Daily Dose of Games – Scrabble
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Daily Dose of Travel – Atlanta
We’ll be heading to Atlanta soon. We being me, TW and Michelle. This weekend will be part of Michelle’s 16th birthday celebration – woohoo! (Did I sound properly enthusiastic? Let me try again WOOHOOOO!)
We’re staying at the Beautiful Mid-Town Wyndham. We’re going shopping at the Junkman’s Daughter (or whatever it’s called) in L5P. We’re going to hit the bookstore, Charis, that I recently blogged about. I think we’ll take Michelle to Mary Mac’s ’cause everyone needs to go to a southern tea room, once. Besides there are tons of vegetarian choices! The most important part of this trip though is…
Michelle is getting a grown up bedroom for her birthday so we’re hitting IKEA in order to do that. This will be her virgin IKEA visit and only the second visit for me and TW. Someone remind me to bring the camera! We’re excited! WOOHOOOO!
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Daily Dose of Starbucks – #52 #60
Every morning TW and I stop at Starbucks. We generally stop at the Starbucks where everyone knows our name and the baristas know our drink. Sometimes we have to go to the Starbucks downtown but that’s just once a week or so, we don’t like that as much. Lately though, there’s been a problem with our morning Starbucks run and it doesn’t matter which Starbucks we visit. Two problems, actually.
The Way I See It #52 and The Way I See It #60
I was really excited to lose the holiday cups and get back to the traditional white cups with inspirational discussion worthy "The Way I See It" quotes. That excitement has turned to frustration and dare I say, loathing?
I am sick to death of both #52 and #60. Teddy Roosevelt is not the most inspirational of our presidents, in my opinion – I’m sure some of you adore Teddy and that’s fine – you can have all of the cup #60s if you want them. Eavesdropping on baristas is something I do everyday and believe me I could write better cups from my eavesdropping than the little tidbit on cup #52. The big problem though is 30 straight days of those two cups.
It appears as though all Venti cups in this town (is it the southeast? the country? the world) have those two "The Way I See Its". (We’re going to Atlanta this weekend and I am hoping to prove it’s not the entire southeast!) (We went to Atlanta last weekend and unfortunately the #52 and #60 problem occurs there as well!) The other size cups have different "The Way I See Its" and I’m tempted to change cup sizes just for something NEW to read and look at and talk about. Won’t that make Starbucks sad? If I stop spending $11 a day and spend $8 instead? And after I get sick of those Grande cups, because I’m afraid I’ll get trapped with two new numbers, then I’ll have to switch sizes again, to a Tall, and spend $5 a day. And after that, I’ll have to stop going to Starbucks altogether.
Something had better be done about this cup issue, and quickly. At this point I’d be thrilled with the Christian message "The Way I See It" cups that we read about last year. At this point I’d be thrilled with quotes from the current President Bush.
**Updated after the trip to Atlanta**
I’m just that sick of cups #52 and #60.
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My Blog is Red!
The blog is red in support of the Go Red for Women Day event. We’ll return to shades of blue tomorrow!
Daily Dose of Television – Gilmore Girls
Listen up Paladino, I’m getting angry. Angry enough that I might stop watching TV altogether on Tuesdays. That’s pretty angry since I am a diehard Gilmore Girls fan.
What is Paladino thinking? Is she making it easier for fans to see the show end this year by turning really terrific characters into really horrible characters? If that’s what she’s doing, she can just stop it. As sad as I’ll be when there are no more weekly visits to Stars Hollow, I’d prefer the Gilmores, their friends and family, go out with a bang and not a bust.
Let’s look at the problems with the writing so far this season.
Besides the fact that we didn’t need a younger Rory and an old flame for Luke who is a mirror image of Lorelai, we’ve now got Luke acting completely out of character. I get that he wants to be a father, that part makes sense. But Luke would not do it in this fashion. He wouldn’t have hid the truth from Lorelai for 2 months. He wouldn’t be shutting her out right now. And he certainly would not have canceled the wedding. That’s not Luke, that’s some other dirtbag man of which we have many examples and do not need more.
