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Just because Michelle asked

Thursday, August 26, 2010

My girlfriend just won an award for her blog… Jersey Girl Gets Real.  Very cool!  And she posted some questions that all I have to do is answer them and pass them on to 6 others and I could get the award too.  Welllllll… I’ll do 1/2 of it.  So here we go.

1. If you blog anonymously, are you happy doing it that way; if you are not anonymous do you wish you had started out anonymously so you could be anonymous now? 

Crazy Cat Lady (CCL) says: Since I am blogging on my website as opposed to a blogging website – anonymous really wasn’t ever an option.

 2. Describe one incident that shows your inner stubborn side.

CCL says: Hmmmmmmmmm…. I guess my procrastination on my current project at work. It’s a yearly thing and it’s just a pain to do and I really don’t want to do it, so I procrastinate.

 3. What do you see when you really look at yourself in the face in the mirror?

 CCL says: Someone who’s tired and should take better care of herself but still has alot of life to live. (snarked directly from Michelle). And someone who needs to brush her hair… again.

4. What is your favorite summer cold drink?

CCL says: A nice glass of fresh squeezed lemonade – not too sweet, not to tart.

5. When you take time for yourself, what do you do?

CCL says: Knit, read, make a piece of jewelry.  Or maybe some tv. Ohhhh… don’t forget word puzzles. I like them too.

6. Is there something you still want to accomplish in your life? What is it?

CCL says: I don’t really know, Finish the remodel on my house. Other than that, I’m pretty content with my lot in life.

7. When you attended school, were you the class clown, the class overachiever, the class shy person, or always ditching school? Describe who you were if not one of these.

CCL says: I wasn’t shy, I wasn’t the clown. By my senior year I was always missing the 1st period of the day – I mean, come on, it was gym!  I wasn’t an overachiever either.  I did what I needed to get by.

8. If you close your eyes and want to visualize a very poignant moment in your life, what do you see?

CCL says: My Beloved and me just lounging in bed being silly and giggling and enjoying each other’s company.

9. Is it easy for you to share your true self in your blog or are you more comfortable writing posts about other people or events?

CCL says: My blog has a lot of TV, movie and other quotes. But the things I’ve written are actually about me and my life. So I guess that means it’s easy to share.

10. If you had the choice to sit and read or talk on the phone, which would you do and why?

CCL says: Definitely read.  I’m an only child and I was raised knowing how to entertain myself. Plus reading can take you to many different places.

There … done.  =)

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My David

Saturday, August 21, 2010

My girlfriend Michelle wrote a wonderful blog post on new love –  Jersey Girl Gets Real.  I’m a day early for shameless promoting of her website, but hey… sue me.  No wait – don’t! 

I’ve found the perfect man. Well, the perfect man for me. Granted he’s not actually perfect. But then again – neither am I. His quirks and idiosyncrasies compliment mine.  It took me a long time to find him and he’s all mine.  Once you find your perfect person and the initial rush is over… it’s like putting on your favorite pair of blue jeans.  They are comfortable, fit perfect, and make you feel good.  And when you find your perfect person, you should hang on to them.

It reminds me of a friends of mine.  I dated the husband in high school.  And in college he found his perfect woman. The beginning was a little rocky. He’s wasn’t sure she loved him, but today they are happily married and have 2 beautiful kids. And I got a friend out of it. True love in action. They are an adorable couple.

But this is about My David. He is wonderful to me. He’s loyal, loving and just darned cute.  He’s intelligent and well read.  He’s passionate and most importantly he’s patient with me – which some days I really need. And he treats me like a Princess.  Which is all I really wanted in life.  He understands when I am cranky and usually just ignores that I’m cranky. He tries very hard to make me happy.  And he doesn’t really have to try. He makes me happy. He’s like a warm fuzzy blanket that you wrap around you and you warm and safe and happy.  All he has to do to cheer me up is smile at me or tell me a corny joke.  The sound of his voice lightens my day.  I guess we’re still kind of in a honeymoon type period.  If you haven’t read Michelle’s blog – go do that.

We are silly together. He’s got a bunch of nick names for me and is always singing me silly made up songs. And it always makes me smile.  Don’t get me wrong. There are days that we both get on each other nerves and just don’t get along perfectly. But those days – minutes is more like it – are few and far between. We do argue – but that is also infrequent.   It’s a relationship on built on friendship and trust and silliness.  We are interested in a lot of the same things.  But I’m not expected to like everything he likes, nor is he expect to like the same things as I do.

