Cool! That way if I'm in a hurry I can unpress all the buttons and go directly to my floor.

Are you guys telling me that it'll never be over?

Just like the song that never ends.......
Yes it goes on and on my friend.....
People started singing it not knowing what it was......
And now they sing for ever and for ever just because....

Exactly.
:D

Today I get this everybody email at work. It says 'Everyone be sure to say goodbye Leela! It's her last day.' And I'm thinking to myself, 'Who the hell's Leela?!' It's not even a big organization...
:D

It's two in the afternoon,
I started my day with a nine am one on one with my boss....
Focus more... clean up your area....
Tell the chatter bugs to buzz off....
And why did you lie about this... which techincally, I didnt, I told her x, she heard y, and that particular issue was resolved rather quickly...
Followed by, but I think you're the most accepting of me as the new super, you're intelligent, and I appreciate that you have no qualms coming to me with questions... this was very hard for me to talk to you about this today...

but still.
I've had a headache all day, I want to go hide in a corner and run away from the world... I'm having a no one likes me day...
And I would adore to eat cake or ice cream to feel better... but man... thats not on my diet.

Ponine ~ Did she say 'lie'? Bleh. That stinks. Hang in there.

I had my George Carlin moment yesterday. Bad mood + a sense of humor = fun fun fun!

Yesterday I was joking with my co-workers and cast members that I was going to wear my special t-shirt today to celebrate her departure. It says 'Forget Leela!' on the back.
:D

After 2 days of extreme pressure at work, with the owner ML coming at me with all sorts of things that needed to be done, she tells me that we need to talk. After 7 years in Hell my paranoia runs deep and I immediatly wondered what I did wrong. She ended up just wanting to talk to me one on one to tell me that, "You are doing a stellar job and I couldn't be happier with my choice to hire you." She said that she knew I had trouble reading her and she just wanted me to know she appreciated me. It was the nicest thing a boss has ever said to me. She later told me that after the snarky comments a vendor had said to me they then turned around and told her a bunch of nice things about me.

Tonight I have to bust a move to get things loaded into the motorhome for a weekend trip to Lake Success with our next door neighbors. We are leaving after work on Friday. These are really neat people and are a lot of fun to be around. The funny part is that they really want us to go. They have kids our age, but treat us as equals. Once again, Nick will be the token child. We are also taking The Boat. It will be the first time in over a year that it has been out of the garage. I can't believe how excited I am to be going camping.

MG ~ It's nice when bosses take the time to say something nice.

Camping! Sounds fun! Have a good time! :)

She didnt actually use the word... she said... When I asked you about this.. you said you spoke with her about it.
well I did, I ran the query, I sopke to the other party about two people on the query.
I guess what I was supposed to do, was HAND the other person my query. Thats what the super assumed I meant when I said I spoke to her about it.

Well, its not... I spoke with her about one person.
I didnt understand what the boss wanted me to do, and the boss didnt ask what I meant.

So what she said was... "and the hardest things for me to talk to you about, is that you told me you did this, but when I talked to Catherine, you didnt!"
Well, no, because I didnt say I gave her the query.

It was frustrating. But thank you GC.

My new favorite thing is Whole Foods' brownie bits that you can buy in a plastic tub. They're better than the ones at Trader Joe's. Someone brought some in for rehearsals last night. They're wonderful!
:)

oooohhhhh...brownie bites.... *drool*

I have to go grocery shopping tonight...I am trying to decide whether to go to Vons (no brownie bites, but very close to the house) or to Albertsons (out of my way, but they have brownie bites). hmmmm such a dilema...

Got it!

A few minutes ago, I cleaned up my cat's crime scene in my formal dining room, kitchen, and family room. Dang bird feathers everywhere.:eek:

Common sense won out and I went to Vons.

Aside from yet another UTI, Boris got a good report from the vet! At least on the physical exam. One kidney appears to have stepped up to compensate for the other, which is good. I'll have to wait on blood work to see if the Norvasc is helping those numbers. Oh, and he gained back the pound he lost after having some teeth out a year ago! Yay!

Yay, Boris! :)

My dad had yet another surgery yesterday. The good news was they were able to remove the gall bladder laproscopically. The bad news was that they discovered that the gall baldder had actually died and become gangreenous. And his blood pressure dropped druing surgery. But, they're confident they got everything out, and his blood pressure is back to normal. They're keeping him in the hospital until Monday to be sure no infections return and that he can keep food down. And the best news, from his standpoint, he should be cleared to go back to work by a week from Monday!

That's really quick! Wow. I'm glad they got to it in time. Our best to your dad for a quick recovery.
:)

Soooo, we're here in Coachella getting ready tor day 2. CP just called and GD's Dad just had a stroke. They're heading home. I'm not sure how bad things are but, after the 2 other recent traumas, this can't be good news.

Let's keep our fingers crossed and theprayers (or whatever) going.'s

oh geez! my best to the family. I know just how scary that can be.
my prayers for a speedy recovery

Crap. Please let them know I'm thinking of them and hope everything turns out okay! My mom's health has been very precarious the past few years- I know how stressed out GD must be.:(

GD and CP: Matthew and I are so sorry to hear about this turn for the worse. We will hope for the best and most certainly keep you in our thoughts.

GD and CP: your in my thoughts. please call if there is anyway i can help you out.

Oh no! Here's hoping for the best. There are some amazing recovery programs out there now for stroke sufferers. I certainly hope that he has an easy recovery. Sending good vibes you guy's way!

You know, they should just call Fox the 'Viewer Discretion Advised' channel.
:D

If viewers had any discretion, I don't think there'd be many shows on at all...

Sorry, I totally missed this post. My best to your dad, GD.
:(

I'm walking to work this morning and an old man comes out of his house with a paperbag lunch in his hand. He raises it above his head and screams at the top of his lungs, 'Josefina! JOSEFINA!' (Now in order to grasp the situation, the man had a huge accent and the 'JO' in 'Josefina' sounded like he was clearing his throat.) Then one block away an old lady with a scarf over her head says, 'What?!' The old man says, 'You forgot your lunch!'
:D

It was the cutest thing ever.

I wish someone would hurry up and post who won MA.

Was that this weekend?

According to Nala on MP:

GC is right. :)
Now I suppose you want to know the DCA only too???? :P

Sheesh. It's only the olympics of disney geekery.

Are any swankers in any of the placing teams besides SSL?

For some, I suppose.


Dagburn protesters! My favorite burrito place was closed today for 'Day Without an Immigrant'! D'oh! So, I had to settle for Chinese Fast Food. Ugh.
:D

GD and I headed home as soon as we heard. I'm glad we did, because with a stroke you never know the consequences. Seeing him made us feel much better. He's still the same old dad he's always been, thank God, joking around with us. He's having some short term memory problems and can't stand up at the moment, but apparently he's improving in other areas and things look generally positive.

Thanks for the good wishes.

That's good to hear that he's in good spirits. Hang in there, you two.
:)

I'm sitting at my desk, it's about 4pm now... And the office gets quiet (for the first time all day) and suddenly I hear Kylie Minogue coming from my desk drawer. It seems that I left my iPod running all day. I got here at 8am! D'oh!
My battery's toast for today.
:D

Hey all, thanks for the thoughts and prayers.

I can't even begin to catlog the emotions I've been going through. I've just talked to my mom, and he continues to improve. They've done an MRI and confirmed that it was a clot stroke (as opposed to a bleeding stroke, which is good) near the vision center of the brain (his vision has been blurry). Still awaiting tests to determine where the clot came from (heart, carotid artery, or within the brain), which will determine future course of action. Meanwhile, he's walking now, even taking stairs, so that's great news. Still having some memory issues, but some of the small stuff he was having trouble with yesterday is back.

And speaking of those little memory gaps, under the heading of finding humor in anything, one of the questions he couldn't answer (I presume it was part of the standard, "What day is it?" questioning) was, "Who is our current President?" So later, when we were visiting and he reported that het thought his vision was a little better, my mom decided to see if his memory was improving as well. So she asked, "Do you unfotunately remember the President's name?" He thought about for a little bit, and, clearly struggling, finally says, "Nincompoop. Dorkbutt." We declared him cured. (He's rememberd today, btw).

That's just awesome!!! LOL!! :D

On a serious note, I hope he fully recovers soon. And I'm sending you and CP lots of restful energies and hugs. I know this is not a fun thing to endure.

Glad to hear the positive news! And if the worst side effect of all of this is that he can't remember this president, he's a lucky man. :)

Seriously though, I'm really happy to hear that things weren't as bad as they could have been.

(Very glad as well, GD&CP!)

