!?!

I get a daily news email from the New York times, and I have a tendency to skim the topics without really paying much attention unless a word jumps out at me. Well today, I did a double take. I was zipping through the news email from yesterday, the one over there to the right.

I somehow wacky-parsed that second story into "Signs of Attacks blahblahblah Rise blah Zombies".

So you all know what that means... time to start a collection for that bicycle powered generator. (You get a way of quietly generating electricity without worrying about outside fuel, and some exercise too!)

(Seriously though... Who wants to contribute? I need to find the GPS coordinates for one of those abandoned underground missile silos too. Oh, and map out all the ammo and MRE stores.

So much to do and so little time. *sigh*)

I'm a Night Elf Mohawk

So I'm watching Deep Impact (what? yes again, shut up!) tonight while I got my TWD post ready for this week.  And I'm at the point where the astronauts (uh... SPOILER ALERT for a 10 year old movie... heh) decide to skip returning to Earth (where they can, what? Die along with everyone else?  How is that even an option?) and instead make one last valiant attempt to avert the extinction event.  Is it just me?  I mean that's what you do.  If you're the only ones able to even possibly save the ENTIRE WORLD then you do it.  I know it was supposed to be this tense, dramatic moment where five people get to make a heart-wrenching decision to die while trying to save everyone they love.  But come on.

And don't even get me started on the idiotic parents of Frodo's girlfriend wife.  The bus comes and your daughter is on the list and you aren't.  You don't let her get all "Mommy!" and decide to stay with you for almost certain death.  You shove her butt on the bus and tell her you love her.

Maybe that's why this one just doesn't stack up to Armageddon.  I mean, sure the other one was popcorn fluff.  And had all the worst of the big budget cliches.  And Deep Impact had all these amazing actors doing amazing jobs portraying intense emotions.  They even had a whole crew of astronauts sacrificing themselves instead of just the one.  I just think they missed the mark. 

How would you react if the Powers That Be told you everything was ending next Tuesday?  I think I'd invite everyone I knew over to my house for one rip-roaring week-long party.  Or hole up with WhatsHisFace, my dog, and have a week long conversation.

Anyway. Movie's done and I'm out.

(The title? Um... yeah... I got nothing.)

Winners!

Now for the fun part!  Wooo!  I used Random.org to help me pick the winners.  I'll contact everyone by email or blog.  If I don't hear back from a winner within the week, I'll pick another person and try again.

First off, the Yoplait Kids Yogurt.  I ended up with 20 coupons for free yogurt, so I decided to pick 10 winners to get two coupons apiece.  

1. TwoMuths
2. Shannon @ Gabi's World
3. Richelle
4. Melody and Doug
5. Bethany
6. Cancan
7. Three P's in a Pod
8. Jon & Sarah
9. Terri
10. Reeva

Let's take care of the other multiple winner.  I've got four promotion codes for the personalized Rollups.  These still look like so much fun and I hope the winners all have fun with them.  Shoot me a picture of yours if you get a chance.

1. Amie
2. Elizabeth F.
3. Emily N.
4. Reeva

Next up is the Mystery Yarn.  That's going to be heading out to Wendy.  I hope you enjoy it!  

I knew  Starbucks was a big draw, and this one was no exception.  I had 290 folks enter, and found some fantastic suggestions for drinks to try.  I'd have never thought of adding honey shots to my Chai Latte - going to have to try that soon!  Some of those though, I'd have to write down.  Anyway - the winner of my $25 Starbucks card is.... Sweetpeas!

I loved reading all the outfit suggestions and ideas of who the Lia Sophia set would be perfect for.  I'm glad I used the random number generator to find a winner because I really couldn't have picked a winner myself.  Random.org gave me number 106, and that's Huguette!

There we go, all done!  The complete list of winners is up on the Bloggy Giveaway site.

Contest Ending

I'll be closing the comments down for the giveaway at midnight.  Then I'll do the random.org thing and announce my winners.  Wooooo!

Oy! Anybody Out There

Does anybody out there know how to change blogger to number the comments? I want to use random.org to pick my winners tomorrow. There has to be an easier way than what I did last time - pulling them into a text file and deleting out everything but the name.

I've seen other blogs that number the comments on a page, but I can't remember if any of them were Blogger. Bleah...

