Levis?

I'm thinking that Levis needs to fire their advertising company. Are they serious?
http://www.unbuttonyourbeast.com/?33a4b1b9d34d1a69aa4c186ea65b4742
This is just one of many to choose from. All equally disturbing!

Pumpkin Suprise!!

While I wasn't looking...a new little pumpkin sprouted! My husband noticed it yesterday and I rushed out to find it. It's actually bigger than the other one when it went to visit the Great Pumpkin in the sky. I don't know how this little stinker snuck past me. I was just out there the other day weeding, fertilizing and doing some yard work. I never noticed it.

I think I'll name it Stinker. I've heard that if you name a wayward pet, it'll never leave you alone. Think that'll work with a pumpkin? Maybe it'll actually stick around. I can only hope! I'll fertilize tomorrow. If it's not 98 degrees again.

Pet Peeve Of The Week

Okay, so I'm at the grocery store check out line yesterday. I'm checking out the magazines, double checking my list and next thing I know, its my turn. I hand the lady my earth-friendly reusable bags (I can't say "green", it makes me throw up a little in my mouth), and she checks me out. I slide my card and push all the appropriate buttons. Meanwhile, I'm all bagged up and the checker is scanning the groceries of the lady behind me. I kid you not, I wasn't done signing my name on the charge slip and checkerlady is giving the lady behind me her total.

Did this make me feel rushed? You betcha.

Have I called the store manager about this problem before? You betcha?

Have I left the store without an onion because it got mixed up with the groceries for the lady behind me? You betcha.

Have I been double charged because the checkerlady didn't finish with the lady ahead of me before starting to scan me and scanned an item twice because she had to go back and give change to the lady ahead of me? You betcha. (Was that a really long run on sentence? You betcha.)

Next time, I think I'm going to ask the checkerlady to wait until she finishes with me to start the next customer. I'm tired of my bag being shoved at me while I'm trying to put my credit card away. I still wonder what the lady who got my onion thought when she got home and found an extra onion in her bag.

Thanks for letting me vent.

Youtube must see

If you haven't seen this video yet, it's absolutely hilarious. I think I channel this woman sometimes. Other times I wish I could!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anSpBUxsgAU

My iPod

I heard someone say once that their iPod would be someone else's hell. I guess they had a bunch of obscure funky songs on it that no one else would be interested in.

That got me thinking. What is on my iPod that someone would say, "huh?" to? I have the old stand bys like the Eagles, Billy Joel, some Pat Benatar, Journey (old stuff, not that new guy), a lot of random 80's stuff, the Valley Girl movie sound track. I also have some more current songs like Fergie and the Jonas Brothers. But the one song that no one else would know is "Come in from the Rain" by Captain and Tenille. (Check 'em out: http://www.tmz.com/2008/09/18/love-will-keep-them-together/) LOVE that song! It starts and ends with the sound of rain. Very cool. I used to listen to it on 8track when I was a kid. I'd love to find an old 8track tape to show my kids. They've seen the old vinyl records (I have my Thompson Twins, Journey Escape, Culture Club and Loverboy records...still!!) One day I mentioned that I had gone for a walk that morning with my walkman.
"Who?" asked peanunt #1.
Oops, I meant my iPod. Glad my husband knew what I meant!

So what's on your iPod that no one else would 'get'?

More fun things to do with your kids...

The other night, my son wanted to find some new songs for his PSP. He asked for 'Where is the love' by Blackeyed Peas. (Okay, he's 9, where did he hear that?) I pulled up my iTunes library and played it for him. (Yes, I have that song on my iPod, but he doesn't listen to it, so I still don't know where he heard it.) As we looked through the list, he pointed to 'Hotel California' and asked to hear it. I told my peanuts that 'Hotel California' is a classic rock song, one of the best, by an amazing old group called the Eagles.
"Are there words?" asked peanut #2.
"Yes, just wait..." I responded.
I guess the intro was too long and they lost interest. (Mom's ADD is rubbing off on them.) So we went on to a few more songs. We were dancing, singing, twirling (not so much my son) and shaking it.
Try it sometime. Take the lead, they'll follow. Its fun to teach them the words to old classics while dancing like no one else is watching.

Pumpkin Update...sad news

Sadly, our one hope for a pumpkin this year fell off the vine this morning. sniff, sniff. The bottom was rotted out and it had black spots on it. sniff, sniff. It didn't get much bigger than a tennis ball and even that's being generous. Now, we have to hope and pray for the best with the 5 little buds that are stil there. I told the kids just last night that we could let the pumpkins go until Thanksgiving to see how big they got. I didn't tell them Thanksgiving of what year. Could be '09 or '11 at this rate. Its not like we have to worry about frost here, folks.

So the vines keep growing and producing these beautiful flowers. But sadly, our pumpkins aren't taking to life in our little town.

I heard a blurb on the news last night about growing lettuce. After paying $1.49 for a really little, lame head of lettuce yesterday, maybe I'll give that a try. I have to be able to grow something besides pink geraniums and silk plants.