So, today was a very productive day. Had an appt with a PT- got fitted for orthotics for my poor feet, and I love them. (Tori had to get them last week- a hereditary thing with the feet). Then, we raced home, grabbed Smelly Mellie and took her to the pet salon, where she got 'the works' and some very pretty yellow bows as well. (Smells much better now). I went shopping while she was at the groomers and got new shoes, a new comforter and the 'Bullet in a Bible' Green Day dvd. :D Tori got a porcelain Disney doll (Snow White) and a hula-hoop. My hips cannot remember how to operate the damn thing, though.:rolleyes:

So I just got home after my computer crime final. Haven't done an in-class essay since last august, so I was rusty. I completely blanked on one sub-question, did everything else, came back to it with 4 minutes left and suddenly remembered d'oh! Computer trespasser exception! And dashed off an answer, the last sentence of which wasn't grammatically correct, but since I hit . at the end of that sentence just as they called time, I had to let it go. Hey, at least I got something down!

Instructor's kind of an ass, and a a really dull and boring ass, so I don't know how things will turn out, but I milked that first question for all the issues I could find (was way better prepped on substantive law (1st question) than procedural law (2nd question)) and then some, so hopefully that will cover any omissions in the second question.

Two courses down, two to go. Plus an R&T edit. 13 days to Orlando!

Dexter is home from the Vet. Teeth are clean and one tooth was extracted. He's such a trooper. Mommy feels like she's been through hell today though.

Glad to hear your dad is on the upswing, GD.

I never thought I'd be jealous of a stroke victim.

They are doing a remake of The Omen. I think I might have to cry now.

Since we had a nice cash windfall, we are going to treat ourselves to Napa Rose on Saturday night. This will be our first visit.

I called Disney Dining on my way home tonight and the only ressy slot available was 7:30 - perfect!

I'm so jealous! I hope you love it. I highly recommend going with whatever the Vintner's Table menu is for the week, with the wine pairings. Amazing every time. Oooh! and we love the cheesy cracker bread stuff.

Randomness
 

New words to live by: If you're not saying WTF then you're in the WTF. - Erica.

What is with the funk that has been going around. It's not just the grumpy thread. Almost everyone I know and everywhere I go has it. I wish this weather would clear up and we could have some sun. I think natural light would help.

And I'm tired of flakey people.

That is all.

With Mia Farrow as Ms. Blalock, the nanny from Hell.

Let me guess... Jack Black in the Gregory Peck role? Jessica Alba is his wife... Dakota Fanning dressed as a boy to play Damien? Ben Stiller as a priest...

:D

went to a very swanky special PotC event last night. cool attraction and film previews as well as a look at the marketing strategy.

Davy Jones is gonna be cool!

pre-event entertainment included the new Dapper Dans that will make their debut on Main Street today in front of the fruit cart. the four seat bicycle will become a staple of their set as well.

there will be a revival of live atmosphere talent rolled out Parkwide, over several months, including marauding pirates in NOS.

after the main course was served, a very cool highlight of the evening was a four-tier milk chocolate waterfall to make your our deserts with pretzels, rice crispy squares and marshmellows. yummy.

oh, and i had a another wonderful chat with CM Matt this week after bumping into him in the Park. what a humble and gracious guy! we are all so lucky to have him at the helm.:snap:

today, i have a very special treat in store again... as a reward for all of the hard work. getting paid to be escorted for a day of FUN away from the office. life is good.

That is SO cool ML!!!

You've worked hard; both personally and professionally. You deserve this!

Soooo...

Has anyone here ever sneezed violently while holding a cup of hot coffee?

Ok, perhaps some of you have. Let me rephrase.

Has anyone here ever sneezed so violently while holding a cup of coffee that you got hot coffee in your eye?

No, I didn't think so.

I feel special now.

Good Job ML! You so deserve this! Have a blast!!!!!!!!!



So........

I normally turn my phone on silent before I go to bed. I decided against it last night because I usually forget to turn it off of silent and today is a day I need to answer my phone... No one ever calls in the middle of the night... Right? Wrong. A call at 5:50am by someone in India with a very thick Indian accent calling from my credit card company about a dispute I filed. :mad:

But what will Afleck play?

He's Satan.

I couldn't decide, so:

Response #1: He already played that role (Dogma)

Response #2: But that wouldn't be acting :evil:

No, he wasn't satan, he was Bartelby, an angel that had been kicked out of heaven by God.

Trip to the Vet #3.

Charles is sick. Last night was hell and I thought he wasn't gonna make it through the night. This morning, he's doing much better and I'm not so worried. I think he just has a cold, but I hope that is all. He worries me more than the others. Needless to say, I didn't really sleep last ngiht.

I got a lecture from the superviser at Chase about the diverse ethnic population of this country.

Oh, poor Charlie! :( Hope it is nothing serious as well.

Did you give the supervisor a lecture on the diverse time zones of this country?

According to today's paper:

"A remake of the classic 1976 satanic thriller, this time starring Liev Schreiber and Julia Stiles as the diplomat and his wife who unknowingly adopt the anti-Christ. (June 6)"

:mad:

LOL....oy, I can sooooo relate.
recent history......sneeze, while driving thru a dip, while holding large McD hot coffee sans secured lid.

its really quite amazing how long a perfectly round orb of obscenely hot coffee (wearing a coffee cup lid for a hat no less) will hover mockingly in mid air before landing in your lap...and how really HOT it stays in the meantime.

so....special? mmm....ok, but if you are, I am. see ya on the short bus.

:D

No. I told her to stop lecturing me, it was no secret they outsource their customer service and if they ever called me that early again I'd take my business elsewhere.

So, I just got back from lunch and was wrapping up a few things before heading out, and a message comes on over the building PA that there's been a chemical spill and we are not to leave the building.

That's what you get for coming back from lunch!

I will hold my cat hating comments to myself.:evil:

Today, a guest was yelling at me about never seeing any celebrities here...

(at the exact moment she was ranting, if she would have turned around, Jay Leno was filming his "Jay Walking" segment about 50 feet behind her).

Sooooo, we took Charles to the vet where four things happened:

• He got antibiotics
• He got X-rays that showed ALMOST nothing (more in a sec)
• He got bloodwork
• He held court

We don't know what is wrong with him but maybe the bloodwork will show something when it comes back tomorrow. However, the X-rays showed that all of his organs are normal but that he has been SHOT by a BEBE in the leg at one point in lis life. He was SHOT! Someone SHOT Charles! The sweetest, most loving kitty ever and he was SHOT!

Leo, I sure hope to GOD that wasn't you!

Meanwhile, all of the ladies were a-twitter over the 17 pound orange love dispenser. Even Leo would like Charles!:evil:

I wonder if Charles would have better success in dragging Leo's visit dates out of him?

20 pounds of LUVE otta do it.

I thought it said LUBE.

eccch.
(sorry, hairball)

I would never willingly harm someone's pet. That's just not cool.

That being said, there is no way I would like any cat.

Leo has kids in school so mid-June is probably the earliest he'll be there, and the year we unknowingly danced in the same parade it was the end of June. My guess is his visit will be sometime during the last two weeks of June. Hope this helps.

So why is it, that when I think back on an old CD, all that I can recall is the one song that I HATED on that CD?

I haven't listened to this CD in over ten years, but did enjoy it when I listened to it. I'm thinking of dredging it up to giving it a listen.

What CD is it?

I'm almost too embarrassed to say.



















Dino - 24/7 which included the T40 hit Summergirls. The song I hated was Boyfriend/Girlfriend

So, the other day a kid was looking in our big front window at Jack who was sunning himself. I looked out thw window and said "what are you doing". THe kid replied "Looking at the cat. She's big. She's pregnant, huh."

Poor Jack.

So, one of my 12 year old's best friends is moving to San Diego when the school year is over. Today we're having a big going away party for her with about 40 girls from school. Had it set up for 2 months.

About 8 days ago, we get an invitation to a birthday party for a nephew at the same date and time. We had to RSVP that we can't come and explained why. So they're mad at us. WE'VE HAD THIS PLANNED FOR TWO MONTHS! WE'RE SUPPOSED TO RESCHEDULE 40 PEOPLE BECAUSE YOU LET US KNOW A WEEK AHEAD OF A BIRTHDAY PARTY???????

People get mad too easily.

I went into the gas station today and asked for five dollars worth of gas.
The clerk farted and gave me a receipt.

:D

My dad sent me that one...

Maybe they should adapt that show "Honey We're Killing the Kids" for pet owners :eek: ;)

Jack just has big bones. ;)


Actually, all of our cats are within normal weight limits except Charles and he's lost 3 pounds. Two more to go and he's there.

Jack's problem is that he's got a lot of floppy, furry jammies.

:blush: who told?

Now I'm not a Tom Cruise fan, but you try raising $48 million dollars in a weekend! It's weird that the media is calling this a failure. It still seems pretty decent to me. But if they are comparing it to part two's takings, then yes it's not doing well. I have no plans to see it...

I have Tom on the brain this morning. Did you ever notice that he's always running in all of his movies?

Run, Tom, run!
:D

Well, he sure isn't acting :)

We decided on a whim to see it yesterday. There's a bit where Cruise's screen-wife tearfully asks him to tell her that the love between them is real. My own Tom leaned over to me at this point and said "you know that Katie Holmes has actually had this coversation."

Adjusted for inflation, it did 30% less than the opening weekend of MI II*. I wouldn't necessarily call that a failure, but it is fairly significant drop.





* According to the news report I just heard on the radio. Since I shouldn't be posting right now as it is, I do not have the time to find links to verification.

That's pretty bad.

Some news story I saw said that Tom Cruise's failure & unusual behavior makes him the new Kevin Costner. I thought that was pretty harsh. :D

We saw it last week at a free screening. It was better than I expected. Not the greatest movie of all time. Not even the greatest action movie of all time. But it was enjoyable. PSH of course was awesome. The story was good, and J.J. Abrams' directing was, of course, good.

I haven't seen it, but I Scott Foundis (sp?), movie critic at LA Weekly liked it and said it was better than the first two.

I understand that this movie actually has an MI TEAM (as opposed to just Tom).

so... I get home to see 2 boxes sitting at the front door. since I didn't order anything, nor did I authorize anything to be ordered, I wondered what they were. I should havre known before looking. There is a large lady, who wears mumus and watched QVC all day, living on the next street over. For some reason UPS likes to send her crap to my address. Just because I shop at Lane Giant.com does not mean I also shop at QVC. In the past I have taken her packages to her, but this time one of them is very heavy. I am not going to hurt my back because a UPS driver didn't check the address (same number, totally different street). I called UPS and they acted like I was the one in the wrong because I didn't want to redeliver it. They told me that I would have to wait for a phone call to arrange for them to pick up the boxes and redeliver them to the correct person. GRRRRRR

When I got home I had a message from the local dispatch center. They were much nicer than the call center. She said she would send someone out first thing in the morning. At least I know the package will be safe tonight. It is beind an overgrown rose bush.

Nobody can run in a movie like Tom Cruise. I give him that.

I enjoyed it. Popcorn fluff that won't stay with me for long, but I loved seeing Kerri Russell again. Love, love, love her. More Kerri Russell. The wife that looked like a Liv Tyler / Evangalina Lily (sp? chick on Lost) hybrid drove me a little nuts, but one can't have it all.

Dug the old school action. The scene on the bridge was fantastic. Run Cruise Run...and get smacked into cars more often. That was cool.

We're supposed to go see this Friday night. Neither of us have seen the first two. Would it work as a stand alone movie or would we be totally lost.

I also really want to see Posiden.

Noooooooo, not that song!!!

I can't help it. I hear Posideon and it just starts playing.


And, of course, I feel compeled to share.

It's fine as a standalone. I don't remember the first two at all but I enjoyed this one.

We saw it for free, and I had more fun than I thought I would. Very nice job all around. I love Philip Seymour Hoffman.

I am happy with my music.

Is it bad for me to think that I look damn good? :blush:

Because I do... :cool:

Thanks. Seems MI:3 will be the choice. Nothing like a movie with fire.

Honey, you DO! Don't feel bad.

Soooo, there's something askew in the universe. I'm convinced of it.

I've been a bit "off" lately, sad, upset, depressed even. Maybt it is just because I'm still worrying about my sniffily Charles but, nothing seems to be going the way it should. After Chris' train wreck of a day yesterday, i though "how can things get much odder than this?"

Well, I guess they can. If his day was a train wreck yesterday then my day today could be described as "trashed". Even though I've been productive today I didn't get ANY of the long list of createive endeavors even started. Just now, I gave up and decided to pull out the trash cans for tomorrow is trash day.

Our regular bin is FULL. Overflowig full. As I am taking it out to the curb, struggling with the heavy can, I lose my balance on the edge of the sidewals and fall - me AND the trash - to the cement. OUCH!

To make matter worse, Chris, sitting just on the other side of the window, doesn't hear the crash nor my scream. :mad:

And my back has been feeling so much better lately! :rolleyes:

Oh no! Glad you're ok. Stupid trash.

There is something off, in a big way. Erica and I were talking, it's not limited to the board and was occuring before the grumpy thread (not to be confused with grumpy pants). Other friends, co-workers, random people are just feeling *off* She says "if you're not saying wtf you're in the wtf". Or something like that.

I think it has to do with the crummy weather.

Hey! I just popped an AG invite in the mail- don't you dare break your neck before then!!! (Or after).

I'm sorry- firstly, because I didn't know Charlie-pie was sniffly, but I'm sure he's okay. He's too cute to be otherwise.

Are you okay? You're too cute to be otherwise, too! You all stay healthy and safe, dammit! No more trains, no garbage, nada. Bubble-wrap for all of you!

Where is the grumpy thread! I need that too. Yeah, I feel off too. Early June gloom or something. I had nothing to do all day because boss was out sick, but did I do anything productive? Nah. Just surfed...and didn't even post anywhere! Truly horrendous traffic home, horrid service at a regular restaurant, overworked and stressed hubby needing my support (I tried). Bah. So I'm making up for it by posting incendiary comments in political threads, when I should just bury the old brain in Mr. Pillow and call it.

I won 25 gallons of paint.

Throw in some pizza and beer and you got yourself a party! :D

You've probably noticed that I'm feeling off. Sometimes subtlety is not my strong suit. I don't like where I am and change feels uncertain and a long way off. And there's no guarantee I'll like it when it gets here.

I feel great!


Uh, except for the fact that i broke another toe yesterday. My third broken toe since December. WTF?

:confused: 411?

Yesterday I stubbed my toe on the weight bench (I gotta stop working out barefoot). At first I thought it was a minor irritation - you know, your standard toe stubbing - but the pain wouldn't go away. Now the toe is purple and slightly twisted.

The previous two breaks were on the same pinky toe. I broke it while running down the stairs. And I re-broke it a month later running down the stairs while, uh, drinking.

I need to wear shoes 24/7, I think.

Ow!
:(

I think pinky toes should be chopped off.

And, I think men should tbe the ones to take out the trash.

That's it, J. We're putting locks on your shoes so you can't take them off.

Who are you? Kathy Bates from 'Misery'? :D :p

I must have this shirt:

Swept the series. We're goin to round 3! YAY!

it is hot here, really hot. We never had a chance to adjust to the change, so it seems even hotter than it is. It was 96 at 4pm. ewwwww

Nickolas made me go to his open house tonight. It was pretty much a waste of 20 mins. His teacher left on maternity Tuesday and the "permanent" sub couldn't be bothered to show up. At least I got to meet with his counselor. He goes to group every Tuesday. It is to help some of the smarter kids with patience issues. He looks forward to it. I can see why, after meeting her. I also mentioned that at least he still has her with the upheaval in the classroom.

Please tell me this isn't because they can't provide smarter kids with an education appropriate to their abilities.

Also damn funny:

If MG's kid is in the same program as mine... its a tester program.
Along with giving the 'smarter' kids work at the level they need, they have this pull out time...
My son goes once a week, and its a either a group enviroment, for talking, to help them , in his case him, deal with having to wait for the other kids to catch up to him. Or for the teacher to teach to the other kids before moving on to him.
Since they dont test for GATE till 3rd grade, they cant really segregate the faster kids away from the less than average.
We lucked out last year, and he was in a 1/2 mix, so the not so sharp 2nd's with the sharp 1st's. This year... no such luck.

Anyway... they do this group thing... then they also have like a play room. THis counselor stays with him for an hour.. talks to him, and does whatever he wants to do. None of the time is her choice.
They can play a game, just talk... whatever.

They fell it lets these kids have control over part of their day.

Anyway.. as I said.. her kid may be in a different program.. but thats kind of how ours works.

Awesome shirt! That led me to onehorseshy.com and they have some other great shirts.

I want to wear this on election days.



This one's for Lisa



:evil:

hehehe! I need this for my collection of Evil shirt. Oh, and the kitty is nice too. ;)

Speaking of cute and evil...

My librarian coworker needed to make a flyer of fantasy books for kids. The head librarian didn't like her graphic choice (books and stars) and said she needed to add a unicorn. She, like me, has had plenty of unicorns and rainbows, so I suggested a knight and/or dragon. She came back with a flyer cover that cracked us all up: A huge wicked angular dragon about to destroy a tiny cute princess and a tiny cute unicorn. :evil:

Now that is something I would like to see :D

I need to have a really healthy lunch. I just don't know what I want.

I did not have a healthy lunch. I feel blah and overstuffed...

I had chocolate donuts for breakfast.

They were not little.

I did drink milk though.

Whole milk.

Everything sounds dramatic if you just put a short sentence on each line.

No, not at all. It is for kids that have had behavioral issues in the past, that get easily frustrated when they have to think things out. It isn't a "you got in trouble so you have to see a counselor" but more of a "let's try to keep you out of trouble so you don't have to see the principal." I
n Nick's case, he has issues relating to other kids his age. He also hates having to slow down what he's doing to think. He has anger issues related to a strong sense of "fairness." Of course, it is my job to figure out if he was really wronged, or if it is just happening in his own mind.

