Today marks 14 – FOURTEEN! – years since Fred and I first laid virtual eyes upon each other.
Happy anniversary, baby!
On Monday over at Love & Hisses, I posted an entry that included new pictures of Nate and Dora (Kara’s babies, who were River and Inara back then), and Ouiser from the Magnolias. Go check ’em out!
Things I have been meaning to link to.
Staying safe when you’re in a hotel room. (Thanks, Mikki!)
Microwaved water and other liquids do not always bubble when they reach the boiling point. They can actually get superheated and not bubble at all. The superheated liquid will bubble up out of the cup when it is moved or when something like a spoon or tea bag is put into it (and subsequently burn the shit out of your face or hands or whatever skin it might hit). Snopes supports this – Snopes link here. Kinda scary, huh? (Thanks, Annette!)
Remember Misty, the kitten with Megacolon who needed surgery? She’s had surgery and seems to be doing well! (Thanks, Suzanne!)
These are the sites I hit every morning when I first sit down at my computer – one little click helps more than you know!
The Animal Rescue Site
The Hunger Site
The Breast Cancer Site
The Child Health Site
The Literacy Site
The Rainforest Site
(You can go to any one of those sites above, and get to the other by clicking on the tabs at the top of the page.)
Except for FreeRice, it takes just a moment to go through and clickety-click. It’s a good way to start the morning!
Have you ever heard of RomanceNovelYourself.com ? You can take a picture and put yourself (or a loved one!) on the cover of a faux romance novel. Fred had some fun during his down-time yesterday.
When I saw it, I laughed out loud, then called to yell at him for using the WORST POSSIBLE PICTURE of me. I mean, godalmighty, I appear to have THE squarest jaw this side of RHoNYC’s Bethenny. He guffawed as he told me that I looked like WEIRD AL.
He knows how to compliment a lady, doesn’t he?
Then later, he tried again.
I’m all ::completely fake grin:: “Please tell this strange man to stop SMELLING ME, if you please.”
The title of the novel and the quote at the bottom had me laughing out loud again, though.
In our back yard, there are two fence posts, and a wooden platform going from the top of one fence post to the other. There’s a platform atop both fence posts, and the cats don’t use the whole contraption a LOT, but they use it often enough. Joe Bob especially likes to get up there and hang out underneath one of the platforms. Tommy likes to sit at the bottom and glare up at Joe Bob. (Those pieces of wood going up the fence post are “steps”. One of them got knocked crooked when Fred was mowing the lawn last year, and he hasn’t gotten around to fixing it just yet.)
Joe Bob keeps an eye on Tommy.
Tommy’s all “Maybe I’ll just lay RIGHT HERE ’til he comes down.”
“Or MAYBE I’ll hang out back here, so you will STOP pointing that damn camera at me.”
Previously
2009: I felt SO OLD then, but 28 sounds impossibly young to me now.
2008: We had a little weirdness on Friday in the form of a super-mega-mutant egg.
2007: No entry.
2006: Today’s the 10th anniversary of the day Fred and I met.
2005: I met Fred nine years ago today.
2004: Eight years ago today, I entered the IRC Undernet channel #!Fredsplace and met the geek who owned and ran the channel, who would eventually become the love of my life. (Complete with mush!)
2003: Sick Poo.
2002: No entry.
2001: Five years ago today, I was on IRC and I wandered into the Undernet channel #!Fredsplace, and I met the love of my life. (More mush!)
2000: Four years ago today, I wandered into the IRC Undernet channel #!Fredsplace, thus setting into motion a chain of events which would echo down through the years.