Rob Dyrdek

I was just one of the many people who mourned the loss of Rob & Big - in case you don't know Big got some girl preggers and had to move out of the house with Rob. So there went the show - poo on Big.
But the execs at MTV weren't done pimping out Rob just quite yet. Nor was he done making even MORE money for doing very little. So they came up with the idea of the Fantasy Factory. The premise is this - Rob buys a huge warehouse and constructs an office complete with skating park inside and has all his friends and co-workers and cousins there to be around him and basically be his amusement while MTV films their day.
Rob did get another Bull Dog though and MY GOD they are the cutest puppies EVER. It really makes me want to get one! He named this one Beefy so he has Meaty and Beefy.
I didn't realize what a dick he was though - the people that work for him like his manager and lawyer are serious people who try to have serious conversations with him and he doesn't want to hear it and just goes and does what he wants. Last week he went to look at this shithole motel off the Strip in Vegas that was disgusting and without a second thought he decided to invest in it. Not a good idea AT ALL.
But Rob has more money than he knows what to do with...he is just looking for something to keep him semi-occupied and to spend his millions on. I do envy him and could only wish for 1 day in the life of.
But if you were a Rob & Big fan check out the show - they still skate and do stupid stuff - example: Rob gets a tennis ball gun that shoots balls at 55 MPH - that was good. He also was the producer and I think an actor in a skate movie that looked pretty cheesy but I haven't seen it so I can't say definitely but...well I guess I'll hold my opinion until I rent it because I'm surely not going to spend $8 or $10 or whatever a movie costs these days on it.

Will Ferrell!!!

Ok I've been trying to embed the code for the video clip of his George Bush special but have been unsuccessful - as I suck at HTML coding and couldn't tell you what is wrong with the code on their website.
So go here

http://www.hbo.com/events/willferrell/video.html

It will be too funny - Will Ferrell playing George W interviewing himself as George W
The commercials alone are too good - Tenawesome - yep that's a word!!

Will Ferrell!!!

http://www.hbo.com/events/willferrell/video.html?maven_playerId=willferrell&maven_referralPlaylistId=0265e8254470d92dcb0d3fbb2ed37b5cf2de3f34&maven_referralObject=3644324

I gots mine

So I did get my return within the time frame that the IRS promised. Watch out!
And I did pay off a few of my credit cards which further pissed off more people I am sure.

But after all the good spending came some more and we remodeled our bathroom ourselves (mostly Jason) with my financial backing and our bathroom looks fabulous. We got a new vanity with sink and a new matching mirror (all in a lovely Espresso color) and new vinyl flooring. I was intent on getting tile until I saw how much it would be to retile our little bathroom and said no way! Then I happened upon the marvelous invention of vinyl stick tile - BRILLIANT! Yes, it does lack the quality of tile but whatever it's a bathroom.

The lawn has received some nice care with a good coating of lime and Step 1 fertilizer - I did a bit of shopping and we had a nice dinner. So all in all - thanks America for the taxes!!

Where's Your Refund?

I found this great sheet that tells you exactly when you will receive your return - that is if you don't have any "red flags" AKA got the IRS' attention...
It is a PDF document at:

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p2043.pdf

Enjoy! And I'll let you know if mine comes when they say - according to the sheet I should have mine by Friday. I did even check Where's My Refund on the IRS website and it said they are reviewing it and if there aren't any problems I should expect it by March 6. But I know that's a longer estimate just in case...

