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Animal Abuse or why I shouldn’t have kids

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I was playing with the cat on Saturday night and all of a sudden she sort of ran away a little bit and started freaking out.  She was pawing at her face and going crazy.  So we went over to see what was up and we saw blood flying out of her mouth!  So we started panicking and I grabbed her and I could see that she was licking her tooth and it was wiggling all over.  This was like one of the two major fangs in her mouth!  And when she closed her mouth I could see that tooth was hanging lower than the other one.  So I freaked out and I ran upstairs to get the vet’s number and in the meantime Sara was watching Nala and saw her tooth fall out.  Oh man, I felt so bad!  I don’t really remember hitting her head but we were sort of rough housing.  I called the vet’s emergency number and he said to watch her and see if she was okay and bring her in on Monday.  Well, she didn’t seem to be in pain at all, she let us pet her and she even wanted to keep playing!  I gave her food and she dug into it with her usual gusto.  But I still felt really bad.

So yesterday I took her to the vet and they came up with something that I didn’t even think of…what if that tooth broke off and the root is still in there!  So we have to have some surgery on Friday. 😦  Her doctor said that it was probably just a rotten tooth, but I still feel responsible.  So now I have to pet her all the time and give her whatever she wants.  Also, I have the fun of giving her antibiotic pills twice a day!

This is neither here nor there, but my brother called me tonight to tell me that he’s on his way to a bar in Madison that serves bacon on Tuesdays.  I’ve had popcorn and hotdogs, but never bacon!  Brilliant idea, but kind of strange.  Only in Wisconsin kids.  Only in Wisconsin.

I did my first Sudoku puzzle today.  Am I the last one on earth?

New Developments

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So Evie had her one month check up today.  Remember how the doctor was worried about her weight and we had to take her in for a weight check?  Yeah, doesn’t seem to be a problem now!  She went from 7 lbs. 0 oz. to 10 lbs. 1 oz. in a month!!  I don’t want to call her a little piggy (I’m no Alec Baldwin) but that is pretty impressive!

And speaking of eating, I gave her her first bottle tonight.  It took two tries (not too bad from what I hear) but after that she took to it like a duck to water.  But then again, after the previous paragraph, maybe that is not too surprising!  So looks like mommy doesn’t have to worry when it is time to go back to work!

Lots of visitors this weekend, but we didn’t really do anything.  The weather was really nice, but we only really got out once for a walk.  I did manage to grill out about 3 times, so that was good.

Just as a side note, there is now a billboard for TMZ.com on my way to work.  Doesn’t it seem weird that a website is advertising on a billboard?  I should climb up there and try to double click it.

Okay, okay, enough with the small talk…make with the ha ha’s!

I’d like to address this one right away.  It is a “gourmet” candy bar that consists of a bacon center surrounded by chocolate.  Got Book wants to know if my love of bacon overcomes my general disgust of mixing sweet and salty things?  The answer is no, absolutely not!  I think that question has been asked and answered with the bacon snack bars and the bacon caramel.  Why would I want bacon and chocolate mixed when I could have bacon and chocolate separate?  I do not even like to get syrup on my bacon or sausage!

Now, I think this is an ingenious idea!  It is an alarm clock and when it goes off it runs away from you!  Then it randomly changes direction, so by the time you catch it you are awake.  Watch the video to see it in action.  It will even jump off your nightstand!

Now finally, this isn’t exactly a game, but I was curious the other day how fast I could type.  You, dear reader, should try this out and tell me if it seems accurate to you.  I was typing on the Wizard of Oz text.  I messed up some at the end so I think I could do better, but I guess I did pretty good.  I don’t really know what the average typer types?

Net Speed:

81 WPM
(words/minute)

Accuracy:

97%

Gross Speed:

83 WPM
(words/minute)

Stuff

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Sara’s family is here right now, but they are currently attending Wicked.  We bought them tickets to thank them for all the help with the new house.  Spreading the Wicked love! 🙂

Just when I go and move away from Philly, someone in Delaware has to go and invent Bacon Flavored ice cream!

Okay, we just missed it this year, but mark your calendars for next year on July 12th…the 30th annual Mooning of Amtrack in California.  My favorite part is when they’re describing “night mooning” in which you have to shine a flashlight on yourself so the train can see!  Also, I warn you, if you look at the pictures it is kind of gross seeing butts squeezing through the links of a chain link fence!

Here’s a nice little PSA out of Maine.  No matter how many times you’ve seen someone on TV spray hairspray Mission Impossible style to see the security system lasers, that doesn’t work in real life.  Just ask these two girls.  And honestly, now that I have a security system myself, how did they think that was going to work?  It doesn’t use lasers!  Unless that was one hardcore tattoo parlor…

Finally, I will leave you with one of the most hilarious things I have read in a long time, courtesy Jeremy.  (Took me a long time to get this one up, but I didn’t forget!)  Check out one of the most hilarious museums I could ever imagine!  The comments are great.  Or if you prefer you can go through the Slashdot article. It would be hilarious to go there, but as Sara said, you would be obligated to donate $19 to science to balance the universe.

