Celebrate Valentine's Day, Even Now!

On President's Day, I went ahead and took Marshal to the baby sitters. I don't have ANY days off. Even on the weekends. At least until hubby starts a day shift again. He works on the weekends right now at night so he sleeps during the day.

I try not to complain but the lack of sleep makes it tough.

Anyway, so I took the day "off" so to speak. Took Marshal to daycare and went back to bed for a couple of hours. Got some studying in and then headed to the movies with my aunt, little cousins, mother in law, and sister in law.

We saw Valentine's Day and WE LOVED IT!!! All of us. From my 13 and 15 year old cousins to my 69 year old mother in law. We laughed throughout practically the entire thing. A lot of it was predictable (I'm sure I drove my MIL crazy saying what I thought was going to happen next) but toward the end there were two scenes that totally floored me. One made me tear up immediately and the other one kind of made me gag. :)

But it was an awesome movie. Totally fluffy, predictable, and pointless but sweet and endeering. And it has SO many all star actors and actresses. Julia Roberts was awesome in her small part. George Lopez was very funny and Ashton Kutcher (is that how you spell it?) did a good job.

But the actor who stole the show was the little boy who was in love with Jennifer whats her name (from Alias), his teacher. He was beyond precious and totally made the whole theater laugh. At one point in the movie the whole theater clapped.

I'm pretty sure the whole theater loved it.

I've been going to move movies since we had Marshal than we ever did before we had him. I guess it's our way to get out and away from the house. I've even gone enough to earn a free popcorn and free candy! Sheesh.

In 2032

I don't remember the first time I saw this movie, but it spoke very deeply to me.

What does that say about me? I'm not sure. But if you get past the fact that it is a Stallone movie, I think there really is a deeper message about freedom. (And Sandra Bullock rocks it.)

The more I hear about progressives wanting to force us into universal health care, monitor our speech to make sure we aren't "hateful", and trying to make us eat what "they" want... the more I think about this movie.

"I'm the enemy...cause I like to think. I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech and freedom of choice. I'm the kind of guy who likes to sit in a greasy spoon and wonder, Gee, should I have the T-Bone steak or the jumbo rack of barbecue ribs with a side order of gravy fries. I want high cholesterol. I want to eat bacon, and butter, and buckets of cheese okay? I want to smoke a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinnati in the non-smoking section.....

I've seen the future and you know what it is? It's a 47 year old virgin sitting around in his beige pajamas drinking a banana broccoli shake singing I'm an Oscar Meyer weiner."

The BEST part of the movie by far is in the first three minutes of the clip above.

The world has become a bunch of sissies. Yup...I think they call them Metrosexuals now.

Huge Contest Ending Soon

I know...three posts in one day. :) And I'm actually getting 'real' work done too. I must be on a Bipolar high.

Whatever...Okay, I have to thank Sense to Save for alerting me to this ginormous contest (is ginormous really a word? It doesn't turn up with that red squiggly line underneath it LOL) over at Money Crashers.

The value of all the prizes is now over $9,000!!!!!! Holy Giveaway Batman! And there are dozens of ways to earn extra entries...I cannot even imagine how they are keeping track of everything.

So, in the spirit of spreading the love, and getting extra entries, I'm writing a post to let you know about it too. And I'm going to cross post this on my other blog.

Good luck (and if you win...you'll share with me right?) =)

Even Pregnant, I'd Get Beat Up

I love Dogette over at Two Nervous Dogs. She links to this spectacularly AWESOME shirt that I don't have the balls to wear. Even pregnant, in my town I seriously think I'd get beat up.

Plus, the idea of wearing "the one's" face on me, even mockingly, makes me a little queasy.

Okay, I Admit - It Took me a Second

This quote cracks me up...but I admit I had to think about it for a second.

"And, finally, I looked around our world and I thought, you know, we are in just so many deep holes that everybody had better grab a shovel and start digging out."--Hillary Clinton, explaining why she accepted appointment as secretary of state, "This Week With George Stephanopoulos," June 7

HT: WSJ Best of the Web Today

I Can't Do This Justice

This post cracked me up.

