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August 27th, 2008
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{Edition XXXVI}
I’m sure this is hideously boring, but, hey, at least I actually did it this week! And on time!
ME by the Numbers!
1. Number of years we’ve lived at our current house.
2. Cars: both minivans
3. Number of kids: 16 year old, 9 year old twins
4. Pets: Cat, Hamster, Hermit crab, Fish
5. Members of my family: Husband, me, three kids
6. Number of years I’ve known most of the gals from Writers At Play.
7. First number of my house number: 7500
8. Number of years I’ve been friends with Lisa.
9. Number of jobs/company changes my husband has had in time we’ve been married.
10. Number of years we lived at the house before this one.
11. Number of years I’ve been a member of RWA.
12. Number of rejection letters I’ve received.
13. Number of years I’ve worked at this building for the same company.
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August 21st, 2008
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{Edition XXXV}
Top things you didn’t know about sex, according to Discover Magazine.
Thirteen Things You Didn’t Know About Sex
1. Life emerged on earth about 3.8 billion years ago, but sex did not evolve until more than 2 billion years later. Dirty limericks emerged only quite recently, geologically speaking.
2. Sex—what is it good for? Scientists are not sure, since asexual reproduction is a better evolutionary strategy in some important ways.
3. For those who refuse to commit to one strategy: The hermaphroditic earthworm Dendrobaena rubida has both male and female genitalia. If it cannot find a partner, the worm doubles up so that its female bits and male bits can go to town.
4. Barbary macaques have a distinctive way to get their mates to make a sperm donation: yelling. If the female does not shout, the male almost never climaxes.
5. The spiny anteater, an egg-laying mammal native to Australia and New Guinea, has a penis with four heads, but only two fit into the female at once.
6. The tiny male paper nautilus, an octopus, impregnates the much larger female by shooting his penis (a modified tentacle) into her—and leaving it there.
7. Homosexual behavior is found in at least 1,500 species of mammal, fish, reptile, bird, and even invertebrate.
8. When a male goose courts another male goose, a female sometimes slips in and mates with both males. Later, the male partners share paternal duties.
9. Some seagulls practice lesbian mating, although the eggs that result from their liaisons are sterile.
10. Biologists at the University of California at San Francisco have found that male fruit flies exposed to high levels of alcohol become hypersexual and try to court practically anything with wings, including other male fruit flies.
11. Only a few vertebrates besides humans copulate face to face. Among those that sometimes do this: hamsters, beavers, and some primates, such as bonobos and orangutans.
12. French kissing is rarer still. The only other species known to do it as a prelude to mating is the white-fronted parrot. After the birds open their beaks and touch tongues, the male spews his lunch onto the female’s chest.
13. Size really does matter: People tend to choose mates of similar race, education level—and chubbiness. A recent British study indicates that obese people usually select partners with comparable levels of body fat.
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August 7th, 2008
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Don’t have time for the cool graphic and links and all, but I thought I’d post thirteen of my favorite photos from (the sightseeing portion of) my trip to California.
Giant Redwoods:
Golden Gate bridge with famous fog:
Wild sealions and birds in Montery Bay:
Pebble Beach, where the famous golf course is:
Wild sealion at Pebble Beach:
Wild seal at Pebble Beach:
The famous lone cypress:
My friend’s house:
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July 16th, 2008
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{Edition XXXIII}
Some of the Top 20 worst lyrics ever. Blatently stolen from Spinner.
Thirteen Worst Lyrics Ever
(in no particular order)
1. “If I was a sculptor
But then again, no”
–Elton John’s ‘Your Song’
(lyrics by Bernie Taupin)
2. “Lucky that my breasts
Are small and humble
So you don’t confuse
Them with mountains”
–Shakira’s ‘Whenever, Wherever’
3. “I love you like
A fat kid loves cake”
–50 Cent’s ‘21 Questions’
4. “There’s an insect
In your ear
If you scratch
It won’t disappear”
–U2’s ‘Staring at the Sun’
5. “Young, black and famous
With money hangin’
Out the anus”
–Puff Daddy and Mase’s ‘Can’t Nobody Hold Me Down’
6. “Leaving was never
my proud”
–R.E.M.’s ‘Leaving New York’
7. “I ain’t never seen
An ass like that
The way you move it
You make my pee-pee go
‘Doing-doing-doing’”
–Eminem’s ‘Ass Like That’
8. “There were plants
And birds
And rocks
And things”
–America’s ‘Horse With No Name’
9. “Time is like a clock
in my heart”
–Culture Club’s ‘Time (Clock of the Heart)’
10. “I wish it was Sunday
That’s my fun day
My I-don’t-have-to-run day”
–The Bangles’ ‘Manic Monday’
(lyrics by Prince)
11. “I’m all out of faith
This is how I feel”
–Natalie Imbruglia’s ‘Torn’
(lyrics by Anne Preven)
12. “My panty line shows
Got a run in my hose
My hair went flat
Man, I hate that”
–Shania Twain’s ‘Honey I’m Home’
13. “Coast to coast
L.A. to Chicago”
–Sade’s ‘Smooth Operator’
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June 19th, 2008
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{Edition XXXI}
Since I just returned from Las Vegas, I thought I’d list a few highlights. You can learn more about these at Vegas.com!
