Cetta, I haven’t a clue how the hell I got my music and videos from my iPod to my computer. I plugged the iPod in, iTunes said “There’s shit on here that isn’t in your library. You want to reformat your iPod or transfer the stuff on your iPod to iTunes or what?” and I said “Please transfer all the stuff on my iPod, thanks.” and it did!
I recommend plugging in your iPod, and if iTunes suddenly starts reformatting your iPod, scream and yank out the cord. That’s what I’d do!
(Also, swearing a lot helps, too. True story!)
I have, in fact, watched Sister Wives. I found it interesting (I especially found the part where they showed a diagram of where each wife’s house is in the house as a whole interesting) and they certainly manage to make it sound like a reasonable way to live, with the wives supporting each other and helping out and all that. Almost seems like a valid life choice, really (isn’t it big of me to allow that other people might have their own lives that they choose to live differently than I live mine?).
But it fell apart when they showed Kody kissing one wife and then another and then the third. Not that he kissed them one right after the other, they were different houses and different times, but I just don’t get it. I guess I’m a weird and selfish bitch, but the idea of my husband spending one night in my bed and then the next two nights in his other wives’ beds, gives me the ookies.
(I much prefer it that he spends every night in his OWN bed, of course! Har! Har!)
I’m a generous person, but there are certain things I prefer not to share, thanks. When wife #3 (Christine, maybe?) said something like “Gosh darnit, they better!” about her husband having sex with his other wives, I cringed a tiny bit.
I think it’s no surprise that all three wives grew up in polygamous families (I don’t know if wife-to-be #4 did or not – they didn’t mention it either way, did they?). Did anyone else notice that wife #3 is less than thrilled about the idea of adding #4?
I’m not particularly fond of Kody, he strikes me as kind of annoying to be around, though probably he’s not quite so annoyingly rah-rah all the time in real life.
I’ll keep watching, of course, because I want to see what happens and it’s hard to look away!
Good lord, do I feel scattered today. I was a jam-making fool yesterday, and I have several batches to make today as well. In the midst of all the jam-making, I had to stop and go to Madison for my six-month dental appointment, then stop and buy a few groceries, then it was back to more jam-making.
I’m trying a fancy new trick this time around when I make my jams – I’m actually WRITING DOWN what the hell I’m doing, how much pectin I’m using, how much sugar, all that, in hopes of actually getting some consistency going in my jam, so that if you order a jar of, say, peach-habanero jam and then order another jar in six months, you’ll get about the same heat and flavor.
We’ll see how long I keep that up – or rather, how much attention I pay to my notes. I made a batch of apricot-habanero jam yesterday morning, and wrote myself a note that “apricots come to a boil quickly, keep an eye on them and stir frequently!” A few hours later I decided to make a second batch of jam (I used dehydrated apricots, rehydrated them overnight, which gave me enough for two batches of jam) and when I saw my admonishment to keep an eye on the apricots, I rolled my eyes and said “Yeah, like THAT bitch has any idea what she’s talking about.”
As a result of Afternoon Robyn thinking she knew better than Morning Robyn, I scorched the fucking shit out of the apricots and had to give ’em to the pigs.
Stupid fucking know-it-all Afternoon Robyn.
Is 43 the age when all men become obsessed with looking at the fucking weather map, or is it just MY husband? Numerous times a day we discuss what the weather has done and what the weather will do, and how we’re “just on the edge of this band. While it comes in useful, because he knows at any moment in time what the weather is expected to do, it is MOTHERFUCKING ANNOYING because he insists that I come look at the goddamn weather map.
I DO NOT WANT TO LOOK AT THE WEATHER MAP. I just want to know if it’s going to RAIN, or if it’s going to be SUNNY or whatever. Sunday I was ready to grab the nearest cat and smack him upside the head with it because I wanted to know if it was going to rain and he badgered me until I came over and stood next to his chair and pretended to look at the goddamn weather map.
Next he’s going to start spending all his time looking up his family tree, isn’t he? Isn’t that what old southern men do? (Judging by the fact that I have a bound book of my family tree written by my paternal grandfather on the bookcase right next to a notebook of Fred’s family tree compiled by his father, I’m thinking all signs point to “yes”.)
Apropos of nothing he says his name is William but I’m sure it’s Bill or Billy or Mac or Buddy but he’s plain ugly to me, once upon a time I used the Ouija Board (does one “use” the Ouija Board or does one “play” with the Ouija Board, or what?) with some friends – I was 13 or 14 – and the Ouija Board informed me that in a past life, I was Betsy Ross.
I must have used up all my sewing skillz back then, ’cause I sure didn’t bring them through to this life.
