Today is Sunflower Appreciation Day according to ye ole blog calendar, so here’s a photo of one:
Source: http://www.nps.gov/wica/naturescience/wildflowers-sunflower.htm
Also for today’s agenda is a video from YouTube. It’s the most recent installment of a video series called “Simon’s Cat”. Someone attached this to a comment for me on another site, and I just had to share. Cat lovers especially will probably appreciate this.
- Sometimes when I’m frustrated and angry with my manager after talking to him on the phone, I’ll give my phone “the finger”. I actually sprained my finger once. Glad I didn’t have to go to the doctor. How do you explain a sprained middle finger? I shouldn’t keep doing that, though, I start feeling bad for my phone.
- While responding to a recent visitor to my blog, I typed out “Thanks for visiting my blob.” Thankfully, I caught and corrected it, but it made me giggle.
- My manager dumps paperwork on my desk, tells me to put it somewhere and then suddenly his desk is cleaner and mine is a mess again. So when he’s not in his office, I’ll file stuff in cabinets because I know he won’t look for them again. In fact, many times when I’m frustrated with him, I’ll find something in my office that I’m sick of looking at, and I’ll just put it right back into his office. A very passive-aggressive approach but it feels good.
- On the night before my friend’s wedding and after we were all done practicing our dances, we all retired to our hotel rooms. I had to share a bed with one of our friends. I got the giggles in the middle of the night, but I didn’t want to wake up my friend. So I silently laughed my head off. It was what I have trained myself to do all these years, without realizing the ultimate use for it. I can internalize my laugh attacks real well. Learned to do it in school when laughing out loud randomly might get me in trouble. So I used that skill. My silent laughter was causing my whole body to shake, so I’m surprised she didn’t wake up from that.
***French novelist Alexandre Dumas considered himself to be the defense lawyer for stray cats. Not only was his own home filled with them, but along with other writers such as Baudelaire and de Maupassant he founded a group in the 1800s called the Feline Defense League.***
Source: Page-a-Day Cat Calendar
I picture a huge table surrounded by cats wearing superhero capes, poised and ready to save the world.
On Thursday, my manager was one second away from asking if I could work on Saturday, but I beat him to it and said that I couldn’t. We had a calm discussion and I told him that we need to sort out our working Saturdays ahead of time. He said he didn’t know I was doing anything, but quickly recovered by saying “I need to realize people have lives.” I didn’t tell him that the bulk of my weekend activities was to go to a garage sale on Saturday morning and then laze around as much as possible for the rest of my weekend. But why should I hide that? It’s my time to do whatever I want, no matter how anti-wild it is. So he worked on Saturday and next Saturday will be my time to work. That’s fine. But I hate that last-minute crap he pulls.
Anyway, here are some movies I was able to catch on TV this weekend:
“Brokeback Mountain” (Interesting movie for sure. Had a hard time understanding Heath Ledger’s character sometimes, because of how he delivered his lines, but all of the acting from everyone was excellent)
“Batman” (the first one with Michael Keaton)
“Plains, Trains and Automobiles”
“Shaun of the Dead”
“The Birdcage” (Can’t get enough of that movie)
“The Miracle Worker” (I didn’t realize all this time that I got the channel called Turner Classic Movies-TCM, but I’ll be checking it out more often. “The Miracle Worker”, the story about Helen Keller, is one of my favorites)
“The Color Purple” (this must’ve been my bazillionth time watching this one and it still makes me cry - but I love it)
“Bridget Jones’s Diary”
“The Langoliers” (As much as I could stomach, which wasn’t even enough to get me to a commercial. Then I came to my senses and changed the channel.)
My apartment complex was having a garage sale on Saturday, and I found more movies (a dollar a piece):
“The Ref” and “Saving Silverman”
Oh! And on Friday I went to a nearby town with my mom, met up with my brother and one of his sons to see his other son, my nephew, play trumpet for a community band! They performed inside a gazebo at Coe Lake in Berea, Ohio. It was their last concert for the Summer. They all played really well. Especially my nephew, but I’m not biased or anything.
