Beat This

Website

I created a website here on Google. I needed to create a blog entry to see if the RSS works. I'm going to try and start this thing up again.

this is too weird not to post

http://www.rosemariefiore.com/pages.php?content=gallery.php&navGallID=3

Ok ok, so I'm bad at updating this regularly. We've been busy.

To catch you all up:

1. We bought a house

It's wonderful! The roof went on a week late which caused some freaking out, but it all worked out in the end.

2. We painted the house (by "we" I mean Andrew, me, Nicole, Robert, Addy, Peter, Laura, Papa, Paige, Jennifer, LeeAnn & Ryan) I'll go over it more next post.

The living room got a two-tone stripe. It's beautiful and it makes me happy :)

The office we painted purple

The master bedroom we painted blue.

We have a signed contract!

Ta-da! Woohoo!

We picked out a roof this morning (drag!). We had to get up at like 6. Ick.

Packing sucks. But we're so happy!

fun videos and pictures

Pictures of the house!

These are absolutely hysterical!

Randy, that is a chihuahua bed. lol

Dogs are always so cute when they do that "run-in-their-sleep" thing!

Ha!

We bought a house! Hooray! 4 br 2 bath, 1800~sqft. Awesome :)
More to come later.

Does anyone remember this commercial? It's awesome.

Bad Zipper >:(

The zipper on my pants completely died this morning. You know when the zipper undoes itself automatically and both sides around the zip are open? Yeah, that's what happened. I'm glad I have a long shirt on today. I'm gunna hafta sew something tonight. I have another pair of pants that are too short, so I'm thinking I might just add some length to them and perhaps a side panel (or two ;) ) to make them look like they were made that way. I have an idea in my head that I want it to look like, but I seriously doubt that will actually happen.



Addendum:

Today the OED had an awards lunch. Last year we all went, ate Sonny's and each brought home a certificate. Yay! This year, we went, ate some Sonny's and each brought home a few certificates, and three awards. Two awards were for the whole team. Yay! They were the Survivor award and the best team ever award (that's not what it was called, but that was the point). I got an outstanding customer service award. :) One of the best parts was when we were leaving, someone gave us a tin of cookies to take with us. Score! We made an awards table when we got back to the office.

Cough cough

Since I ripped the zipper pull off my pants, a paperclip works suprisingly well. Another thing I learned: if you dampen the paper towel slightly before you blow your nose in it it doesn't hurt.

We get three weeks off looking for houses :)
We put in an offer on a short sale and gave them a month to decide. We start looking again in three weeks just in case the reject us. Let's hope that the third time's a charm!

I feel terrible.

I love Lauren & Ryan. They are so much fun!

Did you ever sunburn your eyelids?

I'm sick, sunburned, and cold. :( Today is going to be a long day.

This weeken Andrew and I went to St. George with Lauren & Ryan. It was a lot of fun. We all got weirdly burned. We didn't do such a hot job with the sunblock.

Yay! Lauren graduated! Party this weekend! Woot! *sniff* I'm so proud :)

Another faboulous thing about today: When I was zipping up my pants this morning I ripped the zipper handle right off.

Sushi

I made my second round of sushi last night. It came out way way way better than my first attempt. I just need to know how to make less rice. I took pictures. I'll post them later :)

Stuff I improved upon between last time and this time:

1. I rinsed the rice so we didn't have "smelly rice"
2. I figured out how much rice to use in hosomaki and futomaki without exploding the rolls
3. I figured out that if I under fill, I will never explode a roll, but I did figure out how much filling is appropriate to have in a nice, not under filled or exploded roll
4. I timed everything better
5. I successfully attempted uramaki by lining the rice with sliced avocado (it looks like the retarded baby brother of the Dragon Rolls they make at Publix)

Andrew is the best :)

It's hard waiting for the sellers of the house we like to let us know about our offer! I didn't sleep well last night. Neither did Andrew.

I'm going to try my hand at Chinese cooking this evening. When we were in Disney with Lauren this last time, we had a delicious little puff ball. We asked what it was called. I don't remember what they said, buy Ya said they were called "baozi". I found a recipe and we got the filling last night from the Korean market by TCC (we also got the fixins for sushi, but that'll be attempted this weekend). I'll stop by Publix for the rest of the ingredients on my way home tonight.

An interesting tidbit of information: I did a clip art search for "baozi" in Word, and it actually came back with an image of it! I think this may be the first time that Word has come back with applicable clip art. Bu it still tells me I spell it wrong. go figure.

House!

So we found a house. We put in an offer yesterday afternoon. We gave the owners until Wednesday to respond to it. I won't say more :)

Apparently though I take nauseating videos.

I switched the slideshow to the left from Xmas pictures to ones I took from our trip to Disney for our anniversary last month. Picasa/Blogger finally recognised the album.

Happy Birthday honey!

I think Andrew had a good birthday. Everyone came except Justin. I can only assume he forgot. We didn’t quite stay up all night watching moves, but it was pretty late before the last person left. Up again early to make breakfast. I’m not a super-cook, so Andrew didn’t get the elephant or giraffe pancakes he asked for, but he did get silver-dollar-Mickeys. With weird ear tumors. And lopsided. Lauren & Paige came over to eat. Dinner came out good too. The fam showed up as did all the guys & Lauren. Paige showed up late, ate, and left which I thought was a little weird, but whatever. I’m not sure our friends grasp the idea of a “pot luck”.

