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Yesterday I went to SuperTarget and they had Ben & Jerry’s pints for 2 for $4 (normally almost $4/each).  So I picked up a couple.  Or six.  Yeah, so I’m post-menstrual.  I need ice cream now and then.  Deal.

I was a bit upset that they didn’t have one of my faves–Chunky Monkey.  Something about banana ice cream is so fantasically refreshing to me!

So instead I got these…

Vermonty Python – Haven’t tried it yet, but the carton says “Chocolate-liqueor-flavored ice cream with cookie crumb swirl and milk chocolate cows.”  I guess the cows are to represent the flying cows on the Monty Python’s Flying Circus show. 

Mint Chocolate Cookie – This is mint chocolate ice cream with chunks of Oreo-style chocolate sandwich cookies (not Oreos but close).  Sounds delish.  I love mint ice cream, Oreo Cookie ice cream, and chocolate, so I hope it does not disappoint.

Black & Tan – this is meant to be similar to the drink by the same name–a tall frothy glass of Irish stout beer.  If you like a cool pint of Guinness now and then, you might like the half inch or so of creamy (albiet sweet) stout-flavored ice cream on the top of this concoction.  But if you are not a chocoholic, you might not like the rest.  It is dark (almost black) chocolate ice cream with hint of chocolate liqueor taste to it.  Even I didn’t care too much for this dark layer, and I love chocoloate.  This part of the ice cream was very chalky to me, and had a strange sort of choclate taste, but not chocolatey-ice cream taste.

American Pie – Apple pie-flavored ice cream with chunks of cinnamon-y apple and pie crust.  Very different.  Tasted exactly like apple pie ala mode!  Not a favorite though.  Ben & Jerry’s fares better with their chocolate ice creams, in my opinion.

Marsha, Marsha, Marshmallow! – This is my ALL TIME FAVE Ben & Jerry’s flavor!  It’s not marshmallow ice cream, so beware marshmallow lovers–if that’s what you expect, you will be sorry.  It’s rich and dense chocolate ice cream, hunks of fudge chips (the the same ones found in the New York Super Fudge Chunk flavor), swirls of toasted marshmallow goo (this part strangely looks like deli mustard…but tastes great–best eaten in the dark livingroom in front of the glow of your fave DVD), and hunks of gritty, salty graham cracker crust-type stuff.  This ice cream is rich, sweet and salty all at once.  A lot of fun textures combined to make an interesting treat.

Same day, different year..

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• If you don’t like Winter – MOVE! – 2006

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

Seems that, for a long time, my life has been a cycle of being in and out, of a complete, chaotic, mess.  Money’s been too tight (and since November, practically non-existent), and I’m stressing out because I either have too much to do or not enough to do.
It’s my own damned fault, I suppose.  I could be getting […]

Monday, February 19th, 2007

Today I think I’m at the bottom of the bottom.  There’s the earth’s surface, then 50 feet of crap, then there’s me.  I got turned down again for yet another contract job, and then I got a knock on the door and was handed a notice of eviction action…a summons…not an official “eviction notice”. 

Roughly translated, if […]

Saturday, June 10th, 2006

Being that I work from home running my own business, of course I rarely have time for myself because I spend on average 12-16 hours a day working.
But tonight that is all coming to a halt. I’m turning off the computer (as soon as I wrap up the Post-Carnival documentation) and then I’m […]

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

You guys have been asking where I’ve been, if I’m really back, etc. Well I’ve been busy.

I’ve been working for the last 2 months trying to get a new division of my company (B. Woods Design–not new, that’s my company) launched. It’s not a new concept but it is a website in a box thingie…still rough […]

Wednesday, January 19th, 2005

I flat-out hate this job. I would rather be a Horsepoop shoveler in the Winter Carnival Parade, than sit here one more minute and pretend to care about math and science and Energy in General.

