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IT IS FUCKING COLD OUT THERE. And y’all shut up with your “I’m in Alaska, and it’s thirty below here!” It was ten below with the windchill this morning, and my husband went running in it. His testicles crawled so far up into his body we’ll be lucky if we see them again by June. Right now it’s, like, ten degrees out and I had to go to the bank, but because it rained like hell last night and then dropped way below freezing, my doors were frozen shut. I had to take a hammer to the handle to get into the fucking car, and then I had to warm it up for ten minutes to even be able to sit in it, and THEN I had to clean the fucking puddle of antifreeze/ coolant off the driveway so that no neighborhood strays would come along and slurp it up, and die a painful death.
I live in Alabama. IT IS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE THIS FUCKING COLD.
Days like today make me seriously want to move to Florida. Fred won’t go for that, though – there are no freakin’ mountains in Florida.
Thank god for space heaters and gas fireplaces on days like this.
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Also? It’s FLURRYING.
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Things I have noticed about 24, Season Three:
1. At least once – but usually many, many times – in every episode, Jack tells someone “You’ve got to trust me” or “You have my word.” Jack is a word-giving motherfucker.
2. No one ever uses their mouse. “Floopy the flip flop!” Tony will order, and Kim turns to her computer and immediately begins typing. No mousing into position, or clicking from one program to the other. Do these people even
have mouses mice?
3. Michelle kicks ass. I wasn’t crazy about her in Season Two, what with the moony looks at Tony, but she’s totally kicking ass in this season. After she’d done something I won’t go into so as not to spoil it for those of you who haven’t seen it, I turned to Fred and said “I guess you don’t fuck with Michelle!”
4. Chapelle has got one seriously crooked nose.
We have about eight episodes left to watch. We’re going to be seriously sad when we’re done. This show is like crack – every time we finish an episode, I try to talk Fred into watching another. And sometimes it works! Hell, we stayed up ’til 9:30 the other night just to squeeze another episode in, instead of going to bed at our usual time.
Gotta love that Jack Bauer.
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Every once in a while I like to check the PicoSearch stats for my site to see what people are searching for. In particular, I like to see what people are searching for that they’re not finding. The latest list:
Chickpea and
Chickpeas. Probably this is a “not found” because I spell it in two workds (chick pea) rather than one. I’m not sure which is correct, though. A quick check of m-w.com says that it’s one word, not two. Who knew?
Pile of money. It was a joke. I was kidding about having a pile of money, so that I could bitch about using it all to have my Jeep fixed last month.
Big fat looser. I don’t know what this person was searching for – maybe my opinion about The Biggest Loser? I’ve watched every show so far, by the way, and it’s grown on me. It’s pretty amazing to see the week-by-week changes in the people on the show. Also, one “o” in Loser. “Looser” is what your pants get when you’re a big fat loser.
Rolo and
rolo cookies. I’m sure this is coming back with a “nothing found” because I haven’t reindexed the site since I put up the link to the recipe. If you’re looking for the Rolo cookie recipe, click on the “recipes” link over there on the right under “other”. The recipe is listed under desserts, I think. Any recipe I’ve mentioned (except that for sweet potato crack) is going to be in the recipes section.
Cat Town. It’s
here.
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Speaking of cookies – like I was up there, kinda – last Friday I made the
Secret Kiss cookies, only I intended to use Rolos instead of Kisses, at Fred’s request. Except when I got to the store, do you suppose they HAD Rolos? Of COURSE not. So I made a batch of cookies using miniature Snicker’s in place of the Kisses, and they were REALLY amazingly good. I’ll have to make another batch of those sometime.
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Speaking of PicoSearch, does anyone have any recommendations for simple-to-use personal site search engines? I’m about 50 pages away from the 1500-page Free PicoSearch maximum, and after that their cheapest pay plan is $250 a year and I’m sorry, I love y’all, but I don’t love y’all THAT much. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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“Dat’s right, Momma, I’m laying in your seat, and you can’t do NOTHIN’ about it! Ha! Ha!”
“He thinks I don’t know he’s holding that fucking toy over my head, trying to annoy me. In about ten seconds I’m going to chomp his hand right off his arm.”
“You DAMN kids and your DAMN cameras! All the time flashing the fucking flash in my face! Why, in my day we din’t HAVE cameras! If we wanted to show pictures, we had to DRAW them from MEMORY, using coal from the FIRE and a piece of BARK!”