We house hunted on Sunday. I’m getting a little frustrated. Kenley keeps showing us houses in this one neighborhood, but it’s not near anything. It just seems so far away. I have to do some research today. Andrew says its close to TCC, but all I keep thinking is that it is going to take me an hour to get home at night.

So I found this awesome site about terrible cakes. It’s called Cake Wrecks: When Professional Cakes Go Horribly, Hilariously Wrong

She has this awesome description of hockey:
“See, apparently they play this sport on ice - but they have to make sure the ice is really thick, or else their cleats will scuff it all up. The players wear lots of padding and helmets, and carry little butterfly nets on sticks with which to hit the ball around. The object of the game is to score a triple Hail Mary - which is just another name for a running slam dunk - and consists of knocking three other players down while simultaneously dunking the ball through one of the red rings. Players known as running backs try to kick the ball, but the other team's catchers use their heads and butterfly nets to deflect the ball away from their side's field goal. Any running backs who are able to push the other team's running backs out of the big circle in the middle get what's called a free throw, in which they're allowed to chuck the ball at the head of their least favorite player. If they miss, their team only scores a half-down, but if the ball hits the other player, they score a hole-in-one.”“There was also some stuff about yard lines, birdies, and triple-axles, but I kind of zoned out at that point. Still, I think I just may have to check out a hockey game some day; John tells me every time the pitcher serves a kill-shot, the mascot serves hot chocolate. How cool is that?!?”
http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2008/10/whats-better-than-hockey-wreck.html

lol hug

So, I’ve decided that I don’t really like Tasty Pastry. I ordered (or thought I ordered) cupcakes for Andrew. I wanted as many different kinds of cake as I could get, but I really only needed one cupcake or so of each kind. They were all like “sure!” and wrote it down. I got a call yesterday that my “order” was ready. Apparently they only had two kinds of cupcake for me, not the original 5 I had “ordered”. She said they only had the two because they didn’t make any of the other kinds of cake all week. So, I can’t just get a cupcake? I needed to have ordered more to warrant baking anything!? Why have me order anything if you weren’t going to actually make it? After I picked up my “order” I drove on down to Heidi’s Bakery and got other stuff (probably better stuff) that is a surprise. Pfft. I use Heidi’s from now on. It’s too bad Heidi’s was closed on Monday or I could have avoided all this in the first place.

And really, I should have done all the making of the things yesterday, but the stupid power was out until this morning. I am so behind.

Lots of links and rain!

We, and by “we” I mean “Andrew” finally did our taxes. We, and by we I mean “we”, had a moment of panic when the IRS rejected the efile. It was all my fault. It said my name wasn’t right and I just about had a panic attack (not really, but I was deeply concerned that the name change stuff I did a year ago hadn’t stuck). It turned out that there was a typo on the form. It was trying to match me to a “wakins”. Whew. Crisis averted.

Speaking of averted crises, Friday has opened up and will now be less stressful. We aren’t meeting Kenley anymore, so we’ll be able to sleep just a touch more. Woo!

So, I didn’t think the car was as dirty as God did. Man did it rain yesterday night (and all day today so far)! It rained so hard I couldn’t see Lauren’s building from our house. It’s only like 100-150 yards away. Sheesh! I like Florida. You can see the rain coming. I remember once in Penwood I think, that we were outside looking at Doak and in like 2 seconds it disappeared. That rain was hauling! We got back inside real quick. I always liked that at Pap’s house too. The trees in the pasture would disappear and then the rain would start at the house. I guess it’s like that in other places besides Florida, I just haven’t experienced it. Another thing that is way cool is when you are at the beach and there is a storm coming. I love how you can see the edge. It’s prettiest at sunrise when it’s all pink and purple and stormy.

Links

•Put it back	•Fun?	•Snowed in
•Rise & shine!	•Cater to me	•I love you too...
•Tap dancing	•I didn’t brush my hair	•Word.
•Leprechaun	•Exempt	•The caption on this is great, not so much the picture
•Addiction	•Pout	•Star Wars phone plans
•Zombies	•Roots	•Vegetarian
•The Shining cat	•Spicy fish	•Cookie?
•Head-On	•Chuck would be proud	•Waldo Sandiego
•An oldie but a goodie	•Chuck	•The Musical
•Harder than originally thought	•Hobby dog	•Mini-hulk
•Vacation	•Chirp?	•Mr. Bean
•Cat-skunk	•This puppy reminds me of anime	•Lupus <- for Andrew
•Pianist	•Sunroof	•No neck
•Gerbil sprinkles	•Blondes	•Holy hand grenade
•Eskimo pie	•Good dog!	•Choke
•Clue	•Jabba the bulldog	•Jesus
•Art therapy	•Happy!	•Bathroom reading
•Drinking problem	•Cuddles	•I know I’m a nerd
•Nom	•Idiot.	•I believe this

Break

We're taking a break from houses this week because Kenley is busy. We'll look again on Friday. But oh man is Friday going to be busy!

