Tuesday, October 04, 2005

mid-morning

An Army of One…Brain Cell?

“Army Secretary Noel Harvey and vice chief of staff Gen. Richard Cody said Monday that the Army was using looser Defense Department rules that permitted it to sign up more high school dropouts and people who score lower on mental-qualification tests, but they denied that this meant it was lowering standards.”

Uh huh.

Monday, October 03, 2005

early evening

Dante’s Having Surgery

Leigh-Ann wrote about it on her blog, so you can go look at the picture of the lump in Dante’s ear.  It looks like a little boil.  That’s apparently not the technical name of it, go figure.  It’s a canine cutaneous histiocytoma.  Mmm Mmm good.  Blech.  Anyway, so that means we have to get up in the wee hours of Thursday morning to take him in for surgery.  Hopefully, it’ll be quick and easy for him, and not overly expensive for us.  Although, he’s already at $139 for today’s visit, which included a vaccine and bloodwork for the surgery.  That’s why I never go to the doctor - it would just end up costing lots of money, right?

Because the Dante discussion is so incredibly appetizing, I wanted to tell you about my fabulous ice-cream from Cold Stone Creamery.  It’s espresso ice-cream with brownies and raspberries added in.  It’s quite delightful, and odd at the same time.  I think I like it better than the Cheesecake Fantasy I got last time, which still, is pretty darned fabulous.

Sunday, October 02, 2005

evening

I’m Pretty Sure Jesus Doesn’t Want To Run You Over

Oh sure, I could be wrong about that Jesus fellow, but I’m pretty sure he’s just like that guy at our local Barnes & Noble.  Wears tie-dye, drives a VW van and sells books for a living.  Not so much into the running people over or even being like Superman and stopping people from being run over...clearly

I need to break some news to the Weaver family on The Amazing Race. When your father/husband is killed by being hit by a race car, then your mother is run over by a buggy on a reality show...it’s time to stop talking to Jesus.

The poor Black family. They seemed so nice. I wanted to steal the little boys. The sisters SCREAM TOO MUCH, but I like ‘em. I also like the siblings - the three brothers and a sister. They bring the funny. The Paolo family - I wish they’d been eliminated. Any family who treats each other like that, shouldn’t be on my tv. The family with the little girl and little boy - they do well, but those kids creep me out. I expect to hear, “Go towards the light, Carol Anne.”

Slowly, but surely, we’re getting caught up on our TiVo stuff.  Fortunately, we only seem to have permanently added two new shows to our circle of tv friends.  How I Met Your Mother and Twins, with Sarah Gilbert, Melanie Griffith’s lips and Cousin Larry from Perfect Strangers.  Yeah, you might first have a prejudice against Twins, which I completely understand.  But, it’s silly funny.  The laugh track has got to go.  If I can’t tell when to laugh, your show isn’t funny.  Canned laughter is one of the most annoying inventions ever.  Still, the show, amusing.

We still have the Geena Davis as prez show to watch, so our magic number might be three.  We’ve eliminated Bones (Kathy Reichs books are better), My Name is Earl (okay, but not enough to add it to our busy tv schedule), and probably some other stuff I can’t remember.  Oh wait, we recorded two episodes of Reunion, but neither of us could be bothered to watch it and make a decision.  So, the decision was [delete].

Most importantly, other than Veronica Mars, hockey is back on Wednesday!  The Leafs.  Darcy Tucker, Tie Domi, Pat Quinn’s hair, Ron McLean, Don Cherry’s ugly suits, Jeremy Roenick, and from Lord of the Rings, Martin St. Louis.  Yay!  Just yay!  Say, is that dumb CBC strike over yet?  I want my Hockey Night in Canada on Saturday.