Yep, It Be Broken
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Search of the Week Winner: Google: tiny zoolander phone
Since typing that original post about Sean buying me my own zoolander phone, I have been waiting to use that picture and now the day is finally upon us. I am so happy right now.
The only thing currently bothering me is after trying to win a game of kick-me-harder with a stair, aka one kick, I am still dealing with that loss. And no, the stair does not care how awesome I am. I checked. So I did that Thursday and now I remember why I do not kick things; I'm rotten at it! My toe is sprained, I can't walk properly, and after three days it looks like this. Great opportunity to test out the macro setting on my camera though... sorry about the ugliness!
While we're talking about my toe, I'd like to throw a nonsensical argument out there. It's a running joke in this house that Super Under-Reaction Sean (aka Dr. Google) is world famous for initially looking at every injury/physical emergency situation as though you might as well have spilled milk on yourself. If he doesn't see a bunch of blood spurting out of you, or a car on top of you, you be FINE! Haha. Of course, everyone has their own way to go about things, but I just find that amusing. Naturally when I hurt myself all I had to say was how my toe is broken and he of course jumped at correcting me that my toe is merely "sprained"... I should walk it off. It IS sprained, not broken, no but that made me think of the context of injuring yourself. So here's the debate as I see it, based on my logic (and amicable disagreements) I say any injury you have that limits your function of the affected area can be declared BROKEN. As in the context of, it ain't workin' no more Doc.
Example: I smash a light-bulb, it's broken. The light-bulb burns out, it's still broken. Therefore I don't need to shatter my bones for me to have broken my toe, it still doesn't work correctly. Did I convince someone? Boy I hope so.
It's alright because sometimes the world always gives you something nice to balance that stuff out... namely, STARBUCKS IS NOW MAKING DONUTS?????!!!!! What the freak? A pic of that is also on my Flickr. I literally walked in there right after I murdered my toe to get some Vanilla Scones and saw them and, like some jealous lover, demanded to know "When did you get THESE?? Oh, since TUESDAY???? That's real nice and WHERE WAS I? Were you just never going to tell me about it?" but of course I was too happy to scold anyone for not calling me personally when they arrived. I just bought two and hobbled away in delight. Boy am I extra glad about my Starbucks birthday gift cards!
Unrelated totally... for anyone using mac (and reading my site, right) you will appreciate knowing about a program called Acquisition 2. It's really geared towards users making a small payment to use Pro but I cannot see how any sane person would complain about that.
Labels: search of the week
Yeah that was my favourite part too
Friday, April 04, 2008
Whatever you do, don't let anyone tell you that working with kids isn't a lot of fun. Sure it might be one long patience test (even when you pass, it still counts as a fail) but then they do stuff like this... and suddenly life is spectacular again.
I let one of the girls go on my computer yesterday to play games on the TvoKids website. Great website by the way. She had me type in book and author for her, and insisted that was who wrote it. The last bit well, I told her to try and spell it herself just like it sounded. Yeah um I had to take a screen cap:
I think the author section went red since I believe he's a level 90 on the child predator screening list. I hope no one shows up here asking me questions about it. And just an FYI I walked out of the room to go laugh, I'm not a monster.. she's only 4, that's not bad!
So I realize I didn't do a search of the week last Friday and this week is pretty dry. I only got one hit from the phrase Taiwan Wh*re. <-- I rather not up my chances at some more. Nice right? Just one, damn!! And this week I got a few boring ones for my entire web address in google? Therefore I have no choice but to name this week's winner a single great line from a song I like.
SOTW Winner: "You've been waiting to break since you woke up this morning"
And for your listening pleasure.
I let one of the girls go on my computer yesterday to play games on the TvoKids website. Great website by the way. She had me type in book and author for her, and insisted that was who wrote it. The last bit well, I told her to try and spell it herself just like it sounded. Yeah um I had to take a screen cap:
I think the author section went red since I believe he's a level 90 on the child predator screening list. I hope no one shows up here asking me questions about it. And just an FYI I walked out of the room to go laugh, I'm not a monster.. she's only 4, that's not bad!
