I Want A Giant Popsicle!

It's too bad they didn't attempt this in Minnesota. It probably would have ended much better.

Thanks Anna!

Monday night me and Anna had a shopping jaunt in ER and she found me some fabulous mascara. It lengthens and curls and now I have really cute long, curly, and waterproof eyelashes.

*bat, bat, bat*

Must Run To Store

JQ's It's In His Kiss hits stores today and I forgot so now I have to make a special trip to get it because there is NO way I can wait for this one.

Fun Word To Say:

Asinine

Humidity

I know all about the humidity.

I live inside a tin can being slowly roasted over hell.

Fair Food

I saved my pennies so I could gorge on fair refreshments which included: A fresh squeezed lemonade, a beef gyro, a couple sniched sections of Becky's funnel cake, cheese curds, bottled water, a caramel apple with peanuts, and three beers from the beer garden.

I've also got a couple extra miles to jog all week to work it off, but it was so worth it to watch everyone's eyes bulge when they heard what, how, and when I ate what.

Aye, Potatoes!

Ah. Spud Fest. That time of year for fair food, fireworks, friends, and all things Potato.

I, of course, had a blast. Becky came down and we met up with Anna and Tiffy and took the town by storm. LOL. Or at least me and Becky had a blast while waiting for Anna and Tiff, including a turn at the Water War booth where I kept shooting the water balloons into the ditch behind my intended target.

We also did the fireworks in our prime viewing spot in the back of Anna's Truck. The Show was fabulous. Well, it was great enjoyment and has to rate as a Fab show because Linton didn't put fireworks into their budget this year (that is so stupid and unpatriotic (and communist! lol.)) So the fourth is going to be a homemade deal.

We also ran it to a ton of people and migrated to McPete's for some more fun and drinks. The guys were in full form. They were running at the LCD speed tracker trying to be picked up on it. Ricky was the fastest at 16mph and poor Nippy kept running and it wouldn't pick up.

The night ended early because Becky had to work the next morning or something, but the party continued.

Derek

Well. He has officially made the rounds. I've had this weird lump on my left middle finger for almost a week now and couldn't figure out what it was. Today it dawned on me. I have a blood blister. I remember shutting my hand in the door last week, but this thing showed up sometime Monday. I also have two new bruises on my left knee and a mysterious cut on my left forearm. Derek is out to get me now.

Toshia, come back home and claim your boy toy. He's driving me nuts! LOL.

This Radio Thing

Today I put in an e-request during the "Lunch with the Legends" segment on K102 today and it got played! I requested Crystal Gayle's Half the Way, and after he played it, the DJ said thanks Lisa for the suggestion, and for all those that are cubicle bound, you can still request on line, blah, blah, blah. But I was smiling because I got my song played on the radio.

*sticks tongue out*

Can you hear me taunting everyone else? I promise to do it quietly.

Not.

Finish This Sentence:

Today at work. . .

I was given my own personal CD opener.

Okay. Technically that was yesterday, but I'm really giving it a workout today.

MMMmmm Wednesday

Wednesdays are "Treat Days" at work, when somebody in the office brings a snack to share. Today, I had a fresh, warm bagel (or begal if you pronounce it like I do) from Brugers Bagels and it was nummy.

When To Conveniently Loose A Letter

Today the office received a letter from an admirer of an actress in one of our DVD's. Apparently, he thinks she is "one fine woman" and wanted to ask "ya'll" how he could get in contact with her to express his admiration. It was all quite funny. Absolutely worth a giggle or two.

Oh. Did I mention it was a porn video?

*smirks before bursting into giggles once again*

Lazy, Crazy, Hazy. . .

I spent this weekend in an all out Gilmore Girls fest. Seasons 2 & 3 finally showed up at the library, so I hung out most of the weekend in front of my comp giving my CD drive a work out. So, if anybody wants to get me a slamming Christmas present, this is absolutely a viable option.
*wink, wink*

Rhinestone Cowboy

Friday Night I went out with Anna, Tiffy, and Chandi to the Buffalo Rodeo and had an absolute blast. It was the girls' first rodeo, so we had fun watching the events and performers. I had an abfab rainbow snowcone, which only could have been better with alcohol added to it. I do regret skipping on the cheese curds, but that just means I have to get them next weekend at Spud fest.

