I never knew...

You learn something new everyday... Mostly it's that you're completely oblivious...

So I got this email today and decided to share.

I had to go into the kitchen and check this out for myself. Whoever looks at the end of your aluminum foil box? You know when you try to pull some foil out and the roll comes out of the box. Then you have to put the roll back in the box and start over. The darn roll always comes out at the wrong time.

Well, I would like to share this with you. Yesterday I went to throw out an empty Reynolds foil box and for some reason I turned it and looked at the end of the box. And written on the end it said, Press here to lock end. Right there on the end of the box is a tab to lock the roll in place. How long has this little locking tab been there? I then looked at a generic brand of aluminum foil and it had one, too. I then looked at a box of Saran wrap and it had one too! I can't count the number of times the Saran wrap roll has jumped out when I was trying to cover something up.

I'm sharing this with my friends. I hope I'm not the only "dummy" that didn't know about this.

Nathan Updates

Nathan had his 9month Doctor apt yesterday.
28"
18lbs 12oz

Getting soooo Big! *Sniff*

In summary... He's tall... Skinny... and healthy.

Catching up

Ok once again playing catchup. You're about to see a bunch of posts all out of order or back dated... This one will probably be out of order too because it really should be at the top to warn you but oh well. ;-)

How Weird are you?

You Are 90% Weird

You're more than quirky, you're downright strange. But you're also strangely compelling, like a cult leader.

How Weird Are You?

Coffee

So over the holidays I got addicted to the Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte...
Yes I know Starbucks is evil but... It was so good.

I got one yesterday on my way to my parent's house and then this morning I was on my way to work... and... They're GONE!!! Oh noes! No more pumpkin and eggnog. .../cry

I got a cafe Mocha but it's just not the same... so now I'm in a caffineless haze... I will get to my updates eventually.

Guess I'll go back to Chai Tea tomorrow.

What's stuck in my head today?

Incubus - Love Hurts

Xmas Work Festivities

So Yesterday we had this Holiday sweets potluck at work. Since they've taken away our Christmas party and have tried to take as much cheer out of us as humanly possible lately.
I helped in the planning process and other than some scheduling issues I think everything went pretty well. Here's some pictures.

The Cake I baked: (Amaretto Cake with Green Food Dye in a Christmas Tree Bundt Shape)


We decorated by hanging up Stockings with people's names on them (had them from years gone by) and we had a fake tree that we printed out pictures of everyone and hung them up like ornaments. Came out pretty good looking if I do say so myself.

Then we did both Secret Santa and White Elephant. Secret Santa I'm happy to say went off without a hitch. Everyone remembered, no one was left out. It was all good.
Now... White Elephant on the other hand I wasn't nearly as pleased with. Most people took it seriously this year... There were wonderful things under the tree... An ITunes gift card, Chair/Back Massager, Afghan Disney Blanket, Electronic Sudoku, etc etc... There was really only 1 gift that ended up being opened that no one wanted... Guess who ended up with it...
That just SCREAMS Me doesn't it?... /sigh... Maybe next year.

More Stuff Should Require Licenses

Computers should require licenses to use them. Imagine if Cars didn't require a written test and had help lines?

General Motors doesn't have a "help line" for people who don't know how to drive, because people don't buy cars like they buy computers -- but imagine if they did...

HELPLINE: "General Motors HelpLine, how can I help you?"

CUSTOMER: "I got in my car and closed the door, and nothing happened!"

HELPLINE: "Did you put the key in the ignition slot and turn it?"

CUSTOMER: "What's an ignition?"

HELPLINE: "It's a starter motor that draws current from your battery and turns over the engine."

CUSTOMER: "Ignition? Motor? Battery? Engine? How come I have to know all of these technical terms just to use my car?"

Second Call:
HELPLINE: "General Motors HelpLine, how can I help you?"

CUSTOMER: "My car ran fine for a week, and now it won't go anywhere!"

HELPLINE: "Is the gas tank empty?"

CUSTOMER: "Huh? How do I know!?"

HELPLINE: "There's a little gauge on the front panel, with a needle, and markings from 'E' to 'F.' Where is the needle pointing?"

CUSTOMER: "It's pointing to 'E.' What does that mean?"

HELPLINE: "It means that you have to visit a gasoline vendor, and purchase some more gasoline. You can install it yourself, or pay the vendor to install it for you."

