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!

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!!!!

What's on my Desktop

Today, I'll be starting a new series.... What's on my Desktop. Enjoy!

Amazing Praying Mantis Eats Cicada

Izzy and I were in the front yard, getting ready to load up the trailer. We hear the familiar zzzzxxxzzzzzzxxxzzzzxxxxzzzzzxxxx signaling a cicada was close - very close. We found the source, and it appeared to be upside down. Now, coming in for a closer look, I see one of the largest praying mantis I have ever witnessed! Normally, they are maybe an inch in length. This one had to be at least 4 inches, maybe 5. Hanging upside down, with the cicada in its massive grip. The head was busy sucking out what appeared to be the brains of the cicada who was dying what had to be a painful death being eaten alive. But hey, watching Wild Kingdom with my dad all of those years ago must have paid off, as this was truely an act of the survival of the fittest.
This shows off the praying mantis. I am pretty sure the other bug was a cicada, but I'm no entomologist.

Better shot - Next to the red leaf is the head.

Looking closly, you can see the huge wings of the cicada.

Izzy thought it was huge, and the thing had long wings. The thing that was trapped.


Other cool praying mantis links:

And I thought my Cicada was impressive

Haiii-ya!

Rock On

Not for the squeamish

Pool Photos

Loved the way the ripples moved in this one.


Notice the constellation on the lower right. (unlike the pic below, this color is unaltered!)


Phun with Photostudio


My pool, just after Brendan Frasier got out.
(I swear!)


The tiles


What my pool would look like if Green Jello when through the skimmer.

Look What's New at Tim Hortons!

Yes folks, the people at the new Tim Horton's in Ashland are Smok Free. This photo was taken from inside the restaurant while at my writer's group (See C's previous post.)

Stop feeling sorry for yourself Flanagan!

I just ran across an old journal I wrote in from the time I first met Lisa.  I wrote in it off and on (mostly off) from 1994 to 2002.  Most of it is me whining and complaining about missing Lisa and other various b.s.  

I wasn’t a very happy person.  I don’t know why either.  I had absolutely no responsibilities.  I worked two part time jobs and did whatever I wanted whenever I wanted.  I didn’t realize how good I had it.  I wrote about a trip to Vegas with my parents and Dickie and Karen Marshall.  

Most of it was just me being me and complaining about my non-existent life.  The people I called friends at that time I don’t really see anymore.  It’s a shame, I really like most of them but I guess you just kind of grow apart from people.  Tim, D.J., Kevin, Steph, Craig, Alisha I don’t see any of them anymore.  They all have my number but none of them ever call anymore.  Tony has moved to Lexington so I probably won’t see much of him.

I have my family but I don’t really have any friends anymore.  I have Paul C. Jim  but if we didn’t talk about poker I don’t know what we would talk about.  It seems I know a lot of people but I’m close to none of them.  I’m probably just feeling sorry for myself because I’ve put Izzy to bed and Lisa is out with her writing group. “Stop feeling sorry for yourself Flanagan.”  (Tom Cruise in Cocktail) (Elizabeth Shue is smoking hot)

I downloaded this new blogger tool for MS word.  You type in your blog in word and then click publish and it logs you in.  I don’t know what the purpose is but for some reason I can come up with a lot more ideas when I’m in MS word than I can staring at a blank blogger page.  It’s amazing how the internet has changed in the last 10 years.  I remember being on AOL thinking it was the be all and end all of the net.  You know I invented the internet, right?  “Well tell me who is President in 1985 future boy.  Ronald Reagan?  The actor?  I suppose Jane Wyman is the first lady?”
I just checked with IMDB to make sure I spelled her name correctly.  What an amazing invention of the internet.  The internet movie database is INCREDIBLE.  I could look up crap for hours on end.  

OK that’s it I’m done stick a fork in me.  Just that quickly I’ve run out of things to say.  Oh and by the way Lisa, what I write it’s not “stream of consciousness.”  That was a very nice thing for you to say to try to make me feel better, but let’s call it what it is.  

CRAP

Two interesting conversations

This weekend, the fam went RVing... very nice place just south of Louisville, KY. On the way there, we stopped at a Taco Bell (Izzy's choice). After dining, I get up to use the restroom. It's locked. A few minutes later, Chad sees someone walk out, and I get up to go. The bathroom is in between the two doorways to enter and/or exit the building (DesignGoddess help me out on what those are called.) . An older lady is waiting for her ride - she had her walker, and I was waiting to see which way she was going so I'd know which door to hold for her. Out of the blue she states, and this is the exact quote: "That commode isn't working." I paused, and nodded, halting Izzy from going in case there is a potential problem. She continued: "I couldn't get my diarrhea to go down." I ask of you, gentle reader, HOW DO YOU RESPOND TO THAT????

