Where Are You?

Come out, come out... wherever you are!!!

Since you guys all like to map where your at so much. I thought I would give you a tool to do it with, if you look to the right under my new weather pixie.

Which by the way, isn't she cute?

Anyways, I sort of stole this cute mapping thing from Anika. So please map where you are at and write me a note, I like notes.

Grrrrrrr!

Keeping my blog Mac friendly for my IIF’s and the world… *cough, Grody.

TBIT Friday

If you are unsure of what that means go to Grody’s site.

Her theme this week is Mary Jane or that stuff people get high on.

Well my IIF’s as a potential candidate on the 2008 ballot, I have to be totally honest with you.

Marijuana a.k.a. pot, chronic, dope, ganja, paca lolo (Hawaiian), hemp, wacky weed, reefer, cannabis, grass and Mary Jane.

I have never ever smoked the joo-joo. (For the phonetically challenged, it sounds like jew-jew) As an aspiring presidential candidate, I’ve never wanted that on my record… yeah right. It’s just that I can’t inhale, seriously. Please reference item #34 on my About Me. And I am not making this up like our friend Mr. Clinton either, it is physically and psychologically impossible for me to do this.

It is true that I have touched, smelled and even tasted the sweetness that is Mary Jane, but only as a contact high.

It was summer and the parents were at work. We used to hop on our own bikes, pre-sixteen, ride across town to the forest and then deep into the woods. Eventually stopping at a tree house built from scraps that a previous generation had left behind. It even had a rope swing high up in the tree that seemed like it was twenty feet from the ground. This particular summer I had a crush on one of the guys so I would tag along as often as possible. Each afternoon would consist of your typical early 80’s pre-teen activities.

One afternoon one of the guys, who had been stealing cigarettes from his father, lit up something that looked a little different and definitely smelled a little different. The strange manner in which he was holding this small rolled object really got my attention. Then there was the holding of the breath… what kind of cigarette is this, I thought to myself. He then proceeded to pass it around and everyone followed his lead when taking a hit. Since this was the guy that I had crush on and didn’t want to think that I was not cool, I accepted, took a drag and started to cough violently from the horrible burning sensation in my chest, that felt like fire going down my throat. You see, I had never smoked the cigarettes that were always passed around, but this time was different. What a mistake that was. By the second time around, not wanting to be embarrassed again, I took the joint and faked it. That’s right, I took a drag and held it in my mouth, then slowly breathed out to fake it. To this day I still can’t inhale cigarette smoke or any other smoke for that matter. So there you have it, my first experience with the joo-joo.


P.S. Note the time that I posted ;)

FABULOUS "7" MEME

I've been tagged by Scorpio to complete the following meme with the "7" theme going on! I am suppose to pass this on to 7 IIF's but I think most of them have already done this, if you haven't and want to just copy & paste.

7 things I plan to do before I die
1. Travel to Greece & Italy and so many other places.
2. Have a baby or adopt one (a long time from now.)
3. Parachute out of a plane
4. Float in the Dead Sea
5. Walk on the Great Wall
6. Paint the pictures I see in my head
7. Be elected President ;)

7 things I can do
1. Touch my tongue to my nose
2. Bake a kick ass Lasagna
3. Mediate almost any situation
4. Scuba Dive (Naui certified)
5. Play almost any sport
6. Throw a football (perfect spiral)
7. Hold my breath underwater for a long time

7 things I cannot do
1. Roll my rrrrrrrrrrr’s
2. Tell a joke, at least not very well.
3. Sing (well I like to, but you wouldn’t like it.)
4. Bowl (hey gutters here comes my ball)
5. Juggle balls
6. Dance (I do this but probably shouldn’t)
7. Ride a Unicycle

7 things that attract me to the opposite sex
1. Confidence
2. Great smile, the kind where their eyes smile.
3. Sexy eyes (that just give you that look, you know the one.)
4. Nice ass
5. V (broad shoulders to narrow hips)
6. Straight white teeth
7. Great sense of humor

