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Tori Spelling has never, for one instant in her life, conducted herself with anything approaching class or dignity.
Shut the fuck up and go away, Tori. NO ONE CARES.
Also, Matt Dillon and Nicole Ritchie? Seriously? ::shudder::
(Can you tell I’m looking at the cover of US Weekly right now?)
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I love the holy hell out of my cats, but I have to admit that I am MIGHTY FUCKING GLAD that for 10 days in Maine I’ll be able to sleep without the little assholes crawling all over me all night long.
Sugarbutt, in particular, gets on my very last nerve every morning when he decides – right around 5:30 – that it’s time for everyone to wake up and get up, and he jumps up on the end of my bed and tries to climb the poster (as in, a four-poster bed) on one side, and when I kick at him and growl “KNOCK IT OFF, FUCKHEAD”, he goes to the other side of the bed and tries to climb THAT poster, whereupon I have to stretch my leg across the bed and kick at him again, and then he gets all wild-eyed and throws himself off the end of the bed much in the way I imagine a paratrooper would jump out of a plane – all sideways, with his ears back and a “I’m about to save my country!” gleam in his crazy eyes.
On the up side, it’s 7:20, and I’ve already done my walk for the day. All I need to do now is fold some laundry, do some vacuuming, clean out the litter box, take my shower, make 3-bean salad for dinner tonight, and I can spend the rest of the day being a lazy-ass.
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From my comments:
Is there nothing wikipedia cannot tell me (ooh, a double negative. Hope that says what I want it to say…). I looked up string cheese, and they obligingly told me exactly what it is. They didn’t have a photo, though. Given your expertise, can you take a photo of string cheese for me? And I’m honestly not being a smart-arse here 😀 I don’t know what it looks like…
Your wish is my command!
This is how they come, individually wrapped. I usually buy Cheeseheads part-skim mozzarella string cheese, but apparently my grocery store has stopped carrying them. They were my favorite because they were lowest in calories (60 per string cheese) and highest in protein (9 grams). The string cheese I bought yesterday are 80 calories and 7 grams of protein. I’m going to hit the other grocery store today and see if they have my favorites.
Unwrapped – half cheddar and half mozzarella, by the way.
They’re called “string cheese” because you can pull pieces of cheese off in “strings.” I usually prefer to pop mine in the microwave (on a piece of paper towel) for about 15 seconds. They can be a little bland, but I really like the consistency. They’re very much like fried mozzarella sticks, without the breading.
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I was just wondering how the laser is working on your moustache. Can you give an update please? I’m asking cuz I have a moustache too and want to get it lasered.
It’s going… so-so, I guess I’d say. The problem is that 99% of my facial hair is very blond, and lasers are really made to target dark hair. The lighter the skin and darker the hair, the better the laser works. My mustache has
some dark hair in it – and the lasering is taking care of it quite nicely – but the blond stuff is still growing and hasn’t been affected by the laser at all.
Once the lasering is through, I think I might have my mustache waxed off and ask my doctor for a prescription for
Vaniqa, which is supposed to retard hair growth.
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In this terrible heat do you and your family miss having a pool like you had at your previous house?
The only time I truly miss the pool is while I’m actually exercising – I exercise pretty early in the morning, before it gets really hot out (especially days like today when the bastardly cats wake me up at 5:30, and I can get my walk in before the sun is up). But during my walk I get pretty hot, and there’s this house I walk by that has a pool in the backyard you can see from the street, and every morning, without fail, I think “I would SO love to just go jump in that pool right now…”
The rest of the time, the heat doesn’t bother me at all – in fact, when I get cold in the house, I’ll go out back and sit on the patio on the 90 – 100 degree heat, and I LOVE it.
We
are planning to get a pool in the next house, though. Maybe not like the monster pool we had at the old one, but a nice little one we can hang out in when the sun gets hot and heats up the pool.
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We’re completely caught up on The Closer – we finished watching Season 1, and since we were starting to watch it before Season 2 premiered, I had the idea of taping Season 2 each week, just in case we liked the show. We did, so we’ve watched not only Season 1, but also everything of Season 2 that has aired so far (well, except for last night’s episode).
I just love the hell out of that Brenda Leigh Johnson. And I was never much of a fan of Kyra Sedgwick until now.
Last night we watched the first episode of Rescue Me. Holy crap, that’s a good show! I can’t believe we waited until now to start watching it. I’m glad we’ve found another show we really like. And we have two whole seasons worth to watch!
My only gripe is that I think Denis Leary’s hair is too long. Wouldn’t they make him cut it shorter?
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Such a Toms.
Brudderly love.
Such a rough life.
All of today’s uploaded pictures are
here.
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Previously
2005: And I know you fucking lame-os won’t go so far as to PICK THE FIREWORKS SHIT up or even send your kids around to do it.
2004: No entry.
2003: Something on the floor?
2002: Something on the floor?
2001: A bunch of links that probably don’t work.
2000: Because, you know, that’s how someone gets to be 183 pounds over their goal weight – by eating the grapes instead of the strawberries.]]>
I’m so glad you posted today. I’m at work with nothing to do. 🙂
Tom looks portly in that photo! I can’t believe he climbed the tree! TWICE.
And I didn’t know you had a pool at your old house. Then again, I know nothing of your old house. Only this one. I shall peruse the archives today.
Morning Robyn!
