20 things porn believes (none of which are true)

20 things porn believes (none of which are true)

1.) Every man's body is hairless
2.) Moving from one sexual position to another is a breeze
3.) Sex can happen two minutes after meeting someone for the first time. Three minutes if either person has something to say
4.) Sex can last for hours and will always feel good
5.) Women MUST talk or groan every moment of intercourse and every sentence must end with the word 'yeah'
6.) Everyone lives in, or knows someone with, a huge mansion
7.) Private detectives are easy to find and all have a large penis
8.) Everyone is bare backing it
9.) Sex at work is easy to pull off
10.) But not as easy as threesomes and orgies
11.) Friendships don't matter when sex is involved. Neither do bloodlines.
12.) Every guy lives in the gym and sleeps in a tanning booth.
13.) Everyone woman has a little lesbian in her..(wait, that might be true)
14.) Anal is normal and never needs to be asked for
15.) Expect greatness when the UPS guy says he has a "package" for you
16.) Most women wear garters. All day. Every day. Even with bathing suits
17.) Aqua Net is still a popular hair care product
18.) Every popular movie must be satired in a porno (i.e.- The Dark Nuts and Edward Penishands)
19.) People are having sex multiple times a day, everyday
20.) That we are interested in a plot
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Too much birthday cake

you are a huge douche

1. brett favre
2. this guy i know from work...we shall call him sam. this guy owns a HUGE house he just built, two new cars and a home stereo/theatre/game room/entertainment center which he spent roughly 25-30k on, has HUGE student loan and credit card debt and a couple of young kids....but he went on a tear the other day about his wife "not allowing" him to buy another home audio thingy for the house because it was "her turn" and she wanted a full set of riding gear for horseback riding. He said no one should ever let their wife pull rank etc.. rant rant rant.

you fucking tool. you are the #1 reason our econ. is the way it is. the american who builds a 350k house, and has two new cars (with 7 year!! loans) and credit card debt, and student loan debt and who keeps buying more shit he doesnt need and making more debt which he will most likely never repay and has 2 fucking kids who will in turn, learn shitty spending habits from their crappy parents, be saddled with student loans, etc. etc...

some days you just have to fucking hate people

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I got the girls 5th birthday pictures back. even though i wanted to die (from strep) at the shoot and they were uncooperative, the shots turned out OK

A person I work with gave me state fair tickets, so we are taking the kids today, it is supposed to be HOT HOT HOT but we are going early. we also have to get malinda to the denist (i think she has a cavety) this morning.

i'm feeling blue for my boy down there in hot-lanta. sorry you are losing your woman next week. stay strong brother man....or better yet, come up here for your birthday and we will take you to chuck e cheese.

work has been LONG and boring this week. I am back to my 5 minutes of real work and 7 hrs and 55 minutes of time with nothing to do. if i could only play video games or something while i am there it would be so money.

owen is working at being potty trained. he had two days this week with 0 accidents, that is HUGE for him. i am comitted to no more diapers in 2009. which would be great since he will be 4 this year.

stuff i am watching this week:

be kind rewind-very boring movie except the part where they recreate ghostbusters (they call this "sweeding" the movie, you would really have to watch to understand) i rewatched that 4 times i laughed so hard/

six feet under season 4-ah so good.

reading:

and eternity by piers anthony, the last incarnation of immortality book. im sad.

listening:

a son of the circus by john irving & starting over with piers in audiobooks with death rides a pale horse (which is what dead like me is based on)

also listening to katy perry, the perishers, the weepies & some sonic youth.

kudos to me: for cleaning my bathroom this morning and mowing the lawn yesterday.

