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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.

"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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Things that make me go hmmmm...

Why do they always give you like 10 packets of ketchup for a small order of fries?

Do they really HAVE to make a reality show about everything? Like that stupid My Super Sweet Sixteen show on MTV...what the hell is that all about? A bunch of spoiled little brats who make their parents' lives miserable planning for a stupid birthday party that will only last a few hours, yet will cost more than their college education and wedding combined.

Gas prices....nuff said.

Why is Paris Hilton famous?

Does Britney Spears actually think she has a good voice?

What is the deal with that stupid Buger King dude? He freaks me out!Do the Burger King commercial makers actually think that plastic-faced freak will help them sell more burgers?

Why did someone always have to cry in every episode of Little House on The Prairie? Was all that crying really necessary?

Just how many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?

Stupid News Story of The Day

(That's one way to get rid of spiders)

Well, at least the spiders are gone...

BERLIN (Reuters) - A German woman laid waste to her family home by setting fire to it as she tried to kill spiders in a garage with a can of hairspray and a cigarette lighter.

Police in the western town of Zuelpich said that when the aerosol failed to finish them off, the 34-year-old woman tried to burn them with the lighter. However, this set the area she had just sprayed on fire and the blaze spread to a hedge.

"It was a series of unfortunate events which led to the damage," a police spokesman said Thursday.

"She tried to put the fire out with a garden hose, but couldn't. Instead her semi-detached house next to the hedge caught fire. It's now uninhabitable."

Firefighters managed to extinguish the blaze and save the neighboring house, which sustained broken windows and some charring. The spokesman estimated the total cost of the damage at well over 100,000 euros. No one was hurt.

"The family have had to look for somewhere else to stay," he said. "The spiders are gone though -- that problem was solved."

Which Reno 911 Character Are you?

You're Deputy Travis Junior. You spend more time
trying to train the German Shepherds (by
speaking French) than you spend with your
fellow officers. You let the dogs kiss your
mouth and then you dont wash off the dog
saliva. You also think Wiegel is hot, which is
a little weird.


Which Law Enforcement Officer Of Reno 911 Are You?
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Stupid News Story of The Day

(How is he gonna explain THIS to his woman?)

Stripper stabs man who refused lap dance

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - An angry San Diego topless dancer pulled out a knife and stabbed a customer after he refused a lap dance, police said on Thursday.

Lawanda Dixon, 24, was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon shortly after the altercation with 33-year-old Melik Jordan at the Dream Girls Cabaret early on Wednesday, San Diego police Det. Gary Hassen said.

"He was in the club with some friends watching the shows when she came up and asked if he wanted a lap dance," Hassen said. "He said no, she got upset about it, they argued back and forth. She pulled knife out of her bag and stabbed him."

Dixon was taken into custody and police found methamphetamine in a small metal container in Dixon's bag, Hassen said, adding that she may face drug charges. Officers also confiscated a small folding knife.

Jordan was treated for his injuries and released by a local hospital.

Squeakers says "hi" (isn't she cute?)
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Random Thoughts From a Brain in Pain

I have a migraine....I think the reason why they call them migraines is that "migraine" rhymes with "pain." It is getting better tho. A little while ago I felt like I was gonna lose my lunch and my head was gonna explode, but here I am, lunch digesting nicely and my head still intact.

On the upside of things, it is Thursday, which means Friday is tomorrow. One day closer to a 3-day weekend :) I can't wait to go home and relax. I get up in the morning and think to myself, as I am groggily getting ready for work, that I can't wait til I come back home! if sleep were an obsession, I would be sleep obsessed. Then again, maybe sleep IS an obsession to some people, and maybe I AM obsessed....just something to ponder.

I am obsessed with some things. Like making sure the door is locked before I leave the house or before I go to bed. And making sure my car alarm is set when I park my car. And making sure that my curling iron is unplugged before I leave the house. Yes, I am obsessed with these and many more things. Am I crazy? I don't think I am. But maybe some people might disagree with me (hehe). I am also an organization freak at work and an anal one at that. I am completely obsessed with "evenness"--- yes, "evenness." Like if a picture is hanging slightly crooked it unnerves me and I feel myself just wanting to go straighten it! I fought very hard the other day as I was observing a trainees interview to NOT straighten out the papers that were on the desk. I am so bad! lol. I think I get it from my mom. She is obsessed with the coffee maker...she cannot leave the house in peace if she thinks it still may be plugged in. Oh, and both of my parents are obsessed with the garage door...they would get completely stressed out if they didn't remember shutting the damned thing before leaving on a trip somewhere....whether it be out of town or just down to the store. Maybe you would call that paranoia and not obsession though. Hmmm.