Here's the agenda so far. Andrew is going to drive me to work at 7 (so I can get off at 4 and he can get to work on-time). At 3:30, he should get off work and come pick me up at 4 so we can go meet Kenley at 4:30. After looking at some houses (for who knows how long) we (or I because it is Andrew's birthday so he shouldn't have to do anything) get to go home and finish any party things (like cleaning the house or decorating). At 7, people should start showing up for the party. Sometime in the wee morning hours I get to go put dinner in the crock pot so I can pull it Saturday afternoon at 3:30ish and get it back into the pot for an hour before people show up for dinner. At breakfast time on Saturday, I think we are having pancakes and bacon, so I get to cook that for whoever is left of the All-Night-Movie-Marathon. I think then Andrew wants to go to the park and play frisbee golf. I plan on making lots of coffee. Lots. At dinner, his fam is coming over along with anyone else who either hasn't left yet or is returning for a pot luck. A true pot luck I am told. Now I haven't planned past this point yet. The only thing I do know is that we need to get some paper plates.

I like coffee

More specifically I like foo-foo creamers. Coffee is nasty without cream and sugar.

My back is still bothering me. It’s a whole lot better though. Yesterday I even walked without a limp! Today it hurts a little more though.
I'm tired too. I think it might b e the muscle relaxants.

House hunting begins

This morning we went house-looking with Kenley. It was fun. We saw like 8 houses, but we only really liked two. One Andrew likes and one I like lol. One house has a massive deck (Andrew’s favorite part and my least favorite part) and the other has a cute little kitchen & dining room (my fav, but Andrew’s least fav). The house I like would need a lot of cleaning up, like all the carpet has got to go, but it is a little bigger. I brought my camera, but didn’t take pictures. Next time I will because I’m getting confused. Andrew & I need to talk more about what we want.

Happy St. Paddy's day!

I have a sprig of clovers in my hat, so no pinches for me!

Sunday:
We went out to UDave’s house and shot at clays. It was much fun. You can see the pictures with captions if you click on the slideshow to the left. We shipped out early to head down to Orlando.

We stayed at Lauren’s parent’s house because they are awesome. Andrew helped Kimmie with her homework and played chess with Lonnie. The horses are the most important pieces. Lonnie wouldn’t have lost if he had not given up both his horses. I’m just saying.

Monday:
We got up and Lauren took us to Animal Kingdom. It was so much fun! We went on Everest and a safari. Yay! Pictures are to the left. As soon as Picasa will let me upload videos, those’ll be up too. We ate lunch at this awesome Asian place. We got to see a white rhino and lots of animal butts. The gorillas were in a posing mood. Lauren is fun. We love Lauren. We saw the Lion King show last. It was pretty cool. We went to Epcot for dinner and fireworks. We ended up eating at Morocco. It was good! Apparently I freaked out. I don’t remember freaking out as bad as Andrew says I did. Sorry. Fireworks were awesome. We camped out in front of Italy. At the end of the night, Lauren’s wallet sunk to the bottom of the World Showcase Lagoon. Woohoo! After a while of filling out reports and such, we headed on our way back home.

Tuesday:
We went shopping briefly in the outlet mall by the turnpike. It was kind of fun. Lauren came on her way back to Disney to get a new ID and Main Gate and such. I realized on the way home that traveling on not-holiday weekends/days are awesome. Traffic was wonderful.

Friday:
We took a day-trip to St George. It was so nice out! We sunblocked and walked down the beach a while and dig a big hole under a log. Digging is fun. I have pictures, but alas, they are still on my camera. They’ll come off eventually. We ate a big lunch at Boss Oyster. I found it’s best to not look at oysters while you are eating them. Ew.

In other news, we think we’ve picked a lender for our house. It turns out it’s the one that works in Kenley’s office. Sa-weet! Today should be the last day of gathering stuff for her so she can pre-approve us and we can start looking at houses. Yay!

In even other news, the surgeon that did my surgery’s office blows. They owe me a bunch of money and they are a pain to get anything from. It took them 2 weeks to cash the check I gave them before the surgery. >:/ I’m going over there today to get the check, even if I have to wait.

I like Charlie Crist

He seems to be a bad republican from everything they say about him on the news. He'd make a decent democrat though. Liking the environment and Barak Obama and all. Geez! What is he thinking!

I plan on updating everyone with a super blog post about last week. It'll be tomorrow or the next day before it gets up though. So be patient!

Pictures

Check out the pictures from our 1st year anniversary in the slideshow on the left! We went to Disney with Lauren.

Happy Birthday Paige

We had a fun time last night celebrating Paige's birthday. We went out to dinner and had cake. We played with all the music stuff in our "music corner" and watched video's on YouTube. And best of all, I got some wonderful movies of Lauren and Andrew dancing. lol They'll be up later this week.

So here's the thing. We seriously disturbed the beer we made on Sunday. I was really afraid it was going to explode in the fermenter. The lid is all bulged out and when I got home yesterday, the airlock was full of foam and leaking everywhere (I took pictures that'll be up later this week too). It was making this awesome whistling sound. I took pictures and video of it so I could stop by the beer place on my way home after the doctor's today and ask them WTF? We ended up taking the airlock out and using one of the siphoning hoses to make a bigger airlock (by putting the one end in a big tub of water and letting it bubble out that way). This morning, the water in the tub was a very very dark brown beer color. It's also very beery in the bathroom.

