tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55056112008-08-27T11:51:48.057-07:00If it's Disgusting, Taste it!"Nobody finds Jesus when things are going good. Nor do they pack their rectums."Cruel Shoeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03818438226434601465noreply@blogger.comBlogger1164125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505611.post-33210964402579507212008-08-20T12:03:00.003-07:002008-08-20T12:17:51.740-07:00ICON-ME
Here's an icon that my friend Dot made for me. Something about it makes me laugh a lot.
I look neat and angular, when in real life I am supremely messy and lumpy.
So last night, I had a dream that we were renting office space out to the Jonas Brothers. My company decided to give them an office and a couple of cubes. I don't know who each of those Jonas Brothers guys are, but one withCruel Shoeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03818438226434601465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505611.post-22139902589138898982008-08-17T11:17:00.002-07:002008-08-17T11:21:09.908-07:00PORTIA AND ELLEN
Yay! One of my favorite celebrity couples just got married! They're so cute together. They're always smiling. Smiles are just the coolest.
I wish Ellen (who will always be on my favorites list thanks to the underappreciated hilarity of Mr. Wrong) and Portia (LINDSAY BLUTH for Christ's sake!!) a happy marriage with lots of dogs and fun. :)Cruel Shoeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03818438226434601465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505611.post-22920074248172856542008-08-13T11:22:00.006-07:002008-08-13T12:38:58.877-07:00AUGUST IS GLOOP
I'm not dead, I have just been busy and not blogging as a result. It's not you...it's me.
I went to Chicago for work last week and it was so very lovely. I liked imagining them filming The Dark Knight there. We had great, cool weather and the hotel was very nice. I met lots of decent professional-type-motherfuckahs who can help me in my job, and learned many new and exciting Cruel Shoeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03818438226434601465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505611.post-35323373789399639822008-08-05T08:52:00.005-07:002008-08-05T09:37:56.566-07:00IT'S NEWS TO ME
Each and every day, our world is slapped hard in the face with the strong and clammy hand of the NEWS.
And I'm going to write about some recent stories that have interested me enough to click beyond the initial headline to find out what's behind it; I wanted to know the full scoop, if you will. Allow me to begin with Monday Movie Buzz: Bale's Batman Voice Too Much?
I loved Cruel Shoeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03818438226434601465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505611.post-42684884228407752632008-07-31T11:47:00.002-07:002008-07-31T12:02:30.476-07:00SNAPPIN' TIME
It's bad because I started the 11:00 hour today by doing a Google search on the phrase "nervous breakdown."
I'm not there yet. I'm close.
I know I shouldn't talk about work stuff, but suffice to say this morning I came in to find out that a profile I was planning to write for an upcoming issue fell apart because the dude was let go from his company last week. This is the second Cruel Shoeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03818438226434601465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505611.post-89734126185961593392008-07-25T13:22:00.004-07:002008-07-25T14:16:02.344-07:00SWAMPS
In my opinion, swamps suck.
They're just too wet and swampy. Deep in the swamp, there are scads of creatures waiting to kill you...or at least really creep you out. Toads, weird mud-dwelling fish, huge bugs, and possibly alligators depending on the extent and deepness of the swamp. I want to do a lot of things in my life, but I don't have any real desire to visit a swamp in the future. Cruel Shoeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03818438226434601465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505611.post-20933553153827942782008-07-23T10:09:00.003-07:002008-07-23T10:15:43.283-07:00I HELPED ROB A BLOG
It's true...Vegas Princess and I took over today's WTF?! Wednesday post over at Naynay's blog. Since it appears I am too lazy to do a proper post here, go over there and check out what VP and I did! Do it! As Wilford Brimley would say, "It's the right thing to do. And I have diabeeetus, you sons a bitches."
Cruel Shoeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03818438226434601465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505611.post-71605772004510383112008-07-21T08:06:00.002-07:002008-07-21T08:52:29.732-07:00FISH PEDICURES?! UM, NO.
