Hey guys the new pin, which is a microscope is located in the Sports Shop, in front of the pink surf board.

To say I was surprised would be an understatement.  Many thanks to Brie at Cupid's Chokehold Musings of a Bibliophile (I'll fix my link, I promise) for thinking of me.

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Katiebabs at Babbling About Books ("babbling" and sheep!)
KMont at Lurv à la Mode
Stacy at Scooper Speaks
Urban Fantasy Land
Wendy at Musings of a Bookish Kitty
Book Binge
Naida at The Bookworm (she was the first to comment on my blog -- non-spam, anyway)

This is what all 20 year olds sign up for ....... to blow up things

"The problem appears to be a [gas] separator issue." the article says, I couldn't have made any better if I wanted to make a joke, right?

The replacement will cost $19 million, I'm sure being a plumber on the next century will be really profitable, maybe Mario style ones.

Ok, enough with the jokes, it seems a really serious problem, so you may want to read the article with the details, I just can't resist to make a joke.

Article: Space Station Toilet Breaks Again

The problem is that I don’t like to shop.  I don’t care about clothes.  I understand that sometimes a fabulous outfit can give you a rush, but so can a Starbucks double shot, and that costs two dollars.  If I could find someone with my same exact body type to try stuff on and buy two of everything that would be great.  As long as she is not a fan of turtle necks, tights and crazy prints, I would be okay.

Do you ever have a pair of pants that you hate, but you think they will magically improve when they are washed, like the annoying quality will go away when they are fresh?  So you wear them and halfway through the day you think, man, these pants are shit.  You’re trying to pay attention in a meeting and your mind keeps going back to the hated pants and you can’t pay attention.  Maybe the zipper doesn’t stay up, or you keep walking on the cuffs (short girl’s lament), or the bottoms are too liberty bell, or the front pockets are only big enough to hold a tube of Chapstick.  Why are the pockets of women's pants so tiny, by the way, so decorative and totally non-functional?  Women's pants have buttons that hold down flaps that go to nowhere, like those fake drawers in your kitchen or those faux books that home stagers use.  I mean, I have stuff I want to put in my pockets.  If anything I’d like to put my hands in the pockets without having to make fists.  If you think buying men's pants will solve your pocket problem you’ve got a new problem, because then the pockets go to your shins.  Men get enough space to store snacks for a hike over the Sierras.  But when wearing these pants, if you put quarters in your front pockets, you can’t get them back out without stooping over like Quasimodo in front of the vending machine. 

So lately I have become so annoyed with all of my pants and all of my horrible clothes that I throw them in the top shelf of my closet (after I wash them, of course, we fashion victims aren’t gross, just misguided).  And then the MS Society comes for a pick up and I throw all the clothes to the curb.  Yesterday though I threw my pants right into the kitchen garbage can, because they are so bad that I don’t want some poor person to suffer through pants that look harmless and kind of cool when you hold them up but wreck your whole day when you wear them.  Plus, I didn’t want to waste the water to wash them.  Maybe a smarter, more fashionable person would hold them up in the store and think, Why would I want drawstrings at the cuffs, and what are all these tiny pockets?  Am I a kangaroo?  That person would put the pants back.  But I am not that person.  I don’t think about pockets and drawstrings in weird places until I get the pants home, I just want to know the answer to the most important pants question.  The question every woman asks herself in the dressing room:, does my ass look fat in these pants?   Something happens to me at the clothing store, I become possessed with a need to buy ugly weird clothes.  I lose all sense of what is normal because a hot, thin, tall 20-year-old person looks good and very happy in the poster above the pants I shouldn’t buy, and I think I am just the type of short person to pull off pants like that.  So I am not allowed to shop alone, but I’d really just prefer not to shop at all. 