(I did find a fun little top commenters script that I might put on the blog. Maybe. I'll have to test the page load times a little.)

Bullets. Points. Dots. TV Version.

I'm never sure what to call them. Bullets? Points? Dots? (Usually when I do it, I call it lazy...)

• Watched the latest Dr. Who episode (for here in the States on Comcast). It was the Christmas one with Kylie Minogue. No spoilers really, but boy was it a little different. Darker than I expected. I'm not sure what they're going to do with this Doctor since Martha is gone (right? for a little while, at least).
• I got trapped into watching the latest Tudors episode. I keep teasing WhatsHisFace about his soap opera, but it was actually a really good show. I got sucked into it within the first five minutes, and didn't pull out a book or my laptop till it was over.
• Watched Becoming Jane finally. It's been sitting on the counter from Netflix for weeks, but I haven't had much time to devote to the TV in awhile. I enjoyed the movie even if it was mostly all made up. And James McAvoy is just yummy.
• I had no idea Fergie could actually sing. Everything I've heard from her has been awful, and I thought it was just her. I was talking with a friend about American Idol and it reminded me of the Gives Back episode. Heart was on (and freaking amazing - wow) and Fergie came out and sang the second verse and then shared the rest with Ann Wilson. It blew me away when I watched it originally, that she was that good. Watching it back on youtube though - she's just a little... thinner than Ann. In the obvious sense (black skin tight leather while she slithers about the stage) but also in the voice department. Ann has this deep rich, distinctive voice. Fergie sang the song pretty well, but it was like eating fat free versus the real stuff.
• Can't wait for Wall-E
  

Can't. Keep. Typing.

There are over 800 giveaways at the Carnival. 800! And of course, this is the week that I can't get more than a half hour together to even go look at em. Arghhhhh!

(And I almost missed the NaBloPoMo deadline too. Geez!)

Apologies

This is a big ol' sorry to my feed readers! You're probably going to get multiples this week as I edit the blog giveaway posts. Next week, I'll go back to posting normally. I just keep getting great things to giveaway!

Giveaway: Take Five

I just found something really cool. Did you guys know you can order customized fruit rollups? How neat are these? I wish I'd known about this earlier - I have a nephew who's crazy about bugs and dinosaurs. I could have totally won the Best Aunt Ever title by sending him a box of these for his birthday!

The website is www.myfruitrollups.com. The only part that looks difficult to me is which pictures to put on there!

Right about now, you're probably asking yourself what this has to do with the Bloggy Giveaway Carnival, right? Here's the deal... I have a connection. No, I can't tell you who or how. But I have promotion codes in my hot little hands for free boxes of customized roll ups.

Four lucky folks who comment on this post will win a free box. And if that wasn't enough, anyone who orders with the promotion code of "Bloggy8" will get $8 off their order!

Contest Rules: The promotion code must be used by August 31st. Anyone can enter, just leave me a comment on this post. If you feel like it, tell me what design you'd pick!

Don't forget to check out all my the other giveaways: Yoplait Kids yogurt, Yarn, Starbucks, and Lia Sophia jewelry!

Giveaway: Take Four

Bloggy Giveaway Carnival Part Four!

Bring out the bling!

First off, let me apologize for the pictures. I was in a rush this morning and snapped a couple of shots to get them up for the giveaway. This is a Lia Sophia necklace and earring set. I believe they're called Plum Dandy, but I could be mistaken. I ordered these sight unseen and when they arrived, I just didn't love them. Someone else out there will probably give them a much better home and actually take them out for a night on the town once in a while. (If I keep them, they're going to be stuck way down in the bottom of the jewelry box and never have any fun.)

The center stones are a deep purple, and the smaller stones are a lovely lavender. All the stones have a lovely ripple or cats eye effect. The necklace is adjustable from 16-19 inches.

Click on the pictures for close ups and a few more shots.

Contest rules: Giveaway is open to anyone. One entry per comment and one comment per person. Just leave me a comment telling me what outfit you'd wear them with, who you'd give them to, or how I can become a better photographer :) I'll close down the comments Saturday 4/26 at midnight and determine a winner. Please leave a way for me to contact you.

Don't forget to check out my other giveaways: Yoplait Kids yogurt, Mystery Yarn, Starbucks, and Customized Fruit Rollups!