So I realize I didn't do a search of the week last Friday and this week is pretty dry. I only got one hit from the phrase Taiwan Wh*re. <-- I rather not up my chances at some more. Nice right? Just one, damn!! And this week I got a few boring ones for my entire web address in google? Therefore I have no choice but to name this week's winner a single great line from a song I like.
SOTW Winner: "You've been waiting to break since you woke up this morning"
And for your listening pleasure.
Labels: search of the week
How and when to be goo
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Search of the Week!
As goo as it gets
I think that's my favourite typo ever.
My Dad and I were having a discussion a while ago about Celebrity Apprentice and I simply could not get over how much I hated Omorosa. I mean, really hate, and not even knowing her in real life or anything makes that even more disturbing. What is it about that woman I despise so much? I asked myself.
If I had to pick just a few things I think makes a person a symbol for everything wrong I see in the world it would be a combination of illegitimized self-importance, sub-par integrity and unprofessional emotional 'personal story' outbursts. I can't stand all three, and I haven't even mentioned being rude or anything. I don't enjoy that either but let's face it, anyone can be rude! Since you people don't read my site for nothing, though it seems that way most times doesn't it? I will share a totally hypothetical story we will call "When things are just goo for one person, it isn't goo for everybody" ... and if you think I'm unnecessarily getting myself in any hot water, I appreciate it, but I'm only going to remind you what kind of site this is and that you read it for just this exact reason. I make my own rules, there are volumes and volumes of potential material which I don't write about, so if blogging on the SCARY subject of what happens at work still frightens you then I'd stop reading now. It's all entertainment, people; all of it. Let's continue.
Once upon a time...
So I run a private daycare, I love doing it, I love the kids, I have a great relationship with parents. The first child I took back in September we'll call Child A (the one who kept telling me she was high.. I'll miss that) and her mother we'll refer to as, oh I dunno, Mother F. lol. Now since things were pretty new, I disclosed that fact to Mother F, and said that in the future there would be a lot of changes but in the meantime we can make room for Child A. Our agreement was for a certain rate per day, Child A would attend every day. This only happened maybe 3 times in 7 months, since Mother F quit or was fired from her new job and stopped working regularly. That meant Child A was now inconsistent and it was becoming a problem to run a regular routien. Amplifying the problem is the fact that there were a long list of demands from Mother F regarding care during this time that did not change at my end, though she changed hers. Some possible examples might be:
Other extras that amplified the problem of not attending regularly... Child A had actually not just been afraid but literally pee'd herself when she saw anyone male. She might even bawl her eyes out if she heard strange voices, male or female or both, (who were laughing with other kids) and absolutely always stiffened up around any man and asked to be carried even if they stayed completely clear of Child A. Also ice and garbage trucks were fairly scary too. We couldn't do anything if it was garbage day! And the best for last, of course, Mother F was an emotional basket case. She would cry and hug me and snap at me pretty consistently, like the stains the "hour in the oven burrito" left on clothes but that she insisted on bringing anyway, which was nothing in comparison when I heard how she spoke to her husband in front of me. Although things started out as merely trying to do something nice for someone (and gain experience while working out the details later) and giving it a LOT of time to pan out.. I had been communicating back that this was no longer a fair agreement for everyone involved.
Agreements like these work flawlessly and respectfully only when the terms are clearly laid out in contracts, to protect both parties, and in so much detail it's impossible to misunderstand. I hated that formality until now, but in the meantime I did try and fix things. It was a magnificent failure, and I lost my voice for a few hours because of it. I had a meeting with her for an hour and a half, non-stop talking, listening to pure opinion and nonsense as well as personal stories about their lives that I did not need to know to come to any agreement. Realizing temporary failure, we made a temporary handshake agreement to bring Child A no less than 2 times a week. Yes, people with integrity do still make handshake agreements... unfortunately people without integrity break them, and that of course inevitably happened. Mother F got sick and did not even call me for a week and a half. I dunno about you, but if my job didn't contact me for that length of time I wouldn't still consider that I had a job to go back to! So the failure of trying to speak with her in person previously gave me no choice but to address everything written in email .. yanno, stop using this as a cheap baby-sitting service etc. Not a big deal, not personal... please dear God don't make this personal. lol.
