessings come your way.

Just another hottie

The Seahag commented on my last post about Thora Birch and I actually had to go look up who she was... Now the second I saw her I realized it but for some reason I air blanked on the name... Anyway for the Thora fans out there....

FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE HOW COULD I FORGET THIS ONE???

She's got to be all of what 24 or 25 by now???

What's The Use

If you're only going to post once every two weeks why do it at all. Are our lives REALLY that boring that we have nothing to say in over two weeks? Well everyone knows who won survivor I suppose... I was really disappointed as I usually am with all things that build up over a long period of time and then end suddenly... Kind of like going to a movie you've been waiting to see for several months, the time finally comes, you go and then it's nothing special just another movie... That's pretty much every movie I see these days... I'd say the last movie I was really excited about seeing and wasn't totally disappointed in was Interview With A Vampire or Pulp Fiction. It's been AT LEAST that long since I saw a REALLY good movie that wasn't totally overrated. Wait I take that back American Beauty, that was one that was awesome and MENA SUVARI, OH MENA!!!!

HOLY MENA BATMAN!

Yeah she kind of looks like a crack whore at times but who doesn't love that look anyway?

Since we're posting pics of crack whores we might as well take a look at one of my all time favorite TV actresses...

THE QUEEN OF THE MINI SKIRT!

So I've got O.A.R. blaring in my ears via the iPod and I've posted my once a month blog entry.

Oh I almost forgot I can't wait for "date night" on Wednesday. I'll teach the old lady to dump me... Miga I'm leaving it up to you to pick where you want to go! You know how I am with decisions. Oh yeah and I don't have a car cause Ski is taking it so pick me up at 6:00 babe... I don't know if you've seen Walk The Line yet but I'd love to see that... If not it's ok as you know I'd probably be disappointed with it anyway...

Let me know if 6:00 is good for you....

Adios folks! We'll see some of you later in the week....

you get what you pay for

Last afternoon, we stopped by our local Big Lots to pick up a Christmas tree - they had pre-lit tress on sale. Actually, since the whole store is going out of business, everything was on sale for at least 20% off. Well, when Chad put the tree together, I guess we know why it was 20% off since about 20% of the lights were off....Merry Christmas folks!

What a Poser

OK -- I love the holiday weekend - I get to pretend to slack off on my grading and indulge in two of my favorite things -- reading and movies.

Just saw SLC Punk last night/this morning. Let me tell you, at 3 am it's a pretty amusing movie. WHile I missed the first 5 min, the story was pretty good... about the whole punk movement (or lack there of because any organized movement is anti-anarchy) Anyway... being the geek that I am, and probalby why I love historical movies and books... I came up with a list of time periods I wish I could have lived in.... so in no particular order...

The Punkers of the 70s/80s - the hair, the safty pins, the music, the drugs - standing on a street corner in the cold, waiting for Sid and Nancy to sober up long enough to get some eggs...

Wagon Train out West - I wish I could find a reality show that did this, kind of like the PBS house series... I'd sign on in a heart beat! Yes, I know women did most of the work on the train, and it wasn't very easy, but the payoff of finding new lands and freedom would be worth it.

Hollywood in the 20's and 30's - How cool would this be! Hanging out at Pickfair, parties all night, work during the day, driving around in cool convertable cars and making movies.


OK... Izzy wants to use the computer... more later....

A reason to watch the parade

I heard this on the news today - Ohio University's Marching 110 will be in the Macy's Parade - whoo hoo! The announcement said they were the kickoff band - which is fitting since they are The Most Exciting Band in the Land, but I can't confirm that ...

For a sampling:

Cadences

Long Train Running

and others....


Go Bobcats!!!!

I hate this....

One of the things that just irks me... wet socks. You know, you get a comfy walking around in your 68 degree house wth cozy socks on your feet, and bam... you step in something wet (In my case, drips from the kitchen dish rag) and just like that, your whole foot is cold and uncomfortable!

we are alive

never fear i haven't gotten rid of ski or anything... all is well just too busy to post or too lazy one or the other... going to a poker tournament today try to take down a grand or 2... everybody wish me luck... nothing much going on... haven't been able to catch up on my tv watching lately... i have 4 days off this week so it should be ok my tuesday....

everyone have a good weekend...

END OF THE WORLD

At least on CBS with CATEGORY 7

I love mini-series. And with my Trusty Tivo, I can now tape all of the disaster movies... my favorite! Especially if they have Shannon Doherty!

I missed Category 6 - but they summed up the previous mini-series in about 30 seconds of film time. Las Vegas, St. Louis and Chicago destroyed!

Highlights:
Gov't angencies mentioned (Wow - I never even knew we had some of these.)

• FEMA
• Air Force
• White House
• Federal Protective Services
• Extreme Weather Lab (They'll give a grant to anything.)

Flying Heads/ Heads being destroyed.

• At the beginning - a huge laughing clown head attacked France (darn!)
• George W fell off of Mt. Rushmore ** more on this later
• The Sphynx head was decapitated

2 counts of "Abuse of a Mime"

As France was being attacked by weather and 2 soccer hooligans were hanging for life on the Eiffle tower, you could see "The Beast" in the background

Pink Floyd-esque music playing during destruction of Kings Island, I mean France, reminiscent of Tornado scene in Wizard of Oz if you play it with Dark Side of Moon.

