Rachel's Tide To-Go Pen

Here is story number two from Kim's shower:

A rather large piece of chocolate fell between a person who will remain nameless legs into their chair. Unfortunately for the nameless person she was wearing white pants and even more unfortunate she decided to cross her legs smearing the chocolate on the inside of both pant legs. Once discovered, we laughed and laughed as the unnamed person didn't know what to do.

Thank goodness, Rachel had gone to Target that morning and purchased a Tide To-Go pen! Off she went to get the Tide To-Go pen that was in her purse (Note: I guess this is a good reason for carrying a purse) The damage to these white pants had been so bad that I didn't think the Tide To-Go pen would be able to help at all. 15 minutes later, the white pants were white again! How great is that?

I have used the Tide To-Go pen on several occasions but never have I had such an accident to really put it to the true test. Thanks to Rachel's preparedness and the nameless person who dropped chocolate on their white pants, the Tide To-Go pen was put to a true test and it passed with flying colors.

To: Rachel and Jenn From Staples

Have a great time in the Domincan Republic! I triple dog dare you to go topless. LOL

22 Movies I Haven't Seen

22 movies you will be surprised that I haven't seen:

1. Shrek (Both of them)
2. Spiderman (Both of them)
3. Pirates of the Carribbean (None of them) (I have 2 of them on DVD)
4. The Lord of the Rings (None of them)
5. Forrest Gump (I have on DVD)
6. Harry Potter (None of them)
7. The Chronicles of Narnia
8. The Matrix
9. Meet the Fockers
10. Bruce Almighty
11. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
12. The Da Vinci Code
13. Austin Powers Goldmember
14. Wedding Crashers
15. Men In Black II
16. The Bourne Supremacy
17. The Mummy
18. Talladega Nights
19. American Pie (Both of them)
20. My Best Friends Wedding (I have on DVD)
21. Charlie's Angels Full Throttle (I have on DVD)
22. Fun with Dick and Jane

"Kiiiiiiiiiiimmmmm"!!!!!!

Today, we went to my soon to be sister-in-law's (Kim) bridal shower. It was a really nice shower and we all had a good time. I have two stories from the shower. Here is the first:

The Scene: The shower was held outside and Mom, Becca, Rachel and I were sitting at one of the tables. After Kim had opened her gifts and people were starting to leave I took the empty water bottles to Kim's sister for recycling. Mom, Rachel and Becca were all standing relatively close to our table and on the table were some used cloth napkins and another empty water bottle. Of the four of us, I was the furthest away from our table and close to the backdoor of the house.

The Incident: It is a little windy and a wind gust comes through the backyard and the napkins and empty water bottle go flying off the table. The napkins fly into the pool and the water bottle makes some noise as it hits the pool deck.

The Aftermath: As the wind whipped up and blew these items off the table mom yells out "Kiiiiiiiiiiiimmmmm" as if to say it is ALL MY FAULT!!!! Paleeze! I had nothing to do with the wind and I was the farthest away from the table! Still, who goes and gets the napkins out of pool??? Of course it's me! The best part is everybody notices and starts to comment that everything must always be my fault. "That flew out of her mouth way too easy, it was like a reflex"

15 minutes later as I am in the car with Becca (waiting for mom to go back and get her purse-yet, another reason not to carry a purse) one of the women (LOLing) comes up to the car window and says to me "You really need to try to stay out of trouble" My only comment now is a very sarcastic, HA HA HA.

Paris Hilton Petition

Paris Hilton has started a petition on My Space to keep herself out of jail. The reason she claims that she should be kept out of jail is because she "provides beauty and excitement" to everyone's lives! LOL.

If Paris brings beauty and excitement to your life and you would like to sign the petition to keep her out of jail you can do so here: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/PH21781/

Now, I won't sign the petition because she brings excitement to my life but I would be willing to put my signature on it if she could get me some extra Hilton Honors points.

Too Many Birthdays

OK, This is a disclaimer. My blog lately has been turning into the birthday blog. 5 of my last 13 blogs have been birthday blogs soooooooo going forward I will announce birthdays on the events but I am going to cut back on regular birthday blogs. Now, having said that, if I have something particularly interesting to say about a particular birthday I may still post something but I don't want anyone to get disappointed if they don't get their own birthday blog. Rest assured, I still love you.

Hello, Mr. Suida!!!!!!

Happy Birthday John! You are the best and I hope you had a great day!

Fire in Griffith Park

Yesterday there was a big fire in Griffith Park. More than 600 acres burned, there were countless evacuations, and the footage of the fire was something else. Even though I had been alerted in the afternoon it wasn't until about 10:30 last night when I started watching a little bit of the news on it. (I am not a news watcher).

I went to the internet to see if I could get a summary on the local NBC website and I ran across the following article: http://www.nbc4.tv/news/13279762/detail.html?dl=mainclick Unlike my good friend Queen B, I will not force you to read the article. You do need to go to it though and scroll down about 3/4 of the way where you will see a box with a quote taken from the scene. Please go look at it! Then read on:

Of all the quotes that could have been used from the Mayor, the Fire Chief, the Forest Rangers, or the Victims they chose to highlight a Griffith Park visitor who stated: "Ash was falling in our pasta salad". I about died of a heart attack when I read this, I mean now that truly is a crisis-LOL. I wonder who made the decision to add this of all quotes to the article? How did it then get by the editor, I don't even know what to say-LOL Again

Happy Birthday, David!!!!