If there's one thing I'm sure of in my life, it's that I would never, ever get a fish pedicure. There are a lot of other things I wouldn't subject myself to as well, like working the kill floor in a slaughterhouse, swimming with sharks, elective eye surgery, or eating anything that Andrew Zimmern eats on Bizarre Foods... but fish hold a special place in my soul. They're Cruel Shoeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03818438226434601465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505611.post-67954404947186525812008-07-15T10:46:00.003-07:002008-07-15T10:54:06.412-07:00TABLOID SCIENTISTS
I saw this today on Gallery of the Absurd, and had to share the goodness:
This shocking photo spread was lifted from this great post all about what it would be like if scientists were the people featured in all the tabloids. And it's funny, because it's true...scientists ARE just like us!
I feel so much cooler now!Cruel Shoeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03818438226434601465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505611.post-28443999180688077682008-07-14T09:36:00.003-07:002008-07-14T10:22:21.488-07:00HELL!
This shall be known as the Summer of Not Blogging. I am beginning to wonder if this is starting to fade for me; I just don't feel like writing here all that much anymore and while it's sad, since I've been doing it for over five years now...it's also just evolution, too. My interests are shifting, very subtly. It happens.
I loved Hellboy 2 this weekend. I was very excited to see it, even Cruel Shoeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03818438226434601465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505611.post-40109881243266243122008-07-07T08:38:00.002-07:002008-07-07T09:22:46.082-07:00THE MURDEROUS PALMS
Since Friday, June 27, these palm trees have attacked me twice:
Sure, they look innocent enough...planted there next to the pool, providing shade and a semblance of a "tropical" feel to our desert backyard. But don't be fooled. They're very nasty. They want to kill me, and they want to do it without mercy.
Allow me to explain.
On a regular basis, I water these palms (andCruel Shoeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03818438226434601465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505611.post-8135481091081159102008-07-04T01:50:00.013-07:002008-07-09T16:43:58.658-07:00SLEEPY SUMBITCH
Ever stare at a blank screen with no clue what you're going to write? Well, that's been me for a couple of weeks now. I can't explain it, but I did want to just log on here and let you all know I'm still alive...I apologize for not writing or even visiting/ commenting on your blogs much...and I am OK. I've just had a sleepy brain, is all. Yaaaawwwn.
And it's still sleepy. Maybe Cruel Shoeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03818438226434601465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505611.post-61813546427312223052008-06-18T12:28:00.003-07:002008-06-18T13:05:14.700-07:00TOOTHPICKS BRING ME DOWN
Hi, so I have a short attention span today. So I am starting this blog with a LOLcats-generated picture I did a few weeks ago. That site is too much fun.
I have work I need to be doing, yet I can't stay on a task long enough to get much of anything finished. I haven't even been playing on the internet much, either...which is normally my big distraction. Nope, it's just Cruel Shoeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03818438226434601465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505611.post-83499198933788752442008-06-18T08:44:00.001-07:002008-06-18T08:45:21.298-07:00POPCORN, JOCKEYS AND GANGRENE
I am reposting this, yes. Bear with me. RRRAAWWWRR!
Hi, folks! So, the big news is we're just days away from our exciting NJ trip! I can't wait, especially since this is a very special trip-- and not like in a Very Special Episode of Blossom kinda way, either. It's the first time I'm bringing Greg there to finally see where I came from; it's my first trip back in Cruel Shoeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03818438226434601465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505611.post-78614603479994751402008-06-13T15:48:00.003-07:002008-06-13T16:11:21.898-07:00HAPPY BIRTHDAY TRISH!
Today is my sister's birthday, so I wanted to publically wish her a happy birthday. Or should I say, Schoenes Geburtstag in our secret sister-language (OK, it's just German). One year she gave me a book of matches that said "Happy Birthday, You Bitch!" in big bold letters on the cover. I still have it, still love it, and still think it's fun to say that every year on her Cruel Shoeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03818438226434601465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505611.post-54206817284221052222008-06-12T08:40:00.003-07:002008-06-12T12:07:00.870-07:00NOT QUITE DONE
Hey, so check out this unicorn deer! It's some lucky deer in Italy whose genes went batshit crazy and made a horn grow out of the top of its deery head. I love it! Here's the official AP caption:
This undated photo provided by the Center of Natural Sciences in Prato, Italy, Wednesday, June 11, 2008, shows a deer with a single horn in the center of its head. The one-year-old Roe Cruel Shoeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03818438226434601465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505611.post-8421571385352025422008-06-06T12:56:00.002-07:002008-06-06T14:36:26.129-07:00STATIC
There isn't much to write about lately for some reason. I haven't even been working on my book this week, other than starting the eighth chapter about 4 days ago. I've had a ton of work to do and it's cut into fun times. Oh well. Plus, I am having memory problems, apparently, because I know things occurred this week (like my birthday, yeah) but I'm coming up blank when it comes to what I Cruel Shoeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03818438226434601465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505611.post-60485996488349929322008-06-02T21:17:00.004-07:002008-06-02T21:53:31.817-07:00IT'S GETTING HOT ALL UP IN THIS BITCH
Well, it's true: the heat is ON. On the streets. You know this whole city's got Glenn Frey stank all over it.
