I put together a vlog for everyone that includes footage of this past weekends snow storm and what we had to dig out of.
When we were done digging out yesterday Cherokee and I went went and helped Kris finish doing his snow thing over at our 80 year old neighbors house. He needed to clear the sidewalk and the walk up to her house in case emergency workers had to get to her. That meant we had to dig out a path from the road to the drive where feet of snow were put from the snow plows – and I am not talking state/city sanctioned snow plows. I am talking about some idiot from the area who decided to be impatient and do the neighborhood roads himself and really did as much damage as he did help. When we were done with that we dug out Kris’s Blazer, again with three feet of snow or so piled around it from the plow because he has to park on the road (you will see it in the vlog) where he could go to work today. When I got up I noticed he hadn’t gone to work so I guess the hospital called him and told him not to come in today. Anyway, we were out there digging for about three hours Saturday then for another four on Sunday.
Thanks to Twitter, I found a link for a story on AlterNet titled The Six Weirdest Things Women Do To Their Vaginas. Before I get into that I want to point out that spellcheck does not recognize the plural of vagina. Whoever programed spellcheck didn’t think that someone would actually be talking about more than one vagina at a time. Hell, he or she probably never thought that someone would be talking about the vagina in general but, being a medical term, it probably had to be included by default.
Anyway…this article. There are some pretty weird things listed. The article starts off with vaginal deodorants and douches which has us all having flashbacks to standing in a meadow questioning our freshness. It’s not so much that these things are odd, but what is odd is that the article points out that one of the vaginal deodorants contains hexachlorophene, which is toxic. Seriously. All this reminds me of back in the 1940’s and 1950’s women were encouraged to douche with Lysol. I am not kidding. Here’s an actual advert for Lysol douching from 1948. Continue reading “6 Weirdest Things…”
Today has been one of those days that I just feel completely horrible. All day I have felt like I am going to toss my cookies and every time I stand up I get really dizzy and feel even worse. Then there is the headache…I have no idea if this is my fibromylagia kicking my ass and making me pay for shoveling snow yesterday, something related to my cycle and endometriosis or something else all together. I even took a nap today, which is damn near impossible to do in this house. I am hoping that tomorrow I feel better.
I have decided that I am going to take a course that will allow me to become a love coach. It’s something I really want to do and it kind of goes with everything else that I am doing at the moment reviewing movies and toys. I know someone is asking “What the hell is a love coach?” It’s kind of like one of those life coaches that are part motivational speakers and part annoying people who tell you how to organize your life and do this and that and make it better. Well, a love coach is sort of like that but they help people with their sex lives. If you have ever watched Real Sex on HBO you have probably seen one at some time or another because every so often they will do a story on someone who teaches classes on how to give blow jobs or something. I don’t plan on teaching blow job classes but I do feel that I could be of help to a good number of people who have problems in their sex life because of some sort of disability and would like some help. It’s something I know quite a bit about between my health issues and my husbands.
I am supposed to have my XRCO award nominations in tomorrow. That’s not happening. I had to ask for a few more days because when we moved it caused a few problems with a few studios with shipping. I just got all those shipping problems resolved and just received three months worth of screeners from one company and I have two more deliveries of movies showing up tomorrow that I need to take into consideration for awards. It’s a lot of movies to watch in four days…and I am sick. I don’t want to do anything.
The thing that I hate most about being sick is don’t want to do anything yet I get bored not doing anything.
First, I would like to thank everyone who left me spam comments to delete. I enjoyed reading every one of them, including the novel about acia berries. My favorites are always the ones where it sounds like Yoda left me a message.
I wasn’t sure it was going to happen since we had a few 60+ degree days, but winter came back. We ended up having another snow storm. Not as big as the last one which dumped over two feet of snow on us. This time around we are only supposed to get 7 inches. The problem is that VDOT hasn’t seen fit to actually clean the roads properly. The official word is that the crews were out all night prior to the storm “preparing” the roads. That is a load of crap. We were out there today in that mess and they had done nothing with the roads. No salting, no nothing. When we were out between noon and 2:00 the crews were just getting to plowing and putting down sand. Yes, that was helpful. Today’s high was 17 degrees F.
Even more helpful was our crazy ass neighbor. We live in an interesting neighborhood that provides me with a number of laughs. Now, the last snow storm the neighbor in question decided that the road crews didn’t get to our road soon enough and took out his pick up truck with a plow on it and attempted to clean our road. I so wish I had know that this idiot was going to do this because it would have been awesome to put up on YouTube. He managed to do more harm than good, almost took out the fire hydrant and totally screwed up our neighborhood intersection. This picture is from the last snow storm but you can see the intersection…sort of.