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hi, my name is charlie bartlett charlie bartlett is a fantastic movie....its like ferris bueller's day off except what if ferris went to school and helped everyone by prescribing prescription drugs?

seriously, go rent it.....i liked it almost as much as I liked juno...yet in a differemt way....conserv8 I think you and boo would really enjoy it....

i may just buy it to watch again
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Giant moth on our door

its a bad day when... you get up, get dressed, go work, work all day, pick up the kids, come home..and around 5 o clock you grab your ipod to make dinner and naturally when i have no pockets i put my ipod the only place a nice girl like me CAN put their ipod, in their bra cup.....only i realize i havent been wearing a bra all day. ALL DAY.

1 this is some sort of impressive feat as im a 38D and generally you would notice me boppin around, or i would. I happened to be wearing a shirt with a cami under and that is tight around the bodice so i gueesi didnt notice.....

sad.

and here i have shared with you all.

here is an exerpt from the "monkey prostitue" article in the NY times. go monkey's get your monkey 'ho on.

It is sometimes unclear, even to Chen himself, exactly what he is working on. When he and Santos, his psychologist collaborator, began to teach the Yale capuchins to use money, he had no pressing research theme. The essential idea was to give a monkey a dollar and see what it did with it. The currency Chen settled on was a silver disc, one inch in diameter, with a hole in the middle -- ''kind of like Chinese money,'' he says. It took several months of rudimentary repetition to teach the monkeys that these tokens were valuable as a means of exchange for a treat and would be similarly valuable the next day. Having gained that understanding, a capuchin would then be presented with 12 tokens on a tray and have to decide how many to surrender for, say, Jell-O cubes versus grapes. This first step allowed each capuchin to reveal its preferences and to grasp the concept of budgeting.

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Questions for Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt
The authors of "Freakonomics" answered readers' questions on their bestselling book and new magazine column.

For more information about the authors and Keith Chen's research, including photographs, academic papers and a live monkey cam, see www.freakonomics.com.

Then Chen introduced price shocks and wealth shocks. If, for instance, the price of Jell-O fell (two cubes instead of one per token), would the capuchin buy more Jell-O and fewer grapes? The capuchins responded rationally to tests like this -- that is, they responded the way most readers of The Times would respond. In economist-speak, the capuchins adhered to the rules of utility maximization and price theory: when the price of something falls, people tend to buy more of it.

Chen next introduced a pair of gambling games and set out to determine which one the monkeys preferred. In the first game, the capuchin was given one grape and, dependent on a coin flip, either retained the original grape or won a bonus grape. In the second game, the capuchin started out owning the bonus grape and, once again dependent on a coin flip, either kept the two grapes or lost one. These two games are in fact the same gamble, with identical odds, but one is framed as a potential win and the other as a potential loss.

How did the capuchins react? They far preferred to take a gamble on the potential gain than the potential loss. This is not what an economics textbook would predict. The laws of economics state that these two gambles, because they represent such small stakes, should be treated equally.

So, does Chen's gambling experiment simply reveal the cognitive limitations of his small-brained subjects? Perhaps not. In similar experiments, it turns out that humans tend to make the same type of irrational decision at a nearly identical rate. Documenting this phenomenon, known as loss aversion, is what helped the psychologist Daniel Kahneman win a Nobel Prize in economics. The data generated by the capuchin monkeys, Chen says, ''make them statistically indistinguishable from most stock-market investors.''

ut do the capuchins actually understand money? Or is Chen simply exploiting their endless appetites to make them perform neat tricks?

Several facts suggest the former. During a recent capuchin experiment that used cucumbers as treats, a research assistant happened to slice the cucumber into discs instead of cubes, as was typical. One capuchin picked up a slice, started to eat it and then ran over to a researcher to see if he could ''buy'' something sweeter with it. To the capuchin, a round slice of cucumber bore enough resemblance to Chen's silver tokens to seem like another piece of currency.

