Monday's snack

Cream puffs...

BASEBALL IS BACK

It begins here at 2:15 MST. The Rockies are playing the St. Louis Cardinals.

http://colorado.rockies.mlb.com/index.jsp?c_id=col

Here we are again, my friends.

It's spring time in the Mountains again. This means that one day you can be out side playing in 70 degree weather and the next morning wake up to snow. That's what happened this weekend here.
Friday i baled early and went home. My boyfriend and I played outside for a bit, then headed up the mountain to Black Hawk. We got to the Casino just in time, they had just opened and there wasn't mush of a line. I ate about three clusters of crab legs (they were really good) and then had some bites of other things. I will never know why people insist on using cilantro, it is gross, you should never add it to anything eatable. I'm just saying...
Then we headed over to a friend's house for some couch sitting and digesting. We ended up staying in the hills a little longer than expected, but the visit was good. And we realized it had been months since we had been up at elevation, so that is good to get back up top.
We started heading back to the city about 10pm. Got home, checked a few things on the TV and hit the sack. Saturday morning came and we decided that use the day to get all the magazines out in one day and not have to do any the rest of the weekend. We did just that. Got everything delivered. And i got a slice of pizza out of it... YEAH, I love when the route matches up to my hunger...
Before we really got moving on the deliveries, my boyfriend tells me that we have to go to this police station for a tour.. I guess it was some civil training course that was graduating. By the time we got there there wasn't much going on. But i had my video camera with me and got some B-roll shots of a fire truck and so on. We were taking the tour of the station, my camera was running and we went into the dispatch center. At the time there wasn't much going on, so one of the dispatchers was telling us about the different screens and different controls they have over the entire station as well we the cameras they have in all the rooms etc. At that time a call came in, an apparent DOA. So they all went into work mode. We were escorted out and continued the tour. There were a few holding cells, crime lab, etc. Very interesting, and i got some other b-roll of the jail cell etc.
When the tour was over, i was asked to talk to a police officer that was walking up to my boyfriend and I. He started telling me that i wasn't supposed to be shooting in the dispatch room, etc. To be honest, i was pretty sure someone was going to say something about that to me. So, i offered to show him what i shot. He was very apologetic but said that i had to delete all the dispatch room footage.. That sucked.. but i did get some interesting stuff. not sure what i am going to do with it. but it is fun to collect.
I am thinking about starting a website for the local area i live in and just put up event listings, and things like that, but then it is also an outlet for happenings that i shoot. Think it might give me a little more of a platform to use my skills and also gain me some additional press credentialing than i already get.. just something legit, i mean, you know.. these are all only ideas. Just thinking out loud i guess. It's that kind of day.
So, after the police station detour, we finished all the deliveries. For a reward, we stopped into one of our favorite bars and got a quick drink, then headed home.
Sunday started out as a lazy day. But when hunger over took us, we had to venture out. We have nothing in the house and neither one of us got paid until today to go some major grocery shopping. So we decided on Noodle's and CO. and ventured out of the house. We had a quick stop at Rite Aid (i ended up spending money that i didn't plan to spend, of course, should have gone grocery shopping instead). As we were headed up the street to get Noodles. we made a sudden turn into the parking lot of the shopping center where Joanne fabrics is.. My new favorite store in the whole world!!! i started, of course, asking questions but got no answers, my boyfriend just kept silent and driving. Then we pulled into a parking spot right in front of Joanne. I was about to jump out of my skin i was so excited.. THEN the best thing happened.. WE WENT INTO THE STORE...
We looked at all the quilting stuff and my boyfriend kept asking, what do you need.. what will make it easier to make quilts. etc.. Knowing that my birthday is next week, i was looking at some stuff. Ended up deciding on some template paper to make my own templates instead of the $10.00 ones they sell for one piece.. Then i thought about it and i really just need some more material. We got a little over whelmed when looking at the large wall of fabrics. But once we walked up to it we saw they had small pieces already cut for about $1.50 each.. My boyfriend told me to pick out 10. Since he has the better color sense, we picked out some fabrics and headed out. When we were walking out the door, i asked if he was going to wrap them for me to open and he said that it wasn't for my birthday.. it was just because..
Now, that is the darn sweetest thing ever.. I mean i don't want any flowers or jewelry. just some quilting fabrics and i am melting :)
After getting soe grub we headed back home and had a pretty lazy rest of the day. (except for going though my uilting books for a cool pattern to make.
That was my weekend. Seemed to have gone my really quick and i don't think that either of us rested too much. My boyfriend was fighting a bad headache this morning. I think we are in need of a good fun weekend coming up next weekend.. We need to blow off some steam, you know. And i think Chicago is a great place to do that.

Here are some things that are more interesting than me today..

Today is Hot Guitar Day, marking the British concert on this date in 1967 featuring Cat Stevens and Englebert Humperdinck when Jimi Hendrix first set fire to his guitar. (Englebert is so hot..)

Today is Buy Some New Socks Day. Go ahead, you’re worth it. (did that a few weeks ago at the outlets, but am wearing a new pair today..)

Today is Cesar Chavez Day. In 2000, California approved the creation of a new state holiday to honor Cesar Chavez, founder of the United Farm Workers.
Chavez was born on March 31, 1927, in Yuma, Arizona. (they are celebrating in Denver today)

Summer Time begins today in the U.K. The U.S. calls it daylight saving time..

Today is National Clams on the Half Shell Day. (friggen yummy)

Today is National "She's Funny That Way" Day, a day to pay tribute to funny women by listing ways the women in our lives make us laugh (sponsored by Brenda Meridith of Winchendon, Massachusetts, 978-297-1820). (Look for list in future blog)

And since my birthday is coming up, here are all the things that went on on this date, since i have been alive

1973: Loudon Wainright-the-3rd’s "Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road" peaked at #16 on Billboard’s Hot 100.

