My nephew, Wynn, is all ready for trick-or-treating. Isn't he adorable?? He's a soccer player. Specifically, he's Christiano Ronaldo.
Is the resemblance uncanny?
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Happy Hallo-Wynn
My nephew, Wynn, is all ready for trick-or-treating. Isn't he adorable?? He's a soccer player. Specifically, he's Christiano Ronaldo.
Is the resemblance uncanny?
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
IH8MRNGS
Random thoughts for a Wednesday morning....
1) What is the allure of personalized plates? This morning I saw a woman driving a car with a plate that said MAL A BOO. Really? Is she from Malibu? If so, what is she doing in Columbus, Ohio? I also passed a mini van that said IDOT 94. Now, since I'm in Columbus, I can only guess that the person driving dotted the i in Script Ohio in 1994. Which is a pretty freakin' cool thing. But, is it significant enough to put it on a license plate?
I just asked my mom, "If you dotted the i, would you put that on a personalized licensed plate?" Cheryl, a huge fan of TBDBITL, replied, "You bet"! She didn't even hesitate, bless her heart. So, I guess I just don't get it.
2) Why does the work week drag on and on, but a vacation week flies by?
3) What purpose does it serve to slam on your brakes when a cop has someone pulled over on the OPPOSITE side of the road? Seriously, they're already occupied....they're not gonna come after you. And, on the flip side, why do people NOT get over a lane when a cop has someone pulled over?? Come on, people, if you can get over, get over!
4) What will it take to get my wood floors clean? I've tried everything. And I still have streaks. Method's Wood for Good floor cleaner seems to be one of the best. I tried Orange Glo last night, and it worked really well for 1/2 of my floor....then it got all streaky. Maybe I just got tired.
Have a great Wednesday!
Friday, September 10, 2010
Game On! (Well, Almost!)
Exactly one week from today, "my" Penguins report to training camp. Wow! Didn't hockey season JUST end?? Seriously. I think it did. Pens single game tickets went on sale this morning at 10am, and nearly every cheap seat for any game I wanted to go to was sold out by 10:20am. (And by "cheap", I mean less than $100! It's crazy how expensive these tickets are! I guess they need to pay for that brand spankin' new arena in Pittsburgh!) I really wanted to see them play the Capitals (because I really don't like Ovechkin....mostly because he's wicked good and beats up on my boy, Sid). Or the Blackhawks (because I think the Blackhawks made some really dumb trades and I don't think they'll be as tough this year). Or Tampa Bay (because Vincent LeCavalier is seriously the hottest man on skates I have ever seen).
Side bar about LeCavalier: Seriously. If he ever got traded to a team closer to Ohio like Chicago, Detriot, etc., I'd probably have to really think about making the Pens my #2 team. Yes, I'm shallow. But he's smokin'.
But, alas, I had no luck. I was able to get some tickets to see Pittsbugh v Columbus at the end of September in Columbus! The seats aren't GREAT...and it's a pre-season game...but still! Woo Hoo!!! I hope Sidney doesn't get too jealous if I bring a date.
Sunday, August 22, 2010
No White After Labor Day
Dear White Pants,
I'm packing you up this afternoon for the winter. No white after Labor Day, you know..... Don't be sad. We've been together for 5 years now and this is not the end. I still remember the day I bought you. You're just the perfect pair of flat front, flare leg pants. Classic. Never out of style. You're starting to get a little big on me, but my mom will give you a quick nip/tuck next spring and you'll be as good as new.
We had some good times this summer, didn't we?? The "Eclipse" premier, book club, a trip to Cosi, weekend in Cincy, a blind date or two.... You've been my "go to" item whenever I'm having an "OMG what do I wear" crisis. I know Labor day is still a ways away, but I do have some other items that I want to wear before there's too much of a chill in the air. (Like my that new maxi sundress and that cute white skirt that you're always talking to....)
But don't worry. Before you know it Memorial Day 2011 will be here and we will meet again! Enjoy your winter slumber, white pants. Enjoy.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Unbelieveable
As many of you know, my work is not in one of the *best areas* of town. Yesterday, one of my team members found a pit bull puppy chained to a tree in the woods beside my work. The poor thing was pretty much near death. One of my team members took it home, stopping by the vet on his way home and spending his own money to have it examined. It's a girl - 9 months old and already has had a litter of puppies. The vet said she'd been chained in the woods for about 2 weeks. The good news is she hasn't been in fights b/c she doesn't have cuts or scars. The bad news is that the pit bull rescue is full and not taking animals. I guess the humane society doesn't take pit bulls either. The team member that took her home can't keep her, but he is hoping to try to nurse her back to health so that she stands a chance of being adopted. I called work a few minutes ago (off today) to check on the status of the dog. She's not doing too well and the guy that took her home is calling animal control. Maybe the most humane thing at this point is for her to be put down.
