Finally Friday.

The answer to the pen's name is. Mortimer Icobod Marker

And on to the Trivia.

1. Parley? Damn to the depths whatever man what thought of "Parley".
That would be the French.

2. There was Dallas, from Phoenix; Cleveland - he was from Detroit; and Tex...
well, I don't remember where Tex
come from.

3. Men are rats, listen to me, they're fleas on rats, worse than that,

they're amoebas on fleas on rats.
I mean, they're too low for even the dogs to bite. The only man a girl can depend
on is her daddy.

4. Mickey is a mouse, Donald is a duck, Pluto is a dog. What's Goofy...?
He's a dog, he's definitely a dog...
He can't be a dog, he wears a hat and drives a car...
Yeah, that is weird. What the hell is Goofy?

5. You can't win. You know that, don't you? It doesn't matter if you whip us,
you'll still be where you were before,
at the bottom. And we'll still be the lucky ones at the top with all the breaks.
It doesn't matter.
Greasers will still be greasers and socs will still be socs. It doesn't matter.

6. Hi, do you have the song "I Just Called To Say I Love You?" It's for my
daughter's birthday.
Yea we have it.
Well, can I have it?
No, actually, you can't.
Why not?
God. Do you even know your daughter? There's no way she likes that song. Oops,
is she in a coma?

7. What's that on the steering wheel?
Cellophane. If you had any idea of the crap that people carry around on their
hands.
What kind of crap?
You don't wanna know.

8. I refuse to endanger the lives of my children in a house with less than four
bathrooms.
For 1,300 dollars they can live in a house with three bathrooms and ROUGH IT.

9. That's right, Mr. Martini. There is an Easter Bunny.

10. One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach, all the damn
vampires.

Enjoy and have a great weekend.

Picture Pages.

Here is a picture for the pages.

Picture Pages, Picture Pages.

Open up your picture pages.

Time to get out your crayons and your pencils.

Picture pages, Picture Pages.

Open up your picture pages.

Time for Bill Cosby to do a picture page with you.

Thanks Bill Cosby and Captain Kangaroo for the memories.

Trivia Question.....Do your remember the name of Bill Cosby's pen he used for the Picture Pages skits on Captain Kangaroo?

More Movie trivia soon.

Great Stories...Now my Turn.

I worked as a X-ray Tech in a small clinic in Southern, IL. In September 1996 a nice young thang walked into the clinic with a rib injury. It was Needles, I played it cool and calm and did the usual weight, blood pressure and history of the injury. The Doc ordered a Magna Therm treatment and I went to the room to start the treatment which lasts 20 minutes. As I waited for the therapy to finish and remove the machine I got called away to do an X-ray. I was disappointed that I missed see her again but went on with my job. A couple months later on a Thursday "L" (Needle's Mom) and Needles came into the clinic. Apparently "L" had twisted her ankle and needed checked out. I was ordered to do an X-ray on "L's" ankle and while performing said duty, I was keen in getting information on Needles. I did notice that she drove a red 4 wheel drive. Thinking this was a point of interest and a conversation starter I asked "L". "So have you ladies been playing in the snow in the 4 wheel drive?" L's response. " Needles probably would be if she had a boyfriend." I took this as a hint hint. After that statement I was excited and nervous, pacing back a forth past "L's" exam room mulling over my medical professionalism and trying to resist feeling like a goof ball as I finally worked up the courage to stick my head inside the exam room and give "L" a slip of paper with my phone number and I said "If Needles wanted to go out sometime to give me a call." When I got home there was a message on the machine, and her answer was yes she would like to go on a date. I called her back on Saturday as I knew Needles was working nights. We made plans to go out the following Saturday as there was ice on the roads and hope the roads would clear up some.
January 25th 1997 we went on our first date. We went out to eat at Burger King and then a movie, Michael with John Travolta. After the movie I took her back to my house and we watched T.V. and held hands on the couch. The date lasted from 6pm and it lasted until 2am. I dropped her off at her friends house. Our second date was the following weekend and our first kiss. Here we are 9 years later and it feels like it was only yesterday. Yes I have had to check details of some of the information as I partied a lot in the 90's and use that as a excuse. I think in my story I have answered all of my previous post questions. Thanks all of you for your stories and it's nice to hear how 2 people become a loving couple.

