if someone is going to poke you awake at three a.m…
January 28, 2010
It’d better be to shove a purple stuffed dragon named Oliver under your blanket while being told, “He wants to lay with you.”
Just sayin’.
-CJ
hammered by the first commercial break
January 28, 2010
I don’t watch award shows because for every one award whose winner I might actually care about, there’s three and half hours of filler and six horribly matched duets. Sitting through them makes my brain hurt.
I tweet’d a thought this morning: “There’s gotta be a way I can turn the upcoming Grammys into a drinking game.”
The suggestions were stellar.
- Take a shot every time someone thanks the gee oh dee.
- Take a shot every time someone says Beyonce or Michael Jackson.
- Take two shots every time Taylor Swift or Lady GAGa are mentioned.
Not only will I watch it this time, but I’m excited to. Who’s coming?
-CJ
PS, you can always depend on my lovely friend Misty over at Handbags & Handguns for the most kick ass recaps.
on football
January 25, 2010
I knew there was a damn good reason I hadn’t joined the fram on loving football. I hardly understand it, for one. And the Vikings vs Saints took way too damn long yesterday but once you’ve invested four quarters worth of your time, you sit through the OT. At least I had plenty of good company and a multitude of beverages. I’ll watch the Superbowl for the commercials but I don’t see any face paint in my future.
Baseball on the other hand… April can’t come soon enough.
-CJ
I am one of the world’s greatest parents
January 23, 2010
because, like you, I would never, EVER consider this.
Anyone want to join me in a Georgia road trip to hug this kid?
-CJ
I had a craving
January 22, 2010
…for penguins.
Too cute to eat?
Nope.
-CJ
imagine sitting at their dinner table now…
January 21, 2010
“Cindy McCain, the wife of 2008 Republican presidential nominee John McCain, and their daughter Meghan have posed for photos endorsing pro-gay marriage forces in California.”
original article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-cindy-mccain-noh8,0,6867669.story
Cindy McCain
Honestly? This made my entire week so much better. Cindy should totally work Laura Bush and together they could release promotional videos and campaigns and I swear, it would compensate for at least three and a half of the eight years that her husband was in office.
-CJ
don’t burst my bubble
January 21, 2010
Is everyone this happy and motivated and inspirational at the beginning of every year?
Or is 2010 as different as I suspected?
-CJ
Kiddo on love
January 20, 2010
The other night a bunch of us went to watch the OC Roller Girls clobber each other in the rink. On the way out we were handed a flyer for an upcoming derby themed/titled Love Hurts. I made a throwaway comment like, ‘damn right,’ or something to that effect. Kiddo looked at me with big eyes and took the side of love. “No, it doesn’t!”
When we got in the car Ree and I asked her for her thoughts on love. The kind you feel for your fram or the kind for your boy/girlfriend. Her explanation, and I shit you not:
“When you love someone like your boyfriend or girlfriend, you have Forever Glue that makes you stay with them.”
“What happens if you break up?”
“Well your sad tears are the only thing that makes Forever Glue not stick anymore.”
We concluded this product is available at ‘The Glue Store’ or ‘probably Home Depot.’
I’m off to the patent office.
-CJ
so very late
January 19, 2010
I have trouble recognizing a crisis when it doesn’t affect me directly. It’s a selfish but automatic way of thinking. I knew there was an earthquake in Haiti because my co-worker, one seat away from me, let out a low whistle and whispered the magnitude and location. I didn’t read any articles or watch any news related to the devastation. I think because I’m unfamiliar with the location and because of its distance from what I do know, to me, it almost didn’t happen.
That is a bad, bad way to think.
At the very least, I need to pull my head out of the sand, lean back on my haunches and think about what I do have, what I’ve always had, what I’ve never had to worry about or deal with and relish in the wave of overwhelming thankfulness that comes over me.
It’s really quite warm.
If you’ve been ignorant like me then all you need to know is the death toll. A number so huge, it’s what finally made me realize that this has been in my peripheral vision for a damn good reason. Over 100,000 people. Everyone you’ve ever met in your life and then some.
What if this was the city you lived in?
This link has a list of the contributing organizations in the realm of food, shelter, medicine, and basic needs: http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2007/impact/
Money is the most valuable donation I’m sure, but there’s no reason not to do a little research on how you can help. Because if you are reading this, you have access to a computer and to the internet and the time to sit and browse a mediocre collection of writing from a rambling girl like me and that is way, way more than so many Haiti residents have right now. I’ve been thinking about donating and then thinking about the dire contents of my wallet and the bills that need to be paid — but that’s just it. I have dire contents. I have electricity to pay for. I have a cell phone to pay for. I have rent to pay for the solid roof over my head. So many of them don’t. So I’m going to figure out what I can do tonight to help.
-CJ
