1/23/07

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After using the Liz Claiborne Grandma purse (’cause it looks like something your Grandma would carry, apparently, at least according to Debbie and Fred) (not that I care, obviously, since that didn’t stop me from buying it) for a week, I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not working for me. I’ve run back to my Healthy Back Bag and am begging for forgiveness. I’d sell my Liz Claiborne Grandma bag on eBay, but I’m a klutz and a dumbass (not necessarily in that order), and I got a splotch of white paint on it and can’t get it off, so it might end up on the Giveaway page one of these days.
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From my comments: Hey, I know you and Fred are considering chickens/ducks, and thought you’d both enjoy reading this blog. Fred and I both read that blog already, actually. I think someone sent me the link back when we first bought the Smallville house and I check it from time to time. Last week or the week before, Fred sent me an email with a link to the blog and said something like “Check it out, she’s got chickens!”, and I got to tell him that I’d sent the link to him months ago (he “discovered” it via Google).
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Okay, so how do you change out switches and plugs? I thought I needed professional help for that and low and behold Lil Robyn does it. Maybe you guys need a DIY blog. I would find it very useful. I intended to do an entry on this very thing this week, but didn’t get to take the pictures to do it over the weekend, so it’ll have to wait ’til after the floors are done!
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I think I might know why people think you’re pregnant, and it might not be as bad as you think. When you were heavier, you were heavier all over. You didn’t look pregnant, just fat. Now you have a thin face, thin arms and thin legs, so if your stomach looks pooched out even a little bit, it might make you look pregnant. How many times do we hear that some movie star looks pregnant, and they’re not? It doesn’t take much on a thin person. That’s why even though you’ve lost tons of weight, NOW is when you’re being called pregnant. That’s Fred’s opinion on the topic, and I think you’re both probably right! We went out to lunch Sunday afternoon, and I found that when I got up from the table, I was sucking my gut in as hard as I could, so the ultra-friendly owner of the restaurant wouldn’t come running over yelling “You’re pregnant!” Heh.
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Hey Robyn – you guys should get a sign for you door that says, “We do not accept solicitations.” It does deter a lot of folks. For those who chose to ignore it, you can always point to the sign and say, “I’m sorry, I have a firm policy of only doing business with people who know how the hell to read.” You can also put it on your voice mail: “This number does not accept solicitations, so please remove us from your call list immediately.” I’ve thought of that, and maybe we’ll do that, at least at the new house. I’ve also considered putting up a sign that says “No solicitation, no religion, no cookies, no candy, no strangers, no thanks. (But cats are always welcome)” I’m sure that would endear us to our neighbors!
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What?!? No mention of the Scrubs musical, the best half hour of television EVER?! Only because we hadn’t watched it yet! We watched it Friday night… and Saturday night. And Sunday, too. In fact, I’m going to see if I can Torrent it and burn it to DVD. It was SO AWESOME, and amazing how many musical numbers they were able to fit into a half hour show. If you’re not watching Scrubs, you’re missing out, is all I’m saying.
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What is cute Tommy wearing in that self-portait? (In this picture) Tommy’s wearing a collar that works with the electric fence out back, so he doesn’t go a-roaming. He, Sugarbutt, and Mister Boogers all wear them on days when we leave the cat door open (which we haven’t been doing a lot of lately because of the weather)
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Hi Robyn – I’m sure you’ve mentioned this a dozen times, but I can’t seem to find the answer! You take such great pictures, what kind of camera do you use? The camera I use is a Sony Cybershot DSC-P200. My only gripe is that it doesn’t have as much of a zoom as I’d like, but other than that, I LOVE it! We’ve always had Sony digital cameras, and have always liked them a lot.
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Old toilets are power flushers for megapoops and are the equivalent of gold to some people… you might want to rethink replacing them! Unfortunately, they’re not that old, just a few years old. They’re the cheap, crappy toilets with hardly any flushing power at all – and in the And3rson household, we need us some flushing power. We’re going to upgrade, though not to the $800 (!) toilets Fred’s stepmother was telling us about!
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I too have a thing for Bam [Margera]. I didn’t realize it until I watched a marathon of his reality show one weekend and I think he is completely hot now although I’m not sure exactly why. Steve-O is completely gross even when he tries to “clean up” which is basically never. There are certain people who just look like they never bathe. They could spend half an hour in the shower with a Brillo pad and a bar of soap, and step out and still look like they’re dirty. Steve-O’s one of them. (Matthew McConaughey, bless his heart, is another. But maybe that’s just because he doesn’t wear deodorant. Also, Cameron Diaz.)
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I love that shirt, where did Spud get it!?! I’m 99% sure she got it at Hot Topic; that where she does a lot of her shopping these days.
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I was wondering though, does the shelter you volunteer for have dogs for adoption as well? Maybe you could foster some dogs and get to know them a little better and at the same time, find one that might work better for you guys. Nope, they sure don’t – they’re solely a cat shelter. They do have a couple of dogs at the shelter that belong to the shelter manager, but not for adoption. (More readers’ questions and comments in tomorrow’s entry!)
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Self-portrait #14: Driving down 65 at 80 miles per hour. SO TALENTED.
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Joe Bob (formerly known as Moonman) continues to make himself at home. Tom and Sugarbutt get their hate on. His name was Tommy! He was a showcat! With his tail straight in the air and a gut hung down to there! At the Copa-Copacatbanaaaaaaaaaa! Music and pimped-out Toms are always in fashion! At the Copacatbana! They fell in love!
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Previously 2006: You can’t ride two horses with one ass. 2005: No entry. 2004: Damn Home Depot. 2003: Yep. READY FOR SPRING! 2002: Sam’s rocks. Just so you know. 2001: I don’t know how on earth I missed it the first time around. But I’m sure it was Fred’s fault. 2000: “Fred, is F-A-G a bad word?”]]>

