Archive | February 2006

Maybe I should just let Gerard and Attu take over.

Feb28

Everything I want to post I found on The Presurfer and Attu sees all today. So…um, without being a copycat, I’ll just point you to the links that Gerard and Attu pointed me to:

Oh, and Idol totally sucked tonight. We didn’t really like anyone’s performance. Bad. Yuck. Do-over!

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-ganza

Feb28

Shhhh, don’t tell anyone, but the following items are going to arrive at my house within the next few months:

    1 Pink Dogwood tree
    1 Japanese flowering cherry tree (Yoshino)
    1 Catalpa tree
    1 Tulip tree
    1 Overcup Oak tree
    2 Sugar Maple trees
    3 flowering shade trees
    2 hybrid shade trees

    3 purple Rhododenra
    1 white (hybrid) Rhododendrum
    3 Norway Spruce trees
    2 Red Azaleas
    2 Yellow Azaleas
    2 Hydrangeas
    1 Hummingbird vine

    1 set of Seascape, Everbearing strawberries
    2 sets of Honeoye strawberries

    1 lb perennial wildflower mix
    1 Summer bulb garden assortment
    2 sets of double red-white bi-color Tuberous Begonias
    1 super value pack of Liatris
    1 collection of Spiderworts
    1 set of Physostegia virginiana Crown of Snow
    1 set of “The President” Bright Red Canna Lily bulbs
    1 set of Anneke deep purple Calla Lily bulbs
    1 set of Calla Lily bulbs, mixed colors
    1 set of “Impression Flamenco” Butterfly Dahlias
    1 set of “Otto’s Thrill” Super Dinnerplate Dahlias
    1 collection of Astilbes, mixed colors
    1 mix of Aquilegia hybrid McKana Giants
    1 mix of Sparaxis famous jewel-tone flowers

    1 super value pack of Hostas
    1 set of Cortederia selloana Pink Feather
    1 set of Cortederia selloana White Feather

I also have in my possession the following three seed mixes from WishingFish:

    1 Bird Lovers scatter garden
    1 Fragrant Flower scatter garden
    1 Pretentious Poppy scatter garden

Sooooo, which of you all are coming over to help me and Hay plant and water all of this stuff?!?! ;)

Zahara is a cutie pie!

Feb28

I understand that the joining of Angelina and Brad is a bit shady, but Angie really does have fantastic kids. Look at baby Zahara! (Sorry, looks like some other folks got in trouble for posting the photos, even with source credit, so I don’t want to be in that boat too, just click the link and you can see her in all her cuteness!!)

I definitely want to pinch those itty bitty cheeks and munch on her teeny tiny hands!!!!!

ADHD

Feb27

I posted six times today. I need to slow down. Whoops, here’s #7. Oh well. Must be the Hot Cinnamon IceBreakers®.

The flavor of spit. Ew.

Feb27

MK at Popbytes and Tabloid Whore! both have posted a pretty hilarious video of one of the finalists on the Flavor Flav’s next girlfriend competition (real name: The Flavor of Love) spitting on the other girl then running for her life.

This clip shows the lead-up to the spitting incident and what happens after:



…while this one shows just the spitting incident, with comical sound effects. Disgusting, but the sound effects RAWK:


Let them eat single-layer cake!

Feb27

Yesterday Hay had a hankerin’ for cake, so we bought a single-layer chocolate cake with traditional frosting:

Here’s the piece Hay cut just for me:

It was really pretty, but now it’s in our tummies*. :)

*Ok, by now it’s not in our tummies anymore, but it’s gross and rude to talk about poop, especially when you’re luring readers in by talking about eating something as yummy as single-layer chocolate cake with traditional frosting!

I’d like to borrow a Vowell

Feb27

I’ve been waiting for Sarah Vowell’s Assassination Vacation to be available at my library ever since it came out. I wasn’t having high hopes for ever catching it on the shelf for the next several years at the rate it was being checked out.

