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Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Don't Make Me Cringe

As some of you may know, I'm not the worlds best speller. I know, it's a shock. However, I feel like such a slacker when I use the spell checker tool. It makes it so easy to never even know you made a mistake. For example: I could spell a word such as "their," but I might not be using it correctly. Spell check doesn't pick it up, I have to. Since I don't really like to use spell check, I try not to misspell words.

I don't think that other people are conscious of what they are spelling. Recently, Writinggal got all pissy over "y'all," today I'm getting pissy over the word "a lot." Friends! You're killing me with this word! I have told myself many times to just get over it and deal with it. But when people with advance education are spelling it wrong "alot," I cringe. CRINGE!

Seriously, if you are not going to use spell checker and spell words like "Vacuum" and "Conscious" correctly (and good for you if you can) but not spell "a lot" correctly, then you deserve to hear my rant. It is 2 separate words, DO NOT write it as one!

"You look like you've lost a lot of weight."
It's not:
"You look like you've lost alot of weight."

I will stop reading whatever I'm reading if I see that word spelled wrong. So a warning to you; you might lose me if you can't spell:

a lot
a lot
a lot
a lot

Tuesday, March 21, 2006

New Photos

Ok Tony, because of your "request" I've changed my photo. I thought I'd throw Justin into it too. I know he doesn't even read my blog unless I force him to or when Mike challenges him.

Let me know what you think and don't hold back like you did yesterday. I think we are cute but that's me.

Have a good day everyone!

Monday, March 20, 2006

Short Problems

My height is important to me. If you seen me you know why. I am 5 feet tall. Unfortunately no more than that. However, when I went to the Doctor's office the other day, the nurse measured me and said "4 feet 11 inches." "No I'm 5 feet tall, don't put down 4'11." She then reassured me that she doesn't think the scale is accurate.

What kind of Doctor's office is this where they are using inaccurate tools? If that's the case, I can only hope that the scale was off in my favor.

So going into the examining room with the knowledge of me an inch shorter, I was also told that my left leg was longer than the right. Not by much but just enough to cause the pain that I was having. What the hell kinda twilight zone was I in? Being short has always been a problem for me and now I'm a gimp.

But then we both came to the conclusion that training for the marathon did it to me. Grrr Marathon! I knew you were no good to me!

She gave me the suggestion of seeing a chiropractor to get re-aligned. I'll do anything if it will give me back my inch...oh and take away the pain.

I went to the chiropractor. I'm not sure about the whole thing. I did like the popping sounds that came from my neck, back and hips. But I'm not sure that it gave me back my lost inch. I go again on Wednesday. I'll make sure to ask her if she can make me taller. Or at least make my legs even.

Monday, March 13, 2006

NASCAR Crap

NASCAR was in town this weekend with all their beer and ugly jackets. I have no problem with the "sport" but I do have a problem with what their fans represent.

I know what the confederate flag looks like. I know what it means. Then why it is still flown along side the American Flag?

At a NASCAR event?

And this is why that "sport" will never get my attention. Well no more than this.

Thursday, March 09, 2006

Sunday's Aren't Safe Anymore!


Cable t.v. has always been a luxury. When Justin and I were first married, we learned to love Fox and UPN. So we never really missed cable t.v. And if there was something that we wanted to see, we'd head over to my grannies house. She's got all the time in the world so she has to have cable. Has to!

We also used other free resources, like the library, to get caught up on our favorite series. One of these being The Sopranos. We'd heard it was fabulous and evil. We had to see it. And even though we were years behind (the show first aired in 1999 and we started watching it in 2003) we never had to wait for a new episode. So we'd check out each season and watch them with excitement. We knew the opening song, "Woke Up This Morning" by the 3rd episode and we loved Tony and Carmela. Well I just loved her house, not her accent. But it became a favorite show that we both loved to discuss and theorize.

Last year, after we breezed through the newly released season 5, we knew it would be at least 2 years before we saw season 6. It was something we just had to live with. So to hold me over, Justin got me The Sopranos Trivia game. We've only played it once and I think I got all the questions wrong, but I still tried and learned. It was like a new episode but trivia style!

But the wait is over my friends for both Season 6 and digital cable t.v.! Knowing that the first episode of season 6 starts this Sunday and knowing a friend over at Cox Cable, the timing couldn't be more perfect. I called up my friend Poodle and he got us a great 3 month deal for only $7.95. I only need 3 months because that's how long The Sopranos will be on. After that, we will go back to our basic cable. Justin says he'll need that in writing, but I don't want to pay the extra money. So Justin, (in writing) I will call Poodle and cancel HBO in 3 months; June 9th. And we will just be happy with my encore channels.

Blog readers, you are my witness!

Monday, March 06, 2006

And the Winner is...

I thought some of my readers would like see what all the hype was about with BrokeBack Mountain. I haven't seen that movie yet, but I think that this one looks better!

Thursday, March 02, 2006

What a Surprise!

Justin actually decided to post a comment on my blog! If you missed it, just look in the comments from the post below this one. Of course when he has to defend himself against Mike, he'll do whatever it takes.

He looks happy to have posted here!