Saturday, September 10, 2005

Blast From The Past




Remember Chinese Jumprope? I do. I used to be pretty good at it too. I had forgotten how to play, so I looked it up. I got the following info from this website:


If you aren't familiar with the game, Chinese Jumprope involves a very large coated rubber band-type thing that two people put around their ankles and face each other, and then the other person stands in between them and jumps a complicated dance around the parallel lines of elastic without touching, falling, or missing the jumprope when necessary. The dance went:

You start by straddling the elastic.

"IN!": You jump in the air and land with your feet inside the parallel lines of elastic, not touching the elastic or making it touch the ground.

"OUT!": You jump in the air and land with your feet outside the jumprope, just like your starting position.

"SIDE!": You jump in the air and land straddling one side of the elastic: one of your feet is in the "out" position, the other is "in".

"SIDE!": You jump to the other side of the jumprope with your feet straddling.

"ON!": Then you jump in the air and land with both of your feet on the elastic, having them under your feet.

"IN!"

"OUT!"

"SCISSORS!": This was where you would be leaving the jumprope, but you would drag one of your feet along the way so that it crosses and touches the other elastic. It is the only time the two ropes touch.


"IN! OUT! SIDE! SIDE! ON! IN! OUT! SCISSORS!"

After you complete that the people inside the ropes move the elastic up to their knees. In out side side on in out scissors. If you complete that they move the elastic up to their thighs. In "thighsies" the tricky part was "on", since you had to jump in the air and nail that rope under your feet on the way down. In out side side on in out. "Smallies" came next, where the two would put the rope back around their ankles, but would put their feet together so the "in" space was only a few inches (eight year olds have some tiny-ass feet). If you survive "smallies" you move on to "widies", where the two people would spread their legs as far apart as possible. It made the "out" section particularly difficult. There were other parts that involved how you jumped: walksies, runsies, trotsies, skipsies... then there were some where one half would be wide and the other would be small so you had to make your feet land diagonally and such. If you ever screwed up you took the place of one of the rope holders.


Now, go out and get yourself a Chinese Jumprope and get to playing!

San Diego Zoo Trip

I posted more pics of my zoo trip on my other blog. The animals were so cute!

My mom, my brother and I decided to go to the San Diego Zoo on Friday. This is a picture of part of the city of San Diego. I posted some pictures of the animals below. The zoo is huge! We didn't even have enough time to see everything. I think it would be better to go really early, Then maybe you could see everything.
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Orangutan
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Gorilla
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Giant Panda
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Baby Masai Giraffe next to his papa
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Alaskan Brown Bear taking a dip in the pool
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African Elephants
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Stupid News Story of The Day



(No, you are not drunk. The floor really IS moving.)


Sinkhole Disrupts 'Happy Hour' at Eatery



MILTON, Fla. - About 25 customers and staff were evacuated from Ollie's Neighborhood Grill just as "happy hour" began after employees noticed floors and walls were uneven and seemed to have shifted.

A sinkhole, likely caused by an underground spring, sent a steady stream of water flowing beneath the floors Thursday and caused the building to sink about six inches in some places, said owner Andy Leach.

"The floor seems to be moving," said Milton Fire Chief John Reble. "I've never seen anything the likes of this before. It's caused quite a bit of structural damage to the slab."

Reble initially suspected a broken water main but testing determined the flow was from a natural source because it lacked chlorine used to treat drinking water.
Santa Rosa County building inspector Bobby Burkett said the building may have to be condemned and razed.

"You're not hardly going to stop an underground spring," he said.

Thursday, September 08, 2005


"God help me. I'm so tired. I need my sleep. I make no bones about it.
I need eight hours a day, and at least ten at night. . . ."

~ Bill Hicks


... and with that thought, I am going to bed. Gotta get up early, cuz I am going to LA with my mom and brother. God help me. I didn't buy any earplugs. DAMNIT! I hope we can all get along this time.

Funny Stuff From George Carlin

"When you find existing time on a parking meter, you should be able to add it to the end of your life. Minus the time you spent on hold."

Stupid News Story of The Day



(I guess PART of it was tiger.)


