I like this picture of Matt

Advice for Chad and Chrystal

cuz they're getting married soon and crap.

Lazy Sunday

Currently watching Elizabeth: The Golden Age and since I haven't seen Elizabeth yet and came in late on this one - I really have no idea what's going on, but its pretty to look at.
Went and saw District 9 last night at the Beer Theater. It was really good. Poor cockroach people. After, we went bowling.
Bowling rules.
Usually, the more I drink, the better I bowl. Last night was not the case. The groove was not found. The beer most certainly was.
So today has been a very lazy day.
But that's what Sundays are for.

Favorite Show (right now)

Metalocalypse.
As noted here in Every Brutal Death Scene.
The lyrics for the song from that clip are here.
The lyrics for the show intro are here.

They make me happy.

RIBS!!

Step 1: Go here.
Step 2: Get ribs.
Step 3: Eat them.
Step 4: Take nap.

Redneck Bomb - The Movie

New Hair!

There's blue in it!! YAY!!

Personality Quiz-The Results Show

INFP (Introversion, iNtuition, Feeling, Perception)

You are idealistic, loyal to your values and to people who are important to you. You want an external life that is congruent with your values. You are curious, quick to see possibilities, and can be a catalyst for implementing ideas. You seek to understand people and to help them fulfill their potential. You are adaptable, flexible, and accepting unless a value is threatened. Famous people with your same INFP personality include: Mary the Blessed Virgin, Hellen Keller, William Shakespeare, John F. Kennedy Jr., Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Julia Roberts.

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LMAO!!! Mary the Blessed Virgin?? At least JFK was in there. He was pretty bad ass and had fun at the same time. But he was Catholic. So all he had to do after having a bit too much fun, was go to confession and everything was right as rain again. Maybe I should become Catholic. I always thought that if I ever met Julia Roberts, we'd be really good friends. Plus we both have really big feet. Actually all my friends have really big feet with me. Maybe we should start a club. Hellen Keller was a pretty nifty broad...fightin' the good fight even though she couldn't see or hear it. And every one loves Billy Shake and Jackie O.
I'm still reelin' over the Blessed Virgin Mary though. That's friggin' great.
How do we know these people had this personality quiz result? Its not like they were around to take the 68 question test. Although, I can see them sitting at a laptop in the afterlife going through each question picking one of 2 answers, thinking to themselves...."Hmmm....would I rather sit and read in quiet or go out and meet people on holiday?" What happens if its actually both? Not everything is as black and white. I like to sit and read AND go out and meet people, dammit. Why does my voice not count?!? Oh, because I'm like Hellen Keller and have problems communicating.

Why is there so much yelling?

Its really annoying and it doesn't accomplish anything productive.

Yelling randomly just for fun is cool.

Yelling because you don't know how to argue or debate, not so cool.

Stuff I see outside

There's a hitchhiker on my car. There's one there everytime I come out to my car. They love the cruiser. It's like the lizard taxi.

American Doodie

Was talking to Matt this weekend, during all of our errand running and was thinking about how much money we spent this weekend.
It wasn't a crazy amount. Average really - some stuff we needed, some stuff we merely wanted.
I told Matt a story about how one of my more conservative friends went shopping with me one day a few years back. He scoffed at me and what I was buying and said, "You're such a consumer."
Is that a bad thing?
Aren't I supporting our economy? Isn't money the circulation system of our country?
As soon as money starts to dry up, our economy goes into the shitter, people get pissed off because the companies they work for aren't making as much money as they had been because no one's buying anything, so they lay people off.
So, the way I see it, we're being patriotic and doing what we can to keep this economy going - SPENDING!!! Its way more fun than saving. And yeah - I save, quite a bit actually.
But when we spend money - we get to bring home cool stuff or we get mailed a box full of cool stuff and its like Xmas on delivery day. When we save money - we get mail. An envelope full of papers to file in an overflowing disorganized filing cabinet we never pay any attention to because it holds completely boring paperwork.
Just because I'm not saving every single zippy bag, washing it out, and re-using it so that I've had the same box of zippy bags since the 70s, doesn't make me a bad person. Some where out there, someone needed the $2.50 I spent on buying a new box of zippy bags so that they didn't have to lay someone off at the zippy bag company.
We recycle everything that's recyclable, we give to charities, we donate the crap we've accumulated and don't need anymore.
We do our doodie as American citizens and I don't think that being a "consumer" is a bad thing.
We spend money so people can make money and keep their jobs and feed their families. We spend money so not only can we maintain a pretty kick ass lifestyle, but also so we can share it with our friends and our families.

