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Now I’m sure all of you carnies have been waiting with baited breath for the next Carnival of The Mundane to show up at my humble blog.

Some of you submitted more than one post, in which case, I could not discern whether it meant you suffered from plain old fashioned pigheadedness or if perhaps you were giving me the option of choosing the one submission to be the most mundane of them all. Well, to be quite honest I went with your first pick, so if the others were meant to replace your original submissions, TOO BAD FOR YOU! Muwahahahaha.

Okay, without further haste, I present to you, the most MUNDANE blogs all wrapped up neatly in this Twelfth Edition of Carnival of The Mundane… Enjoy!

Josh at Multiple Mentality wonders who and why the next best anchor at ABC World News Tonight should be

Remember that game Battleship? Well, Brian at SinkMyShip Blog can’t resist one, electronic or otherwise

Leesepea at But Wait! There’s More… learns a lesson about cheap shoes.

Is Mr. Suburbanstories’s house The New Noah’s Ark? Perhaps you will read and find out.

Kevin from kapgar ponders the difficulties in buying men’s underwear….

A trip to the mall couldn’t be a more mundane thing! However, Hyperion’s recent visit could prove this theory wrong…

Over at Colla Voce, Lorie discovers her daugther has turned into a little tree-climbing chip off the ol’ block.

Sharon presents My Stroppy Miracle – Sassys’ Challenge

muse at me-ander blogs about The Big 6 and the Big “S”.
I’m not quote sure what a “big s” is, a spider? A swirl of snot? Perhaps you can figure it out!

Maricar at Keeping the Castle shows us how something as simple as using candles to mask odors can be a joy to behold

Mortimer Randolph at Subject to Review wonders How the hell you get by with expressing “how much you care” to a member of the weaker sex without being sissy about it.

Mark at The Skwib shows us just how to do mundane right by posting analysis on the percentage of bloggers pondering on things instead of musing about them

Over at Chicken or the Egg, ChickyBabe’s strange, spiky tinfoil hat keeps her from hopelessly flirting with a handsome and strange, yet oh-so familiar hunk–through the mirrors at her hair salon.

Batya blogs about bad chess players over at shiloh musings.

Ali at Unwilling Self-Negation shares a far from boring ochestral event with us via Live Blogging in New York

Random Yak instructs on proper house moving and introduces us to the BOAS

Wenchypoo ponders luxury vs. necessity at Frugal Wisdom.

miriam would prefer a clean floor, as opposed to a blueberry-covered one at miriam’s ideas.

Kim C is a belly-button bandaid fashionista! From Life in a shoe.

Paul at Paul’s Tips proves that fooling smart people can be easier than one would think.

Lisa at Lil’ Duck Duck is on the eternal hunt for the cell phone…

Jeremiah Beck teaches us that girls WILL eventually prefer nice guys …complete with visual aids!

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Yesterday, a recent bill became a law in the state of Minnesota in which handguns legally concealed and carried, provided the carrier is a registered owner, meaning you have a permit to use it.

Here’s a full story from a local news site.

All I can say is good for Minnesota! People all over this state are horrified. They think that allowing such a bill to be passed will now increase crime, that it will mean thugs are going to walk all over the place waving pistols like madmen. One of my co-workers says to me the other day, “If I saw a person wearing a holster and revealing it by doing this (as she moves her hand across her body and places her hand on her hip while moving her camp shirt aside to reveal an imaginary gun), that would scare the hell out of me! I think this new law is going to just increase homicide, increase the rate of fatalities from guns, yada yada”.

I don’t know about you, but I think if I saw the same thing in a crowd or public place, I’d say to myself “…if anything weird goes down, I’m sticking with that guy over there, he’s armed and protected!” I really do think that way. I’ve read for years about gun control, safety, our rights, etc. and found that in fact, quite the opposite is true. if you look at other states and other countries, you’ll see that crime rates and such actually decrease, because people are taking things into their own hands…not to say that people who are registered, smart, responsible gun owners are above the law, I mean that each and every American has the right to be reckoned with, on a personal basis. If someone invades my home or tries to attack me, my family or my personal property and even if my life is not at risk, I have every right to wave a gun at that person to let them know I’m not up for that shit. In certain scenarios, I can even shoot and even kill that person legally.