Oh, and if I get ANOTHER company-wide e-mail full of crap that does not pertain to ME SPECIFICALLY, […]

Thursday, May 17th, 2001

Ugh. yes. I know that it’s Thursday. Let me just tell you I’ve been through hell in the last day. Tuesday night I had knocked myself silly. How? Well, by falling down a huge flight of cement carpeted stairs and hitting my head. Very graceful, I know. *Ahem* Anyway, that’s all over with and I’m […]

Thursday, May 10th, 2001

Performance review at job is Wednesday, and self portion due by noon.    I got home very late, no time for dinner and relaxation.  Sat down at the kitchen table, and proceeded fill out self-review. 

Had almost no trouble with first four pages, as were all questions on how I felt my job’s tasks were handled, each answer to be […]

Sunday, December 17th, 2000

So so so so so happy that I got a job. I can hardly go to bed, I’m so excited.
So, on Saturday, Mom, Mary, Sandy and I all got together and we made cookies! Lots of them…Danish butter cookies, Mexican Wedding Cakes (sometimes called Russian Tea Cakes), Chocolate Chocolate Chip, Oatmeal Raisin, and Lemon […]

Saturday, December 16th, 2000

But not for long…Yes, Virginia, there IS a Santa Claus, because…

I GOT A JOB!I GOT A JOB! “…and now I’m as happy as a leetle school gurrl!” I’ve got lots to yak about but no time. Right now I’m off to mom’s to help make Christmas cookies!

more later, taters…

Wednesday, December 13th, 2000

JOB HUNTING…it’s not just for breakfast anymore. What a BIIIITCH! Oh, sweet, 14merciful mother of god, puhleeze help me get a freaking gig sometime this century!
…btw, it should be known that although Monday was DAY ONE of my stint as a partially unemployed! chick, and as of midnight Tuesday it is DAY THREE, the date […]

Monday, December 11th, 2000

What can I say? I’ve only just joined the awake world 5 hours ago and still feel as though I’m asleep…
I decided not keep the appointment I had scheduled for today. I was supposed to visit that college I mentioned before, that I kinda sorta wanna attend. Then I called the cool nutty granola […]

Saturday, December 9th, 2000

Where does the weekend go?

10:54pm Worked four hours. Froze nearly to death on commute. got home. Had big plans to haul out the fake tree and light it up, do Christmas cards. Instead I surfed and gafawwed at stupid websites. Read the news, read some email.

Now I’m cold and hungry and lonesome, so I’m gonna go curl […]

Monday, December 4th, 2000

Hey all. It got to a blistering and balmy 12 degrees in the Twin Cities today, and it’s only going to get better! Oooh, we’re expecting a high of 15 degrees on Wednesday…can’t wait!

Tonight when I got home I turned up the oven to 450 degrees and stood in front of it like a bum would […]

Monday, November 6th, 2000

Gosh, I guess I’m a little bit more chipper tonight than I was earlier.
I’m sure it took a couple hours for me to thaw out. You didn’t wanna mess with me earlier. I did skip out on the PT temp job today…but even though I took the day off I found it was very hard […]

Wednesday, November 1st, 2000

It was after nine when I got home tonight. I had been out since 6:30 this morning and was ON all day. Sometimes I get tired of being ON all day. Sometimes I just wanna go home and sit on the couch and mindlessly scratch my butt in front of MTV.

So tonite, after working nine hours I have […]

Carnival of the Insanities is up, at Dr. Sanity.  Go and check it out.

Literature Carnival 12, hosted at Much Madness is Divinest Sense is up, as of Saturday.

and Carnival of the Stars went up on Saturday, too, at Don Surber’s blog.

Enjoy!

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I did not want to cook this weekend so I ordered some Chinese takeout on Friday night.

I made sure to get enough to last for a few meals, though the person who packed my order did not know this, and when it was delivered, I received 3 fortune cookies along with my order.  Perhaps they thought the order was for three.

Everyone who knows me, knows I get crap fortunes in every cookie I break open, so it was no surprise to find the following message stamped on the first one I opened:

“Don’t kiss an elephant on the lips today.”

Second one said:

“Every adversity carries with it the seed of an equal or greater opportunity”

So what does that mean??  In other words, if you are S.O.L. now, chances are high you could wind up being even more or a bit less S.O.L., in the end. 

and finally,

 “Every exit is an entrance to new experiences”

Well, duh. 