Who would do that to an animal? It just breaks my heart. I mean, animals don't have a choice and can't defend themselves. I've been so upset about this....if you had seen the pics, you would be too. At least the poor girl has spent the last 24 hours with people who have showed her much love. God bless my team members who gave her food and wataer and brought her home. Okay - if you're sad now, read my post before this one called "Random Thoughts". That should bring a smile to your face!
Who would do that to an animal? It just breaks my heart. I mean, animals don't have a choice and can't defend themselves. I've been so upset about this....if you had seen the pics, you would be too. At least the poor girl has spent the last 24 hours with people who have showed her much love. God bless my team members who gave her food and wataer and brought her home. Okay - if you're sad now, read my post before this one called "Random Thoughts". That should bring a smile to your face!
Random Thoughts
My BFF had this posted on her blog the other day. A friend sent her the link, so these aren't my original thoughts or hers.... But I thought some of them were pretty darn funny and worth sharing. The link at the bottom is to the original post! Happy reading!
•I wish Google Maps had an “Avoid Ghetto” routing option.
•Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you’re wrong.
•I don’t understand the purpose of the line, “I don’t need to drink to have fun.” Great, no one does. But why start a fire with flint and sticks when they’ve invented the lighter?
•That’s enough, Nickelback.
•I totally take back all those times I didn’t want to nap when I was younger.
•The letters T and G are very close to each other on a keyboard. This recently became all too apparent to me and consequently I will never be ending a work email with the phrase “Regards” again.
•Do you remember when you were a kid, playing Nintendo and it wouldn’t work? You take the cartridge out, blow in it and that would magically fix the problem. Every kid in America did that, but how did we all know how to fix the problem? There was no internet or message boards or FAQ’s. We just figured it out. Today’s kids are soft.
•There is a great need for sarcasm font.
•Sometimes, I’ll watch a movie that I watched when I was younger and suddenly realize I had no idea what the f was going on when I first saw it.
•The other night I hit a new low at an open bar. I had already hopped on highway blackout when, inevitably I had to find a bathroom. Eventually I decided it was probably on the other side of the bar so I tried to walk over there, but ran into a guy coming the other way. We played that, Both go left, Both go right game to no avail, so I finally put out my hand to guide myself past and that’s is when I realized, yup, that’s a mirror I just tried to walk through. And the guy on the other side is me. Even cats can recognize their own image.
•How the hell are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?
•I would rather try to carry 10 plastic grocery bags in each hand than take 2 trips to bring my groceries in.
•The only time I look forward to a red light is when I’m trying to finish a text.
•A recent study has shown that playing beer pong contributes to the spread of mono and the flu. Yeah, if you suck at it.
•More often than not, when someone is telling me a story all I can think about is that I can’t wait for them to finish so that I can tell my own story that’s not only better, but also more directly involves me.
•Was learning cursive really necessary?
•Lol has gone from meaning, “laugh out loud” to “I have nothing else to say”.
•I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.
•Answering the same letter three times or more in a row on a Scantron test is absolutely petrifying.
•My brother’s Municipal League baseball team is named the Stepdads. Seeing as none of the guys on the team are actual stepdads, I inquired about the name. He explained, “Cuz we beat you, and you hate us.” Classy, bro.
•Whenever someone says “I’m not book smart, but I’m street smart”, all I hear is “I’m not real smart, but I’m imaginary smart”.
•How many times is it appropriate to say “What?” before you just nod and smile because you still didn’t hear what they said?
•I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars teams up to prevent a d*ck from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers!
•Every time I have to spell a word over the phone using ‘as in’ examples, I will undoubtedly draw a blank and sound like a complete idiot. Today I had to spell my boss’s last name to an attorney and said “Yes that’s G as in…(10 second lapse)..ummm….Goonies”
•What would happen if I hired two private investigators to follow each other?
•While driving yesterday I saw a banana peel in the road and instinctively swerved to avoid it…thanks Mario Kart.
