Aidan from Sex and the City (or, if you prefer, Chris from Northern Exposure) been a singer? I turned the TV on to CMT while I was making the bed and getting dressed this morning, and you could have knocked me over with a feather when I realized that really was him in the video. (Though I had to go through the “Is that? No way. But it looks so much like him!” for a few minutes before I decided it really was him)
I’m not sure whether I like his music yet.
Speaking of videos, I am SO FUCKING SICK AND TIRED of that freakin’ Carrie Underwood “Jesus Take the Wheel” song and video. They are playing it CONSTANTLY, and although I kind of like it (though I also think the song is rife with hokiness. DRIPPING with hokiness. SOAKED in hokiness. You’re soaking in it, Carrie!) I’ve heard it so freakin’ many times that I’m at the point now where every time it starts, I loudly suggest that Jesus just leave that freakin’ wheel alone so they’ll STOP playing that song already.
And I LIKE Carrie Underwood, so I can only imagine how crazy it’s driving people who don’t care for her.
Pet store kitty pics from yesterday are
here.
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This is the time of year – along with Fall – that totally makes it worth living in the South. Everything’s blooming, the temperature hit 80 over the weekend (though it’s cooled off a little today, but that’s A-OK with me) and we’re getting plenty of sun. The lawn hasn’t started greening in just yet (it goes dormant in the Fall, which is why our lawn looks so brown and dead in all the pictures I take of the cats in the back yard), but it shouldn’t be long before we have a green lawn.
With such gorgeous weather and with everything starting to bloom, it’s nice to walk outside in the mornings. Well, mostly nice. The only problem is…
the Bradford Pear trees. They are SO pretty to look at, but my GOD do they stink. I know I’ve mentioned this before – probably about this time last year, actually – but they smell SO bad. I know it’s because they’re pollinated by flies (which I only know because one of y’all told me that), and for the most part I do my best to breathe through my mouth when I’m walking by one of them (and the damn things are all OVER the place around here), but every now and then I’ll forget and get a big lungful of what smells like rotting roadkill. Blech.
Currently, I’m listening to
A Girl Named Zippy on my iPod (I fall a little more in love with Bob Pod every day), and there have been times while I’m listening to it that I laugh out loud, and then I get embarrassed, because one of the roads I walk on is a very, very busy road, and I’m sure I look like the town loon, walking along laughing out loud to myself, a big dorky grin on my face.
But I can’t help it. It’s such an awesome and at times hilarious book!
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I watched the first disc of the first season of
Gilmore Girls over the weekend. That is a damn fine show, and I’m looking forward to working my way through the rest of the available seasons on DVD. It’s going to take a while, since the show’s been on for about twenty years.
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I bought this little tent for the cats when I was at the pet store on Saturday. They all like it, but Miz Poo loves it more than anyone. We’ve taken to calling it the Poo Cave.
Is it just me, or does Sugarbutt look like he’s trying to fart?
Spot makes a rare appearance.
The egg yolk every morning is probably partly responsible for Tommy’s porkifying. But it makes his fur so shiny and smooth!
All of today’s uploaded pictures are
here.
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Previously
2005: Questions answered.
2004: No entry.
2003: Yeah, don’t look at me. I have no idea what goes on his head, either.
2002: I think I could kick her ass, personally, and I’d be happy to do it. Bitch.
2001: “That’s okay,” I said cheerfully. “Those things are a pain in the big butt, aren’t they?”
2000: Fred sings again.]]>
as long as they can see your earbud cords, they shouldn’t think you are (too) crazy. Otherwise I’m the loon on the subway every morning, laughing at something in the books I listen to.
Oh,I have prayed that Jesus take the wheel and run Carrie Underwood off into a ditch, hopefully hitting Sugarland on the way.
For a little while I was listening to David Sedaris on my iPod at the gym. At first I just laughed to myself. Then I stiffled my giggles. Then I laughed so loud that I almost fell off the stupid treadmill. I stopped listening to David Sedaris at the gym after that. I felt it was too dangerous.
Gilmore Girls is currently in its 6th season, and the first 5 are available on DVD … So it shouldn’t take you QUITE 20 years to get through all of them … After all, once you sit down and start watching, you’re probably not going to want to stop!
(P.S. This has been my #1 nothing-better-in-the-world favorite show since Episode 1)
Tommy Tom looks so cool with his matching red nails and collar. He’s so spiffy! Boy, he does look on the portly side in that picture. Next time, try taking a picture of his “good side”. ha ha!