Today I visited the library to pick up Cell by Stephen King, at Mishka’s recommendation, but before walking to the King section I hopped onto a computer and looked up the call number for Sarah’s book. By some small miracle, the book had been returned on time (its old due date was 2/25/2006) and it was still on the shelf! Of course, when I wandered over to the King section the only gaping hole in the section was where Cell should have been, so I was giddy about my backup plan.

I changed floors to where I was promised that Assassination Vacation would be waiting for me, and it actually was! So, I am now the proud borrower of the quirkiest book of one of my favorite authors and social observers. Yippy!

High School meme

Feb27

Borrowing from P’nut who got it from our mutual blogrollee Mishka.

Year: 1989 1992 (dur!)

1. Who was your best friend?
Jim.

2. What sports did you play?
Whatever the gym teacher told me to play!

3. What kind of car did you drive?
Some AMC silver shiny car.

4. It’s Friday night, where are you at?
At home chatting with my friends on a BBS. (Geeky nerd alert!)

5. Were you a party animal?
No.

6. Were you in the “In Crowd”?
I was in every crowd therefore no crowd.

7. Ever skip school?
No, I loved school. And the principal had a no tolerance policy for cutting class/school.

8. Ever smoke a cigarette?
Not that particular year.

9. Were you a nerd?
In certain circles, yes. In others I was looked at as an idiot. (That’s what introversion does to a girl.)

10. Did you ever get suspended/expelled?
No! Although, I do have a vague recollection of visiting the detention room, but no memory of why (if I was just there for quiet time or if I was in trouble for something…)

11. Can you sing the Alma Mater?
Wait, did we have one?

12. Who was your favorite teacher?
Joe and Mr. P.

13. Favorite class?
Yearbook!

14. What was your school’s full name?
I can’t tell you that. (I’m with P’nut on that one.)

15. School mascot?
I could tell you, but it’s unique enough that I’d have to kill you.

16. Did you go to Prom?
No (by choice).

17. Would you go back again and do it over?
Definitely!!

18. What do you remember most about graduation?
Mr. P and I jumping up and down, which was called “[insert my real nickname here]-ing” in my circle of friends.

19. Favorite memory of senior year?
Being Co-editor & Photographer for the Yearbook Staff. (Yah, me too P’nut!)

Update: Oops, I was a layout person. I was remembering photography from a special project we did in Computer Club. I guess my favorite memory is actually doing layouts and walking around with the photogs to take candid shots. :)

20. Were you ever posted on the senior wall?
What is that? If we had one I don’t have any idea if I was.

21. Did you have a job your senior year?
Yah, school! (I was a hardcore student.)

22. Who did you date?
A boy I didn’t love, another boy I didn’t love, then a boy I loved. :)

24. Have you gained weight since then?
Yes, but have lost most of it.

25. What did you do after graduation?
Went to college and got a job at my school.

Drew Lachey in the limelight

Feb27

I didn’t watch any episodes of Dancing with the Stars, but Tabloid Whore! had a great write-up and some great video clips of Drew and his dance partner receiving two perfect scores so I was convinced to share the amazing performances. My only criticism, which has nothing to do with the performance, is Drew’s comedic reaction (see second clip below) to being told his cowboy performance meant he was ready for the musical version of Brokeback Mountain. Way to be homophobic, dude… Otherwise, awesome stuff!

This is the best dance rendition of Thriller I think I’ll see in my lifetime:

Paso Doble – Thriller

And for the cowboys and cowgirls out there, a little bit o’ country:

Freestyle – Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy

Husky pug

Feb27

My virtual running buddy Oregano, who incidentally is getting married to the love of his life very soon (yaaaaay!), saw my pug flickr group post and asked me “Are you a pug?” Turns out I am not a pug, but rather a Siberian husky:

I don’t disagree that I am a space cadet, but I have a knack for remembering names (and any kind of numbers) so I’m a husky who’ll remember your name but not what you told me five minutes ago. :)

(Yep, I edited that photo so it would fit in my blog but so you could still read the text. Sorry it’s not as pretty as it should be.)