planning to shoot a moose

Sooo I've officially booked my trip to Alaska for the 4th of July weekend. I get to go visit my good friends, Bridawg and Rhino and there little Cooper the pooper (really I seriously do make up names for everyone in my life to use!). Last time I saw them was during this amazing wedding weekend in the frozen tundra. Soon after that, they moved to Alaska where my Bridawg is now a legal drug dealer.

Turns out they maybe moving again soon so I needed to haul my sorry bootie up there before I lose that Alaskan opportunity. On my list of things to do whilest in Alaska are:

1. Shoot a moose--Apparently, moose wonder around all of Anchorage and through my friend's yard. THAT is going to be great!
2. Shoot Sarah Palin--This might be slightly more difficult than the moose.
3. Shoot #'s 1 or 2 from an airplane--I hear this is all the rage in AK, shooting things from airplanes. I'm down.
   
4. Go crabbing--insert obvious joke.
5. See some fireworks over mountains and water and all the amazingness that is AK.
   
6. Eat new things that might include moose or moose balls, etc.
   
7. Learn how to speak with an Alaskan accent.
8. Get knocked up by Levy Johnson. Actually that might be taking it a little too far....
   

a good night

So last night was a good night full of 3 good friends, booze, amazing food and live music. It started at a local burrito place which fiercely reminded me of Austin and the hippie church with the atmosphere and the really good mexican food. I was eating a tequila soaked salmon burrito, drinking fresh pureed drinks, and singing along to the music surrounded by christmas lights. I was constantly bouncing in my seat as VW, Regina, and a little Journey just to piss M off.

Next we made it over to see Drive by Truckers, which were really really good. The only downside where the 3 doucheballs in front of us who were standing the entire time. M and I were trying desperately not to get all up in arms, or do some ass kicking. I had to take my glasses off just in case we got into a fight :) Seriously, east coast jholes are all over the place with their khaki pants and no socked penny loafers....if that douche had a popped collar I might have lost it!

You know you are having a good night when I swear you've said "badass" 15 times within the last 6 hours. Either I'm a badass or he is a badass or that guitarist is a badass. You also know you are at a good concert when your ears are ringing afterwards and your throat is sore the next day.

Here is alittle live BBT action:

here is the birthing video

I talked about this video three times tonight, this will continue to horrify me:

oh those figure skaters

Gosh I only ever watch figure skating to see what music they will dance to, what type of crazy outfits they will wear, and what type of nasty positions they will get in. Luckily, the Olympics thus far have satisfied those needs with a wide range of nutty performances. Here is a quick run down of my favorites:

Let's call this one "ride 'em" (look at the female's expression) and I bet they are skating to Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy:

Let's call this one "george-of-the-jungle-ish" with some type of Jungle-themed song (ideas???):

And finally, let's call this one "too many body parts" because seriously I don't know wear heads are or whose limbs belong to whom:

new freddy and a little batman

So the sneak peeks of the new Freddy K./nightmare of Elm St. movie have come out and they are scarey as hell. Seriously, this is a Michael Bay movie so it probably isn't going to be too cheesy. I was trying to hold my bladder together while watching this and realized that Batman's voice is Freddy. You know, that deep graspy C. Bale being scarey and not yelling at people on the set. If I was around Betty we would now start talking like this until my throat hurt:


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a new olympic sport

So apparently some people are advocating for some other "sports" to be included in the olympics. I guess this depends on how you define a "sport." I've debated this many times with my male friends, like if cheerleading is considered a sport or other events like "log rolling" in the red neck games. Should the criteria be if you have to practice? Or if you have to sweat? Or if you can earn money playing???

If we say the latter, that means that yes, pole dancing should be in the olympics. The headline read "from strip clubs to the metal podium." Some women have been practicing up to 5 hours a day, and it takes lots of strength and agility to be good. Stay at home moms now take suburban classes to learn how to pole dance and celebrities make exercise stripping videos. Up-side-down and twisting....

Anywho I like the idea, it could be on ESPN or the olympics. I'd watch. I probably wouldn't cry like I do during the normal olympic competitions though....

more olympic drama

There was some homophobic remarks made about ice skater Johnny Weir by the commentators of his program this week. Johnny held a press conference to address the remarks and I thought he sounded pretty good, intelligent and well-spoken. Amen:

the conan effect

So you have to be living in a hole to NOT know that Leno and NBC screwed our beloved Conan, and now he is jobless. Life and a bitch, I know, but luckily Coco can sleep better at night know that others are hating on Leno too.

