Brrrrrrr!

It's cold here today. It was nice and warm yesterday. Blast those artic breezes!

Dexter is curled up in his bed sleeping. I put his sweater on because he was shivering. Bella has found a nest of warm clean clothes. A bit disturbed since I'm cleaning while she gets her beauty sleep.

I did some birthday shopping for the nieces and nephews. Jacob turns two on Friday, so I bought him a Veggie Tales collection of silly songs. DVDs were a suggestion from Grandma. His mom and dad bought a portable dvd player to keep him entertained in the car and in church a few months ago. Apparently, they now realize that his choice of entertainment is not exactly church appropriate. He LOVES The Wiggles, but embarrassing for mom and dad. *aunt giggles helplessly* Thus Veggie Tales will now teach him silly songs to sing in church. Britt turns nine today, so a gift certificate was in order so she can go pick out what she wants. So many birthdays in September. Mom Patty is going down under. I should send a card to Christy at least. I still need to find something fun and exciting for my brother. And I think we are probably going to put together a box of Slim Jim's, Kool Aid and goodies for RTL's brother.

Which leads me to another question, what is dry body wash? I know what dry shampoo is, but I've never heard of dry body wash. If anyone has an idea, please clue me in so I know what to look for.

I am cleaning house today. I can't stand the mess anymore. Too many projects and not enough time. I'd love to hire someone to come clean the house top to bottom just once. RTL asked me last night if I would be ready if Martha showed up at the door unexpectedly. Any other day, i'd be ready, but obviously not today.

Off to scrub.

Ways of the World

I've been watching Bosom Buddies on TV Land recently. Mindless 30 minute feel good humour. The latest show that I watched was about going to their high school reunion and of course they had the good old high school flashbacks. What perked my antenna up was the flashback where Henry is trying to ask a girl to the prom and she tells him that she can't go with him. Kip (who of course is in the background listening to the conversation) makes a comment about how all the girls go for Coach Jones. The girl walks off muttering that the Coach wasn't suppose to tell anyone.

All this time, I've been thinking that it was just my high school. We went through male coaches like they were water. No wonder the football team was so bad. The only one who didn't get fired was the worst of the bunch. Never could figure that one out. Probably because his wife worked at the school too. But for a tv show to make a joke about the girls dating the coaches, it must be more common than I thought.

Maybe I sound prudish, but come on, the coaches are NOT always the most attractive. At least the ones at my high school were not. *shudders in disgust*

Latest audiobook

Just finished listening to Buddha Boy by Kathe Koja. Wow! It was a great listen. I'm considering picking up some other books by her at the library so I can actually read them.

She has written some adult books, but from what I read on the back of the case she is known for her teen novels.

The story itself was fast paced, well written enough to listen to coherently, and moving. I recommend it as a light to medium read. Light because an adult should be able to get through it fairly quickly and medium because it is in the ABC after-school special teach a lesson genre. The characters are sophomores in high school so there is definite colorful language usage in case anyone would be offended by that.

For a laugh or a cry, as the case may be

Do a search on Google for the word failure.

You may either be laughing or crying at the first thing that comes up in the list.
Hopefully this won't change by the time everyone who is on the other side of the world wakes up.
If you aren't laughing (or crying) and are quite puzzled that I would lead you astray in a Google search, tell me what you found so we can mourn censorship together.

Reasons why direct mail marketing does not work

Marketers send direct mail to the wrong people.

Evidence - Today I received a letter inviting me to become a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States. My name was referred during a "nationwide search for the select individuals who have served our nation overseas in the United States Armed Forces at a time of foreign conflict or action".

Um, last time I checked, I hadn't served in any branch of the US military.

What makes the letter even more funny is the criteria for membership - (you have to have one of these) 1. served in Korea, 2. received hostile fire/imminent danger pay or 3. received a campaign medal or ribbon for service overseas during time of conflict. They also have nice little pictures of all the medals. And of course if this applied to me I would have to sign the pledge that begins "in the presence of Almighty God".