The Rodeo Dance band was The Law. They were pretty darn good, even if I was unfamiliar with them. They sang a lot of fun older country and performed one of their own songs at the end of each set. They also had a female voice, Carmen I think her name was, who joined in on songs. She had one ass-kicker attitude and did Gretchen's songs proud.

Now if only we had gotten Tiffy up on the mechanical bull. . .

Fast Facts From My Cereal Bowl Cover

1. History shows money has been around for more than 4500 years.
2. It takes $8.7 million to pay the Pentagon's phone bill each year.
3. Some leaves were once used as money.
4. The youngest person to be worth a billion dollars was 29 years old.

Damned Plug-ins.

The movie trailer for Heath Ledger's new movie, The Brothers Grimm also staring Matt Damon is available, but the guy who put together my computer ID deal is dumb, I can't watch it. So, somebody see it and tell me if it's any good.

Congrats Keith!

Keith Urban's Making Memories of Us is number one for the 5th straight week! It's his 6th number one. Rock on.

In other news, Keith is going to be on Dateline tonight on NBC. Way cool.

The Morning After

What is it about having to get up in the morning that you notice ALL of your minor aches and pains? For instance, I woke up with a slight headache, prolly from smacking my head on the side of the fridge last night, achy calves from playing Frisbee I'm sure, and Sunday's sunburned shoulders still stinging slightly.

The party was wonderful though. We should really get together and do that more often guys, but let's split the bill a little. LOL. I'm sure if I would have planned better, it wouldn't have been so hectic.

So now, after sitting in traffic forever this morning because some jackass rolled his car and people gawked and cops stopped traffic, I'm finally at work and looking forward to my leftovers for lunch.

Surprise Party On, Party People

Everything is a go for Tosh's Surprise Party. Even though the party really isn't a surprise because Tosh knows about it (or else she wouldn't go), we do have some surprise guests coming. Besides, it was a surprise until I told her about it. LOL.

Anyhow, work is starting to drag on since I've been thinking about that gianormous list of things I need to accomplish before 7, so I'm going to take my lunch a bit early I think.

Give Up.

I'm going to give up. Shauna is in New York for a meeting with the MusicCalc designer people, and so I'm slowly working away on my various projects at this end. But everything just has to annoy the crap out of me. Like the Fox site not being up today. Or, Patrick not showing up for work today, so I have to burn CDRs, but I don't know how far he got or how his 'system' works and the damn boy isn't home to answer his phone. Hopefully he'll be here tomorrow so we don't get too far behind on burning.

Good news! Party tonight, it's almost lunch, and I've almost got an entire box of that new age-y stuff loaded onto the Apple.

Poll Question:

Do these lyrics make any sort of sense?

I ain't as good as I once was / But I'm as good once as I ever was

They are part of the chorus to Toby Keith's As Good As I Once Was. Tosh claims they make no sense, and she hates the song. I think the other lyrics are funny and like them and don't really care about these.

Whaddya think?

Rain and Pain (and Other Bad Rhymes)

Saturday it was constantly nice, then rainy all day. Yesterday, I'm outside for an hour, maybe two, and now I'm looking like a lobster and feeling like a French fry.

New Roomies

Don't worry. You read that right. Since Tosh is moving in with Bri, I decided to try and get into a dorm with more upperclassmen. I managed to score a room in Statewood Apts. So, I might not move in with Bri, Ben, Jade, and Tosh at all, because I've not got an apartment right ON campus.

. . .Now, about finding furniture. . .

"Can We Go Yet?"

This has GOT to be the second most annoying phrase after, "are we there yet?" Saturday was Mel's MN Grad party, and Vanessa kept asking me if we could leave every fifteen minutes. She was a little bored, yet refused to watch movies or dig through closets, or, god forbid, mingle with the guests she hasn't seen in a long time.

We left a eight, and I laughed all the way home because she had to wait SOOO long.

Finish this sentence:

Today at work I. . .

inserted artwork into CD cases.

One Hot Date

This is, in reality, my movie review for Lords of Dogtown which I saw Sunday afternoon by myself. I had one hot date, whether that was me or Heath is up for debate. LOL.

Lords of Dogtown stars Emile Hirsch, Johnny Knoxville, and of course, that brilliant Aussie Heath Ledger. It's a story that takes place during the drought ridden mid-seventies when skateboarders took to people's backyard pools to perfect their fancy tricks and stuff.

