A New Low

  • Jul. 2nd, 2008 at 2:03 PM
Exploding bacon pig
[14:01] <Lucindrielle> I hate eating. If I didn't need to eat to live, I wouldn't.
[14:02] <Lucindrielle> I'm so sick of deciding what I want and making it and eating it, and like...chewing.
[14:02] <Lucindrielle> And then dishes. ZOMG, dishes.
[14:02] * Lucindrielle is TEH LAZY

Olympics

  • Jun. 30th, 2008 at 9:59 PM
asshat
A couple of years ago, annoyed with the "trend", I wrote a journal entry about how a million people are suddenly enamored with curling. Of the million of posts on LJ about it at the time, I doubted a quarter of them knew what curling was before the Olympics, and stated that those that were writing about it en force were probably only interested because a couple other people were, and it caught on like wild fire to keep up with the Jonses.

I got chewed out. I think someone dropped me from their friend's list. Someone said that simply wasn't true; they liked curling because they were very interested in the sport and even if the Olympics weren't showing it, she'd still be interested in it.

It's the summer of 2008. How many people are still interested in curling like WOAH?

Yeah. That's what I thought.

Jeebus.

  • Jun. 27th, 2008 at 12:34 PM
Cranky Bitch
Holy crap. I came across this uber religious site saying that masturbation is bad. Particularly religious folks have been saying that for a long time, now (I'm looking at you, Catholic church!); if you subscribe to that and want to believe in it, that's your business, and I have no problem with that.

What I do take issue with is the idea that this site has that it leads into "homosexual activities". I can assure you, masturbation does not in any way encourage homosexuality. I don't know about the rest of you heterosexual people, but not once have I ever participated in a "homosexual activity" as a result - not that I personally find anything wrong with them, in the first place.

The site goes on to say that it's so horrific, that you shouldn't even PRAY for help stopping. "Pray. But when you pray, don't pray about this problem, for that will tend to keep it in your mind more than ever."

Yeah. Ooookay. They've finally found something so horrific that you can't even share it with God. Nice.

Heh

  • Jun. 25th, 2008 at 11:44 PM
Slorg
* Post 3 things you've done in your lifetime that you don't think anybody else on your friends list has done.

* See if anybody else responds with "I've done that."

* Have your friends cut & paste this into their journal to see what unique things they've done in their life.



1.) I've had a scientific experiment go up on the space shuttle Discovery - the same mission that John Glenn was on last. STS-95, to be precise. I was invited and went to watch it take off from Banana Creek in Florida, and everything.

2.) I've had a summer home next door to a very well known celebrity

3.) I've walked 6.37 miles (I MapQuested it!), sticking to the road and going up a major mountain; we started at 215 feet above sea-level and ended up 1201 feet above sea-level. We had lunch on a side road, and then walked back down again, all in about 90 degree weather.


Stories available upon request.

WE HAVE LIFTOFF!

  • Jun. 25th, 2008 at 5:47 PM
Slorg
When I'm in the computer room, the cat sleeps on a tote. It's a big X gallon Tupperware one right next to my computer desk. I had it covered with a towel, but today I saw a pet bed I thought she might like, so I picked it up.

At first, there was much, "I PAID A GOOD AMOUNT OF MONEY FOR THIS, YOU'RE GOING TO TRY IT OU-.....GET BACK HERE!"


Now she likes it. She's laying in it and purring and kneading it. I was hoping to liberate the towel, but unfortunately the only way she'd lay in the bed is with the towel over it.

So much for that plan.

Stupid !@#$*ing Gremlins!

  • Jun. 24th, 2008 at 2:05 AM
OHNOES!
HAY EVERBODY!

I dropped my !@#$ing camera. It r b0rked but good. It constantly tells me that there's a "zoom error" and doesn't do much else.

It will either need to be repaired (!@#$!) or replaced ($%^&!)!

FAIL.

  • Jun. 22nd, 2008 at 11:28 PM
asshat
Wow, they miss the point on that one, Clorox does.

I just saw a new commercial touting their new line of "natural" products called "Green Works". And "because it's from Clorox, it works just as well as our traditional products". They say it's made of 99.3% natural products.

YAAAAAAAY!

Except, you have to ask how does one get said product into their home? Oh, right. They buy a plastic bottle of it, and then throw that bottle out when it's empty and buy a new one.

Yeah. I'm willing to bet a good portion of the people that use "natural" cleaning products do so not only because of the harsh chemicals, but also because they can mix the product in a container they already have and reuse each time, thus cutting down on waste.

If you're going to care about something and want to make a difference, why do it half-assed?


EDIT: Now that I think of it, my mother used Simple Green for YEARS before "natural" shit was popular. Anyone remember that stuff? Anyone? Bueller?

Apparently it's safe for the environment and it will take the chrome off a trailer hitch, for that I can vouch.

Buggies!

  • Jun. 18th, 2008 at 7:26 PM
Slorg

Buggies!
Originally uploaded by aheavilyarmedpixie
Not many people believe me when I tell them I am, in fact a girl.

