I'm going to The Price Right tomorrow.  My mom has called every one of my dutch relatives to tell them.  Netherlander have a strange obsession with Bob & his Beauties. We have to be there at 8am and the taping doesn't start until 2pm. That gives me 6 hours to finish knitting my scarf.  Hmm...I may be turning in to my Oma, kinda traumatizing but ( Read more... )

No one else is in the office so LJ work rant

If you are going to bitch about how much something cost, please do you math correctly. Member A - $50 X 7, for two people, plus the $165 in camping fees does not equal $665 in my world.  Member B- While it is true that you can camp for as low as $25 a night it is not true that you can camp at a top ( Read more... )

Thanks to a niffty book barrowed from
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So I admit that recently The Daily Show has been my source for world news and such, but I'm trying to move beyond. I’m trying this format for a source of healthy intellectual debate. So, Bush vetoed a bill to open up stem cell research beyond the strains that were created before Aug, 2001. No, big surprise there. But what I’m trying to figure out ( Read more... )

I had forgotten what it was like to be a 6 year old boy. Okay - so I guess I'm a girl, but when I was six I wanted to be a boy. It was all that late seventies - girl power, you can be anything you want to be that my mommy and daddy pumped into me. It was only later when I sucked at sports that my dad moved on to making my younger sister in to the ( Read more... )

Thanks Mouse!

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Persaphone!

1. If you blow out all the candles on Persaphone with one breath, your wish will come true.
2. Persaphoneolatry is the mindless worship of Persaphone!
3. Persaphone has often been found swimming miles from shore in the Indian Ocean.
4. If the annual Australian Persaphone crop was laid end to end, it would ( Read more... )

My mate’s Grampy passed away on Monday. His presence will be sorely missed.

I have decided I am done for the year. I have met my quota for life events and would like a quiet, uneventful next 12 weeks.

So my manager just gave me her unsolicited religious right opinion on Katrina. I’m just walking to work, glad that someone is coming to fix my windshield today, and she jumps in with the conversation she had with her husband last night ( Read more... )

While I know that MSNBC is not that best source for news, it is the easiest to access while sitting in my cubicle. So what I have seen yesterday and today just makes me sick. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9156612/

What the fuck is wrong with us.

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But now I am sad. I did it all for him and he won't even be in may army. Why does aurora have to do everything? Ah, but that is the way it has always been and will probably always be. She is too good to me.