Thirteen Things to See/Do in Vegas
1. The Strip - basically a street or so of hotel after hotel, each more elaborate and breathtaking than the last.
2. Shows - theatre, comedy, singers, circus, magic…it’s all there!
3. Casinos - there is no getting away from them, so you might as well give in and at least put a quarter in a slot machine.
4. Bellagio fountains - although we waited 40 minutes and didn’t see them, I’ve passed by a time or two and they are amazing!
5. Ghost Tour - who knew the ghost of Elvis haunted the lower floors of the Hilton or that there is a dedication to Bugsy Malone at the Flamingo?
6. Celebrities - and not just those performing! We saw “the Rock” at the “Get Smart” premiere and others were in town for Cinevegas.
7. Free Drinks - just sit down in any casino and they’ll bring over free drinks. Hey, why not? You’re spending hundreds while they keep you hydrated.
8. Freemont Street - The old part of Vegas, where the Golden Nugget is and other original hotels. They’ve covered the street and created a light show to view from below. Unfortunately, we got there too late and missed it.
9. Stores - in my hotel alone there was an Elvis store and a Barry Manilow store. If your favorite entertainer has performed in Vegas, there is bound to be a store dedicated to him/her.
10. Star Trek exhibit - Characters in costume walk around for picture-taking, a few gift shops, cool restaurant “Quarks”, and an awesome ride. I posed with a Borg and muttered “he smells like rubber” and he says “you smell like bacteria.” LOL!
11. Animals - the MGM Grand has lions (although the exhibit was closed when we tried to go) and there is an aquarium at Mandalay Bay.
12. Wedding Chapels - there is literally one of these on every corner and in every hotel. If you need a quick wedding, there is no doubt you couldn’t do it the same day!
And whether or not you want to see/do it, you can’t escape from:
13. Prostitution - not that the women are on the street corners propositioning. No, it’s slightly more classy. There are guys handing out cards as you walk down the street promoting one or two women who will be at your hotel within 20 minutes. Some rates are as low as $35 and there are no hidden fees! If you prefer just to LOOK, you can see any number of shows which feature scantilly-clad dancing women.
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June 6th, 2008
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Although I could come up with 13 reasons why I didn’t get today this week’s Thursday Thirteen, it’s already Friday - so why bother? LOL!
Let’s just say, between checking kids’ heads for creepy crawlies and a severe thunderstorm which knocked out power and internet for 24 hours, things haven’t exactly been normal around here.
Today, my nephew graduates from high school. Wow. I saw him when he was an hour old. Could eighteen years have gone by already?
This weekend, my son and husband go cub scout camping, my parents return to Florida after staying up here in their condo for two months, and I prepare to head to Vegas for the Gerry Butler GALS Convention on Wednesday. So, if I’m scarce over the next few days or so, you’ll understand why.
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May 28th, 2008
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{Edition XXX}
Living near Washington, DC., I am lucky enough to have so many places to visit and fun things to do. This past weekend the family went to Brookside Gardens, during their annual Butterfly Exhibit, Wings of Fancy. While inside an enclosed greenhouse, the butterflies are free to dart and land as they like. We must be careful where we walk as to not step on them!
Abby, one of my 9-year-olds, decided she would wear a green shirt and brown shorts to look like a tree. Seems absurd, but it must have worked. The hand you’ll see in some of the pictures are hers, where they landed on their own (we aren’t allowed to reach or handle the butterflies). The pictures themselves aren’t of high quality, since they were taken with my Blackberry, but they were lovely enough to share! Which butterfly or photo is your favorite? I list mine below…
Thirteen Butterfly Photos
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And my favorite, Abby with a “friend.”
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May 21st, 2008
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{Edition XXIX}
Thirteen Quotes on Sex
1. “The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.” ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
2. “I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.” ~ George Burns
3. “A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she’s a tramp.” ~ Joan Rivers
4. “In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact.” ~ Marlene Dietrich
5. “An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.” ~ Aldous Leonard Huxley
6. “Food has replaced sex in my life, now I can’t even get into my own pants” ~ Anonymous
7. “Sex appeal is fifty percent what you’ve got and fifty percent what people think you’ve got.” ~ Sophia Loren
8. “Sex is an emotion in motion” ~ Mae West
more cat pictures
9. “Remember, if you smoke after sex you’re doing it too fast.” ~ Woody Allen
10. “When a man talks dirty to a woman, it’s sexual harassment. When a woman talks dirty to a man, it’s $3.95 a minute.” ~ Unknown
11. “Sex on television can’t hurt you unless you fall off.” ~ Unknown
12. “Men wake up aroused in the morning. We can’t help it. We just wake up and we want you. And the women are thinking, “How can he want me the way I look in the morning?” It’s because we can’t see you. We have no blood anywhere near our optic nerve.” ~ Andy Rooney
13. “Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.” ~ Mignon McLaughlin
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