Epic Photoshop Disaster

Unhappy

I'm so busy now that everyone has broken links and the realization has set in that they should have been telling us to update their pages months ago or doing it themselves.

Some people are just being babies about it though. It's not my fault. Don't bitch to me.

Evil cat
The Robot
High ground
Purritos
Scary cat
B &B
Drunk friends
Help!
Mixed breed
Underdog
I was going to eat that.
The Blues Brothers
Yay
Boy, I say boy!
Jesus
Kool-Aid
I’m gunna drag her on over to Oak Street...

I'm in a bad mood

I'm going to see Mimi tonight to help her. That means I need to call Lauren & Andrew. :(

I'm really good at complaining.

I don't get it

There are some things that I just don't understand. Conservatives are one of them. Not wanting to go to a party (that was thrown for you) because there will be beer is another.

If anyone can explain these to me, feel free.

Reasons I Love Andrew

This is a new section of the blog called Reasons I Love Andrew. I will add at least one new thing everyday.

It's still having a bug in Firefox, but I hope to clear that up soon.

Happy birthday to me!

I like being crafty. I made red velvet cake truffles for Nicole’s birthday present. They weren’t that hard, but they were a bit tricky. I melted the chocolate chips in the microwave and “painted” it into ice cube trays and put them in the freezer. I read online that chocolate shrinks as it freezes so the cups would just pop out. Lie. I only broke a few though. The next thing was to crumble the cake and mix icing into it to make it pastey. That part was easy. And messy. But not as messy as piping the filling into the cups. After a messy situation with a sandwich bag bursting, we moved the filling to a gallon bag. It lasted a little longer. I ended up piercing the bag with all of my fingers and a seam burst towards the end and red velvet cake was everywhere. It looked like I killed something. And I did this twice :) Topped with pink sprinkles and placed on a pretty plate with a cover, they looked pretty. Apparently they taste good. Andrew wants a “sampling of cakes” for his birthday. But unless they make smaller boxes of cake mix, he might just get one kind. But I have time to come up with something.

The recipe I followed said to dip balls of the cake mix in the chocolate, but making cups was more fun. I think it might be too much chocolate though. The cups would be good filled with anything. Dark chocolate cups filled with cake might be good too.

I love Andrew :) We are going out for pizza at Momo’s tonight (not the grown-up store) and friends are coming over for games after. I heart dump cake. Last night there was a February birthday celebration at Peter & Laura’s. Addy is too cute singing Happy Birthday. Laura liked the dog we got her and I got fabulous gift cards :) and Nicole liked the candy/cake. I think it’s funny that Papa didn’t know it was my birthday :)

The entire state internet/intranet is down. No one has email, internet, intranet or anything happening on a state server. When your job is internet, then there is nothing to do. That’s why I can type this big post. I’m not currently busy. Oh, I will be when we’re up and running again.

It’s like a tiny disgusting snail kiss.
Puppies!
Big ears
Winston
I like Huskies
Heck yes
Squishy
Fuzzy
This pup is beefy
Bulldogs are awesome
So are itty bitty dachshund puppies!
And bassets

I got the blues da na na na na

I cooked a nice (RE: I set the table nice) dinner for Andrew last night since he is feeling kind of blue. Let me tell you it was one sexy table. I converted out tablecloth to a runner and broke out the battery candles and the two tapers that bleed funny colors that Mom just gave us. I didn’t cook so well, but it looked nice. Justin, Ryan and tall Andrew came over too. But not for dinner.

Work is still really busy, but I really need to tell about what happened. So I made a right hand menu. Woohoo, I know. Here’s the backstory and an explanation. The server we are working on has been uber slow lately. I mean creeping. I don’t know if that’s the cause, but it couldn’t hurt to blame it. After all, it’s just a server. Anyways, in the new look of the website, everything is getting a right hand menu. We make them, put them in a folder and then link to an instance of them in the pages that need them (so we have one file to edit instead of editing several pages). I made one and linked it to the pages that need it. I noticed something and had to make an edit to the menu file. No biggie, I do it all the time. What was weird though was that the edit was not showing up in preview mode. Refreshing and dumping cache was not helping. I asked a coworker and my boss both of which had no idea what was wrong. The file showed correctly in the WYSIWYG editor, but not in a browser. It sounds a lot less strange that it was. John eventually fixed it by renaming the page that was linking to the menu and then renaming it back. I <3 John.

• Killer smile
• Sunshine
• Uh oh
• Bunny mag
• Spectacularly awesome
• Scarred
• Give blood
• Hopscotch
• John Lennon or Harry Potter?
• Resale value
• lowl
• Grumpy
• Back in the well
• Rehab
• Punk
• Evil is cute
• Poor Amy Winehouse
• Larry King
• This is an excellent point
• AFV breakdown
• Awesome
• This is a terrible pun. lol

I have no words

The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny

Museum of Bad Art

• This is my favorite one. It reminds me of the shark from James and the Giant Peach.
• This cat is creepy but it is amazingly done.
• And all kidding aside, I really like this one.

Who wouldn't want this?

Busy busy bee

So I didn't get to posting pictures last time, and I don't think I will have time today either. The March 2 deadline for the redesign is fast approaching and no one is really worried yet. They will be in a week or so though when they realize that their pages are out of date. But that's why I'm here!