But two days ago Conan opened an official Twitter account, and within a day he had over 300,000 followers, which is pretty high for Twitter. His first tweet was about interviewing squirrels, and his second was about being naked. I can't wait to hear more!!! The man knows what the hell he is doing....wait for it....something is coming and Leno will pay for his arrogance. Conan's got 2 tweets now, more on this as the situation develops, but for now I love his bio: " I had a show. Then I had a different show. Now I have a Twitter account."

I want to join Twitter, forget that facebook shit, I love Twitter. I read it mostly regularly.

a peta ad that I like

Well I'm generally a non-supporter of any PETA ads but this one I laughed at:

Granted it is a little Bob Barker-ish, but too much sex can be a bad thing....

the world came to an end

The world came to an end yesterday when for some reason a wonderful video on Youtube was pulled down. It was madness!!! But don't worry Youtube has restored the video and now we are officially back to all appropriate shenanigans.

Don't worry this video kept it's original number of views despite the error by Youtube....

olympic fun

Well we have been experiencing much Olympic fun lately, either allowing women to bite your metals or doing the Beat It dance!!! Turns out the Norwegian alpine ski team paid tribute to MJ on top of a mountain. OK I'll admit this is pretty lame, but they are on top of a huge mountain so I guess they can some points:

mt. chipotle

Sooo Cville has received a record snow fall this year and the town has spend many-a-week on total lockdown. School districts have been closed for up to 8 days straight, etc. Well what does a town with that much snow, only a few snow plowers, and no experienced snow plowing do???? They build up giant mountains of snow in parking lots and then leave it there (no money left for any additional snow removal).

Soooo one of the HUGE snow piles has been named and become famous. It is located in the Barracks Rd. shopping center right by Chipotle (LL's mecca). So of course it has been coined Mt. Chipotle, and some amazing UVA students have started a website to track the melting progress. These brilliant students are studying the mountain and doing experiments (which I imagine has booze involved). If you read their blog, they are accepting papers to be peer reviewed on any hypotheses related to the melting of Mt. Chipotle, and apparently working to set up a ski resort.

Got to love their creativity:

I'm an art owner

Well I suppose I've been an art owner prior to now, I guess, if you include drawings little children make me when visiting their classrooms :) I guess I do have a great canvas I bought below the Eiffel Tower, and some watercolors I did over 10 years ago. BUT as of this coming weekend, I will be an official, real, art owner and I'm so excited I could pee my pants.

One of my favorite artists, and good friend, has finally decided to sell me one of my favorite canvases that was dubbed "Leslie's painting" the last three years. I called dibs years ago and luckily someone richer than me hasn't snatched it yet. This weekend it is arriving in Cville and being officially hung on my wall.

The title is "In A Lonely Place" which I'm not sure I like. I would like something more like "ass kicker" or "floating in a red sea," etc. I need to put some more thought into what I'm going to call this painting. BUT this series is so great, and drippy, and abstract, and shear amazing. I can't wait, check it out.

This is first big purchase that doesn't include computers or cars!!! I'm an adult now.

the month of march

My month of march just got alot busier!!! I've been working on a potential work trip which will bring me to the great state of Rhode Island for a week, and turns out it is going to happen for 8 hotel nights and I'll leave next Tuesday. That, coupled with SRA in Philly and Lupus advocating on the hill (big block o' cheese day) in DC, means that I'll be away from Cville and the office for two full weeks. Apparently I know what I'll be doing this weekend....LAUNDRY!!!!

I got a wicked hotel in RI that has a full kitchen, and they are getting me a rental car so that means I can just cook and be normal in my "italian flat" in Providence. I'll be flying and taking trains. Apparently my life is going to be like a song...plane, trains, and automobiles.

In preparation I sent off my poster for printing for SRA today, and tomorrow I will be buying flights and canceling train tickets. Nothing like a half month long adventure!!!!

stuck in my head

Damn you Betty, now this is stuck in my head all day. We definitely all need more Muppets in our lives, like this too. Maybe everyone should just subscribe to their youtube channel and the world would be a better place:

The other tiger apology

Sooo last week Tiger Woods got all the media attention with 15 minute rambling apology, and awkward photos hugging/making out with his tiny asian mother. Well Jimmy K, in all his comedic genius, covered the other Tiger apology which was overshadowed by Woods:



That Tiger sounds strangely like Obama!!! Pauses at the right moments, etc.