Within the first 10 minutes, the following phrases were mentioned:

• "Decimated"
• "Global Crisis"
• "Entire Planet Doomed"
• "Global Catostrophe"
• "Merely Coincendental"
  

2 Promotions to the movie "Chicken Little" with the sky is falling references.

1 unnecessary trash can kicking

Several annoying film techniques - AFT (Did the director/camera crew have a checklist of AFT?)

• Fast forward time lapse
• B & W
• Stutter Effect
• Bad zoom and pans
• Lightning white fade outs (with cool thunder sound effects)
• Crazy angles
• Slo-mo
• Video cam, with battery indicator

I am disappointed that it took 38 minutes for Shannon to show up. However when she did, she:

• Builds rockets
• Serves mean shots
• and gives a good right hook!

Mount Rushmore:
Why they made this a target, I'll never know... unless it was cooler to show George's face falling off, than say, a chunk of the grand canyon. GNN, (The local news outlet) was making a big deal of Mt. Rushmore -- IT"S IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE! Just ask Cary Grant!

Actual quote by park rangers: "George has Water on the brain" and"Water's freezing...and expanding!"

Causes:

• God/ plagues (to anger religious conservatives)
• Energy Industry (To anger big business)
• "Some Force" (to anger those in favor of Intelligent design)
• End of days (crazy freaks unite!)
• Terrorists (To anger anyone else)
  

(Although, no mention of Chem-trails... My guess is on the Chem-trails, not to be confused with contrails -- google it and watch your skies!)

While the Engery industry is a good guess, it's kind of ironic that the storm chasers use a super powered USAF jet to fly over the US in record time (How much does that get to the gallon) and also a big Ford 350 4x4 (Which I know uses a tank of gas just on a trip to the store)

And who do you think is flying the super jet? None other than Tom Skerrit - reprising his role as a Top Gun pilot, complete with Jump suit. OK, so now he works for theUSAF and Top Gun was with the Navy, but to the untrained eye - it's the same job!

Swoozie Kurtz as a religious zealot was cool
Having Krycek from XFiles as bad religious zealot was even cooler!

Weather reports get in the way of good sex.

Director of Homeland security was none other than our favorite janitor, the "Greasy Beau-hunk"

I counted at least 10 bad joke/puns

At least 6 laugh out loud moments (Including crazy clown and death by frogs)

Next target is Detroit. Like Mt. Rushmore - WHAT'S THERE? Are they going to kill off some murderers?

The writer of the trailor park scene must have had a field day. Thankfully I had Tivo so I didn't miss any of the trailor-trash " cliche jokes"

• Saving Pink Flamingoes
• Fat Chick running with beer
• Velvet painting flying away in the wind - (Not sure if it was an Elvis)
• Man saving Pot Plants

Shannon was rescuing cats...awwwww how cute!

The last half hour was not as exciting, exept that Buffalo was next... Why Buffalo? I guess they couldn't film in Cleveland. Lots of Panic in the streets.

They did mention sending all essential families to the Greenbriar -- true fact, although it's primarily a resort not a Military Facility as FEMA director Gina Gershon stated. It can house all of the upper gov't people in a secure facility in the hills of West Virginia. It used to be top secret, but it seems as everyone knows about it now...

Finally - towards the end, our hero Extreme Weather Guy makes a pot of tea and solves the reason why -- it's the Mesosphere, and big industry is heating up the air causing the sky to fall.

It's nearing the end, families are leaving, and crisis is hitting New York/ DC. My Tivo stops.... DAMN YOU FOOTBALL for Running 10 minutes over.... what happened to Swoozie now that she is in charge of Hall Ministries? Will the two youngsters get married to spite their parents? Will Extreme Weather guy get his spot of tea?

I'll have to find out next week.

Daily Led Zep times 2

I had to drive for work the past few days....

Day 1: Heartbreaker

Day 2: Fool in the Rain

Happy Halloween!

And also - what's on my Desktop!

My Turn

OK FOLKS IT'S MY TURN.... Aren't these fun??? PUKE!




You are drunk Elmo. You love to have fun and you
drink to lower your inhibitions and allow
yourself to cut loose a little more. You are
always hyper and happy and most people find you
to be very annoying, especially when you're
drunk.


What drunk cartoon are you? (PICS)
brought to you by Quizilla

how I sleep

What Your Sleeping Position Says

You are confident and ready to tackle life. You are pretty vain and happy with your physical appearance. You are born to be the center of attention, and you're unhappy on the sidelines. You're always up for trying something new - in and out of bed!

What Does Your Sleeping Position Say About You?

3:30 AM INSOMNIA AT IT'S FINEST

Well it's 3:30 a.m. and I'm trying to put myself to sleep. I've edited my blogger profile, looked up a whole bunch of useless nonsense. Read some poker content blah blah blah... Figure there is no better way to put myself to sleep than to listen to myself ramble. It's a dirty job that no one wants so I might as well do it.