1974: Three Miami Dolphins, Larry Csonka, Jim Kiick, and Paul Warfield, signed with the World Football League’s Toronto Northmen, which soon became the Memphis Southmen. The World League folded within two years and still owes all three players money.

1985: "The Love Boat" celebrated its 200th TV episode by honoring its 1,000th guest star, Lana Turner.

1989: "Wrestlemania-5," pitting Hulk Hogan against Macho Man Savage, became the largest pay-per-view program in cable TV history. (I watched it)

1995: The 23-year-old Tejano star Selena Quintanilla-Perez was shot and killed at a Corpus Christi motel. The manager of her boutiques was convicted of the murder and sentenced to life in prison.

1998: God did not appear live at 10:00 a.m. on Channel 18 as predicted by a Tawanese UFO cult in Garland, Texas. The group had predicted God’s appearance for months. (shocking)

1999: During a promotional ride of a new roller coaster at the Busch Gardens theme park in Williamsburg, Virginia, model Fabio was cut over the nose when a bid flew into his face. (That is too funny..I grew up going to this theme park)

2001: In Thessaloniki, Greece, two men using a crossbow to shoot drugs over a prison wall were arrested by police and charged with narcotics trafficking. Police had been staking out the Diavata prison after wardens discovered small bags of heroin and hashish hanging from the barbed wire atop the wall surrounding the penitentiary. (pure geniuses)

2005: Terri Schiavo, a 41-year-old Florida woman in a persistent vegetative state since 1990, died 14 days after removal of her feeding tube in a right-to-die dispute that involved the courts, Congress and the White House.

Friday's Snack

Today is Something on a Stick Day

So, this deserves it's own blog spot for sure.. might be the best holiday of food yet...
So, in celebration, here is just a sampling of what you can get on a stick...














They will put anything on a stick....
This is squid
A LIZZARD
and best of all your chicken's head on a stick right next to your hotdog on a stick...
Cars on a stick
Airplane on a stick

OK, So i suck..

I can admit it, I can own it. I really suck! so, we lost last night, and I am pretty sure it was my fault. I couldn't hit the strike zone to save my life. The ump was trying to get me to have my arch higher, but i just couldn't seem to get it into that zone. It has to arch at 6 to 12 feet, yeah well i was arching at like 3 or 25. you get nothing or nothing with me. I would say about every 8 pitches were hittable and i maybe got a strike in there somewhere... I don't think i actually walked a run in, but i sure did load up the bases pretty good once or twice.. (ok closer to like three times, but whose counting- besides everyone on my team..) UGH.. and to make matters worse, when we got there, we really didn't have a lot of time to warm up and streatch (read: drank beer and chatted until game time) so i didn't really get my body ready to play. we were first up to bat and when i got up, i hit the ball (yes i did, shut up) and i took off and felt something in my upper thigh on my right leg.. I ran it out, but didn't make it on the bag. since then my leg was killing me to even really walk on. Of course that was with in teh first 5 minutes of the game and i played the rest on a really hurt leg.. the last time at bat I hit the ball and my first base coach was yelling 'run it out', so i ran and kept running and i think i hurt it a little more that time.
But i did end up getting on base. (dreading that someone would make me run to second) but that was the end of the game, and we lost. Thanks to me, we lost. I don't even know the score, didn't ask... Probable safe to say i am not pitching anymore.. not a problem, i am over it and will play any other position.
Not to worry, I wasn't the only injury last night, a girl slid into third and scraped up her knee, and guy slid into third and hurt his knee.. and i think there were a few hurt fingers and stuff. It was just really cold and we got the brunt of it. end of softball chatter, I don't even want to think about it any more...

This weekend should be better, we are going to drown my sorrows and hurt leg by partaking of another's legs. Crab legs!!! See, out here in Colorado we have these beautiful moountain communities that are so quaint and nice to visit, but there is this one mountain town that got just overrun by local politics and too much scratching backs and stuff, that it ended up with these enormous casinos stuck right in the mountain side. Well let me take that back, they actually removed some of the mountains to make room for these casinos. It is really sad. I mean they said it take miracles to move mountains, well in Black Hawk, it just took a few corrupt politicians, some greasing of palms at the state level and then a few backhoes and some drills, throw up some chicken wire over the raw side of the hill you just created and start construction. Amazingly horrible for the environment, scenery, and the local population. BUT that means that if there is a casino, there is a buffet... and if there is a buffet in a casino well then you know they have crab legs. I can't tell you how much i love crab legs.
I grew up on the East Coast and my grandparents (both) had river/summer homes on the Chesapeake Bay. Each summer we would go up and hang out at their places (coincendently the two families -mom and dad's- summer homes were two houses from each other.
Talk about killing two birds with one stone. visiting both grandparents and cousins etc in one trip.) ANYWAY~ we always had fresh blue crabs, shrimp and fish. Moving out of Colorado put a damper on how much fresh seafood you can get, and the casinos are one of the best places to get seafood.
Once in a while they send us a coupon for buy one get one for the buffet. We have been sitting on one coupon for over a month and have not gone yet. Well it expired this weekend and we are going to get crab legs. I am craving them.. I am not sure if we will go tonight or tomorrow, but we are going one of the two days.
It is also magazine delivery weekend.. UGH! I got a call that they were delivered this morning to our house, so that means we have to get this out to all the clubs, bars, tattoo shops, hair cutting places and the like, this weekend. I hate this chore and bitch about it every time we have to do it. But i do it. My payment from my boyfriend is usually a good meal. I bet he is going to bribe me with the buffet... I bet it..

I am exhausted and see this being another early friday. Might stick it out till 3, but i am betting on snack time departure today. Don't worry, i will stay to see what snack is, and then go.