Tonight I get to leave work early to go buy beer bottles so we can bottle tonight so we don't have to when Mom and Dad are here this weekend. And we have to get busy cleaning up too. I'm going to go get Jeff Dunham tickets on my way home too. Ticketmaster wanted to charge us a $20 convenience fee for buying the tickets online. I'm going to the Civic Center in person to see if that makes a difference. Andrew, give me a call about this. We should talk.

Happy Birthday Nicole!

It’s been busy at work this week and last week. We are converting everything to a new design and structure. I like it. The beta server has been really slow though, so it’s taking a long time to do anything. Which is why I have not updated in a while.

I’m almost all better though! Woot!

Also, everyone love on Andrew because he is the best!

Pictures will come later today if I have time :)

Chairs and kudos

So I got a “new” chair at work. There is a corner of the building where office things go to die. Two days ago, one of the big cushy conference room chairs was out there. The seat had ripped, but it was an otherwise good chair. So I asked if I could scarf it up to replace my squeaky chair. I brought the duct tape today and it’s good as new!

On another great note, I was able to sleep on my back fairly comfortably last night. Woot! I feel so much better today. I don’t feel as tired.

You know you frequent a place of business too much when you send them an anonymous letter and they know who you are. As I was filling out the survey from Bruegger’s, I figured I would send in a feedback form since I was already on the website. I praised the employees and said how much we love going there. Apparently, the corporate office sent the email to the store. Rebecca asked me about it this morning. The regional boss asked her if she knew who could have sent it and she was all like, “Pfft, I know. :)”

Links

• Zombies ahead! We totally need this in Tally!
• Spidey cat!
• I know a few people who feel this way.
• Go away!
• We don’t need no stinkin’ fence!
• Curse you!
• It’s been a while since the last Chuck Norris joke. Too long.
• Procrastination chart
• I didn’t believe that there are idiots like this out there until I saw this video.
• I know why they are 25 cents
• I’ve heard of this before, but it’s a terrible, terrible thing.

Jokes

A grasshopper walks into a bar and the bartender says, "We have a drink named after you." Grasshopper says, "You have a drink named Steve?"

A priest, a minister, and a rabbi walked into a bar. "What is this?" said the bartender, "some kind of joke?"

A snail was mugged by a couple of turtles. When the police asked him what happened, he said, "I don't know, it all happened so fast"

What did the zero say to the eight?
"Hey, nice belt!"

Why was six afraid of seven? Because seven eight nine.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.

Two fish are in a tank. One says, "You drive, I'll man the cannon."

A duck walks into a bar and asks: "Got any bread?"
Barman says: "No."
Duck says: "Got any bread?"
Barman says: "No."
Duck says: "Got any bread?"
Barman says: "No, we have no bread."
Duck says: "Got any bread?"
Barman says: "No, we haven't got any bread!"
Duck says: "Got any bread?"
Barman says: "No, are you deaf?! We haven't got any bread, and if you ask me again and I'll nail your beak to the bar you irritating duck!"
Duck says: "Got any nails?"
Barman says: "No"
Duck says: "Got any bread?

What’s Beethoven's favorite fruit? Ba-na-na-na (sung like the opening to his 5th)

And some new ones for my “man-with-no-arms-and-no-legs” collection:
1. What do you call a man with no arms and no legs in a mailbox? Bill.
2. What do you call a man with no arms and no legs flying over a fence? Homer
3. What do you call a man with no arms and no legs in a pile of leaves? Russell
4. What do you call TWO armless and legless men hanging over a window? Curt and Rod

A man walks into a bar with his dog and asks for a drink. The bartender says "You can't bring that dog in here!" The guy, without missing a beat, says "This is my seeing-eye dog." "Oh man, " the bartender says, "I'm sorry, here, the first one's on me." The man takes his drink and goes to a table near the door.
Another guy walks in the bar with a Chihuahua. The first guys sees him, stops him and says "You can't bring that dog in here, but I'll tell you what, you can try saying it's your seeing-eye dog." The second man thanks the first, walks up to the bar and asks for a drink. The bartender says "Hey, you can't bring that dog in here!"
The second man replies "This is my seeing-eye dog." The bartender says, "No, I don't think so. They don't have Chihuahuas as seeing-eye dogs." The man pauses for a half-second and replies "What?!?! They gave me a Chihuahua?!?"

Q: How many Surrealists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?A: Potato

If you start a man a fire, he'll be warm for a night. If you set a man on fire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

This one’s dirty but it made me chuckle: A Rabbit and a Bear are pooping in the woods. The bear turns to the rabbit and says, "Excuse me, do you have problems with poop sticking to your fur?" The rabbit replies, "Why, no, I don't." So the bear wiped his butt with the rabbit.

What’s small and green and has 4 wheels? Peas, I was kidding about the wheels.

Confucius say “He who runs behind the car gets exhausted; he who runs in front of the car gets tired.”

Links:

Soup is such a funny word.
Revenge
Have a nice day
I rock
Farts
Cutest little rat ever

Allergies and football

If you didn't watch Super Bowl 43, then you missed a bunch. I think it was a really exciting game overall. Go Steelers! Woot! There were some fabulous plays. Like the 100 yd interception touchdown return with no time left in the 2nd.