So I'm updating my profile and it asks me for my favorite books. I got to thinking about how much I really enjoyed reading "The Outsiders" in high school. I had a paperback copy that I read so many times that it literally fell apart. I've seen the movie and read the book well over 100 times. I don't know what it was about that movie and book but I always really liked them...

Izzy watched Mr. Mom with Michael Keaton the other day. She loved it. She thinks it's the greatest thing since Shrek or something. It's just nice to sit down and watch a "normal" movie or TV show with her that is not some freaking drive you nuts cartoon. I'm going to pick her up from school tomorrow instead of having her stay in after school since I'm off. Maybe I'll take her to Gattiland or McDonalds Playland or something. I would take her to the park but the weather SUCKS BUTT. It's rained for the last month and a half or something... I would rather have winter. At least with winter you know what to expect. Get it here and get it over with so it can be Spring again....

OK adios amigos I was able to get myself yawning and I'm sure I was able to do the same for you...

The stuff's gone..

Well most of it anyway... In accordance with our new philosophy of simplify simplify simplify (and because Chad was tired of moving huge containers of clothes around) I had a rummage sale... It rained this morning - bummer- and it's nice an sunny now, of course!

I managed to get rid of a bunch of clothes, mostly Izzy -- that girl is 4, but I haven't rid myself of any of her clothes until now! What didn't sell, I'm going to consign - and some of it I gave to the City Mission.

Our big rush was from 8-8:30 where we made close to 100 dollars... mostly to Chad's CD's... Yep... we now have no CD's (Except for my RuPaul/EltonJohn single of Don't Go Breaking My Heart!) and my guest closet is empty! Whoo Hoo!

We've also moved our furniture around a bit, and it is quite livable now!

Simplify Simplify Simplify!

The Time Machine -- 15 years ago tomorrow!

Found this while I was preparing for my "Name Your Own Price Cause I'm Tired Of Lookin' At My Shit Sale" Sorry if the image takes a while - I was playing with the resolution settings....

Here is one from the same notebook... From me.. I think if you click on the image, you can zoom in a bit -- talk about ADD girl!


And the last one for now... I cut out the name to protect the author... I think the back page bled through. As a linguaphile, it's interesting to see us on the cusp of the new language of the decade...

90210

Inspired by Nuttyblonde and design... here the the pics from the people who weren't to chicken to wait in line for a MAJOR TELEVISION STAR and SOME OTHER GUY JUST RIDIN" HIS COATTAILS...

I do have the autographed pic... i think it's in my parent's attic...

Good times good times....


Oh, and here is from when I met Guns N' Roses....

Never say we are not impulsive!

Well, the other day we said goodbye to a good friend... this friend had been with us for some time. We liked this friend. But, as they say in the movies, we were "made an offer we couldn't refuse"

Ha Ha - it wasn't like that kind of offer, but we did get an offer on the camper, so we sold it...

It was a tough decision, but probably for the best overall... (damn, camping is expensive!)

I'll leave you with the words of Thoreau...

simplify, simplify, simplify

Daily Led Zeppelin

COMMUNICATION BREAKDOWN

IT"S ALWAYS THE SAME...

HAVING A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN I"M GOING INSANE....

DUH NUH NUH NUH
DUH NUH NUH NUH NUH
REALLORLLLRAARR

This was Ski's Daily LEd For her Head and she was too lazy to post it....

What's on my Desktop

I know y'all been waiting for this one!

Enjoy!


By the way -- quick poll:

When you first looked at this, did you say, Andy Gibb or Heath Ledger? -- I think the similarities are striking!

Daily Led Zeppelin

Heard on the way home from picking Izzy up... When the Levee Breaks

My Daily Led Zeppelin

My dear ski is always talking about her daily Led Zeppelin so I thought I'd share mine. I get in the car to leave for work today and there is no talking or anything on the radio just quiet... Then they start Stairway to Heaven and I make it almost all the way to work hearing that song and the weather.... About a 12 to 14 minute trip.... For those of you who don't know that song is the #1 most requested song of all time according to some blah blah poll from some record spinning magazine....

Probably the greatest album of ALL TIME.

What's on My Desktop

Well, I'd show you, but the darn picture uplink thing isn't working.... It's a good one too!

Sixteen Candles

Chad and I were watching sixteen candles on DVD tonight (Originally, it was reality bites, but I guess we don't have that one on DVD) ... well, he fell asleep... but anyway...

when they are showing up for the wedding, outside the church... the sister is wearing a green raincoat - it was one of those raincoats that was a bright color on the outside, but had a print pattern on the inside, usually ducks or scotties, or something of the sort... did anyone have one of these? What was the brand? I remember they had a unique plastic smell about them...(OK, maybe that was just mine.)

Just curious!

Also - when Jake and Farmer Ted are talking in his kitchen, what is written on the wall behind Jake's head Yucky? Yuppy? -- it looks like it's in blood, or perhaps pizza sauce. Any guesses?

OK - Heathers is going in next ( favorte scene - when V burns her hand on the lighter, but JD lights his fag from her burning hand - that totally rocks!)

