Trailers...

I love watching the trailers for upcoming movies.  When I go to the theatre I want to arrive early, in time to get the middle of the middle seat and to watch all the trailers.  Trailers can make a shitty movie look like it will rock, which is their job, but it's fun.

I've been watching a few trailers on Hulu for Eclipse.  Ok, so judge me, I don't care.  However at this point, I feel like I've seen the entire movie...oh well it will just be a recap when actually attending the movie.  Should they put so many trailers out there, I can't decide.

Opps…




I’ve been busy this week, busy here at work. I love how the assumption is that summer are slow for this field. My computer at home is having some issues, so no good for posting either. I’m hoping to get it looked at next week to find out what the problem is, I think Vinton County put a hex on it. Any IT people to have ideas on how to get the laptop to connect to a wireless connection..pass ‘em on. It says it’s connected, but then brings up only dead pages. Ah well, I can’t be wonderful at everything. *grin*



I haven’t blogged, which is just terrible. Nothing exciting to report really, so let me just vent about today just a bit, please



Today…



I forgot to take may allergy meds as I was running super late and have sneezed enough for a month.



I logged into facebook for the first time in a long time and there sat the suggestion of a “friend” an ex that really, I don’t need in my “friend” suggestion list. ARGH! I think I stick to facebook for work only these days.



I signed my annual review and discovered that I’m getting a new supervisor, yet to be announced. Really, someone couldn’t have told me that. I had to read it in my supervisor’s comments on my review. Nice, well done! There are so many rumors floating around right now, I just have to keep telling myself that as long as I get money in my account every month, at it’s worth it. As long as I don’t reach the stage of drinking a bottle of red wine and eating a bag of popcorn for dinner every night, I’m good. I did this with another job for several months, way too long, I will not allow myself to get to that point of frustration again. Hell, I would move back with my parents, want me or not, and pitch hog shit rather than get to that point again. Ah FU, at least I got something from you.



Ok, so I’m off, enough venting for the moment. It’s almost Friday, right? RIGHT?!!??!?!??!!!

My Bounty...

I went to a farmers market yesterday and pick up a couple of things.  They are all like candy.  Oh, the cheese, the cheese is just grand. 

If you are near a farmers market this weekend, stop, stop and support local growers!

Good, but...

I have taken photos I really like, but would never likely print them.  They are just not photos that one would print, but I do like them so have a look.

The little picture here on the blog doesn't really do this one justice.  The light coming through the trees and the autumn colors are just grand.

I'm not sure why this moss in Washington is so interesting, but it is. Maybe it’s the many shades of green.

This one just makes me happy. It could be the bright happy colors.

Wacky Wet Wednesday Random Trivia...


All About the Numbers

There are 42 dots on a pair of dice.

There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long: eye, hip, arm, leg, ear, toe, jaw, rib, lip, and gum.

Each year, the average American consumes nearly 2 14-ounce bottles of ketchup. Ketchup is found in 97 percent of U.S. households, beating out salt, pepper, and sugar.

The shortest war on record, between Britain and Zanzibar in 1896, lasted just 38 minutes.

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time. It is 1/100 of a second.

And now you know.

It’s All Greek To Me…


Recently I saw Get Him to the Greek. I didn’t know much about it going in, but it seemed like a light fun flick to see. If you are looking for something fun, silly, a bit icky, no thinking required, good for a few laughs, this might be a good flick to catch at the $1 movie. I give it a C-. Keep an eye out for the vomit, there is a lot in this movie. Hey, I warned you it was a bit icky.

A Finished Project…


It takes me forever to finish knitting projects sometimes. This project was started two years ago. I had planned to give it to a friend from Scotland during her visit a couple of years ago. Needless to say, I never finished and she returned to Scotland without this lovely scarf.

She returned again this year from a visit in March. I busted the scarf back out and knitted until my fingers were bleeding. Ok not really, but I did bust a needle and finished the scarf for her to take back with her this year. Finally!

Happy Friday!!

Concert Bliss...

Sunday I attend the James Taylor and Carole King concert. It was brilliant! As a child my parents used to torment me with this kind of music. It was not until I was an adult, that I actually started to enjoy it. Like the music or not, you have to appreciate that they are both legends in the music world.

The stage was very simply, but nice.  There was no back, it was a circle that was on a very slow rotation so that the entire audience as one point was facing the singers.  Photo from my phone, not great, but need the cord for real photos.

