All your base...

About once I year, I feel the urgent, yet subconscious need to pull this old link out. This time, I thought I would share it:

http://www.planettribes.com/allyourbase/

Biting off more than I can chew

I have always suffered from the need to have too much on my plate. I feel incomplete if I am not 'going Mach 2 with my hair on fire' (name that movie folks). So these days here is my schedule.

• Work every day as a systems analyst and management consultant
• Running a household with DH and DFD (dear fuzzy dog)
• Running my small event planning company
• Taking a real estate salesperson prep course so I can get my license in the next couple of months(just for fun)
• Quest to lose weight (new diet, new exercise regime)
• Waiting to adopt a domestic newborn after years of battling with infertility (homestudy and paperwork complete)
• Planning our vacation for our 5 year anniversary in April (5 years, OMG!)
• Starting this blog and trying to maintain a schedule
• Being a perfectionist, Type A, biatch about pretty much everything else
  

So that's a snapshot of a typical day in my life. I started this blog as a tribute and outlet for our infertility and adoption tales; but I highly doubt it can be contained to those areas in my life. So, welcome aboard!

FOX's "Who's your daddy" CANCELLED

A collective sigh of relief is being heard throughout the adoption community this week. Got word from a gal on my adoption BB:

"We are pleased to report that the FOX reality show "Who's Your Daddy" has been abandoned by the network due to poor ratings and to the outcry from adoption professions as well as the adoption community. FOX executives say they will not air the remaining 6 episodes.

Thank you all of you who voiced your objections to the program via e-mails, letters and phone calls. As a result, we were successful in having the program removed from the schedule."

Squabbling over 6.7 cents

So, there we are in the lawn and garden section of Walmart, which during this time of year is also known as "Where the holiday stuff comes to die". When I spot a treasure trove of holiday essentials that cannot be passed up simply because they are all 75% off.

I am not sure why the idea of saving pennies on stuff I may or may not ever find again in my storage closet fills me with such excitement. But it does.

At the register, I closely monitor the prices as the girl rings up the order and notice that my 67 cent package of Christmas tree light fuses were ringing up at full price. I tell her, she prints the receipt and stares at it blankly...

Me: The 67 cent fuses should have been 75% off.

Clerk: (looks at the reciept)

Me: The 3 packages of fuses for 67 cents.

Clerk: Ok, here they are. Yes, 67 cents each.

Me: But they are on sale

Clerk: Yes, 67 cents each.

Me: No, that is the regular price. See here on the package, it says 67 cents. They should be 75% off.

Clerk: Ok, then 32 cents each (off the top of her head).

Me: What? That isn't even 50%. Why don't you just enter the item and add a 75% discount?

Clerk: 32 cents.

Me: Actually, it is 6.7 cents times 2.5 to figure out the price.

Clerk: (baffled at this complex calculation that she just *knows* is made up) How about 20 cents each?

Me: Ok...

Damn I hate to give in. I hate it more than anything, but at that point I realized I am mad about pennies; the clerk is confused; the women behind me are pissed; yet my husband is smirking. At least he saw the humor in this. In fact, as we walked out the door he said, "Customer service is right there, let's go get your money back". Ass hat.

Dumbest quotes of 2004 (cont.)

#10: "I wish you'd have given me this written question ahead of time so I could plan for it…I'm sure something will pop into my head here in the midst of this press conference, with all the pressure of trying to come up with answer, but it hadn't yet….I don't want to sound like I have made no mistakes. I'm confident I have. I just haven't — you just put me under the spot here, and maybe I'm not as quick on my feet as I should be in coming up with one." —President George W. Bush, after being asked to name the biggest mistake he had made


I have but one comment for this: GOD BLESS AMERICA!

Dumbest quotes of 2004

Political Humor

#21: "You've done a nice job decorating the White House." —Pop star Jessica Simpson, upon being introduced to Interior Secretary Gale Norton while touring the White House

I am not sure I can even comment on this one... It makes me feel so f***ing good about myself.

Today's favorite quote

"Friendship is born the moment one person says to another 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one' "

- CS Lewis

(and thanks to PFAP for finding it again for me)

And why is it that I never realized this until now; that is another blog altogether.