She said that these kids are really smart, but easily distracted, which can also lead to behavior problems.

Oh good. I keep hearing that "no child left behind" has meant the end of "gifted" programs many places, because the effect of making gov't mandated standards is that places are no longer willing to exceed those standards. :rolleyes: If things had progressed to the point where smart kids were treated as behavior problems just for being smart...I don' know.

So - I am sufficiently freaked out by the Phoenix Rising of the Inspiration Thread.

I mean - wow. It's almost cosmic. Or maybe it just is.

I need a new printer.

Mine's busted. And all I did was hook it up to the new computer. It's like the computer sensed its presence and said "Fool! You can't keep up with me! You're not even shiny! The only shininess you have is on the HP logo, and that's teeny!" and then the printer felt sad and died.

It tried to make itself feel better by spitting out paper, but I don't think it helped much.

take a listen as a man, late for a meeting, calls his boss on the cell phone. during the call he witnesses a traffic collision...

http://livedigital.com/content/79953/

While funny, it doesn't sound real to me, and snopes says "undetermined".

To be precise, Snopes does have confirmation that it is an actual voice mail message left by someone for their boss...but that doesn't mean that the guy leaving the message wasn't full of sh!t.

well that would explain the undetermined mojo.


hope it brought a smile to ya anyway.

I was just reminiscing about our cross-country trip from Monterey to Boston this morning. There are actually certain parts of the desert that I miss. Especially around New Mexico...
*Sigh*
:)

I just got reamed (via email) from my boss. The other girl in my office called out sick today. I took care of her customers and her phone calls. Not a biggy. the one thing I didn't have access to was her email. I guess there was an email in her box from a customer asking about placing an order. It came in at 10am. Since I don't know her password (and the owner/boss is the one who set it up that way), why should I be the one in trouble? I will truly be glad when she leaves Wednesday for the huge stationery show in New York. She is borderline crazy now, but the stress of the show is making her downright nutso. I am really seeing why there has been a large turnover of employees.

Sounds like your boss has issues. Hang in there.

I don't know if this is going to make any sense but here goes...

Ever watch Bugs Bunny and every so often Mel Blanc does a male voice that's usually designated for a human male character? Like he always sounds nasally and has a kind of a Jersey accent? There's a guy in my office that sounds exactly like that. And he's loud. Everytime he talks it makes me smile. It's Looney Tunes around here, folks.
:D

The physics teacher I had seemed normal until we did our unit on sound. He recorded himself singing row row row your boat, and the whole class suddenly realised that he sounds exactly like Kermit the Frog.

Whenever I "rested my eyes" while he was talking I just pictured Kermit in a lab coat teaching.

So today on my way to work I was almost run off the road by a maniac in a Yukon. Apparently I wasn't going fast enough because I wasn't riding the ass of the car in front of me in 15 mph traffic. He decided to get on the side of me and move over. Thankfully the people in the carpool lane saw what was happening and left me enough room to swerve over. I had room to speed up finally so I did and he moved over to the carpool lane and started screaming at me, waving something, not watching where he was going at all. I called 911 but by the time someone picked up (2 minutes on hold) he was long gone.

I'm the world's worst admin asst. I was asked to help cover our building's admin assist's lunch and, of course, I was not happy about that. So I'm answering phones and have no idea where or how to transfer anyone, so I just guessed. :D Then someone hands me something to fax. I just looked at them and pointed to the fax machine. 'Figure it out.' I said. Yeah, I'm picking up on this Boston thing really well...

No appetite today. Had less than a bowl of cereal this morning and am not even hungry for lunch. I'm also feeling the usual weakness I get when I don't eat. Now I have to decide what I'm going to force myself to eat. Sigh.

It's gonna be a low-key day.

I feel for you. I have not yet regained my appetite and doubt I ever will, and I all too often take the easy route and have some chocolate to raise my blood sugar levels. Getting off of sugar - or at least significantly reducing my intake - is proving to be challanging because I just don't want to eat.

I've taken to drinking Ensure. It makes me feel old, but it does the trick. I just have to drink it, it's palatable, and filled with a decent amount of nutrition.

Funny thing - I ended up having a decent lunch of soup and salad and eating all of it.

Was it a case of not being hungry until you found something that sounded sorta good? And then being hungry?

I had Chipotle tacos. Again. I was there Saturday night too. Their margaritas are amazing. Too bad you can't get one to go. ;)

I miss Poquito Mas in Burbank.
:(

I wasn't hungry at all until I sat down with the food in front of me. Then I ate and ate like a machine.

My body loves sending me the wrong signals :rolleyes:

Good lord. I think Ben Stein is teaching my class.

I lost my identity today, my workplace identity - that is my work ID, which normally is clipped to a belt loop. It seemed to have gotten unclipped just as I was stepping onto the Metro, where it slid into the toater slot that is the space between train and platform. I leave tomorrow on a business trip. I won't need it there. But when I return, I'll need it to enter the building and such. Some how it's comforting that I can procrastinate for a week or so on this with little or no consequence.

Spongebob once thought he lost his identity when he couldn't find his Krusty Krab nametag. It was on his shirt, which he was wearing backwards.

Have you checked the other side of your shirt?

Soooo....I just made ressies at Goofy's Kitchen for the Girl's birthday, largely because a certain other planned venue won't be operating during our visit. (Fantasmic balcony).

Oh, and Scaeagles is evil.

No denial from me.:)

I had witnesses - in fact, I was actually oblvious to the entire set of events, lost as I was in the noise-cancelled beat of Daft Punk rocking from my iPod. My seatmates described the loss and made me realize I should have mided the gap just a wee bit better,

I saw a lady lose her CD walkman in a subway slot the other day. That's what she gets for bucking the system. Who uses CD Walkmen now? No one. Time to get current, lady. :D

I kid. She was walking in, the doors closed on her Walkman, it fell off her belt, hit the side of the train and uncoupled from her headphones cord falling onto the rails. Seconds later the train took off. No more Walkman playing Anne Murray for her.

Being a Bostonian, she had to talk to the entire train about it. "Well, that's what I get for not paying attention. After it hit the side, it was still playing in my ears, talk about non-skip. So much for that, huh? It's probably smashed now. Oh well."

:)

I can't believe it. I found a song dumber than 'My Humps' by the Black Eyed Peas. 'Beep' by the Pussycat Dolls. Okay, the Beeps in the song are sound effects. They don't actually say 'Beep'. AND this is the only version of the song. There isn't an un-Beeped song. Not that I care...

"It's funny how a man only thinks about the...BEEP
You got a real big heart, but I'm looking at your...BEEP
You got real big brains, but I'm looking at your...BEEP
Girl, there ain't no pain in me looking at your...BEEP

I don't give a...BEEP
Keep looking at my...BEEP
'Cause it don't mean a thing if you're looking at my...BEEP
I'm a do my thing while you're playing with your...BEEP
Ha, ha-ha, ha-ha, ha-ha..."

:rolleyes:

I'm still thinking about bunnies....

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

Chihuahua!

I went to feed a puppy and came home to find this:

Aww, kitty fangs. How adorable. :)

I'd crop it down to just Maleficent and snarling kitty and use it as an avatar.

Speaking of which, if I ever get a moment where I'm at home but not bunny-sitting, I may at some point actually whip up a new avatar. Yeah, it'll never happen.

But, he's not snarling. He's just a lazy ass cat.

Look at gentle baby Dexter down below!!!

AWWWW!!!

I had a dream early this morning that I was applying for a job at a company that made cute little medium sized stuffed bears in a rainbow of pastel colors. However, these cute little things were animatronic and were designed to make unexpected and surprising movements.

Scary!

So, I'm really glad we picked up the Neko Case album in our last binge

There was this mentally challenged guy on the subway this morning laughing at everything he saw. He laughed at me when I made eye contact, he laughed at a woman opening a newspaper, he laughed at his shoes... It actually made me laugh, too. It also made me think, 'Yeah, man, you got it right. This world is pretty hysterical if you look at it the right way.' Sometimes you can learn a lot from strangers.
:)

Have you been watching Kids Next Door? Those sound like Rainbow Monkeys... at least they stick with my after I watch that.

And your window... is that not NORMALLY a kitty resting spot?

Rainbow Monkeys? TV? ;)

And, the window has ecome a popular place for kitties in the afternoon. They like to bake.


Following GC Laughing Guy post:


We were heding to DL last Sunday and took the 22 to Euclid. We were at a stoplight on Euclid and a homeless man was standing on the street with his weewee out fondling it like there was no tomorrow. He was showing it off to the people in a car ahead of us. I didn't have time to pull out my camera (and Chris didn't want me to encourage him). But, that's something you don't see every day.

Poor guy. Even with all of that fondling and exhibition he couldn't get it up.

Give a guy a break. I was He had probably been drinking all afternoon, and you know what that does to performance.

