Please Ignore the Swiftly Changing Themes

Never do anything when you’ve been awake all night.  Especially if you don’t back up your work first.  I upgraded a template that sadly isn’t compatible with WP 3.0 and poof now it is one hot mess.  So here is the default template which is very cute until I get some sleep and vanquish this cold.

I should add read blogging for dummies to my 30by30 list.

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Video of the Week: Summer Time Stress

All right now before you watch this video, which is almost 5 minutes long but pay close attention around the minute mark, put yourself into the boy’s shoes… err swim trunks… just pretend you’re him okay!  Then after you are afraid you’re going to fall to your death from the lifeguard’s stoop-

“Hey it is a steep drop.”

I bet you’ve gotten stuck on a chair before too human, in your short case probably the one in the kitchen.  But back to the video, ask yourself if you were his dad would you have been so patient with him?  Or if you were the mother after almost five minutes would you have got up there and coaxed him down with a gentle pat on the back?

“I think you’d be cackling Eliza.”

No someone else is already doing that.

Have you ever gotten up somewhere but were afraid to come back down?  This boy overcomes his fear with the help of his loving parents…Enjoy.

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10 things that may one day make me snap

Taken by MinivanNinja on Flickr

As told by human translator while Eliza Leigh is still in a sugar induced coma

I am an easy going person; you’d have to be to put up with a highly opinionated mutant ant like eL. However, there are a few things that slip under my skin and make me hold back my Hulk-like transformation with all my might. Believe me no one wants to see me turn green, rip off my shirt or jump out of a plane.

One… leaving an empty roll on toilet paper holder

You’re asking for a rampaging woman if you leave the rolls empty in the bathroom. I’m not sure which is worse having four full rolls sitting on the counter because you were too busy that you couldn’t multitask and refill the roll while on your throne or leaving an incomplete magazine as an alternative. I hope you didn’t want to finish reading that article on clean eating.

Two… cutting me off and then braking

You’re asking for a death warrant if you make me tap let alone slam on my brakes after you almost cause a ten car pileup because you were in such a rush to go ten miles below the speed limit in front of me.

Three… waking me up in the middle of the afternoon for an asinine reason

If you want to know what time Market Basket closes Google it or use the phone that you are harassing me with and call Customer Service. And if you don’t know what Market Basket is then why would you want to go there in the first place?

Four… Pushing people in line

Do you really think pushing someone into an immovable object is going to get you somewhere? And they call me delusional.

Five… Using your cell phone while being waited on and then making everyone else wait while you finish your uber important conversation

If I wanted to hear about your abysmal love life then I would ask you, but hearing it while the cashier is waiting for you to pay and my ice cream melts is bound to cause me to have little sympathy for you when you cry that your boyfriend called you a selfish shrew. Can I have his number?

Six… talking on your phone in public bathrooms

Another cell phone issue, don’t talk in a public bathroom especially if it is a professional call. I will repeatedly flush the toilet and set off the dryers and then run giggling like a ten year old. Test me, please.

Seven…telling me a story when I say I don’t want to hear it

Seriously, if I say I don’t want to hear in minute detail how that guy on I Shouldn’t Be Alive survived or how that sappy Lifetime movie played out… I mean it.

Eight…being told when I can and can’t cheat while on a diet

If I listened to you then it wouldn’t be cheating now would it? Don’t ever attempt to keep me from a McDonald’s ice cream if I want one.

Nine… being ignored when you’re doing it to annoy me

Don’t engage me in a conversation and then not respond to see how long I can keep my cool. Life is not a game of chicken and I will clobber you (or at least imagine it). If you ask me a question then acknowledge my response.

Finally the Tenth and main reason why I’ll end up in restraints…

Acute sleep deprivation

Any of the other complaints are just pesky pet peeves on their own but coupled with acute sleep deprivation are disasters waiting to happen.

If you think I’m bad multiply this list by 50

*Photo taken by MinivanNinja on Flickr

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Word of the Week: Jeroboam

Defined as:

A container that holds the same as six bottles of wine.

She was so thirsty she downed a whole jeroboam in one night.
“Of water!”
Pshaw. Hey, I thought Jeroboam was someone’s name?

Word brought to you by Phrontistery.
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Snapped: Star in the Woods

Harold Parker State Forest

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Watched: The Great Buck Howard

Previews are the best part of the movies so here’s what is on the DVD

Mutant Chronicles (John Malkovich stars)
Big Man Japan(It looks like someone fell asleep watching Godzilla after oding on Skittles)
Food, Inc (Makes you want to grow your own food just to stick it to the man)


Starring  John Malkovich, Colin Hanks, Emily Blunt with Steve Zahn and Tom Hanks and with numerous cameos including Gary Coleman this Magnolia Home Entertainment movie is inspired by The Amazing Kreskin, mentalist who at 75 is still performing.  Sean McGinly the director worked for the entertainer and made Buck very like The Amazing Kreskin himself apart from his mean, tempermental streak.

The story is simple, Buck Howard has a few tricks up his sleeve that he believes will revamp his entertainment career and possibly get him back on the Late Night Show.  With a recent college drop out as his new on road manager and a pessimistic publiscist his star power reawakens but that is not what truly makes him or this movie great.  It follows the journey of life when knowing yourself is the best “effect” you can learn.  Watching John Malkovich and the rest of the cast put on a great show I realized that Buck Howard- mesmerized me.

Here are some Buck Howard quotes.

“George (Takei), may the force be with you.”
“That man is Satan and Buck Howard does not work with Satan.” (Referring to Jay Leno)
“I love this town.”

I love this movie.


Did you see this movie? Or read the book?
This was a Blockbuster Bargain. Check the list for the other movie’s we got super cheap.

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Word of the Week: Jacent

Defined as:

Sluggish or to lie flat

After eating way too many no-bake chocolate peanut-butter cookies I was jacent on the floor. Jacent but of so happy.

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