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2011-10-14T22:43:00.003-05:00

Anyone that has lived with me knows that when I like a song, I will wear the shit out of it. I'm talking same song on repeat for hours/days/weeks.

Well, I love every single song by the band Muse. All 100+ of them. I love them so much, that I have literally listened to nothing else since March of 2010.**

100+ songs on shuffle: it's going to take a long time before that gets old. For me, anyway. Probably not so much for everyone around me.

**I don't actually get to listen to music every single day. But a few times a week for a year and a half is still a shit ton. And I still love it.

Finally!

2011-09-13T18:11:00.001-05:00

I have been waiting for months for Blogger to release an app for the iPhone. And now it's here! Does this mean I'll be posting more? Probably not. But at least now it's even more convenient... to not blog.

-from my uber fabulous iPhone

Royally Nailed

2011-03-03T01:11:00.000-06:00

I was a child living in London during the time of Prince Charles and Lady Di's engagement and wedding and still have my souvenir Prince Charles and Lady Di paper dolls. Now that Wills is getting married next month, I've been wracking my brain trying to find the perfect way to celebrate and commemorate the occasion and incorporate it into my look on the big day. Then I saw these. Problem solved!

Source: Kaboodle: Hair & Beauty Blogazine Post - OMG! Royal Wedding Nail Stickers

Do not want!

2010-11-03T17:24:00.002-05:00

Seriously! Whose pictures did they combine to get this image?? Who said, "Yeah, that's the image we want to use to promote our website"? Unless, of course, their goal is to scare people out of procreating. In which case, mission accomplished for that potential baby's parents.

Uh, what?

2010-10-30T19:58:00.004-05:00

I realize sexing up childhood costume favorites is popular, but this seems a little extreme. Who the hell wants to be a sexy Elmo??

Or Big Bird

Or how about a sexy ninja turtle!

All 3 of these costumes are $50 and sold out. Darn. I guess I'll have to make my own sexy Grover costume.

2010-09-16T23:23:00.003-05:00

Pictured is a young physician by the name of Dr. Roger Starner Jones. His short two-paragraph letter to the White House accurately puts the blame on a "Culture Crisis" instead of a "Health Care Crisis"... It's worth a quick read:

Dear Mr. President:
During my shift in the Emergency Room last night, I had the pleasure of evaluating a patient whose smile revealed an expensive shiny gold tooth, whose body was adorned with a wide assortment of elaborate and costly tattoos, who wore a very expensive brand of tennis shoes and who chatted on a new cellular telephone equipped with a popular R&B ringtone.

While glancing over her patient chart, I happened to notice that her payer status was listed as "Medicaid"! During my examination of her, the patient informed me that she smokes more than one pack of cigarettes every day, eats only at fast-food take-outs, and somehow still has money to buy pretzels and beer. And, you and our Congress expect me to pay for this woman's health care? I contend that our nation's "health care crisis" is not the result of a shortage of quality hospitals, doctors or nurses. Rather, it is the result of a "crisis of culture" a culture in which it is perfectly acceptable to spend money on luxuries and vices while refusing to take care of one's self or, heaven forbid, purchase health insurance. It is a culture based in the irresponsible credo that "I can do whatever I want to because someone else will always take care of me". Once you fix this "culture crisis" that rewards irresponsibility and dependency, you'll be amazed at how quickly our nation's health care difficulties will disappear.

Respectfully,
ROGER STARNER JONES, MD

"This cannot be natural!"

2010-08-05T17:52:00.003-05:00

Hey lady, as the great Antoine Dodson (see below) would say, "You are so dumb. You are really dumb. Fo real."

"They're rapin everybody out here"

2010-08-05T01:25:00.001-05:00

Photoshop Opens Time Portals Into World War II Ghost Dimension

2010-07-30T15:37:00.005-05:00

This is brilliantly awesome!

Click for article

2010-01-10T15:17:00.001-06:00

Now you have to be handicapped *and* drive a Prius to park here. Though if you drive a Prius there probably is something wrong with you anyway.

Interesting discovery of the day

2009-08-31T14:19:00.001-05:00

Blackberry doesn't recognize the word "constipated". Discuss.

Sent by my BlackBerry, bitches!

I like Chick-fil-a and all...

