This Was My Day

-Took Benedryl and slept like a rock.  It was blissful and wonderful and amazing.
-Went to work.  Men worked on heat in my office ALL day long.  Got very little done because someone was always sitting in my chair.
-Felt like the bear in Goldilocks "Someone has been sitting in my chair!"
-Had one of those moments where you intend to think to yourself but you find your mouth is moving.  It was going to lead to this evening's post, but I am completely worn out.
-Made PW's meatloaf.  The grease splashed onto the bottom of the oven.  It stunk like crazy.
-Tutored the little bro in trig.  Yet another rant is coming on the failure of our current educational system.  Look forward to that gem on Wednesday.
-Came home and discovered house still smells like burned grease.  Crap.
-Tired.  Now bed.  Good night world.  Tomorrow and Wednesday already have posts being made in my mind.  They promise to be more interesting.  May you sleep like you've taken Benedryl and may your house never smell of burnt grease.  Amen.

Snuggly Christmas Commercials

Tonight my head is full of sinus crud, I have had hot chocolate and am warm and cuddly in what can only be described as the least attractive but most comfortable pajamas in the world.  It is beginning to feel like the holidays.  Once or twice a year when I feel like this I look up the early 90s Christmas commercials because they were some of the best ever.  Here are two videos of them.  I hope you are equally warm and snuggly and enjoy watching these!

My Day in Pictures

Today was productive and here are the pictures to prove it. 

I unpacked a lot of the remaining stuff that had been left at my parents house.  Among the things was this little guy.  Dad got him for me Christmas last year or the year before.  He thinks there is a resemblance.

Then I cleaned my toilets and did laundry but there is no picture of that.  I know you are disappointed.  Then I moved this bed frame, mattress, and most of the box springs up the stairs.  I say most because Josh came home when I was one third of the way up the stairs with the beast and helped with the last bit.  It was heavy.  I had to turn a crappy corner.  I am woman, hear me roar.

The new king sized mattress were put in our room!  Woo hoo!!!  We have room to sleep!  There is now hope of sleeping!  We ordered the bed frame today as well.  It should be in here in about two weeks.

Josh got a propane tank for the gas logs so we don't have to shiver in the living room anymore.

Mom made chicken and dumplings for my belated birthday dinner.  We had cake.  It was wonderful.  I have a ton left.  :)

I got my mixer!  I'm so excited!  It looks great.  I also got saddle oxfords.  All in all, a very good day.  (I have no idea why this is sideways.  I rotated it and saved it upright, the thumbnail shows it correctly.  Just turn your head and look.)

 I hope your Saturday was equally good!

What Disney Taught Me

I'm watching Aladin cause my husband loves me and DVRed it for me when it came on abcFamily the other weekend :).  I LOVED Disney movies when I was a kid.  Okay, let's be honest, I Love Disney movies now.  Nothing has changed, except that I get more of the references they include to keep adults from being bored to tears.  A lot of parents are hesitant to let kids watch tv because some research says it will dull their minds (that is vastly paraphrased).  While I can't see that some tv shows do much good for kids (Teletubbies anyone?), I was thinking about what I learned from Disney movies.

-Vocabulary:  words like "urchin" and "mad" (as in crazy) as well as a few random words like that "poisson" means fish in French
-Themes:  liking to read is cool (Beauty and the Beast), marriages used to be arranged, and drugs make you crazy (Alice in Wonderland, okay so maybe that was a later learned lesson)
-Love of Showtunes:  the music in Little Mermaid and Aladin, ahhh, they had some good music.  Alan Menken was great at what he did.  Tim Rice wrote some of the music and he went on to write the music for Aida, the Broadway musical.
-Actors:  there were some quality voice actors at Disney!  Robin Williams as Genie, the guy who played Charles Winchester as Cogsworth, Angela Lansbury as Mrs. Potts, and later Anika Noni Rose as Tiana.
-References:  the stories referenced mythology, pop culture, and other Disney movies.  Now, I Love to see movies with hidden references like that (I don't know why and it is hard to explain)

Relieve your childhood.  Watch a Disney movie!
What was your favorite Disney Princess movie?  I'm gonna make a poll about it, cause I love polls!

