Everybody, to the limit

For those of you who didn't have the chance to go to the Daniel Hoppel Jr. link in Jukkity's last blog, I'd like to share the most unbelievably nerdy quote of it all. I mean, I love Harry Potter as much as the next 10 year old kid, but I believe this is taking your nerd sensibilities a bit far. Enjoy.

"I realized something about Harry Potter: I am Harry Potter. We all are. We all are Harry, and Hermione, and Ron, we’ll always be running away from the Snapes and Filches in our lives; we’ll always be going to the Dumbledores for advice and protection; we’ll always be fighting with the Crabbes, Goyles, and Malfoys; and ultimately, we’ll all have to face our own Voldemorts. But, above all else, above the laughter, fear, anticipation, friendship, love, and happiness that Harry Potter has given me, he has given me one more lasting sentiment: What will come, will come. And when it does, we will face it. But until then, we can enjoy everything there is to enjoy about life, for as far away from Hogwarts as we may seem to be, we are closer than we can ever imagine."

G'night.

One of the weirdest things my husband has ever said.

For lunch I picked up some food and met Jeremy on campus so we could eat together. Well, he got full and decided to throw part of his sandwich on the ground. I told him he shouldn't have done that and he was like "what? Birds eat chicken.... WAIT...Do birds eat chicken? That would be like people eating monkeys."

Ups and downs, strikes and gutters.

Ah yes. Back in Texas: where I belong. Jeremy and I were visiting Jon in Los Angeles (or as Jeremy likes to refer to it "New York City's gay cousin"... L.A., not Jon.) I guess I should say that I liked it more than I thought I would. I used to go to California as a youth and acquired quite a hatred for it. It turns out, it wasn't as bad as I thought, but not better either(?). I guess like most states in America, it has it's good and it has it's bad. I thought the mountains were very pretty, and they DO have Disneyland and other wonderful things, but all in all, it's the bunk. High points of the vacation: seeing a Spider Man impersonator crouch on top of a trash can on Hollywood Blvd, the whole upstairs section of the Warner Bros. museum being Harry Potter stuff, Jeremy taking my picture next to many Stars Hollow landmarks, seeing Ray Romano on the on our Warner Bros. tour, and getting a Mickey Mouse hat and then having them embroider my name on it (nice.) A couple of bad points were us driving out to Magic Mountain only to find out it was closed, and me getting sorted into Hufflepuff. Let's change the subject.

You know how sometimes you are having a bad day, but it's kind of funny? Well, firstly, my morning started off pretty bad just b/c I hate coming back to work after a week's vacation. Secondly, I sliced my thumb on my gear shift as I was leaving my house to come to work, thirdly I got stuff all over my pants on my lunch break, but didn't realize until I was out of the house, and lastly but not leastly (hehe) I had to swerve into oncoming traffic (a little less bad than it sounds) to avoid Jeremy's side of the car being hit by a BAD driver (yeah, that had me shaking for quite a while.) Anyhow, surprisingly enough, I'm in a great mood, perhaps b/c I get to pick up our CA pictures after work (and it's already 4:23.) Perhaps it's b/c I get to hang with Pidge Pie later. Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.

The Karoake Rat.

Is it cheating for the sole content of my blog to be a link to my brother's blog? Well, I don't care, and I'm sure you will be able to forgive me once you've read his. Have some fun.

The hardest button to button.

I got a backyard with nothing in it except a stick, a dog and a box with something in it.

Something wicked this way comes.

Something scary happened to me as I was getting a drink at the gas station. Well, you know how behind the drinks, there's a room where the employees go to refill the drinks? Well, right as I was grabbing a Dr. Pepper, a man, apparently lifting a HEAVY drink case, made a loud grunt. Since I didn't know anyone was back there doing such things, it sounded a lot like growl from a monster or something. Yeah. It scared me and I shut the door quickly. That is all.

C is for Cookie.

I bought a cookie from Great American Cookies today, and I just happened to read the back of the bag, and man, oh man, they are WAY too intense about their cookies. Observe:

"We know you're getting ready to smile, because you're about to have a lot of fun eating this cookie."

I don't mind saying I had minimal fun eating that cookie. It was delicious but... "a lot of fun?"

"I bet a funny thing about driving a car off a cliff is, while you're in midair, you still hit those brakes! Hey, better try the emergency brake!"

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It reminded me of Robin Hood...

...And the part where Little John jumped from the rocks to the Sheriff of Nottingham's back, and then Robin and everyone swung from the trees in a sudden surprise attack, and they captured the Sheriff and all of his goods and they carried him back to the camp in the woods and the Sheriff was guest at the dinner and all but he wriggled away and he sounded the call and his men rushed and the arrows flew... Peter Rabbit did sorta that kind of thing too.