And like you couldn't call that every b/vlogger was going to be making this mash up with Timbaland's apologize and Tiger's words. Could have called THAT weeks ago.

go team usa

Team USA snowboarder, Scott Lago, won the bronze metal in the halfpipe the other day. Well he threw on a Team USA t-shirt, grabbed his newly earned metal, and headed out to some bar in Canananandaland. Well, THAT move was bound to draw him some attention, or least some ladies!

Turns out his was photoed putting his metal around his waist and allowing some women to bite it!!!! hahahaha, classy! Well he's a snowboarder for god sake, what did you expect? Needless to say I don't think the USA organizers liked their athletes wearing their bronze balls near their other balls.....Here is the pic that is causing all the controversy (PS, I like those $2 sweatpants he is wearing too):

comments?

So Prince William was photoed doing this......comments?



Blindfolded archery????

Who's the target? The point???

music of the moment

Lykke Li is a Swedish indie rock singer and songwriter who I've been following for awhile now. She's worked with Kanye and King of Leon, and I hear is a great live performer. Her debut album has a number of good songs on it, including this one:

hot dogs for everyone

Well last week, whilest I was in DC, there was another meat emergency and tonight I heard about it on the nightly news. Turns out hot dogs are killing the children/youth of america. Hot dogs are the perfect shape to get stuck in a child's throat and therefore are a hazard to our national health.

It has been suggested that hot dog packages should have a warning label on them, similar as small toys and parts do for children. So your hot dog packages would say something like "contains small parts that may cause choking." The pediatrics researchers would like the meat industry to re-engineer hot dogs so that they do not get stuck in people's throats.

I hate to state the obvious here, but can't you CHEW the hot dog first??? Otherwise the choking defense would be a problem for Popsicles or bananas too! Perhaps parents should be watching their children while eating, or monitoring them to make sure they are appropriately chewing their food. I don't think this is a food problem, instead it is a parenting problem or a personal problem....

The meat industry is always a great scapegoat!

the tallest dog

The Guinness World Book of records announced the worlds tallest dog standing at a wicked 3 feet 7 inches on all 4s!!! Can you believe that. I guess if the dog stands up on two legs it would be taller than me. Holy balls, that is tall. Think about how much that dog eats....no, no, no think about how much that dog poops!!! Of course it is a great dane, ain't no schnauzer!

the greatest love

Sooo last night was a legendary HH with good food (thank dad for the BBQed pork) and booze, and much laughter. I enjoyed the game Dirty Minds whilest all my friends gave me strange looks. Topics of conversation included constipation, low/highs of the week, and lesbians in sport psychology. And at some point all the women in the room spontaneously broke out into a chorus of "the Greatest Love of All" by none other than Whitney Houston. While the men cringed in disgust, we belted out a good verse or two inbetween bouts of laughter. Our amazing singing even got the dogs all hot and bothered, and Cam violated me in his excitement (what else is new?--not a day goes by in my life where someone doesn't try to dry hump me).

This one is for all my girls:



I too decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow (kind of hard to do considering I'm a giant). Just so you know, if I fail or if I succeed, at least I'll know that I truly bellllllllieeeeeeeeeeved.

quote of the day

The quote of the day came from my Jilly Bean on her going to a couple church services since Christmas:

"Yeah I'm practically a Nun now....I'm holy"

Then she dropped the f-bomb in the next sentence.

Love it. That's my girl.

Can't wait for your visit this May again.....and can't wait to piss Brian off together. Good times.

music of the moment

Here is an old skool jame I heard on the way home from HH last night. It was definitely past my bedtime and I was jamming in the plastic pinto. This takes me back to the good days, and I could sing this entire song by heart like 15 years later:

new VW

I enjoyed the new Vampire Weekend video that has some guest appearances by Jake G., Lil John, and Joe Jonas. Crap whoever would have thought that group would be together! VW has one of the top 10 selling albums right now.

tiger's apology

PANAMA!!!

OK OK now shut the hell up, we got some 80's rock....everyone shout it together "PANAMA"

more reasons

that I heart Taylor Swift:

things I learned

Things I learned today from working in my sister apartment in DC:

1. Betty is officially moved in which mean the boxes are gone and she opens her bedroom windows to the sidewalk. This means I should walk around barely clothed after showering--learned this the hard way :)
2. I go through tons of dishes a day, which is problematic because I'm afraid to touch the tiny dishwasher.
3. Betty gets old calls from odd places across the country throughout the day.
4. I can be taught how to operate a DVR and TV.
5. 24/7 internet rocks.
6. The goal of working away from the office is that I'm more focused without distractions. But that is wishful thinking when I'm still linked to my email, skype, and my phone. Damn.
7. Vampire Weekend and Phoenix were excellent (as helga said) "toe tapping" workday jams.
8. Meat emergencies can happen at all hours of any day.
   

falling off the leno bandwagon

So Leno's musical sidekick, Kevin Eubanks, announced that he is leaving the Late Show to pursue "other opportunities." This is another to fall off the Leno bandwagon after all the NBC/Leno shenanigans the last couple months.

I mean the musicians for these types of shows just have to smile and laugh mostly, then perhaps play about 10-15 seconds of introduction music for a guest, etc. I could probably do that. Yes I have a great smile (thanks to years of painful braces), don't have that annoying of a laugh, and could probably get a few bars out on my old school recorder. Hire me!

I wonder how this Leno move will shake down. I hope his ratings continue to be shit. I've always been a Dave fan and Conan (my big bird) and Craig (good european beer drinker). Down with Leno and his big chin.

total gridlock

So last night I sped my way up to DC to attend two separate Lupus Events--my support group and the Lupus Walk fundraising launch party. This, I knew, was a lofty goal because getting from one end of DC to the other is never an easy task.

I was doing well on the interstates, and around 5:30 PM I turned onto L street in the business district of DC and went to a complete stop. It was total gridlock for the 5 blocks I needed to go until Betty's office. It took me over an hour to go 3 blocks, where I picked Betty up, argued with a foreign parking lot man about letting my car in, and then continued for another 30 minutes the 1 block to Betty's office underground garage of death.

Seriously, I've NEVER experienced gridlock like that. The homeless man pushing his home in a shopping cart was moving faster than me, and seriously that guy had alot of stuff in that cart and was working hard to get it through the snow. He made it quicker down the road than me.

We finally got above ground and could walk through the complete mess that is the DC streets to get to the bar. By this time I'd been in my car for 4 hours and felt as if my bladder might explode, so I was happy to move about. Betty and I decided if we could hide my car somewhere then we would just drink and eat until the traffic got better.

The Walk for Lupus launch party went well, and we then went to Nerer Nerer Chicken Dinner restaurant for some amazing drinks and food. I'm all about that place.

this would never happen to me

This is one of those things that only happens to small girls:



Although I'm all about it!

music of the moment

OK Go is the brilliant band that brought us this legendary video, and now they have a new album. This song is like an OAR song that you have to dance around to whilest cleaning your house:



Those damn hipsters with their tight jeans!!!! OMG and sweater vests.

I hate vests.

music of the moment

The Script is a brand new Irish band which I'm completely digging, check out one of their debut songs:

an "herb" garden

I got an herb garden kit for christmas this year and a couple weekend ago I finally got motivated to get that business planted. I had 5 pots of varying herbs. And much to my gifters dismay I wanted to grow other "herbs" in the pots :) ONLY kidding!

BUT I'm happy to announce that my cilantro is sprouting!!! Which means I didn't drown it or let it dry up. I normally have a hard time finding a happy medium in watering plants or my garden. I feel like I'm either drowning it or neglecting it, which I'm not entirely sure what this says about me as a human in a relationship (I keep dogs alive!).

Listen if any of my "herbs" are sprouting I want it to that cilantro!!! If I had a choice I'd put it in everything I cook....eggs, soup, and stir-fries. Here's hoping the other 4 pots will be something too!

happy birthday ladies

Well last night was a good night with all my favorite people. It was three of my good friend's birthdays. Apparently it was a big birthday for them and they all swear they are not actually aging or celebrating birthdays anymore. Fine by me, as long as we can still go and celebrate your fo birthdays.



Night started with a little indoor ice skating. It was like I was in high school again surrounded by 75 people under the age of 18. Remember, this is where people go when they can't go to the bar. I personally enjoyed the purple necklace/nametags we had to wear (so sexy). Some, like Claire and Julie, were ice queens with speed and agility (I swear, Jeff and I saw Matt hurtle a small child). Others, got points for flare (moving their arms about), for sparkly outfits, and yelling profanities ("BEER" or "MOVE it along").



Surprisingly, no one died skating. Bonus for all parties involved. So we headed out to a bar for food and beer (which was probably best to do AFTER skating), but of course our "reservation" was lost. So in a luckily chance the 12 of us got into another place, which was perfect. We had a nice big table upstairs, in as Ginny said "miami-ish club" atmosphere, and the service was fast and the food was a-mazing. Much laughter continued.