I bought these scrapbook embellishments to put on my ammo box. The .38/50 round box will store inside of it some BPAL perfume vials.

I had some left over stickies, so now my flat-screen monitor is sporting a little spice.

*sticks out her tongue* SEE!? I can find other uses for an ammo box!

Comfort food.

  • Jun. 17th, 2008 at 1:34 PM
bukkake
When I was a kid and I lived with my grandmother, she often made quick, easy meals. That's not to say she wasn't a gourmet cook, because she was. Anyone that has an Italian grandmother can vouch for the fact there's something about Italian grandmothers that's way above par in the "cooking" department.

Anyway, one thing she used to make was creamed peas on toast. It's not what it sounds like, don't "eeeeew" right away.

It's basically a butter and flour mixture, which thickens milk. Add in some salt and pepper and you have a delicious, creamy sauce. Add in canned sweet peas and it's heavenly. Add in tuna, and it's divine. Served over toast, of course, which sort of sops up the entire deal. Ugh, to die for.

Certainly a comfort food, it's one of those things that sounds icky until you try it (kind of like poutine).

Some was made for today for lunch. I woke up at noon-thirty feeling like I could sleep for sixteen more hours. So I made that crap and I feel marginally better. I haven't had it since I was....wow. 6 or 7.

I suggest everyone rush out and try some!
Methos is easily amused!
I'm sure some of you have heard this. Bob and Michelle Duggar have 17 kids and just announced that baby #18 is on the way. From a couple of interviews I've seen, they plan on having kids for "as long as the lord blesses them" with kids.

Here's my question:

Do you think she enjoys sex? She's kind of reserved, it's hard for me to picture her getting wild in the sack, but I guess one never knows what goes on behind closed doors. Does she do it because she feels she's doing her duty as a wife? Does she just have these kids because birth-control goes against their beliefs and she got pregnant again, or does/did she honestly want this many kids?

I don't think it's a question I've heard answered, it is rather private - I'm just nosy enough to ask the tough, uncouth questions. Heh.

I may have put it in not so tactful words, but I mean the question with utmost curiosity. They can do whatever works for them, while I personally feel that enough was probably enough a long time ago, more power to them. I don't have to pay for their college educations.

As an aside: They say that the are completely debt free and if you've seen pictures of their house (the website I've linked), it's gorgeous. Huge and simply elegant and completely hand built by the entire family, with minimal outside help. I could learn a thing or two from them, on that score.

Popular History, Unpopular Explination

  • Jun. 13th, 2008 at 2:55 AM
OHNOES!
Wow. I'm watching the Travel Channel and got a rude awakening to the history I thought I knew! The story told is that Betsy Ross made the first American flag after a visit in June 1776 by George Washington, Robert Morris, and her husband's uncle, George Ross.

Not so. According to the Pennsylvania Historical Society, this untrue story was not told until 1870 by Betsy's young grandson, 34 years after her death, which went word-of-mouth down the line until eventually ended up into history books.

The woman they interviewed said that often times it's rough to interrupt a grandparent proudly telling the story of Besty Ross to their grandchildren, but it's not the correct one, so she heavy-heartedly has to intervene.

They went on to say that the fist flag, the one that inspired the Star Spangled Banner, was a flag stitched by Mary Pickersgill, who was commissioned in the summer of 1813 by Major George Armistead during the War of 1812, to fly over Fort McHenry.


YIKES.

Live and let live.

  • Jun. 8th, 2008 at 6:34 PM
fuck you
This post has been a long time in coming although the examples are fresh from today. I'm trying to get across what I mean and I can't find the words for it, because I'm upset. And I'm not even upset because I've been directly involved in it, I'm upset on behalf of other people, too. There was a period of time where I held my tongue, but now I'm sick of people being nasty to other people. Every where I turn, I see it and I'm sick of folks going about their lives, only to have other people criticize or mock them. Judgement is getting up there in the "ridiculous" stage and I don't see a reason for it.

I'm browsing my "friendsfriends" page on LJ and I come across a post that states "....Or maybe we just need a term for DIY-nuts like "freetard" for OpenSource/FSF people."

Really? Are you for real? Is it really necessary to hate on someone THAT badly that you have to label them with such a stigmatized word? It's that big a deal to you? It's one thing to disagree with someone on an intellectual level, to state your reasons why, and it's another thing totally to start name-calling and being nasty.

I also came across some idiot that felt the need to rip into me because of the dragon egg game-thing, calling it "fucking dumb". GREAT. How does it affect you?! It DOESN'T. So just move on and ignore it, instead of tearing someone else down to build yourself up. Seriously, you just lost more time stopping to belittle me than you would have if you went, "meh, not for me" and called it a day.


If someone's doing something that you don't agree with, ask yourself whom it hurts. If the answer is "no one" or "maybe only themselves", then lay the fuck off.

WORD

  • Jun. 5th, 2008 at 7:36 PM
bukkake

Kees me, joo fool!

  • Jun. 3rd, 2008 at 1:12 AM
asshat
We went frog and spermy tadpole catching, today.

First FTF!

  • Jun. 2nd, 2008 at 4:08 PM
Slorg
LT and I got our first "first to find" geocache today.

We'd planned out four in a relatively similar area, but after finding two and having no luck with a feasible trail to the other two, LT decided he wanted to head home and get the grocery shopping done early. We'd try the other ones another day. I agreed, and some how we got on the topic of "FTF" caches as we rode the motorcycle home. I think it was because one of the ones we'd nabbed was recently placed and local cachers were decending upon it quickly, one by one.

At home, I logged our two finds and looked a the map of the area for the two left behind caches. That's when I spotted two green cache pinpoints that were close to other caches we'd done before.

I KNEW they must have been new - why else would we have done everything around them and left those open? I checked and sure enough, both were published today. One had already been found, but I input the coordinates to the second into the GPS and we flew. I wasn't even concerned with the whole "hiking down a hill means we have to hike back UP it" thing, I was so freaking pumped.

Luck was with us! We nabbed it! I was so excited, I was dancing on the cache site! I wrote in huge letters on the log and then happily logged our find from the laptop in the car, near the grocery story. I'm such a geek, I couldn't wait. :D

Bye, suckers!

  • May. 25th, 2008 at 3:18 PM
asshat
Off to Vermont for a while, as of 6am tomorrow morning. Hope all the Americans enjoys their Memorial Day and remember the folks that fought for their freedoms!

Oops.

  • May. 22nd, 2008 at 1:33 PM
OHNOES!
Have you ever seen those "LifeLock" commercials? The ones about idenity protection services that are so good, the pitch person announces his real social security number on the radio/TV ads to "prove" it? Apparently, now he's fucked:


    "Attorney David Paris said he found records of other people applying for or receiving driver's licenses at least 20 times using Davis' Social Security number, though some of the applications may have been rejected because data in them didn't match what the Social Security Administration had on file.....Davis acknowledged in an interview with The Associated Press that his stunt has led to at least 87 instances in which people have tried to steal his identity, and one succeeded: a guy in Texas who duped an online payday loan operation last year into giving him $500 using Davis' Social Security number. Paris said the fact Davis' records were compromised at all supports the claim that Tempe, Ariz.-based LifeLock doesn't provide the comprehensive protection its advertisements say it does."

It's cute to believe in a product so much you're willing to stand behind it that strongly, but c'mon. It's widely known that if you give people things that are "fool-proof", they'll show you a smarter fool.

Heh.

  • May. 21st, 2008 at 6:12 PM
Mexican
I don't normally include the very private information of others in my journal, but this is accessible online for anyone that knows where to find it - my state's Department of Justice website. I've started a recent habit of looking at the daily docket for what's going on in the superior court; it's a small area and everyone seems to know everyone. The likelihood you'll see the name of someone you know is pretty big (and I have, on more than several occasions).

I came across this one today that made me crack up. There's a joke in here, for those that get it:

L18W-MV07-0223038-0 * PRE-TRIAL DOCKET * Bantam GA 18 Pre-Trial 5/21/2008 10:00am BROWN, LEROY 1964

Saber-Toothed Crotch Crickets

  • May. 12th, 2008 at 5:33 PM
OHNOES!

Last night, I'm sitting on the couch, watching TV. The cat suddenly DIVES off the pillow she's sitting on and flies into a corner of the living room. I saw something scurry and her responsive bat, and thought at first it was a mouse.

No. A mouse would have been better than THIS LITTLE FUCKER! )

Needless to say I was completely grossed out and disgusted so badly my skin began to crawl. About two hours later, I tried to go to bed - except I recalled that I have one of those, "Look what I've brought you in bed! I'm worthy of loving and pettings,  now!" kind of cats. I'd rather have one of the many crickets she's brought to bed over the years. Every time she'd jump off the bed and jump back on during the night, I'd wake up. WHAT IF, PEOPLE!? WHAT IF!?

Blargh. Blech. Blerrg. I got about ZERO sleep, needless to say.

I did some Googling today and apparently they're very beneficial critters called house centipedes - they eat almost all other types of house-hold bug-type pests, but many people are upset by their looks (gee, ya THINK!?) and get them exterminated on that basis alone. I have the hebeejeebees, but I think we'll just leave them alone as long as they don't continue to make an appearance like woah.

Now, if THAT gross wasn't enough for you: This morning, LT and I argued over a small hair ball on the carpet. It was very small in the grand scheme of hairballs, but he stated matter-of-factly that it was pooh and displayed his upset that my cat had shat upon the carpet. I argued with him and pulled out THIS website detailing exactly what a hairball is off Google, to prove my point.

Has he NEVER seen a hair ball before? They look like turds, but they come from the other end, Homeslice. My cat is not a carpet shitter,  thankyouverymuch. *nods*

Free For All

  • May. 9th, 2008 at 1:35 PM
Slorg
It's Friday. I think it's a good day for a "say anything" post. Ask me a question, tell me a secret, or just say something in general.

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