Second conversation. I'm driving home from aforementioned RV trip. "Almost" by Bowling for Soup is on the radio. Chad and I are talking about how catchy their songs are, and how we want to download the songs from iTunes. As the song comes to a close, it comes up that the song "1985" is, I think, on the same album as "Ohio (come back to Texas)" I take a swig of my pop, and say, "You know, it may be just like Hysteria." (The Def Leppard album popular from 1986-89 or so, lots of hits for a long time.) Right before I speak the word "Hysteria" the radio blurts out "Step inside, walk this way/ you and me babe, hey HEY" and then the radio switched to another song. Man, talk about freaky shit!

(PS.. I was going to title this blog Diarrhea and DefLeppard, but I wanted you to be as surprised as I was about the lady's comments.)

Back to school!

She's back to school! Whoo hoo! This morning, due to our "Tranny Crisis" - the truck, not Cleo the transvestite - I had to take Chad to work... before DayLight! Then I took Izzy to School. She just went in. All I saw was her Eeyore shirt and denim skirt walking down the steps. Well, what wasn't covered by her new Bratz** Backpack*** They won't let the Pre-school parents down to the classroom - too traumatic, I think (for the parents, not the kids) She just marches on down, like I'm not going to miss her! I do, but it's nice having a little bit of "me time."

I did go to our local Fazoli's this morning. They do have free wireless and good coffee, so I know where I'll be working from now on 3 mornings a week!

** Is is just me, or do the Bratz dolls look a little "hootchie-ish"?

*** Her backpack is so big on her -- I swear she could fit in her backpack!

Hmmm....

When the sign says: No Shoes No Shirt No Service, do you think that means pants are optional?

Smile!

Is it just me, or does Diane Keaton have a lot of teeth in this photo?

Socks anyone??

Found this last night (I was doing an image search for men in black socks - don't ask) Pretty cool web store, and yes... they have leg warmers. The pics are pretty intriguing, and yes, they have leg warmers. I'll be ordering from this store!

http://www.sock-dreams.com/_shop/edit/index.php

Also - if you want to view my swanky pics in your Mozilla Firefox browswer, change your settings to allow pop-ups from blogger.com and www.blogger.com.


Later.....

How to pee on an island

OK -- you'll have to read M's Blog for the full details of the evening... and since I was there, I'll add in my own 2 cents (why isn't there a cents symbol on the standard keyboard!!!!)

This story picks up after we were asked to "kick it" with some stoner.

We made our way to the car, in a hurry, which isn't easy to do when you are in chunky heeled sandals, which is why I stumbled. (NOT because of the beer, white russian, or other assorted drinks, but because it was rocky and I had chunky heels and I was getting into Jen's new car. - my knee still smarts.)

So, with our plans to stay at the Harbor Inn cut short, we head over to Dave's house. (Dave, by the way, makes really good drinks with chocolate and other assorted liquers- thanks Dave.) The guys were fishing out on Portage Lakes (dont' know which one - sorry) . We made our way down a steep slope to the lakefront (again, not easy to do in big chunky sandals - but I didn't fall) and wait for the boat.

We boarded the luxury cruising pontoon (equipped with several fishing thingys to hold your poles) and sat back for the ride. It was dark, very dark, and this was a lake, big lake. All that was going through my head - cheesy Up All Night movies that started exactly the same way. I kept thinking some wacky was going to rise from the still water, one had clutching a rapier ready to attack. Anyway - We cruised around an island a few times, dropped anchor, and some fished... I don't think they caught anything. It was very plesant after all, and the breeze was cool. It appeared that the only "restroom" was on the island. I have a feeling that if ladies were not present, the lake would become a giant urinal.

Anyway - the boat pulls up to the sandy shore, ducks scatter, and the dog (a big brute who ate my knitting) hops off. Rae - bless her heart, came with me in flippy heeled sandals no less. I wanted some company because no one ever gets offed by some crazy one clawed rapist when there are two together... at least not in the really cheesy movies. Using my cell phone as a phlashlight, I followed a path just out of sight of the boat. Stumbled (It was a root! - they don't mix well with chunky sandals) and about lost it there (by lost it, I mean control of my bladder - must keep up with the Kegals!) Whispy skirts look cool because they cover up big calves and thick ankles. They don't work well when you are hiking them up, squatting and pissing. I had to wear a slip with this skirt, which had two layers. Trying to pee on rocky ground is hard enough for women, but with a skirt, I forgot how bad it was. Hint: don't laugh with your friend over how silly it is. And take some toilet paper.

As soon as we boarded again, we headed off to our next location: Dave's house, about 2 minutes away. Grrr.... but man I really had to pee.

Note to self: practice peeing standing up

Later did I find out that Dave purposely went to the Island -probably to see if I'd actually use it. Hah! I've been known to do some crazy things at crazy times, but when I gotta pee - I gotta pee!

Overall, the evening was fun! I'm glad we went out - despite all of the creeps along the way (By the way - no creeps on the boat!)