| Babies |
[Jun. 18th, 2007|02:33 pm] |
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According to the doctor....the twins will be here no later than July 9.
Things are gonna get crazy very very soon! |
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| SKUNK |
[Apr. 18th, 2006|10:16 am] |
Yesterday night, Mick and Milo got into a little tussle with a Skunk.
The Skunk won.
The two of them got sprayed directly in the face, then ran into the house and rubbed their faces on our bedding.
They reek and our house reeks...
We bathed the dogs in peroxide, baking soda and liqiud soap (works better than tomato juice supposedly).
We are now stuck with a house that smells of skunk mixed with every fragrance of deodorizing spray imaginable.
Anyone know of a way to get the skunk odor out of our house???????
Signed,
Stinky in San Antonio |
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| Birthdays |
[Feb. 7th, 2006|10:33 am] |
Today is Mick's 2nd birthday! She is very excited. As a present she may get a slice of ham.....or a piece of Cheddar Cheese.
(it is also my father-in-law's birthday today...he too is getting a slice of ham or a piece of cheese.) |
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| tagged by weakling records....... |
[Jan. 19th, 2006|03:55 pm] |
so here it is......
TOP FIVE THINGS I'D RATHER BE DOING RIGHT NOW
5. breaking glass
4. salting snails and watching them bubble.
3. shooting a BB gun in my cousins back yard.
2. watching the Australian open.....in Melbourne not on TV.
1. sitting at a cafe in paris sipping on some Ricard , smoking some gauloises legeres, watching the world go by, all while a little french dog urinates on my left tennis shoe. |
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| Kenny Rogers |
[Jan. 6th, 2006|08:15 am] |
Last night, Erina dn i were watching some TV, flipping back and forth between Dancing with the Stars, The Office, and The Kristi Yamaguchi friends and Family Ice Skate-athon sponsored by McCormick's (the salt and pepper people).
At the end of TKYFFIS kenny Rogers came on to sing a medley of tunes. To our horror, Kenny Rogers looks really really bad. He looked old and plastic. It was disturbing and a little sad. The Gambler looked like shit. |
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| best potato chips |
[Dec. 6th, 2005|02:55 pm] |
surprisingly from Target.....
the Target Archer Farms Label....
Thick Cut - Sea Salt/Olive Oil Potato Chips.
Buy yourself a bag, dig in, and I dare you to tell me that they are anything less than some kind of wonderful. |
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| ACL = HOT |
[Sep. 25th, 2005|08:25 pm] |
holy geez!
Austin City Limits festival.....extremely hot.
I thought I was going to melt.
It was good however to see some really good friends....some more impervious to the heat than myself, irishedog(my wife), and chicagocitygirl(friend).
Weaklingrecords and Seaves were real troopers. How they were still standing after 100 Degree+ temps is testament to one persons love for music and the others love for their significant other.
AS for taytaybabycakes and her pals...some tough little cookies....two had to visit the medical tent for heat stroke (one going blind for moment) and they still rallied and made it back to the Festivities.
Kudos to them all....
I am weak, i am sunburned, and my body doesn;t do well in too much sun....evidently my stomach starts to cramp up and decides that the best remedy is to shoot laserbeams out by butthole....OUCH!!!!
I hope it is cooler next year...or else I am stayign in my air conditioned home... |
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| wednesday is quote day |
[Aug. 3rd, 2005|09:53 am] |
I would prefer a normal-sized breast, or a small breast or whatever and that it be natural, than to understand that it was just some jelly in there.
-- the artist Jeff Koons |
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| Rosie Thomas |
[Jul. 26th, 2005|09:09 am] |
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Man it has been a long time since I have been excited about a song.
The other day I was listening to XM and heard the song "Wedding Day" by Rosie Thomas. What a great tune. if you go to rosiethomas.com and then click album and then click on when we were young and then click on the wedding day song you can listen to it. pretty stripped down simple song, but catchy and just damn good. She is on the subpop label...evidently she has an alterego named sheila a recently injured pizza delivery girl with a busted arm and nasty glasses and she comes on stage during her live shows and does standup posing as sheila. sheila also evidently is in a cover band called Strawberry Jam, and they do a mean eye of the tiger.
if you get a chance check wedding day out. really lovely song. |
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| Flounder...I don't even know her. |
[Jul. 20th, 2005|09:23 am] |
My wife and I have decided that we eat out too much....a lot of wasted money, due to the fact that we are lazy. You can eat just as well/better at home, for a hell of lot less money, even if you buy nice things to cook...who would have thunk it. We are limiting ourselves to 1 or 2 times a week of eating out.