21 thoughts on “1/23/07”

  1. That was one of the best episodes of Scrubs ever!Proving that I have the maturity of a 13 y/o boy, my favorite was the poo song 🙂 I’ve even bailed on CSI just to watch Scrubs this season, because we never, ever watch what we record in this house. It’s a complete waste of time for us to even try, because we apparently would rather watch some silly show on the Food and/or Travel channels than good TV.

  3. That picture of Tommy is a scream! And now, for a picture that’s funny in a different way, I present my bed head. Actually, my hair wasn’t too bad this morning; usually, it’s much, much worse–like Alfafa-type cowlicks on top.

  5. For the paint on your purse, try rubbing alcohol on a q-tip. If it is latex paint, that might work. I got a whole bunch of paint out of my husband’s jacket that way.
    Happy new year!

  6. I cannot stop singing “guy love.” Heh! The best episode of Scrubs ever.
    And that picture of Tommy is so cute. Yellow is definitely his color! 😛

  7. Me! It was me who sent you the Ruality link back when you bought the Smallville house! *runs around like a chicken*
    Wee! What can I say? I am in a giddy mood this morning.
    Loved your little Tommy the Showcat song. He looks so purty in that Boa.

  10. Thanks for the calendar Robyn.
    When are you going to give me my spanky fix? He’s sucha doll and I havn’t seen him in awhile.

  11. Your Tommy looks so much like our Neko as to be completely ridiculous. Neko, too, is getting a bit…er…thick around the middle. So your Copacabana picture and caption sent me into hysterics! Thanks so much!

  13. People who look like they never wash continued: Viggo Mortensen. I mean you could put him through a spa and he would still look as if he slept under a hedge.
    Tommy looks fantastic; yellow is entirely his colour.

  14. You wrote:
    “Okay, so how do you change out switches and plugs? I thought I needed professional help for that and low and behold Lil Robyn does it. Maybe you guys need a DIY blog. I would find it very useful.
    I intended to do an entry on this very thing this week, but didn’t get to take the pictures to do it over the weekend, so it’ll have to wait ’til after the floors are done!
    Will look forward to that entry. I need to replace the switches and plugs in this house, even though the “handyman” promised to do that before I moved in. Yeah, another slacker!

  16. The trouble with having a sign that says,”No soliciting” or “No solicitors” is that the the type of folks you are putting the sign up for probably don’t know what it means.

  18. I bet you are still wearing baggy shirts, hence the pregnancy comments. Along with being a mini me everywhere else (not saying you have a belly cause frankly I have no idea!)

  19. BTW Joe Bob needs to ‘get a room’ as my husband would say. Private parts licking should be a PRIVATE affair (If he were not a CAT of course 😉

  20. Okay, that was the second time I saw the picture of Spud in that shirt and I couldn’t even tell Jesse what it said, I was laughing so hard. Dying. I am dying.

  21. Hmm so one of those lagging cards was mine, now I wonder how many people got mine so late!? 🙁
    I can’t wait for the 1 yr anniversary pics, I know you look so good! 🙂

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