Easily Amused

Dylan's sick today, so there's no leaving the house until reinforcements come home. The laundry is done, dinner is leftovers, and the house is as clean as it's going to get. I should be studying for my tests, but instead I find myself browsing youtube.com.

Give me a singing bunny, and I'll laugh for hours:

Quickie

My older brother (and his whole family) and my younger sister were in for the week, so I have been neglecting the blog. I'll have more time to update after the weekend. For now- feast your eyes on what I'll be like in 40 more years......

Hey B, it's me.

Phone Salesman

Jimmy Dean

You all have probably seen the Jimmy Dean commercials on t.v. On their website, there are six "episodes" which are an absolute riot. My favorites are #'s 2, 4, and 6- which I have placed here. The links to the others are here as well. Watch them if you're bored and have a few extra minutes.

Episode #1



Episode #3



Episode #5

Forgive Me

I need to share this girl with you all. I apologize ahead of time. I'm sorry. Really I am. Before you yell at me, she is 20 years old.



Here are more videos by the same girl. I recommend you watch "Gymnastics Spectacular."

Gymnastics Spectacular

Ciara Dance

Buttons

Hey Mama

somewhere joe

Please, check out my new friend's blog. Smart, insanely descriptive without being too wordy, entertaining, and witty- truant's trace.

Mug Shots

I did it with last year's holiday family picture. I wanted to see how we've changed in our celebrity status.... Perhaps I should have let it go after all.


Mark: He's now the bad guy from Superman II. Scary. And who is big lips there? I don't see it.



Dylan: I guess the kid pictures would be a given. However, most kids have the same features, fat cheeks, small features. I won't accept that he has been downgraded to a baby Madonna.



Jordan has inherited the Norah Jones face that was given to Dylan last year. Round faces, big eyes. No surprises there.



I really don't know what to say here. I know I haven't downgraded this year. Last year I had Paris. Ew. But Patrick Stewart? Really?! I should definitely get to the dermatologist.



Are you brave? Try it out yourself at MyHeritage.

Itsa me, Luigi!

This story is ridiculous. If you don't have the time to read it, it's about a mother who had her 12 year old arrested for opening his Christmas presents early. Arrested.

The present? A Game Boy. The mother's excuse for his behavior? ADD.

"My grandmother went out of her way to lay away a toy and paid on this thing for months," said the boy's mother.

Now, perhaps I am a bit naive, but maybe a Game Boy isn't the best present for a kid with ADD in the first place.

The mother said that the kid's ADD medication was not working, and she wanted to teach him a lesson. Since I know the answers to everything, I know that taking the damn toy back to the store would quite possibly be a better solution. Maybe that's just crazy talk though.

All is Well

(I tried posting this before, but video disappeared.) Fast forward to 3:52.

Eggcelent

I have spent way too much time doing this game. I made it all the way, but fear I am much, much dumber for doing so.

Dancing

I don't remember where I first saw the first video of this guy, but I remember being profoundly impressed with him. He has since put out a second video. Here is Matt Harding

Please note: I had to replace the real videos with the links instead. It took up too much space- drove me crazy.

Matt Harding #1

Matt Harding #2

The very funny, obligatory parody:

Parody

Love You Tender

Pets is step spelled backwards

Indigo informed her readers that today is the offical "Brag About Your Pets Day."

We have a measly two pets, one of which (a brown horse named Petty) isn't even visible. The other, a red fish named Golden, doesn't really do anything except live.

But, I'll brag. Petty: never have to spend any money on him, doesn't poop, doesn't need a barn, makes no noise. Golden: still alive.

In honor of the animals, I give you a link: The Humane Society From there, you can sign your name to petitions, find addresses, and get phone numbers to help out the animals who need it.

They also have a store, for all of you who haven't finished spoiling your pets quite yet, or need reassurance that the world is in fact, crazy as shit. I found the product shown here pretty disturbing.

Happy Brag About Your Pets Day.

Costco's Morgue, you kill 'em, we chill 'em.

Click on the picture above...go ahead. BUT, when you come back, I want you to tell me if you have seen something that's well, ummm, "out of the ordinary."

Did you see it? Urns & Caskets?! Okay, I do not have a Costco store around my area, so I am not sure what their store room floor looks like. However, if I were to go into their store and see a casket, I think it would bug me a bit. If you go to their site, here, you may note that there are a few options for casket buying: Overnight shipping, three day shipping, FAQs, and my favorite: Urns and keepsakes.

Ebony Love Urn? Ebony Trophy Keepsake? Who named this stuff?

Alright, fine, weird names. Check out the descriptions. Here's part from the Ebony Trophy Keepsake description: "The Trophy keepsake hold a small portion of cremated remains...."

Besides the fact that someone should have proofread the description before putting it on the site (Note: the word "hold" should be plural), What in the hell would you buy this for unless you can stuff your entire Grandma into it? What are you going to do with the rest of her? Doesn't it defeat the whole purpose of a "keepsake?" Where do you put the rest of her? Which part of Grandma would you "keepsake?"


(I will not be posting this weekend, and maybe not even Monday. I have too much work to do, and have procrastinated enough already. Have a good weekend, and call your grandmothers for Pete's sake!)

My New Cape

I'm almost too ashamed to admit this, but I cannot contain my excitement any longer. We have finally gotten DSL this week. We have been tortured with slow downloads, uploads, browsing, etc for entirely too long. This afternoon, for the first time, I accessed the internet, via my home pc with astonishing speed. I feel almost superhuman. I can do anything- well at least everything faster. I have this insane sense of power suddenly. I have the inexplicable need to illegally download every song I have ever heard, just because I can. I even went to noggin.com today (Dylan's favorite web site) to play the games that normally take 15 minutes to load. I felt so inspired by this new-found speed that I ran about 4 miles today instead of joggin 2.5. Birds are flying faster, I think I am even typing faster. I feel like I have changed the universe for the better. Maybe it's the caffeine from my triple tall, non fat, no whip mocha, but it doesn't matter. Hell, I'm so damn happy about this, maybe I'll even make dinner tonight.