7 things that I say most often
1. Like
2. Back up (I say this to Holly)
3. Hot
4. Dude
5. Inappropriate
6. Shut the Fuck Up!
7. Baby

7 celebrity crushes
1. Mark Wahlburg (OMG the sex appeal)
2. Lenny Kravitz (not with straight greasy hair)
3. George Clooney
4. Johnny Depp
5. Tom Welling
6. Tyson Beckford (until he opens his mouth)
7. David Beckham (I can't help it, he's HOT!)

Public Address

Dear Future Voters, Citizens and Staff,

I appreciate your support and well wishes. I will continue to update you on important issues as they arise. I would like to point out someone who has gone above and beyond the call of duty and has been campaigning for me see here. I am not sure why no one else has decided to do this *cough. Anyways he has shown loyalty and dedication almost immediately and I will have to appoint him to my Chief of Staff. Because everyone will need to be kept in line and all of you know that the biggest brown noser get’s the position. Don’t worry Undr; I’m sure it pays well ;)

Also for all of the others that have signed on late, we will of course take your contributions. We can always use freebies and we never turn them down.


Thank you all very much,
Future President No-L


P.S. Grody would never let me wear acid wash and leopard skin, unless she was mad at me.

No-L 2008

Thank you all very much. I will let you know when my campaign begins, because I will need your help and of course your votes.

Anika, I will need an advisor for foreign policy.

Fribbett, I will need a body guard, I think I read that you are into some sort of karate?

Chianca, I won’t need a journalists however I will need good publicity so please write only wonderful things about me.

Lori, I will need your campaign contributions since you are a lottery winner.

Linda, I will need buttons and beads, your reputation proceeds you.

Grody, I will need you to be my personal stylists. Oh yeah, you already are. ;)

Marie, I will need you to handle all the HR staffing and as comic distraction for my audience when I screw up since you are to become a clown.

Lilith, since you have a bright future in brain surgery, I will definitely need my head examined, probably very often.

Locutus, I will need you to be my campaign director.

Blake, I will need someone to write my book.

Jen, I will need your pull to get into space for my other dream job. Hey maybe I could be the 1st president in outerspace. However as an outstanding artists I will need posters and marketing.

Fred, I will need a speechwriter and a teacher to coach me on my public speaking.

AP, I will need someone to plan my victory party and from the look of it you definitly know how to party.

Undr, according to the job predictor you are destined to become a rally driver and of course I will need a chauffer.

JoAn, if you are reading this I will need a Vice President.



Making the World a Better Place Since 1975.
Vote No-L for President.

"Choose the Chicks"

TBIT Friday

This is a new thing from Grody to do on Fridays.

These are my two things

The original NES... My sis, bro & his friend Jeff and I would play it every Saturday after cartoons for hours and hours. We all got hooked on the 1st Zelda and we would help each other go through all the levels. That is of course until mom would make us go outside cause it was nice out. I recently played Zelda again on an emulator and beat it again; I know I’m a dork.

The original Head Bangers Ball every Saturday night on MTV from 12AM to 3AM. My bro, his friend Jeff and I would watch it religiously. We loved it except for 2 things: Adam Curry, we could never understand why he would be the host & pretty hair band groups like Poison.

Interesting

According to the *Job Predictor my future job would be The President.

What's interesting about it, is that it's what I wanted to be when I grew up. I put it in an earlier posts on my About Me site.