He accepts me for who I am. I say fat – he says voluptuous. (he just said he spells it T… A… C… I… E… (isn’t he wonderful!)) He never complains when we watch Mythbusters – again. And doesn’t try to change me… I willing change for him, but he doesn’t ask. And he changes for me… I don’t ask.  It is love. True Love.

Oh… and did I mention, he’s a Crazy Cat Man. I adore my David.

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A Note to the Sister’s Z

Friday, August 20, 2010

A one sided point of view from an only child outsider.

*stepping up on soap box & clearing throat*

Have you Ladies actually stopped to read what your sister is writing on her blog Jersey Girl Gets Real and FB? or are you so self absorbed to think that everything is either crude or a snipe at you? More often than not she’s poking fun at herself. (Yes, I did spell check)

Remember this Internet thing is like the TV …. it’s always there, always on, but you DO have an off button. And just because she is the youngest, you are all adults now, she doesn’t have to ask permission or do as you say anymore.  She is entitled to her opinion just as you are – get over it. And get over the fact that she isn’t a stuffed shirt and voices those opinions. If you don’t like it – use the off button. If you are jealous – open your MOUTH to do something other than snipe at M. Write a witty and amusing come back.

Have you actually read the blog? Guess what. It’s about her! Not you, sorry. Wait, retract the sorry. Have you read the entry on loyalty? No? Well, put your precious egos aside and read it. Guess what – she loves you and is disappointed in you! Instead over growing closer as you older – sharing the joys and sorrows of husbands, kids and life – you aren’t. This is her way of expressing HER disappointment in that drifting apart. Again. It’s all about her – not you.

Life isn’t fair. Get over it.

a) M is the baby by a number of years. Of course your Mother & Father doted on her. Of course she seemed to be the favorite She is the BABY! Get over it. It’s life.

b) Of course your Mother talks about M all the time. They are neighbors and M can watch TV with Mom without leaving HER house. Get over it. If you want that same relationship with Mom, buy the house next door to Mom. Put up or shhhhhhhhhh.

As the one character on Eureka says, ” Jealous much?” Instead of celebrating your sister’s intelligence and wit, you seem to be threatened by it. Read between the lines Ladies and realize how big a part of who she has become has been shaped by you. But M’s life isn’t about you. I hate to smoosh your ego’s like this, but M’s life is about M.

Point – you sister is outspoken. She shares much of her life with the world. There are many of us enjoy her for what & who she is. We get our Daily Dose of Michelle and love it.  Get over it.

Point – what she writes is her point of view and opinion. She IS entitled to both, just as you are. Get over it. And hey, if you are as intelligent as she says, come up with a witty come back. Start your own blog and do what she is doing – making us, laugh & smile – or get over it.

Point. Proximity makes her Mom’s favorite by default. Get over it or move.

Point. She IS your sister. For all her good points and all her bad points she loves you very much. Get over it and love her for who she is.

Point. The past is gone. Don’t let it ruin the present or the future. Life is just way to short. No one gets out alive. And karma is a bigger bitch than any of us. Get over it. Move on. And embrace and love each over for who you are. Enjoy each other’s differences and laugh at each other’s quirks. And be thankful you HAVE a sister at all.  If you don’t want her – I’ve got room in my family for her.

*stepping of soapbox*

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Lunch with Friends Facebook Style

Sunday, August 8, 2010

I love Facebook. It’s brought me into contact with people all over the world. I’ve reconnected with friends from high school and I’ve made become better friends with some folks from high school (one has a hysterical blog – you should read it http://michilocke.blogspot.com (just another shameless plug for Michelle)). I’ve even spoken too some of the gang over the phone. I’ve been invited to visit a number of my on-line friends – in New Jersey, Idaho, Biloxi & even Australia.  And eventually I will get to meet all these fun folks face to face.

My one girlfriend lives… not too far way, but just far away that I can’t just pop up after work. Plus it’s up 202 and that would just suck.  She introduced me to Bob B. Bob B. is a chemist and a civil war re-enactor (Pa 6th – http://www.6pahome.com).  Bob promptly added me to his e-mail list and I have been wonderfully amused ever since.  Bob is great.  Mare is great for introducing me – and for lotsa other reasons too.

One day last year, after laughing at each other through e-mail, we decided to get together after work and have dinner.  Me, Bob B., Bob U., Mare, and Anthony had dinner in King of Prussia because it was central to where most of us lived and worked.  Granted I knew Mare and Mare & Anthony knew most of us, the Bob’s & I had never met.  We had a great time and it was wonderful putting real faces with voices.  Our 2 hour dinner went by really quickly and we decided we should do it again – soon.