Can you tell I was never any good at skateboarding? It's never really been my scene, but this movie brilliantly portrays themes of family and friendship while having a rocking soundtrack, slick skateboarding, and plenty of eye-candy for both sexes all while portraying a distinct snippet of time in America.

My favorite part of the movie is sort of a "sad" scene. Skip has lost his surf shop and he's crafting boards for someone else. He's wearing a do-rag and a blue t-shirt, sucking on a cigarette, and singing "Maggie." It is supposed to portray how far he has fallen, but I see it as a moment of lightheartedness, of bliss, before the world crushes in to stamp out pleasure again. I truly believe it's the little moments that make life worth living.

Oh, for Christsake!

Jesus died of blood clot

...And Really Bad Eggs!

My pirate name is:

Mad Bess Vane

Every pirate is a little bit crazy. You, though, are more than just a little bit. You tend to blend into the background occaisionally, but that's okay, because it's much easier to sneak up on people and disembowel them that way. Arr!

Get your own pirate name from fidius.org.

Every Pirate is a little bit crazy. You, though, are more than just a little bit. You tend to blend into the background occaisionally, but that's okay, because it's much easier to sneak up on people and disembowel them that way. Arr!

It's all the Rain's Fault!

Our CD burner is sending orders to the blackhole Anna faxed her lunch orders to earlier this week. Shauna insists it's the rain. The rain always causes the computers to act up.

In other news, my chair has some how contracted the most annoying squeak. So now I can't lean back on my right elbow because the whole building will know what and when I'm doing it.

But There's No Guy In A Dorky Uniform To Make Fun Of

K102 lets you listen to their radio station through their website, but for some reason, they don't play the commercials, this really kooky elevator music is played instead. It really makes my channel flipper fingers itch.

Rhubarb Football

This morning I took a quick jaunt up to SCSU to purchase my parking permit (which took a heavy chunk out of my paycheck) and I was listening to Matt and Amy on the morning show. They mentioned something about a town in Minnesota that had like Rhubarb days or something and one of the activities citizens participated in was rhubarb football.

I of course had to call the radio station to tell my rhubarb story. At my parents' house, there is rhubarb that grows about as big as a baseball bat. This was met by stunned silence and then, "No Way!" with a bunch of Amy's giggles. When I said they lived in North Dakota, Matt said, "They always say everything is bigger in Texas, but I guess that's just not so when it comes to Rhubarb."

We hung up without me requesting any thing, but the next song they played was Keith's Making Memories of Us, which has been in the #1 spot for four weeks now. I tell ya. It's fate.

Poor Shauna

Yesterday was a typical "Monday" and today's short day hasn't helped clear her desk load either. I'm thinking she should cut out early this weekend for a breather.

Speaking of, I'm currently adding sound effects to the song catalog in the royalties software. It's killing me entering things like "Comical Male Belly Laugh," "Chimpanzee Panting Vocal," and "Medium Fart."

And They Say Young People Are Disrespectful!

Saturday afternoon it was pouring rain. The saying "raining cats and dogs" was probably used excessively. And I was a good girl. I took my grandma grocery shopping.

When I went to leave, it was tossing buckets of water down, and I was inching out of my parking spot between the two trucks towering over my car, when BAM! I lurched into another vehicle.

I get out and check the damage. Nothing. No ding, so scratch, not even a paint chip. I turn to the driver of the minty green mini-van/suv, a man 'bout ten years my dad's senior, and he rolls his window down about four inches and asks for my insurance information. I give it to him, along with my driver's license which he rudely asks for. Then he hands me them back with a slip of paper containing his info and says, "if it's under $500 do you just want to go through insurance." By now, I'm soaked like a rat and staring gape mouth stuttering "there isn't any damage!"

What kind of pathetic asshole doesn't even get out of his car to assess the damage?

Speaking of Anna

She has gotten herself a blog so she can write about how bored she is at work. Check it out and help alleviate the boredom.

Anna's Words of Wisdom

"It's summer. Don't think, just drink."

Ahh, Lunch

I'm still hungry. And my Capitan Crunch cereal really doesn't look all that appetizing anymore. Darn.

Those Crazy Brits

There has been some hub-bub because a cell phone ring tone is like the number one selling single in the UK or something. Anyhow, it is THE most annoying thing to listen too, but makes you laugh no matter what.

wikipedia article

To hear a clip of the song, click here then scroll down to Top Sound Effects and click on the listening icon for 1. The Crazy Frog (Remix). There is also an excerpt from the animation available under the animation section of that site.