Happy Shopping America - now go stimulate that economy! I'll be paying off some credit cards.
Responsibility = no fun

Thursday Morning Funny

Cat Alerts Iowa Family to Fire Started by Goal

WARREN COUNTY, Iowa --

Firefighters believe a goat kick started a fire that destroyed a home in Warren County on Tuesday.
Three people were asleep when smoke began filling Jim and Kristi Giles' home in Warren County, between Norwalk and Indianola.
"My cat woke me up and I saw smoke coming out of my fan," said John Hadley. "My first concern was getting my mom out of the house. Because, like I said, my mom is real ill. And so that's what I did. I made sure I got her out and then I know she loves her animals, so I rounded all her animals up, and by that point, flames and smoke were everywhere."
The fire continued to rage and had nearly eaten the entire roof by the time firefighters made it to the home.
Three departments tried to fight the fire in temperatures below zero.
"It's hard on the men and it's hard on the equipment," said Kevin Dingman, Assistant Northern Warren County Fire Chief.
Firefighters had to use tanker trucks to haul in water from several miles away. They said their fight to save the house was a lost battle almost as soon as they arrived.
"Once it's fully involved like this, then it's not worth sending your fellow firefighters in for something like this. I mean the house was fully involved, and it's too dangerous to send anybody in," said Dingman.
Firefighters think the fire may have been started by one of two goats. The family kept the goats inside a shed that was attached to the rear of the house.
"They put a space heater in there for the goats to stay warm. The goats knocked it over, causing a fire," said Dingman.
The goats were rescued, and so was a family dog.
The cat that warned the family of the fire is still missing, but is believed to be safe. No one was hurt in the fire.
"The animals and the people were the most important thing," John Hadley said.
The fire department called in the Red Cross to help the family, which doesn't have insurance. A relative told KCCI-TV that a fund has been established through any Bank of the West branch to help Jim and Kristi Giles.

Hamster?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnCnRuoYMxE

I know it's not funny because of the story but hey it's a hamster people!!

Putin IS a Dancing Queen

Thanks to Sissy for providing this earth-shattering newsbreak:

http://www.nypost.com/seven/02062009/news/worldnews/putins_45k_abba_obsession_153870.htm

TOO FUNNY! And I believe it - I don't care WHAT his reps say.

Dirty Jobs

Jason and I are GIANT fans of the show Dirty Jobs on Discovery. If you haven't heard of it - what rock are you living under and if you haven't watched you're missing out. So since Jason's job is filthy dirty and every night he comes home covered in paint, chemicals, glue, you name it - I decided to write in on the Dirty Jobs website that Mike and his crew should go to Jason's work. So hopefully they'll get through the other 20,000 suggestions and pick Jason's shop to go to. I would definitely miss a day of work to go watch Jason and Mike Rowe work together!!

Books I'm reading

Yes you read correctly - I am currently reading 2 books. Well, technically 3 since I just can't seem to commit to Fast Food Nation. After reading the very graphic chapter on how they "kill" the cows and string them up by their feet while they're still technically alive was just disturbing on so many levels.
But on a happier note - I am reading Cold Moutain which was part of the basket that was given to Jason and I when we checked into our hotel for Christine's wedding, thanks Christine! I started reading it and was hooked! I think I tried to watch the movie a few months ago and thought it was too slow but the book is fantastic. I can't wait for the 2 main characters to get together, which you know is inevitable when you have a story that focuses on a female character one chapter, then the next is on the male character.
But while I was in New Jersey visiting mom and dad I brought the book with me and I forgot it so I had to pick another book to read before bed. So I went to the bookshelf and found The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Turns out that this was his last book and he passed away before finishing the story. It was completed by Edmund Wilson and is a story about Hollywood and is said to be one of his best novels. One of my favorite books of all time is the Great Gatsby so I will let you all know once I've finished it. It's not a very long book but definitely interesting. I might finish it before Cold Mountain since it is a LOT shorter than Cold Moutain.

Bank name is WHAT?