Shh. He looks so evil next to Maleficent! :)

OMG, the thought of driving somewhere and seeing MY HUSBAND fondling himself on a freakin' freeway exit ramp! :eek:

I want one of those freaky stuffed animals NA dreamed about.

I'm waiting for the day when a homeless man begs me for money to get some viagra

Given a choice between money to buy a bottle of booze or some viagra, my guess is booze wins every time.

I was at Lake Compounce amusement park, when a mentally challenged guy on the skyride started jerkin' off like crazy. It was surreal - but the view of Boulder Dash from up there IS kind of inspirational.

http://rcdb.com/ig602.htm?picture=9

I wonder if they can make a drink that combines the two - now that would be a cocktail

I was offered Viagra ice cream on street in mexico. Didn't take up the offer though.

Yeah who wants a painfull erection and an ice cream headache at the same time

I am tired of hearing about the following:

The Da Vinci Code - pro and con
American Idol
Britney Spears
The Boston Red Sox

Sooo...

Matthew and watched the first disc of an 8 disc documentary of New York City. It was done by Ric Burns, brother of Ken Burns who did the documentaries of the Civil War, Baseball, and Jazz, all of which I really enjoyed.

This one is just as good, absolutely fascinating. If you have an affection for NYC, I highly recommend it. Can't wait for the next disc to come! :)

That sounds great!

That does sound cool.
:)

Greek-style Fig Yogurt from TJ's is REALLY good! Especially with Ginger Granola.

Bleckcch!

Y'know... a guy takes a little reality break... 5,873 new messages? Oh. My. God.

Ha ha. Get to readin', mousepod! :D

And one new bunny.



Welcome back! Again!

That should teach you to take a break.

The LoT mascot: Munchykin!
:)

I'm on a yogurt kick right now. Must check this out today.

Ah, the joy of having a TJ's within walking distance. :)

I prefer Kashi Go Lean Crunch with vanilla yogurt and fresh strawberries and bananas.

I normally eat TJ's non-fat Vanilla yogurt with my ginger granola, but the fig stuff just seems too good not to try. However, it is not non-fat, so I won't be making a habit of it.

So I just read an adaptation of Jekyll and Hyde for the modern musical stage written by Kurt Vonnegut. Easily the most cynical 30 pages of text I've ever read in my life. My favorite part being the stage direction, "sexually aroused by wealth".

So I don't know how I am supposed to watch the Ducks game when I don't have access to OLN or CBC. And no, I can't go to the Pond tonight.

Let's go Ducks! /sob I want to be there :(

I suppose if I look on the bright side I'm saving $180 on tickets to the two games I'm missing.

Yesterday I couldn't wait to get home to my things and my kitties and my space.

Today I want nothing more than to be back in the magical world of no adult responsibilities. I don't want to work. I don't want to have to get ahead. I don't want to pay bills and manage finances and arrange things.

Every time I feel I want to regress back to childhood, I remember the time when I wanted nothing so much as to be an adult, so I could eat all the Oreo cookies I wanted with no one telling me otherwise. I hadn't been introduced to the scale yet.:rolleyes:

We've got OLN here, in HD even :D

I'm jealous.

/cry.

The door's usually open (just don't let the kitties out)

/sigh. I wish I could. And I appriciate it. Really, I do. And I'm assuming you know what I'm after. It's so tempting. And gas there would still cost less then the tickes to the game. /cry.

Hmm, I'd like to know what happened to our zapppop. He hasn't posted anything lately. What gives?

:)

He hates us.

Zapppop, whereofore art thou?? Yooohoooo....!

Workin' for the mouse hasn't left him much time for posting.

I know he's mobile. He can post if he really loves us.

:D

His internet was down for the past two weeks - but he should be on line again

Saturday, I was on my way home from picking up paperwork from the Old People (they are taking off again, until August) when my cell phone rang. I didn't look at the number so I wasn't dure who it was. It was my best friend from High School!! We hadn't talked in over 12 years. She is tracking people down for our 20 year reunion. It was totally out of the blue. We had a really long talk and promised to keep in touch. This call was just so random and strange, it really took me by surprise.

12 years is a long time. Are you going to your reunion?

I'm having a bad morning...

That's cool.

I'm a bit disappointed in that area. I graduated in 1986, so this year is 20 for me, and the people I have contact with from HS have heard of nothing. No one is planning. The person everyone kind of expected to do it decided a couple of years ago to go to law school and is too busy to do it.

So....no reunion for me. :( I wouldn't have missed it.

wow... this year is 15 for me... My day has just gotten worse.

Ditto.
And next year is my 20... (class of '86 was always a little slow on the uptake, imo) ;)

I'm not commenting on what year it is for me.

A night game of MA was the night of my 10 year. As I hung up the phone one of TTs high school friends said to me with a weird look on her face "what reunion", to which I replied my "10 year reunion", to which she replied "you're not in high school?! We thought you were still in high school!!!!!!!!" :D :D :D

Ducks lost. Again. Down 2-0. We lost both at home. This does not bode well for us away.

I wouldn't have been caught dead at my 10 year reunion.

My body is still on east coast time. I don't want to go back to work tomorrow.

I skipped my 10 year last year because I didn't want to spend 180 bucks on a crappy prom. I did want to show off my gorgeous husband and wonderful life, but eh.

Maybe 15 or 20?

And that's why I chose MA over my reunion. I knew I would have much more fun. And it was cheaper.

Crappy prom it was. Last I heard the people who organized it were trying to get partial refunds to everyone who attended because it was so bad. And to top that off, they started letting anyone who showed up in, regardless of if they paid or not.

My 10 year is coming up. My group of friends are forgoing the $80/person lameness at some hotel. Instead, we're continuing the tradition we started for our 5 year reunion...this will be the 6th Annual Drink-n-Swim where we get together in our friend's parents' kick-ass backyard, bbq up an obscene amount of food, kick the frozen margarita machine into high gear, and try not to embarass ourselves too much. :D

There was a 10 year, but only for the "pretty people." I found out about it from the 1 person I still talk to on a regular basis (not by choice, but she is the older sister of David's deceased best friend). She wasn't invited either, but she knew about it.

Honestly I don't really care to go. Even back then most of my friends were either older or younger than me. Cheryl was one of the few people in my class that I hung out with. She is putting it on with the only other person I would want to see. They aren't planning on having it until the Thanksgiving weekend, so there is still much time to talk myself into going. I was only there my Jr and Sr years, so I really don't care either way.

I'm going to my 10 year college reunion this October. I'm kind of looking forward to it, but I'm afraid most of the people I was close to won't be there.

I just watched Chronological Donald Part 2 on DVD. Love it. I love Donald Duck. When I read the title to this thread just now, I read it in a Donald voice. But you have to do it jumping up and down on one foot with one arm extended with the hand balled up into a fist. Quack quack quack! :D

So I've found someone who is delighted with the fact that I'm somewhere in the top percentile when it comes to hirsuteness...Munchkin loves to sit on my chest and groom me.

Have you taught him to french-braid yet?:D

See, now I can't read it without hearing "Sooooo you're looking for a laughing place....."

So they killed a black bear near the UW campus the other night. (The death was accidental; they were trying to tranquilize it.) Now my mother is sending me warnings about black bears - plural - being *on* campus and not to walk around alone.

Poor bear!
The only way to tranquilize a bear is to give her lots of Gin and Tonics...
:D

I so <3 TiVO. It recorded the Simpsons and Family guy finalies.

I have hours of TV to catch up on now.

I tried watching the Simpsons finale. Couldn't make it through the whole thing, bloody awful. Although I was surprised by the Rapture episode recently. That was actually good.

What does that mean? Is this an internet abbrevation thing? Is it code? Is it pointing to something? I'm out of the loop. I need the scoop. It's V shaped, does it have to do with Da Vinci? With V for Vendetta? Spill it, Marla.
:D


No really, what does it mean?

What the matter? You don't like Mandy Moore and Stacey Keach? :D

I thought it was pretty lame-o, too.

It's a heart, on its side.

Are you Marla?

I'm joking. :D Okay, I get it. <3 I see it now. It's kind of a broken heart isn't it? It's cool, now I can only see the heart and not 'less than three'.
:)

With the talk about HS reunions and my disappointment about no 20th planned, I got a notice about my 20th in the mail today. Funny.

I'd check the validity of said invitation. It could have been sent by someone here to trick you into going somewhere to capture you. Think about it, man. What would Jack do?
:D

Was it post marked "NSA"?

I'll be sure to take my man purse so that I'm prepared.

If I hadn't just posted about where I went to HS today, I would suspect NA of trying something like that. Too quick of a turnaround for her to have found actual names of people I was friends with in HS that are putting it together.

Now you've got it.

Ack, what am I doing here? I have to get to rehearsals! I'm late.

If I told you I'd have to kill you.

Moi? Sweel little innocent le? That's PREPOSTEROUS!

Yes, yes I am. :p

go, but armed to the teeth :evil:

Exactly. This is why I'll have my man purse.