Well there are two belated birthdays to announce today. The first one goes to Babybull’s MPR who turned 17 years old on the 19th! Here’s your cake..
(Cake source: http://www.cakejournal.com)
Yesterday the 19th was also MiniJonB’s birthday! Here’s your cake:
(Cake source: http://www.caketoppers.co.uk)
HAPPY (BELATED) BIRTHDAYS TO YOU, HAPPY (BELATED) BIRTHDAYS TO YOU! HAPPY (BELATED) BIRTHDAYS DEAR MPR AND MINIJONB….HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAYS TO YOUUUUUU!
This week it was my turn to choose the word, so I chose “Refreshed”. Let’s begin, shall we?
Sometimes I get a craving for grapefruit juice. It’s best when I drink it first thing in the morning. I feel all refreshed. Just thinking about it today for the photos got me thirsty for it, so I poured myself a glass.
Finally, how can you not want watermelon in the Summer? It’s a refreshing fruit, especially on hot days. I bought a little watermelon last week and today I cut up the other half of it. I’m all refreshed from eating some.
So there ya have it! Tag, Cricket, you are it!
Well because someone didn’t tell me that her birthday was this month when I did a shout out for July ideas, this birthday comes to you late. It also might’ve had something to do with me being a lazy blog visitor and not visiting “Gifts from A Broad” yesterday. But nevermind that, I’m gonna blame the birthday girl. It’s the least I can do, right?
So without further delay….
HAPPY (BELATED) BIRTHDAY TO YOU, HAPPY (BELATED) BIRTHDAY TO YOU! HAPPY (BELATED) BIRTHDAY DEAR ABROAD FROM “GIFTS FROM A BROAD”….HAPPY (BELATED) BIRTHDAY TO YOUUUUUUUUU!!!
Here’s a cake in the form of a gift for you. Afterall, you are “Gifts from A Broad”!
I didn’t draw this by hand, I drew it with my mouse using Microsoft Paint. It’ll have to do until I can get home and draw one to scan into the computer. Using Microsoft Paint is not easy, but it’s fun. All this was to honor the opening day of “The Dark Knight”, the new Batman movie. I will see this movie. Not tonight, maybe not tomorrow but someday soon. I have a hunch that Heath Ledger’s performance is going to be tattooed into my brain for quite awhile. Are you planning on checking out “The Dark Knight”?
For the last week now, I’ve been noticing that I sound a bit like Bill Lumburg from “Office Space”. For example, just now I got off the phone with the receptionist who asked me if I wanted her to call me when so-an-so was finished filling out an application. I said “If you could do that for me, that would be great.” Yikes, right? I’m still okay, though, I don’t say “Yeeeeeah, did you get the memo on that?” or anything about TPS reports. So I haven’t lost it completely.
Ms. Laura B. posted up some shampoo bottles for the most recent installment of Saturday Scavenger Shots, and I commented about how I have a collection of shampoos. Thank you, LB, for the inspiration!
Here’s my collection of shampoos (with conditioner mixed in). I’m sure others have a much larger supply, but I’m oddly proud of mine. I’m always looking in the shampoo aisle, it’s one of my favorite aisles to visit in the store. I don’t always buy the products, I just like looking at how many different types there are to choose from. Anyway, I actually managed to get rid of a few old bottles from under my sink, I had some shampoo specifically made for brunettes. Eh..Not worth the money. I did not turn into Eva Longoria, Salma Hayek or Jessica Alba. Screw you, John Frieda. Keep your stuff. The bottles you see here are actually effective and make my hair silky, shiny and manageable. But I don’t use them all at once. If I run out of one, I have stand-byes.
Here is a smaller collection of styling products. These help too, when I use them. Especially the Matrix Biolage stuff. It helps smooth away my frizzes. Now that IS worth the money.
That concludes my shampoo show-and-tell!