So, he had that intersection so screwed up that everyone was getting stuck in it. Things would have been much better if he had left well enough alone. Well, today he decided he was going to plow the road again. Five times. I wish I was kidding. See those cars parked on the side of the road there? He almost took out two of them today. At least it wasn’t the fire hydrant. I heard a snow plow go down the road a sixth time and I said “Dear God, he’s still at it.” I looked outside and it was a city or state truck doing their thing. At least now maybe no one will get stuck in the intersection after our neighbor “cleaned” it. I don’t know if I can get pictures of the snow this time because my camera is dead.
So why was I out in this mess? I was looking for the new Fozzy CD, Chasing the Grail. In case you have been living under a rock Fozzy is Chris Jericho’s band. You know, the WWE wrestler. Fozzy is awesome. Yesterday I went to three stores to find the CD. Target (where I purchased their last CD, All That Remains), Best Buy and Borders. Borders has the worst music selection I have ever seen. All they had under F was Foo Fighters and Franz Ferdinand. I am not listing to Franz in this lifetime or the next. I came across Trent Reznor going off about how much Franz sucked and in a moment of stupidity I had to look them up on YouTube to find out why Trent said they sucked. That prompted the mental note of “If Trent says it sucks, believe him and don’t go investigating. Some things it’s best not to experience.” The last place I had to check in the immediate area was Hot Topic. They had it and I have come to the conclusion that any music I want I am only going to find at Hot Topic. I will say this about Best Buy though. If you want Nickleback, that’s the place to go. What did amaze me while looking for Chasing the Grail was how popular Kids Bop CDs are. What the hell is up with that? I am having a hard time believing that kids are really into that crap. I mean, my 10 year old today was going off about how great Ozzy was today.
So, I found Chasing the Grail and I am happy. After the trip to the mall I suggested to my husband we eat at Red Robin. Now, we have never been there and the restaurant has been mentioned on Psych so naturally I am curious. I heard somewhere that they were pretty good about dealing with food allergies and wanted to verify this. I talked to our server about the allergies and he told me they had an allergy menu and offered to get me one. The manager brought it out personally and talked to me about it. This is so awesome. They can pretty much accommodate the nightmare that is feeding my kids. Even better…free french fry refills. Nope, not kidding. All the fries you can eat.
So, that’s been my day. Well, that and watching a number of cheesy movies but that is for another website.
A few minutes ago I received an email from someone saying that they liked my website (the movie review on) and that they linked to it. Said person then DEMANDED I give them a reciprocal link. What the hell?!? Seriously? I put up links of websites that I personally like. I don’t demand a reciprocal link from anyone. I can think of two occasions where I emailed someone and asked nicely if I could be added to their blogroll, both times I was told yes and I was given a spot. Continue reading “I Could Never Get The Hang of Thursdays…”
Yesterday when my husband came home, this spider was hanging out on the garage door when my husband got home from work. Continue reading “Giant Spider”
Yea, I know, 2010 started 19 days ago. At least that is what my Get Fuzzy desk calendar tells me. I have no concept of time and most days when I wake up I have to ask someone what day it is. I was hoping my desk calendar would help me with that but I often forget to tear off each day as it’s over. I also bought a watch where I knew what time it was. The problem is that I rarely wear it. It covers up some of my tattoo work and that pisses me off. Continue reading “Welcome to 2010″
Well, that’s what they are calling it. Then again, here in the DC area they call three inches of snow a snow storm. Yea…They are saying we got about 18 inches of snow, but I was just out there…took us 4 hours to shovel the drive way, the walk up to the house and the porch and the sidewalk. The snow comes up to my knees and over my knees in some areas. It’s easily two feet of snow. Now that my body has thawed out from that venture (it’s 27 degrees out) and I can feel everything I am in a lot of pain. More pain than normal. But that’s not important right now. Continue reading “Blizzard 2009″
Every year Savannah comes up with a song about the family for Christmas. It’s her autistic view of the family and the opinions expressed are hers alone (well, Jeffrey’ too). It is quite amusing though… Continue reading “Savannah’s Christmas Song”
Finally got some work done on my sleeve. Last time we tried this it was a total bust because I had an allergic reaction to the sharpie Markuss was drawing on me with. Anyway, wanted to take a min and post pictures. The colors are off because everything is still pretty fresh and red and swollen and crap. I really can’t wait to see the finished product. There is still a lot of detail and work to be done. I have two to three sittings minimum to go to get this finished. Continue reading “Sleeve Work…Finally…”
