Archive for the “Misc.” Category

I always wanted to get up close to a red panda. This girl must be on some sort of game show. She got to spend a lot of time with two baby red pandas. Here’s a minute or two of it. Prepare to get jealous and want the same cuteness!

Christine needs our positive thoughts now, as she spends the next few weeks going through surgery and tests to find out if she has cancer. Please send thoughts, prayers, whatever positive energy you have.

“He said his DUI was so expensive! He did the math and found out that it would have been cheaper for him to charter a jet and fly home from the bar that night.”

He was doing the weather on CNN today. Too bad the guy at the news desk was a humorless dick.

I think Rainn Wilson is fabulous in everything he does. As Dwight Schrute on The Office, he makes you love a character that on paper should be absolutely unlikeable. In The Last Mimsy he makes a horrible movie have watchable moments (if you ever watch the movie, just mute it until he comes on screen). And hosting SNL he was fabulous.

But where I first saw this actor was when he played Arthur on Six Feet Under. His character was unforgettable, and I’m so glad to see him get to try so many things.

Well, between the two jobs I ended up putting in almost 70 hours last week.  I didn’t get the whole assignment done for the second job, but I got the hardest part, and since I’ve never gotten paid for my work yet I’m not holding my breath on ever getting paid, so I decided not to feel guilty about not getting the whole thing done.

I have a new-hire class starting tomorrow that I’m not ready for, and I have to leave at the ass of crack to drive the charts from my second job to drop them off, then drive back to where I work (will be an hour out of my way round trip) so that I’m there by 8am.

I know I keep saying this, but if I can just make it through this week…

The last four days I’ve had the tension headache from hell, complete with a side of vomiting and today is the first day it feels like just a normal headache, so that’s an improvement.

But I have nothing to wear tomorrow -arrgh!

The chaos!  The CHAOS!

Sammy and Jazzy have a new puppy friend.  Lauren and Sean have been waiting a long time to meet their rescue puppy.  The dog traveled two days to come home to them.

Stop by Lauren’s blog Memoir to see pictures of the entire puppy and say hello!

She’s a professional-level photographer, so I expect even more really fun puppy pictures on her blog on a daily basis.

Found on CNN in the weekly “offbeat photos” feature.

Yeah, the way I feel about people like this is how I feel about spiders. I like to live my life pretending such evil creatures don’t exist. And on the highly unpleasant occasions I am forced to see one, I get the heebie-jibblies so bad I feel nauseated at the ugliness of it, and just pray it will scurry away quickly to whatever hole it came out of.

Some highlights:

1. Hey! Drilling for oil anywhere the oil companies want to drill is totally worth raping the environment because it’s guaranteed to lower gas prices because there’s NO WAY that oil companies would just keep the profits and have record-high earnings, is there? (Cyrus has an excellent entry about why anyone without brain damage can see right away this plan will not work.)
2. According to the sign on the roof nestled amidst plastic flowers, God blessed America because George Washington was a tobacco farmer. Guess 250 years ago, instead of getting a Marlboro-emblazoned Members Only jacket for doing your part to support the tobacco industry, you used to get God’s blessings and a brand new country! (Why not smoke 250 years ago? They didn’t have science to tell you it was bad for you, most of society died before getting out of their 40s so even if they knew about long-term health effects who cares, and when your nearest neighbor is miles down the road, your smoking didn’t bother anyone!)
3. What is about six inches below the “Speaking truth in love” assertion? Why the message that we should boycott the Humane Society of the United States! Oh, and apparently her dogs agree, and her dogs vote! (I’d bet my pension this woman keeps her dogs outside tied to a tree 24/7 and considers herself an “animal lover”.)

It makes me want to go buy something to support the economy of Texarkana, Arkansas.