I saw this on Kirschtopia and had to steal it.
Quiet Weekend
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Okay, so not much going on at our house this weekend - working teenagers, sleepovers, babysitting for baby Nora, baking and basting a turkey breast right now.
Generally Uneventful.
But yesterday I was flipping channels and saw this on QVC and mumbled to myself as I changed the channel. The hubs came poked his head out of the closet and said, "What did I do now?"
Nothing, just tell me what you think when you see these. (flip back to QVC)
THANK YOU! You now have ONE free fashion pass honey, but you used it by wearing that stained brown t-shirt out to the mall today - sorry.
Love you anyway!
p.s. the kicker was the 'selling point' that you don't have to SCRUNCH them down, they are sewn that way. EWWWW.
Generally Uneventful.
But yesterday I was flipping channels and saw this on QVC and mumbled to myself as I changed the channel. The hubs came poked his head out of the closet and said, "What did I do now?"
Nothing, just tell me what you think when you see these. (flip back to QVC)
"Ummm, 1983."
THANK YOU! You now have ONE free fashion pass honey, but you used it by wearing that stained brown t-shirt out to the mall today - sorry.
Love you anyway!
p.s. the kicker was the 'selling point' that you don't have to SCRUNCH them down, they are sewn that way. EWWWW.
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Another Reason we should be living in Scandinavia
Thursday, September 25, 2008
TimesPeople
September 23, 2008
Stopping a Financial Crisis, the Swedish Way
By CARTER DOUGHERTY
A banking system in crisis after the collapse of a housing bubble. An economy hemorrhaging jobs. A market-oriented government struggling to stem the panic. Sound familiar?
It does to Sweden. The country was so far in the hole in 1992 — after years of imprudent regulation, short-sighted economic policy and the end of its property boom — that its banking system was, for all practical purposes, insolvent.
But Sweden took a different course than the one now being proposed by the United States Treasury. And Swedish officials say there are lessons from their own nightmare that Washington may be missing.
Sweden did not just bail out its financial institutions by having the government take over the bad debts. It extracted pounds of flesh from bank shareholders before writing checks. Banks had to write down losses and issue warrants to the government.
That strategy held banks responsible and turned the government into an owner. When distressed assets were sold, the profits flowed to taxpayers, and the government was able to recoup more money later by selling its shares in the companies as well.
“If I go into a bank,” said Bo Lundgren, who was Sweden’s finance minister at the time, “I’d rather get equity so that there is some upside for the taxpayer.”
Sweden spent 4 percent of its gross domestic product, or 65 billion kronor, the equivalent of $11.7 billion at the time, or $18.3 billion in today’s dollars, to rescue ailing banks. That is slightly less, proportionate to the national economy, than the $700 billion, or roughly 5 percent of gross domestic product, that the Bush administration estimates its own move will cost in the United States.
But the final cost to Sweden ended up being less than 2 percent of its G.D.P. Some officials say they believe it was closer to zero, depending on how certain rates of return are calculated.
The tumultuous events of the last few weeks have produced a lot of tight-lipped nods in Stockholm. Mr. Lundgren even made the rounds in New York in early September, explaining what the country did in the early 1990s.
A few American commentators have proposed that the United States government extract equity from banks as a price for their rescue. But it does not seem to be under serious consideration yet in the Bush administration or Congress.
The reason is not quite clear. The government has already swapped its sovereign guarantee for equity in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage finance institutions, and the American International Group, the global insurance giant.
Putting taxpayers on the hook without anything in return could be a mistake, said Urban Backstrom, a senior Swedish finance ministry official at the time. “The public will not support a plan if you leave the former shareholders with anything,” he said.
The Swedish crisis had strikingly similar origins to the American one, and its neighbors, Norway and Finland, were hobbled to the point of needing a government bailout to escape the morass as well.
Financial deregulation in the 1980s fed a frenzy of real estate lending by Sweden’s banks, which did not worry enough about whether the value of their collateral might evaporate in tougher times.
Property prices imploded. The bubble deflated fast in 1991 and 1992. A vain effort to defend Sweden’s currency, the krona, caused overnight interest rates to spike at one point to 500 percent. The Swedish economy contracted for two consecutive years after a long expansion, and unemployment, at 3 percent in 1990, quadrupled in three years.