Ah, bugger!  Never have I ever in my life gotten one that predicts love, success, wealth, or even plain old fashioned happiness, of any kind.

Of course, I could have opened them seperately, at the end of each meal this weekend, but I knew they’d be crap, so I figured I’d get it over with and open them all up right away!

I was supposed to stay in this weekend (even though it’s gorgeous out!) and work on websites for a couple clients.  I’m seriously behind on one of them and need to finish it so I can get paid and avoid an eviction from this dump of an apartment building, from which I rent a cramped 2nd floor unit.

So today, rather than catch up on that, I have to go to mom’s today to help her with some stuff around the house. 

Woe is me.

Ta-ta for now.

Same day, different year..

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• Weekend Blog Carnivals – 2006

Or as Jay Leno put it tonight, “…Don’t take your immigrant to work day.”

I guess when I heard about immigrants not going to work and school on May 1st, I expected to notice.  But I didn’t.  At least not in my neck of the woods.  In fact, I forgot all about this until tonight.  I managed to get a Subway for dinner, went to the gas station for necessities and whatnot, all without a glitch.  

However I don’t live in East L.A., or Washington, so that may be the reason I  didn’t notice anything. 

Michelle Malkin’s Hot Air has video of today’s shenannigans, complete with crowds taking over streets, waving upside down U.S. flags and banners of Che Guevera. 

What’s up with Che Guevera anyway?  Is he like the Christ of the Moonbats?  You’d think the guy had a sold out European tour, the way people still wave his likeness around and shout his name.  The last time this guy had his picture taken, his hands were chopped off and he was dead.  But nooooo, people act as if he still lives! Then someone had to make a big epic movie about him.  Get over it people!

Top that all off with  people singing our national anthem in Spanish, calling it their own.  So far no refute on that. 

PS – Yes that is a toilet brush in her hand!  ¿Cuál está para arriba con ése?

Why anyone likes this guy [Ross the intern from The Tonight Show]. Yes–God help me–I watch the Tonight Show.  Only because Jay Leno’s jokes are great.  Even if he counts on a plethora of others to help write them.

Why 40-something is the new 20-something.

Why ER (and other network TV shows) has to show us what its like to be an American M.D. in Darfur (an area in the Sudan).  Doesn’t it know that we have our own country with it’s own problems?

Why The West Wing is such a popular show.  This show sucks ass.  Whoever said it was “a liberal’s wet dream” was right.  Thank gawd the series is ending this coming week!

Why anyone gives two shits about Rosie O’Donnell (aka Rosie O’LumpyPants) joining ABC’s The View.  Besides, I thought Rosie said she hated it.

While I’m at it…
I don’t understnd why Hollywood Celebs even think we really care about them?  Crap.  I just realized that there are many people in our country who are doing this.  Stop it, you asshats!

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I can’t decide if it’s yet another scare tactic or something to not worry about.  Dateline NBC’s website has a report on E.coli bacteria found in bagged lettuce.  3 different people in Minnesota contracted E.coli and were gravely ill, after having eaten lettuce from a bag!

Well if this isn’t proof positive that people should just grow their own veggies in their own yards and wash it and cut it themselves, then I don’t know what is. 

The show should just change its name to Nightmareline.

Then today on Oprah they had a health expert on the show talking about pandemic in America and the possibility of tami flu and Asian flu, among other strains, and how we cannot possibly be prepared, as a country to face it.  We’d literally have to start stocking up on drugs, toiletries, household supplies, food, and water now, and make sure you have anough for a couple months, and just not go anywhere! 

Are all these people just trying to scare us, or do we really need to worry this badly?

Can’t we just wash the lettuce, wash our hands and call it a day?  No, not according to them!  The report at Dateline indicated that if the E.coli bacteria came about because of animal or bird droppings in the fields, then chances are high the lettuce grew from the contaminated soil and no amount of washing would help.  The flu expert said no matter how much you wash your hands, wear face masks, etc. these things are bound to happen and are air borne!

I’m locking the door and not going anywhere.  Especially not to buy lettuce!

Same day, different year..