Mission Not So Impossible.

Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to list the following details of your first date with your significant other or spouse.

1. What day was your first date?
2. How long did the date last?
3. What did you do on your date? (Keep it clean.)
4. Who asked who out and what were their exact words?
5. How long was from your first date until your second date?
6. How did you meet?
7. Where did you meet?
8. When did you meet his/her parents?

Hope that I am not prying too much. I had a idea to post a blog reader participation post like this since the movie trivia post and was about to scrap the idea when one of my coworkers came into work today and informed me her and her boyfriend split up. I was shocked but maybe it is for the best. He seemed too controlling and over bearing. (Immature)

I borrowed the picture above from a website for sexually transmitted diseases. Isn't that sweet.

This is for Farm Wife.

Since Blogger doesn't support animated Gifs. Or at least I can't get them to work, here is your cartwheel. Feel free to use it or add color to make it more festive. Congrates again.

Blog Family Photo.

This is a blog family photo that I scrapped together and since I didn't have a photo of one blogger I choose one for her. I hope she doesn't mind. (Ragged) I think you will be able to tell who is who, but from left to right it is Cynical, Ragged, Needlefingers, Pilot, Rudy and Brando. This is the immediate family but their and many others not pictured. I would like to expand on this photo as more avatars become available. :)
Have a great weekend everyone.

IT"S FFFRRRIIIDDDAAAYYY!

This is from my childhood of riding the bus an 2 hours to and from school. On Fridays at 5pm on the 96 STO they had a character called Wicked Wanda and she would yell out "IT"S FRRRIIIIDAAAAY!" Then they would breakin to Old Time Rock and Roll by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band. This was the official start of the weekend even though we were still about 30 minutes from the house. Lately I have been thinking about thing when I was young. It's like a mental time machine back to less stressful and less responsible days. Especially T.V. shows and toys. The A Team, Dukes of Hazzard, G.I.JOE, Gilligan's Island, The Jefferson's, Star Wars toys, Archie Bunker, Transformers, Mr. Roger's Neighborhood, Spiderman, Sesame Street, Electric Company and Night Rider to name a few. The other day while discussing days gone by, I started naming off the characters in the land of make believe. Like King Friday XIII, Prince Tuesday, Lady Elaine, X the Owl, Henrietta Pussycat, Daniel S. Tiger, Queen Sarah, Cornflake S Pecially, Robert Troll, Handy Man Negrey , Mr. McFeely ( Speedy Delivery) and last but not least Mr. and Mrs. Platypus. These were all a mental exercise o see if I remember and that dementia hasn't set in yet. Also it's nice to take a mental vacation.

IT'S ALIVE!

Today at work the repairman came to look at the damaged Ultrasound machine. We were hoping for good news but we could have never imagined the news we would hear. The repairman hooked the monitor that was ripped off and bounced from a height of 4 feet into a car and then onto the pavement, and it worked. It's a miracle of sorts. We were all surprised and never in a million years would have guessed that with such an impact the thing would have worked. The tech then spent about 30 minutes vacuuming glass out of the keyboard. My friend is now back up and running and things are looking a lot better as the insurance guy inspected it the other day and with their policy the company only had monetary replacement. This means there is depreciation by age of the machine 10% for every year after the manufacturing year. This would have been bad as the machine is several years old. Only 30 to 40 % of the brand new price of the machine would have been paid to the company to replace the damaged machine. Isn't insurance a rip off. After you spend hundreds and hundreds of dollars for years and not having a claim, when you do the pay off is crappy and your premiums still go through the roof or you get cancelled. I will hush for now this is a rant for another post. Have a good evening.

The Third Day of Spring?