After a series of bank failures and ad hoc solutions, the moment of truth arrived in September 1992, when the government of Prime Minister Carl Bildt decided it was time to clear the decks.
Standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the opposition center-left, Mr. Bildt’s conservative government announced that the Swedish state would guarantee all bank deposits and creditors of the nation’s 114 banks. Sweden formed a new agency to supervise institutions that needed recapitalization, and another that sold off the assets, mainly real estate, that the banks held as collateral.
Sweden told its banks to write down their losses promptly before coming to the state for recapitalization. Facing its own problem later in the decade, Japan made the mistake of dragging this process out, delaying a solution for years.
Then came the imperative to bleed shareholders first. Mr. Lundgren recalls a conversation with Peter Wallenberg, at the time chairman of SEB, Sweden’s largest bank. Mr. Wallenberg, the scion of the country’s most famous family and steward of large chunks of its economy, heard that there would be no sacred cows.
The Wallenbergs turned around and arranged a recapitalization on their own, obviating the need for a bailout. SEB turned a profit the following year, 1993.
“For every krona we put into the bank, we wanted the same influence,” Mr. Lundgren said. “That ensured that we did not have to go into certain banks at all.”
By the end of the crisis, the Swedish government had seized a vast portion of the banking sector, and the agency had mostly fulfilled its hard-nosed mandate to drain share capital before injecting cash. When markets stabilized, the Swedish state then reaped the benefits by taking the banks public again.
More money may yet come into official coffers. The government still owns 19.9 percent of Nordea, a Stockholm bank that was fully nationalized and is now a highly regarded giant in Scandinavia and the Baltic Sea region.
The politics of Sweden’s crisis management were similarly tough-minded, though much quieter.
Soon after the plan was announced, the Swedish government found that international confidence returned more quickly than expected, easing pressure on its currency and bringing money back into the country. The center-left opposition, while wary that the government might yet let the banks off the hook, made its points about penalizing shareholders privately.
“The only thing that held back an avalanche was the hope that the system was holding,” said Leif Pagrotzky, a senior member of the opposition at the time. “In public we stuck together 100 percent, but we fought behind the scenes.”
September 23, 2008
Stopping a Financial Crisis, the Swedish Way
By CARTER DOUGHERTY
A banking system in crisis after the collapse of a housing bubble. An economy hemorrhaging jobs. A market-oriented government struggling to stem the panic. Sound familiar?
It does to Sweden. The country was so far in the hole in 1992 — after years of imprudent regulation, short-sighted economic policy and the end of its property boom — that its banking system was, for all practical purposes, insolvent.
But Sweden took a different course than the one now being proposed by the United States Treasury. And Swedish officials say there are lessons from their own nightmare that Washington may be missing.
Sweden did not just bail out its financial institutions by having the government take over the bad debts. It extracted pounds of flesh from bank shareholders before writing checks. Banks had to write down losses and issue warrants to the government.
That strategy held banks responsible and turned the government into an owner. When distressed assets were sold, the profits flowed to taxpayers, and the government was able to recoup more money later by selling its shares in the companies as well.
“If I go into a bank,” said Bo Lundgren, who was Sweden’s finance minister at the time, “I’d rather get equity so that there is some upside for the taxpayer.”
Sweden spent 4 percent of its gross domestic product, or 65 billion kronor, the equivalent of $11.7 billion at the time, or $18.3 billion in today’s dollars, to rescue ailing banks. That is slightly less, proportionate to the national economy, than the $700 billion, or roughly 5 percent of gross domestic product, that the Bush administration estimates its own move will cost in the United States.
But the final cost to Sweden ended up being less than 2 percent of its G.D.P. Some officials say they believe it was closer to zero, depending on how certain rates of return are calculated.
The tumultuous events of the last few weeks have produced a lot of tight-lipped nods in Stockholm. Mr. Lundgren even made the rounds in New York in early September, explaining what the country did in the early 1990s.
A few American commentators have proposed that the United States government extract equity from banks as a price for their rescue. But it does not seem to be under serious consideration yet in the Bush administration or Congress.
The reason is not quite clear. The government has already swapped its sovereign guarantee for equity in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage finance institutions, and the American International Group, the global insurance giant.