Giveaway: Take Three

Bloggy Giveaway Carnival Part Three!

Java java java java java! What's not to love? Chai Latte, Mocha, straight drip, tea, Caramel Apple Cider, Skinny Latte, Frapasomethingorother - it's all good.

Does anybody else have issues when you order your drink at one of these places? I can never remember what order it goes in - is the decaf before the grande? And where does the iced part go? I was trying to order a chai the other morning and couldn't get the "no water" part out. My brain was still asleep and it kept coming out "no foam". That's why I keep it simple - I can't handle anything more complex than Grande No Water Chai. (and not even that some mornings, Gah!) But I love listening to what everyone else orders. I think the most high maintenance (blame my husband, that's what he calls it!) order I've heard was a Grande White Chocolate No Fat No Foam Extra Hot Latte with a Shot of Caramel. (Sounds good, doesn't it?)

Contest rules: Open to anyone. Leave me a comment (one per person please) with your favorite Starbucks drink or the most high-maintenance order you've ever overheard in line. I'll close down the comments Saturday 4/26 at midnight and determine a winner. Please leave a way for me to contact you.

Don't forget to check out my other giveaways: Yoplait Kids yogurt, Mystery Yarn, Lia Sophia jewelry, and Customized Fruit Rollups!

Giveaway: Take Two

Item two in the Bloggy Giveaway Carnival, another cone of Mystery Yarn!

It went over well in the last carnival so I thought I'd try it again.

I bought this yarn many moons ago with the intention of weaving or knitting a baby blanket for a cousin. I think that baby is 6 years old now - good intentions and all that jazz. I'd love for someone else to actually use this somehow.

Yarn details: 754 yards, Vimar 1991, Carisio (VC), Ping Pong, Yellow core yarn with fluffs of lighter yellow, pink, blue, and green.

Contest rules: leave me a comment (one per person, please!) about babies, weaving, knitting or one of your good intentions that went awry. This is open to anyone. (I'll probably opt for the slowest shipping possible for anyone not in the continental US, but I'll get it there!) I'll close down the comments Saturday 4/26 at midnight and determine a winner. Please leave a way for me to contact you.

Don't forget to check out my other giveaways: Yoplait Kids yogurt, Starbucks, Lia Sophia jewelry, and Customized Fruit Rollups!

Click the pictures for close ups and more pictures in the set.

Bloggy Giveaways Quarterly Carnival: Take One

Yep, it's that time of year again. Time when bloggers and internet savvy folks all over tether themselves to the computer visiting and commenting their fingers off trying to win cool stuff. I'm trying things a little different this time. I have a few things to give away, but I'm going to put them up in separate posts.

This give away is for free food! With the prices of everything skyrocketing, who could pass that up? Yes, but what kind of free food, you're asking, right? I mean, free is still too much to pay for something like haggis (okay, that's a cheap shot, apologies to all my Scottish friends!) or monkey brain soup (yeah, I don't think I'll apologize for that one. Ewwww).

Details: I'm giving away coupons for a free six pack of Yoplait Kids yogurt in a cup or yogurt drinks. The exact number isn't clear right now, but I'll update the post as soon as I know how many I'll be giving away. All you have to do is leave a comment on this post and you're entered. The fine print: It should be noted that the coupons cannot be redeemed in the following states: California, Idaho, Louisiana, Nevada, New Jersey, North Dakota and Tennessee.

Edited to add: I'll close down the comments Saturday 4/26 at midnight and determine a winner. Please leave a way for me to contact you. Don't forget to check out my other giveaways: Mystery Yarn, Starbucks, Lia Sophia jewelry, and Customized Fruit Rollups!

* Please, one comment per person per giveaway. And GO!

New Camera!!! (Yes, Again)

New Camera!!!

Wooohooo! I got a new camera! It's a Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W90 and I'm having a blast with it. I started taking a tapestry weaving class a few weeks ago, and here's as far as I've gotten. 

And below are some close up shots. You can see the fibers (in the larger pics).

Lalalalaaaaaaa! LA!