•MapQuest really needs to start their directions on #5. Pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.
•Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died…
•I find it hard to believe there are actually people who get in the shower first and THEN turn on the water.
•I would like to officially coin the phrase ‘catching the swine flu’ to be used as a way to make fun of a friend for hooking up with an overweight woman. Example: “Dave caught the swine flu last night.”
•I can’t remember the last time I wasn’t at least kind of tired.
•Bad decisions make good stories.
•Whenever I’m Facebook stalking someone and I find out that their profile is public I feel like a kid on Christmas morning who just got the Red Ryder BB gun that I always wanted. 546 pictures? Don’t mind if I do!
•Is it just me or do high school girls get sluttier & sluttier every year?
•If Carmen San Diego and Waldo ever got together, their offspring would probably just be completely invisible.
•Why is it that during an ice-breaker, when the whole room has to go around and say their name and where they are from, I get so incredibly nervous? Like I know my name, I know where I’m from, this shouldn’t be a problem….
•You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you’ve made up your mind that you just aren’t doing anything productive for the rest of the day.
•Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after DVDs? I don’t want to have to restart my collection.
•There’s no worse feeling than that millisecond you’re sure you are going to die after leaning your chair back a little too far.
•I’m always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten page research paper that I swear I did not make any changes to.
•I hate being the one with the remote in a room full of people watching TV. There’s so much pressure. ‘I love this show, but will they judge me if I keep it on? I bet everyone is wishing we weren’t watching this. It’s only a matter of time before they all get up and leave the room. Will we still be friends after this?’
•I hate leaving my house confident and looking good and then not seeing anyone of importance the entire day. What a waste.
•When I meet a new girl, I’m terrified of mentioning something she hasn’t already told me but that I have learned from some light internet stalking.
•I like all of the music in my iTunes, except when it’s on shuffle, then I like about one in every fifteen songs in my iTunes.
•Why is a school zone 20 mph? That seems like the optimal cruising speed for pedophiles…
•Sometimes I’ll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still not know what time it is.
•It should probably be called Unplanned Parenthood.
•I keep some people’s phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.
•I think that if, years down the road when I’m trying to have a kid, I find out that I’m sterile, most of my disappointment will stem from the fact that I was not aware of my condition in college.
•Even if I knew your social security number, I wouldn’t know what do to with it.
•I think the freezer deserves a light as well.
•I disagree with Kay Jewelers. I would bet on any given Friday or Saturday night more kisses begin with Miller Lites than Kay.
http://kbrownlee.wordpress.com/2009/08/20/fwd-random-thoughts-of-the-day/
•I wish Google Maps had an “Avoid Ghetto” routing option.
•Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you’re wrong.
•I don’t understand the purpose of the line, “I don’t need to drink to have fun.” Great, no one does. But why start a fire with flint and sticks when they’ve invented the lighter?
•That’s enough, Nickelback.
•I totally take back all those times I didn’t want to nap when I was younger.
•The letters T and G are very close to each other on a keyboard. This recently became all too apparent to me and consequently I will never be ending a work email with the phrase “Regards” again.
•Do you remember when you were a kid, playing Nintendo and it wouldn’t work? You take the cartridge out, blow in it and that would magically fix the problem. Every kid in America did that, but how did we all know how to fix the problem? There was no internet or message boards or FAQ’s. We just figured it out. Today’s kids are soft.
•There is a great need for sarcasm font.
•Sometimes, I’ll watch a movie that I watched when I was younger and suddenly realize I had no idea what the f was going on when I first saw it.
•The other night I hit a new low at an open bar. I had already hopped on highway blackout when, inevitably I had to find a bathroom. Eventually I decided it was probably on the other side of the bar so I tried to walk over there, but ran into a guy coming the other way. We played that, Both go left, Both go right game to no avail, so I finally put out my hand to guide myself past and that’s is when I realized, yup, that’s a mirror I just tried to walk through. And the guy on the other side is me. Even cats can recognize their own image.
•How the hell are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?
•I would rather try to carry 10 plastic grocery bags in each hand than take 2 trips to bring my groceries in.
•The only time I look forward to a red light is when I’m trying to finish a text.
•A recent study has shown that playing beer pong contributes to the spread of mono and the flu. Yeah, if you suck at it.
•More often than not, when someone is telling me a story all I can think about is that I can’t wait for them to finish so that I can tell my own story that’s not only better, but also more directly involves me.