There are bad shopping memories, circa 1982.  Memories of my mom holding up a long-sleeved turtle neck shirt with tiny pink hearts and matching pink v-neck sweater and saying “isn’t this cute?”  Or purple knickers and matching long striped socks, “look honey, you want these in turquoise, too?”  Um, ya, maybe if I was selling newspapers on a wooden sidewalk in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1880 I’d want those in every color imaginable.  I once told my mom I wanted overalls and she bought me hot pink plastic overalls.  Seriously, they were plastic.  So I learned not to ask and to make do with the clothes you have until they start to rip apart in the washing machine.  Even then, maybe sew them.  Anything to avoid the clothing store. 

Sometimes Heather just goes and buys stuff for me, but with pants it’s more difficult, because the only person who can really answer the above-mentioned dressing room question is you.  Oh, you can ask someone else, but they are not going to answer you honestly.  The best you can get is a too-long pause before the “no, not at all.”  And shirts and sweaters used to be safe, but now they have issues too. I am a short girl who doesn’t like most of her shirts because they are too short.  This tiny clothing trend is really not for me, but if I buy the men’s shirts that don’t look too boyish the sleeves go on forever.  Someone could make a straight jacket out of those sleeves.  And the problem with the short girly shirts is that they don’t do any cover-up work on the hated pants. 

What I have found online is “beach pants,” and the name alone is inspiring.  Back in high school you were way cool if you had Stussy beach pants and a Moondoggies Beach Club hoodie (although back then we called them sweatshirts).  Such a simpler time.  I’ll eventually shop, but I am just saying that there is a conspiracy out there designed to set me up for failure: to buy the pants, wear them a few times, start to dislike the pants but stick it out with the pants, like a bad job with mediocre perks, until I am starting to hate the pants like all the other pants of the past. As long as I accept this fact, I think I will be able to shop.  Lower the pants bar a bit I guess, although I might have to dig a hole for that.  Maybe I could find a store called Pants For Short Girls Who Don’t Love Decorative, Non-functional Pockets and Who Consume Mini Powdered Donette Gems Now and Then.  Maybe they will be having a sale.

Si sa dati ce cant yoo peste tot dar nu pe antena unuuu la zdreantza de voiculescuu, ca mie nici motanii nici cainii nu-mi plac...pac pac

He submitted my blog post, "Why Every Wife Should Buy Her Man an XBox 360" to them, and they have posted a very nice little review and a link to it. You can read the post on their main page.

To H.B.O.:
I cannot express just how excited Luke and I are to be referred to BY NAME, by the very website he visits almost daily. This really is a big deal for him, and I'm excited for him! We both loved the Halo books and are very much looking forward to the upcoming Recon release.

As a "thank you" for the lovely mention, I've added you to our "Stuff We Love" listing on the right hand side of our blog. We will also inevitably be telling EVERYONE about this, so you folks over at H.B.O. are going to be seeing a lot of referrals from our site.

The chain so far: Our Post > H.B.O. Post > Our Thanks > ???

It seems to me that any kind of Halo, Bungie, or Xbox swag that you all might have lying around would be appropriate...

Your move, H.B.O.

Scholastic.com has free games that are as fun as they are educational.  The I Spy section offers auditory support for non-readers, making this a game that your student can play independently.  And good luck; it is not so easy!

Wow! a WOW mouse!!
It's supposed to be designed by Blizzard just for WOW, with 15 progrmmable buttons and 16 million illumination choices. 16 million illumination choices?!?! What does that mean? Like red+green+blue vs pink+yellow+blue? I don't really get it. And how are you going to see all those lights when your hand will be covering the mouse anyway? I think this is wayyyy too high tech for me. HERE's the entire story.

Don't you just love progress bars? I want one for boring classes.

These are terms people used to find your blog.

Today

Yesterday

Interesting.......................

Find Your Top Spot

You answer 8 different sets of questions, and it tells you the ideal spot(s) for you to live in the U.S.A.

Not shockingly, Alabama didn't make it anywhere on my list.

