Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Catopia

My kid came back home to live with me. She brought with her, her two cats. Which was fine. I have a Maine coon mix that recently lost it's mate. So we settled in and all was well. Until summer. When we received an orphaned kitten who I probably would have insisted she take back had it not been for the fact he was cute and sweet as sugar and did funny things like carry his empty food bowl out to the living room and try to use the food bowl as a liter box. Then my in laws brought over their cat before they went to Florida which was the deal less they put her down. So now I look like the crazy cat woman and my home is Catopia. I have community food bowls and the water squirt bottle is a permanent fixture in my living room. There are cat toys and cat treats everywhere, we have holes in the bottom of doors shaped like, mouse holes and squares. So the cats can come and go as they please. I've been wearilessly teased about being a animal hoarder....(have you seen that show ?) and my first phrase to anyone walking in my house for the first time is this, " The Siamese and the shorthaired gray one are my daughters cats that are here till she moves out to her own place, after she finds a job...The long haired and the marmalade are ours, and the calico is my I laws cat that is staying for the winter while they are in Florida....Otherwise I really only have two cats." ....(breathe)... Thus explaining away the notion that I am crazy and or am substituting cats for kids. Which isn't helped by the fact that I call them my fur babies.

Whoa.





Sunday, October 23, 2011

Happy (gruesome) Halloween



http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/cyclopsshark.asp
Blinky lives.
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Halloween Suicides and accidental hangings....

Okay, for starters, why? And then, when it comes to suicide, come on guys....Really, what a selfish shit thing to do really. I mean your killing yourself is just hurting everyone else around you....Not to mention your dead, and water skiing across the lake of fire in hell. (With the exception of mental illness that's what's in store kids).
And for number two, the hell is up with the hanging yourself thing....Didn't your Mom ever mention to you as a kid playing cowboys and Indians what a crazy dangerous thing it was to pretend hangings......Oh wait, this is the generation that didn't play outside....Sorry, I digress.....

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/gruesome/halloween.asp
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/hanging.asp

Monday, August 29, 2011

10 useless facts

http://srhpost.blogspot.com/2006/11/11-interesting-facts.html

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.

A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

The Mona Lisa had no eyebrows.

When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.

Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his wife or mother because they were both deaf.

"I Am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries because Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself."

Friday, August 19, 2011

More From Northern Michigan.....

CMU creates a position it may regret

http://www.themorningsun.com/articles/2011/08/19/opinion/srv0000013255055.txt

Classes at CMU will start on Monday. That is the message from the university's administration. That's their story and they're sticking to it. Practically every communication from the university starts and ends with that.

I already regret it.

Will clean up of St. Louis Velsicol site take forever?



In a word....."yes".


Several area schools fail to meet federal goals

http://www.themorningsun.com/articles/2011/08/19/news/srv0000013256517.txt


Big fat "SURPRISE!!!"

Only in Northern Michigan early in the morning.....



New Report: Too Many Judges in Michigan
Can't swing a dead lawyer without hitting one....

A new state report says Michigan has too many judges and needs to cut back. The State Court Administrative Office says Michigan should reduce the number of district and circuit court judges by 45. They also recommend eliminating four judge positions with the Court of Appeals. The report says the state could save eight million dollars a year.

Northern Michigan Destination Named Most Beautiful Place in America

A cobra is beautiful too, but I have no desire to be around one.

The "Most Beautiful Place in America" is right here in Northern Michigan! Good Morning America recently released 10 finalists in the running for America's Most Beautiful Place. 100,000 votes later, a Northern Michigan hot spot tops the list!

Caption of the moment

By Dirigo:


Meanwhile, in the Gulf of Mexico...

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