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I thought chocolate was a fruit!
Paula didn't tag me, but I was bored so I figured I'd do it anyway. I cannot, however, take piccies of my fridge things because a) I'm at work and 2) I can't find my camera anyway. So I figured I'd draw the pictures.
Anyhoo. To make this a smidgen more interesting, I'm not going to actually tell you what these are. You'll have to guess from my fabulous art.
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The company I work for has a habit of mucking about with the holidays it gives US employees. We used to have 10 paid holidays, scattered across the calendar. Then they removed "Good Friday" in the US, because it wasn't politically correct to give a day that's so very specific to the numerous Christians and the handful of non-Christians were grumbling. Instead, they created a "personal, floating holiday" that people could schedule to coincide with a day that was special to them.
I get that. I even liked it, because my own Christian faith does not require me to spend all of Good Friday in mourning, or whatever. Being at work is sufficient penance. So I had a day I could choose and it didn't have to be bound up in some churchy obligation. Kind of neat.
Then they took away Presnuts Day, leaving us with 9 paid holidays and they fixed the "floating" day to one specific calendar day. Yup. Martin Luther King, Jr., Day.
I'm not wholly against a day honoring a guy who did good things. It goes against my political morals that it was made into such a big frickin' deal because his skin is black and people thought we absolutely had to have a day to honor a black skinned guy, but whatever. Done is done and we have a day to honor a great man and that's good. And my company wants me to take that day off, and that's okay by me.
Except.
Why the fuck couldn't Marty have been born in March or April, hmmm? Because in my company have all our holidays all clustered in the coldest months. Two days for Thanksgiving, two for Christmas, one for New Year's, and now this MLK day. Then nothing until Memorial Day at the end of May. A day for Fourth of July, and one for Labor Day. In fact, MLK day is the only holiday my company celebrates in honor of a specific US person. The only other day that's s'posed to honor a person is, well, Christmas.
Here's what I figure. They took the Presidents' birthdays and crammed 'em together into one. They moved other days from the day they're normally celebrated and put 'em on Mondays. And back in the darkest of ages, they even moved Jesus' birthday from October to December!!!
So if it's good enough for Jesus, it ought to be good enough for the Reverend King. I say we move his birthday to March 31.
Who's with me?
*And probably didn't care if you never learned, but here it is anyway.
This came through e-mail with instructions to send it back to the person who sent it, but also send copies to others with instructions to fill out and pass it on. I sent my responses back to the sender, but instead of bcc'ing it to unsuspecting peeps, I figured I'd post it on the blog. E-mail is just so nineties, you know?
Friends Survey
Read through the comments below about your friend and then follow the instructions at the bottom. Have fun!
1. What time is it?
11:45am
2. What's your full name?
gekko "excellent" lizard
3. What are you most afraid of?
running out of chocolate
4. What was the last movie that you saw in a theater?
Sweeney Todd (w/Johnny Depp)
5. Place of birth:
beneath a rock somewhere in Columbus, OH
6. Favorite food
Sushi (chocolate isn't food so much as it is a basic right)
7. What's your natural hair color?
muskrat
8. Ever been to Alaska?
No
9. Ever been toilet paper rolling?
Yes.
10. Love someone so much it made you cry?
Yes
11. Been in a car accident?
Yes
12. Croutons or bacon bits:
Yes.
13. Favorite day of the week:
Humpday
14. Favorite restaurant:
Shogun (Japanese/Sushi)
15. Favorite Flower:
Don't have one
16. favorite sports to watch
peanut rolling
17. Favorite drink:
Espresso
18. Favorite ice cream:
Caramel de Leche
19. Disney or Warner Brothers:
Sure!
20. Ever been on a ship?
Yes.
21. What color is your bedroom carpet?
Kind of a beige with motes of gray and brown
22. How many times did you fail your driver's test?
Never.
23. Before this one, from whom did you get your last e-mail?
My friend Dick
24. What do you do when you are bored?
Bait hypersensitive idiots on Usenet
25. Bedtime:
9:01pm
26. Who will respond to this [post] the quickest?
Prolly Mark
27. Who is the person you sent this to that is least likely to respond?
Pres. Bush
28. Who is the person that you are most curious to see their responses?
Barack Obama
29. Favorite TV show:
NCIS
30. Last person you went to dinner with:
Daughter
31. Who do you think will be President?
Same one I vote for every election: Snoopy
32. What are your favorite colors?
Bl(e)ue
33. How many tattoos do you have?
Nada. But I have a birthmark in the shape of the state of Texas
34. How many pets do you have?
Fleas don't count, do they?
35. Which came first, the chicken or the egg
No one ever asks about the sperm. You notice?
36. What do you want to do before you die?
Get a good night's sleep.
37. Have you ever been to Hawaii
No
38. Have you been to countries outside the U.S.
Yes
39. How many people are you sending this [post] to?
billions.
