Author: The Jody

I’m not complaining about the nice warm air that passed through the area. I’m just complaining about the timing. It would have been really great for it to happen during daylight hours. I mean, maybe just a couple of hours earlier. I say that because it would have been great to not be woken up by all the ice sliding off the roof into the gutters at one in the morning. I have a cape cod-style house, and our bedroom has a slope in it. I sleep closest to the roof, with a dormer window [I think that’s what they’re called] like two feet from my head. So when stuff moves on the roof, it’s like it’s crashing into the room. Not cool, when you were sound asleep.

I guess I also would have liked the date moved to the weekend as well. It hurts me deeply to know that I was either sleeping or at my desk while it was 60 degrees. Except for my commute, of course, but that’s when we had the downpour, so I couldn’t very well open the windows.

So ya, I was complaining. It was 61 when I left the house. According to the Weather Channel, when I leave work, it will be THIRTY DEGREES COOLER. How can you not hate that?

I got the turkey for lunch today. When you buy a hot meal, it goes in a white container so you have to tell the cashier what you got.

I go to the cashier named Jody for obvious reasons. She greeted me with “Hello, Jody!”

and I replied:

“Hello, turkey.”

I shoulda used a period, not a comma. At least she laughed.

D’oh!

Coupla thoughts:

• I was just looking for something in my archives, and I found an old entry that mentions that the Singing Psychic told the WXLO morning team that the Red Sox would dominate the Yankees in 2004.
  
  Wow, was she ever right! I’m going to really have to pay attention to her from now on…
• It shouldn’t be this hard to find out when sign-ups are for the North Leominster Little League. People, it’s 2005. Let’s get some web sites out there!
• The Leominster Youth Soccer league apparently let the domain lapse. So what was a pretty useful web site for soccer info is now one of those placeholder web marketing sites. I’d go re-grab the domain for them, but I don’t think Junior wants to play spring soccer, so I’m not sure it’s appropriate for me to own the domain. I need to figure out who to mention this to.

Okay, another hair post. You can handle it, right? Good.

I’ve been buying Herbal Essence shampoo for several years now. The one for extra body, the brownish one. I think the claim to fame is that it has marigold in it or something. Anyway, while I have never washed my hair in an airplane bathroom (making noises that point to another activity, ahem), I do love the way it smells.

Strike that.

The way it smelled. For some reason, the Herbal Essence people have itchy fingers and messed with the formula for ALL their shampoos. Now they all contain “Essence of Palm.” I can’t remember what it’s supposed to do for you. But the thing that scared me was the little graphic in the corner that said “New – Same Great Scent”.

Okay, first of all, I have no idea how those two thoughts can be put together. If it’s the same great scent, it’s not new. And if it’s new, it can’t be the same great scent.

So I tried it. It’s not the same great scent. I didn’t want to say it out loud, but the thought that came to me was that it smells like ass. Except in the car tonight I said it smelled like bum, cause Junior is only seven and we aren’t white trash, thank you. And Mr. Dump, God bless him, said

“Yaaaa…you know, I wasn’t going to say anything, but it does.”

“You mean, you think it smells like bum too?”

“It does. Just a little.”

Try to imagine how hilarious a seven year old found this whole conversation. Now we have to tell him that just because the shampoo smells like bum, our heads don’t. And yes, I’ve already purchased some other shampoo. I hope I like it. Cause it’s not like I can go back to the Herbal Essence. *sigh*