They Be Passin Out the Good Drugs

 Our computers just got reimaged at work.  Besides screwing up every setting I have giving me a new OS, it also gave my co-workers and I something to muse and cackle over.  There are some people at Microsoft who are seriously TRIPPING on some hard core drugs.  Tuh-Ruh-Ip-Ing.  In order of what I consider least to most disturbing, I offer to your eyes "Characters":

Okay, so this is a little weird, but sort of like anime.  I mean anime can be trippy in its own right, but this is sort of like a cuter cuddlier Pokemon.  The cat like thing at the bottom is a little freaky cause it's blue, in a pink suit.  It makes me think of cotton candy.

Ooookay, so this is...weirder.  A little Grateful Dead meets Terry Pratchett.  Definitely some drugs going on.

Are these little Caspar babies?  Are they screaming?  Are they laughing?  Why are they holding their legs like that?  Are their eyes made of candy?  I have so many questions, chief among them:  who approved this for general release??

Um...wow.  It's like Tim Burton goes to Candyland.  Trying to think of something nice to say My what attention to detail.  What in the Heck are the things in the yellow hoods????

I...I just don't even know.  I feel disturbed and pastel and like I would need some powerful hallucenogenics to understand what was going on this illustrator's head.

 Sweet Mother of Abraham Lincoln!  Hides behind hands.  Peeks.  AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!  This freaks me the heck out.  It is just...seriously have been sitting here looking at it for a couple of minutes and can't even come up with how to describe this. 

I'm guessing there are no random drug tests at this company?  Just a thought.

Glasses

Let me first begin by saying, I don't normally have this mid sentence, confused look on my face.  I need new glasses and Josh went to look with me.  I tried these on and loved them.  I thought they made me look like a smart owl.  They are different than anything I've had before.  Josh took one look at them and said if only I had a wand I could be at Hogwarts.  Mom kind of got the same Harry Potter vibe.  Was HP your first thought when you saw these glasses?  Too much for my face?  I still like them, but others seem...more hesitant.

On This Day 23 Years Ago...

...I was born!  If you are my Facebook friend, then you might have seen this.  If you wished me a happy birthday, thank you!  It has been a great day!  Josh got me an iPhone (that he gave me early because "we had to check if it was working" lol).  Because he wanted me to have something on my actual birthday he brought me flowers during work.  They are beautiful.  He also got me a card with a duck that said "Shake your tail feathers" somehow that was related to birthdays, but I can't remember how.  My co-workers got me cupcakes and we took almost an hour break and snacked and talked.  Then Josh and I went to Chop House.  I never want to eat again because I am so full.

Once upon a time, there was a time before digital photography and pictures were actually on film.  I was going to post a picture of me as a baby, but that would mean scanning pictures and going to my parents to get said pictures.  So here is me as a little girl.

It also made me think of the year I was born, so here a few interesting factoids:
-A stamp cost 25 cents
-Gas was $1.08/gallon...PLEEEEEAAAASSSEEEE let me go back to that price!!!
-Milk was $2.30/gallon...while we are back getting gas can I pick up some milk too?
-Ronald Reagan was president (but Bush was elected on this day).  Side story:  One year on my bday Mom said she considered naming me Reagan since he was elected that day.  Looong pause.  "No he wasn't.  Big Bush was."  Looonger pause.  "Oh yeah, I was busy and didn't vote.  Good thing I didn't name you Reagan!"
-The greenhouse effect was discovered.
-Josh was born.
-My mother began tying jewelry onto me because she desperately wanted a girl to doll up.  She also made sock with THREE yards of lace Per Sock!!

Perhaps those last two were not of national import but they were in my life :)  Happy my birthday to you!