Thursday Thirteen #3

May-8-2008 By YummY!

13 Mock Motivational Posters That Made me LOL

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TT Bonus:

5 Things that Gross Me Out

1. The Fingers of Aye Ayes
2. Spiders, espically their faces.
3. Heartworms
4. Maggots
5. Bot Flys larvae INSIDE of people!!!!

1. Randilin
2. Chris
3. melanie
4. Natalie - Red Sox Mommy
5. Ann Bruce
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Ouch

May-6-2008 By YummY!

Today, while my MOD was pulling my cash drawer so I could go home, a man came up to the register.  The MOD told him the register was closed and he just stood there.

“Oh,” my MOD said to me, “Is that your husband?”

At that point the guy got a look on his face that was a mixture of horror and disgust and said, “GOD, NO!”

Yeah, that was a little ego damaging, though I was able to laugh at it.  It helps I had a man to come home to who doesn’t react to the thought of being married to me with disgust.

Scent

May-2-2008 By YummY!

Written from a prompt in the a_place_of_ones_own yahoo group.

The prompt was “scent”

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This is a world full of things, and things are full of smell and smells are full of memories.

The smell of cucumber melon lotions and perfumes make me think of my friend Monica.  It was her favorite scent.

The smell of a dryers exhaust, heat and dryer sheets, reminds me of my Aunt Mattie for some reason.

The smell of coffee and Pepsi make me think of my dad.

Cut grass reminds me of watermelon and watermelon reminds me of summers with my cousins Tim and Marla, swimming and eating watermelon then swimming more to get the juice off of us because we often got into watermelon fights and seed spitting contests.

I love the smell of mens aftershave and cologne, but hardly get to smell it because my husband claims he is allergic.  He just doesn’t like the smell.  Sometimes someone will come in the store who smells REALLY nice and I just want to follow them around and sniff them.

I love the smell of vanilla, wood smoke, and the smell of bookstores with coffeeshop s inside of them.

I also enjoy the scent of gas.  Oddly I always have.  I used to roll the window of my dad’s truck down when he was pumping gas and just breath deeply of the smell.

I love the smell of my rats and my cat, but not so much the smell of my dogs, espically when they are hot, or wet, or both.

I dislike the smell of carpet cleaner and lysol makes me gag.  I hate the smell of the marsh, (I tell my husband it smells like frog farts) and I don’t care much for the smells of cooking salmon or cabbage.

I hate the smell of cooking chitterlings, but love the way they taste.  Its funny how many things taste exactly the way they smell.  Because of that I almost never tried the chitterlings.

I like the smell of a sweaty man.  Not the smell of after exercise sweat or someone who never bathes, but the smell of a man who has put in a hard days work.

Those are some of my scent related memories, likes and dislikes.  Care to share yours?

Thursday Thirteen #2

May-1-2008 By YummY!

13 Things I did on Vacation

(not on theme with the “alphabet” theme, but I’ll be doing the GROSS theme NEXT week)

1. Took a nap almost every day.
2. Took my Labrador to the vet. (Left with multiple medicines)
3. Taught my hubby to play Canasta.
4. Learned how to play Rummy.
5. Played a lot of board games with hubby and my MIL.
6. ALMOST beat my husband at Star Wars trivial prusuit. (This is amazing because he knows EVERYTHING about star wars and I know very little)
7. Went to the library and check out 5 books.
8. Read “Bunnicula” for the first time.
9. Bought a new refrigerator, had it delivered and can eat from my OWN kitchen again.10. Learned how to check my voice mail on my cell phone.
11. Got so excited that the neopian pound fiannly opened I adopted a chia, then spent too much NP decorating my island Uni.

12. Ran out of coffee!!!!!!!!!
13. Had a steak supper from Carey Hilliards.

1. Toni
2. Karina
3. Jennifer
4. Nicole
5. SEO
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Big Toad

Apr-27-2008 By YummY!

Tonight, around 11pm, I went outside to put a load of towels in the washer.  Walking back to the porch, a shadowy something ran under my feet.  I almost fell down trying not to step on the shadow as I didn’t know what it might be.

I put the towels inside, grabbed my camera and went back out to investigate.  I found this:

He blends in quite well, doesn’t he?

I picked him up and carried him into the well lit room and set him on top of the dryer so I could get a better picture.

Big tough looking fella, isn’t he.