His name is Minky Boodle.

Man, I am in a GOOD mood. It is only 3:18 and we are closin' up early today! Whoohoo! So that is over an hour and half that I get paid for, but don't have to sit in this stinky, cold office. Sweet.

I'm afraid I'm going to have to post "Merriam-Webster Online"'s word of the day. The word is:

flapdoodle • \FLAP-doo-dul\ • noun
: nonsense

Example sentence:
"That whole business with the gypsy fortune-teller was just a lot of fabricated flapdoodle," snorted General Rumsey, "and you shouldn't believe a word of it."

There is no reason that each and everyone of you shouldn't use this word from now on, as much as you can. I challenge you to add this to your daily vocabulary, and maybe you can use it next time you see me. Besides, it's not only fun: it's educational.

Please don't kill me, Freaky Jason.

It's Friday the 13th!!!! AUGGGHH!!!

Well, I be done seen about everything, when I've seen an elephant fly.

Whoa! It's SLEETING outside! That's kind of like snow, right? RIGHT? Well, we will say it's snow. So, it's snowing outside. Gosh, don't you just sometimes feel like it's never going to stop SNOWING?! And don't even get me started about all the snow plows on the road. Goooood grief! I mean, what is this? Miami Beach?! Not hardly.

When I'm trying to wake up in the morning, my will power and common sense are not the best of friends.

"She's gone. She gave me a pen. I gave her my heart, she gave me a pen."

Sweet. My boss gave me this yesterday. I really feel that I'm moving up in the company.

Let's all go to Boldlygo.

Oh yeah... this isn't a song lyric, but I always heard it wrong. I used to watch the old Star Trek's (Oh, bite me. That show rocks.) Anyhow, as a kid when I heard "to boldly go where no man has gone before..." I always thought "Bodlygo" was a place they were trying to go (you know, they were traveling in space all the time, they must be trying to get somewhere.) Anyhow... I hadn't seen Star Trek in quite sometime, so I hadn't had a chance to use my advanced adult intellect to figure it out--- until last year. My sister said that line for some reason, and I was all "OH MY GOSH!" So I told her and she had a good laugh. The end.

Excuse Me While I Kiss the Sky.

I found a website that is an archive for misheard song lyrics... it's called "Kiss This Guy". Well, after reading some of these, I felt inspired to share with you all a few lyrics I have misheard over the years.

The Patty Duke Show theme song: Some of you may not even know this song, but I used to watch this show a lot as a child.
What I heard: One pair of matching booklets, different as night and day.
Reality: One pair of matching bookends.

Counting Crows "Perfect Blue Buildings."
What I heard: Sleeping perfect blue buildings
Reality: Asleep in perfect blue buildings.
--- I had emailed Jeremy and "Sleeping blue buildings" was my subject title, and in the body of the email I said "That song makes no sense. "

Blind Melon "No Rain"
What I heard: "All I can do is just pull some teeth or two."
Reality: "All I can do is just pour some tea for two."

There are plenty more where that came from. I don't understand how my brain works. If I really thought about it I would be like "that doesn't make any sense" and I might try to figure out what it really says. But I just sing those wrong lyrics as loud as I can.

Here's Sprite in your Eye.

If you think I have nothing better to do than to tell you about me loading the coke machine, then, well sir, you're wrong. So... as I was loading the coke machine, I had a couple of "incidents." Before I tell you what happened, I must describe a few things about the coke machine. Well, you all know of the big door you have to open to get into the coke machine. Well, after you open that door, there is a swinging gate like thing guarding the cokes to prevent them from jamming the machine. Anyhow, I had this gate open and was grabbing one of the packs of Diet Dr. Pepper (blegh)-- and i accidentally hit the edge of the gate and cut my thumb. It hurt and bled a little, but I persevered. I then proceeded to grab a pack of Sprite and all of a sudden Sprite started squirting everywhere (apparently, I had knocked one of the Sprite cans into the sharp edge of the gate.) It first sprayed directly into my eye, causing me to yell "SHNAP!!!" Then, blinded by the Sprite, I continued to hold the pack in my hand, allowing Sprite to spray in every direction. I then had to clean off all the cans and then clean the floor. So, this morning didn't start out so hot. I'm guessing it can only get better. Here's hopin'.

Well, it's Groundhog Day..... again.

This is pitiful. A thousand people freezing their butts off, waiting to worship a rat. You know, Groundhog Day used to mean something in this town. They used to pull the hog out and they used to eat it. You're hypocrites. All a ya.

Oh geez, Bonaduce!

Yeah, I'm a little annoyed. I spilled milk on my trousers this morning! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. I REALLY want to type that "spilt milk" line, but some things are just too obvious.