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I guess you don’t want to hear that it is 50 degrees in NY today. 😉 If it makes you feel any better, it was in the single digits here on Monday.
Warm here in Maine too:P
Hey! We have one of those toys for my cat too. The wobbling weasel or some such thing. Anyway, we thought she would enjoy it, but she’s actually quite scared of it.
I’ve just never seen anyone else with one. I know, I’m a dork.
It’s that cold in Wisconsin too and I did get any snow that the northern part of the state or Indiana or Ohio got either. Dang it. I don’t mind the cold if we just had a little snow on the ground. OK I’m wierd – I like snow. I even like driving in it better than driving in rain or toward a bright sunset.
“Hell, we stayed up ’til 9:30 the other night…”
Man y’all are geezers!
And I meant that in the nicest way possible, just in case someone decides to read more into that than what’s there. I’ve been spanked for ambiguous comments before…
Try Atomz search.
http://atomz.com/applications/search/
Try looking at google. I’ve created sites for clients that needed search capabilities and google had a free indexing system. You just need to follow their directions.
As for the “Florida is warmer but no mountains” problem, you guys could compromise and move to the southwest– southern Utah, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico– lots and lots of mountains there and usually nice and warm. :)…okay, downright HOT in the summer, but it’s a dry heat 😉
Ha ha–drawing pictures using coal and a piece of bark. Hee! Robyn slays me.
Here’s a question you may/may not want to address in your journal one day: Keeping in tune with all the kitty questions, share with us which kitty likes which person the best and how do you know he/she does?
Also, since you’ve put up the comments page for us, do you find that you get fewer emails asking you questions regarding the day’s entry?
And, oh yeah, it’s so warm here in North Carolina that I went outside to go running in shorts and a TANK TOP. What the hell? I thought it was December….
55 degrees and rainy and windy and blah in Maryland… Merry F’ing Christmas!
I hear you about the fuckin’ cold, Robyn. We’re buried underneath a foot of snow, along with 2 and 3 foot high snow drifts…AND it’s about 15 degrees, with like 2 and -5 for the lows during the next few days. And I’m in Kentucky! We’re not exactly known for our arctic climate.
Search Engine? I set up a free one on my domain from Fluid Dynamics, and it’s worked pretty well for me. It a Perl script that you can put on your domain and configure to look like your other pages.
http://www.xav.com/scripts/search/
Ummm, it’s cold, cloudy & raining in Florida (Tampa) today. And it will be until past Christmas. Better stay where you are! 🙂
The forecast for Christmas here in So Cal is a ‘brisk’ 70 degrees. *ducking*
Happy holidays everyone!
I love the kitty pictures… funny shhhh-tuff!
I hear ya, fellow Alabama dweller! brrrrrrrrrrr!
You stop your bitchin-poo. I live in the midwest right on the beauteous Lake Michigan. Robyn,dammit we all suffer for our men. Snow is great, cold builds charector (sp?). I sent you a card w/no request for another, we are family. Cold makes the slipper union of america happy. Stop it!
Hi Robyn, Just wanted to take a minute to wish you, Fred and the Spud a very wonderful Christmas! Hope Santa is good to you!!!
I tried Picosearch and Atomz but had to opt out when I had too many pages. I notice you’re using MovableType…you could implement MT’s search engine module. That’s what I use. It’s not perfect but hey, it’s free. 🙂
And have a great Christmas, by the way!!!!!
Merry Christmas Robyn, Fred and the Spud!
I would kill to live in Alabama right now, I just came in from hacking at ice ruts lefts by the fucking plow yesterday when he plowed 2 feet of snow/ice pellets/freezing rain crap up against my car. My arms are so sore and tired my hands are shaking on the keyboard. I’ll bet in the southern US the whole place shuts down if you get an inch of snow on the ground!
Merry Christmas Robyn! Thank you for your card 🙂 We got a ton of snow here yesterday so I’m going sledding this afternoon! Hope Alabama gets warmer soon!
We certainly have different search engine queries. My top queries are on “urethral play” and “seven old ladies locked in a lavatory.” I still don’t know what urethral play is, but I don’t want to think about it!
Sweetie, I tried to make the Rolo cookies and the dang market didn’t have Rolos. What kind of store has no Rolos?
I tell ya I was about to start a revolt. So hey… maybe you could just send me a batch, hmmm?
Heh.