Hilariously though the response was an email ranting on about how I, personally of course, am unprofessional for not rushing to the phone after the weeks of no contact with me! lol.. but wasting over an hour talking in person would be totally professional. Maybe I should really take a business course on time management, hmm. Also professional? calling me obsessively, 5 times in the span of 10am-2pm on a working day. When you work around children you find about zero time to speak with anyone unless at a sheduled time or very quickly, and basket cases even less than that. Yes, less than zero, where you actually wish you could go back in time and not speak with them on previous occasions. lol. From the details about Mother F we can just assume what her reaction was, but even I didn't expect something so amature as what it ended up being: paying a weekly rate just like everyone else = extortion and manipulitive games! I "had another thing coming" if I thought people would agree to what they already have been when they find good childcare, especially happy to do so when all of their needs are met 100%. I mean let's be clear, she had absolutely zero issues with bringing her kid here and even gave an unsolicited reference for using the daycare to another potential parent just weeks before. Really forever assuring me I did exactly the right thing; she can pay the (absolute) minimum to someone else and be their headache instead.
The End.
Man, wasn't that a great hypothetical story?! If any of those events actually happened or any of those people existed, aside from me who does clearly exist, that would be pretty unbelievable.
To be honest when I come in contact with a control freak like Mother F and people like her, as strong as my impulse is to mess up their hair, I am ultimately disarmed by the pity I feel for their life choices. That must be such a massive amount of energy they have to put out just to function.. to maintain how important they think they are.. and to have everything in your life be a wreck because of another person you could not 'manage' - all I want to really do is ask
Just a question. Don't worry, this entry is never going to mysteriously disappear for anyone so feel free to come back and read it again. Also, Happy Easter everyone! :)
As goo as it gets
I think that's my favourite typo ever.
My Dad and I were having a discussion a while ago about Celebrity Apprentice and I simply could not get over how much I hated Omorosa. I mean, really hate, and not even knowing her in real life or anything makes that even more disturbing. What is it about that woman I despise so much? I asked myself.
If I had to pick just a few things I think makes a person a symbol for everything wrong I see in the world it would be a combination of illegitimized self-importance, sub-par integrity and unprofessional emotional 'personal story' outbursts. I can't stand all three, and I haven't even mentioned being rude or anything. I don't enjoy that either but let's face it, anyone can be rude! Since you people don't read my site for nothing, though it seems that way most times doesn't it? I will share a totally hypothetical story we will call "When things are just goo for one person, it isn't goo for everybody" ... and if you think I'm unnecessarily getting myself in any hot water, I appreciate it, but I'm only going to remind you what kind of site this is and that you read it for just this exact reason. I make my own rules, there are volumes and volumes of potential material which I don't write about, so if blogging on the SCARY subject of what happens at work still frightens you then I'd stop reading now. It's all entertainment, people; all of it. Let's continue.
Once upon a time...