:-)

Now Caleb is keeping us on our toes too. He makes us laugh and he uses all these big words. He also uses this "voice over" voice when he is telling us something he is excited about.It's funny and hard not to laugh, and harder to pay attention to what he is actually saying cause you are stiffling your laugh while he is doing that voice.

The other night I took Caleb to get his haircut and I got mine cut too. Afterwards we sat in Barnes and Noble with drinks and books. He did homework while I looked over craft and sewing books. I asked him if he wanted me to read aloud to him from his reading book. He took me up on that and I set to reading all about Mrs. Cadaver and others. Apparently the man next to us on the right and the young couple on our left were also listening. The girl of the couple repeatedly looked over our way and smiled. But the man at the next table was even funnier. When we got up to leave, he asked me if I would read more about Mrs. Cadaver to him as he was thoroughly enjoying the story! We all laughed and said goodbye. Caleb and I walked off and about peed our pants with laughter over that guy listening to us! Maybe I should read stories more often at the B & N!!!

Today is the day of the week that I volunteer at the elementary school. I do lunchroom duty. That means I open milk cartons, hand out straws, sporks, napkins, ketchup and anything else they forgot. I give the kids permission to get a drink or extra snack. I wipe tables and chat with the kids and staff. What really gets me is the "designer" lunches some parents pack that the kids totally just dump in the trash. Please, if you are a working parent, don't feed your guilt by giving your kids organice carrots and dip cause they eat one and throw it all away. Lunchables are high in salt and fat and too many "fat" kids are eating those. It's a shame how much food these kids throw away each day. You could feed an entire African village from the trash can for a week after one day. I think all the parents should see this behavior because they might feel different about paying $2.50 a day for school lunches.

Stepping down from the soapbox. This is something I have wanted to blog about for awhile now.

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Bank Robber Hires Decoys and Fools Cops

"In an elaborate robbery scheme that's one part The Thomas Crowne Affair and one part Pineapple Express, a crook robbed an armored truck outside a Bank of America branch in Monroe, Wash., by hiring decoys through Craigslist to deter authorities."

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Scientists Confirm Shark's "Virgin Birth"

"Scientists have confirmed the second case of a "virgin birth" in a shark."

...the baby shark unfortunately got eaten shortly after birth

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Now YOU too can be like Spiderman

"A new type of dry glue designed to mimic gecko feet is 10 times stickier than the gravity-defying lizards, and three times stickier than other gecko-inspired glues, researchers said on Thursday."

Every year, we take a trip to Creamy Acres farm around Halloween time, and it's one of our favorite HSO events! Creamy acres Night of Terror is a fun filled night of haunted houses, hayrides, mazes, new things we've yet to see, and all that good bonding and lots of laughs.

We'll meet right outside the library at 6:00 on Thursday, October 16th and leave when everyone gets there. We can carpool, so anyone who's willing to drive, please let us know!

To officially claim your spot on the trip, you have to sign up by Mary Clare's desk in the library, and you will give her your money up front.  We're getting a group rate, and that price is $16 a person. You can definitely bring friends, but they have to be paid for up front as well.

We'll go to Hollywood Diner afterward for even more fun!

Any questions call us!!

Jayne- 609-254-6766
Jim- 856-430-4402

Dan yang paling gw suka adalah bisa masukin foto2 dari album facebook, you just need to authorize it. Pokoknya gw selalu suka aplikasi2, web maupun desktop, yang bisa dihubung-hubungkan sama facebook gw.. hehehe abisnya berhubung gw selalu upload foto2 ke facebook (biar bisa nge-tag orang dan komen macem-macem :D), yang berakibat ke terlantarnya account2 gw di Flickr, Photoshop online, dsb.. (FYI: photoshop-online udah dapet domainnya jadi photoshop.com doang loh..hehehe)

So here  it is, my first scrapblog:

The F Word?