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• Stop, hey, what’s that sound? – 2006

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006

I can’t decide if it’s yet another scare tactic or something to not worry about.  Dateline NBC’s website has a report on E.coli bacteria found in bagged lettuce.  3 different people in Minnesota contracted E.coli and were gravely ill, after having eaten lettuce from a bag!
Well if this isn’t proof positive that people should just […]

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006

When you are having no fun. I do believe I’m suffering from some burnout.  I have worked an average of 14-18 hours a day, (with the exception of a day or two off every month) for the last 16 months and I feel like I need a long nap!

Meanwhile, I got a cute comment earlier today […]

Sunday, May 21st, 2006

I did not want to cook this weekend so I ordered some Chinese takeout on Friday night.
I made sure to get enough to last for a few meals, though the person who packed my order did not know this, and when it was delivered, I received 3 fortune cookies along with my order.  Perhaps they […]

Sunday, May 14th, 2006

Why anyone likes this guy [Ross the intern from The Tonight Show]. Yes–God help me–I watch the Tonight Show.  Only because Jay Leno’s jokes are great.  Even if he counts on a plethora of others to help write them. Why 40-something is the new 20-something.

Why ER (and other network TV shows) has to show us what its like to […]

Thursday, May 11th, 2006

Why Don’t Users Read? over at Blankenthoughts was talking about how many people do not read instructions when it comes to computer usage. 
I agree with this blogger about how people don’t read directions these days.  I have to also agree that it seems handwriting is a thing of the past.  I don’t fully know if […]

Tuesday, April 4th, 2006

Today (which is April Fool’s day in case you live under a rock), and it was my birthday.  Gawd am I old.  Yup.  Turned the big 3-3 this year. I would have preferred to stay in bed all day but dear ol’ mom sprung for lunch and a visit.  C’mon… who can turn down a free lunch?

So we […]

Friday, July 29th, 2005

I’ve suddenly lost my appetite for blogging.
Who knows if I’ll ever get it back.

Sunday, February 6th, 2005

Ladies and gentlemen. May I present… The “I’m f*cking freezing” tee. As worn by J-Lo, apparently, according to these yahoos. Indeed. Then put on a f*ckingsweatshirt. You f*cking moron.

Perhaps I’m missing the joke or some sort of clever youthful irony here, but may I ask–why a TEE? It would make perfect sense to place such a classy saying […]

Friday, February 4th, 2005

It’s a great concept. Can’t sleep? Put this shit on. Guaranteed to have you sawing logs in a matter of 1.5 videos. Case in point: ‘Let me Go’ by Three Doors Down Great band, great song. Shitty video. “Let me Go” Indeed. Let Me Go Find Who Directed this Fucked Up Video!

Three […]

Saturday, October 16th, 2004 Thursday, May 3rd, 2001

I’m home SICK as a dog today, I’m almost sure it’s the flu. My head feels like it’s stuffed with cinder blocks and my nose won’t stop running, I’m coughing like there’s no tomorrow and my whole body aches, all the way down to my little pinky toe. I just now got to feeling strong enough […]

Friday, November 17th, 2000

Before I go on and on and on, I just wanna say that it is DRAFTY in this mofer tonight! *teeth chattering*

Got home from job #2 late, as usual. Didn’t make any sales, but then again, I can’t sell a plastic baggie to a dude walking his dog in the park. I am never sleepy when […]

Saturday, November 11th, 2000

Okay, this post has nothing to do with The Big Lebowski. I just couldn’t think of a title. I hate this feeling as though there is a need to have a title for every entry, though I do try to come up with clever ones. Sorta stupid, huh?  It is cold here in my apartment. Dammit.

I’m […]

Tuesday, October 17th, 2000

Yes, I know it’s been forever since I’ve updated.  Don’t even get me started.  Let’s just say that I’ve been busy doing lots of nothing.
I was sitting here on Sunday night at 9:20 pm feeling terribly lucky not to have to go to work tomorrow.  I am on a week’s vacation.  I have no real […]

Friday, May 26th, 2000

Happiness is ___________. (fill in the blank here)
Sometimes I wonder about people… Just something I’ve been thinking about for awhile, that’s all. Do you find yourself wondering the same thing? I mean, we’re all here for one thing and that is to live and prosper and be happy, right?  But I have DAYS, you know, […]

Why Don’t Users Read? over at Blankenthoughts was talking about how many people do not read instructions when it comes to computer usage. 

