Clubbin'

It seems like everyone is in a book club. I don't really know how they work except that everyone reads the same book and then they talk about it. Is that fun? How long do you get to read the book? What happens if you show up to the meeting and you haven't finished the book, or worse, even started it? Is there punishment? I like to read as much as the next person but to be honest sometimes I would rather just zone out in front of the TV.


Over the holidays I read a couple books. Fast Food Nation was one of the selections. I loved it. It was probably the most facinating book I ever finished. I will no longer eat fast food (I didn't each much to begin with) and now I'm dealing with the withdrawals of hamburgers. Hamburgers have been my favorite food my entire life. Now I can't even bring myself to buy ground beef. I made ground turkey burgers a week or so ago and there was just something not right with it. I'll have to experiment more.




Now I'm reading Garbage Land. This could turn out to be as fascinating as Fast Food Nation. Oh, don't get me wrong, I can still put the book down at anytime to zone out to the TV but is it very interesting what happens to garbage. I wonder what I won't do when I'm finished with it.

Brady, you're my Brady

Do you think Tom Brady will marry the Victoria's Secret model now cuz he's so embarrased that he lost the Super Bowl?

Rambling Posts

Ok, I have to say it, I love the postings by Anonymous. He/She is so wise.

So, my motor mounts will cost me $650. I am paralyzed. I think I will go to the nearest church, help pass the plate, and then run with the money. Who could blame me? We all know I'm not going up, I'm going down. I'm actually proud of it.

I am posting this picture of me and the baby cuz I don't have a double chin. The baby is the double chin, but in this one case, it's ok. He's laughing cuz I'm soooo funny.

Pretty Teacher and Pretty Girl and I are thinking of going to Tahoe next holiday season to ski. We went to San Francisco two holiday seasons ago and had so much fun we think we want to travel again. We'll see what happens cuz no one knows if the snow will fall like it did this year. Maybe we can even meet up with Stephen.

PS - I got my free bag at Fresh and Easy!!! Ha Ha Ha, I stuck it to the man!!

Fried!

Ok, I just have to say it. What the hell is Fry's thinking? Did you see the ad that saves you money if you buy 9 of the item? NINE???? Who the hell needs nine of anything - except maybe lives? Do you need nine mayonaises? Ew! Even if you have a Super Bowl Party do you really need nine bags of Fritos or nine DiGiorno pizzas? Come on Fry's, get a grip.

Tomorrow the Fresh and Easy opens in my neighborhood. I'm scared to death that they will run out of free tote bags before I can get there. Why? I don't know. I guess cuz it's free and, as you know, nothing is free for me this year.

I have to mention the cool video on YouTube so Brien doesn't get mad at me. It's pretty funny if you are familiar with Google Maps. If you aren't - well, I don't know what to tell ya!

2006, it STILL was a very good year!

Well, at least this year is being consistant! I have to get new motor mounts on my car before my engine heaves itself out of my car. This should only be several hundred dollars. No biggie because I am independenly wealthy. Oh wait - that must be someone else. I have no money! The lottery gods are not helping either! I'm still longing for it to be 2006.


Someone dropped by my office and asked if I was a smart ass when I was younger. What, like you learn to be this way? Let me tell you, I was born this way. It's not something that you can teach or learn, you just are. I know you all are jealous. Then, he asked if my kids were smart asses. People, this is inherited. I'm telling you, they had no choice. We just have to decide if we will use our powers for good or evil. My money is on evil.

2006, it was a very good year!

2008 isn't starting out very good for me. I know there are homeless people living in the park while it's freezing outside and I know there are starving people in a lot of countries and I know there is inhumane treatment of people going on in many, many countries but people, this blog is about me!!

I am having a problem with my garage door now. We all know the mishap I had with my phone. Now my garage door broke, or to be more specific, Pretty Girl's. Why does this inconvenience me you ask? Well, we have two garage doors and hers is broken so I let her use my side cuz she comes and goes in the dark hours of the morning and night. So I have to deal with manually opening and closing the other side which means I have to open it, back out my car, go into the house, close the garage door and secure it, go out the front door and then get in my car and go. It's a lot of work. The Garage Door Repair Man, or as I like to refer to him, Gedrum (Garage Door Repair Man) came last week to "fix" it. Gedrum lubed and oiled and tightened and tinkered and it was "fixed". The remote didn't work so he sent me to Radio Shack (or as I have always refered to them as Radio Shit) for a "special" battery. Pretty Girl and I went there and made them promise that if the battery didn't work we could return it. They did and I will cuz the remote still doesn't work and, I know all of you will be surprised to hear, niether does the door!

That's right, now it's "broken" again! 2008 is turing out to be quite expensive. 2007 was also, as I had to replace my heat pump/air conditioner for a mere $9,500!!!! So that is why I think back on 2006 as a good year. Now I can only hope that I get a tax refund.

A Ring-a-ding, ding

Can you amaze two very young twenty-something boys? I can. I went to the cell phone kiosk at Costco to talk to them about my phone. I told them what happened and they couldn't believe it. I wonder what kind of stories that kill cell phones they can believe. They looked at me astounded. Maybe because they figured someone like me (old) would never do something so stupid (I do stupid stuff all the time, I guess the jokes on them). Anyway, they said I had to go to a T-Mobile store. Ok, I said. But they were too busy taking my phone apart to hear me. Once they got the phone back together they, again, told me to take the phone to a T-Mobile store. I looked at them and said, again, Ok!

I went to the nearest T-Mobile store and got a phone for 10 bucks. Sound too good to be true? Well it is. I had to extend my contract for 2 years which they charged me $18 bucks to do. Can you believe it? They will bleed me dry for an additional 2 years but I have to pay them to do it. In my next life I'm going to own a cell phone company ... and write text books! When I asked the girl if the card could withstand a bubble bath she said it should be fine. I was very relieved until she asked if I saved my phone numbers to the card. WHAT!!???? Good god, you mean you can save them not to the card? Who knew (everyone except me apparently).

As luck would have it, all my numbers were saved to the card except Petty Teacher's. How weird is that? Luckily, after about five minutes I remembered what her number was and programmed it in.

So, to make a long story short, I have a phone again and I don't have to email everyone I know to ask for their phone numbers. I don't have my cool ring tone but I bet my friend Robert will download it to my phone the next time I see him.