Soooo...One of our garage doors broke last night- the thingamajig broke away from the wall and the whatsyamacallit came off the track, and there were a few ominous looking wires hanging from the sides of the door. So naturally, we tried to force it open manually. That's how we discovered that the thingamajig was broken, because it gouged out a small crevice in one of the panels of the door. We managed to get it closed again and thought perhaps we should call someone who could actually fix the damn thing. Having just remodeled a large portion of the house and then bought a new water heater, we were sweating the bill on this one. Today, we called the people who had installed our opener, they came out within the hour and had it fixed in no time. We got it repaired and also got a new remote for the opener (we had lost one of them) and it only came to a little over $100. I was shocked, both by the cost and rapidity of service. So, of course we ran to Borders and spent a small fortune. :D

Ralphie was listening to some talk show on the radio tonight and a caller announced that Oprah Winfrey was killed in a head on collision tonight. I found him at home frantically looking it up on the internet. I panicked for a second until we couldn't find anything online. I'm guessing it was some nutjob on the radio. I had Diana flashbacks for a second. I was also thinking, 'I guess I really do like Oprah after all...'

I have new tea from BN Cafe. Peach Ginger Tiwst by Harney & Sons. It's delicious.

I'm thinking of making myself a cup of tea.

Which brings up my mug delimma. I have mugs like this:

But now the mugs look like this:

BUT, the place settings are now coming with a teacup & saucer instead:

Do I need teacups with saucers?

Oh yeah. I was gonna make tea.

No - they don't hold as much tea and make two things you have to wash.

Speaking of tea, I had a really cool lunch at Jiko a week+ ago - food and tea pairings. Really interesting, and I need to order some of the teas I really liked.

Does Jiko always do that, or was that a special something?

Hey wait--Jiko is open for lunch?

Food & tea pairings might just get me into Jiko. I'd like to know more, please.

Oh don't kid yourself. You'll just end up taking a left into Boma...

You're probably right. It has before.

Who put those two next to one another? One should be upstairs from the lobby so that cannot is less likely to happen.

Both GD and CP have changed their avatars. I'm thrown. I'm completely discombobulated.
:D

I know. I hate when people do that.

;)

E tu, Brute...?

Only I'm allowed to change avatars so frivilously.
:D

I like the painting artsy-ness of MBC's avatar. I'm going to put my Joni painting back up.

I make it easy. I have no avatar.

I thought it was time to have an accurate representation of myself.

I'm sure someone could make you an American Dad avatar... That's the voice I hear while I read your posts... :D
Wait, is that Kid Rock?

You know, it'd be less pathetic if it were. No, it's one of the random "every day people" type photos that Yahoo displays on their webmail login page. He cracks me up every time.

Cool! I like it.

I also have no avatar. People aren't getting me mixed up with scaeagles, are they?

Some dinglecheese pulled the fire alarm in our building... again. This is like the 4th or 5th time we had to evacuate the building since I started this job in December. Lame-o!

Well, your title is "double agent". If you change it to something sphincter related, there may be a problem.

Which one of you lives far away again?

GD decided to change his and I finally got motivated to put in my recent Coachella pic. Couldn't resist that swanky trashcan again (speaking of confusing posters...)

Besides, seeing my grinning mug next to rant posts always made me feel ineffectual. ;)

Speaking of Kurt...

Back in my freshman year at college, we were assigned to read Kurt's "Breakfast of Champions" and write a critical essay on it's contents. My roommate received a failing grade for "content" so he took the graded paper and mailed it to Kurt to ask his opinion. About a month later he received a reply:

Speaking of which, if I was truly swank rather than just doing what I can to act the part, would I know who that avatar is?

No. You are the poster that had the guts to meet us in real life.

:D:evil:

Well, if you'd actually read the posts next to all those pretty pictures you might.

Great story! :)

I'm tortured with traffic school....

:(

Hmmm. I don't think I've ever met you.

I'm hungry.

OK....I admit it. I might catch gay disease. I'm frightened.:)

You're not gay. We don't need any more Log Cabin Republicans...
:D

I love craigslist.com. I just scored a 55 gallon glass aquarium with a stand, hood and light for $30.
I'm one happy... fish tank hobby... person.
:)

Oooh, cool!

I love fishtanks. Lots of work, though.

Salt water or fresh?

That's besides the point. :) scaeagles doesn't know that.

I'm not smart enough to take care of a salt water tank. It's too hard for me. :D

Freshwater, baby! :)

And it is a lot of work. But it's so purty once it's all set up and the fishies are happy. It's also a little environment that I can control and reign over. Bwahahahaha! And, yes, I usually do theme it in some way...

So yesterday my coworker returned from the restroom and reported that he saw someone stepping out of a stall with an obvious "Out of Service" sign taped to it.

Today, the "Out of Service" sign is taped across the edge of the door, and the door is jammed shut with toilet paper in the latch. Some maintanance guy was not pleased with what he found last night.

That really ticks me off. I mean, it was one thing to witness the disturbing bathroom habits of guys in the dorms. They were dorms. But we're talking grown adults here! And it's not like he had to use that stall. In my 2 years here I have never seen more guys than stalls in a bathroom, and even if there were, there's a bathroom here every 10 freaking feet.

Bunch of savages in this town.

I know what you're going to ask, and for the last time the answer is no!

;)

Man, Boo Boo the chicken died? How come nobody said anything...? :D
Source

Arkadelphia? Is that anywhere near Massaneticut?

So then, I suppose this means no friggen sharks with friggen laser beams, eh?

I used to have a saltwater tank. It wasn't that difficult. Plus, I had the cutest little puffer fish who lived for a very long time.

I don't have the magic touch when it comes to pets like you, NA. :D Besides, freshwater seems to be less expensive too.

wenchybeth ~ There are some freshwater sharks. But they're not really sharks, they resemble sharks. But I do have my hot glue gun ready to attach the laser guns to their frickin' heads... :D

Did someone say SHARKY?

I'd be so broke if I had a fish that size.

"Ralphie, did you buy that side of beef for Sharky?"
"I forgot."
"Get the handtruck, we'll go to the butcher's together..."

Aww Sharky would be well fed and you could keep him in the bathtub!

When I graduate college I want to go cage diving. And I'll probably be down there going here Sharky Sharky Sharky.

I totally want to do a cage dive. With white sharks. Totally. I'm trying to hook myself up now with Ralphie's friends in science...

Oooo OOOO! I'm so jealous. If you get the hook up see if there is room for one more. I'd much prefer to cage dive with scientists then as a tourist thing. :p

Of course I need to get SCUBA certified.

I prefer air to water. I have no desire to be where I can't breathe with creatures that can eat me and that can come at me from any and every angle where I have limited at best visibility.

I'll jump out of a plane anyday, but no shark diving for me. Uh-uh.

Setting up and installing stuff on a new computer is boring and take too long.

Daft Punk CD arrived today. Television rules the nation!

Holy moley. Ralphie and I did some Scotch tasting tonight. Wow, I think I'm knackered! Oban, Glenfidditch, Michael Couvreur... Yikes. Me sleep well tonight.
:D

I did some cocktail tasting here tonight and gorged myslef on many Latin treats.

Iwas just taken down by one of Nick's toys. He has a Pokemon toy that shoots little plastic darts from its mouth. One of the darts has gotten stuck. He brought it to me with a set of needle nose pliers. The pliers slipped and my thumb (the fleshy pad part) ended up caught where the handle comes together. For a minute I thought it broke the skin, but nope, it is just a massive blood blister in the making and it hurts like crazy.

Poor kid took the toy away and said, "It's ok, it will just have to be stuck." He then brought me a large cup of ice water to soak my throbbing thumb. He feels very guilty right now, so I had him kiss it to hlep it feel better.

Good lord woman! Subjecting him to USH with us wasn't bad enough? :evil:

Sorry to hear about your thumb! Pliers are cruel.

LOL Nah, compared to the people he is usually around you all are tame. Actually he is still talking about what a good time he had.

I do see where Nickolas got his stubborn streak. I was NOT gonna let some stupid toy kick my ass. I went after it again, this time I got it. I did end up with another, smaller owey on the base of my index finger, but it didn't hurt like my thimb. Every time I said owey he took the tools away until I promised him I would be more careful.

He's such a greaat kid! Every time you tell a story about him it makes me smile.

Sooo, I was at a sports store tonight buying camping stuff for my sis, who apparently didin't learn much when we were growing up. Her b-day is looming, and she wanted new stuff, so there I was. Anyway, standing in line I noticed a very small cylandrical object- no more than three inches long- with a full pack of teeny little batteries. A Laser! Totally doable! Interestingly enough, there was also some duct tape nearby......

Call me when you're ready, GC.:D

Excellent. My shark minion army is close to being ready.
:D

I would love to get my little fish tank running again. I used to have a few tetras and a dwarf frog. I just don't have anywhere to put it. If Princess Peach (who only anwers to Pretty Pretty Princess Peach) would share her huge cage with the others then I would have room, but nooooo...Instead I have 2 cages on the base of my fireplace and no room for fishies.