How awesome is it that I live in a place where the traffic report the other morning was warning folks away from one stretch of highway because someone had hit an elk the size of a horse? And the next day, that a herd of elk was hanging out near another highway and folks should be careful?
All that, with big city amenities! LOL

Feminism! Boo! Sorry, but the whole thing over the last couple of days is cracking me up. Declare your stance now! Pro-ogle or Anti-ogle! We must know where you stand on this important and crucial issue!!! Or you know, go hug a puppy. Whatever. (But I still think Sueb0b had a valid point, won't someone just think of the shoes?!?)

Oooh, I know! New blog theme! -Ism Wednesday! We can tackle feminism (based on this first week only the most important issues, obviously) and er... I'll need some suggestions on more. I seem to be drawing a blank. Humanism? What would that be? The promotion of humans over... Martians? Communism? Pacifism? Satanism (ack)? Perhaps I should actually put more thought into this whole thing...

I Doth Sucketh

I write a post yesterday asking for comments and then I wander away. Sorry!

I'm writing a post to follow up the comments from yesterday because.... Well, it's my party and I'll do what I want! *Nyah* If you're coming in part way (heh), then you might want to go read this including the comments.

Let me just start by saying I'm completely fascinated by the different takes on the article. That's why I posted it, to get some idea of where everyone else stood and because I honestly had a gut reaction to the thing that I'm not sure I can still explain.

So first up, Kolvedic. (Just an aside - he's got a bajillion names, but this is my hubs. WhatsHisFace, Bill, Kolvedic, BilloniusFoo.)

"i find the entire thing a paper argument. There is nothing in there based on fact of any kind, it is all perception. I find the whole thing repulsive and repugnant."
- Kolvedic

It is completely perception. I'm not sure that invalidates it though. I know that I've gotten into more than one argument with Craing where this is brought up as a way of dismissing an issue, but if more than one person shares this perception, doesn't that make it something that needs to be looked at? I realize that makes it hell for those of you expecting cold rational facts as the only way to debate an issue. I'm a gut girl though - I go with my gut and figure out a way to rationalize it as I go.

As for the rest of your ogling comments, well I dunno. There's a line past which ogling becomes aggressive and fits more into the "strange men force attention" category. For the basis of my own sanity, I have to assume that the gardeners ogling was a jumping off base for the rest of the article or it quickly devolves into rabid fear gibbering for me. And to be clear, I've never seen any of the guys in my life do the aggressive sort of ogle. (Please, I hang out with introverted geeks.)

Next up, Back Nine. Love, love, love your take on all things, and this would be no exception. Spot on as usual, and I'm quoting one piece because it can't be said enough:

"But women, ALL women, need to vote for those who stand up for women. And that's usually not the oldest man with the greyist hair." - Back Nine

Heimdell. You've got a point with the "begging for it" crud in TV and movies. But how does it fit into your world view that (at least for the women of my generation) after a rape (or "alleged" rape) you start getting the evaluation of the event. Was she wearing something provocative? Was she in his hotel room past midnight? Was she flirting with him? Tell me honestly that you don't hear those questions as soon as the "alleged" rape hits the news and I'll eat my hat. I personally think I should have every frakking right to dance naked on a tabletop telling the whole world I love sex and give up not one iota of my right to determine who does and does not have access to entering my body. Which you argued for in the next paragraph. Heh, read ahead Jhi, read ahead. (I'm leaving it, cause I want to make you all wince or pluck out your eyes with the mental image of me dancing naked on a table. Ha!)

I think a lot of the anger you and Kolvedic have about articles like this is because you aren't those guys. And I'm not sure when it became the norm that only one group/side could have a grievance. What happened to you was sexual assault the same as it would have been if the genders were reversed. I'd even go so far as to say the puss, liar, whiny guy comments would come from folks who needed to believe the stereotypical roles are right. (Men always want sex whenever and wherever they can get it. Good women are pure and innocent. Evil women are slutty and deserve whatever they get.)

Sueb0b: Is it wrong that now I want to write a piece from the shoe point of view? How these awful, vile women covet me and ogle me and where are my rights?