So I run a private daycare, I love doing it, I love the kids, I have a great relationship with parents. The first child I took back in September we'll call Child A (the one who kept telling me she was high.. I'll miss that) and her mother we'll refer to as, oh I dunno, Mother F. lol. Now since things were pretty new, I disclosed that fact to Mother F, and said that in the future there would be a lot of changes but in the meantime we can make room for Child A. Our agreement was for a certain rate per day, Child A would attend every day. This only happened maybe 3 times in 7 months, since Mother F quit or was fired from her new job and stopped working regularly. That meant Child A was now inconsistent and it was becoming a problem to run a regular routien. Amplifying the problem is the fact that there were a long list of demands from Mother F regarding care during this time that did not change at my end, though she changed hers. Some possible examples might be:
- no tv whatsoever, even if other children want to watch 5-10mins of a show during snacks
- special diet of food from home, causing sharing issues with te rest of the kids, as well as Child A repeatedly asking for food that wasn't hers
- toys from home, special damn bowls from home, things that had to be washed everyday and never shared with other kids
- give homeopathic remedies, without written consent this is a liability, and I also needed an emergency medical form signed that it is OK to call 911 etc in case of an emergency
- no formal contract
- weekly tax receipts
- food preparation demands including: never using a microwave, cutting and peeling things a "certain way" (even peeling skins of individually sliced cucumbers) and cooking a single burrito in an oven for 1 hour.
- going along with Child A when she decided to stop napping, which is basically the only break time, and have her either mutter to herself creepily or pass out and pee on something
- wanted pick up and drops offs of Child A to be generally "whenever" which isn't great for the kids schedules, and planning activities, and started needing me to charge only half-days even! It was almost pay per hourly at this point.
Other extras that amplified the problem of not attending regularly... Child A had actually not just been afraid but literally pee'd herself when she saw anyone male. She might even bawl her eyes out if she heard strange voices, male or female or both, (who were laughing with other kids) and absolutely always stiffened up around any man and asked to be carried even if they stayed completely clear of Child A. Also ice and garbage trucks were fairly scary too. We couldn't do anything if it was garbage day! And the best for last, of course, Mother F was an emotional basket case. She would cry and hug me and snap at me pretty consistently, like the stains the "hour in the oven burrito" left on clothes but that she insisted on bringing anyway, which was nothing in comparison when I heard how she spoke to her husband in front of me. Although things started out as merely trying to do something nice for someone (and gain experience while working out the details later) and giving it a LOT of time to pan out.. I had been communicating back that this was no longer a fair agreement for everyone involved.
Agreements like these work flawlessly and respectfully only when the terms are clearly laid out in contracts, to protect both parties, and in so much detail it's impossible to misunderstand. I hated that formality until now, but in the meantime I did try and fix things. It was a magnificent failure, and I lost my voice for a few hours because of it. I had a meeting with her for an hour and a half, non-stop talking, listening to pure opinion and nonsense as well as personal stories about their lives that I did not need to know to come to any agreement. Realizing temporary failure, we made a temporary handshake agreement to bring Child A no less than 2 times a week. Yes, people with integrity do still make handshake agreements... unfortunately people without integrity break them, and that of course inevitably happened. Mother F got sick and did not even call me for a week and a half. I dunno about you, but if my job didn't contact me for that length of time I wouldn't still consider that I had a job to go back to! So the failure of trying to speak with her in person previously gave me no choice but to address everything written in email .. yanno, stop using this as a cheap baby-sitting service etc. Not a big deal, not personal... please dear God don't make this personal. lol.
Hilariously though the response was an email ranting on about how I, personally of course, am unprofessional for not rushing to the phone after the weeks of no contact with me! lol.. but wasting over an hour talking in person would be totally professional. Maybe I should really take a business course on time management, hmm. Also professional? calling me obsessively, 5 times in the span of 10am-2pm on a working day. When you work around children you find about zero time to speak with anyone unless at a sheduled time or very quickly, and basket cases even less than that. Yes, less than zero, where you actually wish you could go back in time and not speak with them on previous occasions. lol. From the details about Mother F we can just assume what her reaction was, but even I didn't expect something so amature as what it ended up being: paying a weekly rate just like everyone else = extortion and manipulitive games! I "had another thing coming" if I thought people would agree to what they already have been when they find good childcare, especially happy to do so when all of their needs are met 100%. I mean let's be clear, she had absolutely zero issues with bringing her kid here and even gave an unsolicited reference for using the daycare to another potential parent just weeks before. Really forever assuring me I did exactly the right thing; she can pay the (absolute) minimum to someone else and be their headache instead.
