The missing men of Deepwater Horizon oil rig - Times Online

I was curious about the men who are missing and presumed dead from the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon and found this article...

The missing men of Deepwater Horizon oil rig - Times Online

Happy Mother's Day to me...and to YOU, too!

I always have to justify big purchases whether it's a $40 Miche bag purse shell or a $200 Wii.  That's why I buy myself Christmas presents and birthday presents and Mother's Day presents and 4th of July presents and Memorial Day presents and Arbor Day presents... 

I started drinking coffee about ten years ago when I discovered that it is, basically, a legal drug.  Anything that makes a person feel that good should be banned in all fifty states.

My Mother's Day present to me is the single cup Keurig coffee brewer you see above.  You should justify one for yourself.

Happy Mother's Day, everybody!

Grand-Fabulous-Daughter Ava Moments

The Dish Ran Away With the Spoon
The Grand-Fabulous Ava spent the night with me last night. Ava is almost 3 years old going on 14.  Between trying to keep her from going upstairs by herself ("I can do it, Grandma!") and helping her get on the potty ("I can do it by myself!"), making breakfast can be a challenge. 

After a couple of bites of my scrambled eggs this morning, I realized I was eating my eggs with a spoon instead of a fork.  I remember pulling a fork out of the drawer to eat my eggs like a normal adult and Ava had her special green Ava spoon, so where did the spoon I was eating with come from?  I suppose I probably don't want to know.

Ava has named the new baby
When Cory and Jamie found out Ava was going to have a baby brother, one of the names that was tossed around was Harry.  Ava has decided that her baby brother's name is going to be "Harry Potter Anderson."  I'm not sure we're going to be able to unring that bell.

Dear American Idol:

Dear American Idol Producers:

                Please replace Kara DeGardenia with Shania Twain.

                Thank you.

                                                                 Love,


                                                                  Laurie

Seemed pretty ordinary to me

Today I had a Lean Cuisine for lunch.

The instructions on the back of the box included the words "Revolutionary Grilling Tray (tm)" not once, but twice in the description of how to heat my sandwich. This is a picture of the revolutionary tray...

Looked and cooked just like all the other little grilling trays Lean Cuisine has been using for years. Nothing "revolutionary" about it. It's not like I was expecting fireworks or muskets or Redcoats or anything, but...still.  Revolutionary?  Idiots.

The Grand-Fabulous-Ava

This and That

I'm going to be a grandma again and this time it's a boy!  He's due the last week in September.

I hate it when I forget to take Kleenex out of my pants pocket before I wash them and then have Kleenex scraps all over my newly washed clothes, yet damned if I don't do it every week.

Most intriguing Facebook status update by one of my friends this week:  "Anyone find a pair of brown flip flops at the theatre??"

I yelled "F*ck you!" at the yoga instructor on my Wii one day this week.

When I tell somebody about a new program I like on television and they ask me when it comes on, I say, "I don't know.  It appears in my DVR and I watch it."  I have no idea when or where most of my favorite programs come on.

I think covering perfectly good strawberries in chocolate or wrapping delicious shrimp in bacon is a sinful waste of chocolate, bacon, shrimp and strawberries.

I don't understand why people name a baby and then call it something else.  "Let's name her Margaret Elizabeth and call her Lizzie."  WTF?  Just name the kid Lizzie.

I finally watched Twilight and enjoyed the movie much more than the book, which never happens for me.  Also, Kristen Stewart is annoying as hell every time I see her on television, but I was pleasantly surprised at her acting ability.

My new favorite television program is "Justified" (on FX Tuesdays at 10...I had to look that up).  I'm still in mourning over the abrupt cancellation of Deadwood and this brilliant program with the amazing Tim Olyphant has filled that previously unfillable void nicely.

Beaumont Independent School District - WTF?

Last night, our school board voted to name the new school district athletic complex after our highly controversial school district superintendent.  To say the man is controversial is a vast understatement, but I don't have time to go into that right now.

For those of you who live out of the area, some of this won't make sense to you, but bear with me. 

To the citizens of Jefferson County, Texas:

How about we rename Ford Park to Carl Griffith Park? The airport...Janis Joplin Regional? Washington Monument...Sarah Palin Monument? Why name something after one of the most controversial figures in the community? Folks, I think our school board has gone rogue.

Easter 2010

How quickly we forget

I just pulled a frozen Swedish meatball dinner from the freezer to cook for my lunch here at the office.  I turned it over and read the cooking instructions and was appalled.

"Nine and half minutes!  That's crazy!  Dammit!!"

Has it come to this?  I'm pissed off because my Swedish meatball lunch will take a whole nine and half minutes to cook before I can eat it?  In the olden days, every frozen dinner took at least 30 minues to cook.

I also got pissed off yesterday because a lady in front of me at the grocery store had the audacity to write a check to pay for her groceries and god forbid I have to actually go into the convenience store and pay for my gas if there's a malfunction during my Pay-at-the-Pump routine.  I throw a huge tantrum in my head over that one.

Since I got my laptop, I don't even have to leave my couch to IMDB or Google anymore.  I have the world at my fingertips and if I lose my internet connection for 1.5 seconds you'd think someone shot my dog.  I'm so spoiled to my DVR that I try to fast-forward everything I watch, even the non-DVRed ones. I pitch a little hissy fit over that, too.

What has become of me?

Longneck Road Show

Playing For Change | Peace Through Music

Playing For Change | Peace Through Music




Posted using ShareThis

Notes on American Idol

Aaron - Not great.  Can't blame it on still being sick.  It's been three weeks since he had a decent performance.

Katie - My favorite performance by her so far.  First time I've seen her consistent throughout the whole song.

Andrew - Not as good as last week, but still better than his earlier performances.

Michael  - Great voice, but I wasn't crazy about it.

Crystal - Crystal does the Beatles.  Excellent.

Tim - One of my favorites of the night.  The song and the look fit him perfectly.

Casey - Oh...my...God.  My absolute favorite of the night.  Fantastic.

Siobhan - Beautiful voice.  Nicely done.

Lee - Not my favorite performance by him, but I'm glad he looked so happy.

Bottom three:  Aaron, Siobhan, Andrew

Going home:  Aaron

Good Movie Sequels

Of course there are some very good movie sequels:

The Godfathr Part II
Die Hard 2
Christmas Vacation
Bourne Supremacy
All the Harry Potters
All the Lord of the Rings
Some of the Indiana Jones
Not sure if you'd consider James Bond movies as sequels, but I like all of them...some more than others.

It's been years since I read The Godfather. If you've never read it, I think you should...