Then there is the stealing. Santos has observed that the monkeys never deliberately save any money, but they do sometimes purloin a token or two during an experiment. All seven monkeys live in a communal main chamber of about 750 cubic feet. For experiments, one capuchin at a time is let into a smaller testing chamber next door. Once, a capuchin in the testing chamber picked up an entire tray of tokens, flung them into the main chamber and then scurried in after them -- a combination jailbreak and bank heist -- which led to a chaotic scene in which the human researchers had to rush into the main chamber and offer food bribes for the tokens, a reinforcement that in effect encouraged more stealing.

Something else happened during that chaotic scene, something that convinced Chen of the monkeys' true grasp of money. Perhaps the most distinguishing characteristic of money, after all, is its fungibility, the fact that it can be used to buy not just food but anything. During the chaos in the monkey cage, Chen saw something out of the corner of his eye that he would later try to play down but in his heart of hearts he knew to be true. What he witnessed was probably the first observed exchange of money for sex in the history of monkeykind. (Further proof that the monkeys truly understood money: the monkey who was paid for sex immediately traded the token in for a grape.)

This is a sensitive subject. The capuchin lab at Yale has been built and maintained to make the monkeys as comfortable as possible, and especially to allow them to carry on in a natural state. The introduction of money was tricky enough; it wouldn't reflect well on anyone involved if the money turned the lab into a brothel. To this end, Chen has taken steps to ensure that future monkey sex at Yale occurs as nature intended it.

But these facts remain: When taught to use money, a group of capuchin monkeys responded quite rationally to simple incentives; responded irrationally to risky gambles; failed to save; stole when they could; used money for food and, on occasion, sex. In other words, they behaved a good bit like the creature that most of Chen's more traditional colleagues study: Homo sapiens.

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1st the carpet now this
3 foot hole in the ceiling due to pvc pipe in ac unit that cracked

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belief

thanks to dan, this about sums it all up for me too (thanks to neil gaiman)

I have a friend that has often asked me what I believe in. While reading a book by Neil Gaiman, I came across a pretty good answer...

"I can believe in things that are true and I can believe in things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they are true or not. I can believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and Marilyn Monroe and the Beatles and Elvis and Mr. Ed. Listen-I believe that people are perfectible, that knowledge is infinite, that the world is run by secret banking cartels and is visited by aliens on a regular basis, nice ones that look like wrinkledy lemurs and bad ones who mutilate cattle and want our water and our women. I believe that the future sucks and I believe that the future rocks and I believe that one day White Buffalo Woman is going to come back and kick everyone's ass. I believe that men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating and that the decline in good sex in America is coincident with the decline in drive-in movie theatres from state to state. I believe that all politicians are unprincipled crooks and I still believe that they are better than the alternative. I believe that California is going to sink into the sea when the big one comes, while Florida is going to dissolve into madness and alligators and toxic waste. I believe that antibacterial soap is destroying out resistance to dirt and disease so that one day we will all be wiped out by the common cold like the Martians in War of the Worlds. I believe that the greatest poets of the last century were Edith Sitwell and Don Marquis, that jade is dried dragon sperm, and that thousands of years ago in a former life I was a one-armed Siberian shaman. I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it is aerodynamically impossible for a bumblebee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there's a cat in a box somewhere who's alive and dead at the same time (although if they don't ever open the box to feed it it'll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself. I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn't even know I'm alive. I believe in an empty godless universe of casual chaos, background noise, and sheer blind luck. I believe that anyone who says that sex is overrated just hasn't done it properly. I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too. I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies. I believe in a woman's right to choose, a baby's right to live, that while all human life is sacred there's nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system. I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it."