This scares the bejeebus out of most liberals and greenies. Liberals and even some conservative Democrats believe that government forces which tell us how to live, are not only necessary, but something to be respected and obeyed. Such people are complete wussies and they are clueless. The constitution confirms my right to bear arms to protect my person, my family, and my personal property.

I’ll be damned if I have to count on the government and its police force to protect and save me. That’s not their job. Yes, squad cars all say “To protect and to serve” but that’s not the case.  They need to change that…contrary to history of our society, and contrary to what you see on TV, cops are not supposed to drop everything and come to your house to fight your battles.

That is your job.

Yes, I’m a law-abiding citizen, but I’m don’t agree with more than half of what our country’s trying to do to us as individuals.  Don’t even get me started!

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Now that Christmas is over with (Thank the LORD), I just wanted to write a post to say that my blog is back up and running, and that I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and here’s to the new year!

More fun coming soon.

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This entry was posted on Sunday, September 7th, 2008 at 12:12 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response or trackback from your site.

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Out of sheer boredom
[Read all posts in this category] Stuff I wrote instead of picking my nose. Perhaps I might have been better off doing the latter.

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Best Of
[Read all posts in this category] Stuff that’s more thought-provoking, entertaining, or laugh-out-loud funny, than anything else in my blog. Or so I think. You decide. [postsincategory#24] My Stomping Grounds & Other Cavorts
[Read all posts in this category] In which I crap on about things happening where I live and work (in St. Paul, MN). Whether it’s stuff about happenings in my neighborhood, activities I take part in around here, or other stuff, i.e., restaurant reviews, or just ramblings about things around town, it’s here. [postsincategory#18] All Your Stupid Searches Are Belong To Us
[Read all posts in this category] Random people go to Google, type in dirty words and then add the plus ‘+’ sign to a word–anything really, ‘pics’, ‘Sinead O’Connor’, ‘ice cream’, ‘vacuum cleaner’–then wind up here. I hope they’re ALL horribly disappointed when they don’t find any ‘FREE+NUDE+PICS+DREW+CAREY’ here at this site. [postsincategory#2] Grumplicious
[Read all posts in this category] Gawd, I’m such a grump sometimes. Bitchy, snobby, whiny, pissing and moaning all over the place. When I was all of thirteen my mother got me a magnet that says, “Bitch, Bitch, Bitch”. It’s on my fridge to this day. Still, I manage to make lots of friends. I’m still alive even though many people would want to kill someone with a mouth like mine. Go figure. But it’s mostly funny. You’ll laugh at my misery. [postsincategory#5]Politicians Are Funny
[Read all posts in this category] Aren’t they. [postsincategory#12]
It’s Personal [Read all posts in this category]No, really. Here is where I actually post things that I’m thinking, things that happened to me and random feelings/observations from my cluttered mind. [postsincategory#9] Remember When
[Read all posts in this category] Bygone days of childhood and teen years. Back to times of wonderment. The tender ages. Fun, silly stuff. [postsincategory#13] Technology Eckschmology
[Read all posts in this category] I’m not really all that smart and geeky. I just wrote about this stuff to make you think I am. [postsincategory#14] The State of the Union
[Read all posts in this category] On where I pretend I’m CNN only it’s more like the O’Reilly Factor. No bloviating allowed. That’s my job. [postsincategory#21] Family Fun [Read all posts in this category]You can pick your nose but you can’t pick your family. Or whatever. Some of it’s tear jerking, some of it’s mean, and some of it’s fun. Stuff I write about my family. [postsincategory#27] Work, work, and more work
[Read all posts in this category] It’s is what’ll kill us eventually, so why not devote most of our lives to it? “All the live-long day! Just to pass the time awaaay!” [postsincategory#16] Celebrity Dreams, or NIGHTMARES?
[Read all posts in this category] I often have dreams about famous people. A mysterious quirk of my mind, something I wish I could turn off, but–God help me–I know not how. If I could, I’d sooner trade this *gift* in for ANYTHING else like, say, getting a migraine once a month. Or having a boil implanted onto my ass. *sigh* I should get a job at an entertainment mag and post all my dreams there. [postsincategory#19] Men & other foolish things
[Read all posts in this category] All my exes are banished to Texas. Well, not really. But no one has my heart right now. These posts are about the men that did capture it, or tried to, once. [postsincategory#15] Another Saturday Night and I Aint Got Nobody
[Read all posts in this category] On where I’d whine about being a singleton and feel all alone. “How depressing,” you say! Don’t worry, these bouts usually don’t last long. Besides, it usually was more a case of horniness than loneliness. [postsincategory#3] Dating Again, or Now Ive Gone Completely Mad
[Read all posts in this category] In which I go from loneliness to busy-ness in no time flat, entries ripe with lust, laughter and being left out in the cold. [postsincategory#4] I Enjoy Being a Girl
[Read all posts in this category] Who needs enemies when you’ve got friends like Mother Nature? I love…having boobs but curse the day the bra was invented…sporting a girlish figure and then watching it all go to hell after consuming too many Wavy Lays (who can eat just one?)…and bleeding like a stuck pig and turning into a psycho bitchfreak for 7 days a month. Not! As if Aunt Flo’s visits ALONE weren’t horrific enough, to top it all off, the boyfriend calls it ‘blowjob week’. Ugh. I’m bloated. Get the fuck away from me. And other assorted womanly wonders. [postsincategory#9] My new single life
[Read all posts in this category] No longer horny or lonely, my new fascination with success and running things my way including my own business keeps me from wanting much else. [postsincategory#10] World Wide Wack
[Read all posts in this category] If you build it, will they come? They built it. I came. I wrote about it. And left. In some cases I go back, others I wished I hadn’t seen it the first time.[postsincategory#17] Hollywood Hotties, Heroes & Has-beens
[Read all posts in this category] When it comes to media coverage of celebrities and their lifestyles & gossip, politics, etc., I’m all over it. it’s like a car accident, I can’t help but watch. I’m sure it’s an obsession, though I could give like, 2 shits about these people. I’m not a fan. [postsincategory#8] Hence the name “idiot box”
[Read all posts in this category] People think I’m snobby about TV, including my sister and mom. And I am. For the most part. If there is stuff on TV that is annoying or horrible, you can be sure that I’ve written about it. Which is way more fun than watching the TV. I’ve even complained about shows I haven’t seen, because–as a TV snob–That’s how I roll. [postsincategory#6] Holiday Hell
[Read all posts in this category] Family Thanksgivings ’round the table, 4th of July frolicks in the outdoors, whatever. Merriment or misery, it’s recalled here. The important thing is the meaning behind the OCCASION, not the fact that we’re out of liquor or nobody bought you anything that fits your fat ass, right? [postsincategory#7] Jokes & Random Shit
[Read all posts in this category] Just as the name implies