Yes, Yes, It's the third day of spring and we are basking in the sun and livin the good life. Right! It has been cold and with the snow we got yesterday you would think it was January again. Needles says that when some flowering plant blooms that it snows on them. Well I think they should curl up and die and let Spring Sprung out all over everybody and everything. I am not looking forward to mowing the lawn but get this drab gray weather out of here. Bring on Spring!!!

Kitty Pictures

No Tugger isn't laying on a shelf. And no Copper isn't cheering for him. They are in mid pounce of a sneak attack by Copper that Tugger seen coming a mile away. This is what we have for entertainment on a daily basis.

This is after the fighting is over and it is time to recover from the wrestling matches.

We enjoy seeing both.

You know it couldn't be cheap.

My friend that works in heating and air left about 15 minutes ago. After I replaced the thermostat and screwed around with the heater I am proud to say, I didn't screw it up anymore. My friend "T" checked the crazy thing and found out that the gas pressure was like 0. So he had to replace the gas valve. This is about a $150 part and he worked on it for about an hour diagnosing the problem and removing the now $150 paper weight and putting in a new one. I have become accustom to be pessimistic about these things and just assume it's gonna cost us. I know that $150 isn't that much but with our new laptop and new $600 dollar nutless (healthy) kitty, it has all seem to hit us these last couple months. I just hope that March goes out like a lamb and April has the touch of Charmin in case it too decides to wipe my @ss.

Movie Lines Trivia.

The answers to the movie lines Trivia

1. The Princess Bride.
2. CLUE
3. Fight Club
4. The Crow
5. O'Brother Where Art Thou?
6. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
7. ALIENS
8. Friday
9. Signs
10. Finding Nemo
11. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
12. Napoleon Dynamite
13. A Christmas Story
14. Fletch Lives
15. M*A*S*H the movie

I would like to thank you all for participating. Farm Wife and Rudy had the most correct answers.

These movies were selected because they are some of our favorites. There are many others and you may see this Trivia again. Keep thinking up good lines. :)

I did it to myself.......

Get your mind out of the gutter. Needles said a memorable movie line last night and that spawned the memorable movie line test. This lines are somewhat memorable but not as memorable as lets say "Go ahead punk, make my day." Anyway while searching for obscure lines from movies that are well know but had to check and make sure they were correct, I ran into a little song that was on one of the movie site. I have now got it stuck in my head. I thought maybe a little blog therapy might help so I am posting the words to the song for all of you to see.

So long and thanks for all the fish.

So sad that it should come to this

We tried to warn you all, but, oh, dear

You may not share out intellect

Which might explain your disrespect

For all the natural wonders that grow around you

So long, so long, and thanks for all the fish!

The world's about to be destroyed

There's no point getting all annoyed

Lie back and let the planet dissolve around you

Despite those nets of tuna fleets

We thought that most of you were sweet

Especially tiny tots and your pregnant women

So long, so long, so long, so long, so long!

So long, so long, so long, so long, so long!

So long, so long, and thanks for all the fish!

If I had just one last wish

I would like a tasty fish!

If we could just change one thing

We would all have learnt to sing!

Come one and all

Man and mammal

Side by side

In life's great gene pool!

So long, so long, so long, so long, so long

So long, so long, so long, so long

So long, so long and thanks for all the fish!

I love this song. Maybe you will enjoy it as much as I have. I was wanting to put a picture with this post but blogger seems to be screwed up again.

Memorable Movie Lines!

I am going to list a few movie lines and see if anyone can guess any or all of them.