Why having a kid is cool

Tonight, while singing "Let's go to the movies" I open up the fridge to heat up some meatloaf (I don't normally eat meatloaf because I have no idea what other people put in it, but I made some Kickass meatloaf yesterday, so it was OK) and I found this:
Just empty Dixie cups. She's sleeping now, and I can't wait to hear the explanation on this one!

Ahh the lovely Boylan Sisters!

OK-- Got all excited today to watch one of my favorite shows - taped especially for me on the TIVO... I go to play it, and it only recorded 3 minutes of it.... Now, since my daughter and husband were the ones who could delete it at the time - it ws probably one of them...

So now I just have to leave you with me singing a song from one of my favorite musicals - ANNIE

Doo doodle-oo doo
Doo doodle-oo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo

Who cares what they're wearing on Main Street
or Saville Row
It's what you wear from ear to ear
And not from head to toe that matters
So, Senator, so, janitor
So long for a while
Remember you're never fully dressed
Though you may wear the best
You're never fully dressed without a
Smile
Smile
Smile!!!
Smile darn ya, smile.

I tell you , I don't feel like smiling much now, since my show got deleted...grrr... However, the 1999 version is coming on soon - but that one is just not the same!

No one's there when your dreams at night get creepy!
No one cares if you grow...of if you shrink!
No one dries when your eyes get wet an' weepy!

You'll stay up till this dump shines
like the top of the Chrysler Building.

Yank the whiskers from her chin
Jab her with a safety Pin
Make her drink a mickey finn
I love you, Miss Hannigan

It's the hard-knock life for us
It's the hard-knock life for us
No one cares for you a smidge
When your in an orphanage

But hopefully, soon, it will be on my TIVO search again, and I'll be able to tape it in bliss and sing all of the songs for you!

When I'm stuck a day
That's gray,
And lonely,
I just stick out my chin
And Grin,
And Say,
Oh!

The sun'll come out
Tomorrow
So ya gotta hang on
'Til tomorrow
Come what may
Tomorrow! Tomorrow!
I love ya Tomorrow!
You're always
A day
A way!

Fun with Lyrics II

For guessing the last lyrics, Phats gets to pick the next selection... it's a good one!

Lord I've really been real stressed
Down and out, losin ground
Although I am black and proud
Problems got me pessimistic
Brothers and sisters keep messin up
Why does it have to be so damn tuff?
I don't know where I can go
To let these ghosts out of my skull
My grandmas past, my brothers gone
I never at once felt so alone
I know you're supposed to be my steering wheel
Not just my spare tire (home)
But lord I ask you (home)
To be my guiding force and truth (home)
For some strange reason it had to be (home)

Take me to another place
Take me to another land
Make me forget all that hurts me
Let me understand your plan

Again - cheaters will plagued with spam!

My 80's wishlist

OK - have a few minutes from my office hours tonight to type this in before I forget (DL a big file on my work computer)

Things I want back from the 80's (or something like that - can't remember what I'm supposed to call this)

In no particular order

Feathered hair

Strollin bowlin'











Mini-series - long sweeping stories, bundled into two hour bits for a week long of fun!
(I guess technically shows like 4400 could be mini-series, since they don't take a whole 26 season episode run, but come on! I want the Thornbirds back along with Winds of War, North and South, and War and Rememberance!)

Barettes with ribbons, and while we are on the subject:

Roach clips with feathers for your hair

Painter's caps (and if they have the flaps - even better!)

The "made for Microwave" foods - such as milkshakes and French fries.

Tiger Beat

The Varsity Isle (Local thing...)

My walkman... ok... they can have this one back... I like my iPod

And finally:
Getting your kick from Judy Blume Books! I'm sorry, but today the girls have "Gossip Girls" Trash compared to the content in JB books!

A quick post...

EGKVI

This was the word verification thingy for my last post... I think it's a new medical process where you go through your hospital vist all mixed up. They screw up your heart monitor and put your needle with the fluids in backwards..... (EKG IV) Giggle Giggle...

Have to post a HOTTIE... All that talk about Jodie Foster in my comment got me thinking...

I love this look although I'm not fond of feet I guess I'd have to let her lay em on me!

THIS WOULD BE A NICE LOOK IF IT DIDN'T SCREAM MIGRAINE

VERY SEXY!!!!

Movies we all must see

I love movies. Here is a list of movies I absolutely can't pass up when they come on TV. And some other good ones...

• The Wedding Singer
• "Two Cones!"
• 50 First Dates
• Bawled at the end!
• Dazed and Confused
• "I just want to dance!"
• The Princess Bride
• Sigh - so many good things about this movie!
• Back to the Future
• "You built a time machine. Out of a Delorian?"
• About a Boy -
• Hugh is sooo hotttt in this one; however, if you are a fan of his, you must see
• Lair of the White Worm
• Crazy "St.George" type story, only they go after a phallic snake who likes nuns and is horny all the time... it stars the one girl from HomeFront which also starts Kyle Chandler, who is in
• Pure Country
• A little corny, but a great story!
• Major League
• Even though this wasn't filmed in Cleveland Stadium, it is a good move about a great team of characters. A classic for all Tribe Fans from way back.
• Bad News Bears
• The original - I don't particularly care for any of the other versions - this is the best!
• Enigma
• Also stars Matthew Macfadyen, Dougray Scott, Kate Winslet
• Ever After
• I'm a sucker for fairy tales
• Sixteen Candles
• Classic
• Airplane
• "Surely, you can't be serious." "I am serious. And don't call me Shirley!"
• Mommie Dearest
• I'll never look at Comet and coat hangers the same way again.
  
• Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
• Between the Coke machines and rocks in the pockets, Bette and Joan could kick some @$$
• Shakespeare in Love
• man-meat Joseph Finnes is great as the bard... loved the jokes (that probably only English teachers will get!)
  
• Twilight Zone, The Movie
  
• "Wanna see something really scary?"

I know there are more - can't think of them right now...

Fun with Lyrics

I love music. I live for books movies and music. Here are some lyrics... I just may give a prize to the first who can tell me the song and the group.

have you ever went over a friends house to eat
and the food just aint no good
i mean the macaroni's soggy the peas are mushed
and the chicken tastes like wood
so you try to play it off like you think you can
by sayin that youre full
and then your friend says momma he's just being polite
he aint finished uh uh that's bull
so your heart starts pumpin and you think of a lie
and you say that you already ate
and your friend says man there's plenty of food
so you pile some more on your plate
while the stinky foods steamin your mind starts to dreamin
of the moment that it's time to leave
and then you look at your plate and your chickens slowly rottin
into something that looks like cheese
oh so you say that's it i got to leave this place
i dont care what these people think
im just sittin here makin myself nauseous
with this ugly food that stinks
so you bust out the door while its still closed
still sick from the food you ate
and then you run to the store for quick relief
from a bottle of kaopectate
and then you call your friend two weeks later
to see how he has been
and he says i understand about the food
baby bubbah but we're still friends

No cheating!

Daily Led Zeppelin

Heard picking up Izzy on Thursday....

What is & What should never be.

Men with accents

Here's another one.... He's on MI-5 (Pretty good show - kind of like 24, with the anti-terrorist thing, but they boil people in oil.) Anyway - Matthew Macfadyen plays Tom - very intense, but in a sexy way - meow. So, I go to the show's page to scam an image, only to find out that he is off the show... grrrr.... Good thing American TV is behind the BBC, so at least I'll get a few more shows with him in it. (The show is called Spooks across the pond, but MI-5 here... can't imagine why "spooks" wouldn't make the TVGuide???)

However - all is not lost... Took Izzy to see Wallace and Gromit last night (very funny, especially the parts for "adults") and saw a preview for the latest Austin tome to hit the screen... Pride and Prejudice. Tom is Mr. Darcy! rock on! I hope this is a decent movie. Izzy told me she wanted to see the movie...but of course, I'll have to read it to her first. I wonder how he'll stack up to Colin Firth's Darcy, though???

OK, after reading this... I've realized there are a lot of Brits here... Everything just sounds cooler with an accent!

GODDESS OF THE UNDERWORLD OR IS IT UNDERWEAR?

Since we're posting hotties why not give the "boys" something to look at... I can't allow all this Brendan "make me puke" Fraser and this other little stud to hog all the bandwidth...

So boys for your viewing pleasure we have a little of this and a little of that.... A little "tit for tat" so to speak...

And this post just wouldn't be complete without a major bit of tit for tat... I don't know who "tat" is but I really want to be him for a day....

"Don't mess with the bull young man you'll get the horns."

Jumping off the bridge because all my friends are doing it.

Since so many of you are posting the hotties, and who couldn't look at cute guys all day :) I'm going to share my own...

Shia Labeouf... I love watching him!

(Holes is a good movie - but the book explains things so much better!)

The best thing... He's legal, now!

Morning Freak out...

On my way home this morning, I hear a news update. One of the local hotels caught on fire yesterday. (During their fire inspection week, no less.) The kitchen / offices/ restaurant were burned up, and the hotel is closed. The news guy goes on to say that the Fire Marshall is investigating the cause in the 40 year old structure.

Doing the math in my head....

(Yes, I'm a little slow, when it comes to math)

Oh - that would have been in 1965. Which is 5 years away from the 1970's.... I was born in the 1970's...... which means that I WILL BE 40 SOON>>>> eeekkkkk!!

Sorry.. just a momentary morning freak out

Word Verification or Rock Band?

Way back when, a friend of mine made me a "mix-tape." Boy, those were so much cooler to put together than a CD...at least you could record things right off the radio and pack every last inch of tape with sound!

Anywhoo....

One of the songs was by KMFDM. Does anyone remember this group? Why am I sharing this? Look at my word ver. from a comment today:
OK, I know it's not the same, but I must have transposed the letters in my mind at first glance.

What's next NKOTB???

What's on my Desktop

I took this one in the spring. It's in the pond behind Dairy Queen - the same on my brother decided to take a swim in when he was 4 and before the city cleaned up the lake. I love the mirror image.

