Monday, November 17, 2008

terribly early in the morning

Newspaper Mystery Shampoo/Conditioner

Did any of you get shampoo & conditioner packaged with your Saturday (or was it Friday?) newspaper?  They’re little bottles with big question marks on them.  You’re supposed to try them for two weeks and then you’ll swear that they’re way better than that fancy schmancy shampoo/conditioner that you pay through the nose for at the salon.  In two weeks, they’ll reveal the name of said mystery brand, so you can go to the store with your new coupon (I’m sure), which will appear in that day’s paper, and buy big ol’ bottles of the stuff.  I smelled both bottles (they smell good, by the way) and my guess is that they’re Pantene.  Considering that I don’t buy expensive shampoo, I’d be perfectly happy to buy the mystery brand if they give me the big ol’ coupon.  If not, I’ll continue to use my non-mystery Pantene that’s in the shower right now.  I’m not picky, it just has to smell good.  In general, my hair doesn’t require a whole lot of effort - the normal routine is wash hair, lightly towel dry hair, get out of shower, squirt some gel into my hand, rub it into my hair, make some spiking-like efforts for a few seconds, let air dry, done.

Right now, since we haven’t been able to afford to pay our hair stylist (let’s just say that she costs more than Supercuts, although she really is worth it), so I cannot do my hair properly.  I had to [gasp!], use a blowdryer to tame my unruly locks because it’s too long to let it dry by itself.  I have wavy hair that, when it’s not cut every 5-6 six weeks, will stick out in odd ways.  I hadn’t remembered how awful it was to do my hair when it’s too long, and the reality of the horribleness of it was making me contemplate cutting it short myself.  If I screwed up, which I’m sure I would have, it’s easy to hide with short hair all gunked up with product.  Our lovely stylist has taken pity on us, however, and is going to run a tab, so we can get our haircuts on Friday.  We hope to figure out how to make it up to her until we can afford to pay her all that we owe her.

Sunday, November 16, 2008

evening

If you could care less, that means that you care…uh, some

There’s been an epidemic of people writing that they “could care less” about one thing or another, plus we just heard it on “Without a Trace”, so that means that professional writers are writing it, too.  If you “could care less”, it means that you COULD care less, but that you don’t.  I think you mean that you COULDN’T care less, meaning that you really don’t care.  Okay, pet peeve lesson over.

evening

Why believe in a god?

This is a new ad campaign started by the American Humanist Organization, which just seems like common sense to me, but apparently isn’t.  A spokesperson for the American Family Association said, “How do we define ‘good’ if we don’t believe in God?.  God in his word, the Bible, tells us what’s good and bad and right and wrong.” Wow, isn’t everybody able to know what’s good and what isn’t?  Good is being nice to other people, doing nice things for other people, considering all people to be equal, etc.  Why would anyone need to believe in God or the bible to know what’s good and what’s bad?  Isn’t it frightening to think that if someone doesn’t have a bible handy, they’re not going to know the difference between good & bad?

I know that with supposedly 92% of the population believing in God, many people reading this would believe, too.  I really don’t get it.  I’ve been an atheist since I was a child and never even contemplated believing.  I wasn’t raised to believe or not believe, although I guess if you’re not raised to believe, then you’re sort of raised to think that God, one way or the other, doesn’t have any affect on your life.  I don’t understand how anyone can believe in God when such horrible things happen in the world.  It’s pretty obvious that “prayers” aren’t being answered by anyone when the world is full of war, poverty, sickness, etc. 

I like the ads.  They don’t tell you that if you believe that you’re wrong, but they do question why you need to believe in order to do good.

Saturday, November 15, 2008

terribly early in the morning

Happy Billionth Anniversary, Mom & Dad…and (11th) us

I have no idea when this picture was taken - sometime in the 80’s, I presume.  I wanted to use a recent picture, but generally my dad is the one taking the pictures, so I have plenty of solo shots of my mom, but not too many with the two of them together...and I think I’ve used the Las Vegas snowball picture before.

I wanted a small, barely discernible picture of me up.  I believe I’m threatening Leigh-Ann with an Orleans hotel buffet knife, demanding complete love and devotion for at least five more years after the picture is taken, which was June ‘03.  Okay, truth be told, I wanted a picture of me when I was thinner and richer...and it’s my blog, so I get to choose the picture.

I also wanted to write something clever and witty, but it’s 4:16am, and I’m sadly all out of clever & witty.

the wee hours

Does Your Cat Have Any Favorite Browser Folders?

Bunny likes to walk on my keyboard and type things.  Who knows, maybe she’s writing to her other cat friends.  Anyway, one day she not only managed to add a favorite link to the browser, she added a favorite folder.  Right now, it’s empty, but I’m sure she has big plans for it...when I’m not looking.  Her usual computer time is around 4am.

She enjoys being in all sorts of places where Bunny(s) shouldn’t be, not just on my keyboard.