1. Never rush a miracle man, sonny....You get rotten miracles.
2. This is WAR _________! Casualties are inevitable, you can not make an omelet without breaking eggs. Every cook will tell you that.
3. I am Jack's colon....I get cancer, I kill Jack.
4. Jesus Christ.....Stop me if you heard this one. Jesus Christ walks into a hotel. Hand the inkeeper 3 nails and asks. "Can you put me up for the night?"
5. We thought you was a TOAD.
6. Daddy. I want a Squirrel.
7. Game over man....Game over!
8. Debo's coming....Who? DE-BO!
9. There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
10. Uhhh... the sea monkeys have my money... yes, I'm a natural blue...
11. Curiously the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias, as it fell, was, 'Oh no, not again.'
12. You know, there's like a butt-load of gangs at this school. This one gang kept wanting me to join because I'm pretty good with a bo staff.
13. Flick says he saw some grizzly bears near Pulaski's candy store!
14. Uh. Well, I've sinned. I didn't take any Polaroids or anything. But, yeah, I've sinned.
15. Look, mother, I want to go to work in one hour. We are the Pros from Dover and we figure to crack this kid's chest and get out to golf course before it gets dark. So you go find the gas-passer and you have him pre-medicate this patient. Then bring me the latest pictures on him. The ones we saw must be 48 hours old by now. Then call the kitchen and have them rustle us up some lunch. Ham and eggs will all right. Steak would be even better. And then give me at least ONE nurse who knows how to work in close without getting her tits in my way.

This will do for now....Lets see how you do.

All I want is Movie Titles. Not the names of the people who said it, but if you want to include it thats fine.

Email me here if you don't want others to see your answers.

The Weekend Is Here.

It is Saturday and I am going to be left all alone at the house. Needle is off to a local yarn shop to teach a class on her Which Way patterns. It will be a day of me and the boys. The boys are unconscious at the moment but I am sure they will wake up to entertain me with wrestling. They are like 2 kids fighting. It all starts off playful and fun but one or the other gets a little rough and then the other gets a little rougher and then IT"S ON! This usually ends up with hissing and they go there own ways for a few minutes. Then a sneak attack later its back on again. Last night while at Lowe's we picked up another thermostat for the central heat. I installed the new digital programmable thermostat last night and the heater still kept kicking on and off. I shut the gas off and turned off the fan switch and we went without heat for the night. It was 65 degrees in the house this morning. I was surprised it wasn't colder than that since it got down to 28 last night. This morning I turned the heater on and for the first hour or so it acted screwy. It kicked on for about 10 minutes than kicked off for a minute, then back on for a minute, then off for 10 minutes then back on for 10 minutes. Needless to say it is unusual. I changed the span degrees on the new thermostat and that, for the moment seems to have fixed it. It was pre set on a span of 2 degrees and I bumped it up to 3 degrees. Oh well, I guess we will wait and see.

Copper was trying to have a happy meal again. It was his foam yellow ball in his soft food today.

Happy St. Patty's Day!

Today was a nice day and I got to leave work at 3:00pm. I then went over to meet Needles at her job as she got us tickets for an authentic Irish meal put on my the culinary arts class. To start we had asparagus and leak soup with cream, followed by a nice salad with a mustard sauce. Then came the main course. I had Gaelic Steak sliced and placed on a mound of potatoes with a side of peas and carrots. For dessert we had Irish chocolate cheesecake. Yum Yum. My belly is still full.

This morning shortly after I woke up and was getting ready for work I noticed that the central heat kicked on, which is not unusual, stayed on for about 5 minutes and kicked off. I thought how strange but when on with my morning. About 10 minutes later it kicked on again and did the same thing. I flipped the thermostat's switch off and on and fiddled with the for about 5 seconds before I had to head out the door to work. I hope that the magical home repair fairy might stop by and fix it while I was gone.....Nope! It was still doing it when I got home and probably has been kicking on and off all day. Oh Yeah it was a sweltering 75 degrees in the house. I usually like to keep it at around 68. I eventually ended up turning off the gas and turning the fan switch off. I will have to call my friend tomorrow and see if he can take a look at it. This and the fridge was making a funny noise yesterday...Figures after we spent the money on a new laptop that some major appliances would go screwy.

Have a good weekend everyone!

Hmmmmmm.

You Are 48% Evil

You are evil, but you haven't yet mastered the dark side. Fear not though - you are on your way to world domination.

How Evil Are You?

I can't believe I am less evil than Rudy.

Bad Day But Not Mine.