As the time draws ever closer for Reacher and Corbett, Melodie, Moxie, Martin, and Dodger to go to Petsmart (they go Friday morning), I’m remembering to take time to just enjoy having them around. I love the fact that they’ve become such good friends with each other (Martin, especially, loves to tussle with Reacher) and with Jake and Elwood. We’ve got a great bunch here, and I like to watch them play.
(Then I snatch them up and kiss them until they get disgusted and stalk away from me with their ears back. Nothing cuter than a disgusted cat, unless it’s a hissing kitten.)
Corbett got his claw caught in the dishtowel, and Martin’s mocking him.
“NOM. Kitten paws are the tastiest!”
Bath time (is it ever NOT bath time?).
Snack time is over, and a marauding band of kittens go from plate to plate to make sure not one single morsel of food was left behind.
“What, lady? Go away. We’re talking about you.”
The eyes just kill me.
Newt is such a quiet, unobtrusive presence. He likes to sleep in out of the way places where no one will bother him. Lately, if he’s not sleeping on the cat tree, he’s sleeping under the dresser in the guest bedroom. Usually I don’t even realize he’s there until he strolls out into view, stretches, and heads off to the food bowl.
You know, I keep feeling like there’s something I’ve forgotten to tell you. I can’t quite put my finger on it…
Oh, right! The new guys. Meet ’em.
You didn’t think I was going to let all my kittens go off to Petsmart without some emergency kittens in place, did you?
WHAT IF I NEEDED A SCREECHY LITTLE KITTEN TO SNUGGLE?!
More about them tomorrow (by which time we might even have names for them!).
(Name suggestions more than welcome – they’re both boys. Names I considered and then discarded: McGarrett and Danno (Danno had already been used), Castor and Pollux (Castor had been used), Hurley and Charlie (Charlie had been used). Fred’s not loving Riggins and Saracen. We’re stumped.)
Previously
2009: No entry.
2008: No entry.
2007: Everyone, go forth and give me a “hubba hubba” in your blogs!
2006: YOU’RE WELCOME.
2005: Phear my l33t fotograffic skillz.
2004: Dear Stephen King: Stop defending what you did, and just write the goddamn story.
2003: No entry.
2002: No entry.
2001: No entry.
2000: No entry.
Mutt and Jeff?
Thing 1 and Thing 2.
Peeta and Gale!
Snookie and The Situation (or PaulyD).
….oh wait they are both boys…
Shane and Silas (Weeds)
Ranger and Morelli (Stephanie Plum book series)
Munch and Fin/Tutuola
Lisa its like you read my mind! I was just thinking this morning “I wonder if Robyn would ever name kittens after the Stephanie Plum series? “
LOVE the Ranger and Morelli idea!!!!!
Lisa, you beat me to it. I was thinking Munch and Fin…
Fraser and Niles!!!
I think my husband became obsessed with the weather map at around age 25. Of course, he’s a farmer, so I try to give him the benefit of the doubt that he might need to know what the weather is doing. My best buddy is a meterologist…you see where this is going, right? My husband calls my friend at work during the day more than he calls me. Men.
As for the kitties…Abbott and Costello?
OOPS! Make that FRASIER and Niles… (blush)
Turner and Hooch?
Bartleby and Loki
Jay and Silent Bob
Laurel and Hardy
Frick and Frack
(Although I have to admit: I think Frasier and Niles is the winner.
J.D. and Turk!
Or Dr. Cox and Janitor.
Or The Todd and Kelso.
Or Ted and Kelso!
Damn…I was going to suggest Thing 1 and Thing 2.
Starsky and Hutch?
Steven and King?
Hugh and Hefner?
Fred and Barney? 😉 Tom and Jerry ? Bugs and Daffy? Yep been watching cartoons again. lol
Booth and Hodgins
I’m loving Jay and Silent Bob.
ME TOO!!!!!!
Eastwood / Bronson
Jeremiah / Jericho / Jacoby
Bowie / Morrissey
I saw this and immediately thought that you and Fred need a few – http://gizmodo.com/5649796/stick-your-modernist-hen-in-the-nogg-coop
oscar and felix?
bert & ernie?
Bogey and Bacall?
Crockett and Tubbs?
Laurel and Hardy?
Batman and Robin?
Beavis and Butthead?
Sherlock Holmes & Dr Watson?
Simon & Garfunkel?
Cheech and Chong?
Jax and Opie, or Clay and Tig (Sons of Anarchy – which, by the way, you should watch. It’s GOOD. 😛 ) I love the idea of those cute little kittens being named after big tough motorcycle gang members.
“I love the idea of those cute little kittens being named after big tough motorcycle gang members.”
Harley and Davidson would be cute, but I’m sure that Harley’ll already have been used.
Smith and Wesson? (or Burleigh and Stronginthearm, for Discworldians?)