The End.
Man, wasn't that a great hypothetical story?! If any of those events actually happened or any of those people existed, aside from me who does clearly exist, that would be pretty unbelievable.
To be honest when I come in contact with a control freak like Mother F and people like her, as strong as my impulse is to mess up their hair, I am ultimately disarmed by the pity I feel for their life choices. That must be such a massive amount of energy they have to put out just to function.. to maintain how important they think they are.. and to have everything in your life be a wreck because of another person you could not 'manage' - all I want to really do is ask
"Have you ever considered how often things seem to just happen to you?"
Just a question. Don't worry, this entry is never going to mysteriously disappear for anyone so feel free to come back and read it again. Also, Happy Easter everyone! :)
Labels: easter, search of the week, senile agitation, work out
Taste Test
Sunday, March 09, 2008
Search of the Week!
Google: EXTREME SHIVERING AFTER DRINKING TEQUILA
Interesting.. this does sound like a situation which calls for all CAPS, I might add. So basically everyone knows alcohol poisons you but as drunk as I've ever seen/gotten I can say I have never had shivers. Maybe it's because tequila is the worst thing ever (see last entry), maybe you do not have enough blood in your body to combat the tequila ratio and in turn can't keep yourself warm anymore (if that's the case, way to go!) or maybe you are an alcoholic now.. in which case if you want the shivering to stop you need to drink more tequila next time. Any or all of these cases being true, one thing remains, this person is totally screwed since they ended up here. Search of the Week is otherwise known as 'tributes to how people got screwed by finding my site.'
[paper & threads]
While we're on the subject, I have recently decided to make my own homemade Lemoncello. While some people make jam, I think Lemoncello is the way to go, and to the people who will be given some as gifts: I know you don't like jam. Lemoncello on the other hand is supposed to be fantastic when it's homemade and sucks when bought commercially, it can be put in lots of things I like (lemonade, champagne, martini glasses, over ice cream) that are great chilled summer drinks; best of all it requires lots of patience and frankly I'm up for the challenge of putting alcohol and patience together! Stay tuned for Lemoncello Making Day, and we'll see how I do.
Labels: lemoncello, search of the week
Leap Day is the best day!
Friday, February 29, 2008
I figured I would post the search of the week on this glorious 29th day of February! Let's see.. it's snowing like crazy outside, as of this morning I realize I probably have pneumonia and I got shafted on a payment because someone else is sick. It's ok though because tomorrow I get to have a root canal at 9am. What a glorious day! Haha.
I cannot tell you how much last night truly sucked. I thought I had a chest cold for the past 2 days until I fell asleep at 9pm and had massive chills and sweats all night. Chills are my most hated of all the sicks (Don't worry, puking, you will always be my number 1!) I remember one time I had the worst chills in the universe, I woke up thinking "should I die shivering in bed or die on my way to getting a sweater?" It's as if the cold was literally in my skin and I had no chance of ever getting warm again, however I decrepitly crawled around my room to find some sweaters and socks and extra pants. Anyway that's how last night was, so that memory was awesome. I don't recommend it, that's for sure.
Our search of the week is: asian girl hacked from photobucket flickr post
I don't know what this is about but that's terrible. I attempted to find a back-story here and all I came across was this chick who broke up with her boyfriend via facebook status, bragged about it on Digg, then got hacked into for basically being a stone cold bitch .. yanno. Interesting yes but she isn't asian so I don't care!
Really though, what a bitch.
I cannot tell you how much last night truly sucked. I thought I had a chest cold for the past 2 days until I fell asleep at 9pm and had massive chills and sweats all night. Chills are my most hated of all the sicks (Don't worry, puking, you will always be my number 1!) I remember one time I had the worst chills in the universe, I woke up thinking "should I die shivering in bed or die on my way to getting a sweater?" It's as if the cold was literally in my skin and I had no chance of ever getting warm again, however I decrepitly crawled around my room to find some sweaters and socks and extra pants. Anyway that's how last night was, so that memory was awesome. I don't recommend it, that's for sure.