But that Carrie Underwood is just so cute I’d like to pinch her lil cheeks! (Kate has another saying of what i’d like to do).
The Gilmore Girls is the best show ever!!! You will love it and I bet the spud would too. If we had someone to write clever lines for us too – cuz we think of stuff 5 hours after it would have been cool to say it – my daughter and I are so totally the Gilmore Girls. Altho the early seasons are the best, and then the later ones have some characters in them that would be lynched by the town if it was real, the later seasons are still worth watching!!!
Hi Robyn: What’s with the egg yolk every morning – do all of your cats get one? Just curious if there’s any benefit to giving my cat one other than shining up his fur.
Where did you get that cat tent thing?!? My cats would love that!!
Spot! Now where is Spanky? I have noticed that the newest kitties show up the most in your photos now adays. I miss Spanky.
Where did you get A Girl Named Zippy in audio format? Audible.com doesn’t have it. What other sources for audio books do you know of?
Robin: It started because I eat one whole egg and two egg whites, and when I was tossing the extra egg yolks into the sink, Tommy was diving in after them and eating whatever he could reach, so I started just putting them in a bowl, and he eats some and Sugarbutt eats some, but none of the other cats are interested. I’m not sure if there are other benefits or not, but on the rare occasion when I forget to give them their yolks, they look at me like I’m punishing them for something. 🙂
Ami: I got it at PetSmart. I’m thinking about getting another one! 🙂
Amy: I’ll see if I can’t snap a picture or two of Spanky for you! 🙂
Ladybug: A reader is lending me Zippy on CD, and iTunes imports the tracks from the CD, then I copy it to my iPod. I’m pretty sure she got the book on CD from Amazon. I’ve never actually downloaded an audiobook from Audible or anywhere else, but considering how fast I’m going through this book, I might have to start doing so! 🙂
Sugarbutt trying to fart… Classic!
Hi, Robyn;
John Corbett was an unexpected guest at a Christmas show that we went to last year. I really didn’t know who he was until it was mentioned that he was the d.j. on Northern Exposure years ago.
He was enjoyable enough. : )
3 things…
#1 A Girl Named Zippy made me come close to wetting my pants a few times. I can’t imagine having to try not to laugh like a loon while listening to it on my ipod. Just the thought of you walking along laughing, made me laugh. Thanks for that!
#2 I din’t know you had a Spanky! I have a Spanky!! I had to look at his picture and then did a double take. My Spanky is orange & white too! Too wierd 🙂
#3 I love reading your blog 🙂 Just had to tell you. You’re one of those people who says what I should say out loud more often.
Hi Spot!
Sugarbutt: “Ennnhhhh…” *poit!*
My God, that song, I know! It’s really just the illogicality (is that a word?) of it all. I don’t care if you’re a religious person, who can’t do it on her own…literally letting go of the wheel- not a good solution. Jesus might be a little too busy to DRIVE FOR YOU.
I know it’s not completely literal, but seriously, those lyrics are beyond ridiculous.
Welcome to your crack addiction – uh I mean Gilmore Girls. I got hooked watching it on ABC Family, and then ABC Family started showin episodes out of order, skipping episodes – OH MY GOD – it was all a conspiracy to force me to go to Target and buy all purchaseable seasons. The bastards. I must go watch an episode now…….
We had those pear trees all along the walkways between the dorms at my college. We all thought they smelled like, uh, male ejaculatory fluid. Regardless, it really is an awful smell.
You make me very grateful that I have no pear trees near me. 🙂
Cute kitties. 😀
Wren
I really like Carrie as well but I cannot watch that video. Her mouth does not match up with the words in a good portion of it and it drives me nuts. Has anyone else noticed this? I don’t know that she is, but it sure makes her look like she is lip synching and doing it badly. But yeah, she sure is a cutie and has a wonderful voice.
Ok, trying to figure out the Podcast things. How did you get the “Girl Named Zippy” on the Ipod? Enquiring minds want to know. LOL
the Bradford Pear trees. They are SO pretty to look at, but my GOD do they stink.
Oh sweet god, I hate those damn Bradford pears. We have some in our backyard and I keep threatening to cut them down. I think they smell like rotting fish, but I have a friend who says they smell like come. I don’t know what her boyfriend’s been eating for his ejaculate to smell that way, and I don’t want to know.