I SO need a haircut. My hair is getting shaggy. I need to dye it again, too. Those gray hairs are peeping back out again. GRRRR!

Almost time to go home now. Thank the lord!

Funny Stuff From George Carlin

"The idea that if kids wear uniforms to school, it helps to keep order - bad theory. And it's not even a new idea; I first saw it in old newsreels from the 1930's, but it was hard to understand, because the narration was in German."

Stupid News Story of The Day

(Better lock up your cats!)

This gives new meaning to "cat burglar"

BERLIN (Reuters) - German police called to a break-in at an apartment in the northern town of Itzstedt found the intruder still on the premises and hiding under a kitchen cabinet.

The "cat burglar" had somehow crawled into the ground-floor of the apartment, broken window blinds, torn down drapes and trashed furniture.

Police also found fish and fish remains from a broken aquarium scattered around the apartment, said Julika Reinhardt, spokesman for the police in the town north of Hamburg.

Two officers finally found the offender, a cat, hiding under a kitchen cabinet but the heavyweight male resisted arrest, biting one officer in the thumb before they both managed to overpower it.

Reinhardt said the cat, wearing a name tag, was returned to its owner who would have to pay for the damage.

"No one knows how the cat broke in," she said. "But the damage was considerable."

Update

I decided to take the "no-right click" function off of my blog...for now. I have had trouble in the past with people "direct linking" (or "hotlinking") to my images and, as a result, my server would crash. I like to collect cute images, myself and borrow quiz things from other people's blogs, so I didn't think it was fair for me to take other people's stuff and not share the wealth. Feel free to copy any of the pictures to your own hard drives, but PLEASE do not directly link on your pages to my images. It is just not nice, and it is illegal ! You can get a FREE file hosting site at places such as www.myfilestash.com or www.photobucket.com. All you need is an email address and you are set. If my server crashes again, I will have to disable the right click function yet again. So, please, be nice :)

Blast From The Past

Remember these? These toys that after a while would get tangled up and become a big, steel mess? Sure, they were fun for a while, until you decided to see what it would look like all straightened out. They were sure fun while they lasted though. It is amazing just how a coiled up piece of steel could entertain somebody for so long. Just proves that people are easily entertained for the most part. It's slinky...it's fun for a girl or a boy.

“What walks down stairs, alone or in pairs, And makes a slinkity sound?"
"A spring, a spring, a marvelous thing, Everyone knows it’s Slinky…”
"It's Slinky, it's Slinky, for fun it's a wonderful toy"
"It's Slinky, it's Slinky, it's fun for a girl and a boy"

Trivia: The Slinky was invented by Richard James, a naval engineer, in 1945.

Link: Slinky Website

Funny Stuff From George Carlin

"People say when you die, you can't take it with you. Well, that depends on what it is. If it's your dark blue suit, you certainly can take it with you. In fact, not only can you take it with you, you can probably put some things in the pockets."

Stupid News Story of The Day

(Gimme back my brain!)

U.S. woman sues over harvesting of brother's brain

SEATTLE (Reuters) - A woman has sued the largest county in Washington state for harvesting the brain of her dead brother for research without obtaining permission from next of kin, according to court records obtained on Tuesday.

In a lawsuit filed 10 days ago in Pierce County Superior Court, Robinette Amaker of North Carolina claimed that the brain of her deceased brother, Bradley Gierlich, was taken from his body in 1998 at the King County Medical Examiner's office.

Amaker, who is seeking unspecified monetary damages, said that the brain and other tissue samples were sent to Stanley Medical Research Institute, an organisation based in Bethesda, Maryland that provides brain samples for research into schizophrenia and bipolar disorders.

Amaker and her lawyer were not immediately available for comment.

Stanley Medical did not return calls seeking comment, but a statement on its Web site said, "Stanley Medical Research Institute has never knowingly obtained any donation of brain or other tissue without the full consent of available next of kin."

James Apa, spokesman for the medical examiner's office, cited a previous statement by the agency saying that consent was given for 255 cases of brain donation in the county. Stanley Medical had contracted with King County between 1995 to 2002 to obtain brain samples.

