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Wordless Wednesday – Gross Edition
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Blonde Jokes
Way back when I was 16, I worked first as a hostess, and then as a waitress, at the local Mr. Steak. I worked there for about 2 years. The first year I was there, the owner had a Christmas party at his house, and there were awards given for the person deemed to be the most this, best that, whatever. Guess who was the only blonde working there? Me. Guess who was voted ‘biggest airhead’? That’s right, me. The blonde. The blonde who was working and going to school and getting decent grades and had plenty of brains AND common sense, thank you very much. That really, really hurt,…
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Ice Cream Stories…
I saw over on Is My Blog Burning? that one can participate in the For the Love of Ice Cream Challenge, over at YumSugar. You can then blog about ice cream stories, ice cream recipes, favorite flavors, etc. I like ice cream. It’s probably my favorite dessert, in many forms. I like it much better than cake, often more than brownies, and sometimes even better than pie. Actually, I like it WITH pie, but that’s another story. So, here’s my submission to the challenge. Always looking for blog fodder, and being more willing to humiliate myself in my old age, I will confess to you a tale of my questionable…
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If You’re Not Pissed Off, You’re Not Paying Attention
I saw this headline the other day: al-Qaida Has Rebuilt, U.S. Intel Warns The summary is that despite our efforts in that area, “al-Qaida has used its safe haven along the Afghan-Pakistan border to restore its operating capabilities to a level unseen since the months before Sept. 11, 2001.” And, of course, Bush is going to use this report to bolster his argument that we need to stay the course in Iraq, because it is a hotbed of al-Qaida as well. Um, excuse me fuckhead, WHO MADE IT ONE? Iraq was NOT a hotbed of terrorism before we attacked, before we went in and made it a poster crusade for…
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Crapicola
That’s what I’m thinking. Crapicola. Sounds like a weird deli meat, but it’s one of our ways of swearing around here. Why would I be swearing, you might well ask? Because at Maya’s orthodontist appointment the other day, we discovered that she’s going to need a second round of braces. Can we all say it together this time? “CRAPICOLA!!” 1st, $4,000 is a lot of money. I mean, we paid it the first time, and now to have to pay it AGAIN blows. 2nd, I had braces, and it hurt like hell (personally, I think it’s worse than childbirth, because with childbirth, you don’t have to go back every few…
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Six Degrees of….nothing really
I was watching Sex and the City the other night, and I was remembering the first time I saw Kristin Davis, aka Charlotte York…which would be on Melrose Place, where she played the ill-fated and psychotic Brooke, who married Billy, who was played by Andrew Shue, who was the brother of Elizabeth Shue, who was pretty darned good in Adventures in Babysitting and Leaving Las Vegas, which are two movies that are about as different as they could possibly be. But I first saw her in one of the lamest movies EVER, Cocktail, in which she played Tom Cruise’s idiot girlfriend/wife. Idiot because she loves Tom Cruise, really, who I…
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Winging It…
Last Monday, Cherry and Eric decided they’d rather have dinner at our house than be on their honeymoon in Hawaii. OK, maybe that wasn’t EXACTLY how the decision was made, but nonetheless, we invited them over for dinner, and they said they might come…Cherry was feeling a bit puny, and wasn’t sure that she would be up to it. So, what to cook? We were out and about, and needed to get groceries before we would know the answer. If they could come to dinner, we would want a lot of filling food, because Eric has a super fast metabolism. Also if they could come, we should make something with red…
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Birth Order & IQ
A study came out a few weeks ago, claiming that firstborn children are smarter than their younger siblings, by an average of 2 to 3 IQ points. One factor, the study’s authors concluded, was that firstborn children (and only children) tend to receive more of their parents’ attention. When siblings come into the equation, the amount of time and attention that is available is divided, and therefore, the less attention each individual child receives. So an eldest child that is an only for awhile has more of an advantage than an eldest child whose younger sibling follows closely. And an only child has the benefit of never having to share…
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Miscellany
OK, first things first. Chrissy, Scarlett, and Curiosity Killer have all decided that I’m a Rockin’ Girl Blogger! Tres cool! I think that I am now supposed to pick 5 rockin’ girl bloggers, and nominate them myself. Or award them, to be more precise with my language skills. But here’s the rub…how do I decide, from my many female blogging friends, which ones are rockin’ girl bloggers? How do I say to some, ‘hey, you’re a rockin’ girl blogger’, and not others, who are equally rockin’ in my book? So I’m breaking the rules. No paying this one forward. I suck like that. But you know what? If you are…
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The Giver
I’ve just finished the first book in my Book Awards Reading Challenge, The Giver. The Giver is a children’s book, written for kids about Maya’s age (aka, probably found in the young adult section in the library), and it won the Newbery Medal in 1994. The Giver is sort of science fiction, set in the future, and at first appears to be a Utopian setting. The main character is Jonas, a 12-year old boy. At the age of 12, children learn what their careers are going to be. A group of elders watches them for a couple of years prior to them turning 12, while they volunteer throughout the community,…
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It Only Takes an Instant…
(Take a look at this cool blog, with info and pics of malls around America…this is the Sunvalley Mall, in Concord, where we were today.) Along the same theme as the near-drowning of a child in a friend’s pool last weekend, Maya and I were at the mall today, and we were near the top of a very tall escalator/stairs combo. We were getting ready to ride the escalator down, and waited for a crowd of people to pass by us. I noticed a toddler slightly behind them, who didn’t fit into the crowd (she was blond, they, all dark haired). This wouldn’t have raised any red flags for me,…
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I Thought it Would Be Louder…
(Image found at www.futureofthebook.org) Have you ever seen someone drown? How about on TV? Between TV and the movies, plus classes I have taken in swimming and CPR, I had the idea that drowning was this loud spashy thing, with arms flailing and chests pumping and loud music and so on. And, I suspect, sometimes it is. But last Saturday, I went to an end-of-the-year party for my PEP group, and it was a small party at one of the volunteer parents houses. She has a pool, and the kids were in the pool, swimming. Maya wasn’t in the pool, as we had arrived later, and she hadn’t decided yet…
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Happy Freedom!
Today is the day we celebrate our Independence from Tyranny, our Freedom to govern ourselves, and the birth of our Democracy. Enjoy your bbq and fireworks, and put a few thoughts towards what we have gained, and what we have already lost…
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I’m Gonna Love You…
When I was a newlywed, my last year in graduate school, I remember talking to one of my classmates about the subject of marriage. I’m not sure how long he had been dating his girlfriend at the time, but he was pretty amazed at the idea of someone our age being married already. {I was 28 at the time, which wasn’t THAT young, but when I first moved to San Francisco at 21, I had a classmate who was married, and I remember thinking the same thing.} This classmate asked me, how do you know when it’s time to get married? My honest, true answer was that, for me, it…
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Meme Monday
I was tagged by Scarlett to do this little meme, 8 things you don’t know about me. Usually, I’m fairly game for a meme (that kind of rhymes), but between my ‘100’ things and the 51 other memes I’ve already done, I’m not sure there is any mystery left in this relationship. But kindly, since I was having trouble, Maya helped me come up with a few. Thanks, Monkey! First, the rules: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1. I have to post these rules before I give you the facts. 2. Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves. 3. People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight…