If I ever leave this world alive January 12, 2009

I first want to say thank you for your kind comments about Pepper. She should be home soon and on her way to healing right this time. The vet said it looked like she tried going over a fence and got caught up on it. Knowing her, she probably did, I just don’t know which fence but my guess is the barbed wire at the front of our property. Argh silly animal! Then I wanted to address some specific comments kinda like Dana does, but only for today- not a full time deal or anything. So here goes.

With regards to my “Get down with the sickness” post

Toi said

Go to kraftfoods.com and sign up for the Food and Family magazine. It’s a free publication that comes out 5 times a year. It is the best magazine EVER! (Well, not ever, that would be People, but that won’t help you eat healthier or cheaper.) You can look at the older publications on line and the website is over flowing with great easy recipes. The best part is that all of the ingredients are easy to find and cheap. They have weekly menus planned out also. You can do one bag one week of dinners. I swear by the website and magazine. Find a time when you aren’t rushed and spend some time looking through it. You’ll be happy you did.

Kraft needs to hire me for endorsements!

 I really love the Kraft Foods website, magazines, and emails. I have been a member for almost 5 years now, but I haven’t ever used their shopping lists and now I’m thinking that wouldn’t be so bad. Thanks for the suggestion Toi! Oh and they have samples that you can sign up to recieve- I got two boxes of some new 100 calorie packs a while back and they were great so I used the handy coupons they sent to buy more.

 

Dana said

You’re over-thinking. Buy five pounds of hamburg and fry it all up at once. Monday: chili Tuesday: chili dogs Wednesday: spaghetti with real tiny meatballs. Thursday: stuffed peppers Friday: cabbage rolls.

By the time you get to Saturday, everyone will be begging you to stop cooking.

Thats a brilliant idea, but I’d have to live with all the noxious emissions produced by that cooking and I might be pretty sick by the end of the week *grins*

Bryan said

I saw the title of this post in my reader and thought maybe you’d been listening to Disturbed lately . . . that would have been . . . unexpected .

The funny thing is you’re the only one who caught that reference and said anything about it. I do listen to Disturbed occasionally along with a lot of other music that you might not expect. But what makes me laugh out loud is that the version stuck in my head is actually the Richard Cheese parody of Get Down with the Sickness- for those of you who don’t know, Richard Cheese does lounge music versions of popular songs and Get Down With the Sickness happens to be my favorite parody.

I often use song titles for my posts because once I think a line in relation to a post I can’t separate the two in my mind. This post is a case in point- I was listening to this song and I just felt it needed to be the title. I usually try to sync up the words with my subject matter, but as you all know my subjects vary in the post itself and I am quite a rambler so I do the best I can with what I have to work with.

Well thats all for now, I’m off to do something productive now maybe.

 

With regards to my post “A darn good idea…” October 1, 2008

If you use the internet often, you probably have email and therefore theres probably at least one person and more likely several who send you forwards. Some are amusing, some touching, some intensely irritating, and many are based on unfounded theories that are what the internet does best. The one that I posted the other day was no exception. It appealed to my wishful side and on the surface seems a wonderful idea. However just like many of its bretheren out there in the WWW it has its flaws and in this case, the whole idea is flawed as was pointed out by someone who I’m sure must have been a first time visitor.

“the math doesn;t work, you only get 425.00 not 425,000.00 Please try it yourself. $85,000,000,000.00 divided by 200,000,000.”

Well Monsieur, I did indeed try it out just as you suggested. First on my cell phone which as it turns out can only count to 5, then on a calculator, then on the computer twice. Here’s the math for the basic formula.

85 billion dollars (thats the one with 9 zeroes) divided by 200 million does indeed work out to 425 bucks a person before taxes so in theory it doesn’t work. Bummer. Shoulda checked my math first, but it wasn’t my math. However it is the basic idea that the government should be pulling the little guys outta the hole instead of forking over the big bucks to the Richie Rich’s of this nation because they screwed up. And yes, I know the reason they’re going bankrupt is because people can’t pay their debts, but maybe certain people shouldn’t be allowed those kind of loans in the first place. MAybe this country just needs to cut up the fucking plastic! I’m in debt and not too proud of it, but its getting paid because bills come first. Period!

So please forgive me for approving of the idea that SOMEBODY do something about the fucking mess this country is in. If you are a regular reader, I’m not trying to pick on you because you have a valid point. If you wandered in from the street, please read something else here before you judge me. Or whatever, you know? Ahhh screw it. This country IMO is head for hell in a handbasket either way we go. I cannot personally make sense of that crap flying around on the TV and I’m going to be honest and say I don’t give a crap anymore. Thats right- I admit it. I know that were I to pour my brains out trying to understand who stands for what I would still know nothing because they are fucking politicians! They may be nice people and all, but they will always be politicians first and foremost and no matter what ideals they claim to have, they can only do what the congress lets them and what the people let them and in this great nation no one really wants to stand together. The system is flawed because it has a major broken component- people. Sorry about the f-bombs guys; I don’t usually cuss on here but goddammit I won’t be able to breathe till this whole election is over. I understand that we’re probably screwed either way, so I’m just preparing my little spot of the world to ride it out whatever comes. I’m not a McCain supporter and I’m not an Obama supporter. I seem to recall that McCain ran as a democrat the last time around and so it feels like we don’t even have separate parties anymore- just a trick coin a la Harvey Dent- Heads I win, tails you lose.

Things that make me smile August 23, 2008

Someone found my blog by looking up “pee on” Well yes there is a post here about the time I got stung by a jellyfish and my sister in law said “Just let him pee on your leg- that will make it feel better.” Oddly enough this is not the first time someone has found me by looking up something about peeing on someone’s leg.