I play on-line games and one of my friends and I decided, while his girlfriend was in town, the 4 of us should meet for lunch.  The ONLY problem with that is he is 2 hours (ish) south of me.  So we decided we should met 1/2 way in Baltimore.  It was so much fun. Law, Mynx, David & I got along great.  It went by way too fast.  Again 3 hours seem like 30 minutes.  Of course David & I got totally lost in Baltimore on the way home – but thank God for the iPhone maps. It was a fun, fun day and we had Dairy Queen to make it that much sweeter.

After talking with Ant, Mare & Bob through e-mail for a couple of days we decided it was time for another group get together. We decided to do lunch this time.  The date was picked, but where to eat.  Since King of Prussia is central to where we all live, we decided to go back there.  It only took 3 dozen e-mail and a coin toss to decide on Chili’s.  This time Bob U. couldn’t come. But my David was able to join in the fun.  So we all met at Chili’s at 1 pm. After a good lunch with free chips and queso (check out my photos) we figured it was about 4 pm and we might want to get going.  This new server came up and asked if we were staying for dinner.  It was actually 6 pm!  We had talked for 5 hours. We outlasted the table next to us – 3 times – and even outlasted out server.  WOW!!! Time flies when you have good friends to talk to.  So after another almost hour – I really think all of our clocks were wrong – we vacated the table and went home – still stuffed.  Chili’s was remarkable tolerant of our sitting there for that long.

So to all my FB friend who have invited me for lunch, a weekend or even longer. I’ll be there – eventually.  And for anyone who is considering getting a group of FB friends together for a meal. GO! DO IT! and enjoy!

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Shamed into real blogging

Saturday, August 7, 2010

Ok. 95% of my blog are quotes and pieces that I’ve grabbed from the internet.  They are great bits of information that I find amusing and read from time to time.

But, I have a facebook girlfriend who recently got a blog, Jersey Girl Gets Real, and has written great posts.  (Read her blog here – http://michilocke.blogspot.com/) So she’s kind of shamed me into doing more blogging myself.  I don’t think mine will be as amusing as hers, but hopefully they will be marginally acceptable.  We’ll see.

So Michelle… thank you for giving me the kick in the behind.

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Just say no to NHHCW

Monday, July 26, 2010

I am by no means a food snob.  I don’t like tomatoes, ketchup and spaghetti sauce are fine because the tomatoes aren’t whole – it’s a texture thing. But what I don’t like is fast food cheese! American cheese is supposed to be a pale, pale yellow boarding on white, not orange.

I love Whoppers. Love ’em.  My Beloved David doesn’t. So we really don’t eat at Burger King often. A couple of days back I had to have a whopper.  (insert jingle here – hold the pickles, hold the lettuce, special orders don’t upset us). Whopper, no cheese, no onions, no tomatoes.  That’s what the receipt said.  And the burger was 20 or 40 cents cheaper than David with cheese.  So out of the bag come the burgers.  The first one was wrapped cheese wrapper out – must be David’s. Next burger was identical.  Even though the order said no cheese, we weren’t charged for cheese, the burger still had that yucky orange goo on it!

Don’t get me wrong. I like cheeseburgers. Jitter’s in West Chester makes a mean, delicious cheeseburger.  But they use real cheese. Real american pale, pale yellow cheese. Not the orange nonpasteurized, homogenized, hydrolyzed cheese whiz (NHHCW) that’s been formed into a square!

And it turns out this problem is rampant. I posted a rant on FaceBook my problem and I was not the only one who a) doesn’t like the NHHCW on their burgers and b) can’t seem to order a burger and not get NHHCW.  And it’s not just Burger King.  Wendy’s and McDonald’s both have the love of NHHCW.  Taco Bell is another story. If they use NHHCW, they shred it enough to not be noticeable. And their cheese doesn’t seem to melt in your hands the way the other places’ NHHCW does.

And the more I think about it, I blame the management.

Now don’t get me wrong.  It’s my humble opinion that anyone who is working at ANY job, be it a CEO or a guy pushing a broom is, is at least trying. There is nothing wrong with being a fast food worker. And I understand how hard it is to motivate people to work – especially in a low paying job such as the fast food industry. Unfortunately it’s seem that the workers are just so pre-programmed to put NHHCW on every burger that goes before them that they can’t help themselves. 

So what’s a NHHCW hater to do? A dance? Who really wants to make a fool out of themselves in public like that? Although it might get me my 15 minutes of fame and help along the way to a NHHCW free burger.  A song? (re-insert jingle, hold the pickles, hold the lettuce…) Maybe we need to rerun that set of commercials. It’s been a long time.  Maybe we need a new one.  Or I guess what I’m going to have to do is have the people at the fast food place just check before they hand me my burger (that way it can be sold to someone else and not wasted).  And if it has NHHCW on it, ask them to redo it.