"Defendants took the property (brain) in a wrongful and tortuous manner, and a demand for its return would have been useless," the lawsuit said.

Another Survery Thingamabob

These are supposedly 25 questions that no one would ever think to ask:

o1. When you look at yourself in the mirror, what's the first thing you look at? my head...it's hard to miss - hehe

o2. How much cash do you have on you? $4 and some change - lol

o3. What's a word that rhymes with "TEST"?: Best

o4. Favorite plant?: Gerbera Daisies

o5. Who is the 4th person on your missed call list on your cell phone?: no one - I deleted all of those

o6. What is your main ring tone on your phone? Napoleon Dynamite saying, "Tina, come get some ham."

o7. What shirt are you wearing?: a tan shirt with some swirly things on it

o8. Do you "label" yourself, or could you? nope - why should I?

o9. Name brand of your shoes currently wearing? who knows - they are old - I think the label came off - haha

1o. Bright or Dark Room?: well I am in a bright room right now

11. What do you think about the person who took this survey before you? I don't know who took it before me

12. Ever "spilled the beans"?: yeah - I spilled some beans on my shirt the other day - haha

13. What were you doing at midnight last night? sleeping, of course

14. What did your last text message you received on your cell phone say? can't remember

15. Do you ever click on "Pop Ups" or Banners?: nope

16. What's a saying that you say a lot?: coolio

17. Who told you they loved you last? like I can remember that far back...I could tell you the last person who told me they didn't love me though :P

18. Last furry thing you touched?: my hamster, Squeakers (this is a bad question for people with dirty minds - lol)

19. How many hours a week do you work? 40

2o. How many rolls of film do you need to get developed?: none - I have a digital camera - hehe

21. Favorite age you have been so far?: 1 - my mommy and daddy took care of me back then - lol

22. Your worst enemy?: mean people

23. What is your current desktop picture? at home, Kenny from South Park - here at work, Ren and Stimpy

24. What was the last thing you said to someone?: shut up (I was talking to my brother- lol)

25. If you had to choose between a million bucks or to be able to change a major regret?: million bucks, baby. I think a million bucks would solve my biggest regret - lol.

New look, same blog

Yeah, I changed my blog colors again. This is what happens when I get bored - hehe. Same stuff, just different colors really. There is nothing new or exciting about my life at this moment, thus the boredom. I like to be creative though, and this is a new outlet for that creativity. Sorry if the new colors confused anyone. I assure you, you are at the right place (assuming you are looking for my blog and not someone else's - hehe).

It was terrible about what happened in Louisiana and Mississippi from that Katrina storm. Mother Nature can be a real bitch sometimes. I can only hope and pray that more people will be found alive and that someday the damage will be fixed, but that will be a long time coming.

I am tired, as usual. At least it is almost going home time :) Tomorrow is Hump Day. It is a 5-day work week this week, but next week, we are off Monday and Friday, so it will be only a 3-day work week. That makes me very happy! lol

And with that, I am signing off and getting my butt out of work and going home! woo hoo! Hooray for 5:30!

Top 10 Reasons to Go To Work Naked

10. No one will ever steal your chair.

9. Gives "bad hair day" a whole new meaning.

8. Diverts attention from the fact that you also came to work drunk.

7. People stop stealing your pens after they've seen where you keep them.

6. You want to see if it's like the dream.

5. To stop those creepy programmer guys from looking down your blouse.

4. "I'd love to chip in... but I left my wallet in my pants."

3. Inventive way to finally meet that 'special' person in Human Resources.

2. Can take advantage of your computer monitor radiation to work on your tan.


And...drum roll...the Number One reason to go to work naked:

Your boss will never say, "I wanna see your ass in here by 8:00!" ever again.

Kim's Law #9

My keys will end up at the bottom of my purse, buried under everything else, no matter how close to the top of my purse I originally put them.

Funny Stuff From George Carlin

"White people ought to understand...their job is to give people the blues, not to get them. And certainly not to sing or play them! I'll tell you a little secret about the blues: It's not enough to know which notes to play, you have to know why they need to be played."

Stupid News Story of The Day

(Funny, funny, ha ha)

Man Has Girl Present Hold-Up Note at Bank 2 hours, 28 minutes ago

SAVANNAH, Ga. - Michael Lyons apparently had a funny practical joke planned for his daughter's birthday. In the end, no one was laughing — especially Lyons.