Jack and Coke, Gin and Tonic, Seagrams and Seven…
Well, now we know where my mind is!
I really like Frasier and Niles
Abbott and Costello?
I like Frasier and Niles, and Cheech and Chong. Or how about Shakespeare and Marlowe, Raleigh and Essex, or Faust and Mephistophiles*? (Just finished reading Ink and Steel, by Elizabeth Bear, and still have a bit of Elizabethan fever going.)
*Never mind this one, because I don’t know how the hell to spell Mephistolophisoltophilosiphes.
Or Hewlett & Packard, Seven & Eleven, or (in honor of me today) Procras & Tination!
batman and robin
dyno and mite
tom and jerry
buttons and bows
mittens and socks
rocky and bowinkle
chicken and hawk
fisher and bait
I really like Frasier and Niles, too, since they are brothers.
But, if leaning towards Abbott & Costello or Laurel & Hardy, maybe also consider their first names? Bud & Lou or Stan & Ollie?
Frasier and Niles get my vote, too.
I love Beavis & Butthead but I don’t think that would fly at Petsmart. I also loved Bert & Ernie.
Peanut butter & Jelly
Macaroni & Cheese
Cake & Ice Cream
Wild & Tame
Pear & Apple
Frick & Frack
Noggin & Nugget
Ross & Joey
Spongebob & Patrick
Tragedy & Comedy
Silly & Scary
Trick & Treat
Home & Away
Can’t wait to hear who these two little fuzz-nuggets become!
How about Hughes and Snyder in honor of the late great As The World Turns. I’m still pissed at CBS or Proctor and Gamble or whoever decided to dump so much history down the toilet.
Ponch and Jon? (I’m joking, but it would be pretty funny!) 🙂
… and that’s from the TV show CHiPs, in case I’m being too obscure.
well, just saw this movie the other day so this is all I have: Plunkett & Macleane. At least it has the virture of probably not being used already! Also, not a bad movie choice on Netflix!
Having just watched Hobbit and Lord of the Rings…
Bilbo and Frodo Baggins
Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee
Smaug and Gollum (or Smeagol)(sinister! but also, almost Halloween)
Aragorn and Legolas
Gandalf and Saruman
Pancho and Lefty?
My husband, who is 43, does, indeed, like to keep up with the weather, on a regular basis. However, he does not take it to the “Fred extreme”. He does, however, fill up that space that would be taken by the “Fred extreme” with reading half a dozen papers from around the country. And then making me read many, many articles and comments and blah, blah, blah. What is it with the male 43? Yeesh.
Knick and Knack.
But I love Frasier and Niles, and also thought Batman and Robin.
I have no real thoughts as I have two fosters myself (you are a bad influence) that I can’t even think of names for – Boy and girl. I call them kit kat and Boo right now – very original.
Hall and Oates!
Add me to the Frasier and Niles group. I used to love that show!
I also like:
Ike and Mike
Clint and Eastwood
Forest and Lt. Dan
😀
I like the big “M” on their foreheads-call them Eminem and Slim Shady!
Since I am on a DVD watching marathon-currently BBC’s Merlin-how about Merlin and Arthur?
If Charlie’s been used, what about Hurley and Desmond?
I also third the above suggestion for Ranger and Morelli.
My “baby” brother just turned 43 last week and he’s been obsessed with weather for a while. My sister-in-law said if he has had the remote the tv is/was nearly always on the weather channel. My husband’s fifty something sister is the most weather obsessed woman I know. She calls me to tell me when bad weather is headed our way etc. She lives several states away. She wanted to be a meterologist when she was in the Navy but ended up in Communications instead so Im guess the interest was always there. I myself find the weather channel far more interesting than my husband does. He rolls his eyes and sighs if I put it on. If there is bad weather comming I have to battle him to check it out. He drives me nuts with comedy central and old one star movies or car auctions.
I watched Sister Wives this morning and I noticed every time the wives were speaking the husband Cody seemed to have a scowl on his face. I got a lord and master vibe I can’t stomach from him. I also definetly noticed that the third wife is not thrilled with the prospect of a fourth. I feel it’s extremly selfish of him to complicate their lives with yet another wife. I do think seeing how it works for them is interesting but can’t imagine it either. I thought one of the wives was not from a polygimist marriage-the second one maybe? Also bringing in a fourth wife with children seems a lot to ask of the kids. I watched a documentary on NatGeo on polygymy on Sunday and it really creeped me out. The first two founders/leaders/prophets? seemed downright crazy to me. Hope I’m not offending anyone. I am a lapsed catholic myself and can’t follow my own faith anymore either. I still pray the prayers though-that much I CAN still believe in :).
The more you write about sweet Newtles the more I fall in love with him!