New Phrase Coined

So we were out running a bunch of errands (goodwill clothing drop, grocery bag recycling, old video game trade-in) and while at one of the shopping plazas that was designed especially for two of those stops, I said, "Hey, you wanna stop at Pretzels for a beer (or 2 or 3) and pretend we're on vacation?"
So we did.
At first I called it a pretendcation. Pretending to be on vacation.
Until Matt called it a facation (fake-ation).
Nice.
So we had a beer and on the tv was a world series game from 1991 (Braves/Twins) and this fellow sitting next to us (Jack) started chatting us up about baseballs, footballs, and then he brought up Jimmy Kimmel.
He referenced this, and says, "That guy was really mad." and I says, "Well, he IS an actor." and Jack says, "I used to be an actor...and I know when someone like Matt Damon is acting." And he says that Kimmel kept bumping him from the show because Matt Damon was boning his ex-girlfriend. And I was like, "I thought he and Sarah Silverman were still together....?" and Jack says, "Kimmel is MARRIED!" and I was like, "No, he dumped his wife for Silverman..." and he took a step back, so we started talking about this....followed up by this.

Still funny.

Then we traded politics talk, briefly....cuz then we had to go to Lowe's and get the rest of the stuff we needed for the 2009 Redneck Bomb taking place next weekend.

So, on your next chore-day Saturday, go out, run some errands, and in the middle of the errand running, stop at your local cold, dark, smokey bar and have a facation.
Who knows, maybe your cousin might be working there on the lunch shift. :)

Fearless

It used to be that as soon as the vacuum cleaner came rolling out, both cats, Snoop and Turk, would go tearing upstairs to hide.

This morning, after vacuuming the upstairs first and making my way downstairs, both cats were still sprawled out on the only rug we have located in our living room.
Not budging.
After vacuuming the hallway, kitchen, and dining room - the living room was next.
Turk took off upstairs. Coward.
Snoop remained, holding his ground and staring at the yellow Dyson monster. He would not be defeated.

Yeah, so now I have to pick up the cat and put him on the couch, so I can vacuum the rug.

From his perch, the mighty and fearless Snoop keeps a close (or closed) eye on the Dyson monster moving back and forth sucking up all filth that lies before it, leaving nothing but cleanliness in it's wake.

Wonder if next time I'll be able to vacuum around him.

Alaska Highlights clip

Last Night's Full Moon

Alaska & Other Nonsense

I was going to write out a whole bunch of stuff about our recent trip to Alaska, but it was getting too long and I figured it would be a waste of time since I've already told both my readers about it. The picture slideshow on the right hand side should be enough. Pictures say 1,000 words, right?, and it won't give me carpal tunnel in the process.
If you want to know more, feel free to drop me a note and ask.

Also, Jennifer Sims contacted me on here while we were on our vacation and I still need to call her and catch up. Jennifer used to be my old room mate and we run into each other on the interwebs from time to time. I think its been...what...like 6 yrs at least since we've seen each other? I was about to say that I'd lost her number but then remembered it was a posted comment she left on here. Duh.

Started with a trainer a couple weeks ago, so now I'm sore every day, but at least it feels like I'm doing something. Before I was just sweating, so I just felt....sweaty. Didn't feel quite as productive. Brian, my trainer, calls me SheHulk and keeps (joking - please please let it be a joke) about getting me trained & ready for a competition. HA! That kid's so funny.