Today, I went on what may be my last hike for awhile. The 100+ degree temperatures just don't add to the desert hiking experience. Not at all. You'd think that a person could last for days out in that crap, but no. My face stayed beet red long afterCruel Shoeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03818438226434601465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505611.post-59973520672188453572008-05-28T15:43:00.000-07:002008-05-28T15:45:51.905-07:00A POOR SECOND TO BELGIUM
Here is today's relentless earworm. This song is stuck in my head soooo badly because my copy editor added the word "Finland" to a mention of Helsinki in an article. I want you--yes, YOU!-- to enjoy it, too!
Now I want to go listen to all the old Monty Python songs. See you later.Cruel Shoeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03818438226434601465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505611.post-80391607918856553082008-05-27T11:19:00.003-07:002008-05-27T11:45:26.732-07:00GOOD, BAD & UGLY
A nice long weekend. Ahh. Here's how it went:
The GOOD:
* Finished reading "The Host." Loved it.
* Had lunch with my Mom on Saturday, followed by a hike on Piestewa Peak under overcast skies. (It was a great hike even though it was interrupted by reports of "a rattlesnake holding its ground" not far ahead of me on the trail; after standing there for a few minutes trying to Cruel Shoeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03818438226434601465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505611.post-34997593071588335002008-05-22T14:23:00.001-07:002008-05-22T14:24:22.467-07:00LOLTORI
I made this today for my friend RaeAnn. :)Cruel Shoeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03818438226434601465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505611.post-58106736454367374892008-05-22T13:24:00.002-07:002008-05-22T13:52:13.823-07:00MIDDLE MANAGEMENT
RANT ON!
I'm annoyed today because people at my husband's place of employment are screwing around with him. It's a long story, but the point is that stupid middle management is trying to make a completely ass-backwards change just for the sake of making a change, and it's going to affect my husband negatively. The best part is they are trying to sell it to him by saying things Cruel Shoeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03818438226434601465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505611.post-85370719992719491032008-05-21T16:41:00.006-07:002008-05-21T18:31:23.739-07:00SPINNING INWARD
I've had so much on my mind lately I'm wondering if the very force of my thinking is what is making me feel so physically exhausted these days. When I got home from the gym yesterday I made myself busy just so I wouldn't just lie down and sleep for a couple of hours (and then ruin my regular night's sleep). It could also be the heat; yesterday it broke a record by hitting 108. Cruel Shoeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03818438226434601465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505611.post-15865200991123433962008-05-16T14:12:00.004-07:002008-05-16T14:46:26.903-07:00HOW TO TELL IF THE ADULTS HATE YOU
I've had it with crappy toys. It seems like everyone's got a crappy toy story to tell. Someone once told me about the doll with no eyes her mom bought her at a yard sale. After I stopped laughing at her, I realized how traumatic getting a fabric doll with the button eyes torn off could be for an impressionable little tot. And then I felt sorry for the girl. TooCruel Shoeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03818438226434601465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505611.post-41035588614144239152008-05-13T09:52:00.004-07:002008-05-13T10:18:33.736-07:00IT'S CLIPTASTIC!
It's been a long time coming, but I can finally announce that we have a 1947 FLXIBLE Clipper bus of our own now.
Well, it's really a joint ownership thing between Greg and his college friends...but it is living in our backyard now as Greg finishes restoring it into an RV. It's an investment. These things, when they are finished, can sell for 50K or more! And he only paid $6K Cruel Shoeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03818438226434601465noreply@blogger.com