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend and is safe. I might be working on some videos this weekend so stay tuned for some weekend content. who knows...
Here are some things to make you go hummmmmm.

Today is National Black Forest Cake Day. (Bring it on!!! I will be first to help celebrate this one.)

Today is Hot Tub Day. (hell yeah, I will take your donations)

Today is Hair Day. The controversial rock musical moved to Broadway on this date in 1968. Many felt the songs "Aquarius," "Hair," and "Let the Sunshine In" defined those who opposed the "Establishment" and the Vietnam War. (and why is that an issue… guess I wasn’t around in 1968 but I sure wish the kids would stand up like they did then, now…. We need some more people standing up to the government)

Today is Burpless Friday, a day to see how long you can go without burping. (ok, that’s not really a problem for me..)

Today is Teachers Day in the Czech Republic.

Today is Weed Appreciation Day. Find a weed you think you could like. Think of it as a wildflower and see if that helps. (hhheee, snicker, snicker..)

SchmeckFest begins today in Freeman, South Dakota. (I looked it up for you… Schmeckfest (festival of tasting) is a four-day festival in Freeman, South Dakota that celebrates the heritage and culture of Germans from Russia, specifically Russian Mennonites, who migrated to North America starting in the 1870s. Established in 1959, German culture is showcased through traditional food and crafts prepared and demonstrated by the local Freeman community.^[1] Schmeckfest has been held every spring since and has grown to accommodate more than 5,000 guests every year)

And things that happened on this day since i have been born...

1973: Wilt Chamberlain retired from pro basketball. In 1,045 games during 14 years, he never fouled out of a game. (so he screwed more chicks than games he played)

1979: America's worst commercial nuclear accident occurred inside at the Three Mile Island plant near Middletown, Pennsylvania.

1983: Fred Jipp was sentenced to 28 years in prison in Phoenix for fraud and bigamy. In 30 years he allegedly had married 104 women in 28 countries. He died in 1991. (That was big of him.. sorry couldn’t resist)

1984: In the middle of the night Robert Irsay moved the Baltimore Colts football team to Indianapolis. (I remembered that this really pissed my dad off)

1986: More than 6,000 radio stations of all formats played "We Are the World" simultaneously at 10:15 a.m. EST. (my ears are bleeding just thinking of the tune, and I hope it is stuck in your head just like it is now in my head just from reading the stupid title)

1987: Maria von Trapp, whose life inspired the musical ''The Sound of Music,'' died at age 82.

1990: Officials in Chester, South Carolina, reassured concerned residents that the white dust caking their cars near the Borden factory was just Cremora.

1995: Singer Lyle Lovett and actress Julia Roberts announced they were separating after 21 months of marriage. (that was just a weird match up, but I love Lyle)

1997: Trees were planted throughout Sarajevo in the former Yugoslavia to replace 40,000 trees cut down for wood during the war.

1999: Venus Williams beat kid sister Serena 6-1, 4-6, 6-4 to win the Lipton Championships in the first all-sister women's final in 115 years.

2002: Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong's cornet was added to the National Museum of American History, one of the Smithsonian museums in Washington, D.C.

2003: A Briton called Eric Bush legally changed his name to protest the U.S.-led war in Iraq. The 72-year-old, who lived in southern France, said he was ashamed to bear the same name as the U.S. president. He officially changed his name to Buisson, the French term for bush. (well you really can’t blame the man, now can you??? I would change my name too)

2004: Sir Peter Ustinov, the actor who won Oscars for his roles in "Spartacus" and "Topkapi," died in Switzerland at age 82.

Thursday's Snack

gross!!!!

Game Day #2

Thursday's used to be plain old "Mexican Day" here because we either order from Qdoba or Chipotle. (Today it is Chipotle.) But Thursdays started being game days last week, and today is game number 2. Tonight (the game starts at 9:00- are you kidding me???) I am pitching the whole game. This afternoon at lunch i went to do some pitching practice at a nearby field. My friend came and caught for me. I'd say i am in the 45-55 ratio of pitching strikes.
This afternoon will find me in the backyard (even if it is still 50 degrees and nasty out) pitching into the chair and trying to get my average up before 9pm tonight.

OK, Who watching big brother?? I friggen LOVE Chelsea. She was the best last night when she got evicted. Well even her "beg to not be voted out" speech was great. But when they read her name and she was leaving, she told Josh to grow a backbone and that Sheila had to slow down and that she has been "ridden hard and will be put up wet" DAMN!!!! and then she yelled at a few more, whispered some stuff to Joshua and James and out the door she went. the best eviction yet!!! and when she started smashing the easter eggs Natalie had dyed was GREAT. I just wish she has thrown them across the room and not just smashed them on the table, but it was still great!!!!

It was 72 yesterday and I actually got my car washed.. it looks great, and i vacuumed the inside. There was crap under the back seat that I know had not been cleaned out since i got the car, (7 years ago) - gross I know. but at least it is all gone now.. I am going to get new floor mats for it I think, with my next paycheck. make it look a little better yet.

Do you all get the Onion Newspaper where you live? We get it here and it is a laugh riot sometimes. This weeks headline i think is the best..

"Black Guy Asks Nation For Change"
(And here is an excerpt of the article)

Those who encountered the black man Tuesday said he engaged in erratic behavior, including pointing at random people in the crowd and desperately saying he needs their help, going up to complete strangers and hugging them, and angrily claiming that he is not looking for just a little bit of change, but rather a great deal of change, and that he wants it "right now."

"I'll be honest, when that black guy said he would 'stop at nothing' to get change, it kind of scared me," local mechanic Phil Nighbert said. "Just leave me alone."