Lyons, 45, was arrested after he told a 13-year-old girl to hand a note to a bank teller, police said. The note said, "Give me all of your money, this is a stick up," according to a police report.

The incident happened Friday when Lyons and a group of girls were celebrating his daughter's birthday. While he was getting money out of an ATM, the girl went into the bank and handed the note to a teller.

The teller sounded the bank's alarm, and police and FBI surrounded the building. Instead of robbers, they found Lyons and the girls.

Lyons was charged with criminal attempt of robbery by intimidation, said Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police spokesman Bucky Burnsed.

"You can't yell 'fire' in a crowded theater, can't joke about a bomb in your luggage at the airport, and you can't write notes to cashier that say 'This is a stick up,'" Burnsed said.

Funny Stuff From George Carlin

how many times has this happened to you? lol

"Do you ever find yourself standing in a room, and you can't remember why you went in there? And you think to yourself, 'Maybe if I go back where I was I'll see something that reminds me. Or maybe it would be quicker if I just stand here and hope it comes back to me.' Usually as you're weighing those options, two words float across your mind: 'Alzheimer's Disease.'

Stupid News Story of The Day

(Stupid is as stupid does)

"Bright sparks" destroy car trying to steal fuel

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Three men trying to steal fuel from a New Zealand farm on Monday ended up setting fire to their own car.

Police said the trio had siphoned diesel into a petrol-driven vehicle. When their car would not start, they examined the fuel pipe using a cigarette lighter.

One click, a boom and the car burst into flames.

"It wasn't a major whodunnit," senior sergeant Ross Gilbert told Reuters, from the small North Island town of Waipukurau, about 230 km (143 miles) northeast of Wellington.

"Fortunately for them, there is no criminal charge for stupidity."

The men, aged 18 to 19, escaped injury but were charged with theft.

This thingy

I "stole" this thingy off of Netter's blog - hehe

INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Copy this whole list into your journal.
2. Bold the things that are true about you.
3. Whatever you don't bold is false.

01. I miss somebody right now
02. I don't watch much TV these days
03. I love black olives
04. I love sleeping (if I could double bold this one I would! lol)
05. I own lots of books
06. I wear glasses or contact lenses
07. I love to play video games
08. I've smoked marijuana
09. I've viewed pornography
10. I have been asked to bein a threesome (no, I didn't take him up on it - haha)
11. I have been the psycho-ex in a past relationship
12. I believe honesty is USUALLY the best policy
13. I have acne free skin (normally, unless it is THAT time of the month)
14. I like Ashley Simpson (I give the girl props - she has guts)
15. I curse frequently (motherf*cking right I do! lol)
16. I have changed a lot mentally over the last year (thank you, Prozac! lol)
17. I have a hobby
18. Love Moves mankind
19. I carry my knife everywhere with me
20. I'm really smart ( i would say semi-smart not REALLY smart)
21. I've never broken someone's bones
22. I have a secret that I am ashamed to reveal
23. I hate the rain
24. I'm paranoid at times
25. I would get plastic surgery in a heart beat (breast reduction surgery, baby!)
26. I need money right now!
27. I love Sushi
28. I talk really, really fast (Always)
29. I have fresh breath in the morning
30. I have semi-long hair
31. I have lost money in Las Vegas (who hasn't ?!)
32. I have at least one brother and/or one sister
33. I was born in a country outside of the U.S.
35. I have a twin
36. I have worn fake hair/fingernails/eyelashes in the past (fake nails)
37. I couldn't survive without Caller I.D.
38. I like the way I look sometimes
39. I have lied to a good friend in the last 6 months
40. I know how to do cornrows
41. I am usually pessimistic
42. I have a lot of mood swings (at least one week a month I do - hehe)
43. I think prostitution should be legalized
44. I think Britney Spears is hot
45. I have cheated on a significant other in the past
46. I have a hidden talent
47. I'm always hyper no matter how much sugar I have
48. I think that I'm popular
49. I am currently single (no ring yet )
50. I have kissed someone of the same sex. (I kissed my grandma on the cheek the other day - ha ha)
51. I enjoy talking on the phone only if its someone I want to talk to
52. I practically live in sweatpants or PJ pants
53. I love to shop
54. I would rather eat than shop
55. I would classify myself as ghetto.
56. I'm bourgie and have worn a sweater tied around my shoulders
57. I'm obsessed with my Blogger
58. I don't hate anyone
59. I'm a pretty good dancer
60. I don't think Mike Tyson raped Desiree Washington
61. I'm completely embarrassed to be seen with my mother
62. I have a cell phone
63. I believe in God
64. I watch MTV on a daily basis
65. I have passed out drunk in the past 6 months
66. I love drama
67. I have never been in a real relationship before
68. I've rejected someone before
69. I currently have a crush on someone
70. I have no idea what I want to do for the rest of my life
71. I want to have children in the future
72. I have changed a diaper before (lots)
73. I've called the cops on a friend before
74. I bite my nails (sometimes)
75. I am a member of the Tom Green fan club
76. I'm not allergic to anything that I know of
77. I have a lot to learn
78. I have dated someone at least 10 years older or younger
79. I plan on seeing Ice Cube`s newest "Friday" movie
80. I am very shy around the opposite sex
81. I'm online 24/7, even as an away message
82. I have at least 5 away messages saved
83. IM an alcoholic
84. I have made a move on a friends significant other in the past
85. I own the "South Park" movie
86. I have avoided assignments at work to be on blogger
87. When I was a kid I played "the birds and the bees" with a neighbour or chum
88. I enjoy some country music
89. I would die for one of my best friends
90. I think that Pizza Hut has the best pizza
91. I watch soap operas whenever I can
92. IM obsessive, anal retentive, and often a perfectionist
93. I have used my sexuality to advance my career
94. I love Michael Jackson, scandals and all
95. I know all the words to Slick Rick's "Children's Story" (huh???)
96. Halloween is awesome because you get free candy
97. I watch Spongebob Squarepants and I like it
98. I have dated a close friends ex