Our search of the week is: asian girl hacked from photobucket flickr post
I don't know what this is about but that's terrible. I attempted to find a back-story here and all I came across was this chick who broke up with her boyfriend via facebook status, bragged about it on Digg, then got hacked into for basically being a stone cold bitch .. yanno. Interesting yes but she isn't asian so I don't care!
Really though, what a bitch.
Labels: leap day, search of the week, sick
Search of the Week
Saturday, February 23, 2008
This week's winner is:
CHEAP DIAMOND BELTS.
All in capitals, just like that. I suppose it was an emergency search, so let me direct that person to the nearest Claire's store asap. I'm willing to help though so I can offer you my BeDazzler that is currently under my stairs. My imagination has convinced me there is a Lord of the Rings sized spider in there who makes ticking sounds, and I already braved it once to get xmas decorations. You can have the 'Dazzler for free if you're willing to go in there and get it. IT'S AN EMERGENCY AFTER ALL.
So you'd think since I have given up TV for good that there are no shows I keep up with. You would be wrong though, I do, though I torrent only 4 shows. Lost, Celebrity Apprentice, House and (when it comes back) Journeyman. For anyone who watches any of those, good for you, and also HOLY SHIT Lost is the shit this year, am I right? Now, I don't see any of these shows until the day after they air, so, I have no way of spoiling anything for you. That said, does anyone want to speculate with me who the 5th and 6th person is in this ominous Oceanic Six?
Here's what I have so far in my reasoning:
- We already know Sayid, Kate, Jack and Hurley got off the island.
- The 5th and 6th can only be people from the manifest, so Juliet wouldn't count even if she did get off, neither would Desmond or of course any of those boat people.
- Kate has Aaron (wtf???) sooo it's safe to say Claire does not leave the island because she would never give Aaron to anyone otherwise. I don't see any likely outcome other than she probably dies, which is another reason why Kate is passing this baby off as her own.
- Sayid, who is apparently working with Ben in the future, may or may not have been included in The Six because: no one has recognized him yet, and he was working undercover. Also he was on the disappearing helicopter, if it ever makes it to the boat I don't know, but obviously the island has some sort of time travel/suspension ability (just a theory) so it is very possible might have not been counted in the rescue at all.
- John would never leave the island.
- The Korean couple would be 5th and 6th. If my theory about Sayid is true, then one more person might be included, if not then either both Jin and Sun got off, or just one, unlikely that neither got off.
- Sawyer may also be a member of The Six. He could have left with Kate, or stayed with John. Both and equal chance I'd say. He wasn't at Kate's trial though, but that could be because of his past. Who friggin knows. Though I thought Jack alluded to Kate marrying Sawyer in the super-future (of the season 2 finale). I could be wrong about that.
- Can't forget about Michael, though he may have died, especially if Walt was seen on the island (again, and I don't know what the hell is up with that). Though if Michael was part of The Six then people would have already known there were survivors a lot earlier, but they didn't. Unlikely but still counted.
- Unlikely but one or two of the unknown extra survivors could be on the list, just to SCREW us all.. that's what Lost likes to do!
- It might be Aaron, he wasn't on the manifest, but he's still a survivor OF someone who was.
Can I just say I hate this show sometimes and its perpetual mystery box questions! If anyone else saw J.J. Abrams talk at TED, you'll know what I mean... if you didn't then you should click the link.
Alright so if you watch the show and think I am missing something feel free to comment. If you don't watch the show this whole thing probably pissed you off and you're not even reading this. Conclusion.. the candidates are: Jin, Sun, Aaron, Sawyer, a random person nobody cares about or Michael. This is more important than Barack/Clinton, ok. For the love of god I need to know who else gets off the island, HOW and why.
