Thursday, June 22, 2006

Feels like Friday again. Totally sucks.

*sigh*

That’s all I’ve got.

Actually, I have a lot rambling around my head, but I’m too lazy to type it all up for you here. Topics range from the Episcopal church to the Sedona fires to the murdered American soldiers to the Big Brother All Stars vote.

Wednesday, June 21, 2006

I heard the audio on the radio this morning. That was bad enough. The visual makes it so much worse.

That’s a sad turn for Connie. Wow.

You Are 44% Lady

You’re part lady, part modern woman. Etiquette is important to you, but you brush aside rules that are outdated or silly.

For the gents: Are You A Gentlemen?

[via beth]

My sister (her blog is down at the moment) sent me this link (.wmv file). Her kids are way too cute.

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

I can’t figure out how to embed video clips so I’ll just link the ones I’ve found linkable Just figured it out - woo! They made me chuckle or laugh out loud at any rate.

First ...

Second is this live performance of Tripod, which is very funny. Stick with it - once you’re past the first 45-60 seconds you’ll get to the punchline. Stick with the whole song, too. It’s worth it.

Enjoy!

Happy Birfday to Jaynee. She’s the best sister a gal could have. She is the one person who makes me laugh harder at the smallest things, although Beau is a close second now that he’s around. She’s a great mother and a very good friend.

Happy, happy, happy!

Summer TV starts with The 4400 and continues with Hell’s Kitchen. I managed to watch last week’s 2-hour premiere of HK on Saturday. Good stuff. Now, I missed the first few episodes of last season, but were those contestant chefs this terrible? I’m not sure I like the boys vs girls format for the teams.

I won’t bother to recap the first two episodes. All I’ll say about last night’s episode is that those girls are dumb about the way they act around Chef Ramsay. You’d think they were teenagers with a crush on their teacher they way they gush over him. He must think they’re idiots.

Monday, June 19, 2006

Bill Whittle has a new essay posted.

His last essay was posted in January. But it’s well worth the wait for his new one.

[via wizbang]

I woke up this morning feeling like I hadn’t gotten the 7 hours of sleep I had just woken up from. But I got up and tried my usual morning routine before getting ready for work. Didn’t work; I was exhausted. So I called My Boss to let him know that I was going to stay home and went back to bed. That was at about 7:15am. I just woke up about 30 minutes ago; feeling refreshed and more normal.

I rarely nap anymore. Three hours is a really long nap for me. I was tired.

Anyway, I’m at home today. But that’s nice because Beau is home, too. It will be nice to have a quiet day with my husband.

Friday, June 16, 2006

So it turns out the audit “exit conference” was about an hour ago and I missed it. Having just read their memo, I’m relieved to say that they found very little wrong. The things they did find were things we were already of, so that was nice confirmation and maybe their report to HQ will help our cause.

Glad to have that done.

Whew!

Your Bumper Sticker Should Be

Buckle up - it makes it harder for aliens to suck you out of your car

Via beth, whose sticker is hilarious.

Thursday, June 15, 2006

The “exit conference” with the auditors is at 10am tomorrow.

One of the gals won’t be here for that and she just came by to say good-bye and thanks. I thought that was very sweet of her.

I’ll miss her!

*kidding*

I plan to lounge around tomorrow afternoon after the high stress of this week. Plus I’ve done all my work for the week already so it’ll be a little slow anyway.

I noticed that there was one of those AFI 100…Films shows on last night when I was surfing before we watched From the Earth to the Moon, but I didn’t stop to see what it was. I wish I had now because it was the 100 Most Inspirational Films and the #1 most inspirational movie is…

...It’s a Wonderful Life.

Awesome.

Dinner last night was easy and delicious.

Chicken Tortolini with Pesto

3-4 chicken breasts, cooked and cut into bite size chunks
1 1lb bag frozen cheese tortolini
1/2 to whole 8oz jar pesto, to taste

Cook the chicken, if you aren’t using leftovers. Cook the pasta. Toss the chicken, pasta, and pesto in a large bowl until the chicken and pasta are well covered with the pesto.

Serve with garlic bread and a salad, if you desire.

Can’t get any easier than that.

I had to make Beau’s with a different pasta since he tries to limit his dairy intake. But he liked it, so it will be repeated in the future.

Yum-may!