Putting taxpayers on the hook without anything in return could be a mistake, said Urban Backstrom, a senior Swedish finance ministry official at the time. “The public will not support a plan if you leave the former shareholders with anything,” he said.
The Swedish crisis had strikingly similar origins to the American one, and its neighbors, Norway and Finland, were hobbled to the point of needing a government bailout to escape the morass as well.
Financial deregulation in the 1980s fed a frenzy of real estate lending by Sweden’s banks, which did not worry enough about whether the value of their collateral might evaporate in tougher times.
Property prices imploded. The bubble deflated fast in 1991 and 1992. A vain effort to defend Sweden’s currency, the krona, caused overnight interest rates to spike at one point to 500 percent. The Swedish economy contracted for two consecutive years after a long expansion, and unemployment, at 3 percent in 1990, quadrupled in three years.
After a series of bank failures and ad hoc solutions, the moment of truth arrived in September 1992, when the government of Prime Minister Carl Bildt decided it was time to clear the decks.
Standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the opposition center-left, Mr. Bildt’s conservative government announced that the Swedish state would guarantee all bank deposits and creditors of the nation’s 114 banks. Sweden formed a new agency to supervise institutions that needed recapitalization, and another that sold off the assets, mainly real estate, that the banks held as collateral.
Sweden told its banks to write down their losses promptly before coming to the state for recapitalization. Facing its own problem later in the decade, Japan made the mistake of dragging this process out, delaying a solution for years.
Then came the imperative to bleed shareholders first. Mr. Lundgren recalls a conversation with Peter Wallenberg, at the time chairman of SEB, Sweden’s largest bank. Mr. Wallenberg, the scion of the country’s most famous family and steward of large chunks of its economy, heard that there would be no sacred cows.
The Wallenbergs turned around and arranged a recapitalization on their own, obviating the need for a bailout. SEB turned a profit the following year, 1993.
“For every krona we put into the bank, we wanted the same influence,” Mr. Lundgren said. “That ensured that we did not have to go into certain banks at all.”
By the end of the crisis, the Swedish government had seized a vast portion of the banking sector, and the agency had mostly fulfilled its hard-nosed mandate to drain share capital before injecting cash. When markets stabilized, the Swedish state then reaped the benefits by taking the banks public again.
More money may yet come into official coffers. The government still owns 19.9 percent of Nordea, a Stockholm bank that was fully nationalized and is now a highly regarded giant in Scandinavia and the Baltic Sea region.
The politics of Sweden’s crisis management were similarly tough-minded, though much quieter.
Soon after the plan was announced, the Swedish government found that international confidence returned more quickly than expected, easing pressure on its currency and bringing money back into the country. The center-left opposition, while wary that the government might yet let the banks off the hook, made its points about penalizing shareholders privately.
“The only thing that held back an avalanche was the hope that the system was holding,” said Leif Pagrotzky, a senior member of the opposition at the time. “In public we stuck together 100 percent, but we fought behind the scenes.”
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Forget the financial crisis, politics, everything for one minute.
Monday, September 22, 2008
I am just tortured by this story and every day when my homepage pops up it is worse.
Just WHO thought it would be a good idea to make their milk look "healthier" and more full of protein by adding the TOXIN melamine???
For gods sake - did they not think? Are they completely without a soul????
I am so totally at a loss as to what to worry about when things like this happen. Can you IMAGINE if milk producers in the USA had done this and I had to take Boo Boo La La to the hospital and watch her suffer - maybe even die?? It makes me cry and nauseous and want to scream at the whole world.
WHAT THE F is WRONG WITH YOU!!!!
53,000 kids are suffering - and their parents - and other countries may have this milk too!!!
Let's all say a prayer and hope we don't buy tainted products from souless people like this one day.
Just WHO thought it would be a good idea to make their milk look "healthier" and more full of protein by adding the TOXIN melamine???
For gods sake - did they not think? Are they completely without a soul????
I am so totally at a loss as to what to worry about when things like this happen. Can you IMAGINE if milk producers in the USA had done this and I had to take Boo Boo La La to the hospital and watch her suffer - maybe even die?? It makes me cry and nauseous and want to scream at the whole world.
WHAT THE F is WRONG WITH YOU!!!!
53,000 kids are suffering - and their parents - and other countries may have this milk too!!!
