THIS made me laugh out loud.

I've been hangin' out in cemeteries again...

Snow!

More snow is on the way... hooray.
They've already cancelled school in the town I work in. I doubt we'll close though so that means I have to leave early to get to work and as y'all know I am not a morning person. And I hate it when I make the effort to get to work in a snowstorm just to have them close early a few hours later and I get to repeat the trip in reverse. And I don't even have a decent book-on-tape in the car.

So here is my plea to the gods: I promise that if I don't have to go to work tomorrow I will get up just as early and clean my house. I will do all the laundry. I'll vaccuum. I'll swiffer. I promise!

But alas, I know it won't happen... I'll drag my ass out the door, drive on shitty back roads and get to work only to find all of the parking spaces in the garage will have been taken by the people who live in the neighborhood who don't want to get snow on their cars and I even if I wanted to park on the roof I won't be able to get up the ramp becasue it never gets plowed. And since they have declared a snow emergency I won't be able to legally park on the street. And then they'll decide to close around noontime and we all get to go back out into the snowy dangerous driving conditions and go home.

But I'm not bitter. Nope.

Happy 8th Birthday Jack!

New Photos!

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Icicles


Christmas with my family


Christmas with Ron's family


Party at Keith & Jennie's


New Years Eve at Alexi's


More coming soon!

Star Wars as a Silent Film.

This is almost as good as the description of Star Wars by the chick who has never seen it.

AWAKE!!!

We were awakened this morning by a telephone call from our credit card company's fraud department... at 8:20 on a Sunday morning. UGH.

Both of us renewed memberships with online services we use frequently last night and apparently this was enough to sound an alarm with credt card headquarters. I appreciate the call... really I do... but c'mon people! It's 8:20 on a Sunday morning!

FEH.

I give you America the Gift Shop! This is a stroke of genius.

Frakking Lego Galactica!

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Dear President Obama,

First of all let me congratulate you on running a brilliant and successful campaign for what might be the toughest job in the world.

I am writing to you today to offer some tidbits of advice that perhaps your predecessors did not receive. I know, I know, you've heard many well wishers offer many words of wisdom, but if you only heed three bits of advice let it be these three:

- Think before you speak.
This may sound obvious to you but it is painfully obvious that not everyone does this. Sometime a silent pause before speaking gives what you say more weight and it gives you a moment to check yourself and make sure you don't put your foot firmly in your mouth. I know I wish I had heeded this advice now and again and I try to stop and think before I say something that may get me into trouble. I hope you do the same.

- Be honest
No one likes a liar and getting caught lying can be worse than getting caught with your pants down, especially if the lie is to cover up getting caught with your pants down.

- Be faithful to your wife
For the love of toast do not have sex with anyone other than your wife. I repeat, DO NOT have sex with anyone other than your wife. Any part of you or that is attached to you, including cigars or other objects, that enters any orifice belonging to someone other than your wife is a big NO-NO for the next 4 years if not forever.

I wish you and your family all the best on this momentous day and may you have a wonderful and successful presidency.

Sincerely,
-kris

BLEH...
I totally fell asleep on the couch. I am mildly disgusted with myself. Shouldn't have sat down in the first place.

Good MORNING?

I have been awake since about 6:15 this morning. This is unheard of for me.
I drove Ron to the train station this morning. I did this on purpose to get my ass out of bed before 10am.

Why the fuck did I do this?

I had grand plans of getting up, eating breakfast, which I did, and then getting stuff done. But all I can think about is crawling back into bed. So I am here wasting time online when I could be getting stuff done. FEH. But I am still awake! And for me that's huge.

So since I was awake, and it was sunrise, I decided to grab my camera on my way out the door with Ron this morning 'cause I knew the light would be lovely and me being awake to enjoy it was a rare thing. It's also zero degrees outside this morning. That's a tad chilly even for a hardy northern gal like myself. (hardy! Hardly... hardy, har, har!) I stopped at a nearby cemetery for 20 FREEZING minutes and said "fuck it, I'm going home." I have no idea what I shot but I'm glad I did it. I'll share anything good with y'all as soon as I can.