Photos

Sorry - don't have my photos from the wedding uploaded yet... however, I do offer the two below, I found them recently and thought I'd share ...

The first, my first day of college, as we are getting ready to leave. Honestly, I thought I was packing for camp. I didn't take nearly as much as I needed - I guess it didn't hit me that I would be actually *living* there.

The second... my last day of college, all of the stuff packed into the same van for the return trip. Amazing what I amassed. (And I still have some of it!) I remember taking a photo of the van loaded up, but I don't know what happened to it.

Try this and let me know if it works...

Text of an email I recieved:

>Subject: Have you locked the keys in the car?

You won't believe it, but this works -- who'd a thought it???
Have you locked the keys in the car?

If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are home, call someone
at home on your cell phone and ask them to get your car keys.

Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the other
person at home press the unlock button on your keys while holding it near
the phone on their end.

Your car will unlock. It will save someone from having to drive your keys
to you. Distance is no object. You could be hundreds of miles away, and if
you can reach someone who has the remote" for your car, you can unlock the
doors (or the trunk this way!)

Editor's Note * It works fine! We tried it out and it unlocked our car over
a cell phone each time we tried it.

Now, I was going to try this in my front yard, but since we can unlock from the house, probably pretty pointless. So, I went grocery shopping today. The store is about a mile and half as the crow flies from our home. I got The Izzster on the phone, had her point the thingy at the phone and give it a go... (I'm in the parking lot, windows down, keys in my hand holding my phone up to the door handle.) No luck. Mind you, it was a smart 4 year old on speakerphone, but still didn't work. So I had Chad try... of course, he could be just saying "yes dear" and not really trying it, so who knows...

If anyone has success with this... please share!

I'm weird like that

One of my new favorite hobbies is to go to google, click images and type in some random word or phrase and see what returns. Following are a few of those random google searches... Enjoy, and yes I'm weird like that....


Aaaahhh yes the luck dragon from The Neverending Story... All you 80's fans remember this movie.. I bought it for Izzy the other day and she loved it. It was not near the classic I remember but baby girl loves it so it is in the DVD player rotation.

This image I wasn't real sure about... I typed in doggy bag hoping to get some really gross food images cause as you know I'm a food guy but instead I got this sort of disturbing deal here.




Now for this doozy of an image we typed in "toilet paper." Again, I was hoping for a little more of a disgusting kind of thing but depending on your point of view I guess this could work for disgusting. I wonder if they sell these on eBay? Would really help with those wintertime sniffles.



Now for this one I typed in "Tool". Tool being probably one of my favorite rock bands. Just as I expected they had a really neat image. They're really into freaky photos and alot of them have to do with the eye. Cool pic...

Last but not least since you all know I'm a computer geek I had to include a funny little windows ditty...



OK OK I've wasted enough of your time with the random pictures... Hope you received a least an ounce or so of enjoyment peeking in on my freakdom....

Previous post

I may have been in error - I was speaking emotionally. The previous post is gone and forgotten. Ahh... don't you just love the delete button.

OK OK I can't resist...

I found this radom image of this random guy on the web and I want YOU to caption the photo... One of my faovrite ski creations... I'll start it off and I want all you fine folks to be creative and post a caption as many times as you like!!!

Hey Design, I think my the milk in my Bailey's and Coffee was spoiled.

OK honey... I'm done now.... Have a good time... I love you!

You'd Better Be Good! I mean it.

What is this I hear via Design's blog? My lovely wife of 6+ years was SO intoxicated that she laid in the driveway of her friends house.

DOES THIS LOOK FAMILIAR?

Well at least she's better looking than that... Let's see guys maybe if she goes out tonight she'll look like this...



The moral of the story is people who can't hold their liquor end up like this guy....



What happens in C town stays in C town... Wait a minute that's Vegas... Sorry about your luck... Love you honey... You'd better be good! Please take CARE and pace yourself...


Love,
Your Worried Hubby

WORK BLOWS!

Baby and baby momma headed to C town today. It really sucks and I have to work 11A to 7P so I don't get to send them off.

The problem with work is it takes the whole friggin day... I hate to work, I hate my job, the only reason I go is because of money. It has no value to me at all other than money. I don't enjoy it, I don't like it. I don't like most of the people. It is 8 hours out of practically every day of my life and it disgusts me. I need to win the lottery so I can quit. Work blows.

Everybody have a nice day. If you're at work or have to go. Believe me I feel your pain.

What's on my Desktop

For Phats: or, Why Wisconson ows me an Hour

A while back, Phats posted about the Indiana time change ( or keep) for the state. Honestly, I never really understand the whole thing... like, when are you really saving time, in the fall or spring? I understand why - but when is normal time, and when is saving time.... It's kind of like which is the Law part and which is the Order part (duh-duhnk)

Anyway...It reminded me of a story....

My friend in Toledo (Hi Kais!) had a former roommate who had a boyfriend/fiancee who got tickets to see Garth Brooks. This was back in 97... well of course, I wasn't going to pass this up! Somehow, I managed to grade all of the papers I needed to for the weekend, hurried home after school, packed my bags and was off. I drove the several hour trip to Toledo. Mind you, I wasn't familar with that part of the state. I did notice how Rt. 23 when all the way up there, so I figured why not (this was before I found Mapquest.)

