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.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year Everyone!
Be safe tonight and have fun!

Crimes Against Language

There's a dry cleaner and a liquor store in the same mini plaza near my new home, which is handy because I needed both services this week.

I park my car between them which happened to be in front of a beauty salon... another service close to my home that I imagine might come in handy someday if anything, god forbid, ever happens to Paul the Official Library Hairdresser.

I pull in to my spot, put the car in park and notice a sign in the salon window for a make-up line called Bare Escentuals.

*blink, blink*

Escentuals?

Now, I'm no champion speller, but that doesn't look right at all. It's a printed sign too so it must be intentional, or should I say intensual? I looked up their website today and yup, that's how they spelled that.

Is it a play on the words essentials, sensual and scent all in one horrific blow? What WERE they thinking?

Yummy!

So we went to a holiday gathering last Saturday and one of the attendees brought something WONDERFUL!

Green grapes soaked in pinot grigio for a couple days then rolled in sugar and serve with a toothpick. It tasted like heavenly booze soaked candy. The woman who brought them suggested they can be served with a chunk of cheese on the same toothpick, though I'm all for my booze tasting like candy.

I'm making some right now for another gathering!

ZZZzzz...

I am so sleepy tonight...

We went to see my brother and his wifes new addition to their house and hang out for a while. Very nice! And playing with their toddler darn near wore me out! Off to bed I go!

Off to See More Relatives!

Last weeks family gathering at Ron's cousin's house got postponed to today due to last weekends double whammy snowstorms. Soon all the holiday hoo-ha will be done!

I know, I know... this isn't terribly exciting reading but it's all I've got right now. Maybe I'll have news later... Only 4 more days and I will have blogged every day for one year!

Perspective

Just when you think your job sucks along comes an episode of the show Dirty Jobs that puts it all right into persepctive.

Click HERE to watch Mike Rowe bite the testicles off a lamb. NOT for those with weak stomachs or intense barf reflexes.