Today was a bad day. Not for me but for a co-worker. He is the mobile ultrasound tech for the hospital I work at. Anyway, He and his boss go around to the local hospitals, clinics and do ultrasound exams. I have been hearing comments that business had been slow and if it didn't pick up that my friend might be bumped to part time. This isn't the bad part of the story. Anyway, he has been having trouble with his ultrasound equipment and has had to have it fixed several times over the last few months. Just about the time they think they got it straightened out, the equipment would go down again. They finally got it fixed and everything has been going great the last few weeks. Again this isn't the bad part......Keep reading. Today when he got to our hospital he unloaded his machine like he has done every weekday and some weekends the last 15 or so years he has been doing this, and was pulling his van around to park when the wind kicked up and disengauged the break on the machine. The newly fixed ultrasound machine rolled down the slanted parking lot for about 200ft and slammed into a brand new cherry red Chevy colbalt. For those of you not familiar with a mobile ultrasound machine think of it as a $100,000+ battering ram. The machine was decapitated with it's monitor and VCR ripping off and busting out the drivers door window. The base caved in the door panel. It will most likely be a total loss. This is part of the bad part. The other part of the bad part is that since they are a small company it is now up to the insurance company. If they don't cover the incident due to policy loopholes or if they don't reimburse well or their premiums are jacked so high that they can't make ends meet, my friend will no longer have a job. All I can say is think good thoughts for my friend and hope everything works out. When you are having a bad day just think about this incident and hopefully your day doesn't seem so bad.

Interesting?

You Are Likely an Only Child

At your darkest moments, you feel frustrated.At work and school, you do best when you're organizing.When you love someone, you tend to worry about them. In friendship, you are emotional and sympathetic.Your ideal careers are: radio announcer, finance, teaching, ministry, and management.You will leave your mark on the world with organizational leadership, maybe as the author of self-help books.

Humpty Dance...Do the Hump!

Today is hump day and thank goodness it's over. It was a Fell of a Hay. Copper our problem child has been just that. When we came home from work today he had cleared the bathroom sink off. Needle's vitamins and other things were on the floor. The hand towel that hangs on the towel hanger in the bathroom was in the middle room. Needle's vitamin containers were like trying to find Easter eggs or satellite dish cards as in the case of Farm Wife. He's like his older brother and has developed a fascination with the toilet and the sink. Copper did get a clean bill of health from the vet today after is one week check up post neutering. He weighed in at 5.8 pounds last week. This week 6.6. His belly is and stays tight like a little fuzzy sumo wrestler. He and Tugger has been going at it a lot lately. Usually in the mornings, just before we go to work and in the evening, just before bed time. When Copper gets bigger they might start breaking furniture over each other heads.

Needles ordered us some lapinators for our laptops. These are supposed to keep your legs cooler and keep the laptop from over heating with it just laying on your legs. I have noticed that with this new laptop it seems to get hotter that the other one. So far the lapinator seems to work like a charm. Thanks Needles for your very nice gift. Nothing says I love you more than something to keep your thighs from sweating while surfing the internet(s). I did get Needles some new candles last week. She needs more candles like she needs more yarn but you know how that goes. I think her mantra is she who dies with the most yarn and candles wins. Wins what I have no earthly idea. Oh well. It cheaper than diamonds and it keeps her happy and that keeps me happy. I can't compain.

Friday Needles has gotten us tickets for an authentic Irish meal. She has told me what we are having with all the embellishments of a very nice meal and authentic Irish music to accompany said meal, but I still like to have fun with the idea. Being part Irish myself I think the meal will be mostly potatoes mashed with a blarney stone. Stewed cabbage and the trimming will be a salad of shamrocks with a nice Whiskey dressing. No matter what we might need a designated driver. I guess that all for now.

Not exactly sure how they come up with the results but I guess I will take it.

You Are Scary

You even scare scary people sometimes!

How Scary Are You?

Another Deep Thought by Pilot.

Enjoy your concert Cynical:)

Another Tuesday.

It was tuesday and I gave my full 20%. Not much else going on so I will just post a picture.

Bad Day.....Bad News.