So this week is week one of eating at home.
Monday I went to the fancy supermarket, and picked up some choice items to make meals for the week.
Monday -
Pizza, with carmelized onion, fresh shitake mushrooms, creole seasoned rock shrimp, and Pure Luck goat cheese (really nice cheese)
Tuesday -
Pan roasted flounder (fresh, like the fishmonger fileted the fish in front of me), with melted leeks and haricot verts.
Wednesday -
Salade Nicoise (Greens with boiled egg, red skin potatoes, tuna, asparagus, haricots vert and tomatoes.)
Thursday -
Chicken Tenderloins in breadcrumbs with sun-dried tomato risotto.
Friday -
Eating out.
Now to plan next weeks menu..... |
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| tagging |
[Jul. 14th, 2005|12:19 pm] |
tagged by misunderstuck
List five things you've read or been reading lately.
Then tag five other LJ users so they can do the same.
And so on.
1. "The Wind-up Bird Chronicle" - Murakami Haruki
2. "The Mastery of Love" - Don Miguel Ruiz
3. "Super Stud, or How I Became a 24 year Old Virgin" - Paul Feig
4. "Kick Me" - Paul Feig
5. GQ for this month.
Tagging:
hairysubmarine
germ_in
lancelotandhisbloodyhorse
iamwayintovelcro
bananasplitholdthepineapple |
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| (no subject) |
[Jun. 29th, 2005|01:34 pm] |
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Runny Frittata Stats
| Formed: |
29th June 2005 |
| Split: |
19th November 2008 |
| Best Album: |
'Hents Dreidel Dirk Cornices Basinets' 7/10 in the NME |
| Best Single: |
'Niche Terranes' 9/10 in the NME (Single of the Week 27th July 2005.) |
| Records Sold: |
958,394 in total (463,409 albums, 494,985 singles). |
| Reputation: |
Cult |
| Groupies: |
misunderstruck recently won a contract with a blue conglomerate to market dildos towards the over 60's market. |
| Other | Runny Frittata were denied access to perform 'Lections Thigh Madrases Athirst Braising Godheads' on BBC1's Top of the Pops in case it sparked a riot. It really was that bad |
Runny Frittata Member Profiles
Single Releases
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Title |
Date |
| 16 |
Niche Terranes |
Jul 2005 |
| 12 |
Supertax Barren |
Sep 2005 |
| 4 |
Wafts Bemocked Iterance Quicker Rudders Harem |
Nov 2005 |
| 2 |
Lowering Sandsoap Skidder Jows Surd |
Jan 2006 |
| 5 |
Barhops Geophyte Lope Occulted Brines |
Jun 2007 |
| 8 |
Henhouse Typhuses Pastor Levities |
Aug 2007 |
| 25 |
Lections Thigh Madrases Athirst Braising Godheads |
Nov 2007 |
Album Releases
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Title |
Date |
| 28 |
Hents Dreidel Dirk Cornices Basinets |
Jun 2005 |
| 2 |
Managers Elides |
May 2007 |
northern ireland's worst
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| Hmmmmm???? DRAFT???? |
[Jun. 24th, 2005|09:02 am] |
From the NY TIMES
Age 16 to 25? The Pentagon Has Your Number, and More
By DAMIEN CAVE
Published: June 24, 2005
The Defense Department and a private contractor have been building an extensive database of 30 million 16-to-25-year-olds, combining names with Social Security numbers, grade-point averages, e-mail addresses and phone numbers.
The department began building the database three years ago, but military officials filed a notice announcing plans for it only last month. That is apparently a violation of the federal Privacy Act, which requires that government agencies accept public comment before new records systems are created.
David S. C. Chu, the under secretary of defense for personnel and readiness, acknowledged yesterday that the database had been in the works since 2002. Pentagon officials said they discovered in May 2004 that no Privacy Act notice had been filed. The filing last month was an effort to correct that, officials said.
Mr. Chu said the database was just a tool to send out general material from the Pentagon to those most likely to enlist.
"Congress wants to ensure the success of the volunteer force," he said at a reporters' roundtable in Washington. "Congress does not want conscription, the country does not want conscription. If we don't want conscription, you have to give the Department of Defense, the military services, an avenue to contact young people to tell them what is being offered. It would be naïve to believe that in any enterprise, that you are going to do well just by waiting for people to call you."
On Wednesday, The Washington Post reported that the notification in The Federal Register had drawn criticism from a coalition of eight privacy groups that filed a brief opposing the database's creation. Yesterday, many of those privacy advocates, learning that the database had been under development for three years, called its existence an egregious violation of the Privacy Act's rules and intent.