2009-07-09T13:37:00.002-05:00

But when a person in a little neon yellow vest is needed to direct cars in and out of the traffic jam at the drive-thru entrance, perhaps it's time to try some place new for lunch, people.

Sent by my BlackBerry, bitches!

2009-07-07T14:25:00.002-05:00

Not your typical Yorkie owner.

Sent by my BlackBerry, bitches!

2009-07-04T14:27:00.001-05:00

You know you're a mom when you double tie your own shoes out of habit and don't even notice until you go to take them off.

Sent by my BlackBerry, bitches!

2009-07-03T14:51:00.001-05:00

Is it weird that I'm tempted to grab one or two?

Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T

OMG NO WAY!

2009-06-09T15:29:00.003-05:00

Give me a break. My dead grandmother could tell he was gay. WHO CARES anyway? Someone in the entertainment industry is gay? Shocking! Why is this a story? Why is this "breaking news"? Why is that snake staring at his crotch like that?

Us Weekly: Adam Lambert Finally Confirms "I'm Gay"

Reason #605 why I hate going to the Dr.

2009-05-18T13:26:00.006-05:00

I used the restroom in the waiting room before my appointment in order to empty as many ounces of bodily fluids as possible because every little bit helps on the scale! (That scale happens to be a bastard as it claims I'm 4lbs heavier than my own scale says I am.) And in the otherwise sterile bathroom, was a toilet with streaks of a certain substance on the bottom of the bowl. As if that wasn't bad enough, next to said toilet was a trashcan with wads of toilet paper seemingly covered with the same type of streaks! What is wrong with people!? Judging by the size of my bill, the Dr's office provides state of the art plumbing. So flush your poopy paper, dammit!!!

You might think that this was enough to deter me from using the facilities, but you'd be wrong! I am no quitter. I am completely committed to weighing as little as possible when I step on that scale!

*While googling for an appropriate picture for this post (that wouldn't induce vomiting), I found this article on a UK news site about how us frivolous, Hummer-driving Americans are destroying the environment with our fancy toilet paper. Click the evil tp roll for the story!

2009-05-16T17:58:00.005-05:00

I'm sitting in my car in the grocery store parking lot in the pouring rain waiting for it to let up enough so that I can get myself, my son, my bag, and my coffee all inside without getting soaked. Looks like I'm going to be here for awhile, so I tried taking cool pics of my starbucks cup with my cell phone. It's not working.

Hold on, the guy next to me just left so I'm going to move closer by a whole space.
This is a big deal because the only way to get a good parking space is to be handicapped or a shopping cart. In fact, I was having a standoff with a shopping cart in my old space. I kept telling him, "no mr shopping cart, your space is over there with all the other carts!" He ignored me as you can see from the picture. But I showed him, I'm now 1 space closer to the front of the store.

The rain is starting to slow just a tiny bit, but now my son is asleep and I'm sitting here enjoying my coffee, listening to the chill sounds of Sia (whose name I can't pronounce nor do i actually know anything about other than her song Breathe Me made me cry at the end of the series finale of Six Feet Under) and I don't really want to get out of my car.

OMGLOL

2009-05-06T00:35:00.002-05:00

Are you surprised to discover this car is owned by a Starbucks employee? Me neither.

Hey, that's a nice phone ya got there, Homeless Guy

2009-05-03T17:07:00.002-05:00

I guess being homeless at the soup kitchen isn't what it used to be.

I :heart: Swine Flu

2009-05-01T18:23:00.003-05:00

Thank god for swine flu because the only thing worse than seeing pictures of these 2 attention starved retards is hearing anything that comes out of their mouths. They are so desperate to be "news" that they're spending their honeymoon in Mexico after the CDC and Homeland Security told Americans not to travel there. Here's hoping they end up in a Mexican quarantine!

Find out if you have swine flu!

XX XX

2009-04-19T16:52:00.008-05:00

I woke up this morning to find this on the coffee table. My husband was in charge of popping the tops last night and CLAIMS this perfect placement of the caps on the catalog was a complete accident. Umhmmm

Fit Flop? I think not

2009-04-17T00:05:00.006-05:00

My pair of Fit Flops have arrived. You know, "The flip flop with the gym built-in." Well I have been sitting here all day with them on my feet and I don't feel shit! What the hell, Fit Flop?! Make me fit, dammit!