Its funny (to me) that he looks so tough, or is trying to look tough, and he nearly made me fall and hurt myself.  I say its funny because yesterday I watched parts of a movie called Frogs…in which toads seem to be leading a reptile/amphibian attack on humans.

Unfortunately for him, his tough act didn’t scare me a bit.  I have no problem with toads.  So I played with this one a while.

When he threatened to jump behind the dryer and thus get stuck in the pantry, I decided to put him back under the bush I found him under.

I’m surprised that I didn’t get peed on at any point while giving the poor toad a hard time.  They do have a tendency to piss in self defense.

At which point he hid in a corner and played the “If I can’t see you, you can’t see me” game.

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Today I slept until sometime around 12:30.  I don’t remember actually DOING anything today.  I know I was online a little.  We watched an episode of the Super Mario Bros 3 cartoon.

Robert and I played Stratego (he won), then we played Wheel of Fortune (I won) and Jeopardy (he won) on the PS2.

My brother called me to brag about his new toy (XM radio) and tell me I needed to call Daddy.

My origional plan had been to spend this week saying at my dads, and he was wondering why I wasn’t there.  So I called Daddy and told him that due to Roberts 4 doctor visits and our dying fridge, all our money was gone and I woudln’t be coming down.

He sounded dissapointed.

I WAS disappointed.

After supper, his mom came over and we played several more games.  Scooby Doo Clue (Robert won), Scrabble (Robert Won), Uno (my MIL won), Word Thief (Robert won), Boggle (I won), Scattergories (I won), Pirates Dice (my MIL won) and Old Maid (I was the old maid.)

Tomorrow we’ve got to take Boomer to the vet the shopping for a fridge.  Tuesday we’re going to buy something Robert wants at Best Buy, hopefully going to the librarly, then doing more fridge shopping if we don’t find one at where we are going Monday.

Wednesday I’ve been invited to…Well, I’m not entrely sure WHAT I’ve been invited to, but the invitation read:

Screw your “Screw it”! We’ll watch Silent Hill this week!!! What are you doink wednesday? R has off, I have off, you have off… Silent hill, Sweeney Todd, Boggle, ice cream, gore!!! (not Al). (interrupted by R, but yeaH). I (P) am actually a H U G E Silent Hill nerd. I (R) have never actually seen this, but am open to watching anything. WEDNESDAY YOU ARE OOOOOUUUURRRRRSSSSS!!!!11!!!!!11!!! *psycho music* (P-R) (public relations)

Robert won’t tell me if HE has any plans for me on Wednesday, so I can’t RSVP quite yet.

Vacation Day 1

Apr-26-2008 By YummY!

I started my vacation by staying up way to late to finish reading a novel that had gotten good. I didn’t turn off the lights until near 4am this morning.

Robert woke me around 10:30 when he decided to walk the dogs.

Insert a little internet time here.

Then we watched a couple of episodes of A Pup Named Scooby Doo. I napped a little while it was on.

While watching them Robert finally gave in and too the Cipro that he swore he would not take because he didn’t like the side effects. Shortly after taking it he began to manifest one, single, solitary side effect……he got sleepy.

Now I don’t know about you, but I quite often get sleepy when I take antibiotics.

Well, it sent Robert into a panic. Then he swore his fingers were tingling, and he and I spent most of the next hour calling various doctors and pharmisists.

Meanwhile I’m concerned that Robert has developed an alarming case of hypochondria. He’s had way to many dr visits lately, and none of them are finding anything wrong with him. He keeps researching symptoms and side effects online, and then POOF he has them. At one point he was convinced he has salmonella.

While he was in panic mode I made a pizza, and even though I followed the directions EXACTLY the pizza turned out crap. My lunch sucked.

Anyway, all the doctors said he would be fine (I don’t think he beleived them) and I finally convinced him he would not die if he just SLEPT and would feel better for it afterwards.

He did (sleep), he didn’t (die) and he did (feel better).

I internetted while he slept. When he woke up he put in an old horror movie called Frogs. I got bored with it before anyone ever died and went to lay in bed and read. Only, I fell asleep again.

Robert woke me at supper time. His mom fried catfish. She always fries catfish on Saturday. Specially for Robert.

Since he was feeling better we went to return some movies to blockbuster, then I tried to find some playing cards at dollar tree. I wanted two matching sets so we can play canasta. They only had packs of two…two non matching packs. I didn’t need 4 packs of cards so I didn’t buy them.