"It's far more serious if the database had been established prior to Privacy Act notice," said Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington. "It's end-running the act by putting it into private hands and subverting the act by creating a public database without public notice."
The issue of the database has emerged as the Army and, to a lesser extent, the Marines, struggle to meet recruitment goals to replenish the ranks of the all-volunteer services. The Web site for the Pentagon's Joint Advertising Market Research Studies division, which manages recruiting research and marketing for all four branches of the military, describes the database as "arguably the largest repository of 16-to-25-year-old youth data in the country, containing roughly 30 million records." It is managed by BeNOW Inc. of Wakefield, Mass., a marketing company that uses personal data to concentrate on customers.
The database includes the names of more than 3.1 million graduating seniors, a list bought by the Pentagon, as well as the names of 4.7 million college students, Pentagon records show. Drawing information from motor vehicle records, Selective Service registrations and private vendors, it includes a variety of personal information, including grades, height, weight and Social Security numbers.
The information is used primarily for direct-mail campaigns and to help the military weed out people who would not be eligible. It is also sent monthly to the recruiting command, said Lt. Col. Ellen Krenke, a Pentagon spokeswoman, and could be shared with local recruiters.
Recruiters have compiled and used similar data for decades, according to interviews with former military officials. But this database is the most extensive centralized collection of such records. The information is continually being merged for focused marketing.
"Halfway through 2004," said a briefing on the program in February that appears on a Pentagon Web site, "we started overlaying ethnicity codes and telephone numbers."
Mr. Chu said the information, particularly Social Security numbers, was closely guarded and had not been shared with other agencies.
For some parents, any information gathered by the military covertly amounts to an intrusion.
"There is no buffer zone," said Sandra Lowe of Sonoma, Calif., who is a mother of four, including two teenage boys. "It's a direct shot to someone's child without consent from a parent. If you were to come on campus and wanted to take a picture of a child, you have to get a release - just to take a picture. This is a lot more than that." |
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| Brittle Brittle Rat |
[Jun. 22nd, 2005|10:26 am] |
This here is the tale of a San antonio rat, let's call him Crian Bhandler....and how my two dogs mauled old Crian and turned him into a shell of a rat.
Crian should have known better than to lurk around in my backyard. Mick and Milo, puppies extraordinaire are spending more and more time outside, digging holes, fighting with each other, barking at the neighbors dogs, chewing up the grass...and evidently they now have a taste for blood....RAT BLOOD!!!!!
After getting home from work Monday, I put Mick and Milo out and came back inside the house to unwind a bit. I had a beverage, watched some tv, changed my clothes, clipped my toesnails, and all other things mundane. I went to the door to let the pups in, and there he was, all torn up and shit, poor little disgustin Brian...I mean Crian Bhandler, just a tail and rat spine with little specks of hair. Oh I wanted to vomit. The dogs came in....and I wanted to vomit....the dogs went to get a drink of water....and I wanted to vomit.....i paced around the room, wanting to vomit, and decided that somethign needed to be done....aside from teh intense desire to vomit. so I got a broom and swept little Crian as far as I could off our deck and into some faraway bush, hoping that some old crow, let's call her Mmily Eiller, would pick up Crian's carcass and do with him what she will. Uhhh. So later on I let mick and Milo back out. I head back in, to watch a little Tv, telephoned my mom. I looked out and there was little Milo, smile on his face, and little Crian Bhandler's tail swaying from his mouth. Evidently Milo found little Crian and wanted to have a little more fun gnawing on rat meat. What a sick little dude. I call him, he drops Crian like a dead....rat, and smiles and comes on in for a biscuit. I go out and sweep little Crian away again, this time further and with more force.
I relayed the rat story to my wife who had gotten home and she was disgusted and wanted to vomit.
Next morning i leave early for work. I get a call from my wife that morning. Crian was back, on the deck, as evidently Mr. Milo wanted to party a littel more with Crian. My wife was in a rush, so she sadi she couldn;t take care of Crian's disposal...she had to get to Houston for a hearing in court, adn thus couldn't (i.e. wouldn't) bag and tag poor disgusting rotting Crian's carcass. All day I am aganizing about Crian's impending disposal and the process by which to undertake such a deed. Maybe that rotten crow MMily Eiller would have swept him up in her little beak and I wouldn;t have to deal with that little jerk. If not what implements should I use? Trash bags, a shovel, gloves, a flamethrower, bare hands, my mouth? It made me sick thinking about it. Ultmately I decided to use my mouth, seeing that I have never tasted rat before, Milo seemed to enjoy it, so why not me?.....no i used 3 trashbags, some gardening gloves and put on dark sunglasses so as to minimize the clarity of little Crian's bare bones. Evidently Crian had been getting abit of a suntan, and the UV rays may have taken their toll, Crian appeared to have gotten a little too much sun.....that sucker was brittle! bones brittle skin brittle and tail brittle. Even thought he gloves and the 3 trashbags i could tell that little Crian (like ptasy cline) was falling to pieces. Broken and bagged nasty old Crian Bhandler is sitting buffered by numerous trashbags in a garbage can, waiting for tommorrow's trash pick up.