The song the Hampster Dance. When I was about 12 or so and the internet at home was still a relative novelty my dad called me into his office one night “Melissa c’mere you gotta see this” and there on the screen were dozens of dancing hampsters and my dad was smiling like a little kid. How can that not be a happy memory?

My dogs especially Pepper are sweet and crazy funny animals. Pepper has this look I call the “Hush Puppy” look because her lips curl up on her teeth when she closes her mouth so that she looks like the puppet from Lambchops Playalong. I don’t have a picture because she only does it when I don’t have a camera on me. She along with Tinkerbell, Lily, Pugsly, and Missy are the current doggie owners of my heart.

Pepper my sweet dog- about a 4 month old picture so she

Comments and links from my wonderful readers. Check em out guys cuz they’re awesome!

My husband. He just makes me smile in general. Last night he went to bed before I could get the clean sheets on the bed and was a bit disgruntled when I woke him up to put them on until he felt the new 400 thread count sateen cotton sheet that was under him. He was a much less grumpy bear after that and I had to laugh at him because sometimes you just do.

My inlaws current laundry set up.

Warm weather washer

Its amazing how sometimes you don’t miss it till its gone. In this case its a washer. Ours was out for a long time and we finally got it back as my inlaws started a remodel thats been in the works and needed for 4 years now. My MIL needed to do laundry and laundry for 6 is hard to do at a laundry mat so this was their solution and it made me grin. See their house is like a 400 thousand plus dollar home and this is like the icing on the cake. She and I laughed about how it made us feel like we were back in Mexico where if they have electric washers, they go outside. Or at least they do in the small town we were in. And forget about electric OR gas dryers.

Having a washer again. Nuff said, right?

My fishies. I can watch them for great lengths of time because they are just so soothing and sweet. Seriously. My angelfish, Toi is especially friendly and it follows me around.

And God said, let there be……… rain May 22, 2008

And there was rain! And it was good for the first 2 hours or so. But at around 10:30 or 11 all heaven broke loose and the rain came fallin down like somebody up there dumped a big bucket out. My garden? Well watered and now a small lake actually. But its all good cuz the ground has just enough real dirt in it to slightly counteract the massive amounts of good ole Missouri clay mixed in and the water went down in a couple of hours. Not so the dog’s yard out back where the puppies are taking their first swimming lessons with Mama Tinkerbell. I just heard one squeal and I can only assume he or she was running around the pool and we all know thats a big no-no. Somebody might slip. In all seriousness, the puppies do have a waterproof dog house to get into and the ground is on a downhill slope so they’re not really swimming in case any of the members of the ASPCA or PETA are out there listening. I’d show you pictures, but then you’d see how REDNECK our yard is complete with a tire holding down the rubber mats on the roof of the dog house where it was damaged by a big blow we had back at the end of April.

Anyway, on to other news. I promised myself I would only be on the computer for 20 minutes tops so now over an hour later I  am getting a little agravated with myself. I finished 2 mermaids yesterday and a project for the brown paper bag swap. One mermaid made from cloth went into my Etsy shop and the other of paper  is undecided about her future. Would people pay for that kind of stuff? I may have pictures later but am not making any promises.

Lurkers unite and come forward! I do a happy dance every time someone leaves me a comment and would really love to hear from the people who read me. I am always so humbled because every single one of you who has commented thus far is part of my growing group of favorites. Your blogs make me smile and I just about bounce out of my chair with happiness when I see your name on a comment. So I’m going to beg for comments today. Tell me you were here. Do some graffiti and scribble on the walls a bit. Let me know what I’m doing right (if anything) and tell me where I should improve. I promise to send someone something cool if you do. (Shameless?  I think not! I do this for the readers as much as myself)

Au revoir cheries!

Another day another…. Oh heck post I guess April 26, 2008

No money made today so I guess you’ll just have to be happy with a post from me instead. I was remarkably crafty today. I started a doll last night for the Mermaid Swap and finished her up today. I wish I could show you pictures but I want her to be a surprise for my partner so you’ll just have to wait. I enjoyed making her so much that I’ve decided to make her a couple of sisters and maybe add them to my Etsy shop. I don’t know for sure tho. I thought about it a while and realized that part of my lack of creative ability lately stems from the fact that I was trying way to hard to do something for someone else and not thinking about why I make the things I make– self expression. Well lacking pictures to show you, I can say that Sherry got her package which makes me happy. I really can’t say that I have much else to tell you so I won’t stay to chat. I grin each time someone leaves me a comment. Thank you Sherry and KathyD you guys are the best.

Getting a little fed up April 3, 2008

With blogger deciding that it won’t let me in. How silly is that? I just want to ramble on a bit. I know that someone somewhere out there is looking at my page from time to time because once in a while the counter goes up when I’ve been away from the computer. Suckily enough it also goes up when I go to the home page but oh well– not much I can do about that I don’t think. I was responsible today and got the stinky bag of seashells from outside where I left it after we realized it was responsible for the odor in my backpack. I accidentally brought home some of the live shells along with the dead ones and boy do they smell…. sea-ish. Not exactly the scent I wanted to bring with me but it sure takes you right back to the beach in a hurry. I had fun sorting through them and washing them up. None of them were too brightly colored but they’re still beautiful nonetheless. And as ashamed as I am to say it, the ones that were still alive are the coolest because they’re so dainty and whole. Can anyone tell me how to add a comments section at the end of my posts? I realized that there were none and I thought maybe I’d get more feedback (duh) if there were. My email is littlesongbird17(at)yahoo.com and if you just put blog or something in the title somewhere I’ll figure it out. Thanks so much in advance.