Update time

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Happy 4th of July!

Before I get started, let me just say that Wendy’s (and the inside of my stomach) have a new sandwich called the Baconator!  I mean, there was no way I could not get it once I saw the name.  It wasn’t quite as good as it sounded though.  Bacon at a fast food restaurant isn’t quite as good as real bacon.

So last weekend we went to Wisconsin for Baby Shower #2.  My mom planned a lot of games.  I skipped out and played Frisbee golf with my uncle and cousin.  That was a blast!  I haven’t played in years, in fact I haven’t even thrown a Frisbee in at least 2 years.  I lost, but it was a close game.  It was a nice course too, although not as good as Ravines though.  I got back to the shower in time to open presents.  I didn’t want to sit up there in front of everybody, but I made myself because I knew Sara had been sitting there in front of everybody for a couple of hours already!  There were a lot of people and I was particularly glad to see some of my dad’s side of the family because I haven’t seen them for a long time.  I think everybody had a good time, my Aunt Lois said it was the best shower she’d ever been to.  I know my mom had a good time planning it.  Also we got a lot of presents! 🙂

Yesterday was Sara and I’s 3 year anniversary.  We didn’t do anything special, just take out from Noodles, etc.  I love that place, I could eat there every day.

We didn’t do anything for the 4th either.  My big plan for today was to hang the ceiling fan we bought for our bedroom.  Wow, was I not prepared for the amount of effort that was!  I’m starting to think I’m just not very handy. 🙂  It took about 4 hours.  Really, it was all pretty easy, except the instructions were very vague when it came to where exactly the receiver for the remote control was supposed to go.  Getting that worked out accounted for about 2 hours.  And I was so good about reading the directions this time!!  The problem was that it was sooo ridiculously heavy and I didn’t bother moving the bed before hand, so I’m holding 25 lbs. in one fully outstretched arm while trying to turn some screw or something with my other arm.  After 4 hours of this I kind of felt like I had ran a marathon!  I was covered in sweat, my arms were shaking and I was starving.  Sara tried to get me to quit at about the 2 hour mark saying we could live without the remote, but I knew it had to fit in there somehow!  So finally persistence paid off and everything is up and working. 

So why do I have the sneaking suspicion that I’ve just set in motion my own doom in spinning blade form?

In unrelated awesomeness news, did you know they made an “Evil Dead” the musical?  Who could resist such great songs such as “Ode to an Accidental Stabbing” and “Blew That B!tch Away.” Looks like it’s only playing until Aug. 4th though, so you better get  move on if you want to see it.  I would love to make the trip up there, but I don’t think I’m going to make it. 😦

Long time no update!

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Okay, well first off Sara and I changed our phone numbers, so if you don’t have my new one give me an email and I’ll give it to you.

Second off, I know I’m pretty late on this one, but Neil Patrick Harris came out last week.  There must be a lot of upset ladies out there!  I don’t know if you’re watching How I Met Your Mother or not, but the show is fantastic and NPH’s character Barney makes the show.  If you don’t watch it you should really check it out.

So where to start?  How about with this:

Tell me that is not a fantastic costume!  I crack up every time I look at that.  Even now I’m laughing!  Oh man.

Now that the humor is out of the way, let’s get serious for a second…robots think people taste like bacon!!!  This is the begining of the end for us folks.  I like the comment below the article, “Well at least we don’t taste like chicken.”  Sara pointed out that we’re too fat as a species to be anything so lean as chicken.

Speaking of eating the flesh of the living, it looks like I missed The Monroeville Mall World Record Attempt Zombie Walk in Pittsburgh.  It’s billed as a world record attempt for “The Most People Participating in a Zombie Walk.”  Basically you show up at the mall where they filmed the original Dawn of the Dead (one of my all time favs) in makeup and shuffle around for a few hours.  Sara’s favorite part was the zombie food drive.  “All zombies are urged to bring donations of non-perishable food items.”  Like brains-in-a-can?  Do zombies eat anything that is non-perishable?  Also enjoyable is the advice to “Stay on the sidewalk unless crossing the street. When crossing, it’s OK to “break character” and cross quickly. Think fast “New Dawn of the Dead” zombies verses the slower “Old Dawn of the Dead” zombies when crossing the street.”

In other record-breaking zombie news, someone is attempting to break the world record for number of people reproducing the zombie dance from Michael Jackson’s Thriller video.  150 in case you were wondering.  I guess the previous record of 3 people at our wedding reception isn’t going to hold. 😦

That is all.