The new (and final) season of Lost starts in about 10 minutes. So, for those of you who haven’t been watching the show, you have *just* enough time to get completely caught up.
Link courtesy Finally Lost.
I guess she always gets what she wants
Me: “Well, we don’t always get what we want.”
Evie: “You and mommy?”
Evie: “Do I have to keep my socks on? Is it the law?”
After soccer practice, we were watching the big kids (adults and teens) play a soccer tournament. Evie asked, “Will they get butterfly stamps too?”
Sara: “Throw up in the toilet, like mommy!”
Instructions that immediately made sense to Evie, even in her sickened state. She was 3 for 3.
Me: “What number is two ones?”
Evie: “I don’t know, what?”
Me: “You know! What number is it?”
Evie: “I don’t know.” ::whispering to me:: “Say eleven!”
At least one city councilman is concerned
The residents of Lawndale, California are causing a stink over the town’s plants. Apparently, the roads are lined with garlic–which either smells like skunk or marijuana depending on who you talk to. KTLA did a report on the dispute and spoke with Councilman Jim Ramsey who argued against the removal of the plants.
Starts off pretty reasonable, right? Standard stuff? Let me get you some quotes from Jim Ramsey:
“The only reason why we ever had garlic put in, is so we could keep the vampires out of town. And since we have had garlic, I haven’t seen one, single, solitary vampire in town.”
“Oh, these plants are protecting the city, and if we take them out, we may have vampires in here again.”
You can see the full video here, or the abridged version here.
I think this is awesome. We need to elect more guys who are concerned with the REAL issues. What’s your councilman concerned about? Zoning?
And furthermore, is someone looking into these “humans” that are complaining about the smell??
Snuggie
For Christmas, I got a snuggie. This is something I would never buy for myself, but when I got one, I was kind of excited.
For those not in the know, a snuggie is something sold in late night infomercials that combines a blanket and a shirt. Basically, it is a blanket with sleeves.
The height of fashion AND comfort!
I have to tell you, it doesn’t seem like much, but it is better than I could have imagined.
You don’t think about how often you need your arms when you’re in a blanket. Normally, you probably just pop your arms out and do something and then go back. Or, maybe you just have the blanket over your back, not over your front. But if you could keep your arms in, it would obviously be better.
Sometimes the best inventions are the little things. Also, I should point out that this blanket happens to be Nala colored, so cat hair is not a problem.
So if you come to my house, expect to see me imperiously strutting around in my tan-colored robe, smug as smug could be.
More Search Terms
As I mentioned in my previous post on the subject, I am endlessly fascinated by some of the things that people google which result in them landing on my blog. So here are some of the highlights. These are broken down into a few categories of amusement, 1) what the heck was that person searching for, 2) how did that search land on my blog, 3) I don’t know why someone was searching for that, but amazingly, I have a blog post for them!
What the heck was that person searching for?
- ‘tactical mayonnaise’ – Lunch tactics? Or war tactics?
- ‘resplendent start with the dead’ – I don’t know what that means, but I’ve had that one no less than 4 times!
- ‘pull out fingernails’ – Yeesh. No thank you!
- ‘human zombie cat’ – Yeesh! NO THANK YOU! Stitch together your sick creations on someone else’s blog thank-you-very-much. I have enough trouble with a living, non-human-hybrid cat.
- ‘jelly fish hunting fighting boats’ – What could that even mean? It conjures images of sea battles with giant mutant jelly fish.
How did that search land on my blog?
These are usually things that I don’t believe I’ve ever talked about, but I do in fact agree with or support. So it’s like Google detected that these people think like me and led them to my blog, despite me never mentioning anything of the sort.
- ‘are “two question” marks aggressive’ – I don’t know how they found me, but for any future searches on this topic: Yes. Yes they are.
- ‘awesome cat’ – Okay, I had a couple of hits on this one, but I’m not sure how those found me. I have the opposite. But I did get a hit on ‘nusiance cats’, so that one I understand.
- ‘what do zombie pirates say?’ – I really don’t know. But I kind of feel like, if anybody should know, I should know, right?
- ‘where there be pirates’ – Was this a search by an actual pirate?!
- ‘i grit my teeth when i pet my cat’ – My favorite, hands down. It describes my position exactly. I don’t think I ever said that on my blog though, so how did they end up here?
I don’t know why someone was searching for that, but amazingly, I have a blog post for them!
- ‘big headed chiquita bananas’ – Lead to this post, in which I mention the chiquita banana lady, but not the size of her head.
- ‘bacon evie’ – Now those are good search terms for finding me! I get a lot of ‘erith1 is this thing on?’ searches, but those are more obvious. What if ‘bacon evie’ was looking for someone else?
- ‘litter box in bathroom curtain AND cat peed on curtains why’ – I soo feel for the desperation of the person searching for this. Now, my cat didn’t pee on my curtains, but my story did involve both cat pee and a curtain. So I wasn’t too far off.
- ‘picklerita’ – Wow, I actually had a good post for them! There can’t be that many picklerita posts out there.
- ‘she toot on me’ – ::sigh:: but I did get a ‘toot hole’ search, so maybe the phrase is catching on!
Shane Halbach 