Yap, setelah dipikir-pikir gw cinta bgt huruf ini. F is for Family, Friends, Food (tentunyaaa :p), Fadilah (hey it’s on my name), Facebook, Fish, Fellowship, Fried Chicken, Facation (alahh mulai maksa..ahaha), pokoknya many other fabulous thing! sayangnya huruf ‘F’ adalah huruf ke-enam, bukan ketujuh..hehe masi aja lo percaya ama lucky number me’…

Yapp, uda gitu, si album scrapblog ini bisaaa banget dishare kemana2.. ya iyalah orang bentuknya setelah dipublish jadi object Flash gitu (all hail Flash lah yaa urusan gini-ginian, orang2 masi belom tau silverlight..), jadi tinggal di-embed, hehe.. tapi gw masih cinta WLive Writer gw, so i guess it helps for people who dunno how to embed flash file to your blog :p

Anyway, updet tambahan,, WLive sekarang uda muncul versi 2009 Beta loh.. hmm, kalo yg Live Writer nampak gak jauh beda, yang cukup berbeda adalah WLive Messenger 2009 Beta. Nambah fitur favourites, create groups, personalize tampilan, show music playlist dari WMP, send SMS, contact’s update notification, dll. Mantaps laah kalo urusan interface. hehe Kadang gw agak berharap GoogleTalk dibagusin dikit gitu interfacenya..cause i still admire gugel :D

Oiya ada juga tambahan namanya WLive Call Beta, nah ini gw juga gak gitu ngerti apa bedanya sama fasilitas call biasa yang udah ada. Perasaan windows live emang suka aneh2 deh, kenapa harus ada WLive Mail padahal di vista sendiri udah ada Windows Mail…sama2 gratis ini.. Terus ada juga Windows Live Movie Maker Beta, padahal di OSnya udah ada juga Windows Movie Maker biasa. Sometimes i think it’s a little bit too much, hehe…

Last, but not least: REALLY CAN’T WAIT for ADOBE CS4.. sedang menunggu dari seorang teman yang rela ngedongdot 8gb :D

According to balut.org, the game was invented at the end of WWII by a US soldier stationed in Cebu who didn't have any playing cards for playing poker. He was inspired by the street vendors who were walking up and down the streets yelling, "Baaaaluuuut!"

So what is this 'balut' that the Philippino vendors were selling? It's actually a type of snack that's also refered to as "treat with feet" and the "eggs with legs".  Balut is a fertilized duck egg with a semi-developed embroyo within that's boiled and eaten out of its shell. It's a stomach churning prospect for most people but balut is fairly common street fare in the Philippines and Vietnam. Opinions about the taste vary but I suspect the main hurdle to downing a balut is mostly psychological, and less to do with taste buds.

Balut gained notoriety after being featured on Fear Factor as one of the grisly 'food challenges'.

Here's Anthony Bourdain from the Travel Channel eating balut in Vietnam.

By the way, when Ken saw the 'balut' entry in wikipedia, he grossed out!

I think it's pretty cool.  Nothing beats the ridiculously gaudy salons of Versailles, but Jeff Koons' sculptures come pretty close.

'Cause the walls were shaking
The earth was quaking
My mind was aching
And we were making it and you -

Shook me all night long...

More Feel Good Friday at Sharon Cobb (the birthday girl!), monstermash40, GoldnI, LeBlanc, Chez Bez, Newscoma, Holly (a 2-fer!), Jim Voorhies, Nashville is Talking, MissBethD, Marc at Wild Tangents, Russ McBee, Squirrel Queen, jane q. public, and Sista Smiff!

I don't think something like this would ever be allowed to air in the U.S., because all kinds of "concerned mothers" would come out of the woodwork to mount a protest (come on, you know they would!).

Even if you don't speak German you can appreciate it with the help of the following key: Kuh=cow (as in "you stupid cow"), Depp=dork, dweeb or moron, Zicke=bitch, Idiot (should be self-explanatory). Then Hure=whore and Ruhe=Be Quiet! Enjoy.