Hey Robyn, I have a cat toy suggestion for you! Kids right now (including my 10yo daughter) are into the Silly Bandz craze. They are rubber bracelets that come in a thousand different shapes and you can get bags of them at the dollar store so they are super cheap. My cats freakin LOVE THEM! I have never seen my one cat go so crazy over a toy before. I was sort of worried they might swallow one while playing but they don’t really put them in their mouths, they just bat them around. So that would be my only caution about them…but they are cheap enough to give them a try. Just thought I’d pass that along. 🙂
I know you’ve used Arrested Development names before (haven’t you?) but have you used Gob and Tobias?? 😀
I think the weather obsession is a guy thing. In the past two years I have given my father, brother and brother in law a Oregon Scientific RMR382-B Wireless Indoor/Outdoor Thermometer with Atomic Clock, (you can get them on Amazon) plus an extra outdoor senor for each because then they can see what the temperature is in the house, the front yard and the back yard. My father bought a third outdoor sensor so he could see what the temp is by the back shed at the very edge of the back yard. They were all ridiculously excited by these. I’ll be Fred would love one, too. You can monitor the temp by the coop, the hog yard, the garage . . .
They are sooooo cyoot! And I vote for Britt and Hank, the names of the two main characters from the best new show on TV, Terriers 🙂
Huey and Lewis (for no other reason than because that’s the first thing that popped into my head).
Woooo new kitties. hello babies… bye bye all the other babies
Kyle and Ike (southpark)
Sonsie and Haggis (sonsie is Scots for plump/chubby)
Bodie and Doyle (uk 70s Tv detectives)
Warp and Weft
Ikkat and Batik (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikat)
Virgil and Wyatt or Morgan – Earp Brothers
Wells and Fargo
the weather/temperature thing…I bought a garden thermometer a couple of years ago. Its compulsive to go and check what it reads. I’m in N. Scotland,(57 degress north) so rejoice when we get over 17 degrees centigrade and take perverse pleasure when it drops below -5. Sad, i know.
Weather maps?? Wait till he discovers geocaching (if he hasn’t already) … 😀 That’s ALL my DH talks about now …
I gasped out loud when I scrolled down, so loudly that my daughter wanted to know what was wrong! From her room!
I think I mentioned on FB that a friend had two cats named Crash and Bang. But that is going to help their adoption prospects!
I watched Sister Wives and feel exactly the way you do … only you put it into words so much better. I just kept saying, “I don’t know … they’re … weird.” Yeah. Soooo eloquent.
ISN’T going to help their adoption prospects. Sheeeeesh.
Chad and Jeremy!
Dobie and Maynard.
Zeus and Apollo! And you can call them The Lads (a la Magnum P.I.) (This is my favorite. If I had adopted two male cats, I definitely would have used these names. As it was, I got two sisters!)
Bo and Luke
Crockett and Tubbs
Mr.Roarke and Tattoo
(Can you tell I was watching TV in the 80s?)
Orville and Wilbur
My boyfriend is 39 and obsessed with the weather, but I’ve been told that this is really a function of his being half Slovenian. Apparently, that entire country is filled with weather-map-lovin’ fools! 🙂
What about Lewis and Clark????
You know those little ones will be doin some explorin 🙂
Jacob and Esau. Or, Jacob and The Cat in Black.
or names from The Wheel of Time– Rand and Perrin, or Mat and Tom? Or from A Song of Ice and Fire– Jaime and Tyrion, or Robb Stark and Jon Snow?
Angel and Spike. (I really miss Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Crichton and Scorpius. (ditto Farscape)
Luke and Han
Maynard and Milton (The one on the right just looks like a Maynard. )
Robyn,
Let Cetta know if she as the current version of iTunes, she should be OK to plug and sync her songs from her iPod to her computer. The horror stories are from older versions that sync’d by deleting everything on your iPod and recopying the entire collection to the iPod. Apple stopped doing it that way several versions ago.
Val
Willard and Ben
Rain and Shine
Click and Clack
Dusty and Lefty
And I think one consults a Ouija Board; because technically it’s not a game.
Such cutie pie kittehs!
If you figure out how to describe the Ouija Board, let me know so I can use the same word when I ask/consult/whatever the Magic 8 Ball (much easier & quicker than that tiremsome Ouija Board). LOL
I showed the man one of your pix & asked him what kind of wood your cabinets are made of. After making a lewd comment (I expect nothing less), he said “I don’t know, why don’t you ask her!” They’re really pretty, what is it?
Robyn!!!! How do you always get the cutest kittens I’ve ever seen?! Ps. They look like a Bert and Ernie to me 🙂
Does Love and Hisses exist anymore?
This just popped into my head — Ben and Jerry (certainly two of my favorite guys).