Though many were taken aback by the black man's brazen demands, some, such as Jackson, MS's Holly Moser, sympathized with him. She gave the black man credit for boldly standing up and asking every last person around him for change.

"I told him I'd give him some if I saw him later, even though I probably won't," Moser said. "Very nice man, though."

Most, however, ignored his requests.

"I'm a hardworking American who pays his taxes, and the last thing I need is some guy on the street demanding change from me," said William Overkamp, a Springfield, IL gun-shop owner.

He added, "What he really needs is a job."

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/black_guy_asks_nation_for_change

This makes cry from laughing.. too funny. Ok i might be the only one laughing, but i think it is funny..

And on another note, to catch you up on the toilet lady, She is still really ill and undergoing treatment for her ass cheeks growing around the toilet seat. Well when she was taken to the hospital, her boyfriend was charged with one count of mistreatment for a dependent adult. Well just last week he had more trouble. I guess when your girlfriend is out of the bathroom and in the hospital with injuries you are charged with inflicting, it is the BEST time to flash a teenage girl and her friends your little willie. So he was arrested again. Apparently charges have not been files at time of this posting, but ARE YOU KIDDING ME?? what is wrong with people?? and yes, i would like an answer. seriously.. what are you thinking???

Here are some items you can use at the water cooler...

Today is Education and Sharing Day, by presidential proclamation.

Today is Smell the Breezes Day in Egypt.

Today is Kite Flying Day, a great day for families to go fly a kite.(Yesterday was perfect to fly a kite, today, not so much)

Today is Downtown Day, a day to go downtown just to see if it’s still there.

Today is National Joe Day, honoring anyone named Joe. (don’t know anyone, but I will take a look around the office)

Today is Quirky Country Music Song Titles Day, a day to remember your favorite titles, like "I'm Gonna Hire a Wino to Decorate Our Home" or "Drop Kick Me, Jesus, Through the Goalpost Of Life" or "You're the Reason Our Kids Are Ugly." And time to create some new ones. (my dad would have loved this day, he liked to listen to Country music just because the lyrics were so funny)

Today is Resistance Day in Myanmar, an Asian nation of 48 million people comprising 135 national races. It used to be called Burma.

1973: "The Godfather" won the Academy Award for best picture of 1972, but star Marlon Brando, refused to accept the Oscar for best actor. Liza Minnelli won best actress for "Cabaret."

1976: Pittsburgh quarterback Terry Bradshaw’s "I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry" reached #17, the highest position the country classic had ever reached on the country charts. It was the "B" side of Hank Williams’ "My Bucket’s Got A Hole In It" in 1949. The B.J. Thomas version made #8 on the pop charts in 1966. (good ones for today’s holiday for country music lyrics)

1979: Guitarist Eric Clapton married Patti Boyd, the ex-wife of Beatle George Harrison, in Tucson. (this was a great story of friends and cheating on spouses- could not write a story better than theirs)

1981: While setting up a demonstration of a working oil rig at the county fairgrounds, the Abilene, Texas, Chamber of Commerce struck real oil.

1991: In a demonstration in New York’s Central Park, a Volkswagon Futura test car, equipped with lasers and ultrasonic sensors, parallel-parked itself.

1993: Actress Helen Hayes died at age 92. "The First Lady of the American Theater" won Oscars, Tonys, and Emmys, and had two Broadway theaters named for her.

1996: While trying to steal industrial glue from a factory in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, a burglar knocked over two large buckets of the adhesive. When police arrived the next day, the burglar was sleeping, glued to the floor. (I love stupid criminals)

1998: The Food and Drug Administration approved the drug Viagra, by Pfizer, to fight male impotence. (EUREAKA)

1999: Bill Minty of Bridgeport, Connecticut, boiled 6,000 eggs for his neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt in ten minutes. He boiled the eggs inside a mesh bag in a large washing machine at his dry cleaning shop. He says he perfected the technique over the years.

2001: Twelve days before his 88th birthday, Berry Thomas became the oldest bowler in America to roll a perfect 300 game. Thomas said he wasn't nervous, that he probably couldn't have done if he'd let himself get nervous.

2002: Singer Lyle Lovette was trampled by a bull while trying to help his uncle, who had been thrown by the animal. Lovette's right leg was broken in several places.

Happy Thursday and friendly remember~ Survivor isn't on again until next week..

Wednesday's Snack

This made the day a little better.
I LOVE ICE CREAM SANDWICHES.
of course i had one!!!

I just want to bang on the drums all day.

Well the obvious is that I don't want to work, but that is a given. But for real, i feel like i could beat the living crap out of something, anything. Just feel pent up and a need for a good outlet. I can easily see me getting home this afternoon and spending a good few minutes beating the crap out of the punching bag we have. It isn't the best, but it works on days like today. (OK that picture of Oscar Dela Hoya is pretty funny, you have to admit- that got a smile cracked)
Nothing really in particular is wrong, just everyone and everything. Today was a day that i really should have stayed in bed. Celebrated John Lennon's bed in today. I am sure there would have been something to annoy me in bed too. I can already think of a few off the top of my head.
So, yesterday when i got home after work, My boyfriend and I did a great job of rationalizing why we didn't need to go to the home buyers meeting last night and didn't. He did some gardening and I tossed my softball around the backyard. I need to get some more practice in before the big game tomorrow. My boyfriend showed me where the lettuce and some spinach is coming up already. Both kinds of plants love this kind of weather, so this is a great time to plant them in Denver.

We are still debating if we want to stay in the house we are currently renting, or if we should move to another house while looking for one to purchase. OF course the act of moving SUCKS, but the house is really not that great, but better than others. This has been a decision that has weighted on us for a while and with my personality style, i have a hard time "taking some time to think about it".