Chinese Eatery Sold Donkey in Tiger Urine



SHANGHAI, China - A restaurant in northeastern China that advertised illegal tiger meat dishes was found instead to be selling donkey flesh — marinated in tiger urine, a newspaper reported Thursday.

The Hufulou restaurant, located beside the Heidaohezi tiger reserve near the city of Hailin, had advertised stir-fried tiger meat with chilies for $98 as well as liquor flavored with tiger bone for $74 a bottle, the China Daily reported.

Raw meat was priced at $864 per kilogram.

The sale of tiger parts is illegal in China and officers shut down the restaurant, only to be told by owner, Ma Shikun, that the meat was actually that of donkeys, flavored with tiger urine to give the dish a "special" tang, the newspaper said.

The report didn't say how the urine was obtained.

Authorities confiscated the restaurant's profits and fined Ma $296 it said. It wasn't clear what Ma was fined for. Selling donkey meat is not illegal in China and it is widely consumed in the northeast.

Ma had initially claimed that the meat came from dead tigers sold to him by the management of the Heidaohezi reserve, but later changed his story, the report said.

While Heidaohezi's director denied that claim, the reserve, with about 150 tigers, has been involved in similar controversies in the past.

Until China outlawed the trade in 1993, the reserve received most of its revenue from the sale of tiger skins, bones and other body parts, which are believed by Chinese to imbue vigor and sexual prowess.

Wednesday, September 07, 2005

Blast From The Past




Remember the Hackey Sack? I do. I actually had one. It was a fad, and yes, I followed the fad for a while. We played it at school. We played it at home. We played it every chance we got. Some kids got to be really good at it too. I played it alot, too. That was until I found out that I was just no good at it and then I forgot all about it and moved onto the next fad...yo-yo's, frisbees, whatever was "IN" at the time.

Trivia: The modern footbag was invented by John Stalberger and Mike Marshall in Oregon City, Oregon in 1972. Actually, the name "Hackey Sack" is actually the brand name. The correct term for the game is "footbag."

Link: Wikipedia

Stupid News Story of The Day



(Don't drink and pee in a cemetery)


Inebriated Belgian woman dies in cemetery accident



BRUSSELS (Reuters) - An inebriated Belgian woman died in a freak accident when she ended up beneath a heavy grave stone at a cemetery, local news agency Belga said on Wednesday.

The 33-year-old was on her way home from a bar in the Belgian town of Pulle in the early hours of Saturday when she took a short cut through the cemetery.

But she urgently needed to relieve herself and crouched down between two gravestones. As she lost her balance, she grabbed one of the stones which gave way and landed on top of her.

The public prosecutor's office said she died of suffocation as she was unable to lift the heavy stone.

Tuesday, September 06, 2005

Lazy Butt Weekend

I had a wonderful, lazy weekend. I am not ashamed to say that, aside from going to the grocery store on Saturday, and to Rite Aid on Sunday, I didn't even leave the house. I worked on Friday, and after work I went and got my chest x-rays (which was embarrassing - they made me take off my shirt and bra and sit in this cotton gown thing in the waiting room for like 20 minutes - ugh), and then after that, I went and got my hair trimmed. Everything was fine there, until the barber told me that he saw my gray hairs, which made my Rite Aid trip on Sunday necessary (had to get some hair color!) - lol. So, on Sunday, I colored my hair.

Yesterday, they had a CSI marathon on Spike TV all day long. I was in heaven!!!! Then, on Comedy Central in the evening, they had a Reno 911 marathon on .... more heaven!!! It was a great weekend. I needed a nice break like this after all the traveling and stuff I have been doing on the past weekends. I just felt like I needed to catch up on some much needed rest and relaxation. Of course, I have another 3-day weekend this weekend. That is a good reason to smile :)

I have discovered Paint Shop Pro and Animation Shop, so I was messing around with those all weekend, too. I guess those are my new obsessions - lol. I've been making icons and blinkies and all sorts of stuff. I also ordered a tripod for my digital camera. I recently actually read thru my digital camera owner's manual and found out that I can take black and white pics and also read on how to use the manual settings on my camera to take pics at night (thus the need for a tripod). I guess it was about tie I read that manual. I have only had the camera for, what, 6 months now? hehe.