Now this is the place where some of us go shake it every once and awhile, and as predicted a disc ball dropped and the 80's club music started. It was some fierce entertainment watching the old white dude, the crazy cougar, the stoic hispanic and the creepy indian dude. THIS was heaven for me!!! It is like a psychology experiment watching all the creeptacular old men at this place! From the second floor, I kept saying "I"m going to go dance with that old dude" and sure enough we got all 6 of the women out on the dance floor. This too was a-mazing as there was much impromptu bootie shaking from a number of women.

I finally went back upstairs to where the 6 men were holding down the table and watching the purses :) because I was afraid if I stayed down there any longer it would be 2 AM and they would be dragging me out of there. I wore a damn sweater because of the ice skating factor, only to end up dancing at a bar by the end of the night (I said "at" and not "on" OK!). I know that if I didn't extricate myself from THAT situation, soon my sweater was coming off, and frankly that is a sight NO one wants to see :)



It was a GREAT night with birthday cupcakes, friends, good food and booze, and lots of laughter. The good nights are never planned this way :) The only down side is no one ended up dry humping the stairs, I bet it would have happened if we stayed longer!

singles awareness IM

Holy balls, I just received a "singles awareness" IM from someone I don't know. Here is what it said:

• "There are thousands of unhappy married women and men in every city, but they DO NOT want to leave their spouse. They want to stay married, but they want to have an affair without ever being caught. Our dating community is extremely popular! Having an affair can be stressful because you never know if the other person involved is going to get attached to you. You just want to have an intimate encounter and nothing else. A great thing about this Discreet Dating Community For Married People is that there is no cost to join. You can check it out, see if you like it, and then begin contacting married people for secret intimate encounters."

HOLY CRAP!!!! You mean I can purposefully find me an already married man??? This sucks. I'm not passing along the website because this sucks the big one.

This is an IM for people who are married but apparently unhappy with the single awareness day coming up. Damn you hallmark holiday!!!

shoes as weapons

Well it was only a matter of time until crazy women started using their stiletto shoes as weapons. I mean we've seen nuttie women use kitchen knifes, old ladies use their purse or walker, and teenagers with their mace or ass kicking shoes (that was me). Now when we are pissed off at the men in our lives we are just reaching down for our pumps.

This poor guy was attacked by his girlfriend while in a taxi at 2 am in London. The 4 inch heel went through his eye and did touch his brain, apparently. OUCH!!! Well that shit sucks. It is like domestic violence gone wrong (not that any violence is right). When they go to court the weapon in a ziplock bag is going to be a stiletto shoe!!! I hope it wasn't a too cute one because you ain't EVER getting that one back :)

I can just see the lawyer, "exhibit one, McQueen's 2010 line of pumps." OK OK not funny, I know.

men with pill problems

Soooo all my male friends, do you need a place to hide your pills???? Well you're in luck, some fancy designer has come up with a hidden way to hide your drugs.....well in cuff links!!! It used to work well in rings (not that I would know), but now you can spend a clean grand to transport your pills:



Now I'll admit most of my male friends don't really wear suits, or have extra $1000 laying around the house. I know, I know most of you wear jeans and it is a good day when they are actually clean :)

I'll put it on my shopping list for when I win the lottery.

I'd make a convincing big bird

I think I know what I'm going to be for halloween next year!!!! Sesame Street just announced the adult version of the cute characters (not in the dirrrty version) and I'm thinking I might be a really good big bird....let's see there is a the flapper big bird or the more transition head band one (I don't like the entire head piece one). Yeah!!!!

I could totally rock it:

sad news

I just found out that Alexander McQueen has passed away, taking his own life in London. This is such sad news. He is an amazing fashion designer who has been very influential in the fashion world dressing stars and models alike.

Recently I was LOVIN his new shoes, which Lady Gaga wore in this video:

Well I could never wear them but it doesn't mean I don't like them. They are new and modern and something surely different.

things that made my day

In no particular order:

• a workout--with all this damn snow there has been no gym appearances which makes LL mccranky
  
• an NCIS marathon
• finding a Vietnamese restaurant for din din
• having the best wanton soup EVER because there was fresh cilantro in it
• getting all our teachers, tapes, and children into our online system from filming today--considering it took me months to identify all the kids in other classrooms
• and hopefully a bath tonight
• norfolk public schools has announced there will be school tomorrow
• finding a super wallie world by accident where I got breakfast, snacks, and those extra damn video tapes.
  