I guess I'm a chicken abortionist myself...I luvs me some unborn chicken fetuses. Preferably scrambled with cheese. Or fried on a lunchmeat and bagel sandwich.

*snorfle*

Do Me a Favor?

Enter to win awesome Indie artist goodies? :) Pretty please. I'd be SO excited if one of my readers won.


There are 25 prize packages each worth over $300...I donated five pieces of my jewelry. It's such a fun giveaway.

And you know...if you want to ... no pressure ... you can also sign up for my jewelry newsletter. No pressure! =) But definitely at the very least sign up to get an entry for one of the prizes. If you sign up with all the sponsor's you could get sometime like 45 entries!

MY EYES! My Eyes!!!

Hubby is in big trouble for polluting my mind with these images.

Honestly I wish she were President right now. She couldn't be doing worse than The Messiah.

Morgan Freeman is my HERO!!!

I love this man. Oh my gosh.



So glad Liberty Zone "stole" it and posted it so I'd see it. (I get e-mails with her posts ... LOVE her!)

I love the bitch slapping. Good God, Mike Wallace doesn't know what to do with himself!!!!!

"How are we going to get rid of racism? Stop talking about it." DUH!!!

"Black History is American History"

Well hot damn...a celebrity who gets it.

Humiliation

Do you ever have one of those days?

Even I, a non Star Wars Geek, got the reference and found it funny. =) Sent to me by one of my coworkers...no idea where it originated.

I hope Obama feels that way soon, if he doesn't already.

I've Got Chills Running Down My Leg

Nothing cures what ails you like dead Nazis. If only our politicians had such gumption today. The will to win is a fragile thing.

I WILL be seeing this movie and pray it doesn't go all politically correct on me. The trailer makes me fall in love with Brad Pitt all over again. (He was very funny in Burn After Reading, although the whole movie was weird and disturbing.)

Thank you View From the Porch for linking to this. Dead Nazis rock.

Best Line Ever

"The AP reporters need to invest their 401k money in a knee pad company... apparently they're going to be wearing out quite a few pairs over the next four years....)"

*giggle* *snort* *snarfle*

I Have a Bad Case ...

You must watch this ... you will laugh. The One commands it. And so do I.



Blame View from My Porch.

Are You Smarter Than the President?

I doubt that I am. And I am referring to the CURRENT president, George W. Bush. Not the President-Elect. I doubt that I'm technically book-smarter than him either. [I certainly knew that there aren't 58 states.] Nor would I want to speak in public or run for public office the way candidates must.

However, I bet that if the media had played some of these clips of Obama over and over and over again the way they do with W's gaffes we may have had a different outcome in the election.



I love this clip with Christopher Hitchens. I don't agree with him on everything (he's a rabid atheist for one thing) but he does unfailing work smacking down Maher's audience and Maher himself. Maher is a loon.



H/T - Two Nervous Dogs who led me to Primordial Slack

Times Really Must be Bad

If Mr. Monopoly is going bankrupt then things must be bad. After all, he was created during the Great Depression!

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

Found via Can You Be Part of My Life? Love this blog! :)

Safe and Swift

That was my prayer last night as I drove six hours round trip to pick up my little brother in Portland, OR. He was completely snowed and iced in and that, in combination with his extreme and debilitating anxiety, meant that either someone picked him up or he stayed there for Christmas. And I was having none of that.

I begged hubby to let me take our truck down, but he was reluctant. The weather wasn't exactly stellar and he was worried about my safety. He also doesn't really understand the whole paralyzing affect that anxiety has on someone. The thought of trying to dig out his car, with his not so great tires, and drive on sheets of ice did not inspire my brother to leave his apartment. Not to mention that he, once again, ran out of one of his medications and is trying to quit smoking. Sheesh. It's the tri-fecta.

My mom was just about heartbroken with the thought that brother wouldn't be here with us for Christmas. So I had her call hubby and guilt trip him into letting me go. Ha! He said it was a low blow, but it worked. I just wasn't able to convey the importance to him, or explain properly why brother couldn't get himself to a train or bus. Something I'd probably be able to do myself but I refuse to let my anxiety defeat me. I'm kind of bitchy that way. =)

So I loaded up Harry Potter into the CD player and headed out into the ice and show. Our area isn't exactly that great right now either with the weather but Portland is way worse. Parts of the freeway were still iced over and they were predicting more ice and snow last night. The "main" roads of Portland are a nightmare. Just THICK with ice and ruts and people sliding everywhere. Cars were buried past their tire and had a foot plus of snow on top...even the SUVs.

God Bless our Ford F150 King Ranch. I love that truck. It kicked so much ass last night I actually had FUN driving in all the crap.

Finally made it home around ten and headed to bed since this morning it was all about wrapping gifts.

But our family will be together today and tomorrow and that is what matters. I made it safely and swiftly. I hope we have an equally safe and swift trip to my aunt's this afternoon for our annual Christmas Eve dinner. We're having Brisket. Hmmmmm.....Yummy!

A very Merry Christmas to each and every one of you. Much love!!! =)

Rockin Out

There is a reason why I don't listen to music at work. :)

But Mr. Limbaugh is not on today and I hate listening to guest hosts so I pulled out my iPod. Instead of listening to Harry Potter I decided to pull up some music. It is SO hard for me not to move and sing to the music. But it's very quiet in here today and I think my music might carry a little too far. *grin*

So far ... just to give you a taste of my entirely too ecclectic tastes ... I've listened to the Pussycat Dolls, Out of Eden, Amy Winehouse, Out of Eden, and now Michael Jackson.

Whatever happened to that man? I used to L O V E him. Of course now he's a total freak. I remember dancing around my living room when I was 5 to Thriller. I'm listening to it right now. I want to get up and DANCE!

Speaking of? Have you seen this? LOVE IT!

Great Music, New Artists

If you've listened to Hugh Hewitt in the last few weeks you may have heard about his new project called Amaze.fm.

Now, if you're a music junkie, or know a music junkie, this is a great site. For me, I am not a musician and I don't obsess about music, but it's still pretty cool.

And one of the songs that Hugh has been playing lately completely grabbed me and makes me want to download it to my iPod (which for now is almost all Harry Potter on book and games).

Lullaby written and sung by Rebecca Elliott was a commissioned song in honor of the orphans in the Ukraine, where there is no word for "hope" (the good kind of hope, not the fake kind of hope-change we've been hearing so much about). I'm from the Ukraine and I'd LOVE to adopt a baby from there. *sigh*

The song gives me goose bumps.

So if you know an artist, have them head over to Amaze.fm to upload their music (must be original and artist must own the copy right). Regular everyday folks log in and listen and vote for their favorites. Hugh plays the week's number one voted album on Fridays. There have been some really great ones so far.

Not All is Lost

There are truly angels among us.

My company sponsors families every year for the Christmas season...usually through the Salvation Army. Every floor (we have 12 floors) sort of does their own thing and our floor decided to adopt two families through two different organizations.

We didn't expect a lot. We know the economy blows and that our company is talking about layoffs. We were hoping to get the basics covered at the very least. And hoping for a few special treats if possible.

Some of the "dream gifts" from the families include a Nintendo DS and Wii system. Which are huge and we had no thought of actually purchasing.

Just a few minutes ago I ran into one of our associates in the kitchen and he asked us to calculate how much it would cost to get the rest of the items and let him know. He's going to write a check or get us cash for the amount.

*tears in my eyes*

With everything going on ... as hard as our particular environment is ... people are pulling together to provide for others. I know how generous our company is and how wonderful the people here are but sometimes I forget.

I can't wait to play Santa and deliver all the gifts to "my" assigned organization. They're always overwhelmed when I pull up with my full car. It's SO freaking rewarding.

I love this time of year. =)

Buffy is a Conservative

Found via TND.

Praise God. Sarah Michelle Gellar is a conservative. Or at least a registered Republican.

I was totally addicted to Buffy the Vampire Slayer and still watch the reruns.

Some of the folks on the list surprise me, but most I knew. I love that Kid Rock is a registered Republican.