I Am A Lazy Globber

And being lazy I often forget to update my globroll with new places I am reading and new people I have met. I am often surprised that my lack of etiquette hasn't resulted in me being pushed back through all of the series of tubes and right off the internets.

So here are my new glboroll additions and folks I am enjoying reading and getting to know

Chasing Wentworth Miller
Since my Dad was born in Canada it's only natural I have added a Canadian to my globroll. We both watch Lost (well who doesn't?) but I am on a quest to get Simplicity yo watch BSG!

Robot Nine
Some of teh coolest pics on the innertubes can be found at Robot Nine. Plus I think he is a fellow Texan. And has a really cool Picture Puzzle Contest each week.

Wits and Wiggles
If memory serves me correctly Lisa sent me here (and who am I to not obey Lisa?)
Giggles is a fellow golfer I believe so I look forward to having someone to commiserate with when golf season starts this year.

Judging The Books
Beth won one of Robot Nine's Picture Puzzle contests and I was intrigued by her way cool SIP gravatar (guess you have to be a comics geeks to get what SIP is) and at first I didn't get her blog which I have since confessed to her.

But I took a reading comprehension pill and now I get it!

(parenthetical)
Again not sure how I ran into this blog but am glad I did!

So welcome to the island of misphit globroll everyone!

Things You Don't Want to Hear Your Plumber Say

"OH CRAP"

Well at least he wasn't working on the toilet!

The new faucet is in and I am now in this weird land of having hot and cold water in my kitchen.

And Wednesday they are coming out to do the shower!

Sweet.

Now to log out of work and off to play.

I'm Not Sure What This Story Is About

Today I decided to try to continue my semi productive streak and once I hauled my lazy butt out of bed I did.

Many things done today one of them was grocery shopping (yes I took the path of least resistance last night and ordered the pizza.)

One of the items I bought was hot dogs. It was just one item out of many in my basket and I really didn't think much about it.

I went out to watch the Daytona 500 today with some phriends and my brain was kind of itching. And I remembered the Peanuts Cookbook!

One of the first things I ever collected was Peanuts stuff. I was not necessarily that in tune to all of the underlying concepts behind the daily cartoon strips but Ma encouraged me to read them and collect stuff.

Also (to my Ma's chagrin) I was a very picky and light eater (as Bob, Jen, Christina will attest to)

Many times Ma would make me a separate meal. And other times she would tell me supper came from the Peanuts Cookbook which was good enough for me!

One sandwich was called the Snoopy Sandwich. Basically a hot dog quartered put on a piece of bread covered with a slice of cheese and put in the broiler for ab out 5 minutes.

And I loved those.

I can still hear Ma asking me when I was 7 or 8 years old "Hey B want a Snoopy Sandwich for lunch?" to which was my immediate response was "YES!"

So tonight I made one (actually 2 I am a lot bigger now) and ate them on Grandma Blush's plate.

And somewhere I think Ma may be smiling. At least I hope so.

Today's Activity List

Here are my plans for the day
1. Stop yelling at the jerk that was on C-Span from the Caito Institute
2. Unclog bathroom sink.
3. Clean toilet
4. Do laundry
5. Shop
a. need new lamp for dark cavernous living room
b. look at a new set of irons that i can't afford but it's nice to dream
c. WII yes I am making the plunge and buying my own WII system.
d. screen door. going to replace the 1950's screen door on the front of the house (depending on how much it is for door and installation)
e. groceries (will probably put that off until tomorrow and settle for a pizza tonight)
6. waste the rest of teh day

Sounds like a romantic time, don't it?

Enjoy your Saturday

The Cat Seems Unimpressed

But I am!

My NEW FAUCET ARRIVED TODAY!

The sink is original equipment in the house and last time i had a plumber out to fix a rusty pipe (hey now no age jokes) he said there was no way I could find any replacement parts much less a new faucet.


that is one big piece of brass

But guess what I did! Thank Maude/Ceiling Cat/(insert deity or non deity here) I DID NOT GIVE UP and the innertubes came through for me.

I know this must seem blase and boring but I am excited about my new faucet (yes I don't have a date for Valentines Day if you didn't guess LOL)

Have a great Friday everyone!

It Takes Me Awhile to Think of These Things

Jen has a great vid up of Gladys from Austin Texas.

(To understand the rest of this post you must watch the video. Of course not many people understand what I type anyway lol)

My status message tonight when I signed in was "GRRRRR GAHHHHHH" And then I watched the video and changed it to "I love Jesus but I drink a little"

And after reading a few of y'alls blogs it came to me.

Grandma Blush.

I was home in Brenham for Thanksgiving one year and we did our usual go the assisted living center and picked up Grandma to bring her over for Turkey Day dinner.

We are sitting there waiting for dinner and Grandma looks at me and says "Steven I'd like a little beer"

And I think to myself "Well the woman is 99 (she passed at 103!) who am I to say no to her?"

So I give her some beer (or gnats piss or Budweiser for those of you scoring at home) and she was happy!

Me Am Dumb

GAHHH.
Stupid trivia
Ok so I got who won the 2005 Heisman trophy (and was the only one and yelled loudly when the answer was revealed) and then instantly crashed and burned on World Geography (Is Bangladesh still a country? Apparently so)

So 5 teams playing trivia tonight and at half time the question was world capitals and population and we got 2 of 4 (question was as of 2007 4 largest populated world capitals we got Japan and India missed South Korea and Mexico)

And we are dead last with 10 points.

But we dug out (got lucky with an easy Star Wars question and I got the palindrome question)and ended up in third place with 31 points and then the FINAL QUESTION

You can bet up to 20 points and the last question is:
Put these candies in order of when they were first released under their current brand name
Milk Duds
Neco Wafers
Fifth Avenue Bar

And yes my team mates had the correct answer and I talked them out of it LOL.

But as always a good time was had by all.