Friday, August 21, 2009

Friday Funnies

My best friend from High School sent this too me in an email. I have no idea who the author of these hilarious random thoughts are but I hope they make you giggle! A couple of them made me gafaw!

Random Thoughts by ??????

-More often than not, when someone is telling me a story all I can think about is that I can't wait for them to finish so that I can tell my own story that's not only better, but also more directly involves me.

-Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong.

-I don't understand the purpose of the line, "I don't need to drink to have fun." Great, no one does. But why start a fire with flint and sticks when they've invented the lighter?

-That's enough, Nickelback.

-I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger.

-Is it just me, or are 80% of the people in the "people you may know" feature on Facebook people that I do know, but I deliberately choose not to be friends with?

-There is a great need for sarcasm font.

-Sometimes, I'll watch a movie that I watched when I was younger and suddenly realize I had no idea what the f was going on when I first saw it.

-I think everyone has a movie that they love so much, it actually becomes stressful to watch it with other people. I'll end up wasting 90 minutes shiftily glancing around to confirm that everyone's laughing at the right parts, then making sure I laugh just a little bit harder (and a millisecond earlier) to prove that I'm still the only one who really, really gets it.

-How the hell are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?

-I would rather try to carry 10 plastic grocery bags in each hand than take 2 trips to bring my groceries in.

- I think part of a best friend's job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.

-The only time I look forward to a red light is when I’m trying to finish a text.

- A recent study has shown that playing beer pong contributes to the spread of mono and the flu. Yeah, if you suck at it.

- Was learning cursive really necessary?

- LOL has gone from meaning, "laugh out loud" to "I have nothing else to say".

- I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.

- My brother's Municipal League baseball team is named the Stepdads. Seeing as none of the guys on the team are actual stepdads, I inquired about the name. He explained, "Cuz we beat you, and you hate us." Classy, bro.

- Whenever someone says "I'm not book smart, but I'm street smart", all I hear is "I'm not real smart, but I'm imaginary smart".

- How many times is it appropriate to say "What?" before you just nod and smile because you still didn't hear what they said?

- Every time I have to spell a word over the phone using 'as in' examples, I will undoubtedly draw a blank and sound like a complete idiot. Today I had to spell my boss's last name to an attorney and said "Yes that's G as in...(10 second lapse)..ummm...Goonies"

-What would happen if I hired two private investigators to follow each other?

- While driving yesterday I saw a banana peel in the road and instinctively swerved to avoid it...thanks Mario Kart.

- MapQuest really needs to start their directions on #5. Pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.

- Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.

- I find it hard to believe there are actually people who get in the shower first and THEN turn on the water.

-Shirts get dirty. Underwear gets dirty. Pants? Pants never get dirty, and you can wear them forever.

-I can't remember the last time I wasn't at least kind of tired.

- Bad decisions make good stories.

-Why is it that during an ice-breaker, when the whole room has to go around and say their name and where they are from, I get so incredibly nervous? Like I know my name, I know where I'm from, this shouldn't be a problem....

-Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after DVDs? I don't want to have to restart my collection.

-There's no worse feeling than that millisecond you're sure you are going to die after leaning your chair back a little too far.

-I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten page research paper that I swear I did not make any changes to.

- "Do not machine wash or tumble dry" means I will never wash this ever.

-I hate being the one with the remote in a room full of people watching TV. There's so much pressure. 'I love this show, but will they judge me if I keep it on? I bet everyone is wishing we weren't watching this. It's only a matter of time before they all get up and leave the room. Will we still be friends after this?'

-I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello? Dammit!), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and goes to voicemail. What'd you do after I didn't answer? Drop the phone and run away?

- I hate leaving my house confident and looking good and then not seeing anyone of importance the entire day. What a waste.

-I like all of the music in my iTunes, except when it's on shuffle, then I like about one in every fifteen songs in my iTunes.

-Why is a school zone 20 mph? That seems like the optimal cruising speed for pedophiles...

- As a driver I hate pedestrians, and as a pedestrian I hate drivers, but no matter what the mode of transportation, I always hate cyclists.

-Sometimes I'll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still not know what time it is.

-It should probably be called Unplanned Parenthood.

-I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.

-It really pisses me off when I want to read a story on CNN.com and the link takes me to a video instead of text.

-I wonder if cops ever get pissed off at the fact that everyone they drive behind obeys the speed limit.

-I disagree with Kay Jewelers. I would bet on any given Friday or Saturday night more kisses begin with Miller Lites than Kay.

-The other night I ordered takeout, and when I looked in the bag, saw they had included four sets of plastic silverware. In other words, someone at the restaurant packed my order, took a second to think about it, and then estimated that there must be at least four people eating to require such a large amount of food. Too bad I was eating by myself. There's nothing like being made to feel like a fat bastard before dinner.

Monday, August 10, 2009

Monday Morning Wake Up Call

This one minute and 14 second film is really powerful: Evolution

We have to change our culture for ourselves and more importantly for our DAUGHTERS and GRANDDAUGHTERS!!!!!!!!!

Spread the word Beautiful Ladies!!!!

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Wednesday Tip of the Week

Put markers in a locked container when your kids are 3 and under............ha ha! Just kidding! My sweet daughter is in that drawing all over herself and furniture and the walls stage!

My *real* tip of the week comes from a book called "Potty Train in 1 Day". A friend of mine loaned me the book after she was able to potty train her 3 1/2 year old son in one day using it's methods. I've used the methods with all 3 kids and although my kids weren't potty trained in 1 day, the tips were very helpful and did help greatly with the potty training process! I also added my own tip on to the tip from the book at the end:

Tip: Give them lots and lots of yummy drinks so they need to pee often. Special drinks that they don't get often like fruit punch, lemonade, Capri Suns etc, etc. The idea is more they need to pee the more opportunites they have to practice the potty. The book also suggested you provide plenty of salty snacks to make them thirsty.

Now this tip was tough for me as a "water and milk (almost) only" mom. I give my kids less than 4 oz of juice a day and stuff like Capri Suns NEVER enter my house. But, to get rid of diapers I'd even consider the most evil of them all............KOOL AID! I haven't gone that far yet but Baby Girl has been enjoying a Capri Sun or two a day and it does give her more opportunities to practice the potty than what is typical for her. Yes, I know we are going to have to wean her from Capri Suns but that's another day!

Oh! And my own tip to go along with the one from the book: If you are at home with your Little One on the day you are giving them extra liquids, you should drink extra also to make you need the potty more often. When you have to pee it reminds you to take your Little Trainer along with you! Of course this tip is useless long distance so don't try this if you are at work =}. (That's my attempt to be funny today......)

Happy Potty-ing everyone!

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Traditional Tuesdays

Our family has fallen waaaaaaaaaay off the "Traditional Foods" wagon. And we feel terrible physically. I made it to the Natural Food Co-op yesterday and stocked up on nutritionally dense foods. I hope we can turn this around. My head hurts, my gut is a mess and I'm so tired!

Here is my favorite recipe this week:

Fresh Blueberry Cobbler

I made it this weekend when my sister-in-law was in town. It was different than other cobbler recipes I've made because the "crust" was on the bottom. It was fantastic! Probably the best cobbler I've ever had! I made it out of all "Traditional Food" ingredients including raw milk, organic butter from pastured cows, sucanat for the sweetener and whole wheat flour. The only thing I think I'd do differently is use whole wheat pastry flour next time, it was a bit dense but still very, very good! I served it with organic whipped cream sweetened with maple syrup. It was so good we all had a second serving the next morning at breakfast!

Monday, August 3, 2009

Monday Morning Random Fact

I'm back! It took me TWO WEEKS to recover from our vacation! The fact that I had raging PMS last week didn't help. I'm not totally back together but I think I'm ready to blog again!

Here's my random fact for today:

I got my first period when I was 11 years old. It was the very beginning of 6th grade and I was SHOCKED and HORRIFIED! I knew what it was the minute I saw that red dot in my undies but I thought it wouldn't come until I was at least 13! I was miserable all day. My mom and sister baked me a chocolate cake to cheer me up but the only decoration we had in the house were RED SPRINKLES! My sweet 9 year old sis thought she was being nice decorating the cake but I took one look at it and started sobbing.

How are you dear friends?