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the flood of 08

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mildew and wet vac’s
Current mood: distraught

so if you didnt already hear, our basement got wet...we didnt get flooded (aka standing water) what we got was seepage (Water coming up through the foundation of the house) im writing this on dales computer so i cant upload pictures of our sodden carpet but i spent the entire day friday wet vac'ing or carpet cleaning sucking up water in my computer room library and our playroom (aka the one room we always do everything in)

thankfully most of the stuff i have in storage down here is in a plastic bin so very very little got ruined, we threw out some old sofa pillows from our old couch (no big loss) an old wood shelf my mom brought over (no idea why we had it for storage anyways) and random papers and odds and ends.

we have a total of 4 box fans, 3 radial fans, a new 175.00 dehumidifier running in the basement at all times....the combo of vac'ing and fanning and dehumidifiing has made the totally soaken wet carpets now just "moist" or "slightly damp" or pretty much dry. the problem is that now the whole house smells like damp or mildew or stale or i dunno what. my mom is against me cleaning the carpets now (til it all dries out) and i cant handle the smell. opening the windows all day yesterday didnt do much and its better to keep the ac on anyways to pull moisture out of the house. if anyone has any ideas for making the house smell purdy i would welcome them...

other than that, im pretty miserable overall.
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wow!

goodbye lake delton

for those of you who live in or lived in wi, lake delton is no more. lake delton, home of the tommy barletts watershow and 10-15 lakeside resorts and numerous houses flooded earlier today and created a new channel, moved over the highway (hwy A) and rejoined the wisconsin river leaving a big mudhole with no water...
we just were there last weekend and saw one of the last tommy barlett shows...the tommy barlett watershow (which has been in production for the last 55 YEARS) was canceled today due to lack of WATER.

ouch

downtown waukesha is flooded, and the river is expected to crest tomorrow...

enjoy the rain guys.
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tonight dale and i went on a date, we went to marcus and got a pizza and saw indiana jones....dale thought it was pretty lame, i thought it was pretty enjoyable...as we were walking out we saw a gaggle (at least 10-15) middle early aged (35-45) women dressed up in NY "sheek" with cheep high heels and crappy target oversized purses. 20 bucks to guess which movie they were headed to?

i mocked them the whole way out.

i must say i never watched sex in the city, i dont have HBO for one and for two, i really hate sarica jessica parker. she is a horsy faced nob. and annoying. really fucking annoying.

i liked indiana jones myself, i can see where the mutt jones sequals will be happening and i totally get the last 20 min of the movie where my dad said "thats where you can see where george lucas got his hand in and let the ILM geeks go bonkers" (word dad, word.)



this is now my new favorite picture of owen. kid is a hot mess, seriously.

i have been watching and enjoying six feet under (thanks ryan darling) and believing what my twin says, he really goes resemble nate....its getting pretty creepy son..thats 4 sure.

this week i also read the new anita blake, blood noir, the latest james patterson cross novel, double cross, the latest maryjanice davidson betsy book (vg) and i am working my way through a "bones" book by kathy reichs.

watching on TV (besides 6 feet under) greek and top chef...i cant wait that project runway is back on soon....i hope that christian "fierce hot tranny mess" will make some sort of apperance...also watched spider man 3 (sp features, which sucked), enchanted (twice) and we have surf's up for the kids tomorrow.....also BSG on tomorrow nite, whooop!

listening to XTC, Jose Gonzales and Al Hirt like a madwoman.

ive got to go wash my hair and pretend to get stuff for the gym tomorrow (i would rather sleep in)

thanks to jenamarie for lunch today...had fun on the girls day out!



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a long 48 hours in the dells...
kids went bonkers, but then again they always do
saturday we went on the ducks (pictures to follow here shortly) i cant remember the last time i did that tour, we really had fun.
we checked in to the hotel, the polynesian and i think it was a FANTASTIC waterpark if you have kids under 7. there was NO ONE there the kids had the entire inside area to themselves for about an hour....dale and i each had a drinky drink (him, rum, strawberry banana....me mudslide. mmmmmm mudslide) and watched the kids play.
the girls almost drowned (really) but thanks to a nice teenage kid lifeguard are still alive. (note to children, when mommy says, "ill check to see how deep the water is first" that does not mean, lets go down the waterslide into 4 feet of water when you cant swim. and malinda while you see your sister drowing and being rescued, that does not mean you should go down the slide and get rescued too.)