True Story

I was reading a posts from Fred and it reminded me of a story:

In my job, I sometimes have to do things I would prefer not to do. I guess in most people’s jobs there are things they don’t like about it. Well the thing that I don’t like to do is fire people, I know Grody hard to believe since I do it so often, so often in fact I have been nicknamed the terminator (which BTW I hate.) Let me explain, I can be considered somewhat of a cleaner, my company sends me to areas to get them back on track which can unfortunately mean firing people. It makes my stomach turn almost every time. I try to help these individuals anyway that I can; I give them coaching, tools and lots of support. Most of the time that works and I end up having a great employee, however there are the ones that, that doesn’t work out. So I have to do the deed, it makes me feel better that I have gone through everything I know to help these people and I try to tell myself that this is their fault and that they are really just firing themselves I have even told them that when they get defensive and try to act like it’s not their fault and they weren’t given a proper chance.

Well on to the reason for my posts:

One time several years ago I had this guy manager that worked for me, he was not very bright, he was what I call an inheritance; meaning I didn’t hire him he came with the area. Well he was a nice guy and meant well, he was just worthless. So really I blame the person who hired him for putting him in a position that this individual could never really succeed at. So anyways I end up putting this individual on a final warning and I have hinted to him rather strongly that he should really consider other opportunities in life, maybe other career options. Which would be the best-case scenario, because he is really not cut out for this type of work.

So I come back to see this individual in a couple of weeks. We start talking and he is so excited to tell me that his girlfriend of just a few months is pregnant and he just bought a brand new car and they were out house hunting. He was so excited to tell me how he had been working hard and felt like things were really coming together.

So I think ok lets see this guy really did not get the hint, of what I was trying to say to him and I am not exactly fluffy about my words in fact most people think I am too direct. So I just don’t understand, where did I go wrong?

The reason I was there BTW was to fire this individual, no matter how much I might like them, I have to put the company first and what is at stake. I am so nervous that this guy might go postal or something… remember he has just told me about all of theses things that are going great in his life.

So I fire him.

He seemed to take it ok and didn’t blame the company or me and didn’t seem to freaked out or anything. It was weird, I almost thought about calling his family, just encase he decides to commit suicide; maybe he was that introvert type of person. I didn’t know what to think. Well anyways life goes on.

So I am back in the area again later on that year when he decides to come in with his brand new baby and his fiancée. I am happy to see that he is well and talk to them both and look at their cute new baby, they introduce this baby to me as No-L… OMG yes they said No-L. I was at a loss for words, which BTW is rare, if you haven’t noticed.

Can you believe it? My name is by no means common and I fired that guy at a crucial time in his life.

I've Been Tagged

I got tagged by Anika

"List ten songs you are currently digging....it doesn't matter what genre, or if they have words, or even if they're no good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying right now. Post these instructions, the artists and the tens songs on your Blog. Then tag five other people to see what they're listening to"

I love music and I always have to have different music for basically every mood. When people see my music library they are usually taken back a bit and one person went so far as to comment “that my music choices seem somewhat schizophrenic”. Well anyways here is my top 10 right now, not in any particular order and sorry I didn't have time to link them:

1. My Humps - Black Eyed Peas (this song is just plain hilarious, I love to dance to it and the rest of the album is also pretty good.)
2. Banana Pancakes - Jack Johnson (great on Sunday Mornings, I love Banana Pancakes. Did you know he also has a song called Bubble Toes you guys know how much I love my feet and all ;)
3. Feel Good – Gorillaz (It’s just a feel good song)
4. We Belong Together - Mariah Carey (I can’t believe I am liking her, but I love this song. I think it’s her best song ever.)
5. Swim & Pixie - Ani Difranco (both songs are always in my iPod, they are like life motto's.)
6. Frou Frou the entire album (I can’t pick just one song from them, the lead singer just had her solo album released in the UK, I have sampled it and it sounds great.)
7. I Just Wanna Live - Good Charlotte (I love to scream this song in my car)
8. In the Waiting Line - Zero 7 (I can so relate to this song)
9. Just A Lil Bit – 50 Cent (I shake my ass to this one)
10. Living Water - Ryan Farish (This song is just beautiful, the hairs on the back of my neck stand up when I listen to it.)


Let’s see who should I tag??? Hmmmmmm... I think I will tag Grody, Blake, Lori, Marie, & Undr.