I'm like a camel

NO no, not like the cigarette but more like the humped animal (ok not dirrty either). WAIT, camel's spit, right? But they also drink tons of water, right? OK well perhaps this isn't the best comparison, but whatever drinks tons of water....yep that is me :)

I got back from filming for 5 hours straight this morning/afternoon and collapsed in my new hotel. I was so dehydrated that I had to lay there and drink like 3 gallons of water. No really, I think it may have been 3 gallons. I really couldn't get a move on until I had drank an entire swimming pool and ate a buttload of fruit.

Good film today but here's hoping the school in the ghetto with the teacher returning from knee surgery with no assistant will produce lots of footage of conflict tomorrow!!! That's the prayer I'll say tonight.....and that I'm not secretly turning into a camel.

another reason to stay for sundays

Damn you George (still a sexy greek god) for leaving my Sunday AMs....and this is a perfect example of why you should come back. This shit would NEVER happen on This Week:

keep your snowballs to yourself

So two genius VA college students were arrested for throwing snowballs at a plow and a cop car. These twenty-somethings apparently are the pinnacle of smrt attending JMU (phhh at least they were at UVA). Perhaps we should try some snow day fun that doesn't result in a potential 5 years in jail.

Of course this incident has brought around the "are these guys old enough to know better?" Or is that "too harsh of a punishment" for throwing a snowball? debate. I am more of the side that you are 22 years old and should be a little more smrter than that.

BUT I'll admit I can't say too much because I've been "arrested" before. Granted I was 17 years old (not legal--my only defense) and had ONLY stole about 40 campaign signs with about 80 roles of toilet paper in my trunk. The best part was when the cop said "you better not have any sheriff signs."

AND I never did things like that in college. For example, I was not the one peeing on McCranky neighbors blow-up santa, though I did recognize my friend on FoxNews the next day from her hidden camera :)

the essence of all my giggles

Further evidence how much I heart jon stewart....makes me laugh and laugh and laugh:

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a real working trip

Soooo I officially made it to Norfolk for two days of work. It's been an adventure thus far:

• The UVA supplies people have sent me the wrong video tapes twice. First I had 12 cassette tapes, which does nothing for my video camera. Then they sent only 6 of the correct ones, which isn't nearly enough. So I'm looking forward to trying to find a place somewhere here in Norfolk tomorrow afternoon to buy more tapes for my second day....
• We had a teacher last minute invite me to their classroom, which meant I had 1 day to plan to extend my Norfolk visit. Unfortunately I had already booked a hotel which wouldn't let me extend my stay without charging me a extra $60 more a night. So now I am moving to another hotel for tomorrow night. Great, huh?
• Hotel hopping doesn't help with the directions I already printed to get to the two schools which are on opposite ends of the city, which has more water in it than Seattle (SERIOUSLY, do you know how many lakes/rivers/oceans and bridges are in this city??). These types of trips make me wish I had a GPS. I wonder how many times I'll be lost :)
• Once I find the school, I'm really realllly (insert sass) looking forward to finding a way to film around 15 3-5 year olds when 3-4 of them don't have consent. That means they can't be on the screen which makes life much more difficult. Maybe if I just ask the 3 year old not to play with their other friends, it might work.....maybe.
• Keep praying for no snow down here so that the public schools aren't canceled tomorrow morning. That would seriously suck my balls if I get down here and then there isn't school.
• I'm trying to enjoy cable TV but the Potty Dance commercials keep coming on, further emphasizing why I don't watch TV anymore because now all I hear in my head is: "the potty dance, let's all wear our big kid's pants"
• I keep charging and recharging my video cameras and batteries thinking I've forgotten something....
  
• A plethora of older business men where in the hotel bar tonight and I was trying very very hard not to have conversations with them that started with "do you want a drink?", "I think I pulled a muscle in my back," "I put ice/hot on my forehead," and "I like to keep my money is IRAs (blah blah blah)"

I heart betty white

I freakin love me some Betty White. I love Golden Girls and could sing you the entire theme song right now......Thank you for being my friend, travel down the road.....OK OK I'll stop.

BUT Betty White is unstoppable this year. She is staring in movies, making funnies and appearing in the Superbowl commercials. This shit is just funny:



She is my type of old lady. LOVE HER!!!

boob crackdown

So I was sitting in the bar tonight watching the New Orleans Saint Superbowl parade. There were floats and the players were throwing beads. I was wondering how this was on CNN and ESPN if there were any women baring all the girls....