*perhaps i will sleep with them on to get a good all-night workout*

**Friday morning update: Still nothing! I got a good 8 hours of sleep in too. That should be plenty of time to see some results. Where's all the muscle soreness it warned me about!?

Being Inappropriate @ Cracker Barrel

2009-04-15T19:49:00.004-05:00

Because, really, why wouldn't we?

WTF is that?

2009-02-16T16:35:00.006-06:00

Seriously. What. The. F*ck. Is she a beetle? A ladybug? An Easter egg? I realize pregnancy does strange things to you, but I'd think if you were 10 and a half months pregnant and performing at the Grammys you'd pay a sane person to dress you.

At least her shoes are sensible.

HAHAHA

2008-10-04T01:58:00.003-05:00

LAS VEGAS — O.J. Simpson, who went from American sports idol to celebrity-in-exile after he was acquitted of murder in 1995, was found guilty Friday of robbing two sports-memorabilia dealers at gunpoint in a Las Vegas hotel room.

Simpson, 61, could spend the rest of his life in prison.

A weary and somber Simpson released a heavy sigh as the charges were read by the clerk in Clark County District Court. He was immediately taken into custody.

The Hall of Fame football star was convicted of kidnapping, armed robbery and 12 other charges for gathering up five men a year ago and storming into a room at a hotel-casino, where the group seized several game balls, plaques and photos. Prosecutors said two of the men with him were armed; one of them said Simpson asked him to bring a gun.

The verdict came 13 years to the day after Simpson was cleared of murdering his ex-wife and a friend of hers in Los Angeles in one of the most sensational trials of the 20th century.

Ike.T - Day 6

2008-09-17T14:00:00.002-05:00

Sweet Baby Jesus, we have POWER! And water! The announcement came via some of my neighbors shouting and dancing out in the auto court. It feels good to brush my teeth and wash my hands again. The water's probably toxic, but at least i have cable and internet!

*The following Ike related posts have been published after the fact with the timestamps adjusted to reflect the appropriate day.*

Ike.T - Day 5

2008-09-16T22:10:00.003-05:00

Check this out... it's a picture of Ike! If Ike were an adorable little boy who only hates sandcastles, of course.

It's Tuesday, I think, and this is getting damn old. The days are running together and we're starting to get pretty cranky. I can't imagine how the people who have REAL problems are dealing with it.

Today we got our FEMA ice. woohoo! We tried to get some yesterday, but the line was several miles long. Unfortunately what we really needed the ice for was my backup breastmilk supply and it's too late for that. But at least we can have a cold drink. We've now lost everything in our fridge/freezer. While at the MIL's tonight, we found out that if your fridge is w/out power for more than 3 days, you have to empty it, clean it, and unplug it otherwise the fridge itself will develop salmonella and you have to throw the whole damn thing out. Awesome. Cleaning out the fridge w/out water should be a blast.

And for those keeping track, what my DVR won't be recording today:

Dr. Phil
Oprah
Big Brother Finale
House
And probably some new shit that's starting...

Ike.T - Day 4

2008-09-15T22:00:00.005-05:00

It's Monday, day 4 without power and water. It's hot and humid and i want to flush my toilet, dammit! We spent the evening at the MIL's who has power and water, but no A/C, cable, or internet... I know what you're thinking, 'how barbaric!' Earlier today we spent an hour in line for gas. Once we got up to the pump, the police officer informed us it was cash only. Uh, thanks for telling me NOW. Fortunately, I had the $1 i found on the floor in Wal-Mart this afternoon plus $15 more that miraculously appeared in my wallet! (i *never* have cash) I wasn't so much thankful that we were able to get gas for the sake of the gas, but for the fact that I wouldn't be humiliated by leaving w/out any. :rofl:

Today, my DVR won't be recording:

Dr. Phil
Oprah
Prison Break
Weeds

*yes, i watch dr phil and oprah. don't judge me! =P

Ike.T - Day 3

2008-09-14T16:00:00.004-05:00

It's Sunday afternoon and FINALLY the men of the family cut through enough trees to at least get out of the property. The fire department came to help and sped up the process. The parents are still without water/power. We called our apartment office and no one answered the phone and none of the people we knew in our area were willing to drive the few blocks to our place to see if it was still standing (don't get me started), so we drove the hour home to find out for ourselves. Good news: our apartment and belongings are fine. Bad news: still no power/water. Worse news, my DVR will not be recording

Fringe (Pilot re-airing - dvr didn't record it the first time either, stupid comcast)
Big Brother
I don't remember what the hell else (if anything) is on Sundays... that's what I have a DVR for!