After we had that cat-peeing-and-crapping-the-bed incident a couple of months ago, we got a brand new mattress. Since then, I have been totally leery of letting the cats have access to the bedroom.
Also, we have metal blinds in our new bedroom, and Beau loves to get on the nightstands and work really hard to SHOVE HIS HEAD through the slats. Never mind that it’s been pulled up about 8″ from the bottom so he can see out! He started doing that every morning and I had ENOUGH.
Now we sleep with the bedroom door closed. Amazingly, the cats don’t lay just on the other side shoving their paws under and yowling. They seem fine with it. Me? I MISS THE STUPID FUCKERS. I was used to Vinnie curling up by my right arm until I went to sleep, and Beau stretched out at my feet. Now I’m used to the new arrangement and all is well 🙂
Oh – and the only time my cat got into the newly fenced-in back yard, he went STRAIGHT for a tree next to the fence. Of course!
Have a great 4th!
Kathy
We had the same problem with our FOUR cats waking us up, making nose, running over us at 2am etc. So we did the same thing and locked their little buts out at night. The first couple of nights there was saw pawing at the door but now it’s fine and we can finally get some sleep! Happy 4th to you Fred and the Spud!
I love the Closer. We download it as it airs and rip it two eps at a time- the Canadian net is about six months behind showing them.
We just watching the second season premiere and home girl has got to get back on the sugar because it’s just not right!
My favorite thing is she’ll very sweetly give a list of orders as long as your arm or tell someone exactly what she thinks of them and smile and say “Thank you so much!”
Dez – I LOVE that! I told Fred just last night that I need to start channeling Brenda Leigh: insult someone and then sweetly say “Thank you! Thank you very much!” Heh!
Kathy and Christine: I’m not sure I could bear to lock the little fuckers out. Besides, what would I bitch about? 🙂
Totally agree with the locking out at night. I have done it on occasion when I was desperate to get caught up with one good night’s sleep, but I miss my little princess fuckhead. Out of 5 cats only one wants to sleep with me, and she is usually good, but in the summer when the sun comes up so early she has spells when she wants me to get up early. She brings her mice or plastic rings up into the bed and they accidentally end up on me or beside me and then she accidentally lands on me.
We also adore Brenda Leigh Johnson and the “Thank you, thank you very much” has been added to our conversations. Who can help it?? I do it at work too, with the accent, and those losers don’t watch the show so they look at me like I am nuts since I am not a southerner. Oh well, their problem.
Tommy was quite a fat picture in the tree. I used to have a cat that could climb trees with no claws in front, only her back claws. She got a running start and ran straight up the tree, I saw her do it many times. She invented the “where there’s a will there’s a way” phrase. She left us 2 years ago at age 17 and I miss her still, she certainly made the most out of life and never let a little thing like missing claws stop her. (I have since wised up and do not declaw.)
The part that cracked me up the most about your team is that Mr. Boogers watched and then did it himself. Go Boog!!
Happy 4th to you all!
Yep, I started to lock the animals out of the bedroom at night and you know what? They are still thriving and surviving. Sometimes, when I’m taking a little nap and want company, I’ll invite them in, but for the most part I lock them out just because I don’t get enough sleep as is, and having six hours broken down into one hour incriments is enough to push me over the edge.
Happy 4th 🙂
If I locked LB out of my bedroom, she would claw at the door until her paws were bloody, and then she’d switch to using her teeth until she had eaten her way through the door. Even if it took her all night.
My husband and I are big rescue me fans. I will give you the heads up though, Season 2 disc 4 is going to make you cry.
when you bought that cat picture, did you get it with the frame? i want a pic so bad, but am afraid i wont be able to frame it myself cause of the weird measurements, 28 x22…its expensive to get it already framed from allposters.com..the pic itself is pretty cheap…
Thank you, thank you very much 😀 I knew you’d understand my insane curiousity!
I dig Brenda Leigh. EXCEPT. Her accent is completely non-existent. No one, in the enTIRE South, talks like her. I can barely, barely stand it. Just once I’d love to hear a realistic Southern accent, on an intelligent character, on television!
Ahem. End rant. Other than that (kill me please) I love the show.
Hello Robyn…long time reader….first..um…maybe second…time commenter!!!
I am retarded and have 7, yes SEVEN, cats in my house. Love each and every one of them deeply….unless it’s 2:00 in the morning and they want to use my bed as a football field.
The answer???? (You’ll be surprised how simple it is!!)
The standard, every day, plastic FLY SWATTER!!
So do I ever hit them? Um. No.
Did I originally scare the shi# out of them and make them THINK I’d hit them? Um. Yes.
Now?
No matter what time it is. If all are happy…AND SLEEPY…and want to get on the bed and snuggle/sleep….all is good in the house.
However….when (and yes…I mean WHEN…it’s an almost nightly occurence!)….the football game begins…..I grab the fly swatter, raise it up in a threating manner….maybe even swing it around for effect….and they scatter quicker than anything you can possibly imagine (ok…except for the old 16 year old cat who never felt threatened anyway cause he’s senile…lucky for me…he doesn’t play football ANYMORE either! ). And…it peace and quiet the rest of the night.
An easy…cheap…POSSIBLE…answer!!!
Keep up the good journal entries!!
Rescue Me is one of my favorite shows! Denis Leary is so weirdly hot to me…