my grandma taking a nap - lol
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Thought For the Day

One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people.

He said, "My beloved grandson, the battle inside every person is between two wolves. One is Evil. It is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, selfpity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, false pride, and ego.

The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, compassion and faith."

The grandson thought for a minute and then asked his grandfather, "Which wolf wins?"

The old Cherokee gently grasped the boy's shoulder and replied, "The one you feed."

Stupid News Story of The Day

(Want to work for this guy?)

Wanted: completely perfect legs...

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - The mayor of one Budapest district wants female City Hall staff to wear miniskirts only if they have "completely perfect legs" and the skirts are no shorter than 2-3 centimetres (about 1 inch) above the knee.

Gabor Mitynan, a conservative who runs the wealthy 12th district, also wants male employees to wear blazers in summer, and told the Website (www.index.hu) the dress code was needed because he had seen staff dressed like beggars or vacationers.

Mitynan also dislikes crop tops -- popular in Budapest -- saying "few women have well-trained bellies worth showing to people" and wants the city to legislate on stocking thickness, proposing 5-10 denier for summer, 15 for spring and autumn and 20 for winter.

Mitynan is a rarity in Budapest's 23 mostly liberal and socialist districts, so his proposals stand almost no chance of being passed by the city assembly. Liberal Budapest Mayor Gabor Demszky described the proposals as "crass," according to the state news agency MTI.

Weekend

My mom, my brother and I all went to San Francisco (again! lol) this weekend. This time we went on a tour of Alcatraz Island. It was really cool, actually. My dad stayed back at my grandma's house, but I think he would have really liked the tour alot. It was a really nice day in San Francisco. It was nice and sunny, but boy it was cold on Alcatraz. When we were down in the Recreation Yard, the wind whipped through there and about froze me in my tracks - lol. It was brrrr! But there was a nice view of the Golden Gate Bridge through there and of San Francisco. I will write more about the trip on my other blog tomorrow. I am gonna go to bed now - lol. Me so sleepy. zzzzzz. I did post some pictures and postcards though for now.

went to Morro Bay over the weekend too - this is a postcard of course - lol - it was a little foggy on Saturday
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Ticket to Alcatraz Island - we had the audio tour - it is basically a self-guided tour, aided by a headset and headphones with an audio tape - it is really cool - cost: $16 for the adult audio tour - without audio it is $11
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The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, CA
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World's "cookedest" street - Lombard Strret in San Francisco, California - we drove down this street over the weekend - the street makes 8 turns in one block and is paved with red brick
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Postcard from Alcatraz Island - the tour was really cool :)
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Cyndi's little boy, Zach - isn't he just so cute?!?!
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My best friend Cyndi and her little boy, Zach - I love this picture!!!
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Cyndi's two boys, Gabrial and Zach :)
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Funny Stuff From George Carlin

"What is all this nonsense about angels? Do you realize three out of four Americans now believe in angels? What are they, stupid? You know what I think it is? I think it's a massive, collective, chemical flashback from all the drugs- all the drugs!- smoked, swallowed, snorted, and shot up by all Americans from 1960 to 2000. Forty years of adulterated street drugs will get you some angels, my friend!"