Today started off pretty good but by noon it had started to make the turn to crazy. We went pretty much non stop all day. Just when we thought we were caught up we would get hit with another run of patients. I ended up working an hour over to get things in preparation for tomorrow. As I told my boss I was getting the heck outta there and see ya tomorrow, she called us until the office or a pow wow. She broke the news that the Dr. that came to the area when I was a student radiologic technologist 15 years ago is leaving. It was like a punch in the gut. I am sad that he is leaving, but he has very good reasons and I have to say that working with such a kind, easy going Doctor has been a delight and I am afraid we have been a bit spoiled. I just hope we get another Doctor that is nice to work with, but I am afraid the odds are against us.

This morning I found Coppers orange mouse with green ears and tail in his food bowl. This is twice I have found it there. I guess he is trying to combine 2 things he loves. Food and Play. Maybe this is the reasoning with McDonald's Happy Meal.

Pictures accompanied by captions.

The new jute rug is a wrestling mat.

No need for a door sweep here.

This is stylin side saddle kitty bed setting.

Time to go on a diet...

I think I need my water bowl filled with sparkling clean water....or a bath?

These are some of the more interesting photos we have taken over the last week.

Multi Laptop Household.

Needles and I spent the day in the big city of Evansville today. We went with a purpose and to have some fun. Needles was gracious to allow me to select the place to eat and get away from our usual Olive Garden run while there. Our first stop was at Circuit City and came up craps. The next stop was Pet Smart to see what all they had for our fuzzy little ones. I did get some spray to help Copper with his training. He has been getting into a lot of trouble lately getting on the furniture, clawing the couch, clawing the curtains and chewing on electrical cords. I believe he is going to be our problem child. After that we went to Best Buy were we got what we set out for. We had been mulling around the idea of adding another laptop to our wireless network and had been looking some laptops over. We had a Dell laptop in the running and was way out in front with it unbelievable price. Under further investigation we noticed it came with a Free printer, which is nice but not needed as we already have a nice printer. We then noticed it didn't come with a printer cable which is kinda like selling you a new car and having to pay extra for the keys. We also noticed that the unbelievable price didn't include the $80 AC adapter, which in continuing with my previous analogy is like selling you a new car, the gas tank being bone dry and charging for gas. SOOOooooo in the end the unbelievable price wasn't so unbelievable. We had been scoping out a nice Compaq at Wal-Mart and had it as a backup plan if we didn't find anything better. However Best Buy was the winner. We got a Compaq V2570NR which we were comfortable and had confidence in as our other laptop is a Compaq R3125US and has been very reliable since we got it 2 years ago. The Geek Squad does a Free check up on laptop while you wait and also offers to update your virus protection and Windows while you wait, for a price but I couldn't see paying for something that my own lazy butt could do when I got home. I just spent 2 hours updating everything which sucked as the act goes something like this. Update, reboot, update sumore, reboot, update yet again, reboot, update one more time, reboot, Ohh just one more thing to update, reboot, Again while you were updating there were some more update added, Update, reboot. By the time I was done I almost wish I would have had them do it but I didn't feel like spending an hour in Best Buy. I would be like kid in a candy shop there. I would be in som much debt by the time I got out of there. Any way after that we went to eat at the Texas Road House. This was the first time I had been there and it was very good. I was finally able to relax and enjoy my visit to the big city. This is unusual as I am somewhat anxious in Evansville and get irritated with all the people. I think the 2 beers on an empty stomach may have help to relieve some anxiety. Hick!

This is a picture from a weather website showing the total accumulation of rain over the last week. As you might have guessed we are in the dark green area. The dark green area shows areas that got a total of 4 to 8 inches of rain. Thats nice.

The rain has subsided and has gone back into it's banks and ditches. If the Thunderstorms would hold off it might be a nice weekend. Hope everyone has a good weekend.

Rain, Rain, Rain, Rain, Rain.

If it keeps raining I will need one of these to get to work.

It's raining.....AGAIN. I think we got a couple inches last night and it has rained all day today. I think we have gotten about 4-5 inches of rain in the last couple days. Channel 10 news was at our Casey's filming a shot of our fair flooded town. We finally made it on the map. Whoooo hooo!