Let's all say a prayer and hope we don't buy tainted products from souless people like this one day.
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I did it for the lamb chops - uff da I am full STILL
Sunday, September 21, 2008
WARNING - This is a blog of serious carnage and not for the feint of heart, or Vegetarians!!!
If you are a carnivore who occaisionally likes to get down with a large plate of nuttin' but almosting moo'ing meat
Here are the lovely couples as they got a cocktail and got ready for the ultimate carnage at FOGO DE CHAO.
The Veterans ready to chao!
Us?? We are clueless as to what will happen next.
We have been here for 20 minutes, what is with you people???
The Waiter is ready!!
If you are a carnivore who occaisionally likes to get down with a large plate of nuttin' but almosting moo'ing meat
Proceed:
T-berg came over to our house and we headed downtown to meet with the gang!!! Here are the boys - wishing they had worn their Zubas.
Here are the lovely couples as they got a cocktail and got ready for the ultimate carnage at FOGO DE CHAO.
The Veterans ready to chao!Us?? We are clueless as to what will happen next.We have been here for 20 minutes, what is with you people???We are STARVING!!
The Waiter is ready!!
The meat is ON FIRE!!!
The CHEESY popovers are on the 
table...
Great goodness - LET's EAT!!!
Don't bother with too much of the plantains honey...
Yeah, this is why we came - get the Gaucho's over here baby!
Ready?
Set....
GO!!!
GONE!!
Yes, we ate and ate and ate. We liked it bloody and hot I tell you...and I chose to do a live report from the table as we were winding down with our last few perfectly seasoned and seared lamb chops.....
Screw dessert - let's go back to Casa De Scherbs for some free cocktails. We have been through the carnage and some day we will be back for more.
Thanks Mrs. Faux Martha for the best idea EVER!!
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I did it!!!!
Saturday, September 20, 2008
I deleted my MYSpace account AND I scaled back my Plaxo profile to almost nothing, nada.
I decided with the Blog and Facebook it was enough.
FACEBOOK what can I say, I am addicted to you. You are like sweet little nuggets of candy coated goodness. And all my friends are doing it. :)
I just wish that I could figure out how to stop the accept treats, gifts, cocktails etc. from sending me to another page....I know that is how it is setup so I also use those little fun doodles, but seriously? can't I mass accept?
on a lighter note: I am typing this from my brand new laptop in my kitchen!!! It is soooooooooo awesome to have a computer that is not connected to the router and is MINE MINE MINE all MINE I tell you!!!!
And to anyone who I might have offended in the past week with any political comments. I am truely sorry if we disagree!!! Really, I just think no one running for any office I vote for this year cares a damn about my family. It is dis-heartening and I am testy about all the financial mess the government has put us into. So, I promise (!) I am not ranting at you, but our collective situation.
Thanks!
I decided with the Blog and Facebook it was enough.
FACEBOOK what can I say, I am addicted to you. You are like sweet little nuggets of candy coated goodness. And all my friends are doing it. :)
I just wish that I could figure out how to stop the accept treats, gifts, cocktails etc. from sending me to another page....I know that is how it is setup so I also use those little fun doodles, but seriously? can't I mass accept?
on a lighter note: I am typing this from my brand new laptop in my kitchen!!! It is soooooooooo awesome to have a computer that is not connected to the router and is MINE MINE MINE all MINE I tell you!!!!
And to anyone who I might have offended in the past week with any political comments. I am truely sorry if we disagree!!! Really, I just think no one running for any office I vote for this year cares a damn about my family. It is dis-heartening and I am testy about all the financial mess the government has put us into. So, I promise (!) I am not ranting at you, but our collective situation.
Thanks!
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Why I love Wells Fargo...
Friday, September 19, 2008
Dick Kovacevich says EXACTLY what I have said for the past TWO YEARS- Why in the H-E- double toothpicks were banks ALLOWED to make these risky loans? Anyone who argues with this by saying - it is the people who took those loans fault - is just mindless!~!!
My accounts will NEVER stray from WF ever, unless they hire an idiot like other banks.
From MSP/StPaul Business Journal:
However, Wells Fargo’s prudent lending in recent years didn’t occur without a cost.