In Case You've Been Wondering...

My mom came up to visit and we’ve been very busy taking in all of New England. On Wednesday evening we met up with some of my mom’s friends and went to an Italian restaurant in Winthrop. Winthrop is apparently only a one square mile town surrounded by water so our restaurant was right on the ocean. Note: This was a BYOB establishment so naturally we got hammered and the food was pretty good too.

On Thursday we met up with my mom’s friends again and had lunch / cocktails at a hoity toitie restaurant called Louis Bistro in Copley followed by shopping on Newberry St. We shopped at several stores and saw many interesting things however nothing beats what we learned at Lord & Taylor.

What? What could you possibly learn at Lord & Taylor?!?

I’m glad you asked.

I was looking at a few different Ben Sherman shirts for a gift and I thought some of the wording on them seemed odd. The shirts looked cool, the style was right, but I didn’t quite get what they were referencing. So I called G to ask him what style would be appropriate… and I was rudely interrupted with “It says what? …No way, I’ll explain it to you later.” (He was at work) so I hang up the phone and continue my shopping.

I end up approaching C (mom’s friend) standing with a sales clerk and C proceeds to ask me what happened to the shirts? I stated to both of them that these shirts mean something bad, but I am not sure what it is. The salesclerk is like what shirts? Which ones? We don’t carry anything bad.

Let me first off explain that C is about 60 and very conservative looking. Myself, while not conservative was dressed nice and this guy was also dressed nice in a shirt and tie with some rather cool looking braids.

So I show him the first shirt it has an English crest and says Prince Albert, he’s like that doesn’t mean… he then pauses, looks us straight in the eyes and states that it’s a meaning for a guy who when running where’s a chain attached to his penis…

OK STOP right here I am saying to myself, OMG I am in Lord & Taylor an upscale department store and this guy just says PENIS.

Okay back to the story… He continues his story by telling us about the piercing and why guys would use such a thing. Only to then rings us up for our purchases like it was nothing.

We walk away and C is like, “holy shit I can’t believe he said that” and we both bust out laughing, I knew she wouldn’t be offended, but seriously if he would have stated that to any other person or just the fact that it was a woman and remember in her 60’s. They would have reported him immediately and he would have been fired, remember I didn’t even ask him what they meant he just decided to tell us this whole penis thing.

On Friday we went to Province Town better known as “P” town. We took a ferry to fairy town (hee,hee). If you have ever been you will understand, it is very, very gay. “Not that there’s anything wrong with that.” It’s just in your face gay and very over-the-top. Let me give you a few examples. It was hot, like 100 degrees hot, so hot that most people wouldn’t stand within a foot of each other. But every gay couple made it a point to walk hand in hand and arm in arm, hugging and kissing each other every five feet. Then there were the flags… OMG the flags! It looked like the day after 9/11 with all of the flags everywhere, except these flags were not red white and blue, they were all the pretty colors of the rainbow. Finally, there were all of the specialty stores… enough said. Anyways the beaches were beautiful, specifically Race Beach, I have never seen anything quite like it. It was nothing like the beaches in Florida or California, truly amazing. The water was freaking cold though; you would need a full wetsuit just to get in. Here’s the best part, there were tons of crazy people actually swimming in it like it was 80 degrees. I’m telling you it was maybe 65 degrees at best and I’m not exaggerating.









On Saturday, we vegged by the pool all afternoon. Too much walking can wear a girl out. It was nice and breezy and the pool temp was 78 degrees. Still too chilly for me; I like it like bath water, 85 plus please. For dinner we got dressed up and drove into Cambridge to a pretty cool restaurant called Cuchi Cuchi. I know, interesting name… cootchi cootchi coo always comes to mind, among other things… Anyways it’s a French tapas place and they really glam it up, it’s totally tacky like something out of the 20’s era. The girls wear fancy black dresses with pearls and the guys had open shirts with even fancier layered dangling beads and sparkles. The food was excellent and naturally we ate and drank way too much.