I agree with this blogger about how people don’t read directions these days.  I have to also agree that it seems handwriting is a thing of the past.  I don’t fully know if it’s due to computers having taken over much of what we used to do by pen. 

I didn’t click on the NY Times article simply because something told me that if it’s at least a month old, it won’t come up for the pulic anymore.   However, Blankenthoughts has inspired me to post something of my own on the topic.

America is just plain dumb and lazy when it comes to doing things for ourselves.  And we are sloppy writers who depend on computers.

Seems going through one or two paragraphs about how to perform a task is more daunting than actually trying to hack it out yourself, only to spend a longer amount of time going back to read them, or worse, trying to get someone to help you. 

As far as the decline of handwriting, I think it is because public schools are not even teaching penmanship anymore. Ask any kid under 20, if they even heard the word, ‘penmanship’.  Chances are likely they haven’t.

I don’t know if it’s because of the gradual onset of technology that replaces many things, or if it’s because we are all so busy, many households having 2 adults working outside of the home and kids taking on so many extracurricular activities but I think that theory is bullshit, on both counts. 

As for handwriting, I think that if you told a class of 33 students they had to turn in a 20 page paper on loose-leaf notebook sheets, they ought to be able to do it.  This seems like something that does not happen today, because of schools neccessitating a computer for each child in school.  No gawd-dang wonder my nephew turns up at my place with a boat load of various and sundry order forms for fundraiser junk, not more than a week after school opens, ever year. 

I say that if teachers think each child needs a computer they are full of it.  Microsoft Word is not that hard to learn and if you want to have a vocation in computers, take that shit as an elective or go off and study them in college, like the rest of us had to.  Computer skills have been more and more of a prerequisite for jobs in the last couple of decades but these things can be learned through the use of libraries, community education courses and the like.

As for my personal experience in these areas…

I was taught penmanship in school, and I retain a modicum of what I learned.  Mine handwriting is a blend of print and cursive, which–depending on the day–resembles a bit of my mom’s or my dad’s hand.  Tis kind of sloppy most of the time, but It looks good when I really make an effort, like with Christmas cards, and thank-you’s.  However I’m proud of it.  Not because it is great, but because it is mine.  It’s a piece of my identity, something unique that no one else in the world can match.  My parents both worked out of the home and I fondly recall having Mrs. Kunz holler, “Long, easy strokes!  Next line is your ‘e’s!  Ready?” over her record player with the soundtrack to Chariots of Fire playing on it. 

I was in the Girl Scouts, volleyball, Indian Princess, and had many playmates and things to run off and do, but I still had time for homework and learning.  So to say that we have no time to read directions and do homework and/or other tasks the right way the first time, so the excuse “too many activities” can’t be a major factor for the dwindling of our minds, either.

I think that we don’t take the time to take a deep breath and read directions because of the fact that we can all be reachable at any time, and virtually anwhere (advent of cell phones), we mess around on the computer too much (computers more widely available in our homes, and the advent of the internet), and we want to spend lots of time in front of the TV (too many cable channels, TIVO, DVD mania, etc.).

And I think that we don’t handwrite enough because many things don’t require it, such as e-mail, faxing, word processing, and text-messaging, thus making it very easy for schools to erase handwriting, penmanship, and writing in general, from curriculums across the country.

It’s because we are just plain lazy.

Same day, different year..

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• Adventures at the public library – 2000

Thursday, June 30th, 2005

This dickhead’s trying on treason this time, though no one wants to call it that.
What’s worse, there’s not much that can be done about it. Why? Because whosoever whines about it, will be given the whole First Ammendment third degree which the nutty professer so cleverly and frequently hides behind, every time his words […]

Thursday, June 30th, 2005

You should really check out Catch27.com. You could win a PS2 or a Digital Cam or an iPOD. I’m only doing it to win something…it’s full ‘o whores and teeny boppers and assholes named Brad with 47 pieces of metal on his face but hey it’s worth the prize.