CUSTOMER: "What!?" I paid $12,000. for this car! Now you tell me that I have to keep buying more components? I want a car that comes with everything built in!"

Keeping a Healthy Level of Insanity During the Holidays

Getting bored during this Holiday season? Especially at work? Try some of these to keep your insanity level at an all time high =)

At lunch time, sit in your parked car with sunglasses
on and point a hair dryer at passing cars. See if
they slow down.

Page yourself over the intercom. Don't disguise
your voice.

Insist that your e mail address is:
Cylon-Model6@companyname.com or
Elvis-the-King@companyname.com.

Every time someone asks you to do something,
ask if they want fries with that.

Encourage your colleagues to join you in a little
synchronized chair dancing.

Put your garbage can on your desk and label it
"IN."

Develop an unnatural fear of staplers.

Put decaf in the coffee maker for 3 weeks. Once
everyone has gotten over their caffeine addictions,
switch to espresso.

In the memo field of all your checks, write 'for sexual
favors.'

Reply to everything someone says with, "That's
what you think."

Finish all your sentences with "In accordance with
the prophecy."

Adjust the tint on your monitor so that the brightness
level lights up the entire work area. Insist to others
that you like it that way.

Dont use any punctuation ever

As often as possible, skip rather than walk.

Ask people what sex they are. Laugh hysterically
after they answer.

Specify that your drive-through order is "to go."

Sing along at the opera.

Go to a poetry recital and ask why the poems don't
rhyme.

Find out where your boss shops and buy exactly
the same outfits. Wear them one day after your
boss does. (This is especially effective if your boss
is of the opposite gender.)

Send e-mail to the rest of the company to tell them
what you're doing. For example, "If anyone needs
me, I'll be in the bathroom, in Stall #3."

Put mosquito netting around your cubicle. Play a
tape of jungle sounds all day.

Five days in advance, tell your friends you can't
attend their party because you're not in the mood.

Call 911 and ask if 911 is for emergencies.

Call the psychic hotline and don't say anything.

Have your co-workers address you by your wrestling
name, Rock Hard.

When the money comes out of the ATM, scream
"I Won!", "I Won!" "3rd time this week!!!"

When leaving the zoo, start running towards the
parking lot, yelling, "Run for your lives, they're
loose!"

Tell your boss, "It's not the voices in my head that
bother me, its the voices in your head that do."

Tell your children over dinner. "Due to the economy,
we are going to have to let one of you go."

Every time you see a broom, yell "Honey, your mother
is here!"

Latest Poem

Hey Guys... Got inspired today to write a poem. I'm putting up some pictures that I felt matched the mood of it. I just found these on the internet so I don't mean to take credit for anyone's photography. Once I have a real camera I'm going to try to take pictures of my own.

"Abandon"

I remember when I had a home,
all I wanted was to wander and roam.
But I escaped and now I'm free...
yet my home is all I wish to see.

I miss the warmth and the love,
I miss the 4walls and the roof above.
Being out here I thought was my dream...
Just don't understand now what can it mean.


Alone in the world just feels so wrong,
can't go home when there's nowhere you belong.
No one to love me no one to care...
I need to show I need to share.

At first I felt angry and double crossed,
but now just so alone and so lost.
Laying out here the world seems empty and cold...
And my old life I should never have sold.

Whatever I did that made you let me go,
I am so sorry if only you could know.
I see now that it's family not freedom I lack...
Please won't you find me and bring me back?

Thanksgiving

This was Nathan's First Thanksgiving. He seemed to have a good ol' time. Got to play with a rubber turkey leg and get snuck mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, etc.

I did alot of cooking. The turkey came out delicious with the rub I've perfected in the last couple years.

Only problem this year was a little incident with forgetting to Bake the Pumpkin Pie... OOPS! But at least we had yummy Apple Pie Ala Mode Ice Cream Pie from Baskin Robins. mmm.

Viva La Vida

Ok I can't seem to get away from this song... It's following me everywhere... The Mall, my car, restaurants, my head, the Internetz (lol)... Maybe if I give in it will stop following me. Soooo Here ya go!

Are left-handed people smarter?

Friend of mine pointed me to this article. Power to the lefties!