after we played for a bit at the waterpark we had dinner at subway and decided to get tickets for the tommy barlett watershow. its always my favorite part of the dells...do a show for 55 years and you kinda get it down pat. we saw the 8:30 show which means we get to see the dancing waters (hooray!). the kids went into bed at like 11pm (my kids normally in bed by 7) and owen kept me up ALL NIGHT till 4am when i couldnt take it anymore.

by couldnt take it anymore i mean, rolling on top of me, kicking, pulling my hair, almost falling off the bed, grinding teeth, sucking noises and i am not sure what else...all while sound asleep. i gave up at 4am and made dale sleep with him.

we went to mr. pancake (also a dells staple for me and my family) and had...pancakes (sadly no boysenberry syrup-criminal) and went to noahs ark with 3 really fucking crabby kids. we stayed about 4 hours, dragged their asses out of there and they were all asleep within 2-10 minutes of being in the car...

dale and i listened to the brewers spank the astros (10-1) on the way home.

got home, noticed i am now a bit tan, with a bit of red on my shoulders (stupid spray on sunscreen...)

tonight we had mediterranian chicken (chicken breasts with dried tomatoes, green olives, capers, artichoke, garlic and white wine) and black beans and rice.

i then went on a tear cleaning out my closet and have a bucket of crap for goodwill.
i am going to watch 6 feet under and cross stitch.

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that we took the kids to see nim's island yesterday
for little kids like mine, they were pretty bored...i'd say it was more for 8 yr olds who wanted to follow the story (mine were wondering when dancing cartoon chipmunks and songs would start) but really what struck me is how OLD Jodie Foster looked. Now I know she is in her 40s..but with movie magic sophia loren (who is like 82) looks in her 40s...so either they did a great job of olding her up or she just looks old....

last night i did some retail therapy bought a very cool book and got some fantastic deals...a nice red sweater from old navy for 1.97 (whoo hoo), a RED t-ee from the gap for 5 bucks (its white with a red flamingo on it and its very very soft and a v-neck....and i got some shorts since for some reason i can not find my shorts.

i bought the kids enchanted (mya is not happy as this movie scared her)

and dale is preoccupied with listening to the douglas adams books on his zen.

my dad is home from the hospital too...

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a few things out of the way:

1. congrats to my boss (ish) and fellow north hs classmate DJ on the birth of son #2 Brady Benjamin, yesterday...my advise to him to his wife to demand of your body that it expell the bebe on your timetable worked. kid was born yesterday 1 week early.

2. congrats to damon on bebe #2, a son. Ethan Connor joins Brooke (who I think is 5) at home.

3. warm wishes to my favorite author and friend PKM on the anniversary of her engagement.

4. good thoughts to my other boss (ish) Dave...his wife has a mysterious virus and she is in a lot of pain, but getting better.

STUFF I AM UP TO:
movies I watched lately:
27 dresses-rating eh (eh=dismissive vocalization expressing ennui or general dismissivenes)...I would say in the realm of RomComs it was not as bad as anything with JLo (see Monster in Law and that thing with Matthew McConnehey where she plays the wedding planner) but not as good as say, Sweet Home Alabama or Ever After.

Die Hard 2-why the hell do they call these movies die hard? McClaine never dies hard, he just has really shitty xmases? having never seen it before and then hearing ryan say it was the worst out of all of them (he hasnt seen #4) and then seeing it was a reny harlin directed picture. i agree. the 1st one was better.

Walk Hard-The Dewey Cox Story. Way way funny. and bonus points for having so many "Office" cast members in the cast. more bonus points for Jenna Fischer. she is so fraking hot.

have been watching the ENTIRE extended edition LOTR with the kids. you havent lived till you hear your 3 yr old son laugh as orks get decapatated and your 4 year old daughter say "those good guys need to stab somone in the stomach, or maybe the eye and kill them so mr frodo and go to the volanco and not get dead." (real quote, i shit you not)

In Queue: The Golden Compass (to see how it ruined a great book) waiting to watch with dale (and now I have to say "beef, it's what for dinner" thanks ryan), Juno (to mock diablo cody...honest to blog), National Treasure: Book of Secrets & 30 rock, season 1.