Turns out there was a boob crackdown happening for the first time in NO. In the era of FCC and anti-wardrobe malfunctions, we aren't allowed to show any boobs on television. So I'm sure the parade was time delayed but none the less the police were on a boob crackdown. Anything inappropriate would burn their eyes and women would get covered up immediately.

I hate to admit this happens to me all the time....being warned to keep the girls wrapped up by the police. If I had a nickle for everytime...

underworms

I love me some muppets, and other puppets, like the new Carrie Underworm.....

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babies, babies, babies

So my boss and his wife are having triplets. Yeah for babies!!!! I was moving HP movies to their computer this afternoon and found out they have a blog.

I'm a baby supporter, don't need them myself, but definitely a supporter!

football, J, & violins

What else can a girl ask for??? All my favorite things:



I love me some live chamber orchestra music....oh and fireworks.

HOT.

new fashion trends

I'm excited about some of the new fashion trends coming down the runway this season. One Italian designer has really created something I can get on board with....hair hats! Forget about those Camilla-inspired British sun hats, let's go straight to fusing the fake hair pieces you can buy at the mall kiosk from some asian lady with some high fashion. For example, here is what I would call the Hershey's Kiss:

Or perhaps you would like a little shaggy dog inspired piece for your business suit:

I hate to say it but this line has some very Lady Gaga undertones to it. Just make those hats into a hairbow and we're Gaga circa 2008.

I'm not sure I could pull these off. This is for really short ladies who aren't already giants, who already wear heels, and who are probably alot more fierce than I am. I'm considering it through....first are more of those feather headbands.

high five superbowl

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possible snow day activities

• Build a snowman
• Name your snowman, Icey George (after the summer groundhog/beaver/gopher)
• Consider building male parts to your snowman after getting texts from your amazing friends (extra coal?)
• Walk around outside to listen to all the tree branches snapping
• Run when you hear those same tree branches creaking above you
• Finish making a jean skirt
• Start working on revamping a green skirt which you made 3 years ago that is too long
• Make a gingerbread cake in your new Scandinavian "orange donkey" baking pan
• Take a moment to be amazed that you found ginger root in your refrig
• Do some pelvis thrusts in honor of the humping orange donkeys whilst baking
• Watch helpless as your gingerbread-shaped-donkey breaks into a head and two legs
• Have a glass of wine
• Try to befriend the 2 year old sledding by your house, who is too afraid to talk to you because you probably look like a 6 foot abdominal snow-women.
• Pray the snow plow doesn't kill Icey George, your snowman
• Pump up your heat in case of a power outage, resulting in you sweating your balls off and having to walk around with less clothing on
• Consider buying cable and internet
• Snack on pickle/ham roll ups

snow day fun!!!!

Now this is what I call winter!!!! School closed, tree branches snapping, running buckets of water, spiking your heat just in case the power goes out, hot chocolate, SNOWMAN!!!! This is what winter should be about.

Still snowing here, going to keep going all night, and it is perrrrfect for snowman making (I'm like the 2 year old that was sledding in the parklot, but I'm building things):





Damn I got SKILLZZZZzzzz, well except for the carrots (who buys the big carrots anymore??? just snubs for a nose)

snow day!!!

So yesterday all the area schools canceled classes for today before 5 PM in leu of another massive snow storm. And it is technically a UVA snow day as well...all classes were canceled and all "non-essential" employees (THAT'S ME) were given the day off. Yesssss!!!

And I would like to point out at 7 AM this morning we haven't got any snow yet! Isn't that great? I think it is coming. People were in a panic mode yesterday....gas station lines into the road, people standing outside grocery stores, no shovels in town. It was truly amazing to watch the drama unfold. I stocked up on food (including supplies for the SuperBowl pickle/ham roll-ups) and booze, so that should help me get through the weekend.

Weekends where I have to stay indoors really makes me miss cable, internet, and the gym. When I can't get out and shake it, it makes me slightly cranky......

are you kidding me?

So we are officially in Olympic mode, as the games start next week. Of course the Olympic advertising is starting, including mag covers, etc. And already we are getting some controversy from the new SI cover and the most popular new USA team member.

Apparently, some feel that this cover is too sexually explicit and it objectives her. I never realized that skiing was alot like having sex (insert sass). You know, when you are hurling down an icey slope to your death, the "tuck" position is sort of like other extracurricular activity positions. But if we are using this defense, so is like every move in Yoga, and everytime a football player crouches on the line.

