Odds & Ends

Originally posted July 5, 2006

Odds & Ends
Current mood: blah

Yup, I'm back, and I'll proliferate on my trip as soon as I have a link to some photos. (In the meantime, check out some of Paco's new photos at www.pacostravels.com.) For today, I have some random odds and ends.

Has anyone been watching "Hell's Kitchen?" I have to admit, it's quite entertaining...in an embarrassing way. How has that chef NOT had an aneurysm yet? Do you think when he was a kid he dreamed of growing up to be an adult standing in a kitchen, stamping his foot and yelling, "Give me a f***ing spaghetti!"? (I mean...I know I did like a THOUSAND times at least...) Also, I don't like Sara. Or Rachel. OK, so I hope the blue team wins even though Keith's kind of a choad...sue me!

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Our kitten does not understand the concept of his own reflection. Every time he looks in the mirror, he swears he sees a whole different cat looking back at him. The result: a running leap from across the room into (INTO) the mirror. At that point, he realizes he has just banged into a mirror and that it wasn't another cat standing there. But just to make sure, he does it again. After shaking his head and seeing canaries, he'll look puzzingly at the mirror again. "But that MUST be another cat!" he seems to think. Ergo, another running leap into the mirror. For some reason, he never learns, because this happens every...friggin....day. He also doesn't understand the concept of glass and starts attacking his reflection whenever he sits on the coffee table. Mommy's getting pretty tired of tiny paw smears on the glass table. STAWP! Well, OK, it's cute...and funny. Darnit, I'm a sucker.

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Why is it OK for a crazy person to ride her bike down the street yelling things to herself, but it's not OK for me? Everyone dismisses the crazy person, like, "Oh, she's just crazy. No harm done. That's what crazy people do!" Yet, if I were to ride down the street yelling to myself, I don't think it would go over well. People would say something like, "Did you see that chick? What is she DOING? What's wrong with her? Maybe we should call the police."

Double standard! I want to ride around crazy too. Hrmph. Well, maybe not really. OK, maybe once. But just once. That's OK, right?? Yehhhhss...once. Moo-ha-ha. Ehhhhhxcellent.

Bah, back to work. I shall blog when I have something more interesting to say. (Ooo...I just thought of a topic...Mad Libs for people with Tourette's! Sweeeet.)