Please no NHHCW.

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Mobile Blogging

Monday, February 22, 2010

I love my iPhone. And now I can write my random thoughts while I’m mobile. Which is kinda cool and fun. We will see if this encourages me to blog more.

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Fair Winds and Following Seas

Monday, February 22, 2010

How can I grieve for a man I’ve never met? Was he the Dali Lama or the Pope? Was he a September 11 hero? No, all he did was run a crab fishing boat on the Bering Sea.

http://thecelebritycafe.com/feature/deadliest-catch-captain-phil-harris-fought-til-end-02-17-2010

DeadliestCatch has become more than a TV show for me. They have become this weird extended family that visits once a week (more if you count re-runs).  Don’t get me wrong – I haven’t lost touch with reality.  I know it is a TV show and the folks on there have NO idea who I am.  Although, I did get to meet the the Hillstrand’s & Captain Sig at a book signing, though. They look bigger on TV.  But for a brief moment the Captains and crews of the F/V’s Cornelia Marie, Northwestern, Time Bandit, and Wizard allow us into their lives to share the good, the bad and the ugly.

We cried with Jake Anderson when his beloved sister passed. And we have a new found respect for Captain Sig and his heart of gold.  We waited nervously with Captain Keith as he waited for his biopsy results. We gasped in horror as the 40′ wall of water nearly washed the Wizards crew away.  And then cried with Keith and jumped with as he was regaining his nerve.  We rejoiced with Johnathan when Scotty came, got mad when he left, and were happy again when he returned.  We dance with Johnathan & Andy when they are on the crab.  We miss the crew members who have retired.

On Feb 9, the Deadlist Catch was dealt a blow: Captain Phil Harris went crab fishing in the next life.

The Cornelia Marie is one of my favorites.  Maybe because she’s painted the same blue as you see in the Carribean. Or maybe she was painted to match her Captain’s eyes?

I roared with laughter when, after getting fed up with Josh & Jake fighting, Phil looked at the camera and said, “and now you know why Lions eat their young.”  I worried with the rest of the crew when Phil had his broken ribs (which turn out to be a more serious pulmonary embolism) – albeit long after the fact.  I was sad when Murray decided to retire – how would the Cornelia Marie go on?  I loved Phil’s unique fishing technique – look for the fart bubbles. If it smell like sh*t, then the crab must be there.  And the crazy part was it worked.

Life is weirdly unfair.  After Josh found out his about his Dad’s blood clots, he said that Phil had a guardian angel.  And I think he did.  He was given a 2nd chance after his embolism. He got to fish 1 more season with his boys.  And when Phil had his stroke – he was docked, close to a medical facility and not 90 miles out to sea. Phil’s Guardian Angel put him in the right places at the right times.

Fair Winds and Following Sea.  And may the Fart Bubbles always be easy to find.

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Yoga, Zumba & other exercise

Monday, November 10, 2008

I’m not very good at it.  I’m pretty inflexible.  But I find it wonderfully relaxing.  The great part about it is my work offer’s free classes as part of thier wellness program.  Melanie is the instructor again.  Which is great.  I like her a lot.  She’s got a real calm way about her.  She’s very good.

We also did a class called Zumba.  This is a HIGH intensity latin rhythm dance aerobics.  It’s basically 1 hour of movement & sweat and it was a lot of fun. Everybody Mombo!  Diane from ACAC http://wwwsch.acac.com/InstructorDetail.aspx?personResourceId=766&siteId=121 was the teacher and she definitely channels Pat Croce.  In a “Oh My God I can’t breath and you are barely breaking a sweat, but yes I can go a bit more” way.  She’s very good at what she does!

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TAPS

Friday, November 7, 2008

The Atlantic Paranormal Society – or Ghost Hunters.  Are they for real?  I dunno.  I watch the both Ghost Hunters and Ghost Hunters International.  I’m amused.  I just finished watched the Fort Delaware Halloween episode and if it’s not true… it was a really good fake.  My Beloved doesn’t believe a word of what they say or do.  He thinks that they are completely fake.  I sit on the fence.  We as watchers can’t hear everything that they hear or see everything that they see.  So I don’t know what to believe.  I wish the camera would focus on the direction Jason & Grant are looking rather than on Jason & Grant or Steve or Tango or whomever the camera is focused on.  I don’t know.  I don’t know if I want to believe.  I think the guys are sincere.  Their primary goal of debunking and help home owners (especially with kids) is a good goal.  Like I said, I’m on the fence.  I don’t think anything short of my own experience will make me believe.

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