I hate to point out the obvious, but she is a skier, in the ski position, on a snowy mountain, wearing ski clothing!!! And this coming from someone with a dirty mind!!!! Are you kidding me? It could be that she is actually pretty and has a personality (unlike, as the article points out, Michael Phelps). I'm all about female empowerment, BUT it mayyyy be taking it too far. Let's just be excited that a female is on the cover of SI (which has only happened on about 5% of the covers ever), and that she is going to be leading Team USA.

Aren't figure skaters dirty too??? Sparky costumes, inappropriate team touching....I'm just saying.

more concerts, yeah!!!

OMG I'm so excited I could wet my pants.....I only just found out last night that Paramore is coming to Cville. You know, the rock group I've slightly addicted to. This, and Muse, is the only music that I run to. It makes me bounce around and want to exercise. AND I got me some tickets already. Presale fan club bitches. Yesssss!!!! I said in December that I had to see them in concert this year, and turns out I'm going to go to a concert a month! Good thing I know all of their albums by heart, here, and here, and here.

And thanks to M & A, I got tickets to see Drive By Truckers later this month. Should be a good show and at least I'll get to see the new Jefferson. DBT should be a different type of rock out:

we all need more ginger

I think we all need a little more ginger in our lives. I like redheads, they make the world better.

The English princes (yum, british men) had their first portrait, and apparently Harry had some comments about it afterwards:

• "I don't know, I'm a little bit more ginger in there than I am in real life, I think. I don't know, and (William) got given more hair, so apart from that, it is what it is, but no it's nice, it could have been worse."

I think you are amazingly ginger enough for me :)

what is with the compilation songs?

Crap, the world is all about compilation song right now???? So they are doing a new "we are the world" remix, which Lionel Richtie announced at the Grammy's. This is in light of MJ death and Haiti and everything else. It will be the number 1 download on iTunes for like a week, and then everyone will be over it. Will it even get any real airtime?

On that note, I just read about another compilation song of Everyone Hurts by REM with a bunch of my favorite British singers. For those that don't know I absolutely LOVE me some British singers, including most of these people:



Does anyone else notice in these recording they all have one hand on their headphones??? I'm thinking about putting a compilation song together of my own. I'll get headphones for 1 ear, and perhaps something really really horrible. Suggestions for songs???

that wardrobe malfunction is still changing TV

Damn Janet Jackson and her wardrobe malfunction!!! Here has been all this whoha about some commercial that got banned from playing at this Sunday's Superbowl. Apparently, in the era of boobies on TV, we can no longer say "go to hell" either. Parents wouldn't want to explain this to their children either.

So the commercial is about a new video game where the user literally "goes to hell" at the end of it. So at the end of the commercial, it says this and the FCC has pulled it. I'm not a video game fan to begin with so I'm sort of of the camp of pull all the damn games, BUT I didn't think it was that bad....I mean I'm more concerned about the violence than the "go to hell" part:

a v-day idea

WTF???? I got the following email from WSU:

"Do you need a meaningful gift that is unique for Valentine's Day? In addition to chocolates and roses this Valentine's Day, consider a gift that will be remembered for years to come. Purchase a goat kit (or kit of your choice) through WSU's Ripple Effect in honor of that special person in your life."

WTF WSU! A goat kit. You're seriously trying to convince me to purchase a "goat kit." I can't even make this shit up if I tried any harder. Yes because nothing says true love like goats. Are you freakin kidding me???? They need to get the hell out of rural WA. Seriously.

Delete.

Buying someone a star is better than a goat kit for single's awareness day.

dave reflection

So this weekend I was wondering if Dave Matthews was in Cville, as I went to some random small concerts in town. Last time I did this, sure enough, Dave was there. I was also secretly wondering if he was liking all the snow in town, does dave like to drive in snow? Probably has a damn four-wheel drive vehicle :)

Anywho all that was answered during the Grammy's last night, where he was sitting in the first/second row. LA doesn't get snow :) His band performed and were a-mazing, and they were also up for a couple awards too. He didn't win album of the year, but frankly who thought he would up against the likes of Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift.

But I like this commentary about Dave last night:

"Dave Matthews didn't win Album of the Year but appeared overjoyed just to hear his album's title Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King pronounced correctly. Way to keep it all in perspective, Dave."

Come back to the Ville anytime, Dave. The mussels at Mas are still amazing.