After work i have to run by the ARC store and drop off those donations i was talking about yesterday (i will let them decide what to do with the panties) and then to the dog food store or else I will be the dog food. Then I am going to get my car washed and i think we have a gift certificate to a local pub that has to be used by the end of the month, so i think we might go there for dinner tonight.

In celebration of some of today's highlights, I want to wish everyone a very Happy "Barefoot Writer is the Best Blogger in the World" Day. see below and the send me my gifts of appreciation.

finally I feel that i need to give a Public Service Announcement. If you happen to be in a Drug Store and they are selling easter candy for 50% or more off.. DO NOT, and i repeat, DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES PURCHASE THE 3MUSKATEERS RASPBERRY FILLING SQUARES!!!
They are worse than Lay's potato chips. you can not put the bag down... If you happen to have a bag of these in your home, put them down, email me and i will tell you where to send them. Remember about November time, when I warned you all against the Raspberry M&M's that were only out for a limited time, well these are just about the same.. AMAZINGLY ADDICTIVE... I think i ate about 17 before bed last night.. not to worry we got two bags the last time we were at the store.. plenty to go around.


Here are some things you can ponder while i am beating the crap out of my punching bag after finishing the bag of 3 musketeers.

Today is Make Up Your Own Holiday Day, a day to name for whatever you wish, sponsored by the Tom and Ruth Roy of Lebanon, Pennsylvania.

Today is National Nougat Day. (send me your raspberry nougat)

Today is Legal Assistants Day.

Today is The Young and the Restless Day. The TV soap opera debuted on this date in 1973. Cast members have included David Hasselhoff, Tom Selleck, Wings Hauser, Deidre Hall, and Michael Damian. (as my grandmother would say, can’t miss your stories)

Today is National Puppy Appreciation Day. (George, we all appreciate you and your puppiness- well maybe just the breath, not the other end)

Today is Independence Day in Bangladesh. (You mean March 26^th)

Today is Baltimore Oriole Appreciation Day, focusing attention on one of nature's most beautiful birds. (Yeah the bird maybe pretty but the ball team bites big ones)

1973: The daytime soap drama "The Young & The Restless" debuted on CBS-TV. (didn’t I hear this some where? Maybe there is an echo in here)

1987: Actor Walter Abel died at age 88. His films included "The Three Musketeers" of 1935, "Hold Back the Dawn," "Holiday Inn," and "Raintree County." (ok that’s just weird that this is a 3 Musketeers reference… too weird and I grew up on Raintree Drive, OK maybe I went too far with that one)

1994: Roger Clinton married Molly Martin at the Arboretum and Botanical Garden in Dallas. President Bill Clinton was his brother’s best man. (I don’t think I really care.. do you?)

1995: A Cloucester, England, man was charged with criminal damage after he shot his old Ford Sierra seven times with a shotgun. (Had the judge ever driven a FORD, maybe would have gotten some leniency)

1999: Dr. Jack Kevorkian was convicted in Pontiac, Michigan, of second-degree murder for giving a patient with Lou Gehrig's disease a lethal injection, an action videotaped and broadcast on television. (That’s Senator Kevorkian to you)

2000: The Seattle Kingdome was imploded to make way for a new football arena.

2000: Vladimir Putin was elected president of Russia (too sacred to say anything negative)

2003: Tony Evans of Swansea, Wales, dropped the world's largest rubber band ball out of an airplane over the Mojave Desert in Arizona to see if it would bounce. It didn't. The one-ton record breaking ball took 20 seconds to drop a mile and stayed firmly rooted in the crater it created. Evans had spent five years building the ball. (That’s too bad, my money would have been on a bounce, but now I want to see the crater)

2006: Scotland banned smoking in all public places. A BBC poll found about 21 percent of adults surveyed said they would ignore the law. (I spent some time in Scotland and I thought it was a law that you HAD TO smoke.??.)

Tuesday's snack

But they were frozen and i a plastic box. They didn't look anywhere near as good as these do.
I passed...

Big Brother night....

That's what Tuesdays and Wednesdays are in our house.. And tonight is one.. I am so glad when Tuesday rolls around. perfect TV nights. But tonight we will be taping it. We are going to one of those first time home buyers meetings. We have seen a bunch being advertised and put on byhome builders and new planned communities, but when we saw this one being presented by a small city in the area of Denver proper, we thought that they can't be shoving too much smoke up our butts. and this is an area we have been looking at homes, so if they have any good links to grants and incentives for that particular community, we are going to listen. It just sucks that theya re so long. The one we are going to says it runs from 5:30 to 9:30, straight though prime tv time, not to mention hanging with the boyfriend. But to be honest, he has been Mr. Grumpy McGrumpster lately, so maybe a meeting is just what we need.. :)
I will let you know if it was a waste of my precious Tuesday afternoon hours. But the way i look at it, even if it is something we don't want to do, we will know that, and that is more than we know right now. so it can't be all that bad. again, i will let you know if i will be eating crow tomorrow.

So, speaking of Big Brother, I personally think that Evil Dick will be on this week. for an appearance. I don't think he will stick around, but it will be fun to see the house guests' faces when he comes in. They will all be scared of him. These players this season are nothing compared to the hell that Evil Dick raised in the house last year, and HE WON!! He knew how to play and did it well.

As lasagna tends to do, it is getting better by the day. I had leftovers for lunch yesterday and they were awesome. I have some here today, but i think i am skipping lunch (i know, not healthy, but i have enough to spare, and seeing that i stopped fully working out, believe i can miss a meal and still be ok) and eating when i get home to not be hungry during the meeting.. Makes sense to me.. but don't fret, i am also not hungry right now. so, not starving myself.. believe me i love food too much to do that.