Au revoir Petit Crian. You were nasty and made me want to vomit.
Mick and Milo have a few words for you and any other rats too...and I quote, "Don't fuck with us! We eat shit like you for breafast!" |
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| Tubing down the Yellow River |
[Jun. 20th, 2005|09:11 am] |
Alright, Tubing was really really fun this past saturday.
I never knew how enjoyable pissing through ones shorts into a river could be.
It seriously was a lot of fun. Alot of sun...a lot of drink....
Only a little patch of my thigh got sunburned. Otherwise, I am nice and toasty brown.
I am glad I got a bottom on my tube..... |
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| Floating down the River |
[Jun. 16th, 2005|02:30 pm] |
This weekend we are going tubing down the Guadalupe river with a bunch of friends.
This will be my first tubing experience.
The basics are as follows:
Drive to Gruene, rent 2 large rubber tubes, one to squeeze ones buttocks into, the other for your cooler. Fill cooler with alcoholic beverage of choice (no glass), Float down the river, imbibe beverage. 4 hours later your done.
My concerns are as follows:
1. The heat - it is hot as Hades here in Central texas. The sun cooks you and the humidity sweats you. I will play the role of pot de creme, water bath will be played by the river, and the oven will be portrayed by the sun. My delicate asian skin takes none too kindly to such extreme conditions. I am a flower, a delicate flower. I WILL wilt.
2. The heat mixed with booze - add to this the fact that for four hours I will be taking in a large quantity of alcohol. Dehydration is inevitable. Perhaps I should pack in some of my favorite sports drink to remain hydrated....or perhaps I will just take the opportunity to live in oxymoron - I will dry up as I whet my whistle.
3. The rubber tube - I understand from those who have done this before, that the tubes they give us are black. hmmmmm.....black rubber sitting in hot sun for 4 hours = blistering skin. Burns of any degree are not tops on any of my lists. Could they not have made the tubes white?
4. Brightness factor - Theya re probably not white because then sun is going to beating down so hard that all the other tubers (people on tubes, not potatoes) would be blinded by the white. Like Dante seeing Beatrice. My eyes are slanty.....for four hours they will most likely be slanted shut....i could plow into a gigantic rock and not ever have seen it coming. Oh Joy.
5 Sunglasses (or my lack thereof) - I also am without a decent pair of sunglasses. I don;t want tog et nice ones for fear they will fall in the abyss that is the mighty guadalupe. My solution is to go to Walmart and purchase the most obnoxious pair of shades i can find. My vision right now (no pun intended) is that they will have some sort of tropical bird or parasol perched upon the top of the rims, and that the lenses are tinted in that special way that they are able to display words.....the right lens "Sexy" the left lens "Bitch."
6. Sea Life - or better river life. I hear there are turtles. I don't like turtles. I don;t like lizards. I don't like snakes. I don;t like frogs. I am positive they know this and will take this opportunity to shine and scare the pee out of me
7 The urine factor - fact of life....fours hours drinking....there must be some peeing.....and since there isn;t a tube you can rent wtih a port a john on it, the piss has to go somewhere....and that somewhere must be that mighty guadalupe....floating in urine for 4 hours....such is a fate that we as humans do not even subject our bowel movements to....i mean we flush!!!! |
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| Tag! you're it! |
[Jun. 7th, 2005|06:45 pm] |
You're it.
Tagged by whitericebryce
List five songs that you are currently digging.
It doesn't matter what genre they are from, whether they have words or even if they're any good but they must be songs you're really enjoying right now.
Post these instructions in your blog along with your five songs.
Then tag five other people to see what they're listening to.
1) "I Left my Wallet in El Segundo" by A Tribe Called Quest
2) "Do You Realize" by The Flaming Lips
3) "Virginia" by Vic Chesnutt
4) "Robot Rock" by Daft Punk
5) "Paris Match" by Style Council (feat. Tracey Thorne)
Tagging:
irishedog
chicagocitygirl
seaves
rooftoppigeon
Re-tagging:
weaklingrecords |
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