Copper made home today. He seems to be no worse for wear and is doing well. The procedure hasn't slowed him down a bit. He has been romping around the house ever since he got home. He has to continue with some antibiotic for a week and then hopefully we will be finished with running him to the vet for awhile.

We opted to pick up Chinese tonight from one of our local restaurants. It was pretty good but we are spoiled from the other restaurants that have the buffet all the time. I had the General Tso's Chicken and Needles had the Lo Mein.

Did you ever see a commercial for a show and at first think, that looks interesting? But then they play the commercial over and over and over again, running it in the ground until you are so sick of see said commercial that you almost want to dig your eyes out with a spoon to keep from seeing it. Well I have. The commercial is for the new Black & White on FX. I thought the concept was interesting and edgy for the first 50 times the commercial aired, but then they kept show it about 10 times an hour so now I will not watch the show for the simple fact that I am so sick of seeing the commercial I think that slitting my wrists would be more entertaining. I might be wrong and the show might be a hit and people all over the United States and beyond will love the show and it might become another Seinfeld, West Wing or Lost. But I won't know it because I now refuse to watch it. Now that the first episode has aired I hoped and prayed that they would decrease the frequency of showing the commercial. Yeah right.

Not much to say.

So I will post a picture and hopefully have more to write about tomorrow.

Not a Bad Monday.

It was a nice Monday.....I didn't think they made such a thing, but I was wrong. The day went smoothly and the phone didn't ring off the hook. The day was kinda fun, not two hillbillies throwing shoes up into a tree fun but fun in a work fun sort of way. Tomorrow doesn't look to bad either but I almost hate to say or type it as I know this will jinx it. Wednesday is the fateful day for Copper and his little buddies. We will be dropping him off at the vets Wednesday morning at 7am and pick him up after work Thursday around 4pm. He and Tugger has been going at it these last couple weeks and I am afraid when I bring him home after his surgery he will need to be quarantined from Tugger. I think over the weekend if it was in the house Copper ran into it. I think I saw him knock himself silly at least 4 times, I swear he staggered a couple times. I will be surprised if he makes it to adulthood with his marbles intact. It's fun to see them stalk and pounce each other and take turns doing laps though the house. You just want to make sure your not bare footed walking through when they are on the run. Usually the pounce each other at the same time and run at each other only to spring up in the air about a foot from each other with arms outstretched and claws extended and not touch. They are so silly. Needles just walked in from work. She said her boss sent home African food for me. Thanks "R", I am always up for food. Well I better go for now. I got food to eat.

I'm IT! I'm IT! Run From Me!

Thanks to Confessions I am officially tagged. I will submit cause resistance is futile.

4 jobs I've had.

1. Grill cook - for 3 and a half years at a greasy spoon in town. I still get cravings to cook on a grill.
2. Detasseler- No I didn't pluck the spinners from half naked dancers. I pulled tassels from ears of corn for cross-pollination. Although it was hot and hard work, it was fun and I had the best tan of my life that summer.
3.Radiologic Technologist- (X-ray Tech) at a small clinic in southern IL. I worked there for 6 and a half years. Nice job but had to move on.
4. Mobile MRI Tech, as you may have read in some of my first posting that this job was almost my undoing. Nice pay, too many hours, too many miles on the road and too much stress.

4 goals I've set for the year.

1. To be more patient with the people in my life.
2. Not to procrastinate as much.
3. Spend more time with friends and family.
4. Get in better shape.

4 movies I could watch over and over.

1. Fight Club - Why the Heck do we need to know what a duvet is?
2. ID4 - I like to think that if we had a real man as president he would get out there and kick some alien buttocks if we were under attack.
3. The Village - Neat concept. I think Sometimes I would like to chuck all this advanced technology away and go back to the simple way of life. But then again I think blogging is a type of therapy and I don't think I can post and get this kind of therapy out of a plank of wood......At least without going to jail anyway.
4. A Christmas Story- I double, triple, quadruple dog dare you. I think this is possibly the best movie ever made. This movie takes me back to when I was young and the anticipation of Christmas morning.

4 places I've lived.

