Thursday, February 26, 2009

hack,Haack,HAAACK!

Sometimes I think my cat Harle's mission life is to make me miserable! Or kill me!Of course he does the trying to trip me up by getting underfootoot all the time and he knows the best,darkest,most lethal places to try it! Like the dark spots in the hall,coming around the counter in the kitchen, etc. One of these days he's gonna get me good!
Last night tho I was awakened by the sound of him horking up a big hairball. Disgusting sound right? Not normaly an alarming event, unless the you are sound asleep and the cat is sleeping on your head! Talk about flying out of that bed!
(parents take note,want to get your kids up fast?,have the cat hork on their heads,works every time!)
Of course I stepped in a pile on the way to get the paper towels,yeech! Needless to say Harle spent the rest of the night outside!
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Thursday, February 19, 2009

Damn, my beer is frozen...

I wasn't planning on drinking tonight,I needed to do some house-cleaning before B came over to watch Survivor. I needed to clean because my niece was coming down for the weekend and visit.

Well, AFTER I started to tackle the ungodly mess that is my fridge (removing UFOs [unidentified food objects]) I checked on-line and found out that my niece has sprained her ankle and won't be coming this weekend.

So since I had already dragged all my beer out of the fridge I decided to finish the job. I found things in there that I didn't know I had! BBQ sauce, pickles of an undetermined age, a bottle of Sloe Gin (!!!!score!!!!) and some stuff I have no idea of what it is (or rather was!!!)

Filled the bathtub up with hot sudzy water and piled the fridge shelves (cool looking tempered glass {okay only cool looking when CLEAN, otherwise really gross when they haven't been cleaned in months!!!} in. After soaking for awhile I was able to scrub the crap off.

[note to self, clean the shelves BEFORE they turn green!]

Anyhoo, I decided I deserved a beer for doing all this nasty work, so I popped one.......YEECH!....... HOT BEER!

So thinking I could enjoy some cold beer during Survivor I put a half a dozen in the freezer.

Got the box clean before B showed up and enjoyed a few nice cold ones during the show.

Then after the program I figured I could drink the last two and check the blogs....ERUPTION! BEER SPEWING ALL OVER MY DESK!

Thankfully the only things soaked were bills waiting to be paid (isn't there a law somewhere that beer-soaked bills can be thrown away and forgotten?)


After the mess was cleaned up I discovered I had a nice beer slushie! ROCK!Photobucket

Survivor was great (more on that later)!

((BTW that is not a pic I took, that was "borrowed" from Photobucket! I'm a Can Fan!))

So since I have discovered Beer Slushies, ya think I could set up a stand this summer????

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

I just LOVE this woman!

Meet Sandy from the new season of Survivor! This woman is great! She's the old lady (53 is old????) this season but she's not gonna let that stop her! Sandy is from Louisville,KY ( I wonder if Christopher knows her?!) but she sounds like they went searching thru the deepest backwoods and mountains to find her. A modern day Granny from the Beverly Hillbillies!
Of course since she is my favorite person so far she is doomed,not only does she have to win over all her younger tribemates but my fav person NEVER lasts long on the show! Sorry Sandy, I just jinxed you!
Sandy sounds a person I would love to hang out with, things would never be boring around her! (plus I bet she knows how to make moonshine!)

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Waiting with (beer) bated breath!

The new season of Survivor starts Thurday! I can't wait! This time it is in South American and don't even ask me to pronounce the place,let alone spell it! Here's a vid showing some of the cast. I apologize for the commercial at the begining, I couldn't figure out how to remove it and couldn't find a commercial-free version!



Don't even THINK about calling me for the next several Thursdays!

Sunday, February 08, 2009

46 Questions

I've been tagged a couple times to do this (and a couple other similar ones) so I will finally get this done (if the damn computer doesn't freeze up on me again!)

1. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANY ONE?
...First name no,Mom wanted names that would sound right (no cutesy names) for all of us boys when we got old and feeble and would be easy for us to remember! I had a great aunt that was lobbying for me to be named after her brother (Erastus),thankfully she got out-voted! My middle name,however, is from a business man in the town where Mom grew up and she thought was the hottest thing around and her and all her friends had major teenage crushes on! Oddly enough, I am the youngest in my family and that man's youngest is now my best friend! We laugh a lot about the fact I was named after his dad!

2. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED?
...Yesterday,I was chopping onions!

3. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING?
...My handwriting is funny. it changes several times during what I am writing, sometimes slanted to the left, sometimes to the right,and often I revert to printing right in the middle of a word! And it is even worse since I had a stroke last year, the old motor control thing fails me sometimes! Thank God for the keyboard on here!

4. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LUNCH MEAT?
...Deli sliced Cajun Turkey! Won't touch the prepackaged stuff!

5. DO YOU HAVE KIDS?
...Does a cranky cat count?

6. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON, WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU?
...Depends on how much I had to drink that night!

7. DO YOU USE SARCASM?
...DUH!

8. DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS?
...Yep, still have all my original parts, but some of them don't work like they used too!

9. WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP?
...HELL NO! I don't even like standing on a chair to change a light bulb!

10. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CEREAL?
...Grape Nuts!

11. DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF?
...Nope, no shoestrings here!

12. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM?
...Chocolate and peanut butter swirl

13. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE?
...That depends on how tight of pants they are wearing!

14. IF YOU COULD HAVE ONLY ONE ALBUM FRONT TO BACK FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE, WHAT WOULD IT BE?
...Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

15. RED OR PINK?
...Very much RED!

16. WHAT IS YOUR LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF?
...There's not enough room here for THAT list!

17. WHO DO YOU MISS THE MOST?
...My Mother, she was my absolute best friend.

18. DO YOU WANT EVERYONE TO COMPLETE THIS LIST?
...I think everyone else already did!

19. WHAT COLOR PANTS AND SHOES ARE YOU WEARING?
...Black dress pants and brown slippers. I am not a fashionista!

BRB, gotta drain the vein!

20. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW?
...Oldies on the radio.

21. IF YOU WERE A CRAYON WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE?
...Budweiser red!

22. FAVORITE SMELLS?
...OK I am really strange on this one...I love the smell of gasoline! I enjoy standing there at the gas station and filling the truck up (except, of course, when it is fifty below and I am freezing my boys off!)

23. WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE?
...Bruce, finalizing plans to watch SURVIVOR this Thursday!

24. DO YOU LIKE THE PERSON WHO SENT THIS TO YOU?
...Yep!

25. FAVORITE SPORTS TO WATCH?
...The cat fights at the bar!

26. HAIR COLOR?
...FLESH! Okay there is still a bit up there around the edges and it was originally brown but mostly looks grey now! I used to have a beard that was red but now grows in totally grey! Needless to say that is not allowed to grow anymore!

27. EYE COLOR?
...Brown...(I have heard that people that do not have brown eyes are a quart low!)

28. DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS?
...Nope, glasses only. I can't imagine trying to take contacts out while shit-faced!

29. FAVORITE FOOD?
...Okay here the list would be very long! I love Mexican food but I would have to say my fav meal would have to be burgers out on the grill,fresh from the garden tomatoes and just-picked corn-on-the-cob (with lots of butter and celery salt!)

30. SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS?
...Scary!

31. LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED?
...I'm about halfway thru Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" which is actually pretty scary!

32. WHAT COLOR SHIRT ARE YOU WEARING?
...A black/red/tan/stiped western shirt with snaps (am I butch or what!)

33. SUMMER OR WINTER?
...no contest...SUMMER!

34. HUGS OR KISSES?
...Is either one going to lead to sex?

35. MOST LIKELY TO RESPOND?
...No one...everyone else already did! I'm last place LuLu on this one!

36. LEAST LIKELY TO RESPOND?
...Is there anyone left that hasn't?

37. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING RIGHT NOW?
...Nothing, which is a bitch cuz I love to read. Gonna have to hit Wally World tomorrow and see what is out there.

38. WHAT IS ON YOUR MOUSE PAD?
...A picture of a mousetrap!

39. WHAT DID YOU WATCH ON TV LAST NIGHT?
...The first half of the Al Gore documentary.

40. FAVORITE SOUND(S)?
...Did you say something?

41. ROLLING STONES OR BEATLES?
...Both

42. WHAT IS THE FARTHEST YOU HAVE BEEN FROM HOME?
...Not been far from home but I did get to go to Mexico City on a class trip way back in the Ice Age. And I have been to Arizona (Kingman)

43. DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL TALENT?
...Nothing I can post about here!

44. WHERE WERE YOU BORN?
...Here in my hometown, but the hospital has now been torn down, and my high school has been torn down, and this summer my old grade school is scheduled to be torn down, plus we need to tear down the house I grew up in....MY CHILDHOOD IS RAPIDLY DISAPPEARRING!

45. WHOSE ANSWERS ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO GETTING BACK?
...Already got them!

46. HOW DID YOU MEET YOUR SIGNIFICANT OTHER?
...I still haven't met them yet!

Thursday, February 05, 2009

Signs,Signs....

...they're everywhere and sometimes they provide us quite a bit of humor!

let's take a little road trip and check some out, be sure to stay on your side of the road!Photobucket

As we head down the road we can't help but be distracted by the billboards
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along the way. oh look a campground!
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that could be a fun place to stay!There is a town sign coming up,is that the city we are looking for?
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Nope that's not it. So we keep motoring along,checking out the scenery. Now there is a warning we should probably heed
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no need to get shot on our trip! hey there is another sign up there,is that our place we want to go?
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Nope, a tempting place to stop be we do have a time schedule to keep! Oh look,there's a yard sale!
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I would love to stop but just don't have the extra time. Hey! There's our exit!
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We have to go here first because the ranch
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is stuck right in the middle of it! Let's see now,where is that street we need to turn on? There it....nope not it
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close but not quite. Oh look there is the ranch owners other business
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Ah,there's our street
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I knew it was something close to the other one!
Yeah! We're finally here! And just in time for Uncle Fred's birthday!
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