My cat, Snoop, has taken to sleeping next to me like he's a person. He puts his head on my pillow and sometimes, if I'm facing him while sleeping, he'll push on my nose like he's buzzing in on a game show. Maybe he's trying to kill me.
I've recently taken to pushing him off the bed. Usually because he's just sneezed in my face or because the fuzzy man sammich is getting too warm and Matt wouldn't appreciate it if I pushed him out of bed.

Matt & I were over at the pool last weekend and since my skin is so fair, and I tend to blow up in the sunlight, I lounged under the umbrella and read. Since I was under a shady cover, putting sunscreen on didn't really enter my mind. The pool deck got resurfaced about 3 months ago and its white. Blazing white. Which reflects sunlight. So the shady umbrella did absolutely nothing to keep me safe from the evil sun and I got burned on one side of my body. I'm so white, I get sunburnt in the shade.

Recent Ponderings

• About a month ago, turtles were every where along the roads. It was like an invasion. I even saw one crossing the off ramp of the nearby highway. Apparently, it was mating season and they were all headed to a place to lay eggs or whatever. Turtles crossing I-4 are HORRIBLE parents. Why would you lay eggs (I'm assuming in a median - there was no other place it could've been headed) only to have them hatch later and have your babies, your legacy, try to make it back across a 4 or 5 lane highway to a retention pond that has a fountain in the middle? I'm hoping it was just a turtle suicide in progress that I'd witnessed, and that the thing wasn't just making a grand point of trying to kill off its entire family line.
• What are the differences between jelly, jam, preserves, and marmalade? Why does apple butter get to be a butter? Who decided we needed 5 different words to describe fruit spreads?
• Where did the saying "Happy As A Clam" come from and how do we know he's happy? What if the clam is having a really bad day? What if he's sitting in a bucket some where about to get steamed or covered in batter and fried? Would he still be happy then? Why don't we say, "I'm as pissed off as a clam in a bucket about to be cooked and eaten!" I bet clams hate their Happy stereotype.
  

Revolutionary Road

So I watched this yesterday. If you do want to see the movie - DON'T READ THIS!!
For those of you who don't want to sit through it - here it is in a nutshell.

Kate and Leo meet and fall in love. They have 2 kids and move to the suburbs (a cute little house on Revolutionary Road) where Leo works for a big corporate company in a cubicle. He hates his job. Kate's a stuggling actress. Their marriage is strained and they fight all the time. He cheats on Kate. Kate thinks that moving to Paris will save things and for a while it does. None of their friends understand why they hate the suburbs and why they'd want to move to Paris. The only guy that understands and sees what's going on is their neighbor's crazy son home from the war (AMAZING performance by Michael Shannon who is slowly becoming one of my favorite actors). Everything is sun shiny and roses with thoughts of moving to Paris until, in the heat of their happiness (for a few minutes, and on the kitchen counter) Kate gets pregnant. They start fighting again, she suggests DIY abortion, he gets mad. Back at work, he gets offered a big promotion and ends up taking it. Kate sees their life not grand and moving to Paris, but "the American dream", married, 2.5 kids, in the burbs. She's bored and was meant to be something special. She acts out by gettin' it on with a neighbor friend in a car after dancing. More fighting at home, the crazy guy is over for dinner one night and calls them out on some stuff, hits nerves. She runs away to think. The next morning, after making Leo breakfast, she ends up doing the DIY abortion and kills herself in the process leaving Leo and the kids to fend for themselves. The neighbors talk about how great & tragic the young Wheeler couple (Kate & Leo) on Revolutionary Road were. The people that saw them as a bright happy couple refuse to talk about them or listen to anything bad said about them. The crazy guy's dad is listening to his wife blather on about The Wheelers negatively, so he turns his hearing aid down and just listens to the quiet.

And they all lived happily ever after.

I love Sam Mendes movies. The endings are always so lovely and thought provoking.

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