I Love My Family

Aren't my parents too cute? They certainly are wonderful!

And look how handsome my four-footed brother is... He's such a treasure, Mom and Dad are lucky to have him!

Twas a Good Day on the Farm

Cole Farms and Pineland Farm that is...

J2 and I were able to spend Saturday afternoon together. I arrived at her house after a day of getting to a buttcrack of dawn rendevous out in the rain but the people never showed, buying and lugging cat food and litter around but meeting someone else at Wally World, getting a gift from the Universe at Staples (THANK YOU!), coming home to change the cat boxes, fitting a nap in there, making a pit stop to get air in tires and pick up something for Gpa before my trip, and trying to avoid all the Prom-mers.

We went to Cole Farms to eat. A total diner experience. YUM! We had to wait for a little bit and TJ decided he wanted to swing before dinner. This is my favorite of the bunch I took of him.

Of course, you have to finish off your meal with a good old-fashioned hot fudge sundae with sprinkles you get to put on yourself. J2 and I shared the Muddy Raft (picture a brownie bigger then the palm of your hand, inch thick, big scoop of vanilla ice-cream, slathered in hot fudge sauce). Heaven!

Chicken Vista! Next we visited where J2 works and got to see some farm animals.

Extreme chicken close-up! The chickens were very chatty the whole time we were by them, they would follow us around the perimeter bawcking constantly. Sort of like peepers but chickens instead.

These two little darlings only let me take about 3 shots of them, blurry coz I didn't want to scare the shit out of them with the flash. Look at those little pink snouts. Soooo cute.

Inside the barn were tons of baby cows having a early evening snack.

All of the calves wanted to lick TJ pretty badly. Every time he got close and was kinda still, out came a cow tongue to try a swipe at him. He must have smelled sweet from his sundae.

At J2's house, TJ was put to bed and the adults played Wii. Quite the experience. I suck. Let's just say if I came in 11th out of 12 for the MarioKart, I was thrilled.

Apparently I'm Neglectful

and a bad mommy.

I may be reported to the DCS - Department of Cat Services - for turning my heat off too early.

Thus forcing my youngest to huddle around the heating vent on the stove after I've finished making myself something nice for dinner.

Coz it's all about me and not catering to my feline children who are covered. in. FUR.

I believe this will be the Bambi-eyed approach Moomin will be taking when the DCS official shows up to determine if I'm still fit to keep the kits.

Truly pitiful and pathetic, isn't it? Here I am all bundled up in about three layers of clothes, wearing socks, slippers, and using blankets for TV viewing/reading in the evenings as there is no reason for the heat to be on if it's warm during the day and I come home to this... After all the pampering, feeding, scooping, vetting, playing, cleaning up after yarfs, and basically making my house into cat-heaven with all the cat trees and toys and walk-onable surfaces, not to mention making an extreme sacrifice to feed them some wet food at dinner now.


Figures.

Top 10 Heinous Current Fashions

Bonus: 70's prints/colors - totally self-explanatory, excuse me while I go bandage my eyes.

Number 10: Pit Purses - Women just aren't ready or willing to give these lovely items up yet. Seriously, if I wanted a place to store my armpit sweat, it wouldn't be a purse. What's the use of having a purse jammed directly into your pit? Oh, so pickpockets can't get into them? Well, I hate to break it to ya, they can get dollar bills out of painted-on-pants and you wouldn't know it...

Number 9: Camel Toes - This has been around for awhile, but there are still plenty of women walking around with pants two sizes too small giving us all a nice shot of the V formation the front of their pants make all because they just can't admit their true size is one that fits them appropriately.

Number 8: Hoochie Skirts - Forget about bending over to pick up anything in these, much less getting out of a car. Ditto going up/down stairs without giving your fellow humans a long look at your goodies. I think they're cute on the hanger, but having my skirt skimming the bottom of my butt cheeks now that I'm no longer in my 20's is just plain asinine. Not to mention I plan on keeping my spider veins and cellulite TO MYSELF!

Number 7: Buttcrack Pants - These are just NEVER going to GO AWAY! I'm sick and tired of the array of butt cracks I come across during the course of my day. Recently I was exposed to butt crack at an elementary school and it wasn't kid crack coz their pants were too big, it was adult crack coz their damn pants were too small!

Number 7a: Buttfloss - Usually accompanies butt crack pants, coz it isn't a full butt crack viewing experience unless you see a brightly colored piece of floss delving into the depths.

Number 6: Dresses with Pants - Who thought dresses with slacks was a good idea, thank god this is on it's way out finally.

Number 5: Boob Pucker - This started about a year ago and is now EVERYWHERE! What is this you are asking? It's that gathering of fabric between, below, or to the side of the breast areas on shirts that will allow the fabric to stretch to accomodate your boobs. Originally it was found on plus size clothing, then it morphed onto dressier T-shirts for any size that are usually cut on a bias, but it can now be found dress shirts and dresses. Nice ideal, but unfortunately in the real world, the boob pucker doesn't entirely disappear and people's eyes are drawn to the strategically placed visual cue of wrinkles between, under, and/or around your boobies. And for the A-cup women, truly a pitiful sight, talk about accentuating the negative.

Number 4: Caucafro - I'm hoping I'm the coiner of this term, but most likely someone else coined it first... this is that white teenage boy rat's nest wannabe afro coz a) he can't be bothered to ever cut his pseudo-currrly hair, b) he's trying REALLY hard to be something he's never gonna be no matter how harrrrrd he tries, or c) at some point he thinks a really strong wind will scatter his seed like dandelions. And they are constantly scratching like they have nits. In a word, fugly. Get rrrreal.

Number 3: Sausage Casing - This fashion statement will always be with us as long as there are women who insist on shoe-horning themselves into sweatpants or active wear clothes that are too tight, thus creating a set of human sausage links. Where are the T-Rexes when you need them?

Number 2: Muffin Topping - Any low rise pant will do this, even if you're considered skinny. This is when the pants cause the skin around the waist to form a roll so that when one wears tight shirts, midriff baring shirts, or just lifts up their arms, their waist looks like a muffin does when it bakes over the tin. And for some godawful reason, this super unattractive trend has been allowed to continue for years. People, where are your REAL friends and why are they letting you out of the house??!!

Number 1: Vajayjay Shorts - New, hot off the clothing presses. I've seen these shorts the last few warm days on highschoolers waiting for the bus - nice statement huh? Wonder how comfy it is sitting with the seam of your shorts wedged so far up your vajayjay, it's like a gag? Hopefully these shorts are sold with Nair coupons or a free bikini wax, coz if you've got anything wild goin' on, these shorts are gonna share it with the world!

Thriller Thursday7

In lieu of a story or excerpts... I thought I'd share what I discovered just this very day.

For my grandfather.

Being a proactive traveller, I decided to check out the local venue that carries most of the "As Seen On TV" products for the Space Bags, especially the ones for travelling. You know, to get more in a carry-on sized bag coz I'm all about having choices unlike my minimalist mother.

So I'm wandering around when all of a sudden mine eyes are attacked by...

The KING KONG of remotes!!!!! RRROOOOOWWWWRRRR!!! That being said, I took many a second, third, fourth, finally a fifth look, and damnit, I bought it for Gpa!

I got him one like mine (teeny one shown above) last visit, but I think this new Monster (sunday Sunday SUNDAY) Remote will be much better for him. He will actually be able to SEE what's on the buttons and it will be next to impossible for him to lose - at least that's what I'm gonna tell him! He doesn't have anywhere close to the million things this thing can tap into, but he will be able to operate the TV with ease!

ROAR!