And Lorelai, what is up with her acting all weak and submissive? The real Lorelai would have said HO!, it’s not ok to cancel the wedding! It’s not ok that you didn’t tell me you have a daughter for 2 months and it’s not ok that you haven’t yet introduced us to each other!!
By the way, making Luke into some idiot who has never lifted a book in his life is ridiculous. In the early seasons Luke did in fact read. He may not be a Rory and April quality reader but the man has never been a dumbie. The dumbing down of Luke has been a progressive thing, a la "What’s the DAR" but this week’s episode was just too much.
Now let’s talk about Rory. I know Rory has always made bad choices when it comes to men. If you’re going to completely change a character could you change that? Wouldn’t it be nice if Rory had actually grown up during her community service? But no, you have Logan coming in to win her with a coffee cart and save the day with his Huntsberger family connections. Rory should have saved the paper without him last week. And then met him for coffee later, reveling in the glory of her success. But no. You couldn’t give her that.
The lack of supporting character appearances is also a problem. No town troubador. No Lane. No Sebastian Bach. No Michele. Very little Paris and all can’t cope Paris makes for a really crummy show, people! Heck we’re not even seeing much of Kirk or Taylor this year and that’s just crazyness. Lorelai and Rory are the stars, no doubt, but what got this show where it is was, are the cast of supporting characters. Quit with the Paul Anka and bring back the town! I’d even take more of pfTL. He’s better than Paul Anka.
I’m warning you Paladino. I’ll quit watching on Tuesday. And I may own seasons 1 and 2 but if you keep this up, I won’t buy the other seasons. And I’ll stop searching for that fuzzy meowing alarm clock from season 1 that I’d kill to own.
Get rid of these pod-people versions of Stars Hollow residents and give us back the real thing. RIGHT NOW (using Emily Gilmore’s voice, maybe that will shake you up).
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Daily Dose of Health – Women – Heart Disease
On February 3, 2006 people all over the country will be dressed in red to support the campaign to reduce the risk of heart disease in women. (I’m thinking about turning my blog template red, care to join me for the day?)
Visit the Go Red for Women website to learn about local events, shop the go red store and find information about the #1 killer of women, heart disease.
On the morning radio show I heard a college professor, about my age, describe her heart attack almost a year ago. She was a professor of dance, she had no history of health problems, no risk factors and no heart disease in her family. Yet she had a heart attack. She did not have any of the signs you generally think of when you think about heart disease. Instead she felt sick to her stomach, she had severe pain in the middle of her back and her arms were weak, like noodles. That’s it. No chest pain, no shortness of breath, no pain in one arm.
You may think it can’t happen to you, but you would be wrong. My old friend Milindoe found out she had a mild heart attack years ago, and she never even knew:
About 6 or 7 years ago, I had an ecocardiogram (ECG) done and it was found that, at some point in my life, I’d had some sort of cardiac "episode" that caused some slight scarring around the heart. A mild heart attack, and I never knew it. Scary, isn’t it?
Laura’s life has been touched by this, too.
Last night, he told me a dear friend (and his boss) was going to have heart bypass surgery today. She is in her early 50s. Cathy and her husband, Joe, are very dear to us. Their office is a lot like family so Bill and the rest of the staff are understandably worried. I sat with Joe and his kids this morning in the hospital as Cathy underwent quadruple bypass surgery.
Zuzu on of the new Feministe bloggers shares this comment to Jilly’s post asking "What’s Your Biggest Health Concern".
When my mother had her heart attack, she didn’t even recognize that that was what it was, because the symptoms didn’t fit the “classic†model — shooting pains in the left arm and whatnot — which is derived from studies of men.
As a result, she didn’t seek medical help for three days, because she thought she just had the flu. She’d probably be alive today if she knew what the common symptoms in women were.
Dr Helen talks about her three month check up, linking to her post about her heart attack, at the age of 37.
Join the Go Red For Women campaign. Spread the word, spread the education.