Wells Fargo’s (NYSE: WFC) mortgage business lost 4 percent market share annually between 2005 and 2007, Kovacevich said, adding that the bank missed out on $160 billion in fees in 2006 alone due to its decision to not offer risky mortgage products like the so-called option ARMs. The controversial mortgages are now creating huge headaches for rivals such as Wachovia (NYSE: WB) and Washington Mutual. (NYSE: WM)
Kovacevich said regulators should have seen it as a red flag when “someone who has been in the business for 30 years wouldn’t do it,” Kovacevich said, saying that their missing that warning sign is further evidence that “our regulatory system is not working.”
Perhaps Dick should run for President, or replace our damn Fed Chairman!
My accounts will NEVER stray from WF ever, unless they hire an idiot like other banks.
From MSP/StPaul Business Journal:
However, Wells Fargo’s prudent lending in recent years didn’t occur without a cost.
Wells Fargo’s (NYSE: WFC) mortgage business lost 4 percent market share annually between 2005 and 2007, Kovacevich said, adding that the bank missed out on $160 billion in fees in 2006 alone due to its decision to not offer risky mortgage products like the so-called option ARMs. The controversial mortgages are now creating huge headaches for rivals such as Wachovia (NYSE: WB) and Washington Mutual. (NYSE: WM)
Kovacevich said regulators should have seen it as a red flag when “someone who has been in the business for 30 years wouldn’t do it,” Kovacevich said, saying that their missing that warning sign is further evidence that “our regulatory system is not working.”
Perhaps Dick should run for President, or replace our damn Fed Chairman!
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It is times like these I wish I were unemployed
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
I have a big problem with not being able to sleep.
Now, some might think it is the fault of the baby - but this started happening to me long before sweet Boo Boo La La was born. What happens is:
Now for a funny story - Imagine a family of five driving home with their newest addition in the back of the Aviator in a box marked "Family Member Inside".
J: So what do we name him.
M: NOT TWIX
S: AWWW, come on! You named LUCKY and Jake named Quattro.
M: VETO! How about Jellybean or Bean?
S & J: Ahh, LAME.
T: What about VIRGIL???
BOO BOO: VURRRGL....
S, J, M: NO!
hmmmm. long pauses....what do we name him?
T: I got it! Rufus!
J: Hey - pretty cool.
S: I had a pink stuffed dog named Rufus.
M: I had a REAL dog named Rufus...
T: Hell-OOOO, I was joking!
J: How do you spell Rufus?
Boo Boo: Roofis!!! hee hee
T, M: R-U-F-U-S
S: Let's spell it R-O-O-F-I-S! -
J: YEAH!
M: Da roof, da roof, da Roofis on Fire!
S, J, Boo Boo: *groan*
Ta - Da! We are weird, but that's okay.
Now, some might think it is the fault of the baby - but this started happening to me long before sweet Boo Boo La La was born. What happens is:
- I go to sleep and fall asleep fairly quickly
- I wake up for NO apparent reason
- I lay there trying not to think
- I get up to go potty
- I hope that soon I will just fall back asleep
- I get up for more water
- I lay there another ten minutes
- I go downstairs and if the kids are at Robin's throw in some laundry - may as well get something done...
- I watch some late night infomercials
- I go down and turn on the computer and check Facebook, LinkedIn, my blog, other blogs...
- It is now time to get up - so, I just take a shower
Now for a funny story - Imagine a family of five driving home with their newest addition in the back of the Aviator in a box marked "Family Member Inside".
J: So what do we name him.
M: NOT TWIX
S: AWWW, come on! You named LUCKY and Jake named Quattro.
M: VETO! How about Jellybean or Bean?
S & J: Ahh, LAME.
T: What about VIRGIL???
BOO BOO: VURRRGL....
S, J, M: NO!
hmmmm. long pauses....what do we name him?
T: I got it! Rufus!
J: Hey - pretty cool.
S: I had a pink stuffed dog named Rufus.
M: I had a REAL dog named Rufus...
T: Hell-OOOO, I was joking!
J: How do you spell Rufus?
Boo Boo: Roofis!!! hee hee
T, M: R-U-F-U-S
S: Let's spell it R-O-O-F-I-S! -
J: YEAH!
M: Da roof, da roof, da Roofis on Fire!
S, J, Boo Boo: *groan*
Ta - Da! We are weird, but that's okay.