Below are a few of my favorites.

Oh My...

I watched this last night and recoginzed one of these guys as a former student of mine. So sad, yikes. I wish him well, but this is not good, not good at all.

The List...

1. Get lens for specks,check.
2. Pick up arrival at airport, check.
3. Watch mother cat drag kittens across the road, hummmm check.
4. Have air conditioning up in at parents, Crap knew I would forget something.

5. Have a great weekend!

Moonville Tunnel …

During my trip to Vinton County Ohio, I took a brief tour to the Moonville Tunnel. We went during the daylight, good time to stay away from the ghosts.

To give you a bit of history. The follow was taken from this link, http://www.moonvilletunnel.net/index.htm.

Moonville was once scarcely known as little more than one more tiny mining and railway boom town among a hundred others in Southeastern Ohio. But for those who lived there, it was home.

There was never more than a hundred people living in the tiny town from 1856 to the 1940s. And by the early 1950s, the only things remaining was a few abandoned houses and a lonely stretch of railway between Marietta and Cincinnati.

The Tunnel

 

is a little creepy from the inside,

especially with painting like this.

If you are in Vinton County and looking for a nice little hike that may lead to a ghost to two, go.  Read the history and the stories first, it will make experience more fun.

Even Losing Can be Fun…


Saturday I traveled to Cleveland for my first ever professional baseball game. I’ve been to a few AAA games, but never a pro one. Cleveland was playing Cinci, the Ohio Expo…ok, I don’t remember what exactly it was called, but it was Ohio something. The first part of my drive to Cleveland scared me a little, I kept hitting speratic downpours for about the first hour outside of C-Bus. Thankfully the skies cleared and it was a wonderful evening for a game. Pre-game old college friends gathered for a chat to catch up on life changes and reminense about the “old days”.

I expected our seats to be up so high the players would look like wee dots on the field, but lucky enough, we had really great seats. We were in the first section, right between right and center field, score!

Growing up in Southeastern Ohio, there are no professional teams of any kind. So, you either aline with Cleveland or Cinci teams. If my Dad was cheering for a team it was the Cleveland Browns, so by default, I became a Browns fan (maybe this explains my many issues). Again by default, because I was a Cleveland football fan, I became a Cleveland baseball fan. Now, I use the term fan loosely with it comes to baseball. I love baseball, love to watch it…at least in person. However, when the Indians looked like they were going to lose in a blowout during the first couple of innings, I was willing to jump ship to the Reds. Ok, not really, but the boys playing for the Indians didn’t really show up, they didn’t act like they were getting paid to do this job. Oh, it was stressful. At one point, it was 4-0 Reds, eck.

The Indians did show up in the 9th with a short rally at least bringing the final score to 6-4 (Reds), if nothing else not a blow out, but still a loss. I understand the Indians are in a buidling year and they did beat the Reds the following day, yeah for them. To add to this, Grady is on the injured list.

If you can’t win, at least have fun doing it, which the game was a ton of fun.

Photos from my phone…

The view from the "cheap" seats.  They were at a crazy discount, sometimes it pays to know people. *grin*

I don't really get the mascots for the teams.  Odd, very odd looking muppet like fellows.

After the game they let off fireworks, which rocked.  They played great music while they were going off...and I love fireworks in general.  It was a pretty impressive show especially considering it is an add on for the game.

On a completely different topic...today is National Fish and Chips Day in Ireland, so if you get a chance to partake in some today in honor of all the chippers in the home country, please do.

Random Information Day…



--On May 25, 1926, Miles Davis, jazz musician was born. Boy, he could play!

-- Lettuce and celery will keep longer if stored in the refrigerator in paper bags instead of cellophane ones. No one should eat celery, but in case if you buy it just to look at it.



--The Amityville horror house is up for sale in New York, Long Island. Personally I wouldn’t buy a house with ghosts, even if I did have the 1.15 million.

-- The King Ranch in Texas is bigger than the state of Rhode Island. It comprises 1.25 million acres and was the first ranch in the world to be completely fenced in. At one time, its borders were guarded by armed patrol. King-ranch.com

-- Lightning strikes the Earth 1,800 times at any moment.


--Martha Jane Burke, better known as Calamity Jane, was married twelve times.  I guess I need to be a better marks-woman.

