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....

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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!

What's on my Desktop

After looking at this one for a few days, I noticed the "candy machine" in the shower stall, as well as the electrical cord. Safety first!

Queen of Song Lyrics Strikes again....

Well, thanks to the XM in my car - the 80's on 8 is on all the time... well, practially all the time - when I am not getting freaked out by Coast to Coast on 165! ANYWHO...

The ballad "Toy Soldiers" by Martika was on (Man, I loved her big hoopy earrings and short hair - I could do the hair and earrings, but was never able to get the clothes right from my K-Mart closet) as I was driving in my car. I'm belting out the songs, getting strange looks from the other drivers (What else is new!) when it hits me - I had been singing the wrong lyrics.

For the past 15 years this is what I thought the song said:
Bit by bit / torn apart / We never win / but the better wages are/ for toy soldiers.

Later on, in the kitchen, I was sharing the revelation with my husband.

He said mine don't even make sense, and I went on to explain, that I thought the better wages meant the odds were in the favor for the toy soldiers to win.

Silence.

Then... "You mean 'wagers' ?"

"Oh, that's why the song never made sense before." It was clear to me now that I was thinking wagers, instead of wages, but really rages is all what it's about!



Here are the actual lyrics in part

Bit by bit
Torn apart
We never win
But the battle wages on for toy soldiers


And PS to Chad... Prince will always say "Let me show you baby I'm an Italian boy."

My new fav show!

OK - I admit, I am a TV junkie. In my younger days, I was the one who knew every dial setting on our cable box, back in the day when you had 13 channels regular, 13 A channels and 13 B channels... For example, B11 was MTV, if I'm not mistaken.

Then came the VCR -- I remember the day we got our first one. My gramma and grandpa were way ahead of us with a remote control and 2 VCRs. It was one of those VCRs again, with only 11 channels, that had to be programmed into the machine by opening the little hatch and tediously turning a little wheel to get the right channel.

Next, we got a TV in the basement, this was our second TV, and I lived for Sunday nights. With 21 Jump Street (Hottie Johnny Depp!) Jump, down on jump street/ Your friends will be there when your back is to the wall. /You'll find you'll need us cause there's no one else to call. /
When it was hopeless a decision is what you need. /You'd better be ready to, be ready to jump. /21 Jump Street. Sorry... got stuck in a lyric time warp there... Where was I? Oh, Sunday's on Fox, with Tracy Ullman, Simpsons before they were their own show, and Married with Children - later on, when Fox broadcasted more than one night -- 90210

Away went the floor model of the TV, and an actual Entertainment center was purchased, cable came into the vcr, nixed the cable box, and rock on Dial MTV!

At college, 1pm local time was always free because I had to get my Days fix on. (Can you believe John and his expressions!) Oh, and 90210.

Moved to the big I, and after a few deals with sattelites, cables, and other, um, semi-illegal forms of getting free TV shows, we now have the greatest invention since the pencil (sliced bread is so cliche) TIVO... I love my TIVO... I can't live without my TIVO. I can't imagine living without it. All Izzy knows is TIVO... programs get "deleted" rather than erased, or taped over - she'll never know that concept!

Ahh, such is life. We even have the Media center on our computer (not as good as TIVO but it is handy.) Back to my original topic... my new favorite show is Gilmore Girls... it's witty, funny, and I can TIVO all of the reruns to catch up! Did you know it's filmed in the same spot as Dukes of Hazzard!

Happy TV watching!!!!