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Daily Dose of Search – Vomit
I always find it amusing to see other bloggers talk about the search phrases that are used to find their blogs and am pretty amused when I check mine. I’ll even admit that I’m so amused that I check mine at least three times a day! It isn’t about the number of visitors for me, it’s about the creative fashion in which they arrived here. Some of the visits make sense – things like Denise, Melissa Ferrick and Sudacare Shower Soothers. But blue vomit? Who in their right mind searches for the phrase blue vomit? (whoever you are, if you are still searching, could you let me know why you are searching for this?) And who knew that I’d be number seven on the Netscape search results for that phrase. As far as I know, TW (the Queen of Vomit), Michelle (the Lady of the Court of Vomit), and E (the Princess of Vomit) have not vomited blue. But apparently when I said " just out of the blue vomit" that was enough to get me the number three ranking!
What’s even more interesting is that there is a Rate My Vomit site which, you guessed it, encourages visitors to rank barf pictures. DO NOT CLICK IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE SERIOUS BARF PHOTOS!!! Even better, there’s a Barf Blog! Unfortunately, it isn’t really a blog (or maybe that’s fortunately – your call). It’s a link to a Canadian Food Safety Network forum. Someone ought to tell those Canadians that forums are not blogs.
I bet nobody comes to your site in search of vomit, much less blue vomit, do they? I’m special.
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Daily Dose of Food – Avocado
Once again I find myself pining away for a cooking gadget. No it’s not the constant cooking that’s going on around here that’s causing my cooking gadget lust. (Though I did find myself peeling and slicing an avocado recently) It’s just plain weird gadget lust.
I need this, don’t I?
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Daily Dose of Life – Plans Update
It’s been a month since I created my 101 Things to do in 1001 Days list and I’ve actually stuck with it. The list is often in the back of my mind when I’m thinking about my day or creating that little "mental to do" list every morning. Weird.
If you click the link, you’ll see that not much has been completely crossed off but some items have little numbers next to them that indicate progress. There are other areas where I almost hit the complete goal but didn’t quite make it.
Take the #40. We’ve only eaten out or ordered food 4 times, I think. Pizza, McAllister’s, food at the Medieval Faire last weekend and an after church visit to the Picadilly once. That’s a huge change for us. I mean HUGE. I could probably scratch that off the list and call it done, but I won’t because I think we can manage a full month at some point in the next 969 days. Maybe.
Progress has been made on the clean sweep pile, but it’s slow slow going.
So there’s the update. Having this list hasn’t killed me and it hasn’t forced me into the bedroom afraid to face the world either. I think I’ll keep it. Let’s see what progress I make in February – Anyone care to place a bet as to how I do? What I can scratch off? What I can update?
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Clearcut
I’m going to go on the record with this once more, because it’s been quite some time since I’ve needed to say it. Which is good because I use to have to say it everyday, back when that “curious” board still existed.
Threesomes are a bad idea
There, I said it. Again. Too bad Early, Zan and Reed did not ask my advice before the entered into that madness. But then again, if they had listened to me would Early have learned all of those great lessons? Not that those lessons did a whole lot of good for Zan or for Reed. But hey, one person came out of it bruised and battered but wiser than when he started, right? 1 out of 3, that’s not so bad, right?
I had trouble sticking with this one. Probably because I knew it was going to be a threesome thing and I knew that meant trouble. I wasn’t really in the mood for trouble. So, it took me a full week to read the first 133 pages. Then it took me a full day to read the last 150. Once I resigned myself to the trouble, it wasn’t a bad book. A little predictable (Threesomes are a bad idea, folks) but unusual in the setting and the characters. Though I suppose since we’ve got gay cowboys, gay logging guys shouldn’t feel that unusual should they. Oops, bisexual. Err ummm, polyamorous? Nah, if it had been polyamory it wouldn’t have ended as badly. Or maybe it would have. I don’t know. I don’t generally give advice about polyamorous relationships. Threesomes, I can advise on. Polyamory, not so much.
If you’re interested in a love triangle/sex triangle (M, M, F) with some interesting people (Though it would have been nice if Zan and Reed had been given more depth but what can you ask for in a book this short?) then Clearcut is your book. If you’re not into it, well I can’t blame you, because threesomes are trouble!
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