On Sunday we were in 3 different states. We actually drove through New Hampshire to get to Maine just to eat lunch… seriously, but it was really worth it. It was another BYOB and you could also bring other things. So we brought our wine glasses, wine, cheese & crackers and some freshly made Blueberry cake (don’t worry I didn’t make it.) Then we picked out our main course, the reason we drove there… the lobster or as New Englanders say it the lob-sta.
I had 2 lb’s of yum-me-ness while we sat on the water and enjoyed the great views. Then we drove a little bit further North of Kittery to the beaches and dipped our toes in the icy water. Further North still was a lighthouse and an old-fashioned ice cream shop. Of course we had to stop there to sample their goods.




What an absolute great day and a perfect way to end a great long weekend of eating, drinking and spending time with friends and family.

Domestically Challenged Am I

(Note the recipe book and the measuring cup in the photo)


I am domestically challenged, seriously, I hate all types of housework and I am not very good at them either.

Actually I'm not very good at them on purpose so I won't be asked to do them.

Oops, did I just say that out loud? Shhh... don't tell anyone.

Well anyways G. asked me to make him a cake for his birthday, not just any cake my friends a "special cake". He wanted his cake to be red like velvet and strawberry flavored. This is special because G. usually likes chocolate cake, any and all types of chocolate cake, plus it's his birthday. So why the strawberry? I don't know but it was a special request so I felt compelled to oblige.

A quick trip to the overpriced grocery store and one box of instant cake later... He got a strawberry swirl cake with a strawberry mousse as icing, which I think is much better.

So a few hours and a few drinks later the cake was completed. And the best part... He didn't know it was instant cake :)

Is That A Tree In Your Pocket...

I saw this on Inspired Monkey's site it is titled The Next Big Thing.

I have always loved trees, especially big Oak trees. So now to get my very own personal tree accessory, I definitly have to have it. I am not a green thumb, probably the furthest thing from it, so hopefully I can't kill it. It would totally crush me if I hurt it in any way.

Do you think that they are No-L proof?

Sorry Anika

I don't actually have the answers to whether the pictures are real or that they are not real. Everyone cough *Anika* just assumed that I did. I will tell you if I think they are real or not real and I will also give you the popular vote for each one. (see the original posts)

Anika, I hope that you will still love me after this. ;)

Final Round, I Promise

#7 I unfortunatly believe that this one is real, real toilet paper that is. Unless you live in the Hilton household, I'm sure Paris wipes her ass with $20's everyday.
-Popular vote 71% real / 29% not real



#8 This one I also think is unfortunatly real, DAMMIT!
-Popular vote 100% real / 0% not real



#9 I saw this on the news, it's from somewhere in the middle east when those guys ran a boat with expolsives into the ship, so definitly real.
-Popular vote 86% real / 14% not real



#10 Well guys, you know this ones FO REAL, I'm a SUPERSTAR! ;)
-Popular vote 100% real / 0% not real

Round II

#4 I scuba dive and you can see some interesting things down there, however I don't think this is one of them, so not real.
-Popular vote 25% real / 75% not real



#5 Coming from Florida, I agree with Grody that Disney does some weird shit. This I believe is real & probably somewhere in England and on Euro Disney property ;)
-Popular vote 83% real / 17% not real



#6 This to me looks like a parade balloon gone bad, I wonder if people would try to get up closer to see if they could see up her skirt, I know I would. So yes I think real.
-Popular vote 100% real / 0% not real

Believe It Or Not

#1 This one is probably real, it's my favorite and you will soon find out why.
-Popular vote 66% real / 33% not real



#2 Definitly not real, thank goodness that would be one poor dude.
-Popular vote 57% real / 43% not real



#3 I think that this is not possible due to physics, so not real.
-Popular Vote 66% real / 33% not real



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