Craing! I knew we'd get to the cite proof or retract! (I kid, I kid.) Anecdotal evidence is all you're going to get in conversations like these, unless the police open up their notes or the court records have suddenly gotten a lot easier to parse. I do think there's a vast difference between public scrutiny and the ogling that occurs when construction dudes catcall. Or a guy can't take his eyes off a rack he finds attractive (yeah yeah, I've heard it before that you just can't help yourselves. Pfttt. Cite proof or retract! Hehehehe). I'm not sure what to say, actually. To me, feelings are valid, interesting, and often enlightening. To completely invalidate what she says because she has no case studies is a wonderful tool to sweep things under the rug, but at the end you're left with a significant portion of the populace "feeling" scared, worried, and disenfranchised. The author even says in the comments:

"A lot of this post was about my conditioning more than about reality, but it’s our conditioning that in some ways determines our reality." - BetaCandy

Do you have no desire to try and figure out the problem? Or are you content to just call it her (their, not-my) problem and move on?

Jasmine: I remember a conversation where you were annoyed at a couple of guys who wouldn't stop staring at WalMart. You only want the hot dudes ogling you, admit it!

But hang on a second. I just realized that Kolvedic, Sueb0b, and Craing (and possibly Jasmine, but really no telling for sure from just the snippet/joke) are presenting it as fact that men ogle. Where's the proof of that? We're just supposed to take it as fact because they've gotten away with it from the days of yore? How is that any different from any of the rest of the non-factual, paper-argument, "feeling", perceptions that are presented in the article? I'm tempted to say that it's supposed to be accepted as fact because the heteropatriarchy (new term for me, I think I like it) says so. But that's probably just me being a silly girl, isn't it?

Please, Tell Me What You Think

I read something today that is distressing me. Some background: I've been subscribed to The Hathor Legacy for quite a while, but I found out earlier this week that I was only getting a partial feed. I had somehow gotten on the list for the Film, TV, Gaming section and missed the Books and Feminism feeds. So I subscribed, and have been catching up piecemeal.

There is a lot of meat over there for generating posts, and I'm sure that I'll be linking more later. But I read Versions of Equality today from the Feminism feed, and as I said before, it distresses me.

I don't like this view of the world. I don't like the conclusions that the poster and commenters draw. I don't like much of it. And yet... so much of it rings true.

Do me a favor, and go read the article. And the comments. Then come and tell me what you think.

PS - It fits the Letters theme from NaBloPoMo because that's how we communicate. Letters form words. Words form sentences. Sentences form paragraphs. And somewhere in there, thoughts are exchanged and ideas take shape.

Almost Missed It!

(Doh! I forgot to hit publish until almost too late.)

Arghhh! My office has become plagued with an infestation of fruit flies. Every day, I get dive bombed by the little buggers. If there was anybody looking in the office window they'd be laughing their ass off. Total concentration, typing away, and then see me furiously flailing about at nothing. I feel like King Kong with those pesky little airplanes. Kill one and nine more spring up to take it's place. THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE! (Yeah, I may have lost it. Maybe. Heh.)

PS - Post brought to you by the letter F. F for fly. F for fruit fly. F for frakkin' fruit fly! Ahem.

A Video Tutorial

A video tutorial on how to make coffee.

I've had mornings like that, only without the toddler excuse.



PS - Oh, all right. This post brought to you by the letter T. T for tequila. T for toddler. T for terrible-oh-my-god-why-didn't-someone-stop-me hangovers.

Letters

I had the bright idea to put up some ascii art today as a sort of day filler. Only the Mac interface with Blogger wouldn't cooperate. So instead, while surfing for ascii art, I found this picture. It's from a history of Ascii Art write up.

It's amazing that this was from 1898 and done on a typewriter. Pretty cool!

Uh... Did I Say That Out Loud?

Ever say something without thinking about it, then realize that it came out way, way (WAY) wrong?

We were playing a game tonight.  We had bad guys in front, and bad guys coming up behind us.  Someone said we should take care of the guys in front pretty quickly because we had guys coming up our ass.  (See where this is going?)

I started taking my turn and without thinking about it, said "I hate it when they come..." (I'll leave the rest of it to your imagination.)  They didn't let me live that one down the rest of the night.

PS - This post brought to you by the letter E. E for embarrassed. E for easy (as in easy mark). E for (un)expected.

'Nuff Said

(As always, images courtesy of Flickr, Leo Reynolds, and Eva the Weaver under a Creative Commons License.)