•Was learning cursive really necessary?
•Lol has gone from meaning, “laugh out loud” to “I have nothing else to say”.
•I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.
•Answering the same letter three times or more in a row on a Scantron test is absolutely petrifying.
•My brother’s Municipal League baseball team is named the Stepdads. Seeing as none of the guys on the team are actual stepdads, I inquired about the name. He explained, “Cuz we beat you, and you hate us.” Classy, bro.
•Whenever someone says “I’m not book smart, but I’m street smart”, all I hear is “I’m not real smart, but I’m imaginary smart”.
•How many times is it appropriate to say “What?” before you just nod and smile because you still didn’t hear what they said?
•I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars teams up to prevent a d*ck from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers!
•Every time I have to spell a word over the phone using ‘as in’ examples, I will undoubtedly draw a blank and sound like a complete idiot. Today I had to spell my boss’s last name to an attorney and said “Yes that’s G as in…(10 second lapse)..ummm….Goonies”
•What would happen if I hired two private investigators to follow each other?
•While driving yesterday I saw a banana peel in the road and instinctively swerved to avoid it…thanks Mario Kart.
•MapQuest really needs to start their directions on #5. Pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.
•Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died…
•I find it hard to believe there are actually people who get in the shower first and THEN turn on the water.
•I would like to officially coin the phrase ‘catching the swine flu’ to be used as a way to make fun of a friend for hooking up with an overweight woman. Example: “Dave caught the swine flu last night.”
•I can’t remember the last time I wasn’t at least kind of tired.
•Bad decisions make good stories.
•Whenever I’m Facebook stalking someone and I find out that their profile is public I feel like a kid on Christmas morning who just got the Red Ryder BB gun that I always wanted. 546 pictures? Don’t mind if I do!
•Is it just me or do high school girls get sluttier & sluttier every year?
•If Carmen San Diego and Waldo ever got together, their offspring would probably just be completely invisible.
•Why is it that during an ice-breaker, when the whole room has to go around and say their name and where they are from, I get so incredibly nervous? Like I know my name, I know where I’m from, this shouldn’t be a problem….
•You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you’ve made up your mind that you just aren’t doing anything productive for the rest of the day.
•Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after DVDs? I don’t want to have to restart my collection.
•There’s no worse feeling than that millisecond you’re sure you are going to die after leaning your chair back a little too far.
•I’m always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten page research paper that I swear I did not make any changes to.
•I hate being the one with the remote in a room full of people watching TV. There’s so much pressure. ‘I love this show, but will they judge me if I keep it on? I bet everyone is wishing we weren’t watching this. It’s only a matter of time before they all get up and leave the room. Will we still be friends after this?’
•I hate leaving my house confident and looking good and then not seeing anyone of importance the entire day. What a waste.
•When I meet a new girl, I’m terrified of mentioning something she hasn’t already told me but that I have learned from some light internet stalking.
•I like all of the music in my iTunes, except when it’s on shuffle, then I like about one in every fifteen songs in my iTunes.
•Why is a school zone 20 mph? That seems like the optimal cruising speed for pedophiles…
•Sometimes I’ll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still not know what time it is.
•It should probably be called Unplanned Parenthood.
•I keep some people’s phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.
•I think that if, years down the road when I’m trying to have a kid, I find out that I’m sterile, most of my disappointment will stem from the fact that I was not aware of my condition in college.
•Even if I knew your social security number, I wouldn’t know what do to with it.
•I think the freezer deserves a light as well.
•I disagree with Kay Jewelers. I would bet on any given Friday or Saturday night more kisses begin with Miller Lites than Kay.
http://kbrownlee.wordpress.com/2009/08/20/fwd-random-thoughts-of-the-day/
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Happy Birthday, Kid
Dear Sidney,
Happy 23rd Birthday! It seems like only yesterday that you were shooting pucks in your parents' basement. Well, considering how you're only 23, it pretty much was yesterday. But anyways, I know this birthday probably doesn't seem as special to you. I mean, you spent B-Day 2009 with the Stanley Cup....that's pretty tough to beat! But perk up, Kid, because hockey season 2010-2011 is just around the corner. And, you have a brand new arena to boot!
Best Wishes from Columbus,
Erin
To all you who don't believe in the adorable-ness that is Sidney Crosby, check out this Reebok commercial. The guy with him is Maxime Talbot....another Penguin.... I think they're BFFs becuase they're always together.
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