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Thanks to my friend Heidi’s blog, I recently became aware of a new documentary coming out, written & created by Addison Wiggin and directed by Patrick Creadon, entitled, I.O.U.S.A.:

It’s true that America is spending more than it produces! Why the heck aren’t we *still* the industrial powerhouse we got to be by the 1950s? It’s because we have been pandering to the rest of the world and sending everything overseas all too often. We outsource practically everything instead of looking at what’s in our own back yard and using our own resources, yet, at the risk of saving money here and there, we take success of our economy and the good value of the Dollar out of the equation.

We need to bring the extraction of natural resources (and energy), jobs, and mass production of goods and technology back to our country and stop sending all our jobs, paychecks and REVENUE to the rest of the world! There are only a few things we really ought to be getting from other countries and that’s fine imported goods. The rest, we can do without.

Fuck conserving resources. We grow trees and we use them. They grow right back. It has been going on like this for as long as there’s been civilization on this earth. Do the same with water. Same with oil. Yes, it takes trillions and bajillions of years for rocks and earth matter to become oil, and clearly

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I’m completely amazed at this woman. Her confidence and “Can-do” attitude PLUS all she does as a mother, homemaker, sportswoman, and governor of her state make her the ultimate “package” and proof that anyone can do anything they put their mind to.
As for her level of experience? Can’t say that I think she lacks any. She has executive experience, as far as I know, being a mayor of a city and being governor are important jobs and are on par with being a CEO of a corporation-a major qualification for such a job as vice president, even president.