Letters

Dear Thing Hanging On The Bottom Of My Car,

Look, I know that you're just begging for attention. And I get it, really I do. You hang out down there, doing whatever it is that you do, and you get no respect. But I thought we had a deal. You hung down a little, rubbing up against anything raised in the road. Like say snow ridges. And I ignored you until you scraped over something, then I'd promise to take you for some TLC. It worked really well for us, didn't it? So then why did you feel the need to try and mate with the snow pile in the driveway when I pulled out today? You should have known it would go badly. I mean, really. It was just way too much powder for you.

Why couldn't things have just stayed the way they were?

*sigh*

Disappointedly,
Jhi


Dear Schizophrenic Colorado Weather,

You're killing me.

I know we get snow in April (and May and sometimes June and sometimes even July). But this 60 degrees F, oops - snow!, 60 degrees F thing week after week is just making me crazy.

Can we get maybe the same weather for three days in a row?

Jhi


Dear WhatsHisFace (aka Bill),

You rock all over the place. I was driving your SUV home tonight thinking about what I was going to have to do to get my car fixed. Trying to figure out what I could bribe you with so you would show me how to check the car (cause me + a jack + a really heavy metal thing = probably maiming if left to my own devices) or maybe even get it drivable so I could drop it off at a shop. And by the time I'd gotten home, you'd fixed it. All done. Nothing left for me to do.

You are amazingly awesome.

Love you!
Jhi

Do You Hear What I Hear?

Do you guys listen to audio books?

I've been using those to help get through the commute without wanting to kill someone - it's amazing how much calmer I am when I tune in and zen out. And I also sometimes listen to an audio book at work when the tasks I'm doing are less brain-intensive. When I have to start running the book back because I missed the last 5 minutes oh and then I missed it again, I know it's either a really bad book or I'm concentrating on the tasks at hand more than I thought/expected.

Blah - which is a really long winded intro to what I really want to talk about. I know, so what else is new, right?

Anyway. So the other day I was listening to the third book in an open-ended mystery/supernatural series (the Harper Connelly series by Charlaine Harris).

Wow, I just got distracted for an hour by the news that they're trying to do an HBO series based on another series by Harris, the Sookie Stackhouse books. The series will be called True Blood and says it stars Anna Pacquin as Sookie. And Alexander Skarsgård, son of Stellan Skarsgård, as the super sexy Viking vampire Eric. Huh. Well, he's blond. And Pacquin is going blond to play Sookie... I just don't know what else to say. I mean, I'm not as attached to this set of books as I am to say, the Stephanie Plum books. (I've had some fights screaming matches knock-down-drag-outs spirited discussions about who should be cast as Stephanie, Morelli, and Ranger.) The news about the True Blood casting just mostly leaves me puzzled. (I don't think I'd have done it that way, but... okay.)

Right. Man, I'm ADD today. (To paraphrase Lara from the other day, drafting? Editing? What the hell is that?!?)

AHEM. I was listening to Ice Cold Grave the other day. All three of the Harper Connelly books have been read by the same lady, Alyssa Bresnahan. Since the books are first person, I've really come to hear her as the voice of Harper. This one was trundling along as expected - really just literary fluff, nothing heavy but mostly entertaining, when I suddenly felt like I'd been hit with a 2x4. And I can just imagine the narrator (as she's billed on the cover) doing her initial read through for the recording. "I licked my thumb and ran it over the head of his - WHAT the HELL?!?" Don't get me wrong - it was obvious where things were going with the characters, I just wasn't expecting such graphic coverage of the journey. Know what I'm sayin? I think Harris lulled me into expecting a PG-13/R rating then pulled a fast one in this third book. I was expecting a fade-to-black on the details with maybe some double entendres thrown in only to get the audio book equivalent of a soft core porn.

It was... weird. I'm no stranger to the more racy stuff out there. I've read a few Harlequin Romances (and Zane Greys and Anita Blakes and... nevermind). There's just something about being read to that seems to make it a different experience. Which makes me wonder how the narrator(s) handle it with Laurell K. Hamilton's stuff. LOL. Oy.

Anybody have the same reaction, or am I just a big ol' weirdo?

(PS - Oh yeah, so this post brought to you by the letter 'P'. P for prude. P for uh... protuberance. P for ... paranormal! Yeah, yeah... that's it!)

(PPS - P photos courtesy of Flickr, Eva the Weaver, Claudecf, poluz, Leo Reynolds, _boris, and mag3737 under a Creative Commons License.