40. Time this survey ended:
11:55am
Now, here's what you're supposed to do... please do not spoil the fun. Copy/paste, delete my answers and type in your answers, and post on your own blog, or in the comments.
The theory is that you will learn a lot of little known facts about those who know you. Aren't you glad you're a part of this?
I've just dumped my old blog, the Blob. I decided, since I haven't posted there in six months, and since I seem to be barely able to keep up over here, that it'd make sense to close that one down.
Weight-obsessed peeps, fear not! I have imported all of the Blob's archived entries to this blog and you can find them under the new category "Blob - Fitness, Weight, and Nutrition."
Or you can find them using the Tags in the tag cloud.
I just got my early primary ballot for the Republican Party -- yeah, I'm registered Repub. See, here's the thing. I'm hoping I can make my voice count. Lord knows that party needs all the help it can get, right?
It's just so important to vote, and to make an informed, conscientious decision. Briefly, here're some of my weighty and vital thoughts on the candidates:
James Creighton Mitchell, Jr -- Ogawd, guy's gonna be one a them family-money lawyer types, I just know it. I mean, I know plenty of people who have juniors and threes after their names, but only pretentious twits go around actually using those. Betcha he's got a blue-blood Mom whose maiden name was Creighton. He is just SO not getting my vote.
Mitt Romney -- So he's got my interest because of his hunk-factor. He's a guy babe, no doubt about it. But, c'mon. Mitt? And isn't his real first name "Willard"? (Note: see, I do my research!). So who wants a guy who evokes either a chunky hand covering or a disturbed loner with rats for best friends as the next Prez? So this is devilish. Vote for cute, vote for rat friend ... I'll put a tick mark there for now.
Ron Paul -- Two first names? That is so wrong.
Mike Huckabee -- Anyone here picture a blue cartoon hound dog when they hear this guy's name? I just don't think I'm ready to stomach four or more years of hearing "President Huckabee" over and over and over again, y'know?
Michael Burzynski -- So I work with a guy who has the last name "Burzynski", so this'd be almost like voting for family, right? I'll put a little tick mark next to his name for further consideration.
Sean "CF" Murphy -- "CF"? "CF"??? WTF? Anyway, his last name is the same as my dog's name, and she's evil. I'll give him a pass.
John McCain -- S'posed to be the favorite son, right? AZ Senator, but he's gotten so ... spotty. A spotty guy in the Oval Office? When we can have Mitt the babe? I don't think so.
Rudy Giuliani -- He's from New York. No. Just ... no. They may make good pizza and good bagels, and be fantastic beat cops, but being Presnut isn't a job I figure a New Yorker is ready for.
Alan Keyes -- I had hope for him. Name that's easy to hear. He's "articulate," as they say. Good looking. But then I heard about that unfortunate thing about turning his back on his daughter. Even Cheney didn't turn his back on his daughter, so Keyes isn't my guy. Ya gotta love your kids, man.
Jack Shepard -- This is sad for Jack. So very sad. See, if you pop this guy's name into Google or Wikipedia, you get corrected to "Shepherd" and directed toward British actors, criminals, and cave divers. He's such a nobody that even the peeps who did his web page couldn't be arsed to do a good job. And it's totally icky that this guy's got a pic of Jesse Jackson on his page. He's out.
This is all rather discouraging. Maybe I'll register as a Democrap because they have more interesting candidates to pick over.
For those who don't read May Contain Nuts (and why, pray, don't you?), you'll have missed this one. Seems some Chinese zoo keepers were worried about one of their chimps being lonely, so they gave him a television. He became addicted to certain programs and sat in front of the TV all day, even skipping meals to catch his favorite shows. They didn't want to take away the set, because they worried the chimp would get moody (they do not, apparently, believe in tough chimp love).
They recently found out a way to let the chimp exercise more by bringing a rabbit into its playground. It seems to be working well as the chimp keeps chasing the rabbit around.
'k, so who's gonna pay for therapy for the rabbit?
Of course, the ratings services and advertisers are totally going to want to know which shows the chimp is hooked on. I'll bet it's Mythbusters, for sure.
One a them blog filler games, where you get tagged, do something bloggy, then have to tag others, yadda. I stole this from UV.
Rules: Share 7 random and/or weird facts about yourself on your blog, blah blah. I won't be tagging peeps, even tho the real rules say I have to. Fuck the rules, I say.
1. If I lose my contact lenses I will be blind because I'm too vain to wear glasses.
2. I actually like broccoli
3. I hide chocolate bars and then surprise and delight myself finding them.
4. I do not own a pair of Uggs, nor do I want to.
5. I like my laser level more than I like Burberry shooz
6. I think Johnny Depp is hawt!
7. I have no tattoos, but have thought a lot about getting one.
whoozTalkin?