I warned you random.  Is it Friday yet?

Say What You Think…


When a child comes up and says, “you are fat”, or “you have ugly hair”, or “your feet smell” they are not usually trying to be mean, they are simply saying what they think based on what they see. They have no filter. At what age do we lose that? At what age do we start masking what we want to say to save the feelings of another person or to stay within acceptable social norms?

It’s frustrating, really, I feel there should be a way to say what you think as an adult, to get issues out in the open and stop filtering them. Wouldn’t you like to say to your boss, “I’m underpaid, overworked, underappreciated and I have mound of student loans that need to be paid off, I need a raise.” I would, but I don’t, I say it other ways, less direct, like completing my annual review and trying include all the wonderfulness that is me.

We all have a co-workers that we would love to say to them , “Do your damn job!”. We ignore it or may focus on a non-issue to maybe get them geared toward doing their job.

Every now and then we have a friend or family member that we would like say to them, “You are being an ass!”. We don’t, we don’t say anything. Sometimes it stresses us out so much sleep is lost over it.

I used to be a person who said what they were thinking much of the time, regardless. In high school I was called _____ bitch. My last name started with a “b”, so it was an easy fit. I got this because I used to say what I thought. I didn’t have a ton of friends because of this, but didn’t really care. The friends I did have were real friendships and to hell with the other idiots. Now, I find it funny that these idiots what to facebook me. Really?!?!

I wish I could go back to saying what I think, but I’ve surrendered to the social norms and will go along with all the other sheep thinking what I want to say, but never saying it. Maybe one day, I’ll feel free enough to blog about it, but I think that blog would have to be a private one that no one was really allowed to read. *smile* Not much of a blog.

Flying High…


This morning was a bit miserable, so I felt I would make the most of it and stop for a “fancy” coffee. I haven’t had a “fancy” coffee in quite some time. I did the quick Starbucks drive-throw and got a iced white chocolate mocha. TASTY! Well, since it had been so long since I have a “fancy” coffee it was way too sweet. I made a pot of hazelnut coffee in my office and added it to the mocha. This worked wonderfully, more coffee taste and less sweet. However, this means, I had about 3 shots of espresso and another two cups of coffee, not to mention the sugar. So right now, I’m flying high. If my shaky leg were logging miles I would guess about 20 at this point. The worst part is the headache I created for myself, darn it.

Ah, Friday, thank goodness 430pm is almost here.

The Crew Photos...

The Columbus Crew

Crew Fans

Gotta love the sombrero

The Crew take the field

The Crew…


Saturday I went to the Crew game. I don’t really know all the rules for soccer, but the atmosphere at the games are great, the crowd really gets into it. Some of their cheers are a bit odd, if you ask me, but at least they are having fun. We sat every close to the section that encourages people to bring drums, flags, streamers, and such. They are load and like true soccer fans, unlike me, a fair weathered soccer fan. I didn’t even get into it the summer I lived in Ireland. It would be a great workout, continuously running for 90 minutes, but some games there is no score and like Saturday, the majority of the game can pass before the maybe one goal is actually made.

It was a fun night…even if there was an almost dog attach at the end of the night. Long story, but story short, no dogs were harmed Saturday night and no humans either.

I was going to post a couple of pics, but they will not post, so maybe later.

Yes/No?

This morning as I was walking through my backyard to my car, I noticed that there were several mushrooms that came up overnight. They are big too. I love mushrooms. I wonder if they would kill me if I put them on the grill with a few onions? I don’t think I’ll try it, I’ll stick with the ones Kroger has pre-approved for me, but does anyone know if these are indeed ones that can be eaten?

Just In Case...

Just in case you were wondering what Maggie has been up to these day.  I'll give you a quick update.

She chases the random moth or such that creeps in the basement, but most of the time she's off to take a nap or two.  Ah the life of a cat, I'd love a nap right now.  At this point she's been crashing at my parents for three years, someday I'll live in a place that allows pets.  No news on the "pet" in my attic.

My Good Deed For The Day....

I've alreay completed my good dead for the day, so don't ask for any.  Going office to office door with student help and some lovely popcorn in tow, we raised $80.93 for Operation Feed.  The Mid-Ohio Foodbank loves me. 

We will have to see what the final total is for the donation to the cause.  Food donations and money has to be in by May 18th.