As per MSN news

Yep. According to researcher Alan Searleman, southpaws have higher IQs, solve problems better and enjoy more extensive vocabularies than righties. Lefty cases in point: Isaac Newton, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso, for starters. Not to mention every U.S. president since 1981, except this one. (George W. Bush)

Can't seem to get the links to work for some reason.

Take heart, righties: Searleman's study also found that lefties have worse memories than their right-handed peers.

The memory thing is sooo true.

Fall Lineup Review

Fall TV... Some pretty good shows out there. Most of which are also available on Hulu which is awesomeness or Netflix (not quite as awesome since it's a pay service but still). It seems like alot of the shows on now a days are very interesting commentaries on the human psyche.

Life - About a cop who gets set up and wrongfully sent to prison for 12 years. Now he's been cleared of the charges, given 50 million and become a detective. It's a great show and really gets you thinking about human nature but also it's an interesting puzzle.

House - Continuation of a great series. If you Haven't managed to catch this then you're missing out. It follows a greatly misunderstood doctor who likes to keep it that way and his band of employees/boss/badly abused friends in their attempt to save lives and magically end up saving each other on a regular basis as well. Though most of them are pretty ungreatful and whiney about the whole thing.

Bones - Another great continuing series. Bones and Booth have a great chemistry and are like a walking YinYang with a badge. Though some of the internal drama/romance story lines I think get drawn out a little far I'd still watch this show forever and a day.

Chuck - Cute. The story of a guy who had his life seriously messed up by his bestfriend and no longer lives up to his potential. Who suddenly gets thrown into the world of spies again by his ex-bestfriend because now he has a computer library stored in the subconcious of his brain. Wacky misadventures with a little bit of highschool/college type romance thrown into the mix.

Fringe - Kinda odd... Mix all the cop type shows of today with Young Frankenstein. On the one hand you have cop chick that wants all the answers working for the government and never having all the information to start... but on the other hand you have a crazy old man who used to be the equivilant of doctor frankenstein and his son who is too smart for his own good babysitting him. And they're all trying to clean up some nameless group's goings on that are using the good doctor's old research to turn the world into a very large experiment. Ever wonder what the lab mice feel like? The humor is a little deranged at times but that's good for me. And the romance like most of these shows is again a never ending banging your head into a wall because they can't see what's infront of their face and get too hung up on the past. But another one I'd recommend.

Seeker of Truth (i think that's the title) - If you like Sci-Fi series and you've read the Terry Goodkind books... STAY AWAY!!! Compared to the books this series blows... But as I've heard from people who have never read the books it's not so bad. Unfortunately they appear to have cut out alot of aspects that actually drew me into the books in the first place and have taken the "easy" route for story telling purposes. The CGI really isn't all that great but that's probably the budget's doing. I can't really fault the show for what it's done to the story but... I wouldn't recommend it and it's probably doomed for more than it just being an original series.

Knight Rider - Interesting rendition of the old show. New and upbeat. Love the new kit and his cyborg take on humor. It's kinda like mixing the old kit with Data from Startrek and then giving him some transformers capabilities and scifi tech. The team backing him up do a good job too. Some characters seemed a bit out of place to me at first but they grow on you. I was a bit skeptical of the new Michael but he's pulling it off quite well. I can see it calling more to the younger audiance than the original following but still a good show.

Sons of Anarchy - Drama... Lots of Drama. Some romance not so much comedy. Hell's Angels meets 7th Heaven. It's all about the "Family" and the "Family" business. The series starts out a bit heavy with the pilot kind of being at the height of drama but it seems to smooth out over the next several episodes. We'll see how it pans out for the rest of the season but I'll definately be keeping up on it. And yes... Peggy Bundy is in it.

Sanctuary - New Show starring "Sam" from Stargate. Another common theme lately... Mutants. Evolution at it's finest. Who will protect the weird and impossible from the world and itself? The Sanctuary. I'm not entirely sure how I like this show. It's good but I'm not sure it's great. I fear it will probably be doomed to the fate of all SciFi Original Series shows but only time will tell. Some of the acting is a little lacking and some of the story is a bit cliche with all the shows/movies on this subject lately. But definately worth catching while it's around.

Heroes (Season3) - Better than Season 2... Still not quite as good as Season 1. At least they're going back in the right direction. But still the story lines are a bit convoluted. I wish they had tied up some of the loose ends they created last season though i know alot of people just want to forget last season existed (including the writers). I'm glad they're explaining some backstory this time but I fear it may be taking up too much time and force them into hurrying with the current events. We shall see...