Today's Post Brought To You By the Letter Й

Йхианна

That's Jhianna in Cyrillic. I think. (Well it is according to this website.)

If I just insulted your mother or your dog, sorry!

I Am A Danger

I'm a danger to myself and others. (But mainly our bank account...)

I was happily surfing along today, just minding my own business, when this painting lept out and grabbed me. Next thing I know, I'm the high bidder on the eBay auction that's ending in 16 minutes and I don't know if I'm hitting refresh out of a fear of getting outbid or a fear that I won't be outbid.

*sigh*

I won.

Yay?

PS - Bill/WhatsHisFace just might kill me.

PPS - This post brought to you by the letter I. I for impulse. I for idiot. I for I LOVE YOU VERY MUCH HONEY!



Edited to add: Letter Photos courtesy of Flickr users Eva the Weaver, Claudcf, and edwardfilms'.

Dear Sunday

Dear Sunday (hell, Dear Weekend for that matter),

You rock. It doesn't matter if it's sleeping in to wake up to the smell of bacon and eggs. Or waking up early and stumbling down to Starbucks to read and sip a honey latte (and people watch of course). Or reading the paper before taking a nap. Or watching movies all day. Or running around on a beautiful day. Or spending hours wandering around a book store, drinking it all in.

Just, yeah. More please.

Love,
Jhi

PS - if you could manage to last a little longer, that'd be great. kthxbyebye

Harry Harry Harry HARRY!

I had pre-ordered the newest Harry Dresden book so long ago that I'd forgotten it. So when I got the little brown box in the mail from Amazon the other day, it was like a surprise present from myself.

I haven't had time to devour it yet, but I imagine that will happen before the week is out.

You guys reading the Dresden Files? If not, then why the hell aren't you?!? There's wizards and magic and non-sexy vampires and sexy vampires and faeries and brownies and werewolves. And a talking skull (kinda). And a huge, loveable, smart dog.

(On the other hand, it is an even book and those usually aren't the strongest for some reason. Let's hope that history doesn't hold true this time...)

Oh, and just for you NaBloPoMo: This post brought to you by the letter...



W for Wizard!
W for Wonderful!
W for Winter (as in Faeries)!
W for Wardens!
W for Wallaby! (yeah, running out of Ws...)

(What, you thought maybe I'd go with H?)





Image courtesy of Claudcf and Flickr.

L Is For

L is for Linkage.

Willpower

I know, I know. It's Dooce, she doesn't need anymore linkage. But come on! The look on Bo and Coco's faces is adorable. I'm amazed they could get all three dogs to wait for the command to eat the treats. Plus, Bo looks so much like my first dog Duke. Put a German Shepherd head on that barrel of a body, and you'd have him exactly.


Zombie Workout

I love the whole thing. I think I had this fleeting thought when I saw Dawn of the Dead too, but the difference is I have no follow through. Or imagination. Or writing talent. So, basically... she rocks, I suck.

And I'll finish this one out by including a list of my web comics. I removed the sidebar version because it was hopelessly out of date. This should take care of most of it (at least the RSSable ones).

Might As Well

Might as well stick with a theme...



Photos from Flickr by Leo Reynolds.

I kinda like that...

This Post Brought To You By The Letter 'T'

91 words

Speedtest

T. You know, for typing?

Okay so I said I'd explain later, guess this qualifies as later, huh? I'm going to try NaBloPoMo again (National Blog Posting Month). I know, it's the wrong time of year, right? Well, the folks over there have gone loco and are doing it year round. (NaBloPoMo - It's Not Just For November Anymore!)

For April, the theme is Letters. You can riff on anything you want as long as you tie it to a letter. For instance, yesterday was a letter photo and today's post is sponsored by the letter 'T'.

I dunno if I can manage a post a day, but I'll give it a shot. At the least, it should force me to get past this strange sense of limbo on the old blog-stead.

(It's working well so far. I shot out of bed last night at 11:30PM to put a post up. If I can get some posts in reserve, then I should be home free. ..... I think I said that last November too. *sigh*)

(Oh, and the typing test is courtesy of Mrs. Who. Her For Fun Friday posts always have great links. )

I'll Explain Later

Photo on Flickr by Leo Reynolds.