*Big DumpTruck*

Go Pats

Praise the good Lord above that nobody offered me tickets to tonights game because the inner termoil over wanting to go and yet not wanting to have to be outside would have ripped me in two. Luckily, I didn't have to make that choice. It's still freaking cold out...tomorrow they said it might hit 21 and I might just wear shorts.

Junior had a birthday party to attend - a pool party. Oy he was happy to go, but the combination of 0 moisture in the air the past 4 days with the sudden humid and chlorinated conditions and he sprouted a nosebleed. Ugh. Not good. Got it under control, he want back int the pool, and there was just enough residue (old blood mixing with pool water) for the pool staff to tell us that he had to stay out of the pool. I totally understood, we know the rule where he takes swim lessons is that anything in the pool like that (throw up, poop, whatever) and they have to kick everyone out and run a cleaning cycle. He wasn't really embarrassed, just wanted to go home. Quite frankly, so did I. I am NOT a fan of bloody noses, they freak me out and I assume the worst, even though I know some people just get them more than others...

Yo, Stupid!

To the UPS driver down in the Victory plaza in Northboro - dude! It's too cold to wear shorts! TOO COLD TO WEAR SHORTS!

Don't come crying to me when they have to amputate both legs due to frostbite, okay?

Hero of the Day Award

It's time for the prestigious "Dump Hero of the Day" award, given to the individual who goes above and beyond to make my life better, easier and/or more pleasant.

Until we determine the next Hero of the Day, this individual will also hold the Hero of the Month and Hero of the Year positions. It's good to be nice to me in early January, no?

Okay, today's hero is [drumroll]
Guy Who Pumped My Gas

Because Guy Who Pumped My Gas is not available for comment, I'll accept the award on his behalf. Yes, it was his job to man the pumps at the full-serve station, but it's 7 freaking degrees out there, with 10mph winds, and GWPMG had so many customers that he wasn't even able to step into the office to warm up the tiniest big.

GWPMG, the Big DumpTruck salutes you.

Google Loves Me

I've said it before, and I'll say it again, if being number one in a Google Search was worth money, I'd have been able to quit my job a long time ago. Today we have a Google Search for "mohegan sun commercial load letter paper". I wonder what the viewer who followed that link was looking for? The words?

Load letter paper
all I have to do is load letter paper
.......
Close the drawer push the button then let 'er run!

Or something like that. It's not like I memorized it. And there's no place to verify the lyrics, seeing as THIS is the top hit for "Load Letter Paper." I mean, you know it's not going to show up somewhere else. If I hear the commercial again and think of it, I'll update this post.

Oh, and I chickened out and didn't sing it when I loaded the printer at work yesterday.

Meme-ing. Everyone Does it Once in a While.

You're Geek Chic. Offbeat and with a thumbful of
calluses, you spend most of your time catching
Simpsons reruns and sucking down raspberry
Jell-O. However, you're still a hipster,
you've still got your own style, and you
probably dig the Velvet Underground's "Who
Loves the Sun?"


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Where did THAT Come From?

I'm lying in bed, listening to the wind. I can do that and write to you because of my sidekick, doncha know.

The wind is freaky strong right now...I mean, I'm listening to gusts that far surpass Typhoon Miffy levels. I guess I haven't been paying enough attention to the weather reports - was this expected? So if it was only 10 degrees out, and you throw in 30mph or so winds, how many minutes can your skin survive before it freezes and shatters into a million pieces?

Not that I'm going to conduct an experiment, I already told you, I'm lying in bed.

I'll bed the neighbor doesn't leave yippy and yappy out for very long. She'll have to find a new way to torture the neighborhood.

Call Me Twitchy

Did you ever have one of those uncontrollable muscle twitches? I used to get them in my lower eye lid ALL the time when I was overtired. I dubbed it "Eye Mono".

Right now I have ass mono.

Traffic Reporters: Do We Look Stupid?

Okay, maybe sometimes when I'm listening to the radio I'm only half-listening. But not always. And you learn the voices of the people you hear every day, you know?

So why is it that the traffic reporters use different names on different radio stations? Do we look like morons? The two I'm specifically talking about are the regular morning and afternoon folks over at WXLO. I know Gina's voice. I hear it every day. You can't tell me that she's not "D. B. Cooper" for the traffic reports on that other station. Same for the morning guy. I had it on WEIM (the local AM station) to listen for school cancellations and was shocked to hear the regular morning traffic guy, Eric Heenan, give his name as Joe something or other that I'd never heard before. Why? Just why? Does anyone think that the traffic reporters just work for one station?

It's Strep

Didn't I use that title last month, too?

Yuppers, sick boy gets to stay home on his birthday. <sarcasm>How exciting for everyone involved!</sarcasm>

Ice, Ice, Baby

Wow, it's jim-dandy out there today. Color me icy! The boy is home sick - we're waiting for the doctor's office to call us back. I am trying to figure out if we should call them. He was on vacation for 2 weeks, and I have to assume that they are backed up beyond reason. Of course, having a local 6 year old die from strep complications and a 29 year old die from the flu has probably got people insane. Junior's had a sore throat (sounds swollen shut) for about 4-5 days now. To me, that screams strep, but I'm not calling in a panic, I'm calling like I have any other time the boy has had it.

I just wish they'd get back to us because the sooner it's diagnosed, the sooner we can get him on medication and the sooner he can go back to school. It's his birthday tomorrow, and if he doesn't go in, how is he going to get to wear the birthday boy crown?

iparty, uparty

Hit up iParty today to loan up on crap for the 6th Birthday festivities. I think the grown ups were more sucked in by all the party favors, etc. Than Junior was. I wish he'd done a Harry Potter party, they had the coolest stuff.

But no, Power Rangers it is. Someone should explain to the buyers at iParty that Wildforce P.W. And Ninja Storm P.W. are not the same, and you can't just mix them. Duh! So they didn't have all the stuff for one or the other. Figures.