merry christmas

merry christmas one and all.... ho ho ho mmmmmm...... hee hee

snotty

changing my nickname from buffy to snotty. week ago today started coming down with a cold and i still have an over abundance of snot. i like to see how many disgusting noises i can make trying to get rid of aforementioned snot. i know, tmi... sorry. but this has been my life for a week and it's only fair you get to be a part of it. i'm a giving type person like that.

those who say dogs can't see tv don't know my lily. when she was a little puppy i was holding her in my lap and she sat there looking at the screen for a good 5 minutes. volume wasn't even on. well the definitive piece of evidence happened this weekend when was flopped on the floor when some commercial came on. she sat up staring at the screen (had a bright blue background and a guy with a bright orange shirt) and she barked and barked till it ended.

several weeks ago i bought some beautiful yarn at the yarn store to make this super cute felted (wool yarn that's washed so it fuses together) purse. funny part is i don't know how to knit. that's not really entirely true. i can knit a simple scarf, but that's it. the purse requires someone who knows what they are doing. maybe if i fall asleep with a knitting show on tv i'll learn through osmosis? i can't begin to imagine what i was thinking in buying all this stuff. it will be my project over christmas to learn how. my incentive will be that i promise to post a picture of it afterwards. now i have to.

pappies

had a good weekend. decided to take friday off and my dad came down so we would go around to some air museums. first stop was the cavanaugh museum at addison airport. mostly ww1 and ww2 planes. we were told that the pilot of the plane in the pic still comes by about once a year. they say he sits alone in the cockpit of the plane for about an hour not saying a word. must be bittersweet memories he carries with him. second stop was american airlines museum. it was anti-climatic as most of it was under construction. however, there's a flight simulator you can sit in and an old braniff pappy sits in there with you to guide you and show you what to do. i flew us under the golden gate bridge and in for a smooth landing, unfortunately i drove us right off the runway, into the grass probably killing all on board... oh well. at least no one had to freeze to death or be eaten by sharks in the bay, right?

fun day came to a crashing halt when we came back to my house to find my dad's dog having destroyed my blinds in the kitchen. apparently he has separation anxiety. good thing he's cute!

how do i do it

i go to the video store tonight to rent a movie. since it's a new release, the shelf where they should be is empty. drat. i go to the front to see if it's available. after looking in the 'to be restocked queue' i walk up to a clerk and oh so casually and completely innocently ask "what are the chances of me getting knocked up tonight?" as soon as it comes out of my mouth i was horrified. not skipping a beat, the cute video guys says 'well, my shift ends at 10:00.' i turn beat red and make a hasty exit.

in other news, my dad is in washington state visiting his relatives. he came across some cool old family photos at his cousin's house and scanned a few. the man in the middle is my great grandfather's father. he fought in the civil war. why do they always look so freakin' sad and depressed? is it the clothes perhaps? i'm so glad someone invented the word 'cheese' so that folks would smile in pictures.

maniacal waver

on my way home from work tonight i was driving behind a guy in a big pickup truck. he kept waving frantically at me and i thought 'who the heck is this guy?'. ..... then i realized the crazed waving arm belonged to that of a large dog's bushy tail.
geez.. and here i thought i was being hit on.

geriatric giraffes

just read in our local news about the world's oldest giraffe, Hildy, dying this morning. she was born and raised at the Dallas zoo. i remember seeing her and feeling the same now as i did then: sad. sad that she never knew what it was like to live in the wild. granted animals in captivity live longer than they would in the wild as they are protected and have health care, but does it make it right? and how would you miss what you never knew? not to mention the smell.. you ever take a big whiff by the elephant and giraffe enclosures?
here's a cool thing to do next time you go to the zoo. at the orangutan cages, open your purse and hold it out for them. they will come down and try to see in your purse. it works everytime- tried and true. their curiosity gets the better of them and they can't help but look. they'll sit and stare in to your purse for as long as you let them. i bet they just want a breath mint or a kleenex perhaps. they just need to adopt a grandma.

savory thoughts

it's always said that you should never go to the grocery store hungry. primarily because you'll buy lots of food you wouldn't have ordinarily purchased, just because it sounded good. i have a different reason: lip licking. casually strolling down the aisle looking for your favorite rice a roni flavor when you spy something that just sounds good. then, to your horror you realize you are licking your lips. it's so not cute, but completely unconscious. so embarassing.