Saturday Seething (part 25 of a 444 part series)

They say "to error is human" but there can be nothing more frustrating than human errors.
To make a long story short- I took my car to get the safety and emissions inspected to renew my registration and due to human error ended up paying someone else's taxes. The poor counter girl had a hard time telling the difference between gray and silver Mazdas and confused my paperwork with another persons. Luckily the other person paid my taxes in a trade type situation; if he hadn't then I would have had to go to the DMV to get the situation resolved (agh!!).
At least everything worked out and I didn't die of a heart attack.
Happy Saturday!!!

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ROYAL WEDDING - 2011

> I am so happy I woke up at 3 AM this morning!!!
> This was such a beautiful wedding and I loved every second of it. The dress was perfect and I thought her simple veil was classic. They will be able to look back on the photos of their wedding in 30-50 years and not cringe!
> Her sister's cowl neck dress was really fun and I loved the box pleats on the flower girl dresses. William and Harry looked regal in their military regalia.
> I really enjoyed the sermon the Bishop of London gave about love and marriage in the modern world- it almost sounded LDS!!
> I went back to bed at 5:30 once the bride and groom arrived at Buckingham Palace then woke up at 6:30 to see them come out to the balcony and the two sweet kisses... Awe... And the crowd goes wild!!!
> Then I went back to bed until 8:30 and saw them drive out in the blue convertible with the license plate "JU5TWED"- too cute!!!
> What did you think of the royal wedding 2011?
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ROYAL WEDDING- 2011

ROYAL WEDDING - 1981

I am SO excited for the royal wedding tomorrow!!!!
I wasn't alive in '81 but I remember my sister Andrea always talking about it when I was really little. We stayed up (or got up early) to watch Diana's funeral with Andrea in '97. I kind of wish we could watch William and Kate's wedding together for the sake of continuity :)

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQTe47cR-Ws&feature=youtube_gdata_player

I still haven't decided if I'm actually going to wake up at 3 AM to watch or sleep and watch clips on You Tube. (if only this were next Friday then I could DVR it!)
Do you have any Royal Wedding plans? I might have to make cucumber sandwiches and wear a funky headband to work so I can feel a wee bit British :)
Is there any particular commemorative wedding memorabilia you wish you could get? I'd love a tea tin or one of the commemorative plates. I did get a commemorative phone cover (yes, I'm that cool) but it is still being shipped- I'll post a picture once it arrives.

Happy Wedding W&C!!

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This Totally Made my Day

Marines+Britney Spears+primitive editing= The Best You Tube video I've ever seen!!

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCrG6TzG-nw&feature=youtube_gdata_player

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Saturday Seething (Part 24 of a 444 part series)

Sometimes I wish I had a remote control for the weather.

I would love to have it snow when I can stay home all day or be at the cabin for a weekend.
I would love it to be sunny and comfortable on my days off work.
I would love for it to be rainy when I want to wear my beautiful trench coat (and feel British!).
I would love hot days to spend at the pool.
I would love cool days for a long walk.

It would be so awesome to be able to select the weather!!

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Oh look, Spring Spheres!!

http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2011/04/09/seattle-school-renames-easter-eggs-spring-spheres

 

Please follow the link and read the article then come back to this post.

If you choose not to follow or unable to follow the link, I will give a brief summary.

 

A teenage girl was volunteering for a week in a 3^rd grade class. At the end of the week, she wanted to give the kids plastic eggs filled with treats and jellybeans and she asked the teacher if that would be alright. The teacher then approached the school board and they said they could hand out the gifts as long as they called them “Spring Spheres” instead of Easter Eggs. So when the girl pulled out the treats, the teacher exclaimed “Oh look- Spring Spheres” and the kids looked at her and said “Oh, Easter Eggs!”

 

The part that gets me mad is not the removal of the word “Easter” because that is just beyond ridiculous and will not go in to it at this time.

 

The part that gets my blood boiling is that the plastic eggs are not a sphere shape- they are an ovoid!!!

That school board and teacher should be ashamed of themselves. The Earth is a sphere, a ball is a sphere. An egg has a slight point to one end making it an ovoid.

I guess the word “egg” is so offensive and must be purged from the public school system at the cost of educational mal-practice. These poor children- what other subjects are the teachers misleading them about all because they are PC?!

 

 

 

Saturday Seething (part 23 of a 444 part series)

The following is a conversation I over-heard between an 8-10 year old girl and her grandmother this evening.

 

Little Girl: Grandma, I have the best idea ever. How about I go over and pick out a fabric and you can make me a pillow- all we need is the stuffing and it would be a super fun craft. We could make it this size (pointing to pillow on my couch) except smaller and a different shape.

 

Grandmother: I don’t like sewing.  How about we spend time looking at the art?

 

LG: Come on Grandma! I have been SO bored all weekend… well except yesterday; yesterday was the best day of my life.

 

G: So you really have only been bored today.

 

LG: Yeah. So are you going to make me a pillow or not?

 

 

 

Um… Little Girl, I am guessing you are NOT getting a pillow made for you tonight.

 

 

I am not sure why but the way the little girl spoke to her grandmother really bugged me. She wasn’t being super bratty or disrespectful but her attitude just rubbed me the wrong way.  It is probably because I have been taught to revere (fear) authority figures but I would never dare demand my grandmother make me a pillow because I was bored and I wanted to pick out fabric. I felt bad enough asking her to hem my dress the night before prom.

 

I must admit I had to stifle my laughter when she said she was SOOOO BORED this weekend, and then promptly stated that yesterday was “the best day of [her] life”- totally cracked me up!!

 

Day 90

Toilet training cats (or at least the attempt to toilet train cats) has been and continues to be a strange journey.

 

As of today, both M&F use the bowl regularly and with less than a teaspoon of litter or no litter at all.  We clean up immediately after they are done so it doesn’t start to smell.

The next step is to fill the bowl bit by bit with water until the bowl of water is the same as the water level in the toilet- then take out the bowl.

I am worried to push to the next step because of what happened last time we moved forward on the training (see post Day 44) but that is a risk I guess I will just have to take.

Hopefully we can have them fully toilet trained by this Summer