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someone adopt this dog

February 17th, 2010 | Comments Off | Posted in Foster Pets, Photos, Riley

vicente

Seriously, because if you don’t, I’m probably going to cave and do it. Yes, I know we’ve only had him for a week, but c’mon. LOOK AT THAT FACE.

But here’s why I won’t adopt him. Riley’s not a fan. At all. The General, Riley, Kentucky and I are all sitting in the bedroom, which is always the way across the duplex from our kitchen, which is where Vicente (the adorable puppy featured above) sleeps at night. The problem is Vicente thinks he needs to be around everyone else when he sleeps and is very vocal about telling us this.

Right now, he’s making the saddest sounds he can possibly think of making, including whimpering and something closely related to a Velociraptor on it’s death bed. Trust me, it’s sad. Riley, the spoiled rotten dog that he is, jumped off the bed, walked to the kitchen to see what was going on, walked back into the bedroom and tried to close our bedroom door with his face. Riley’s tired of Vicente’s antics and needs you to adopt him.

Vicente is maybe 3 months old and comes from Isla Mujeres, Mexico. He’s been in the U.S. all of about a week now. He weighs around 10 pounds right now and is the sweetest little guy ever. He gets so excited when you pick him up that he’s close to shaking right out of his skin. Vicente is a big fan of watching TV on the couch, but is also absolutely hilarious when he decides he wants to play. Riley (at 75 lbs) and Kentucky (at 85 lbs) aren’t really the ideal playmates for him.

If you’re looking to adopt a puppy (spring’s right around the corner!) or know someone who might be interested in this little guy, you can find out more information at Pet Project Rescue’s website. (I also stole the above picture from them.)

little danger’s backup

February 17th, 2010 | Comments Off | Posted in Reviews

Ever since I got Little Danger the iPod Touch, I’ve been nothing short of obsessed with it. Games, apps, contacts, mp3s — I’ve pretty much decided to keep everything on it. Well, maybe not everything, but close. Now that iDrive has included the iPhone (which may as well mean the iPod Touch) in their free trial of Online Backup options, I’m one happy camper.

For free (yes, free), I have 2 GB of online storage that I can easily access via Little Danger. This means that sense I don’t have a photo-taking option on the iPod, I can pull up photos from the 2 gigs of space I have online pretty much anywhere I am, and that makes me pretty happy. It’s pretty much vital for me to be able to pull up a picture of me standing in Cozumel in front of a U.S. Coast Guard ship with a penis-shaped balloon hat in one hand and a yard from Senor Frog’s in the other. I mean, who knows when I might meet someone at the laundromat that would want to hear my sordid tales and see all plenty of pictures of drunken debauchery, right?

2 gigs probably isn’t a lot of room if you were using the site as an online backup option for an actual computer, but considering Little Danger only holds 8 gigs of incredibly important information anyway, the 2 GB options works really well. And anything free works really well in my opinion, too.

personalized license plate fiasco

February 17th, 2010 | 1 Comment | Posted in Misc.
“I want to tell people who I am and what I am. I’m proud of it. I’m openly gay. I’m not hiding,” said Keith Kimmel, 28, of Norman. “What better way to tell everybody than to put it on the back of a car?”

via newsok.com

This kid wanted his license plates to read IM GAY. While I probably wouldn’t want that on my car, just to save it from being vandalized in some degree by crazies, this kid does, but Oklahoma’s not having it, because it might be offensive to some.

For years when I lived in Missouri, I had personalized license plates that read 2DOLLA. I knew what it meant, but one day when I was driving to St. Louis, someone passed me on the freeway waving two one dollar bills and making signs with his hands and mouth that are way too dirty for me to share.

I’ve seen personalized plates here that I can’t even figure out. And trust me, guys, I’m good at that. Remember that show Bumper Stumpers? I was un-frickin’-stoppable. For all I know, they’re making reference about the dirty things they want to do with roadkill. But you know what? I don’t care. It’s just like I don’t care about morons that have stickers with Calvin pissing on every symbol under the sun plastered to the back windshield of their pickup truck.

If the government would stop trying to control absolutely everything in the world during every minute of our life, I can almost guarantee you that we’d all be in a much happier place. I guess it’s a good thing that I’m rational. Otherwise, just to piss off the government, I’d be going out and marrying a duck and getting personalized plates that say DUCKFUCKER. Oh wait. Is that too many characters?

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links for 2010-02-17

February 17th, 2010 | Comments Off | Posted in Misc.

links for 2010-02-16

February 16th, 2010 | Comments Off | Posted in Misc.

survivor: heroes vs. villians

February 15th, 2010 | Comments Off | Posted in Reality Shows, TV

I somewhat managed to avoid the majority of major spoilers for the newest season of Survivor. It’s always been one of my favorite shows and it’s one of the few shows we can watch with The Kid without too much worry. That’s what we’re doing right now.