Since my boyfriend was really grumpy yesterday i did a lot of putzing around the house and ended up getting the whole extra bedroom (where i have my clothes and things) cleaned and organized. I have a stack of things to take to the goodwill. Well the one near me is an ARC. Feels good to give things to people that may want to use them. But i don't think i can give underwear. I mean they are clean and most are not even used (i got the wrong style about two years ago and they had been sitting in the back of the drawer since that fateful day).. will they? They are not in a package.. well i will check on that.

OK, enough about my under garments. here is some other interesting facts..

Today is Cagney & Lacey Day. The TV show debuted on March 25, 1982, starring Meg Foster as Chris Cagney and Tyne Daly as Mary Beth Lacey. Sharon Gless took over the Cagney role after the first season. In the original TV movie, Loretta Swit played Cagney. (Anyoone born after 1986 should netflix some of these episodes. Let me tell you, classic TV!!!)

Today is Care Sunday in England. (care about what???)

Today is National Lobster Newburg Day. (OH MY GOD, you don’t have to tell me twice. I will participate in this one)

Today is Bed-In Day, commemorating John and Yoko’s first bed-in for peace in Amsterdam on March 25, 1969. (Funny, no wonder I wanted to stay in bed all day.. explains a lot)

Today is National Pecan Day, marking this date in 1775 when George Washington planted pecan trees at Mount Vernon. A gift from Thomas Jefferson, some of the trees still survive today. (my sister would love this fact if she weren’t on vacation ignoring me)

Today is Waffle Day in Sweden. (can I participate tomorrow AM? I will…)

Today is Old New Year's Day, the beginning of the new year in Britain and the U.S. Colonies until 1751, when both adopted the Gregorian Calendar and the new year began on January 1st. (always a Christian reasoning for everything)

Today is Independence Day in Greece.. (Hey, It’s March 25^th in Greece)

1971: The Boston Patriots became the New England Patriots.

1985: Stevie Wonder won an Academy Award for "I Just Called to Say I Love You."

1995: Little Texas’ Jeff Huskins married Leslie Buchanan at Nashville’s Woodmont Christian Church. (Who, who, where and why do I care??- wikipedia here I come)

1989: Michael Nunn defended his world middleweight boxing title in Las Vegas, then promptly lost the $1-million check at the victory party. The next day Nunn got a call from an honest janitor, who found the check while sweeping up. (And now he is a very rich janitor)

1991: Michael Jackson escorted Madonna to the Academy Awards. (people are weird)

1996: Reuter news service reported that Shanghai surgeons removed 1,650 stones from a 47-year-old woman’s gallbladder. Zhu Ping had had gallbladder problems for ten years, but was up and exercising one day after the surgery.

1996: The new U.S. $100 bill went into circulation.

1997: Former President George Bush, at age 73, parachuted from a plane over the Arizona desert. (people are weird)

1998: A 31-year-old hippopotamus at an Argentina zoo died from swallowing a tennis ball that someone threw into his cage. (people are weird)

2003: Shortly after the National City Bank in downtown Columbus, Ohio, was robbed, police spotted a man about a block away, walking strangely. The 40-year-old man had learned a painful lesson: Never shove stolen money containing an explosive dye pack down your pants. The suspect was charged with aggravated robbery. (people are really weird)

2004: Russian Evgeni Plushenko won his third world figure skating title, defeating French rival Brian Joubert. (Again, who, who and why??)

2006: An estimated 500,000 people protested in Los Angeles against proposed U.S. legislation that would make it a felony to be in the United States illegally

Monday's Snack

Monday Motivation

Day After Egg Day

Hello all, well I trust those that celebrate Easter had a good one, and those that don't had a great weekend too. We don't celebrate much in our house. Being at the stage in life (I think i am stuck here) that we are so poor we can't afford to pay attention, we choose to celebrate most holidays on the day after. This way everything is on sale and we can actually afford to get some items for the holiday. So, this afternoon, after work, we are going easter candy shopping. I think we are also going to pick up a die kit. My boyfriend, for the last week or so, has been hollowing out egg. Every time we needed an egg for something he would blow the goo out the end and have hollow egg shells to die this year. It has taken almost 9 eggs to make 6 that worked. I am excited to do this and see how long they last. For the record, I am going to do some hard boiled ones myself... I love easter eggs, well i love hard boiled eggs and so if they are colored pretty it makes it all the more fun to eat.

Three years ago, pretty much to the date, my mom and I returned home from a WONDERFUL 2 weeks in Italy. We traveled to so many awesome places and so so many amazing sites. I cried when i first laid eyes on the real statue of David. Really an amazing trip. But why I remember it so well is that when we were in Rome, visiting St. Peter's Square, they were preparing it for the Easter Ceremony. There were chairs and banners and things being hung around. The morning after we arrived back home, we turned on the TV and there was the Pope giving the Easter Morning Mass on TV from St. Peter's Square. My mom and I just hugged and cried watching that wishing we were back in Italy. We really had a great trip. I very much look forward to taking a similar trip with my mom again but this time having my child along too. So when i got up yesterday and was flipping channels I came across the Mass in St. Peter's square. It looked a lot colder than the year I was there. In celebration of pur trip, yesterday i made a whole lasagna by myself... Really all by myself. And NO, the kitchen didn't catch on fire and i didn't mess up any of the steps and it turned out great. I am really proud. For the last few weekends i have been making a crock pot meal on sundays but this week, i got a taste for lasagna and all of a sudden i had committed and ready to go. This was the first time i had made a lasagna and i can imagine it wont be the last time. My boyfriend loved it AND he didn't have to cook or help at all... (total rarity in our house)

Something else i learned is that i completely SUCK at sewing triangles together to make squares. I can't get the stitch even and from end to end to save my life. I have to go back to making blocked quilt blocks until i get some more practice. But i am practicing. And i will master the little bastards. It made me so mad; every time I would try, something would screw up. I think i tried all of about 12 times before i got tired of ripping the seams and/or cutting new triangles. I am not going to let these little things win. I will practice and I will prevail.. damn triangles...