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Sweet Intoxication - and very industrious!
Monday, September 15, 2008
Now, I do NOT condone drug use - but this is just funny!
I just pray he only sold them to people who were 'in the know', so to speak.
BERLIN (Reuters) - Police closed down a Berlin sweet shop after discovering the owner was selling chocolates and lollipops laced with hallucinogenic mushrooms and marijuana.
The 23-year old owner of the shop in the trendy east Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg, an area known for its vibrant night life, was taken into custody on suspicion of drug-dealing.
"In the shop we found 120 pieces of magic mushroom chocolate and countless cannabis lollipops," said police, who confiscated around 70 sachets containing various drugs, about 20 marijuana joints, a range of pills and some jars of drug-laced honey.
The 23-year old owner of the shop in the trendy east Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg, an area known for its vibrant night life, was taken into custody on suspicion of drug-dealing.
"In the shop we found 120 pieces of magic mushroom chocolate and countless cannabis lollipops," said police, who confiscated around 70 sachets containing various drugs, about 20 marijuana joints, a range of pills and some jars of drug-laced honey.
Police said one customer, who appeared intoxicated, was arrested after trying to buy a bag of hallucinogenic mushrooms from an officer in the shop.
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Maybe its just ME??
Friday, September 12, 2008
If I had come into any of my children's bedrooms to a scene like this the person would be LUCKY if I just swung a pipe at them. Without explanation I would have to assume they were an intruder!!!!
Give the dad a MEDAL for restraint; and get them both to counseling so they actually talk to one another.
Dad chases nude boy from daughter's room with pipe
Fri Sep 12, 11:39 AM EDT
An angry Deltona father whacked his teenage daughter's boyfriend with a metal pipe after finding the boy naked in his daughter's room. Authorities say the father, 45, didn't even know his daughter had a boyfriend or that the youngster had been sneaking into the home for more than a year.
When he heard noises coming from his daughter's bedroom Thursday morning and saw a stranger standing naked on the girl's bed, he swung a metal pipe. He then chased the teen out the front door and called police.
The boy was taken to the hospital where doctors closed a head wound with staples.
The father was charged with aggravated battery on a child and bonded out on $10,000.
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Information from: Daytona Beach News-Journal, http://www.news-journalonline.com/
Give the dad a MEDAL for restraint; and get them both to counseling so they actually talk to one another.
Dad chases nude boy from daughter's room with pipe
Fri Sep 12, 11:39 AM EDT
An angry Deltona father whacked his teenage daughter's boyfriend with a metal pipe after finding the boy naked in his daughter's room. Authorities say the father, 45, didn't even know his daughter had a boyfriend or that the youngster had been sneaking into the home for more than a year.
When he heard noises coming from his daughter's bedroom Thursday morning and saw a stranger standing naked on the girl's bed, he swung a metal pipe. He then chased the teen out the front door and called police.
The boy was taken to the hospital where doctors closed a head wound with staples.
The father was charged with aggravated battery on a child and bonded out on $10,000.
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Information from: Daytona Beach News-Journal, http://www.news-journalonline.com/
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I have mentioned it twice so...
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Twice in comments this week I mentioned that Peyton Manning is in my "Fab Five" - you know the list that you make of guys your significant other should allow you to
BROWN-CHICKEN-BROWN-COW
with if by some MAD twist of fate you run into them and they *pant pant* want you too.
5) David Letterman - rich, funny, gets tons of vacation, gushes about his son, what is NOT to like?
4) Adam Sandler - YES, I know, you really don't get why I pick him either. It gets better.
3) Pierce Brosnan - I will NEVER see another Bond movie again, James Bond.
2) Peyton Manning - my step-daughter said during his first SuperBowl when I was the lone Colt fan in the place - "Do you know what Colts stands for? Can only lose The Superbowl!" HA! NOT!
1) Matthew McConaughey - Being dumb does not bump you down to #2
So there you have it ladies and gents - drool along, or laugh, it matters not!
p.s. Dr. Monkey...you WOULD have made the list, but unfortunately the rules state that I can not include anyone who I actually have exchanged blog comments with, sorry babe!
BROWN-CHICKEN-BROWN-COW
with if by some MAD twist of fate you run into them and they *pant pant* want you too.
