Mercury is in retrograde! We must all be very careful, because strange things are happening...dun dun dunnnn ( Read more... )

If I have to hear about chesnuts popping one more time, I think I'll explode from an overabundance of cheer ( Read more... )

Lugging Katie around by her armpits: 5 minutes

Learning to flee from a fast approaching boulder: 10 minutes

Contorting to look like a whacked out scarecrow: 12 minutes

Trying to make a dance created in a drug-induced delirium look good: timeless

There are some things time can't change...

Today I did the two basic things required on a satisfactory vacation, I sat around and ate. We watched all four videos of Anne of Green Gables, which I have seen at least 8 times. Where some enjoy the cult classics like Ferris Bueller or Rocky Horror, my family is in a cult all its own, one valuing Anne of Green Gables and Sense and Sensibility. ( Read more... )

Funny enough, I have turned out to be quite the traditionalist. When informed that the people with whom we are to eat our Thanksgiving Day meal with would be adding a Mexican twist to the standard turkey, mashed potatoes, and stuffing, I immediately demanded we make the whole traditional meal ourselves, the way the pilgrims would have had it, minus ( Read more... )

My flight was this morning at 9:00 from Kansas City. Keep that in mind. The Mo-X shuttle was supposed to leave at 5:30. My alarm clock was set for 4:30. So how, you are asking, did I wake up at 5:55 this morning? I committed the oldest mistake in the alarm-clock-setting-on-an-important-occasion book, I failed to attend to the minor detail of am and ( Read more... )

Just a few tidbits from this Friday night, rather amusing, bordering on sickening ( Read more... )

I never fail to be amazed at the incredible stupidity of commercials. Its really astounding. There ought to be some kind of rating system that will allow people to escape before they are unwillingly subjected to that crap. 2S: Too stupid to be viewed by the general public. G: Guaranteed to make you question man kind's general existence and the ( Read more... )

So I'm very worried about this first entry, because it is sure to be lame, which sets a bad precedent, but Shannon assures me that Live Journal is like alcohol. "Just because you have a bad beer one night doesn't mean you won't get trashed the next." How very true. Of course, this is just a nice way of saying that people will continue to make the ( Read more... )