While we're at it.... so in the beginning the fortune teller told Claire only she can raise Aaron, then sent them on a doomed flight. Now we know Claire isn't! ugly Chanel-purse-carrying Kate in the future is. That leads me to believe Aaron will do something especially terrible if a psychic tried to kill them. Not Global Warming terrible, but Hitler terrible. So what do you think is going to happen now? Why would Claire give him to Kate if she knew only she is supposed to raise him? Do you think Kate did something to Claire? Unlikely, unless Ben revealed something, but if so why isn't anyone else doing anything about it? Why did Kate tell Jack he has to see Aaron, what the hell happened there that would make it important for anyone to see Aaron? Do you think Claire gave him up willingly because Aaron was born on the island and would be hunted down for tests if they found out? Or do you think this is why a boozed up super-future Jack begged Kate to go back to the island, and said it was a mistake to leave? I consider this problem to be on par with who the hell is Ben?!!! Ideas welcome, yanno, if anyone actually feels like having a discussion instead of just inter-stalking me ;)
Labels: discussion, Lost, search of the week
Search of the Week
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Warning! This week's winner is highly disturbing:
flickr woman fu@*&$*ing dogs????
Wtf-o-rama. Honestly these searches are beginning to creep me out.. which they always end up doing whenever I pay attention to them. I literally don't know how anyone would end up at my site from some of this stuff. Aside from this week's "as good as it gets reaction" search of course. I can see how that one would but let me quickly field that query .. the reaction was pretty good! So I think you are safe to rent that 1997 release. I know the blockbuster fees are killing you, but sometimes you can just take a CHANCE. Back to what I was saying though, one search this week I don't even want to repeat!.. let alone crown the winner, lest that person make their way back here. It has something to do with little cartoon boys and a word that rhymes with tape. Someone should start marketing "blog sanitizer" because I would totally buy some right now.
I think the word I am looking for is ANYWAYS uhh, oh right, I'm really loving movie soundtracks these days! I felt I needed to emphasize that. Juno and Into the Wild make me really happy . Clearly I am going to have to start listening to music again. For real because I kind of stopped doing that for a long while.
One of the blogs I read regularly Violent Acres is having a Birthday Charity Contest this month. I thought that was a great idea! Sure I was disappointed people voted for the prize to be a photo of the controversial author, V, but if it's going to charity then I suppose whatever! For the record though, who the flickr picks seeing a picture of an anonymous blogger rather than $500 real dollars??? A world-class idiot, that's who. I can't think of any picture that is worth that much money to me. I suppose it just proves how useless people are when they are curious about something. That leads me to my real topic. I took the charity thing seriously since that’s what it’s all about and did some research at charitynavigator.org. Apparently quite a few popular charities have founders, presidents, director or CEO.. whatever they want to call themselves.. who actually get compensated! I find this disheartening. Sure, there are program costs and administrative.. but an actual salary? An expense account?
I was about to nominate the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinsons Research when I saw that the CEO made $340,534 and the actual charity grossed $8 grand for the year. Pretty expensive for all that “awareness” they provide. Even still I still think it’s a good cause so I nominated that for consideration, and also the Hole in the Wall Gang Summer Camp which helps children with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses.
I was about to nominate the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinsons Research when I saw that the CEO made $340,534 and the actual charity grossed $8 grand for the year. Pretty expensive for all that “awareness” they provide. Even still I still think it’s a good cause so I nominated that for consideration, and also the Hole in the Wall Gang Summer Camp which helps children with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses.
So if you feel like being part of the contest, or just feeling mighty nice, I urge anyone to get involved!
Labels: charity, search of the week, violent acres
Search of the Week
Saturday, February 09, 2008
This week's winner: the lovely person who google'd is Ray Romano cheap?