Well, I gotta get back to work now. At least it is Tuesday today and not Monday :) While I would rather be back at home in my jammies, at least this is a short work week. More reason to smile :)

Funny Stuff From George Carlin

"White people got no business playing the blues ever. At all. Under no circumstances. What do white people have to be blue about? Banana Republic ran out of khakis? The espresso machine is jammed?"

Stupid News Story of The Day



(Well, there's one way to win a woman's heart...accuse her relatives of terrorism)


Love-struck man faces jail over terror hoax



KARACHI (Reuters) - A love-struck Pakistani faces up to three years in jail for falsely accusing a brother and a cousin of the woman he hoped to marry of planning a suicide attack on the U.S. consulate in Karachi, police said Monday.

Jobless laborer Mohammad Imran sparked a security scare when he made the allegations in a telephone call to the U.S. embassy in Islamabad last month after the relatives ordered him not to see or speak to his would-be bride, police said.

Investigating officer Sadaullah Bangash said Imran, 22, had told police he got the idea after news of a spate of arrests of militant suspects in Pakistan after the July 7 London bombings.

Bangash said police had questioned the relatives, who appeared to be ordinary people with no connection to terrorism.

Imran is due in court in Karachi Wednesday and faces up to three years' jail if convicted of making false accusations, he said.

"It appears to be a case of a man infatuated by a girl going to extremes to realize his dream of marrying her one day."

A spokesman for the U.S. consulate in Karachi, which was the target of a suicide bombing in 2002 that killed 12 people, said it was not its policy to comment on security matters.

Monday, September 05, 2005

Stupid News Story of The Day



(Bad painting! Bad!)


Woman slashes Lichtenstein painting with knife



VIENNA (Reuters) - A woman attacked a painting by American Pop Art legend Roy Lichtenstein, slashing it four times with a knife at an exhibition in the western Austrian city of Bregenz, police said.

The 35-year-old woman, a resident of Munich in Germany, pulled a jack-knife from her bag on Saturday and damaged the painting, "Nudes in Mirror", police said in a statement issued on Saturday night. Visitors and staff then stopped her.

The painting was worth several million dollars, it added.

The Austrian news agency APA reported that the woman said the painting in the Kunsthaus Bregenz museum was not authentic.

"Of course the painting is a real Lichtenstein," the exhibition's curator, Rudolf Sagmeister, was quoted by APA as saying.

Although the slashes were each roughly 30 cm (12 inches) long, the painting was damaged rather than destroyed and could be restored, he added. APA said it was insured for about 4 million euros.

Sunday, September 04, 2005

Funny Stuff From George Carlin

"Someday I wanna see the pope come out on that balcony and give the football scores."

A few things I have learned

I learned that those cd holders you can put over the mirrors on the inside of your windshield are worthless. They deteriorate in the sun and when you touch them, they fall apart and leave little pieces of black crap all over your hands and car. Pieces of junk!! Don't waste your money on them...unless you live in Alaska or somewhere where the sun doesn't come up very much - hehe.

I learned that after about 8000 junk mails, Yahoo deletes some of them, making it nearly impossible to reach my 50000 junk email goal. I was up to around 8000 and now it is back down to 6039.

I also learned that I have WAY too much time on my hands - lol.

Stupid News Story of The Day



(Say...ouch!)


Doctor adds insult to injury



TOKYO (Reuters) - "Trust me, I'm a doctor" wouldn't describe one Japanese medic who has landed in hot water after hitting and abusing a patient during surgery.

The elderly female patient at a hospital in Shiga, central Japan, was given a local anaesthetic for an unspecified operation early last month, but began thrashing around on the operating table and yelling at the doctor to stop.

After trying to persuade her to calm down, the doctor hit the patient on the forehead and yelled at her to shut up, a hospital spokesman said. The patient needed five days to recover from the injury to her forehead.

The operation was re-conducted last week by another doctor.

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