Stupid News Story of The Day

(Nuns Gone Wild!)

Nun's wild dancing earns her a reprimand

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A Belgian nun's acrobatic and indecorous dancing with a missionary during the Catholic World Youth Day in Germany over the weekend earned her a reprimand from her mother superior, a Belgian paper said Tuesday.

Daily Het Laatste Nieuws showed pictures of a dancing Johanne Vertommen being held up in the air by the missionary, and then clinging to him with her legs wrapped around his body.

"I wouldn't do this at home but at such occasions I get carried away by the enthusiasm of the group," the 29-year-old told the paper later.

"My mother superior raised the issue today: she thinks I should watch out a bit and bear in mind that I represent our community," Vertommen said.

Pope Benedict attended the celebration at the Marienfeld, outside Cologne, in the presence of some 700,000 people.

check out my "druggie" eye - lol - I just got back from the opthamologist and he dilated my eyes - everything is blurry - luckily, my mom drove me so I didn't have to drive home - I am gonna lie down - lol
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Funny Stuff From George Carlin

"A sixty-five year-old fitness expert trotting backward from Winnipeg to Chile in an effort to promote backward trotting was killed today when she was hit by a truck head-on from the rear."

Stupid News Story of The Day

(Back off bitch....that's MY chair!)

German pensioner attacks woman over poolside chair

BERLIN (Reuters) - An elderly German grew so attached to a poolside deckchair that he attacked a woman who moved his towel to another lounger, police said on Tuesday.

When the 76-year-old pensioner returned to his favourite spot at a pool in the central town of Bad Endbach, he was enraged to find the woman, 29, had moved his towel to an unoccupied lounger so she could lie down next to her mother.

The other chair was just the same "but he didn't want to use that one," said a police spokesman in nearby Marburg.

When abusive language failed to shift the woman, the furious senior citizen got physical. "He tipped the chair over and her with it," the spokesman said. "She couldn't believe he went so far over such a trifle."

Here it is, Tuesday night....

and I am sitting here at my computer, half watching CSI on Spike TV (I think I have seen every episode by now, but it is like an addiction!), and half thinking. Ok, more like 80% watching CSI and 20% thinking. I will probably hit the hay soon, even though it is not even 9 pm yet. I am just tired tonight. I have to go to my eye exam tomorrow...blindness here I come! I hate getting my eyes dilated. It is not really painful...just unpleasant...very unpleasant. At least that means I get off work early. Call that a consolation prize I guess.

Veronica found out that she is having a baby boy. Congratulations Vee!!!!! I bet he is gonna be such a cutie.

My brother called me this evening, wanting to go to Alcatraz Island...well, not at this very moment! lol. I guess we are going back to my grandma's house on Thursday evening after I get off work, and going back to San Francisco on Friday. He was going to buy the tickets online for himself, my mom and me. How nice of him :) I guess it is partially to make up for the fighting on the last San Francisco trip. I should know better by now. This time I am taking my walkman so if my mom and my brother start arguing again, I can drown them out - hehe. I prefer NOT to fight, myself.

I think I will lie down. Damned arthritis is pissing me off again.

Kim's Law #8

If I do actually make a grocery list, I will inevitably leave it at home.

Blast From The Past

Remember these? These were those plastic pictures you could put in the oven and would shink down and become hard. I, personally never had any of these. My mom wouldn't let me get them :( But I had friends who did. I would go to a friend's house and we would put one in the oven and sit and watch it shrink thru the oven window. It was so cool! (well, it was when I was a kid).

Trivia: Shrinky Dinks were invented in 1973 by Betty Morris from Wisconsin.

Link: Shrinky Dinks Website

Funny Stuff From George Carlin

"This should go without saying. That's why I'm going to say it: Drinking and driving don't mix. Do your drinking early in the morning and get it out of the way. Then go driving while the visibility is still good."

Stupid News Story of The Day

(Tired crooks make bad crooks.)

Nightmare for thief nabbed snoring on the job

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian police responding to a break-in at a furniture store were surprised to discover the suspected culprit asleep at the scene after the man's snoring gave away his hiding place.

