On this day...

58 years ago, my Nana and Grandad got married.

Oh, how they've loved each other. Oh, how they've loved us.

And oh, how I've loved them.

"I didn't do nuffin'!"

I've been thinking about the different jobs I've held. Some were short and therefore not so sweet; some were like chocolate. But swirled within each of 'em was some ingredient I could slag off. Here are a few of the most slaggable offerings (in no particular order):

1. Being 'called,' via intercom, loudspeaker and ol' school style through hallways, to trudge all the way up to El Jefe to retrieve a coke from the fridge in said Jefe's office within arm's reach of El diab... I mean, el jefe.

2. Riding around every day in a limousine (torture beginning at 6:30am) with a blind in one eye boss-man. And having to sit. right. by. him. (pat, pat) and take notes.

3. Being yelled and screamed at in a PMS-24-hours-a-day fueled rage for being stupidly full of initiative.

4. A futile attempt at strong arming me, by the new fat and lazy female director, to chase a female porn star down "La Croisette" to 'drum up interest' and in turn, leave my pride at the Carlton. Futile. God loves a trier.

5. Very first job. Office affair. Not mine. "Easy Single" sandwiches in the toilet cubicle. First job. 'nuff said.

6. Perfecting a blank expression witnessing boss burping, farting and sliding off leather chair while using dictation machine. Boss also perfected blank expression.

7. Having begun a job two weeks earlier, I get reamed a new one for something he told me to do a month previous. Now, I'm the first to admit my mathematical failings, but those numbers just don't add up. Oh, have I mentioned he was schizo? No? Right.

more to come...

Help the hungry and have fun too!

I stumbled across this website and it's great! It claims to provide free rice (through its advertising hits) to those who need it and it's a word game too. Be careful, it can get addictive :) and it might even make you smarter ;)

Hopefully, it does what it says. Hopefully. I did a bit of research and apparently it's been mentioned on the BBC and NPR and at this point, seems legit. Either way, if you've got some time to kill, it'll definitely help with the ol' vocab.

http://www.freerice.com

Keep both feet in the one sock, ladies!

Fearing I hadn't laughed enough today, my dear friend Katy sent me this; it's from an actual 1955 Good Housekeeping article. Click below (but do so with ladylike intention) to view it in all its informative and graceful glory... just be careful not to pull a muscle, that's indelicate.

"Not written by..."

Funny, very tongue-in-cheek, blog by a couple of striking writers (David Letterman show, David Spade Show, etc.) blogging about what they're not writing while the guild is striking.

They asked what (really bad stuff, heh) everyone else is not writing during the time, so I sent one in and they posted it. Check it out here if you want:

http://millerandgreen2.blogspot.com/

Their original post is here, some funny stuff:

http://millerandgreen.blogspot.com/

A Great Cause

http://www.womenforwomen.org/

Not the LAPD

Gardai enjoying themselves on duty in Tullamore.

I'm friggin' screwed

Einstein's brain:


Speaking of relativity, the only thing me and Al have remotely in common - the hair:


For more interesting wiki-skewed tidbits on Da Man:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein's_brain

If a tree falls in a forest...

Anyone out there?

Blogging sucks! Down with blogs! So sayeth me!