I'm older than I've ever been

And now I'm even older, and now I'm even older. I'm older than I've ever been, and now I'm even older, and now I'm older still.

29 and holding starting today!

Bird

There's an alarm that's running low on batteries here at work. So every 5 minutes a chirp goes off. It sounds like a bird call.

I want to ring that bird's neck. Or find some batteries.

What are you?


You are Tater Tots. Go get your own!!


Which Napoleon Dynamite character are you?
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Screamingly funny

Warning, this is not for the faint of heart or those very loyal to the Tube system in London. Check out the Amateur Transplants.

Annoyances

So when a stoplight goes out, the intersection is treated as an ALL WAY STOP PEOPLE!!! Seriously!

And to the woman in the J. Crew outlet bitching that their size 0s are just way too big and you just can't wear their pants because they run SO large....SUCK IT.

Thank you.

The Manor Pool, Sandals Ocho Rios

The Manor Pool, Sandals Ocho Rios
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Just thought I'd share a picture Andy took of the pool...in Jamaica...remember what I said about envy?

Sheet

So I went shopping the other day and bought some sheets for our bed. Dull as toast, right? Not quite. We have a pillow-top mattress. Which makes buying sheets a little more difficult. Even if the package says "deep pockets", it doesn't guarantee that the sheets will fit on the bed. So I've taken to looking for sheets that specifically say "fits mattresses up to 15 inches" or bigger. Otherwise the sheets pop off the corners of the bed at the most bizarre times during the night, leaving me to wake up rolled up snuggly in comforter, sheet, fitted sheet, and part of the mattress cover all in one.

Finding sheets this large not only is difficult, but can be absurdly expensive, so for the most part I try to buy sheets at department store discount stores. Unfortunately, this also means selection can be limited.

I finally found after searching, what I considered to be cute sheets. The right size, reasonably priced, and they were striped sheets. I like stripes. These were striped with pastel teal, lavendar, a light yellow and green, and red and orange. A bit Jamaican in flavor almost, in tribute of our upcoming trip.

Perfect.

Until Andy saw them.

He seriously thought they were a joke, claimed they were so loud he wouldn't be able to sleep, that his sore back from the past three nights is a direct result of the sheets, that they look like clown sheets, in fact they look like they should be "Bozo the Clown's underpants."

If I hadn't been laughing so hard at his reaction, I might have been offended. As it is, the sheets are here to stay.

Coffee

Somehow I've become a coffee drinker. I used to get a cup once in a while and suddenly it's become an every day sort of thing. Maybe it's because the coffee area is now immediately across from my desk. Maybe it's because caffeine really is addictive.

Whatever it is...now I can't get through the morning without a cup.

Come to Jamaica

After a LONG and painful process, we've booked our vacation. For those that don't know the back story here's where we had looked at going, in the order that we researched them:

Scotland
Puerto Rico
Cancun, Mexico
Riviera Maya, Mexico
Aruba
Bermuda
British Virgin Islands
US Virgin Islands
Puerto Rico (I know I listed it before, we considered again)
Jamaica
St. Lucia
and finally...Jamaica

You may go ahead and envy me now.

Become one with the Jello

So this past Saturday I had a massage. A lovely, hour-long, swedish massage. I haven't had one in over a year and every time I promise myself I won't let it go as long again without getting one.

I walked in and met my masseuse, Katherine. I asked her to work the middle of my back since it's been bugging me. As soon as she got to those muscles she clucked and said are these the ones that hurt. I guess they must have been a little tight. Then she pressed down and said how's the pressure. It was good and I told her so. THEN she pressed harder and started working those muscles in my back until the tears started making my vision blurry. Just at the point where I thought I'd have to tell her, she stopped. Everything went along fine after that. When I stood up after an hour I found that I had become Jello.

It's good to be Jello. We should all become one with the Jello