Lesson 1: Don't take local routes through big cities, especially if you are unfamiliar with said city (Columbus) and are a lone woman driving a big honkin' pink van. Oh, and it was night by the time I made it to Cols... very scary.

Somehow I made it up to Toledo and found her house, about 2 am Saturday -- we had a few laughs, a few beers, she showed me her used take-out box with fork stuck to styrophoam collection, and then we got ready for the next day.

We left fairly early, I don't remember the exact route we took, but we did go through Indiana, through South Bend, I believe (Go Irish!) and other parts of the state. Since she had a standard, she did all of the driving... We listened to tapes, waved at truckers (yes, I kept my bra on this time.) Luckily, she had directions on where we were to meet her friend and boyfriend/fiancee.

Lesson 2: Having a prearranged time is great, if both parties have synchronized watches a la military style.

We arrived at the meeting spot and called the friends. It turns out we forgot about the time difference, and we also arrived well ahead of schedule, thanks to Kais's lead foot. We had a great brunch, lunch and dessert at Denny's. After staying there for as long as we could... we went to a lotto store and donated to the Illinois lottery. Soon the friends arrived and it was time to head over to the concert. Here is the ticket stub -- I have no clue where this arena is in relating to Chicago, but it's there somewhere. (check out the price!)


It seemed to take forever for the show to start. We had excellent seats (5th row!) . When Garth came out he put on a hell of a show!


Kais had a better camera, and could actually zoom... I was stuck with a generic 35mm camera from my HS days, otherwise, I'd have better pictures....


So, later that evening, after the show, we drove to the boyfriend/fiancee's parents house and crashed. The house was in Wisconson (I never knew it was so close to the Chicago area!) We woke up Sunday, totally confused, as the time was completely off. Not only did we travel through a time zone, but we went through a time change... yikes... don't ask me to explain the math, because I can't...-- (if you want to try, go ahead!) But I think there is an hour of my life stuck somewhere in Wisconson...

Overall, the trip was very memorable... I made it home safely with a t-shirt, and plenty of pics like the one above. Interestingly enough, not only do I have pics of Garth, but also of this guy's reflective head...

There is a more to the story, but I'll have to dig through the journals to get the details...they are kind of fuzzy right now..

OK - so that's my story... after typing it out, it probably isn't that great, but hey - it's my blog and I'll post what I want... No one is forcing you to read it (Well, except for you, Design... I think my mom is still paying you, right?)

Just for the record....

I'm not posting to Design's site, until I surpass her in number of posts....


So there....

Daily Led Zeppelin

Driving home after picking up the Izster from school:

"Rock and Roll"

Ohh yeah, ohhh yeah... been a long time, been a long time... been a long lonely lonely lonely lonely lonely time!

Caption this photo (new Series)

Rah Rah Sis Boom Bah!

OK... just to make it official - I was a cheerleader in 6th grade. One of those "little league" thingys where everyone made the team. There were 4 teams (Chiefs, Rams, Someone else, and the Cowboys (Help me out Design). This was for the 5th and 6th graders. There were other teams for the 7th and 8th graders.

The Cowboys usually sucked... and guess what - I was on that team. I think they divided up the city into 4 parts, and whatever part you were in, was the team you cheered for. I do remember, Mark V and Ricky H (the class hotties, as it were) were on the Cowboys... We had do it yourself uniforms for the cheerleaders. (Homemade grey skirts, which was fun, since my mom didn't sew) and a white sweatshirt with a C on it (the fuzzy letter kind you get on your letterman's jacket)

All of the "cool" kids, if I remember, were on the chiefs, and had fancy red letters and skirts (the sluts!)

Anyway... I was only on the team one year (thank goodness) and by the time my younger bro was old enough to play on the city teams, the city decided it had enough of "training" kids on the little league teams only to go to the private high school in the area, rather than the city one(If you have seen Varsity Blues, you know what football is like in Ohio) so the kids were not encouraged to play on the sucky city teams anyway. So our school started their own. Ahhh.. where was I...

Oh, cheerleading... So I was one for a while. I sucked big time!

I did try out but I didn't make it... thought I could, but since I can't really do a somersault without crying, cheering probably isn't a good idea.

I also did try out for the volleyball team, no shocker there - didn't make it..

But I did find a home on the track team. I threw track rather than ran it. I actually lettered my frosh year, and made it to districts in discus. So all is well. (Well, except for the time I almost took out half of the boys varsity track team with an errant aim of the disc, but that's another story)

Oh, and skiing, of course! I was on the ski club for a few years until I had to get a job my junior or senior year (Can't remember which) and cut back on my activities (damn you real life - getting in the way of my high school activities.) I liked skiing - lots of cuties!

I would have a pic of Design cheering, but darn it, my scanner is not working (he he) I am sure Design is crushed... never fear, gentle readers, I'll find a way to post one!

"Saucy Secrets"........ RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!!