I had a scratch test today. Apparently I’m allergic to peanuts and eggs. I’m to take some time off of those foods and take an antihistamine for a month and then start to reintroduce the foods back into my diet. If I have a reaction again, I’m to stop and keep taking the meds for another month or so. I have directions.

Houses and fun

I talked to a mortgage person today. We are apparently pre-qualified for much much more than we had originally thought. That doesn’t matter though; I don’t think we are going to look at things that are any more expensive than we would have looked at yesterday. What we are qualified for and what we can afford are two entirely different things.

Links:

• How could you not give this guy anything he asked for? Look at his eyes!
• Happy birthday hamster!
• Fat cat
• Look!
• Bobblehead kitten
• Liver
• Fish pee
• Warm bed
• Confidence
• Pff
• Cook faster
• Bugs Bunny Winehouse
• Jack Black as Hamlet
• Convenient

Happy

This makes me so happy and I don't know why.

I need a little happy.

Donuts and realtors

I got my stitches out, but it wasn't healed. Now it hurts all over again.

But on a happier, unrelated note, I made donuts last night. Boy were they good. Now I just gotta learn how to fill them with jelly and I'll be golden. What I did was:

1. Andrew got a can of biscuit dough for me from Publix
2. I poked holes in the biscuits with a bottle cap so I could get the donut holes too.
3. I fried them in Andrew's deep-fryer on like medium for maybe a minute or two on each side. I took out one and cut a chunk out to see if it was cooked and then tried to match the color, which worked out to a minute or two.
4. I tossed them in cinnamon and sugar in a tupperware. Next time I think I'll spring for the paper bag. My sugar and stuff started to clump up and not stick to the donuts; maybe the bag does better.

I didn't know that biscuit dough and donut dough was the same. News to me.

We met with Kenley this morning. I like him. He told us to talk to banks and the apartment first before he starts showing us stuff so we know how much we can spend and when we can leave. He gave us this big binder full of stuff. He was joking about reading it and how boring it will be, but I'm sure me and Andrew will both read it. We told him most of what we want and most of what we don't want. There are always things you remember right after you leave. But we got in the long-houses that look like trailers and the pool and fireplace stuff. I want to be as helpful as I can.

Fluffy soft in real life
I know it’s tiny, but I needed to share this with the world. How to be a gentleman at a party.

Best-husband-ever

Stitches come out today hopefully. I don’t want to rush it. But oh my god, it is so good to sleep on my back again. It’ll be nice when the doctor’s check clears too. It’s been two weeks.

Andrew is the best husband ever. In a random need for baking last night, I decided to make this box of pink cake we had. The only problem was that I was one egg short. So after a little pissing and moaning, he went down to Lauren & Paige’s house to get me an egg. I think best-husband-ever felt better after he had some cake :)

I am no baker. I had a box of cake and managed to mangle it to death. I followed the directions too. They need a step in there in between the step to bake it for 30 minutes and the step to cool it for 15 on a cooling rack. The step should say leave it in the pan for a few minutes so that when you dump it onto the cooling rack you don’t rip the cake in half, which is what happens when you take the cake out of the oven and immediately flip it upsidedown on the cooling rack. Cake is cake though, so it all eats the same. It just looks really crappy. I used silicon cake pans sprayed with Pam and still got the cakes stuck. I like brownies better. I can make those. Or Andrew’s dump cake, which is what kind of cake I want for my birthday (hint hint Andrew).

• Safari- doing it wrong
• The power of Christ compels you!
• Cat in pants
• Sad cat
• Teacup kittens
• Ninja kittens
• Dancing hamsters
• Rock cat
• Hanger kitty
• What every dog wants for Xmas
• Gravity
• Trash cat
• Endcat
• If your house burned down, you’d be this pissed too.
• This is me being lazy.

lol

The label is the beer's birth certificate and, in that regard, designing a beer label is a little bit like conception. The act of procreation is a pleasure, but secondary to the joy of seeing your child (in this case, the beer) enter the world, well received, in his fancy new blanket.
lol fancy new blanket :)

Why do laughing babies make me so happy?

Jump rope
Happy
Rocko
The cutest kitten ever!

Addendum to this morning's post

I know, two in one day. So sue me.


I wanted to put up some pictures.

• Great moments in Presidential Speeches
• Unsettling laugh
• Febreeze
• Xmas cat
• Cloning
• Rock-n-Roll hair
• What is baby food made from?
• Drink bowl
• Xmas gift
• Ninjas!
• Zombies!
• Russian!
• Sup?
• Laugh and die
• Chillin’
• Hiss!
• Cold!
• Happy
• yay
• Mondays
• Presidential thoughts
• Who doesn’t like Chuck Norris jokes?
• How cigarettes taste
• The importance of using the wrist strap

It's been a while

It’s been a long time since last post. I feel better now. Yay!

So here’s what happened: I slept a lot. But seriously, TMH was great from what I remember. Everyone was really nice. They gave me something to “relax” that promptly made me fall asleep. I woke up once in recovery to throw up on myself. The nurse said something and shoved a towel on my shoulder. I fell back asleep. The second time however, I was aware enough to tell the nurse and she gave me a cup. The towel I think had disappeared by then. By the third time, I was pretty awake and got a new cup and they decided to give me something else to combat the nausea. Which almost immediately made me fall back to sleep. Andrew said it took a lot longer to wake up than they had told us.