I suspect I am starting to ramble and meander in my thoughts so I think it's time to watch some shitty morning television for a while and try to stay awake.

Happy Birthday Sharon!

Have a good one darlin'!

Happy Birthday Carla!

Get Out The Albums Kids!

Were you into Stars Wars as a kid? Got pictures? Want to share them?
Go HERE.

Brilliant!

FEH.

I have a cold.
And cramps.

Kill me.

The Russians are Coming!

I always scan my spam folder for anything that may have slipped through the cracks and landed there when it shouldn't have. I usually have lots of solicitations for various male enhacement medications and lots of "hot young" er, ladies want to offer me services I don't have the anatomy for. Occasionally I recieve something with a subject line that almost resembles poetry. I don't remember who thought of this, I think it may have been Ron, but we now refer to this poetic phenomenon as spam-ku. Today I received some spam in Russian! It looked like this:

мега быстро улетит объявление по московским фирмам

I was intrigued and went to a translation site and it translated to this: mega- rapidly will fly away declaration on the Moscow firms

So then, being the silly girl I am I translated it back into Russian and got this:
mega- быстро летит отсутствующее объявление на фирмах Москва

And then I did it back into English again:
mega- rapidly flies the absent declaration at the firms Moscow

I could go on and on with this... the difference was subtle and not as entertaining as I had hoped. This reminds me of those games of Operator we all played as a kid... you know where you whisper something in someones ear and pass it along until the end of the group and hear how the message changed.

I'm not sure exactly where I'm going with this... but I do wonder just what they were trying to sell me.

Happy Belated New Year!

I posted everyday for the year 2008 and now I don't have to, but I have sort of gotten into the habit. For a while there I was posting nuthin' but goofy links, but at least it was something.

I've been more verbose lately and I think it's because I don't have a journal going right now. Y'know a journal... it's a book you write in... with a pen. I haven't had one in over a year and I am starting to feel a bit scatterbrained. A journal is a great place to get the mental vomit out of ones head and organize your thoughts. It helps keep the noise in ones head to a minimum.

I have been trying to figure out what to post to acknowledge the new year. Everyone and their brother creates year end lists, New Years resolutions lists, new beginnings lists, things they are thankful for lists and so on. And really, does anyone care? I would like to lose some weight but does anyone really care?

The only thing posting such lists accomplishes is that you make these things public and therefore more likely to follow through or suffer the humiliation that the four people that read your blog will know that you failed.

We all want to be happier, thinner, healthier, prettier, nicer and generally better people. It's human nature, part of the survival instinct even. So let's all raise our glasses to the most passive, yet quite possibly the most difficult of resolutions: to simply be better people!

I'll let you figure out where y'all need to begin.

Awwww yeah!

The new season of Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations starts tonight!

And new Battlestar Galactica starts January 16th. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that I think that the final cylon is Dualla. Just a hunch.

Or maybe Bourdain is a cylon?

Cool!

UPDATE: As cool as the link below os, some folks may experience problems with their computers if they click it. Here is a link directly to the artist website: http://www.pinholephotography.org/


Wanna see a six month long exposure made with a pinhole camera? Click HERE.

Real Conversation with my father-in-law or the potential perils of Google

F-in-L: Do you know where to get shelf tags to label these CD shelves like they use at the library?

Me: Yeah, Demco or Gaylord has them.

F-in-L: Oh, okay, I'll go Google them.

Me: Um... Don't do that. I'll find you the web address.

F-in-L: What? Why?

Me: Um... *blink, blink* Just don't.

F-in-L: *blinks back*

Me: Gay-lord.

F-in-L: Oh. *pause* OH! Okay, I won't do that.