Plus I have another blog […]

Wednesday, June 29th, 2005

The news surrounding this woman’s disappearance is a painful reminder that we as American adults need to be more involved in children’s lives (yes, they may be 17 & 18 but they are still just kids) and we need to be ‘hip’ to what is going on at all times.
I cannot even believe that (even […]

Wednesday, June 29th, 2005

OK this is two days late, I like to post these on Sundays but uh…. I’ve been busy. No more no more no more no more

OK I’m not sure if this person was looking for the lyrics to Ray Charles’ “Hit The Road, Jack” or if the person was just demanding NO MORE! So I’m just […]

Wednesday, June 29th, 2005

…and call it the Puppy Blender. Serve up some Dalmation Daquris, have a nice ‘lil happy hour, maybe some bar food like Jalepeno Puppers, make all the waitstaff wear many dogtags as ‘flair’, you get the idea.
This is how many times the name is brought up, just in a given day.

Monday, June 27th, 2005

Oprah Winfrey denied at Hermes, all you can eat buffets

Come see Tom play J-E-O-P-A-R-D=Y!

Tom Cruise is foaming at the mouth…someone shoot him, quick!

Monday, June 27th, 2005

Number of blogs referencing this twit, even though her 15 minutes are up (OK day lee is guilty as sin on this one too).
I know, I already commented on this over at the GOC, but it bears repeating. Only because tonight as I’m flipping through the news stories on TV her bug-eyes come on the […]

Sunday, June 26th, 2005

Is up, over at The Owner’s Manual. Below are the contributors this time around: Conservative Cat: Confused Americans for Truth – Pie a la Liberal Watcher of Weasels looks at The Undiscovered Country. Multiple Mentality reflects on just how expensive Girl Scout Cookies have become ROFASix: Afraid of “more” Democracy in America. The Owner’s Manual presents: Homeopathetic

Pratie Place: People having […]

Sunday, June 26th, 2005

Over at What Would Hollywood Do? beej is sponsering an “Open mic” as it were. Every Thursday, one lucky person will be able to post a blog entry at this blog, and be given access to do so.
If you don’t already know, WWHD is a blog that takes much issue with famous people who have […]

Saturday, June 25th, 2005

Okay, so some of these a bit old (but I never read about some of the older ones until today) and some are more recent. But they’re all true funny stories about people calling the police/911 for stupid reasons. Woman jailed after calling 911 about pizza man A ‘Fowl’ case? You only cut the one you love…

Leave […]

Saturday, June 25th, 2005

I totally stole this from Grouchy Old Cripple this afternoon. Some test to see how observant the average person is…======================================================== Don’t look at mine if you are going to take it, because I included my answers below. Take it at GOC’s. NO LOOKING AROUND ON YOUR DESK… Average person only gets 7 right.

This is based on […]

Saturday, June 25th, 2005

from the Saturday Silly Schtuff Dept. Madfish Willie’s posted a new episode guide, Television Specials for 00’s. Notice the titles with a bit more of a ‘gangsta’ twist, now that Generation Z (or is it Y?) has become so coarsened and rooted in a new and strange urbanized hip hop culture. Thanks a lot, Eminem!

I myself […]

Saturday, June 25th, 2005

OK my most annoying blogs list has entertained & delighted many and seemingly pinched the nerves of a few. However I shall press on happily, blogging about freely as though nothing ever happened… Screw that. I’m going to say a few things…

While I never intended to go and find one of the items on my list […]

Friday, June 24th, 2005

Yes. I had the hots for Mallory Keaton’s little, freckle-faced kid brother ever since he was in Silver Spoons. Gawd, I used to adore him!

Unlike most chicks I went to school with, I was never one of those girls in the class who really got all ‘groupied-out’ and fell head over heels for everyone. You know…David AND […]

Friday, June 24th, 2005

Be the next ‘blog superstar! I have another web site (yes, one of many) which shines the proverbial spotlight on all news which happens to cover stars involved with issues du jor. Or even news about or involving former stars who are now congresspersons/other officials/social hippie scum/political candidates/traitors/etc.

It takes this news, chews it up & then […]