TV Watchin':

The Office, House, Bones, & Greek all kick ass on TV, however nothing rocks so hard as Battlestar Galactica. The fact that this show ends this season is awful. Its so mother fraking good i cant stand myself. makes friday nights worth it again. Starbuck rules.

Reading:
Kathy Reich's Temperance Brennan books (aka the inspiration for "Bones") very very good. Thanks dad for loaning to me.

The latest #1 Ladies Detective Agency book...as Robin (my SIL) says "always so delightful." agreed.

shopgirl by steve martin...short, but actually really good. i recommend.

princess mia by meg cabot. yes i read the princess diaries series. you go to hell. you go to hell and you die. this book reminded me so much of ME circa 1995 i wet my fraking PILLOW crying. thank god dale was sleeping....

the lovely bones-really disturbing, yet very beautiful, made you want to believe there is heaven. I couldnt read more than a chapter at a time, kids being murdered bothers me.

Harry Potter VII, for about the 9th time. still is a read to remember.

Stuff im listening to:

According to the play count on my ipod I love the following more than anything:

Band of Horses "No One's Gonna Love You."
Feist, 1234
This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race by fallout boy
How Can I tell you by Liz Durret
The Way I am by Ingrid Michaelson
Overkill by Colin Hay
Winter by Joshua Radin
You by Fisher
Walter Reed by Michael Penn
and Hey Julie by Fountains of Wayne

new earworm song "Baby it's cold outside" by Leon Redbone and Zooey Deschanel (from "Elf"...."its' SANTA! {that slays me})

new find: nothing like you and i by the perishers.

this week, im busy...tomorrow is kindergarden registration (depressing and joyful) and brewers game on saturday.

love ya all.

hi lori

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alkin hard or hardly walkin
Current mood: awake today it rained....nevertheless we did mondo errands with the kiddies..
dentist (dale and I, no caveties)
postoffice (stocked up on forever stamps)
library (to get the elf soundtrack....i love baby its cold outside as sung by zooey deschanel)
comic book store (free comic book day)
UNO's for lunch (best service and lunch with the kids we have ever had...perhaphs because i had a bloody me for a drink? (2nd one this week...im a lush?))
home...

watched the two towers with the kids (when does mr frodo get to the volcano?)
inlaws bought the kids bikes and brought over dinner (YUM)

found out dale's cousin didn't OD accidentally, it was on purpose..he had only been out of rehab for 24 hours. really sucked...he was only 38 and always a sweet person.....

i cant find my digital camera...any ideas..

congrats to my old business partner in the lemonaide business on the baby girl to be...you should change your profile to proud parent.

miss you mr bear.
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sorry lori

for not writing much of late
i have been busy

some things of note. i got a bonus bonus (besides my ot bonus) for helping the new guy (who shall be called dave, because his name is dave) transition here. i have no idea how much it is...lets hope its alot.

dale leaves for Indy next week wed for his trade show.

dr biebel called about 10 min ago. we did a stool study for owen ( the kid has had dirahea for the last 3 years, i kid you not) turns out he has a reducing substances positive result.

what does this mean you ask?

well it means that he has a problem digesting carbohydrates or your "oses"
lactose, fructose, glucose etc...

he has to call the head GI guy at childrens to see if there is a test and what kind of test they can do to try and isolate which carb (sugar) he is having problems with absorbing and how to fix that.

it may be as simple as eliminating that "ose" from his diet or as not simple as scoping his pooper.

tonite is battlestar galactica and i am almost pissing myself im so jazzed.

off to watch starbuck

love you lori, this ones for you

GO BREWERS!

(OH and we got a pair of my bosses brewers season tickets, 1st row, 3rd base side, on the aisle behind the visiting teams dugout. so awesome)

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i am not irish

1. I'm not irish...

that being said, I invariably get into an arguement wherever I am on St. Patrick's Day. The discussion goes like this:

"Why aren't you wearing Green?"
"I'm not Irish."
"But everyone's Irish on St. Patrick's Day!" (even though he was neither Irish, or a Saint, or named Patrick)
"No, they aren't. Is everyone Black on Martin Luther King Jr. Day?"
silence...

so wear pink today or black or anything but green. I don't drink, I don't drink Green beer, and I am NOT irish.

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grindhouse part one

so tonight dale and i watched Planet Terror part I of grindhouse....Im not really a fan of zombie/horror movies myself but this was pretty freaking awesome.

josh brolin, killed me...
that hot blonde doctor, killed me
rose mcgowan, super hot and funny....
the ending, hilarious.
exploding body parts, all good..
quentin tarantino getting his? check.

i can say that i now have high expectations for death proof tomorrow night...

and the preview for machete....priceless, i want that coming to a theare near me soon.

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my weekend

this has been a long, but fun weekend..
owen now seems to be turning the corner since he has had his antibiotics for the past two days (flavored grape bubblegum thanks to the wizards at walgreens)
he doesnt want to take the medicine but his lack of fever and generally better temperment has shown the meds work.

saturday we went to country springs hotel and waterpark (grandma bought the tickets, thanks mum) and I have to say, I was pleasantly surprized. I actually want to go back and I actually want to go back WITHOUT the kids. They have 3 large waterslides (two with tubes, one without) a small lazy river, a HUGE ass kids area for the pre 5 year old set and a big pool area for the kids who want to pretend to swim and play basketball. They also have a awesome indoor/outdoor hottub and let me tell you sitting in the hottub when its like 40 outside rocks the Fucking house. I coulda sat in there all day. No problem.

We stayed about 3 hours or so, ate a bit of lunch and took the kids home...we all took a nap, washed the swimclothes and headed back to the waterpark (another nice feature, you can come and go as you like) for an hour and a half or so...left got some wendys fed the kids and they went to bed.

i spent last night recovering from waterloggedness and watching scrubs season 6 on dvd....scrubs is such a great show.

today was a no plans no needs sort of sunday...we went to oconomowoc to the pick n save (the one that gives away samples) got some groceries (all i needed was milk and yogurt and ended up with a 140.00 worth of stuff...damn shopping)

owen passed out in the car and so he missed lunch...i took off for an hour of ME time which was returning stuff to Kohls, returning a book to B&N and grabbing a starbucks. I have a fun and exciting existance.

the rest of today plan is to do laundry (a never ending job), make get well cards for uncle jason (sprained foot playing soccer) and having dinner (i'm feeling pasta).
tonight after the kids go to bed I may have to clean the library (my books are getting everywhere and I cant FIND anything) and finishing scrubs season 6 disc 3.

I've also realized this week Ryan and I are like ships in the night, we have become voice mail message buddies one of these days kid we should actually connect on the phone!

here is the slider of the pictures from my disasterous trip to chicago (the one where the lady walked in front of the train and got herself killed) and the waterpark



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FUCKING WORST DAY EVER

to break it down:
mix up with cars so the girls did not go to ballet
then took train home from chicago, problems with the train, had to remove a car, shove that car worth of people into 4 cars and left chicago 1 hr or so late
then 30 minutes after we left (late) the train HIT A FUCKING CAR ON THE TRACKS AND KILLED SOMEONE.

I WAS ON THE GODDAMN TRAIN FOR 6 AND A HALF FUCKING HOURS.

I GOT HOME AT 10:30 FUCKING PM

I HAD THE WORST DAY

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