Ok, am I sick? I keep having a visual of one of the "floor" rats climbing on top of the fish tank and falling in. Just the thought of it is making me giggle.

I have to remember to check whether a CD is "enhanced" before purchasing. I can't rip the tracks for my iPod = I can't listen to this in the car. :mad:

I may have to buy this stuff again on iTunes.

By any chance was it the green dragon thing??? We had that problem the other day... that was a pain to get out.

Sorry about the blood blister... I hope it all worked out.
Any pokemon stuckness is better than the Spider one with the discs that get stuck. ;)

Soooo, Chris is at O'Hare trying to get on a plane. He may end up on stand by on a direct light to LA OR he will end up on one that stops in LV, which he has a ticket for, and leaves 5 minutes before the direct flight from a different terminal.

I am picturing Chris as OJ Simpson dashing through the airport. Can I call him Juice when he gets home?

I wouldn't refer to anyone who loves me as OJ. Would make me fearful for my life.

So......my 6 year old first grade son is the pickiest eater on the planet. He literally survives on peanut butter sandwiches, fruit, and milk. No other protein. No veggies. I'm not going to force feed the kid (I was as a child...shudder....), so if he doesn't want variety, I can live with it, as what he's eating isn't really bad for him.

The school he goes to has about 700 K-6 grade students.

However, with the physical fitness tests they do, only 13 out of the 700 students reached the highest level of achievement for their age level, being at the 90th percentile or higher in each of 8 physical tests.

I think I'm going to start a new nutrition plan.

Peanut butter has protein...

Pair him up with my seven year old... maybe if one of them will eat something, the other will.

That's why I said "no other protein".

No, someone stuck Blazeken's projectile in the whale-like thing. It is funny, but now that Cartoon Network went from Yugioh GX to Pokemon at 5:00 all of the boys around here are back to playing with pokemon cards and action figures. They had stopped for about a year.

Ah... no , my son is too orginizied for that.
If it came with x, you use it with x, period.

ha! Mines not home early enough to see that, but he has the dvd's.
And we still go to Pokemon League on Sundays....

Ah well. Chris had to fly to Vegas, where he now resides. But, very soon, he will get on another plane and end up at LAX. YAY! This has been a long 10 days.

He didn't do it. He had a friend over and they were playing with the action figures. It was after Trent left that Nickolas found it that way. Nick still begs me to take him to a local bookstore for their Friday night Yugioh tournament, but it creeps me out. There are more adult men there than young boys.



On an icky note, the warm weather has brought out black widows in droves. We are finding them everywhere at work and now I just killed a huge one in the patio/car port (it is technically a patio, but since it is full of David's toys in various stages of restoration, I have resigned myself to it being a carport).

So...The moment they told me I could switch to a direct flight because I had already checked my baggage and "You must now fly with your bags" I knew they would loose them. Sure enough, I arrived in LA but my bags went to Vegas. I feel so safe now that homeland security ensures that I'm too inconvenienced to be a terrorist.

Don't you just love airports? Bleh.
:D

Friends of ours from Hawai'i came to visit us for the weekend. They came bringing gifts of Hawaiian food. How happy was I last night? Very. I haven't had poi in like a year. It was wonderful. I was totally in heaven last night.
:)

My wife was born in Hawaii. Lived there till she was 10. She is going there with her dad for a week in early June.

Poi is nasty. Majorly, majorly nasty.

You're such a haole. :D
Poi is awesome! I grew up eating the stuff. Love it love it. I equate it to people who love grits. It's an acquired taste.

Thank you for not writing "howlie".

No prob. However you get during a full moon is your business.
:D

So what do you think of my new look?

Promo-man new look = MBC old look.

I bought this and this . I just have to figure out how to use it. Erica talked me out of buying this since I'd only be using two of the colors. Though I really want the blending and foiling brush. I may have to buy it stand alone.

I also bought this after using it during MA. I normally use Coppertone Sport and have been hesitant to try a spray, but after MA I gave it a shot. I highly recommend it.

I highly recommend CoverFX over B. E.. I found it a much better product all around.

Sooo....

I have a lot of music.

Soon to have more.

I'm addicted.

It's amazing that I'm up to 73 days of straight music, and it's only about 1/8 of what I used to have.

YIKES!

Wheee! So far, spring semester turned out much better than fall. Conlaw grade went up from a B to an A- and I scored an A in Computer Crime and Privacy - I *knew* I nailed that essay exam!

Now I just have to wait on copyright and legal writing.

Come over! ;)

I am almost to the point where I need to either invest in a hard drive or good speakers for my computer.

I have an external hard drive with all my music. What I need to do is find time to listen to it. Maybe tonight on my drive.

I need to leave but my pants aren't dry yet. Such a quandry.

I'm not sure how to respond to this. :)

We just bought a 300GB external drive for our plethora that keeps growing. I spend an afternoon moving all of our files over there from the laptop. Now I need to network my iPod to it and choose a measly 4 GBs to load.

Next time use the toilet :eek:

It's a laundry quandry!

The next upgrade for my beloved Cheeseburger 9000?

2 of these in a RAID 0 array. (I've only got 160 gigs at the moment - 2 80gig drives in RAID 0)

(If I can convince the lovely MonkeyRose that I really NEED a terabyte of storage)

So copy protection is a pain in the ass - got the new Dresden Dolls album and all I want to do is copy it to my ipod so I can actually listen to it - my 5 minute commute from the station is no longer prime CD listening time.

Anyway, the CD has a nasty new copy protection that creates a folder that is inaccessible and cannot be deleted. I've spent the past hour or so relearning DOS to copy the files and delete the annoying folder.

Since trying to use legitmately purchased media is such a pain I think I may start pirating MP3s again to avoid this headache. Thanks Music Industry

I see a niche market for print yourself CD inserts. Buy the album on iTunes, and you can print the insert at home. No more CD, no more dealing with the copy protection, no more having 1000s of plastic cases sitting around the house.

like mother, like son.

:D

So....we go out to California Pizza Kitchen last night for dinner, as we usually go out on Friday or Saturday.

While at the table, my 6 year old son says "Mom, what's the opposite of Saturn?" Not that planets have an opposite, but anyway, he says "Pattern! Get it?"

So, not knowing that my son knows the order of the planets, I say to no one in particular "What's the opposite of the second planet?" My 12 year old daughter immediately turns red and my wife shoots me this look. After 10 seconds of thought, my son yells out "Penis!!!". Everyone withint 10 tables of us looks over.....I was in the doghouse with the wife last night.....

So does milk. It's probably enough.

Sorry for the delay...
It was a Disney Dining Experience 'thing' - they normally do Food and Wine dinners, and decided to try something different - so the whole place was closed except for this - and they'd rearranged the tables in the wine room (I think that's the wine room, the small room next to the bar) to be 4 long tables. I hope the timing works out that they're doing something cool next time I'm there, at this point, during the F&W fest, so I'm not sure if they do much that would compete with that.

So in addition to 20% off food and alcohol at most sit-down restaurants (and a few counter service), you get the opportunity to go to special events (for a price, of course)!

I was baa-aad last night. We went out to dinner, and then to a movie. I had had a couple of drinks with dinner, not totally drunk, but a mild, pleasant buzz was going on. I walked into a jewerly store at the outdoor mall where the theater is... It is usually closed, but now I know why I should not have gone in there. I saw a gorgeous pink tourmaline (sp?) ring with opals set into the band!! It was done in a unique setting, and I WANT THIS RING!! It is also much cheaper than the stuff that caught my eye in the DL jewerly store. **drool**

... Friday night I was at a party. I was talking with this guy and we were talking about where we grew up... HB. Then where he went to high school... same school as me. Elementary school... same school as my friend... yup, he remembers her. He was a year ahead of me, don't think he remembers me, I didn't remember him.

All together now....

Sooooo... Let's say I decide to ditch this place and start over somewhere else. The sky's the limit. Hmmmm

Anywhere, huh?

OK... :cheers: HERE! :cheers:

Some sorry #&%*@$ already bought it out from under me, though:D

:eek:
Watch it Capt.
(I cant even swear that I do that)

Until I clicked the link, I thought you had found a new message board. :D Luckily, the link explained your post and I didn't have to resort to throwing things at you and calling you a traitor.

Okay, that was seriously funny. :D
Ha ha, Leo. Busted!
lol!

Sooo... Nick left out the cookies he was eating yesterday...we now have 5 rats, all on a sugar high, scrambling all over him for more cookies.

All I am hearing is rats going crazy, the sound of any food package gets a Pavlovian response from them, and a boy saying (over and over), "You already had [i]your[i] cookie, leave Squiggle's cookie alone."

EEEK!!! Now they are attacking me!! I keep telling them I am not the one with the food, but they aren't listening!!

Is it generally a bad sign to wake up screaming "ELEPHANTS!!!!"?