Her experience as governor, while brief so far, *is* considered executive experience, part of it being commander in chief for the national guard of her state, which is military commanding experience according to the government, and last time I checked, the presidential candidate for the other party has none of this type of experience. People have been criticizing Palin as having limited or no experience. On one hand, while that is simply not true, its practically irrelevant, since the Constitution assigns no executive powers to the vice president, only acting as an agent of the president. On the other hand, her experience as governor and having knowledge and practice in government will certainly help in her role of vice president which includes being the presiding officer of the U.S. Senate.

Here’s why I like her…

• She runs a successful home alongside her husband (who by the way, is a great dad who pulls his own weight in the family-so that should squelch all this chatter about having children to raise makes her a bad choice for such a big job).
• She has cut through the bureaucracy in her state and held her own in matters where she had to made decisions for the benefit of the people in her state, over playing favorites or doing what’s popular.
• She killed unnecessary spending in her state’s government, cutting out the expenses typically lavished on governors and VIPs, starting with selling the governor’s jet on eBay!
• She drives herself to work, pumps her own gas, and grocery shops for her family, herself. Most state officials I know about, have a car & driver and/or limo, and staff to handle all these tasks. She doesn’t need them, and in fact refuses them.
• She runs marathons, and when not running in one, she’s training for one.
• She’s not afraid of guns. She fishes, hunts. She can field dress a moose! She is more man than most men I know.
• She’s also very feminine, and beautiful. She looks great whether she’s in a designer suit, t-shirt & jeans, camo gear, a dress, or a sweatshirt & track pants.
• She is pro-military, and cares about what the troops are doing, how they are feeling, and has worked closely with her state’s national guard.

These are things I have not even seen in a MALE candidate running in a major political race.

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I’m supremely in awe of Sarah Palin and I think having her alongside John McCain, she will bring our country much success and prosperity.

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This entry was posted on Friday, July 18th, 2008 at 12:05 pm and is filed under xX-Everything Else-Xx, World Wide Wack. You can follow responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response or trackback from your site.

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

That’s right. You heard it here first, folks! I have been using SimonDelivers.com since March of this year, ever since I moved 3 blocks out of St. Paul and into the suburban utopia that is Maplewood. I ordered about once per month up until June, when finances got pretty tight…

Using the service to have my groceries […]

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

OK–now I love Chipotle as much as the next average Joe. 
I have eaten at various Chipotle locations in the Twin City metro: West St. Paul was the first one I ever saw, back in 2002 (or 2003?), and I ate there twice, then there was one in South Minneapolis that I found nearby a place I was […]

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

In a few days, I’m moving out of the ghetto-ass building and neighborhood I currently live in and into a swanky, sparkly, new place, which is practically going to be a lifestyle upgrade, not to mention a breeze to live in.  More on that later, though. 
Tonight I decided not to cook because a) I’m working on a deadline for a client […]

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

I had been to the Keys Cafe in Woodury before and enjoyed meat loaf with mashed potatoes & gravy with family, and thought it was OK.  I had been to the one on Larpenteur/Lex area and it was alright.  At least the food was decent, a bit more than I’d like to pay for what […]

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

I live in a tiny, cramped 2nd floor apartment on Rice street above some offices. I have all my 9 windows on one side and guess what, it’s the West side! So in the summer it’s scorching and in the winter it’s scorching. I almost never have to turn the radiators on in the winter […]

Friday, July 18th, 2008

I’m going to get one of these shirts!  Heck yeah!

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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

That’s right. You heard it here first, folks! I have been using SimonDelivers.com since March of this year, ever since I moved 3 blocks out of St. Paul and into the suburban utopia that is Maplewood. I ordered about once per month up until June, when finances got pretty tight…

Using the service to have my groceries […]

Monday, July 14th, 2008

I think this cartooonist knows me.  Or it’s a scary coincidence… Take a type A personality, combine it with some sarcasm and “know-it-all-ism” and you have these… *click to enlarge

Sunday, July 15th, 2007

I’m not a conservative, more of libertarian, who happens to have a few conservative viewpoints.  And get this.  I used to be much further to the left than most liberals!  In recent years I began to see things differently and realize that having more liberal/democrat ideals, wasn’t for me.
Anyway, here is my whole take on […]

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

I have been visiting www.youtube.com for some time now, and I know the original intent was to allow individuals to upload their own videos and allow “the people” to have freedom of expression in the form of online video.
However, as most of the people who visit this site are aware, YouTube has also been a […]