Police arrived at the furniture store in the central Australian town of Alice Springs on Saturday night to find the glass front door smashed.

"On walking through the store police thought the offender had fled until they heard snoring coming from the carpet racks. When they climbed up they found the 25-year-old asleep on the carpet underlay and snoring," police said in a statement.

The man was arrested and charged with unlawfully entering a building with intent to commit a crime and stealing.

SPAM update

My Spam inbox count is now up to 6064. At this rate, there will be 50,000 Spams in my box in no time!

Funniest City Names

(taken from Netscape.com)

Unalaska, Alaska

Intercourse, Pennsylvania

Goobertown, Arizona (Arlene, are you from here? lol)

Nothing, Arizona

Bald Knob, Arkansas

Hooker Corner, Indiana (I can't imagine what the main profession on this city's streets is - hehe)

Weiner, Arkansas

Hooker, Oklahoma (I think Indiana, Oklahoma and Arkansas are in cahoots!)

Blue Ball, Delaware (ok, Delaware, too - lol)

Red Head, Florida

French Lick, Indiana

Beaver Lick, Kentucky (LMAO!!!!!)

Jugville, Kentucky (is it me, or are all of these names sounding dirty???)

Hell, Michigan

Tightwad, Missouri

Meat Camp, North Carolina

Idiotville, Oregon (who would want to live here???)

Sweet Lips, Tennessee

Toad Suck, Texas

Quizzy Thingamabob

Your Element is Wood Your power colors: green and brown Your energy: generative Your season: spring Like a tree, you are always growing and changing. And while your life is dynamic, you are firmly grounded. You have high morals and great confidence in yourself and others. You have a wide set of interests, and you make for intersting company. What Element Are You?

Stupid News Story of The Day

(Maybe it's true...cats really do have 9 lives.)

Nevada Kitty Survives Jolt, Fire, Fall

GARDNERVILLE, Nev. - A stalking foray atop a power pole left a lucky feline jolted, frizzled and dazed but otherwise OK after he fell off the 40-foot pole and sparked a fire outside a fire house.

The frazzled cat was discovered when paramedic-firefighters Andrew Chrzanowski and Jeremy Hall responded to the fire Wednesday morning after the lights went out at the Topaz Ranch Estates fire house.

"When we got the fire knocked down we saw this burned cat close to the base of the pole," Hall said.

They assumed it was dead until Chrzanowski noticed it was breathing. He put it on a blanket and gave it oxygen.

"We both thought that with the amount of burns he had he wasn't going to make it, but then we started to look more closely and we saw it was all superficial," Hall said. "The fire just burned all his hair off."

The firefighters believe the cat was on the pole, because a bird's nest was found on top and there was a large black spot where something had touched a relay switch on the 25,000-volt line.

Animal Control officer Janet Duzan took the cat to Carson Valley Veterinary Hospital, where Veterinarian Steve Talbot said it should make a full recovery.

"The doctor said it looks like he was in a flash fire and got singed from head to toe," Duzan said.

The cat will be put up for adoption if it is not claimed by its owner, she said.

Funny Stuff From George Carlin

"Don't you hate when a rock band comes onstage and apparently the drummer has decided that somehow it's cool to wear a funny hat?"

Blast From The Past

The Rubik's Cube...that thing that annoyed the heck out of you when you were a kid. Some people (you know who you were!) actually peeled the stickers off of the cube and put them in the right place and then told their friends that they solved the danged puzzle...I actually did solve the puzzle....after like a week! I was never one of those "Rubik's Masters" that could finish it in less than a minute (the freaks!). Followed by the Rubik's Cube, came the Pyramid, Rubik's Rings, Rubik's Revenge, Rubik's Bricks, and Rubik's Snake, among others.

Trivia: The Rubik's Cube was invented by Hungarian Professor Erno Rubik in the 70s.


The Rubik's Cube Official Website

The Zoo!

My mom, my brother and I all went to the San Francisco Zoo yesterday. I had a great time walking around and seeing all the animals. I loved the gorillas. One of them was beating her chest and sticking her tongue out at the people. They were totally showing off. I posted a bunch of pictures down below and even more on my other blog and all of the pics I took on my Yahoo Photo album. Enjoy!

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Siberian Tiger
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Grizzly Bear
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Lions taking a nap
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River Otters
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Polar Bear
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male gorilla
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Gorilla clapping her hands
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Western Lowland Gorilla
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Recticulated Giraffe
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