The idea of Survivor being on for 10 years, coming up with 20 different seasons that have kept me greatly entertained the entire time, minus the season with Rupert and Boston Rob. I can’t remember why I didn’t watch that season. Any time they’ve come up with a premise involving contestants from previous seasons, I’ve been impressed. I’m hoping this season holds true to that.

This first episode? I forgot that I really love the villians more than I want to admit. On the heroes side, I still have mad love for James and JT, but Rupert is still one weird dude. I would have loved to see Jonny Fairplay come back and maybe even crazy Sue the truckdriver from the first season. And Twila. Remember Twila?

After 20 more seasons, I wanna be in charge of the cast. Elizabeth Hasselback is totally coming back and is gonna be on the same team as that Brian dude who was in porn movies. And all the gay contestants. I’ll call is Survivor: The Hot Mess Train Wreck.

what’s on YOUR DVR?

February 14th, 2010 | 2 Comments | Posted in TV

It’s always my goal to catch up on the DVR at least once a week, but lately that hasn’t been the easiest thing in the world. Or maybe I just record too much.

I’m watching Project Runway right now from January 21. The only reason I’m even trying to get caught up on this show is because are constantly talking about it. And only one of those fellas is married to another man. That and I love when Tim Gunn gets bitchy.

We started recording Entourage when Spike TV started airing it from the beginning, so we have a few episodes of that hanging around. That’s coming to an end for now because something else, actually two something elses happen to come on at the same time.

The Office, 30 Rock, Parks and Recreation – easily my favorite 90 minutes of consecutive TV on throughout the week. Survivor and Amazing Race both started this week and we can’t forget about American Idol twice a week.

Right now, there’s also Modern Family, Big Bang Theory, Lost, Nip/Tuck, How I Met Your Mother, Intervention, Hoarders, and this would absolutely remain incomplete without the mention of CSI: Miami.

Without DVR, I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t watch more that two hours of TV a week. Nice work, technology.

but we’re not penny pinchers!

February 14th, 2010 | Comments Off | Posted in Me

It’s been a slow and steady process, combining incomes, divvying out bills, etc., but we’ve finally figured out how to manage our finances and not live paycheck to paycheck. We don’t have monster savings account, but we’re working towards it. I’m pretty excited that we were able to add in a car payment and a higher insurance payment each month without worrying about it too much. Some of the big things we’ve been doing that have helped (at least in my opinion):

  1. A Costco membership. It’s helped keep our freezer full of things like chicken and pork chops and our pantry full of lunch bits and pieces of me to take to work, so it’s harder for us to use the “there’s no food in the house” reason come dinner time.
  2. Extra freelance work. We’ve both taken on a little extra work over the past six months or so and while it does suck a little bit of our free time up, it’s much better than having to work a part-time job out of the house.
  3. Coupons and free stuff! We’re not die hard yet, but there are so many sites online that I follow via Google reader that lead to 1/2 price deals at restaurants or various rewards programs at stores we shop at anyway. And who can say no to free samples, especially when they are full-sized samples, right? I mean, who can say no to free*:

Point is, little by little, we’re learning to save money in ways that have been right there in front of us all along and it’s gotten quite easier. And that’s made for much more happy times in our neck of the woods.

*totally have a headache right now and just took some Excedrin to kick it in the butt.

the numbers, they scare me

February 12th, 2010 | Comments Off | Posted in Get Healthy, Me

Last Thursday while at bowling and still very obsessed with my new iPod Touch, I was downloading every free app I could think of and then some. I wound up downloading the SparkPeople app. Talk about life changing. And I mean it.

I posted last week a about my habit of pouring at least 1000 calories off pop/soda down my gullet on a daily basis. That’s obviously the nondiet variety because no matter what I’ve tried (and trust me I have tried a lot) I haven’t ever found any diet variety of pop that I like.

This weekend The General bought me a four pack of Sugar Free RedBull to help ease my transition off of caffeine AND sugar. I paced myself with one a day and ran out Wednesday morning. I’m surviving. Not all too happy about but I am still functioning.

And in the meantime, we have been eating incredibly well. I’ve been chugging the water and actually doing a little bit of exercising. The end result has been dropping a cool 8 pounds.

SparkPeople can be a complete buzzkill, but it’s really opened my eyes to the amount of unhealthy shit I’ve called meals.

links for 2010-02-12

February 12th, 2010 | 1 Comment | Posted in Misc.
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