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!