So, this is the start of three weeks till my birthday. Not this friday, not next friday, but the next.. Don't be caught off guard. Not that I am excited about my trip to Chicago or anything. I think it is going to be a great weekend and make for a memorable birthday and for my 35th, i think it should be memorable.

Guess i better get back to watching some tape. This time i am looking at a story that was done at the Lakota Badlands. (look it up- geography lesson) really neat scenery. Makes me want to visit this area too. Put it on my list of things to do sometime.

In the mean time, here are some things you can impress your friends with...

Today is See If You Can Remember How to Play Parcheesi Day. (I can’t even spell it much less know how to play)

Today Easter Monday, a holiday in many places, including North Carolina. (does this statement seems funny to anyone else? I mean why point out NC? I mean wouldn’t you say something like including the United States or something, but NC? Just seems funny)

Today is Family Day in South Africa, always on Easter Monday.

Today is St. Gabriel’s Day, the feast day of Gabriel the Archangel. Gabriel appeared with a message from God to Daniel, Zacharias, and the teenager, Mary. Some believe Gabriel will announce the Second Coming of Christ.

Today is National Chocolate Covered Raisins Day. (mmmmm, chocolate, raisins, mmmmm)

Today is Independence Day in the Philippines. (Yeah, they mean March 24^th)

Egg Salad Week begins today, always the week after Easter. (I love me some egg salad)

1978: Near Sutherland, England, Alex Maclennan dug 16 sheep out of a snowdrift where they’d been buried for 50 days. One ewe was still alive.

1980: Capitol Records released "Sie Liebt Dich" and "Komm Gib Mir Deine Hand" by the Beatles, the previously unreleased versions in German of "She Loves You" and "I Want to Hold Your Hand."

1989: The Exxon Valdez hit a reef in the Gulf of Alaska (Prince William Sound), spilling 11-million gallons of crude oil in the largest oil tanker spill in U.S. history.

1990: Hairless Sinead O’Connor became the first Irish female to top the UK album charts with I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got.

1991: Some 100 cars were damaged by fire when dry grass ignited at a cook-off sponsored by the San Antonio Firefighters Association. No one was hurt. (seems a little obvious, doesn’t it?)

2001: A German man who persuaded a friend to tell his fiancee he had been arrested to cover up an affair was fined $700 for wasting police officers' time. The fiancee called police to find out where her man was and found he had not been arrested. Police feared he might have been kidnapped by gangsters disguised as police and called in the friend for questioning. The friend confessed the story was made up. (Stupid people make me laugh)

2002: At the Academy Awards, Halle Berry became the first black actress to win an Oscar in a leading role for her work in "Monster's Ball." Denzel Washington became the second black actor, after Sidney Poitier, to win in the best actor category, for "Training Day." "A Beautiful Mind" won four Oscars, including best picture and best director for Ron Howard.

2005: Texas actress Sandra Bullock got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. (Why? Oh that’s right, you buy your own….)

2007: A man in Waterville, Maine, got his teeth back after ripping open a wall in his home, where a mouse had hidden them. Sixty-eight-year old Bill Exner said he caught the little rodent on three separate occasions with a live trap and placed it in a gallon pickle jar but it kept getting away. After the third escape, Exner missed his lower dentures. He also noticed a hole in the wall and a friend helped him pry off a board to look inside. His dentures were inside the wall. At last report, the mouse was still at large. (and with no teeth…)

Peep Show

I made it though the week

Well not that i didn't think i would, but it feels good to have Friday be here.
Since i know you all are wondering about the game last night, I wont make you wonder any longer.
We had a great group, we played hard and we won the game. I didn't get to pitch, but i will be pitching the next game.. so i got to practice up. Good think i didn't toss my pitching chair (that i broke last week pitching balls into the seat) away. I will need it this week.
So my first up at bat i stuck out, but the next three times i went up i got a hit each time, and the last time i actually caused a run batted in. Check my stats soar. I know you are envious.
I was told that this was on nemesis, and we beat them something like 12 to 7. I think we have a good team and a good chance at making the finals. we will see. This was only game one of eight.

So, Easter is right around the corner. Not really a huge holiday in our house, but i think that' s because we don't have kids. I usually get some jellybeans that my boyfriend likes and hide them in some eggs that he will find over the course of the day around the house. no gifts being exchanged, though. My birthday is coming up, so i will wait for that.

I plan to do a bunch of sewing this weekend. Tonight we are going to see the lead singer from System of a Down. he has a solo album out and I will let you know what i think. It is free for me, so i am not complaining. AND i feel like i need a night out.. Been at home a lot lately. I am not complaining, but sometimes you need to get out.

Well, that's the update on my life.
Here are some of the things you should know but probably don't:

Today is Fragrance Day and Flower Day, always the first full day of spring.

Today is Good Friday (God's Friday), commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus, the oldest Christian celebration.

Today is National Common Courtesy Day. (I guess that would make this day just as obsolete as the item they are celebrating)

Today is National French Bread Day. (YUMMMMMM)

Today is National Dance Day, a day to celebrate dance.

Today is National Memory Day. (I always forget this)

Today is Human Rights Day in South Africa. (again, another holiday celebrating something that is obsolete)

Today is International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, sponsored by the UN.

Today is New Year's Day in Iran and India.

Today is National Tree Planting Day in Lesotho.

1977: Mrs. James Duck of Memphis became history's fastest mother. Her triplets were born naturally in under two minutes.