WOULD YOU EAT THIS?

A little background... I'm 34 years old. I'm about 100 pounds overweight, and I love to eat. With that said would someone please tell me what in Heaven's name this is a picture of. It looks like some kind of mutant chicken vomit.

I thought I was going to be funny. I typed in to the Google image search "sex with chickens". Now mind you I thought this would be amusing to find a pic of some jackass trying to have sex with a chicken. Instead I get this very disturbing picture of this God awful chicken abomination. Please if you don't mind take a look at the description. 4 "CRUMBLED" chicken "PORTIONS" filled with "TANGY" cheese sauce. I don't know that I have ever heard cheese described as "TANGY." I can just imagine.... "Hey Michelle have you tried these new crumbled chicken portions? Man that cheese sure is tangy."

Saucy Secrets it sounds more like a cheaply made porno than it does a chicken dish. Bomp chick a bow. Bomp chick a bow bow. Little bit of porno music for you there. Hey maybe they could make a porn of two chicks eating Saucy Secrets crumbled chicken portions and getting covered in the cheese... Hell who needs whipped cream when you've got tangy cheese sauce.

OK OK I've run this as far in the ground as it will go. So gentle blog reader I think I'm going to go puke up my dinner after staring at that picture for the last 10 minutes...

Daily Led Zeppelin

Today - I had to go get Izzy from school... I was in the car about 8 minutes, when Zeppelin struck through my speakers. Today's song: "Tangerine"

(didn't leave the house yesterday!)

What's on my Desktop

This photo is of a waterfall at Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe. I drove around the lake this summer when I went to Reno. I used the sepia tint when taking the photo, for the "Old West" feel.

Daily Led Zeppelin

Way back when I actually drove to work, I spent about 45 minutes each way. (For my area, that's a long time!) It never failed... every day, on at least one of the stations I listed to, I would hear a Led Zeppelin song. This became my "Daily Led Zeppelin". It's almost a sure bet that if I am in the car for any amount of time over 20 minutes, I hear a classic Zeppelin song.

Today's Daily Led Zeppelin on my Burrito Run -- "Heartbreaker"

Anything for the Burrito, baby!

Today, I had a "team building" staff meeting in Columbus. Whoopee... nuf said about that.

On the way home, I ended up on the wrong interstate, heading in the wrong direction. I was going to take 270 around to the road I needed, when I passed Rt. 33. Hmmm... I said to my self.

Route 33 goes through Athens.

Athens has the Burrito Buggy downtown.

A burrito sounds good! (Since all we had at the meeting was do it yourself sandwiches)

If you have ever been to Ohio University - you know what I'm talking about... The Burrito Buggy, the orange and yellow buggy where you can get the best burritos around... hoppin' music plays while the workers fix your food... you can people watch the goings on at Court and Union, pick your spot on the college green to relax with your burrito.

While Athens has changed since I've been there, many things are still the same. The pedestrian traffic in the road... the college green... The Oasis... Lakeview (although I think it's called something else now) the bars... they had several new buildings, and some of the storefronts have changed (we miss you Wings and Rings) and the tattoo parlor where I got inked has moved... I wish I could have spent a little more time to look around at some of my favorite places -- the courthouse where Chad and I had our first date, and some others - Skippers, The Greenery, and other places-- but I had family waiting back home.

But the burrito buggy still stands.

Amazingly, my Beef Supreme minus lettuce (see previous post) with jalapenos is still 3.50. Quite a lot of money when you are a poor college kid. But nothing tastes better, especially if you are drunk. Maybe it's the nostalgia making me think it's the best tasting food around, but I don't think so. Out of all the buggies lining Union streen, this is the best!

Next time you are in Athens, let me know -- I just may treat you to one!

another link to this landmark

BigNTasty turns Big N Nasty

Our story starts off a while ago... I meant to post this earlier, but never got around to it. So here goes...


I had a craving of sorts for a Big N'Tasty burger from McD's. Don't ask. So I ordered one with cheese. Normally, I get them without lettuce, but for some reason (New Kids was probably on the radio when I was ordering through the Drive-thru) I forgot to have them nix the lettuce. I came home and this is what I pulled out of the box. (May I remind you that the photos have not be digitally altered... they are authentic!)

Notice the lettuce escaping.

When I opened the box, this is what I found... More lettuce - no wonder the first leaf was trying to get out -The onions were trying to overthrow the lettuce regime. Again - these photos are real, as they happened.


Just to be sure of what I was getting, hopefully a burger and not just lettuce, I peeled back the bun. And saw this:

Uh, OK. Maybe they just had to get rid of some extra heads of lettuce that was sitting around. I carefully moved the top leaf, and found this:


(Close-up)


Excuse my language here but What the *&%#$#$%^%$$% *&^&& is this suppsed to be? How does this pass quality control. But then I have to sit back and remember - it's fast food. Is this the fault of the worker? Perhaps. But come on people - have some thought about presentation to the customer!

And people wonder why fast food workers usually stay fast food workers (Not all - I happen to know many who worked in fast food and have moved on.) Some I guess just stay there.

Oy!