Ike.T - Day 2

2008-09-13T12:00:00.002-05:00

At 10pm last night, we loaded up the baby and headed to my parents' house in NW Houston. The storm caught up to us around 2am and lasted for several hours. By the time it was over, my parents also lost power, water, and at least 4 dozen large trees. The trees took out power lines and blocked the only way out. Pictures will be added later.

Fortunately, Saturdays are light on my DVR and the only item it will not be recording is

Big Brother After Dark

Ike.T - Day 1

2008-09-12T21:00:00.005-05:00

9pm on Friday Sept 12, we lost power and water. Dammit. It hadn't even started raining yet. It wasn't even windy yet! Stupid hurricane.

What my DVR won't be recording tonight:

Psych

The Soup

Big Brother After Dark

I want a new template, dammit!

2008-09-12T03:20:00.008-05:00

I have wasted the last several hours just trying to find a new (purdy) template for this damn blog that I never actually use. All I can find are templates for the Classic blogger. Darn you, nerds! Make some pretty XML ones. You'd think being a former web designer myself, I'd have some sort of clue as to how to do it myself. But you'd be wrong. It hurts my head just thinking about it. =(

*update*

how freakin cute is this?? it'll do until i can find something a little moodier! check out Gisele's site. her work is freakin adorable! talent like that actually depresses me.

Today I am officially a Housewife

2007-08-07T19:35:00.002-05:00

I am watching Heidi Klum sell her clover jewelry on QVC. All I need now is my husband's credit card.

Father's Day Sale

2007-05-30T10:33:00.001-05:00

I don't know about y'all, but my dad doesn't look like this.

Ug in Ugly

2006-10-31T18:25:00.000-06:00

Atoosa Rubenstein is not attractive. I don't really like to criticize people's looks, but... I'm making an exception for this.

I first saw this woman last summer when I apparently had a siezure while flipping channels on the TV and accidentally turned on MTV. It was some show called Miss Seventeen and it was hosted by Atoosa Rubenstein, the Editor-In-Chief of Seventeen Magazine. I nearly shat myself when I saw her, not believing that someone actually hired her to run a magazine, let alone put her on television where people can see her. I'm sure she's a nice person, blah, blah, blah, but just like any other freak in a sideshow, I couldn't stop staring. I also couldn't shake the thought that she looked SO familiar. This bothered me because I couldn't imagine there being another human being that looked like this. (Note: There are not many pictures of her online that aren't professionally taken and photochopped and therefore it's difficult to find a photo that actually looks like the real her. This is the best I could find.)

I eventually came to my senses and changed the channel and proceeded to erase her and her horrifying image from my mind. But she wouldn't be silenced for long!!! She showed up a few weeks ago on an episode of America's Next Top Model in which she assisted in telling pretty girls how to look pretty while dressed as Sideshow Freaks (HAHAHAhAHAHAHAH!!!). See? Tyra thinks she's hideous too.

Anyway - I was again forced to obsess over why she looks so damn familar! And again to no avail.

WHO DOES SHE REMIND ME OF?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Oh yeah. Now I remember.

The Break Up

2006-10-19T19:14:00.000-05:00

So I'm sitting in the bathroom reading my latest issue of Us Weekly (which is excellent bathroom reading material, by the way, it's the sole reason I subscribe. Us Weekly should not take offense to this as it is actually very much a compliment) and I came across the article regarding Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Anniston's break up.

At first, I was horrified and blamed myself completely. Afterall, I attended a screening of Made several years ago where I met Vince. Well, if "met" means I sat across the theatre from him as he shot mad lust vibes in my general direction, then yes, I met him. I hadn't thought about that night in years, but I am certain Vince reminisces often.

It was at this moment, when I was about to finish my business and apologize to Jen's photograph profusely, that I accidentally flipped the page and saw it: A full page ad for the dvd release of their film The Break Up. Oh what a clever ruse, Jennifer!

Luckily, it's just a publicity stunt and Vince can continue his daily fantasies about me in peace.

The Break-Up (Widescreen Edition)