We stopped to eat on the way home. My throat was really sore from the breathing tube I guess. I had to take a sip of water with every bite to get it to swallow. I didn’t eat much and I was falling asleep again. That’s pretty much how it went for a few days. They gave me Percocet, but it is more of an uncomfortable thing than a hurt thing, so I only ended up using a few. They didn’t help. I hate sleeping on my sides. I think I’m over the sleeping-on-my-side thing because Andrew said I was sleeping on my back snoring a few days ago.

We went to Ruby Tuesday for some “roughage” because all I had eaten in as few days was fries. When Andrew left to use the bathroom I began arguing with a song on the radio just as the waiter stopped by. I might be embarrassed the next time we go if I could remember who the guy was. Silly anesthesia.

Andrew’s family came over for pizza on Monday. It was the most that I was able to sit up without being dizzy. I think everyone had a good time.

I have one more appointment to get the stitches out and then I’ll be golden!

On a completely unrelated note, it was so cold this morning that all the grass had frost on it. I hope I didn’t kill my spider plants. We went to get coffee and there was such a layer of ice on the car that the cup kept sliding off the roof. Silly ice. Temperatures in the teens are too cold.

I'm all better

I'm all better now. I'm just recovering from the anesthesia. So I'm a bit sore everywhere and my throat hurts some and I'm oh so tired. I'll post more about it later. TMH was wonderful :)

Surgery

Ew. I have to be at the hospital at 7:30 tomorrow. Why do surgeons get up so early? I can't eat or drink after midnight, so I guess early is better. I can't even have water. I think I'm making myself sick. My stomach has been upset for two days. Friday will be better.

Andrew is going to make beer in preperation for the beer-making-demonstration-party. Sporty Spice.

• Carbon footprint
• OCD cat
• Have you found Jesus?
• Monty Python
• javajavajava
• Yo-yo accident
• Drawer
• High dive
• Balcony
• Hair loss?
• Mini-me
• Me in the morning
• Spot the dog
• How warm is the water?
• Helpful
• I want
• I need a bigger gun
• This is in bad taste (no pun intended)
• Alien stapler
• Breaking news
• Proof
• College projects
• Back it up…

I have message sign-writer’s block

"This beer has been naturally carbonated in the bottle. A small layer of yeast sediment on the bottom is normal. For maximum enjoyment, store and refrigerate this bottle in the upright position. Slowly pour the entire contents into a glass, stopping just before the end. This will leave the yeast sediment behind."

So I got really excited about this label that I made. Woo hoo! I was really digging on it. I stopped to do something else, and when I came back to it, well, hot damn. It looks like a dinosaur egg. Time to try again. There was success, however. I made a logo that me and Andrew like.

Here are two pictures from PostSecret. I don't know how long they'll be up, so act fast!

• Pancakes
• Spaz

Today is very tech heavy (read:nerdy)

This is for all you Internet Explorer fans (and a nice laugh for all the haters).

I don’t know how many of you saw the exploded black blog of yesterday. Obviously if you did, you can see this now and I fixed it. If you didn’t, then I’m betting you either use Explorer or you visited late yesterday afternoon. Here’s the long story.

I made this (the one that you see) design up in Photoshop. I really like it. I think its pretty and vector-y. Since I use only Internet Explorer (IE) at work, that’s what I designed the blogger template in. All fine and dandy. Until, of course, I looked at it in Firefox. I don’t even know why I had to open Firefox. But as soon as I saw the stacked, black, exploded page with really no trace of what it should look like in it, I about had a fit. It had taken me a long time to code the design into blogger. It took me until this afternoon to make Firefox and IE look the same. It didn’t take too awful long to get the Firefox version to look ok. But, and here’s the frustrating part, there still was a 8 or so pixel difference in IE that was throwing the alignment off. When I’d fix it in IE, Firefox would push everything to the right. When I’d fix it in Firefox, IE would push everything to the right. I learned a valuable lesson. IE has no idea how to handle margins and padding correctly. It also will accept and implement crap code (I did it on purpose as a hack). I’ll explain.

I was missing a “}“ initially. IE was like “Whatever” and Firefox was like “Nope. I can’t handle this” so it exploded the page. I found and fixed that fairly easily. Then I was left with the problem of the right column inching itself over 8 pixels. I tried every combination of margin and padding on every div box that I could think of. When one would work, the other wouldn’t. For a while I was over thinking it; adding something more complicated than I needed to (I was adding a div box just to space the columns correctly trying to float it without stacking it. After multiple failed attempts at it, I realized that I could get rid of the dev box, remove padding and margins from another and just make the other wider with the background set to repeat-y). Yay! It was much nicer code. But the problem with Firefox/IE and the 8 pixel drift was still there. This is when I learned the second lesson.

Adding a float:left to the css fixed the drift in IE but created one in Firefox. Getting rid of the float fixed it in Firefox, but messed it up in IE. After trying to figure out a way to have Firefox ignore the float style, I found an interesting tidbit of info. IE is stupid. It ignores errors in code. Firefox is smart. It ignores code with errors. Awesome, I just needed to code something bad enough that Firefox will ignore it but good enough that IE will still recognize it. So, I deliberately messed up on commenting the float out. // instead of /*. Firefox ignored it because it is not a correct command and IE accepted it because it has no idea what it is doing.