Happy Birthday, honey! I love you and hope you have a great day today!!!!!!

So Check out this birthday cake I found on the internet. This has to be the worst cake ever! LOL, look at the writing and the colors. The part I like the best though is how all the icing is melting off the side. I also like the photo taking afterthought (Note they have already cut a piece of the cake). If I made this cake it would have promptly been thrown in the trash and I would have then sent someone to Baskin Robbins for an Ice Cream cake. I also wish I had been a guest at this party. If so, I would have taken a photo of the cake with the baker after I told her that it was the greatest cake I had ever seen! LOL

So honey, for your birthday we are headed to Sushi Roku for dinner where James will show off his awesome acting skills and I can buy you (instead of making you ) a great dessert!

P.S. Dave McCormick-this is for my husband but since you are also a David with a May 9th birthday, Have a great one!!!

Yo MTC, It's your birthday!

And I am at home trying to learn the Champion dance but some things just can't be duplicated!!!! You are one of a kind and I love you to pieces! (Please note: I wanted to post your Christmas card from last year but this blog is rated PG)

Today's Airplane Neighbor

This guy sat next to me this morning on my flight to Phoenix. He looked like the average business man and was approximately 50 years old. The entire flight he was intently focused on his reading material and was making notes, stars and highlights at the most interesting parts. He had two pens: The first was a purple felt tip and the second was a yellow highlighter.

It was all I could do not to laugh out loud when I realized this important book was a manual for how to operate his DVD player. He placed a star next to "in order to remove a DVD from the player, press Eject". LOL

I would like to know what Queen B thinks about this because I think she also has the practice of reading operating manuals from cover to cover.

Crap, The Girls Lost!

So here is my little pity party for Dustin and Candice. I so wanted the Beauty Queens to win the Amazing Race All-Stars and I really thought they were gonna pull it off but in the end they finished in second place.

These two BFF's did not fight the entire race until tonight when the pressure just got to them both. I thought Candice was a bit over the top yelling at Dustin but I suppose that happens every once in awhile with even the best of friends. They ended up saying that their friendship was worth so much more than the million bucks. How great is that?

I guess now that the blonds have failed to be the first woman team to win the Amazing Race I have another shot at it. LOL

New Southwest Magazine

Wednesday, as I was flying home from Sacramento I started thumbing through the May addition of "Spirit Magazine". I ran across an article that made me think of one of our blog readers(Hint: It's a man) . I thought that maybe I should tear it out and send it to him. Then I had another thought, I wonder if I looked through the entire magazine (with the the thought of thinking of others) how many items would jump out at me and make me think of someone.

I decided to mail each of the pages that reminded me of someone to them as a little surprise. This is going to be a new thing because I had a blast doing this. There were some pages that I wanted to copy and send to a whole slew of people but you know postage stamps are freaking expensive (They are going up again on May 14th to 41 cents). One that I could have sent to 100's of people was "Workers Waste 1.7 hours per week looking for information they have filed but can't find"ARGH!

Rest assured that if you don't get something this month you probably will get something the next time I do this. The results were amazing....quite amazing. I tore out probably 1/2 of the magazine I also included my own little comments, written with my favorite Sharpie.

Here is a request: If you get something you have to come back and acknowledge that you received it. (You don't have to say what it was but you can if you want to, that would be fun). Otherwise, people will think I am full of it.....we wouldn't want that.

P.S. MTC and Jinjer, need addresses. Email them to me.

Happy Birthday Ms. Andria!!!

Happy Birthday, beautiful!!!!!

Longest Conference Call

I was on a conference call today that lasted (no joke) 871 consecutive minutes! That is over 14 1/2 hours! To everyone that I said "I'll call you back when I get off this call" to today, I'll call you Monday. (If I remember-LOL)

Yeah! Ducks Win!!!!

So....sitting in these seats was even better than I had remembered. Here are a couple of photos:

I Must Refer You To Queen B

I have a couple of comments about Queen B's blog tonight and I must refer you folks over there. The first one that had me on the floor (particularly humorous to me is her re-enactment of her non-Starbucks conversation) can be found here:

http://smbtamu01.blogspot.com/2007/05/sfo.html

The second one I love for several reasons but the top reason is of course the pictures of the paper towel dispensers. (If you are a new blog reader you should go back and read http://kim1champ.blogspot.com/2007/01/automatic-paper-towell-dispensers-in.html). Secondly, I absolutely love the photo of you in the bathroom!!!! I am totally impressed that you took it.

http://smbtamu01.blogspot.com/2007/05/not-happy-at-work-today.html

P.S. The answer to this question may require a little blog research. Who is the person responsible for this whole topic of paper towel dispensers? Hint: It's the man who is the #3 reason why I haven't run out of blogging material.

We're Off to the Ducks Game

My brother, Matt, gave David and I tickets for tomorrow nights hockey playoff game. (They actually came from his soon to be father-in-law). The seats are AWESOME! If you watch any part of the game you can probably see us. We will be in the first row (on the glass) about two-three seats to the right of the goal (if you are on the ice looking at the goal). Soooooo, two action items:

(1) Watch the game and look for us
(2) Root for the Ducks

The Ducks are ahead in the series 3-2. (I didn't know they were even still in it until last night)

What Is This?

Does anybody know what this drawing depicts?

Happy Birthday, Tinkerbell!

Your Hot!