1. South Western Kentucky (birth to age 7)
2. Southern Indiana ( for 1 year )
3. Southern Illinois - in the country ( Age 12 to Age 21)
4. Southern Illinois - in town ( currently and wanting to get back into the country)

4 TV shows I love to watch.

1. Lost - scary, unpredictable and exciting.
2. Ghost Hunters - I am addicted to scary movies and situations. This one has suspense.
3. Battlestar Galactica - I like war movies and space movies. This is the best of both worlds.
4. That 70's Show - I think it is hilarious.

4 favorite vacation spots.

1. Camping with friends and family.
2. The promise land ( Kentucky )
3. Florida ( When I was a kid )
4. Las Vegas ( What happens in Las Vegas stays in Las Vegas )

4 websites I visit.

1. Friends Blogs on Blogger. (See list)
2. Geocaching.com
3. Needlefingers Blog
4. Automotive Forums.

4 favorite foods.

1. Taco Bell - ( 7 layer burrito, grilled stuffed burrito, spicy chicken burrito, and crunch wrap.)
2. Red Hills State Park Trace Inn - BBQ ribs. YUMMMMMMM!
3. Pizza from various places. Sorry no Casey's. Burned out.
4. Chineses Super Buffet.

4 places I'd rather be.

1. Camping with friends and family.
2. Hunting in the woods.
3. At my parents house in Kentucky.
4. Visiting my cousin and his girlfriend. ( One of these days we will get around to it. )

I tag you.

1. Cynical
2. Brando
3. Rudy
4. Jenny


This weekend has went just like all the other....Too fast. I better get to doing the laundry for work tomorrow. Back to the same ole grind.

The WWF......F.

Your kung fu is weak kittysan!

This morning I was snoozing Oh so nicely in my bed, with no alarm to get me up to go to work.....That is until the cats alarm decided to go off. I was awaken to a loud THUMP against the doors going into the bedroom. Apparently there was an all out brawl of the World Wrestling Federation of Felines and I think Copper got body slammed against the doors. The "kids" have been "playing" around a lot and occasionally it breaks into a wrestling match. This usually ends when Copper gets rolled onto his back with Tugger standing over him. This is when Tugger thinks he can stand on Copper. Copper doesn't appreciate being treated like a door mat and starts hissing. That's usually when it draws my attention. I look to see what's going on only to find 2 cats staring at me like, What? Usually Tugger backs down and slinks into the other room fearing he is in trouble. As Tugger slinks away Copper think this is the perfect opportunity for a sneak attack. I just wonder what kind of brawls we are going to have when Copper gets bigger and Tugger can't whoop up on him so easily. Just about every morning we get up to find clumps of hair on the floor and both cats with tuffs of fur stuck out around there necks. I enjoy see them play together but who knows how much they use their claws in their "play". Copper seems to be the one that starts most of it so it must not be too bad. Hope everyone has a good weekend. So long for now from the ring side seats.

Crapola of a Day...Do you sense a trend?

Yep you guessed it today was CRAP! We got a brand new hundred thousand dollar piece of equipment and it has a software glitch. Nice! My boss will be back tomorrow from a site visit to upgrade some other equipment at our work. The highlight of my day was talking with Needles and my brothers phone call and corresponding visit to his blog site. We laughed until we couldn't talk. If you have a goofy sense of humor check out the Chuck Norris link. His wife Brando was heard saying in the back ground......"It's not that funny." I guess you just have to know my brother and I. If we get together we can find just about anything humorous.

Hmmmmmm.....

Home Alone...

Today started out kinda crappy but got better. This evening I actually got to leave at 3:30 instead of 4:00 and 4:30 like the last few days. Since Needlefingers is out of town and I am home alone with the fuzzy kids. I did get to stop off and my brothers house and visit my niece and nephew. My nephew Yuri went to a friends house so we entertained ourselves by turning on the hair rock station and watching Yin dance around to her hearts content. She spun and bobbed and swung her arms around falling down several times in the process but she just kept on dancing. She just had to dance. Now that's good entertainment. It made my day. Hope tomorrow goes smoothly.