With all the money Microsoft has, you’d thing that they would come up with a browser that I can’t trick with a backslash.

Links:

• I think hamsters are cute
• The cat in the middle’s face is priceless in the second picture from the bottom.
• This cat totally looks like the Grinch
• These are the cutest rabbits I have ever seen.
• Dog training for dummies
• Wolverine

Surgery

So the doctor finally called me back (it only took two days). It seriously took 3 minutes of the scheduler’s time. Surgery is Thursady. Woot >:( Pre-op is on Monday.

More of my time these last few days was spent creating this look. So I don’t have a lot of content today.

I think I’m sick. I’m supposed to be taking antibiotics. I hope that clears up the cough.

Links:

• A trap
• The Doctor is in
• Oof!
• A real brother
• You know you want to
• Pugs are cute
• 5th row <-bad word
• Serious
• Jumping jacks fail <- I was laughing so hard I had to close the page
• Cars don’t like Queen
• Your face
• Jonas side effect

Sports

So, I didn’t know this, but Dolphin Stadium was originally named Dolphin Stadium by Joe Robbie. Who knew? Speaking of football, how ‘bout them Lions? Sucks to be them. Miami was close last season; I’m surprised they were AFC East champs this season.

Teams that suck:

1. Chicago Cubs. 100 year drought. Curse of the Billy Goat perhaps?
2. Chicago Blackhawks. 47 year drought. Toronto Maple Leafs. 41 year drought. Plus lots that never won (but the Panthers are still the best team in the NHL).
3. Arizona Cardinals. 61 year drought since they last won. However, they did win. The
4. Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions (uber suck, they couldn’t win even one game this season),
5. Houston Texans, Jax Jaguars, and New Orleans Saints haven’t won yet.
6. Sacramento Kings. 57 year drought, although there are a lot of teams who have not won yet (the Suns being the oldest)

Players that didn’t suck, but were on teams that did:

1. Dan Marino
2. Ty Cobb
3. Karl Malone
4. John Stockton
5. Barry Sanders
6. O.J. Simpson
7. Charles Barkley
8. Patrick Ewing
9. Reggie Miller
10. Dick Butkus

Anyone who can tell me what this is gets brownie points! I love it!

Silly

I love Andrew. He says some of the dumbest things.

Example 1: A long time ago, I was sitting at the table doing something and Andrew was in the kitchen putting the dishes away when I heard, “Snaggletooth. That’s what I’ll call you.” I turned to look at him and he was all like “what?” One of the knives had a bent tip.

Example 2: On the ride home from Mom & Dad’s Saturday, we were “playing” the license plate game. I called Florida just because and the very next car (surprisingly) was a Florida and Andrew goes “ha! I call Florida.” Then, under his breath, “Ooh bip.” With emphasis on the p. I laughed so hard that he asked if I wanted to pull over.

Another thing that made me hysterical was on Sunday. We were watching The Smoking Gun Presents…The World’s Dumbest whatevers and this idiot stole a Krispy Kreme truck and was running from the cops spilling donuts everywhere. One of the commenters said it was like chum to angry sharks and I just about lost it for like half an hour. I even did that stupid wheezing thing.

And now for something completely different…
I put the Xmas pictures up on Picasa. Click on the slideshow to the right. I’m trying to come up with a better design for the site. Just give me some time (or ideas).

Links:
Fighter cat

Where to start…

Xmas was fun. Andrew made a batch of beer. It bubbled all week long. I think we get to bottle it tonight. I did it! I surprised Andrew with his present. He had no idea. But then we had to watch Fearless lol. He got me The Dark knight. We watched it at Mom and Dad’s although it was their Netflix copy. I don’t remember the drive down. Traffic? Probably. When we got there, we opened presents. Mom got me a beautiful wind chime. I have a place to put it already. :D We did nothing for a week. It was wonderful :) On Friday, we went to the new casino for dinner. It was good. We went to play nickel slots after. The guy at the entrance carded me and Andrew. He was like, “You look 19.” I was thinking, “Don’t you have to be 18?” Mom won $6 and Andrew lost $10. :) Me and Dad watched. I have pictures, but they are still on my camera. Mom also lost all her Xmas pictures along with some of the dog. Folders just disappeared off her computer. Andrew also got his phone broken. It has this lovely orange blob at the top of the screen. T-Mobile was like, “Suck it up, you get new phones in June.”

The doctor says I need surgery, so I get to call everyone today to find out how much this is going to cost. >:-P

When we have grandkids, I hope we are the favorite set of grandparents.

A funny post is coming tomorrow!

Links:

• Restraint
• Sleepy
• Rat falling asleep
• Nothing in there!
• Access denied!
• Construction job
• Bad hair days
• Cheese!
• A cat that listens
• Hello, my name is…
• Javajavajava
• Ugly throw pillow
• Gifted
• Not so loud
• Solar energy
• Big dump
• V-E-T
• Tiny puppy
• Bulldachsund
• Jerk
• Toasty
• Bananaphone
• You’re kidding? <-bad word
• No breeding
• Tom Cruise is a tool
• Get it off
• Blank
• Pam Anderson
• Mr. Hankey
• Ghetto airplane
• Toothpicks
• I’M NOT TIRED