Only if you wake up under a stampede of them, CM. :D

i first read this as "girls".:D

lol! :D Yeah, never acquired a taste for them...


On a completely different subject, why do people tape their envelopes shut? Scotch tape all over the flap part of the envelope... Don't they know that it makes it impossible to open it with a manual letter opener? Did Oprah tell people to do that on her show or something?
:D

Have you ever gotten a paper cut on your tongue? :p

When I remember, I tape shut my bills (some of those envelopes have glue that's not very sticky). But I don't tape the entire flap down. One piece in the center will do.

All the checks clear, so I presume they're not having any trouble getting to my money.

And dont forget about the cockroach eggs. ;)

Yes. Yes, I have. My tongue is amazing. It heals as fast as Wolverine's.
One in the center is fine. One, two, three long pieces across the entire flap is annoying. There's no place to stick your letter opener in.

I guess there are worse things that could happen.
:D

It says I can win a free ringtone on my Diet Pepsi bottle. Woopee freakin do. Ringtones! Pshaw. What's wrong with what I got: 'Hello Moto?!' I want to win tens of iTunes downloads again...
:D

Do you know the muffin man?

The muffin man?

The muffin man?

That lives on Drury Lane?

I beat up the muffin man in front of my kids because I hate him.

You ruined a perfectly good bit with violence...
:D

Compassionate conservatism

He was trying to cut in on my mobile ice cream business with his muffins. He's not union, so we had to send a message.

Leo snuffed the muffin man.

The Muffin Man?


Bastard. Let's get him!

I hear the Scone Girl, the Donut Woman and the Eclair Boy are now in protective custardy.

They're not the ones we want. It's those pesky little girl scouts and their cookies.

Custardy - LOL

Are you saying the muffin man is a bastard and therefore you want a piece of him too, or that I am a bastard for beating up (no "snuffing" involved here - it was just a message, after all) the muffin man?

You're not suggesting that you were merely the messenger in this crime?

I know- Clinton did it, right?;):D

He's looking for ya, Scaeagles......

Got milk?

I'll watch out for him, but I'm not afraid of him getting me at home. My wife regularly burns cookies, and I'm sure he knows it.

Man, I go into the office for a few hours and come home to almost 100 new posts. Not only that, but I completely miss participating in the utterly ridiculous muffin discussion, of which I'm sure I would have contributed in.

Am I the only one working today? :D

Perfect. :)

All this talk of muffins and cookies has made me hungry.

I'm eating red vines.

Mr. Pibb and red vines equals crazy delicious.

I'm eating a cup of Trader Joe's greek style yogurt as a result of you mentioning it in an earlier post. They didn't have fig, so I settled for strawberry. It's quite good. Very creamy. :)

Thanks for the tip.

My wife got a box of godiva chocolates as a year end present from a student. They are perched happily on my desk, defeating my repeated attempts to stop eating chocolate. Don't think this is a battle I'll be winning.

And nutritious too! ;)

I'll 'fess up.....this is my job. I'm NSA and my job is to monitor the activity of leftist scum such as yourselves.

Really? Screw vegtables, i'm going out and buying some red vines.

I'm working from home and watching the A-Team.

No - not at all. This was just a mob style "message". No snuffing, but some pain involved. I admitted already that I delivered the message.

Monitor this.



;)

Pulled jury duty today. Since I don't have to report until 8:30 am, I go to the jail first and do my morning stuff, then jump in the car and whiz on over to the Civic Center Courthouse in the nick of time. Except there was a bomb scare which closed down the courthouse and City Hall, so I stood out on the street for a couple of hours and watched the firetrucks and helicopters. Finally, after some hours of tedium, I was selected to be part of a jury pool. The bad news: it's probably a 5-week case. The good news: I am so biased that I think that once they read my 10-page(!) questionnaire, they'll let me go. But I have to come back on Thursday.

Yay civic duty.

Soooo, we borrowed the slushy machine from the Gas Station down the street to use for my Graduation open house on saturday...so I'm excited, I get unlimited slushies for awhile.

Am I the only one who sees TDR and thinks Tokyo Disneyrand?

You know what's the best thing ever? Having a boss who has a massive attitude problem, who treats his employees lower than scum and having no one above him do anything about it.

And they wonder why there is a mass exodus from the company.

Let me guess, you covered all ten pages with "All work and no play makes Mousepod a dull boy"...

That would have been great. I had so many fantasies about what I'd write, but I kept remembering the oath I just took, so I stuck to the dirty truth...

I was supposed to do jury duty today but when I called in, I found out I was supposed to call in earlier to register on their hideous voice activated registration system. So come June 19th, I'll be in court where most likely I will be thanked and excused. I have yet to sit on a jury, though I've been through many a panel.

I was worried about clicking the link. I wasn't sure if I was gonna see a roller coaster, or some guy rubbing one out.

So, my classmates voted overwhelmingly to not have a break during class. Not to skip the break and get out early, but to sit through the entire 100 minute class sans break.

What a bunch of brown-nosing suck-ups.

Oo OOO! I discovered something better than that ^^.

A teacher who goes around the room, asks if you have any questions, and then when you do have a question he just says "oh, ok, thank you" and moves on. When you go hey, wait a minute he says no one else had a question. Um, ok. We're in the middle of the room. No one before us had a question but our questions may have answered the questions that they didn't know they had. He continues going around the room and when no one else has a question he uses that to prove his point. Uh, no. You just shut us down. Why would anyone else risk being humilliated in class. :rolleyes: 3 more weeks.

Where have you BEEN??? You've not been present for some of the best openings left for you, and some of us were worried. :P

Speaking of best openings....

You know what's even better? A professor with Parkinson's whose medication makes him mumble. $900/credit for mumbling. No one can understand him. He tries to ask every single person a question during class. Which he can do because he makes us all put up name cards on our desks. We don't know what he asked. When we "answer," we don't know if we were right or wrong.

Fortunately, he appears to be merely mumbling along with his outline. Which we all had to buy. And can read on our own time.

But attendance is mandatory and he takes roll!

Also, and this is petty, but if we're going to be formal, then be formal. If you are Professor Morgan, then I am Ms. Zobrist.

I once had a professor the looked and breathed like a Schleestack from Land of the Lost.

Is it wrong to fall in love with my avatar?



:blush:

Good lord knows I am in love with mine.

There are rats in the drawer at my computer desk, where we keep the paper.

Are these pet rats or visiting unwanted guests...?

Or upper management type rats?

As am I with mine.

:toot!:

Well...they aren't visiting, and they aren't unwanted guests. I am just getting tired of finding yesterday's cookie crumbs om my computer paper. At least now I know where things got stashed.

Soooo, now Buster is in the hospital. He what seems to be a partial blockagein his urinary tract and is getting himself flushed out. It it somthing that could be easy to take care of or it could turn out to be very serious. We caught it early it seems, but it could've been fatal if let go fo 48 hours or longer. I'm glad I'm home enough to know the routines of the cats. Poor beautiful Buster. I hope he comes home to us on Friday.

I'm glad you caught it in time! For years I wouldn't have boy kitties because a vet told me they tend to develop FUS, which my beloved Mork died from back in the early Eighties.

Big hugs to your Buster, and I hope he's home and well soon!

NA - you are such a good mommy to your kids. I'm glad you caught it in time (and not a bit surprised).

On another note, when you hear a crunch that sounds like it's a rib cracking, there's a very good chance that you cracked a rib.

Do you need some duct tape, MP?

So I've been trying to track down a few people I've gone to high school with. It's really hard to find old friends when they have gotten married and changed their names. I've been looking on MySpace and no one looks the same, guys or girls. And no one has their full names or something identifying on their pages.

Oh well.

Well, what I really want to know is what the HELL you were doing to crack your rib? Did H beat you up again? ;)

Someone probably got cranky about the Mousepod being late.......Disney fans can be brutal, you know.

If you must know the boring truth, here goes:
Early last Monday morning, I put on insufficient footwear and proceeded to drag the three bins from the side of our house to the curb for pickup. I successfully negotiated the 30-foot trip with the garbage and recylables, and had just gone back to get the compost from the house, when I lost my footing on the landing between the basement and the kitchen. I pitched forward, about to do a header down the stairs (a bad thing), so I grabbed onto a metal rail and twisted myself away from the staircase. Unfortunately, the force of the fall was so great that as I came around, I slammed my back into said metal rail. One sickening crunch later, and I was on the floor.
Fast forward nine days to yesterday. No bruising, no weird symptoms - except major radiating pain. A trip to the good doctor reveals the cracked (or maybe just bruised) rib.
Ow.

The moral of the story: housework can be hazardous to your health.

mousepod ~ Ouch! :eek: I hope the pain goes away soon. So much for my theory of a rival Disney podcaster attempting a hit on you... :D

Sucks, doesn't it. And there's nothing you can do. I cracked a rib on the Texas Giant in Dallas years ago. Ow ow ow ow ow!

Who's the Texas Giant?
;)

I don't ride and tell ;)