What an excellent question, I am sure you were disappointed to end up here. I can only assume, based on absolutely no information about him, that he really is as cheap as they come and tips people with actual moron tips like "here's a tip for you, I'm 50 and I wear a digital watch, how much money do you really think I have????" or "Yeah thanks for bringing me luke-warm coffee and no sweetener, that was pretty difficult! your tip is me not killing you right now" -- FYI you should know I get all my stereotypes about life from Charles Dickens' 1893 novel A Christmas Carol.
First and second runners up: get more aids ; asian wife: searched for SIX different times!
Funny since I thought even a little aids was more than enough aids. I guess some people would like to know where they can get more. Good luck to them, I say! Get as much aids as you can carry home with you. Asian wives, too. The more the better!
I've been horribly sick the past week so that sucks. The cold, ya that sucks too. The new movie complex right by my house is awesome though.. we finally went last night. Let's just say you know you are living in the future when your local movie theater has a VIP section, a bar lounge, and a bowling alley.
Labels: search of the week
Search of the Week
Saturday, February 02, 2008
Now, there was a particularly priceless search earlier this week that seemed like poetry BUT I had forgotten to save it. Our rules are exactly like Miss America, if the winner can't fulfill their obligations as Search of the Week then the first runner up takes their place. Therefore the winner is: babytalk august 2006.
Apparently in 2006 there was a lot of babytalk, particularly in august. I had no idea! Isn't it good to be informed? Babytalk is back on the rise, my friends, look out for it in 2008!
In other news I finally went and got my hair cut last night. It looks great, and trust me, I know a bad haircut when I see it and this is the opposite of that. I am pretty happy since it's been a long time and I needed one, but as usual, I never go. Like the dentist, which I also went to the night before (and I am feeling much better about that now as well). What a satisfying feeling to actually start doing things for yourself lol. I think I will stick to getting my hair cut at this new place since it was basically down my street AND full service..... she even put my coat on for me! How much do you tip someone after that?? Just a question. I'm from Hamilton, after all, I don't know these things.
I took a crappy pic for my step-mom who, after reading my facebook status about my sexy new hair, she wanted to see it! It is much sexier in person with all the wind blowing in it and everything ;) of course.
While I had the camera out, Sean and I decided to have some fun. This is our role reversal pic. AKA Sean's interpretation of me, and mine of HIM. Hahaha.
It's our new favourite.
We're all off snowboarding again this morning. Wish me luck! No seriously, go ahead and say good luck out loud please, I am probably falling on my ass this very moment. Thank you :)
Labels: haircut, search of the week, snow
It's Friday
Friday, January 25, 2008
Search of the Week:
A person from Seattle WA was directed here after their google search of "Mark Paul Gosslar" Special mention - they were running windows 98 and on dial-up.
That is exactly the type of person who still wonders... Hey, whatever happened to Zack Morris??
Man I love searches. Before I move on, I can't stress enough how disturbing I find it that a lot (5 just this week) of people get to my website by typing LESBIAN CARTOONS. If this is you.... stop doing that, you have an animated sickness. It would just help me sleep better at night knowing that whatever freaks read this, at least they don't touch themselves every time they wonder if Strawberry Shortcake and Smurfette had a crush on each other. I hope this is the last time I will say this but I have a feeling it's not.
Re: my crush doom list. Sadly, I have to add Heath Ledger. The reason he was not on it previously is 1. his movies are not crappy (I will leave A Knights Tale out of this, out of respect). In fact, I still love 10 things I Hate about You. A lot of people do. & 2. he was still relevant. Batman is really going to be great, and I still really can't wait to see it.
Saturday I'm going snowboarding during the day. I am pretty excited about all the fun ways the snow is going to make me it's bitch. I am READY for it! I'm also pretty positive I will get no sympathy since Andrea flat out told me if I fall she will shove snow in my mouth. Later that night we are all-out partying for my cousins duel 25th birthday. Overall it's looking like Saturday will be a great day! And a little rockstar, if I do say so, and I just did.
Labels: birthday, search of the week
