Archives for July, 2011
Goddess Cail made a special request this week. Apparently, she’s jonesing for: Poor Cail. All she wants is a few hours with: He’s pretty tasty, isn’t he? VERY tasty, in fact. David Boreanaz is the kind of guy who looks good in jeans: And without them, too: He’s hunky in the water: And out of [...]
I’ve come to the conclusion that people can be divided into two separate types: those who are good at play and those who are good at work. The people who are so well-balanced as to be good at both are so small a statistical reality that they don’t factor into this discussion. Good at work. [...]
When you read this today, I will be doing the last leg of my drive from Taos, New Mexico, where I have spent a week doing absolutely nothing. To me, the worst part of a vacation is coming home. Because you have all that laundry to do, and all that mail to sort through, both [...]
Some laws make me giggle. While I’m sure they had to have made sense at the time they were passed, when you look at them from a more modern perspective, they seem pretty ludicrous. I did a little research and here are some of the ‘laws’ I found still on the books or recently repealed: [...]
Around this time of year, when I am in my office working twelve and sixteen hour days, I always wonder what other people are doing. I always imagine everyone is having great and glorious fun without me. I also dream about having a great hobby. Something I would really look forward to doing. Something beside [...]
This has been one stinking hot summer where I live. We are entering our third week of very hot, very humid weather. Or so I am told. I have been in deadline mode and have not come out of my (air-conditioned) cave in forever, so I haven’t experienced much of this heat wave myself. DH keeps me informed [...]
A goddess reader suggested I check out the new talent on TNT’s coming remake of Dallas. I immediately googled the remake and whew! Just look what I found: Jesse Metcalfe! I don’t know if Jesse can act, but he takes a great photo. Yeah. That made me want to go for a swim, too. Here [...]
It’s a heat wave! It’s the end of July and most of our country is under a sweltering heat wave with temps in the triple digits. Here at Mt. Oly we’ve come up with the perfect way to cool you down and deal with those heat induced hallucinations. We’re going to play Deserted Island and [...]
No. Not me. I’m talking about the show on Animal Planet. I made the mistake of watching an all day marathon of this show. Why was it a mistake? Let me explain the show’s premise first. I Shouldn’t Be Alive is a retelling of true stories of survival. People go on picnics, or for boat [...]
Did you know that the author of the original James Bond series, Ian Fleming, also wrote a children’s book entitled Chitty Chitty Bang-Bang? Yes, that Chitty, Chitty Bang-Bang. Yeah, me neither. There is a lot I didn’t know about Mr. Fleming. He was born into a wealthy Scottish banking family and his father was an [...]
I have stupid dreams. I know dreams are supposed to mean something really profound, but I’m not convinced. I have dreams where things turn into other things. And not cool things either. Cool like rocks turning into diamonds. In my dreams, my car turns into a box and I have to carry it home. Or [...]
I’ve been watching a lot of Alternative Sports lately. Alternative Sports is what I call everything other than football. Among the male athletes out there, there’s one who, in almost every interview, laughs a lot. Not in a mean way, but he just seems to find humor in life. He laughs during interviews, while taping [...]
I have a Kindle. I like having a kindle to travel with. I like seeing all the books I’ve read neatly listed out for me. I don’t like that I can’t see the covers to remind me what they are about. But I do like that newsprint-like ink page on the Kindle. It makes it [...]
Looking at the number of posts Sabrina had on her blog yesterday was a little intimidating, so I decided to pull out the big guns. The Gable Guns. And the Grant Guns. And the Karloff Guns. Your mission, if you should choose to accept it, is to caption one or all of the pictures here. [...]
Last Tuesday, my eye doctor, who planned to dilate my eyes, asked me if it would be a good time for me to be unable to see for 3 hours. When is it ever a good time to be blind for 3 hours (unless he comes to my home and dilates my eyes right before [...]
Well on June 19 at approximately 9:30am, Gil and I officially became grandparents to twins! “Stanley” was born first and weighed in at just 3 ounces. “Oliver” was next and only 2.8 ounces. They’re almost a full pound each now! Aren’t they adorable? They were just a couple hours old here. We’re pretty sure that [...]
It is time to change some of my habits. Not that I really want to. I like my habits, which is why I adopted them. But it is time anyway because some are interfering with my productivity. So I did some research and found that advice that says that any habit can be broken or [...]
A week ago, while traveling back from a conference, I read Lori Handeland’s Crave the Moon – which was a WONDERFUL read. I looooooved it because it had some excellent plot turns and I once even peeked into the final pages to see if Gina and Matt were REALLY going to make it. (Spoiler Alert: [...]
. . . watching Jason Bateman in this: The movie — funny. Jennifer Aniston plays a great maneater. She was scary good at it. Here she is with Jason Bateman, who was the ultimate eye candy in HORRIBLE BOSSES. Seriously, the man gets better looking every year. There’s something about him that makes you want [...]
While there are certain modern things that I could take or leave and some that I even think are kind of useless (leaf blowers, for example), there are others of which I have become absurdly fond and dependent. 1) The Chillow. I’ve always been a hot sleeper, during the summer it used to take me [...]
I live in Orlando which, as many of you know, is the location of a recent Famous Trial. No, we will not say which trial because I’m SICK TO DEATH of hearing that person’s name. In fact, I’m sick to death of hearing about ALL of the people associated with that trial. Sick. To. Death. [...]
Just got back from conference, where I was reminded of how each of us has our own little hang-ups when it comes to going to bed. I find I cannot sleep unless: I make a visit to the restroom RIGHT before. My lips aren’t dry. My mind isn’t racing a mile a minute about something [...]
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