Came back home, Robert put Frogs back in. He had apparantly stopped it while I napped. So I played on pogo.com until it was over.

After that we watched Cloverfield, which was okay. I think I would have liked it better if it wasn’t shot the way it was.

When it was over he put in Alien Vs. Predator Requiem. I told him I’d rather watch something I hadn’t seen before. “Like what” he asked. I rattled off a few movies I hadn’t seen yet (Silent Hill and Hostel 2 were on the list)

Suddenly he didn’t feel like watching anything. He wanted to go to sleep.

I said, “Screw it. I’ll watch Silent Hill with Tim next time he visits”

I get tired of having to watch all the movies I want to see alone. If I want to watch a movie WITH him he has to be something HE picks out and we usually have different tastes in movies. He tends to like comedys and chick-flicks or sci-fi movies older than I am. I tend to like bad horror and slasher movies, the more gore the better.

He’s not sleeping now, rather watching True Lies on tv while I washed dishes then sat over here to blog.

Tomorrow I think I’m going to lock myself in my craft room. It needs a good cleaning. I can watch Psych back there if he’s not taping something. Maybe I’ll write or do some ATCs.

And I’ll try to answer the newest questions on my Q & A tomorrow, so put in a question if you want to and you have not yet.

Just a quickie

Apr-25-2008 By YummY!

My thighs are killing me from last nights exercise.  I skipped tonight because of it.

Work was hell, as work normally is.  One of my mangers made a point of giving me a hard time all day as if trying to process the truck and deal with Friday shoppers wasn’t enough on my shoulders.

Thankfully today was my last day there until NEXT Friday.  I have a wonderful week off.

We’re not planing on doing anything as far as I know.  I WAS going home, but there have been 4 emergency doctor visits, a vet visit, and a dying refrigerator between when those plans were made a now, so that’s probably not going to happen.

It might be for the best.  I’m so mentally and physically exhausted that I think I just need a long time of NOTHING to unwind.

I just hope Robert doesn’t get in one of  his “male PMS” moods and make the week so bad that I wish I was at work.

Its been known to happen.

Oh, and my comment text should be easier now.

Shave my head?

Apr-25-2008 By YummY!

Did my George Foreman exercise tonight for the first time in a few months.  Made it all the way to 20 mintues before my legs said, “Please, no more!”

I’ve decided I’m going to cut my hair and donate it to Locks of Love.

I’m also toying with the idea of hosting a “fun raiser” in which I’ll shave my head (most likely a buzz cut, not completely bald) if I reach my goal.  Maybe completely bald if I overshoot my goal.

I’m still just THINKING about it though.

I’ve been altered that its hard to see the text in my comment box to comment to me.  I’ll try to fix that when I get off work tomorrow.

For now, I’m going to sleep.

Thursday Thirteen #1

Apr-23-2008 By YummY!

Thursday Thirteen #1

13 Videos I have Found on Youtube

The themes and contents vary.  I tried to put warnings where I thought they might be needed.

1. Video for “Body’s a Temple” by Jay Brannan (I’m in love with this mans voice)

2. A simple on, just Jay Brannan singing “Say It’s Possible” (Because I’m in love with this mans voice)

3. Death, Kitty and The Fat Man (a cute cartoon)

4. Space is Fun (animated worms on an asteroid singing in space)

5. Space is Fun (The live action version)

6. FLCL - Shut me Up (An AMV using FLCL and Mindless Self Indulgence - Shut Me Up ADULT LYRICS)

7. Charlie the Unicorn Goes to Candy Mountain (some adult language)

8. The Candy Mountain Song (live action singers once you watch a few seconds of charlie again)

9. Spongebob sings Just Lose It by Eminem

10. Banana Phone The Flash (voilence and language)

11. Eyes Cold Lemonaide - Happy Tree Friends (EXTREME graphic voilence)

12. Here is Goes Again Video by Okay Go (I’m STILL impressed with the coegraphy)

13. Nobody’s Watching OK Go (Two Guys try to imitate the Okay Go video on their own

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Wordless Wednesday #1

Apr-23-2008 By YummY!

White fluff in green water

1. Bisdaks Footprints
2. Sherrie
3. STAY AT HOME MOM
4. Kendra
5. goodbear
6. Maya's Window
7. FRANCINE
8. mah-meeee
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