Snapshots

Arachniphobia

Varying degrees of curious to panicked.

It has gold stripes!

I see hair!

Normally, I am a hell of a lot more scared of a flying insect over a spider. I can come off as quite the brave girl as I squash an enormous centipede without too much of a flinch. But put a housefly in the room with me, and good luck taking my blood pressure! It will be high! There's just something about getting within two inches of a deadly looking spider that can chill your blood. Thankfully, my wits didn't set in until about ten minutes post-pictures.

Quote of the Day

Me: "I've never heard of Iron Man"

Alex: "You have too many things that you've never heard of. Now I don't know what kind of basement in Austria you've been locked in, but its time to get out."

I AM SEEING RED.

Anyone who says they get release from working out, count your blessings.

Quote of the Day

Me: “You have to wear nice shoes tomorrow.”

Julia: “I’m gonna try to break my legs tonight so I can be wheeled in by a wheelchair.”

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I call this "Just One Sip."

Quote of the Day

Jordan: “I'm gunna become holistisizerist.”

I'm so proud!

MJ Through The Years

Here's an interesting article on Michael Jackson's clearly surgically altered appearances through the years...

How plastic surgery changed the face of Michael Jackson

I'll never forget once reading how he had admitted to only having two nose jobs, when the world had seen him with at least 5 or ten of them. He was the cutest kid, though.

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From the looks of it, She is not too happy.

Quote of the Day

After sitting behind an insufferable Pennsylvania driver trying to get into a lane to filter into the Lincoln Tunnel last night...

Julia: "Brian, I want you to walk out of the car and go punch them in the butt."

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This just happens to be Marley's favorite spot in the house. Not a dog bed, not a pillow, not the couch or bed. Me.

Quote of the Day

Me: "Rumer Willis, is ummm..."

Brian: "Yeah, what a bummer! You would think 'cuz she is Bruce Willis' daughter, she’d be really hot."

Julia: "Brian, that was really gay. You should have said, you would think 'cuz she is Demi Moore’s daughter that she’d be really hot.”

Me: "Nothing is wrong with being gay, and she does have a point."

Tax Dollars Done Right

City Tickets Ten Year Old - Lemonade Stand

There's something just heartwarming about finding out a small child was fined for doing what children do. Or actually, what children used to do before they decided they could annoy their parents into placating them with allowances and video games and cartoon channels. I get all fuzzy inside thinking about how police officers scared the motivation out of a future citizen of the world instead of, I don't know, pulling over the a**holes driving around town cutting people (me) off with no signals. Or, gasp, attempt to deter a real criminal from committing a real crime. Good job, guys!

Snapshot

Marley lays in the grass catching her breath, while Mojo gasps at air, but refuses to turn his ears down from "mega alert" to "dog." Like, hello? Did you see that stray cat in that direction fifteen minutes ago who walked by with her tail in the air going away from us? I MUST stare in that direction, because, ummm, did you see the cat before?!?!

Quote of the Day

B.H.: “One foot on the banana peel, one foot on the grave.”

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Who says New York doesn't have palm trees? We just ship them in. No biggie.

Quote of the Day

Alex: "Can I help you?"

Julia: "I was just wondering why you were huffing so loudly with your nose air."

Gym Flirting With Jim and Jim

So, there's this guy at the gym. Big, bad, and bald, to be specific. And we tend to be by the same machines during the same time. I also tend to think he lives in this section, leaving only to rip more tee-shirts into revealing masculine tank tops that tough guys wear. He's a grunter. The kind that you know is forced, and awkwardly sexual- every woman's dream! Thankfully, his grunting isn't too invasive, and I almost enjoy imagining what is going through his head as he exaggerates his efforts.

This morning: dude numero dos enters the area, and he looks like a bull in a china shop, if bulls were puny and wore their blonde hair in spikes especially for working out. His gym mantra is much different from The Grunter, as he doesn't do any "impressive" lifting. But he does do really short sets! And in-between each of these sets, he leaps off of the machine, puffs out his chest, holds his arms out, and speed walks angrily around. It's as if he was trying to gain energy to get back to lifting those forty pounds. From afar, these two men were indulging in some sort of ancient bird mating ritual. Both male, and showing off, but oddly working well together.

I have but one complaint towards The Puffer. At the end of his 45 second sets, he let all of the weights slam down. And while it was better that he would do that, than The Grunter, whose weights would have been even louder, flat metal on flat metal is loud. And unpleasant. If he, The Puffer, would take people's ears into consideration, I would gladly be a witness to the joining in holy matrimony of Puff and Grunt. They deserve each other.

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This was taken about 15 minutes after her first dose of antibiotics. But this? This is nothing! Two days later, I got home and she had tied her leash around her leg like a tournakit and was begging for a needle.

Western medicine. A slippery slope.

Quote of the Day

Jordan: “You wanna hear something gross that is close to making me puke if I dont stop thinking about it?"

Me: “Not really.”

Jordan: “I guess 5 minutes in boiling water isn't enough for the yolk, 'cause the outside is fine, but I bit into a few of the yolks and the inside is still like a baby chick looking me in the face, squeeking, "Stop, it hurts!"

Me: (Laughing uncontrollably) "Stop! It hurts!"

The Show I Missed...

O.A.R. was playing at MSG with Matt Nathanson! And I missed it! Deliberately. Because regret is so much easier than action. But I found something from the show that I wouldn't have been able to see at the show, even if I had went! Here: