Mar

This week’s topic is favorite things to do on vacation. We have a vacation (to Singapore! ) coming up soon, so the timing is good for me!

1. Umm … ask Craig about this one!

2. Explore a new place – Craig & I both love to travel, and although we have some favorite places, we really like visiting places we’ve never been before. Like Singapore!

3. Absolutely nothing – we take two kinds of vacations: adventure trips (see #2 above) and relaxation trips; the crazier our life gets, the more I appreciate taking time to just chill and do nothing. I prefer a non-crowded beach or an isolated mountain cabin for this type of trip.

4. Try new foods – wherever we are, and why-ever we’re there, we love to sample good local cuisine. No chains allowed!

5. Help my kids learn about other cultures – now that they’re old enough to remember and understand travel, we take the kids with us whenever we can. We both really want them to grow up with high levels of openness and curiosity about and appreciation of other people and places.

6. Walk – Nashville isn’t a walking city, especially the ‘burbs where we are. Nothing gives you a better feel for a place than walking around and exploring on foot. I walk everywhere I can when we’re on vacation.

7. Take a break from work – spend as little time as possible on the computer!

8. Meet new people – humans are social animals, and for me places aren’t places without the people who live there. When I travel, I don’t like to just observe the sights, I like to interact with “real live locals”.

9. Get high – wherever we visit, I like to find the highest spot we can access, whether it’s an observation booth at the top og a very tall building or the view off a mountaintop, and get a bird’s eye view, helps keep perspective. Hah, that’s not what you thought I was going to say on this one, is it!

10. Shop – what’s a great trip without souvenirs?!!

  

Mar

http://polfeeds.com/item/Open-for-Questions-President-Obama-to-Answer-Your-Questions-on-Thursday-2

Seriously, that is pretty awesome. He’s going out of his way to get the word out to people, and answer their concerns. I love that he’s going over the heads of bureaucrats, lobbyists, and the Washington Establishment to actually get things done.

Quite the contrast to the way W handled things! :-p

  

Mar

Yeah, that’d be me! Okay, technically I am in a TIE for first-place, but still … after coming in DEAD LAST in last year’s bracket challenge, this is good. Very good! Of course, it may not last long…I have Gonzaga over UNC in Friday’s game!

Here’s the proof…

  

Mar

Okay, I know I am late, but once I got around to it, this week’s topic took me all of about 30 seconds! I tend to like all sorts of music, BUT, there are some songs that I just absolutely can’t stand. Please note, this is NOT, from my perspective, a list of the WORST songs ever. I don’t think these songs are inherently bad, of poor quality (in most cases) or anything like that … I just hate them. Even more oddly, in several cases I love other songs by the same artist/band. I have no justification, somehow they just rub me the wrong way, I guess. Anywhoo … here’s my list of 10 songs I hate (actually, I couldn’t stop at 10):

1. Hotel California (Eagles)
2. At This Moment (Billy Vera & The Beaters)
3. I Shot the Sheriff (Eric Clapton)
4. Indian Outlaw (Tim McGraw)
5. Heart Light (Neil Diamond)
6. Rico Suave (Gerardo)
7. Truly Madly Deeply (Savage Garden)
8. Satisfaction & Oops, I Did It Again (Britney Spears)
9. Courtesy of the Red, White & Blue (Toby Keith) – along with any other small-minded, deliberately misleading song that equates being a good American with being a Republican
10. She Bangs (Ricky Martin … and William Hung)
11. Invisible (Clay Aiken)
12. Macarena (Los Del Rio)
13. She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy (Kenny Chesney)
14. All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You (Heart)
15. Dogs (Pink Floyd) – and this one is hard because Craig LOVES this song!!!

Also, while I’m on the topic, I hate any and all song’s with a person’s name in the title … I know, very odd, but somehow I just can’t relate to them.

I also hate songs about cowboys.

And, like a lot of people I guess, I hate everything ever recorded by: Taylor Hicks, Cher, New Kids on the Block, Jessica Simpson, Kevin Federline, as well as misogynistic rap and virtually anything that has ever been part of a Disney movie.

Oh, and last thing – another oddity – I love to go and hear live music, but I CAN’T STAND to listen to recordings of live music!

I should stop now, all of this is probably just adding to Craig’s secret stash of ammunition in case he ever needs to have me declared legally insane!

  

Mar

Seeing how it is going up to almost 80 degrees here today, this week’s topic is a fun one for me! Yes, I know we will have at least one more cold snap, maybe even a hard freeze, but still, the end is near, for this year anyway. Here are my top 10 things I will NOT miss about winter:

1. Not being able to wear flip-flops
2. Thick (ugly) socks with heavy (ugly) shoes
3. Never-ending gray skies
4. School getting cancelled just because it MIGHT snow (it rarely does here)
5. Promises of snow that never come
6. It being 34º and raining … pretty much constantly
7. A cold car on cold mornings, especially when the kids are shivering in the back (I know, I could start it early, but most mornings it’s all way can do to get out the door on time and I always intend to start the car early, but rarely manage to do it)
8. Coming home at 4:30 and having it be dark already
9. Waking up when it’s still dark
10. Bare-limbed trees

  

Mar

Some dude with WAY to much time on his hands spliced together all the swear words from The Sopranos … it’s 27 minutes long!

The Sopranos, Uncensored

Pretty hilarious. Someone should do this with Deadwood…

Thanks Entertainment Weekly for bring this little gem to my attention … nice spring break fun!