5) David Letterman - rich, funny, gets tons of vacation, gushes about his son, what is NOT to like?
4) Adam Sandler - YES, I know, you really don't get why I pick him either. It gets better.
3) Pierce Brosnan - I will NEVER see another Bond movie again, James Bond.
2) Peyton Manning - my step-daughter said during his first SuperBowl when I was the lone Colt fan in the place - "Do you know what Colts stands for? Can only lose The Superbowl!" HA! NOT!
1) Matthew McConaughey - Being dumb does not bump you down to #2
So there you have it ladies and gents - drool along, or laugh, it matters not!
p.s. Dr. Monkey...you WOULD have made the list, but unfortunately the rules state that I can not include anyone who I actually have exchanged blog comments with, sorry babe!
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COME MEET ----- ROOFIS!!! oh yeah
Monday, September 8, 2008
WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT????
Hi there, my name is ROOFIS - or so these crazy people tell me that is my name now.....
This big guy ain't as tough as he says - kind of cuddly actually...
I hope this little cutie doesn't squeeze me too much - anyway at least I have a home!
Love,
The new kitten in Robbinsdale
Roofis, say it loud and proud, all the P-I-M-P-S in da' house.
Hey-YA
Ho-YA
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Grand Re-Opening!!!! Thanks Burg! You rock hard.
Friday, September 5, 2008
Thanks to a GROOVY contest last month I got a makeover!!!
And there were no visits from Clinton & Stacy, or Ty Pennington, or even a single gay man trying to get me to love my body - or wear better clothing!
Nothing happened except they picked MEMEMEMEMEMEME!!! and it is all about ME, isn't it?
Please enjoy the music we have selected for our wonderful grand re-opening. Yo Gabba Gabba - and probably only the sweet Faux Martha will recognize the band!
Play it loud tonight while the guys stink up your house playing poker and drinking beers!
And now ladies and gentleman, readers of all ages, the grand re-opening grand finale!!!!
I was told, "I'm afraid that if you don't post the poo picture, Becki and I will have to come and pelt you with olives on behalf of the BlogMommas community!"
The story behind this is that Boo Boo La La had been having trouble - she came in the kitchen and asked to get naked (normal two year old behavior, trust me). The next thing I knew she said, "MOM! COME LOOK! I POOPED!!!" and then she asked Daddy to come look, then Jake-y, then Sair, then Sair's boyfriend - he declined - and everyone told her it was the best poop ever!
Boo Boo said, "MOM, we better take a picture."
So we did.
You have now been BURGED at Mommy's New Nest. Enjoy the rest of your day.
And there were no visits from Clinton & Stacy, or Ty Pennington, or even a single gay man trying to get me to love my body - or wear better clothing!
Nothing happened except they picked MEMEMEMEMEMEME!!! and it is all about ME, isn't it?
Please enjoy the music we have selected for our wonderful grand re-opening. Yo Gabba Gabba - and probably only the sweet Faux Martha will recognize the band!
Play it loud tonight while the guys stink up your house playing poker and drinking beers!
And now ladies and gentleman, readers of all ages, the grand re-opening grand finale!!!!
I was told, "I'm afraid that if you don't post the poo picture, Becki and I will have to come and pelt you with olives on behalf of the BlogMommas community!"
The story behind this is that Boo Boo La La had been having trouble - she came in the kitchen and asked to get naked (normal two year old behavior, trust me). The next thing I knew she said, "MOM! COME LOOK! I POOPED!!!" and then she asked Daddy to come look, then Jake-y, then Sair, then Sair's boyfriend - he declined - and everyone told her it was the best poop ever!
Boo Boo said, "MOM, we better take a picture."
So we did.
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Wednesday, September 3, 2008
I am getting very excited for my new blog - Burg is doing a fantastic job of putting up with me!
The weekend was nice when we hit Jellystone; SIL made me a new drink she called a Root Beer Float ---
Vanilla Rum
Root Beer
YUM!!!
We have some nice plans coming up:
I will be joining old sorority sisters at bars in NE
Hubby is playing poker with the boys and playing golf
I will be finishing up the quarter - THANK GOD!
Fogo De Chao and friends - little brother will babysit!
Old Fashioned Hoedown in Minnetrista?!?!!!
Oh YES, it is all possible in September kids.
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