Week of Hell, I mean, Christmas week

Well, we're off to the week of hell again. Don't get me wrong, I love going home and it's great that we get to see our families and all our friends from home. But traveling all week in the middle of winter and not being able to spend Christmas in our own place and sleep in our own bed isn't the easiest. I always say one of these years we're doing our own relaxing Christmas ourselves and finally putting up a tree and decorating. We'll see when that happens...

We're doing an overnight tonight to Cleveland. We get in at 5:30AM tomorrow. My poor dad has to come that early to pick us up, but he doesn't mind. We'll spend four days at my parents house - can't wait to see my friends. It'll be a good time as long as my husband doesn't catch the Ohio stomach bug and get sick like he has every year.

Then it's off on that 8-9 hour drive through PA to upstate NY to the in-laws house for three days. Let's hope the weather isn't bad for the drive and Hertz has the all-wheel drive Subaru we rented. We'll be able to catch up with our friends there so that'll be nice. And then Sunday we're jumping on a Southwest flight and coming back to warmth and sun and our own comfy apartment. I've got my Southwest drink coupons all ready for the flight home. I have a feeling I'm gonna need a few drinks by then.

The blog will be sort of dormant for the next week (at least it'll only be one week and not three like some people I know). If you're really jonesing for it you can stop by and check on the picture of Fluffy.

See some of you soon!

Spider Pig

Ok, is this Spider Pig song not the funniest thing you've ever heard? Has anyone seen the movie - is this trailer the only funny thing in it?

After seeing the previews with spider pig I think I might have to rent it. Spider pig, spider pig, does whatever a spider pig does. Does anyone else think this is half as funny as I do?

Say Thanks

http://www.letssaythanks.com/Home1024.html

A friend sent me this website and I thought it was a really good idea. It's quick and easy - no registration required so you know it's not a scam. I sent this funnier card with a muscle car on it. Let's all do it. If the roles were reversed, we'd enjoy getting a little something in the mail. It's better than nothing at all, especially at the holidays.

I was gonna blog about spider pig today, but I'll tease you with that for tomorrow.

More Fun Stuff

I listen to the funniest radio talk show on my drive to work. It's hosted by a liberal comedian named Stephanie Miller. Now, I know what you're thinking - I don't want to listen to some crazy left wing nutcase political radio talk show. That's not it at all. These people are comedians who happen to be democrats and they talk about way more than politics. They cover all the top news stories, celebrity gossip and even random funny news that you won't hear on any mainstream program. Stephanie has two sidekicks with her. One is a comedian who does THE BEST impressions. Next time he does Kim Jong-il, I'll post the link. Really, few things are funnier. Here's the website for the show. Check your local listings and check it out. You won't be disappointed. Unless you're a republican. Do I have any republican readers? I hope not.

Anyway, the voice guy, Jim, did a hysterical It's a Wonderful Life spinoff about Bush. It's gold. Check it out. A listener added some video/stills to the audio and posted it on his website. I especially love how Gore always has penguins with him in every picture - even on top of the Prius. Love it.

Funny Strike Website

http://www.amptp.com/

This website was created by the WGA (writers) to imitate the AMPTP (producers/studios) website. You have to take five minutes and read BREAKING NEWS. Love the mix tape reference and the copyright line at the bottom of the page.

*Sheila - you'll enjoy the (lack of) creativity in the OUR LOGO section.

If nothing else, you must read the news clips in the NEWS section on the right. Love the - NBC has 437 Game Shows on Tap. I thought I was a terrible person because the - FOX unveils: "Are You Stronger Than A Retard?" made me laugh every time I read it. I don't ever like to make fun of the handicapped. Then I realized, this isn't making fun of them, it's making fun of FOX and how absurd reality TV has become (always was).

Enjoy.

Not the mental health day I'd been planning to take

I took a day off work yesterday. It went something like this...

Monday night I came home to a bathroom sink full of mud, dirt and other things I'd rather not know what they were. Awesome. Then I quickly noticed that any time our upstairs neighbor ran his sink, ours filled with water (and more of the mud disgustingness). And we're not talking a dixie cup full of water. It was so much that Ryan spent Monday night and I spent Tuesday morning scooping water out of the sink (with a used Starbucks cup) into a bucket and throwing it down the drain in the courtyard of our building. I hope Al Gore doesn't read my blog.

Now, a lot of other things happened between Monday night and Tuesday at 2pm when the plumber came, but I'll spare you the details. Except one, as the great flood was happening Tuesday morning and I was home alone with God knows what coming out of our sink, I ran up to get the neighbor to stop running his sink. He finally answered the door, all disheveled, in a robe that wasn't tied tight enough (EWW) and claims that the water we've heard isn't his sink. We've lived here 5 years, we know the sound of his water. Then the liar proceeds to say that he hasn't used his sink in the past 12 hours - he's only used his toilet! Confirmation, he's a "non-washer". YUCK. No wonder why he's weird, 60, lives alone and his family disowned him.

So yada, yada, plumber finally came, I saw his crack, he snaked the drain, sink got fixed. And then I spent the night cleaning the bathroom. I used so many different cleaning supplies on all the surfaces - everything was shinny this morning. I would eat off the floor except that the chemicals would seep into the food and slowly poison me. Otherwise, you totally could.