1980: The TV show Dallas left viewers wondering, "Who Shot J.R.?" When the series resumed in the fall, 300-million viewers in 57 countries tuned in to see Kristin pull the trigger.

1989: Dick Clark announced he would leave American Bandstand after hosting the TV show for 33 years. His replacement was 26-year-old David Hirsh.

1990: In a sermon Tammy Faye Bakker said, "Love has no nose ... poor people sometimes don’t smell too good, so love can have no nose."

1991: Leo Fender died at age 82. He built the first solid-body electric guitar to be mass-produced, the Fender Broadcaster, in 1948. Renamed the Telecaster in 1950, Fender's guitar became the mainstay of both country and rock musicians. The Fender Precision, introduced in 1950, was the first electric bass.

1994: The Chicago White Sox cut former NBA star Michael Jordan and sent him to the minor leagues.

1994: "Schindler's List" won best picture at the 66th Academy Awards; Holly Hunter was named best actress for "The Piano" and Tom Hanks won best actor for "Philadelphia."

1995: New Jersey dedicated the Howard Stern Rest Area along Route 295. (Being a fan, I can say that this became a very popular spot for homosexual encounters and was even shut down in 2003...but funny, I think)

1999: Sheriff Tom Jones in Colby, Kansas, told reporters some prisoners liked their new black-and-white striped uniforms with the old-fashioned round convict caps because they made them "look professional." Other prisoners thought the uniforms were demeaning, but the sheriff felt that jail "ought to be a little demeaning."

2000: A divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled the government lacked authority to regulate tobacco as an addictive drug.

2002: Caught red-handed with a duffel bag full of liquor, cigarettes and cigars stolen from a convenience store, a Louisiana man blamed his "evil twin brother" after being shown surveillance video of him breaking into the store. Franklinton police said the suspect did indeed have a brother, but he was neither a twin nor evil.

2005: The Pew Hispanic Center reported the number of undocumented residents in the United States totaled 11 million people. (WOW!!! And that was two years ago, wonder how much it has gone up since then…)

Thursday's Snack

I got a package of Chocolate Chip cookies.
It's one of those days...

First day of Spring and for the last 18 years I can legally tear my mattress tag off...

Yeah, yeah, like that means anything of value to me in Denver.. I mean it is still going to snow again. It is still freakin windy out side (I HATE WIND) so, it is still winter here. The only thing that today means to me is that our first softball game is today.
And I am a little pissed off, I have to tell you.
A girl on my team just came to me and said, well I think because we are playing our nemesis (what, this is recreation co-ed soft-freakin ball!!!) we are going to start the other girl as pitcher.

and to make matters even worse, blogger decided that they didn't like my posting of this, i guess, because after i added my little u=yuk man face, the rest of my blog went somewhere that i can't retrieve it..
F*CK, girl can't get a break. NOTHING I WROTE IS SAVING..
before i throw this computer though the wall, i think i will end today's blog. It isn't everything i wanted to bitch about, because, believe me i am in a bitching mood, but i have no patients to write it out more than three times..
Time for a walk. Maybe you will get my bitching some other time today.
UGGGGHHHHH!

Here are reasons to drink today, and I think i am going to join you...

Today is Absolutely Incredible Kid Day, a day to write letter of love and encouragement to the absolutely incredible children in your life. (I think this is a campfire USA gig, but good to do anyway.. Expect some emails today kiddos- and you know who you are)

Today is Companies That Care Day (I am sure this is sponsored by Halliburton, R.J. Reynolds, Phillip Morris, Shell, Exxon and Chevron)

Today is The Great American Meatout. ( I can observe this today… and you should try it for one day too)

Today is Proposal Day, a holiday for those seeking to marry. Go ahead, propose! (OK, like Leap day, Ain’t gunna happen, so don’t even ask)

Today is the day pigeons return to courthouse in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. (I just think that is weird. When do they all synchronize their watches?)

Today is National Agriculture Day. (in other words, have you hugged your farmer day)

National Bubble Week begins today, a great time to have fun outdoors with children and bubbles. (I love bubbles)

Today is Independence Day in Tunisia. (don’t they mean it’s March 20^th??)

1984: Naomi and Wynonna Judd made their stage debut in Omaha, opening a concert for The Statler Brothers.

1986: Fallon Carrington and Jeff Colby were married wed on the primetime TV soap "The Colby’s," a spin-off from "Dynasty."

1987: A Houston man was fined $10-thousand and assessed ten years probation for stealing 76,680 rolls of toilet paper from the hospital where he worked.

1990: The Colorado legislature made it legal to tear the "Do Not Remove" tags off mattresses.

1990: Singer Gloria Estefan suffered a broken back when a speeding truck plowed into the back of her tour bus on a snowy Pennsylvania highway.

1991: Michael Jackson signed the biggest deal in recording history: a $1-billion contract with Sony.

1994: Joy riders stole a car in Amsterdam, then abandoned it apparently without noticing the suitcase filled with thousands of dollars in cash and diamonds in the back seat.

1996: A 21-year-old Muppet fan claiming to have a bomb took over a radio station in Wanganui, New Zealand, and demanded that "Rainbow Connection" by Kermit the Frog be played non-stop for 12 hours. Police evacuated the area, decided the bomb was a fake, stormed the station, and arrested the listener. No one was hurt. (and you think I am crazy...)

1999: Dale Adams of Gunthorpe, England, introduced Tinky, a miniature stretched version of his mother, Cassey, a giant rottweiler. Tinky's father, quite incredibly, was Rusty, a tiny dachshund. The owner said he had no idea how the two proud parents got together to produce the very unique cross-breed.

2002: Actress Pamela Anderson disclosed that she had hepatitis C.

2003: U.S. and British forces invaded Iraq from Kuwait.

Wednesday's Snack

Too cold for me today..
i passed...