American Dad! - Newer Oldy but a goody. This cartoon isn't quite the old school Simpsons but definately a good time sink. Everyone in the family has brains in their head they just all seem to be going on their own agenda. There's much breaking of the 4th wall and inside jokes. I think it's aimed at a slightly higher IQ level than some of the other mature comedy cartoons out today.

Family Guy - This I think appeals to the slightly more braindead edge of comedy. Don't get me wrong it's a good show and funny as hell sometimes... but sometimes it feels like one long fart joke. The Stewie and Brian characters are what really keep me watching I think.


Not on at the moment but still good shows:
Burn Notice - Awesome show. Follows an ex-spy who has been "Burned". Trying to figure out why he got the boot and who did it so he can get his life back. Living in the hell of Miami and only having his crazy Mom, constantly introuble brother, trigger happy ex-g/f and good friend who spies on him for the FBI to lean on. Solving the worlds problems one stupid person at a time to fund his endevors. It's got a little bit of everything in it and sometimes scares you with how much some of the characters remind you of people you know.

Battlestar Galactica - Comes back for it's final 10 episodes in January. I admit I wasn't too into this show when it first started but it really got me in Season 3. After that things made alot more sense. So if you gave up on it early go back and give it another chance. You'll be glad you did.

Eureka - Funny. Follows a not so booksmart but fairly streetsmart cop and his too intellegent for her own good daughter as they move into a town full of geniuses. Think of all those crazy smart people from highschool... Not the ones with their nose stuck in a book... The ones inventing weird stuff to make their lives easier... Sound effects to keep their parent's knowing they snuck out... Devices to distract the teacher... hacking into the computers to change their grades... Now give them a town... and unlimited funding... And you have Eureka!

Doctor Who - COME BACK TO US DOCTOR!!!

Torchwood - Off shoot of the new Doctor Who. Torchwood centers around Captain Jack and his team that kinda does the Doctor's job when he's not around to help. If you're going to watch this show I'd definately suggest watching some of the last couple seasons of Doctor Who at the same time though because they do cross over and there are inside jokes you won't get on both series.

Shows I haven't seen But I'm planning to watch when I have the time:
Crusoe - I've actually seen peices of this but never a full episode. But Patrick and my parents like it so I'm assuming it's pretty good since they don't always agree on things.

My Own Worst Enemy - Very Interesting Premise. This could either be really good or a flop. Patrick seems to like this one too so I'll give it the benefit of the doubt.

Midnight WotLK Launch

Ok all caught up to the present now.

Last night I got to camp at Gamestop for 2 hours in order to get the WotLK WoW Expansion.
It was interesting. I got to meet the two people that won the competition at Blizzcon. Otherwise it was pretty uneventful.

Movin' and a Cruisin'

Nathan has finally figured out how to get moving. At least to a point. He's figured out how to sit up if he's even a little elevated. He can pull himself up from sitting to standing if given something high enough that he can still reach.

He is officially 7 months old today and already trying to walk and such a cutey!

LoL Mary Jane?

Is Mary-Jane a LoL Catz? You be the judge.Iz N uR HighChairz Eatn Ur Grubz!

Global Warming

Proof of Global Warming

New Home

About 8 months ago our group at work got reassigned to a different manager since our current manager was switching positions in our company. That group happens to be in another building and they finally ended up moving us over here from building3.
Here's pictures of my new home.

Update on Patrick's Foot

A little background -
9 Years ago Patrick started having pain in his foot for no reason. Any touching of his foot sent him into agonizing pain. But he hates doctors and the doctors couldn't find anything anyway.
About 2 months ago his foot started swelling and hurting more than usual so i finally got to drag him into the doctor.
After 3 doctors we finally ended up at a specialist since nothing showed up on Xrays or Bloodwork and he ended up getting 2 MRIs. The second one being with dyes to show contrast.
They discovered he had 2 tumor masses in his foot.
A few weeks ago they did a biopsy on it and confirmed that it is benign. But the doctor refused to operate on it. Due to it's size and it's consistency. And the fact that he could "live with it" so we said he Couldn't live with it. And they gave us a new doctor to see at UCI. His doctor appointment with the new doctor is Monday Nov 17th. So hopefully I'll be able to give more updates then.