Friday funny provided by Nicole

https://www.atholsb.com/

Heee heeeee

25 Things About Me

It came through on Facebook and I love to talk about myself so I am posting this here too:

1. My middle name, Ellen is my deceased sisters' first name
2. It bothers me extremely to leave things unresolved
3. I hate being accused of things I didn't do
4. I actually really like The Jonas Brothers
5. I want to be the person my nieces can look up to
5. I love a really good pen
6. I am extremely good at growing orchids and currently 2 of my 3 plants are in full bloom
7. I love my dogs, especially Pugsley more than a human should love a pet
8. The reason being that I lost my first puppy, Piglet in a terrible car accident, he was thrown from the car and was never seen since and it still hurts today and it happened 3 Thanksgivings ago.
9. I am obsessively clean
10. I love sitting around talking about music with my dad, he can always teach me something new
11. I have a day planner and order a new one every year - I just can't stop writing things down
12. I am on a bridal diet and hate every moment of it
13. I am a notorious night-snacker and love nachos with a passion
14. I watch the new 90210 (another dirty secret)
15. I like to make new people at work feel welcome
16. Every day I fall a little bit more in love with Jason
17. I try on my wedding dress a few times a month just to wear it
18. My oldest sister, Merry AKA Sissy is one of my best friends
19. I hate liars
20. I am really good at gardening and am known for my tomatoes
21. I hate night clubs
22. I feel a special bond with anyone who is from Jersey no matter where I meet them
23. I have a crush on Chuck Bass AKA Ed Westwick
24. I love to cook and try new recipies
25. I miss my other 2 sisters too much and wish we would talk

And a few that I didn't mention that I will now:
My first car was a powder blue Dodge Dynasty
I won the Jelly Bean Counting Contest in Middle School and was in the paper
I was on the entire front page of the Middlesex Paper for having open heart surgery and damn I was a cute baby
Oh yeah I had open-heart surgery when I was 2 and now have a giant scar down my chest
I can win any scar contest
I am not so scared of turning into my mother and hope one day to have half as many answers as she does
And I'm a little scared to have kids

I guess being a skank does pay off

So I know the name Anna-Nicole might run through your mind when you think of gold-digging skank but...I went to college with this girl, Megan and the last time I "saw" her was a very questionable picture on her myspace page.
I really don't talk to many people from college anymore - but my friend Jess told me that this girl is now on The Bachelor?! She looks really different, I'm guessing that they gave her a total makeover and I had to email her the link of this girl to verify that it actually is her.
Too funny though, normal people go to college, get a job and get married.
People like Megan go to college, take skanky pictures to post on myspace then sell themselves on TV for a chessy-ass show that no one watches anymore in hopes of finding TRUE LOVE? Good luck, honey.

Funny things on Ebay

I bought some ink cartridges for our printer (not fun I know but necessary) and saw under items they thought might be interesting to me:

Learn How I Work In My Pajamas - CD ROM with this picture -

Eli Stone was a heroin addict?

No but he played one!
I recently came across my Trainspotting Soundtrack and realized that none other than Sick Boy was really Johnny Lee Miller AKA Eli Stone.
I had to take a closer look and even had to go to his imdb page to prove it to Jason. I could have SWORN that he was tall in the movie but anyone who has seen Eli Stone knows that he is a little guy. Yes, a little guy that was once married to Angelina Jolie - wow back the day much?
So yes here is Sick Boy - see the resemblance? I am just beside myself this guy really has had quite a life and it only goes to show you look can be deceiving.
P.S. I suggest you start watching Eli Stone it's a really good show!

Gilt!

In my mind it sounds like guilt which is a pretty good explanation of this website

It is designer sample sales and this week I've already gotten 2 emails and the 1 today featured costume jewelry and being that I am in the market for wedding jewels I figured it was good research to start looking here.

I didn't find anything yet for the wedding but I did find the CUTEST necklace -

So I HAD to have it. And I will!

There is also a great blog with some featured designers and recently they were at Sundance.
The blog to follow is:
http://www.gilt.com/blog

The Dark Knight

The Dark Knight was released on DVD yesterday and being the faitful Netflix customer that I am I added it to the top of my queue and there it was in the mail ready for me yesterday.
I had watched it before when Mr. Jason bought it from the bootleg guy - I have many issues with bootlegs and no one of them is NOT that they are illegal I could care less. The issues are: the picture sucks, the sound sucks and they are GHETTO. But my biggest complaint about the Dark Knight bootleg - it cut off in the last 20 minutes!! Sucked big time.
So we settled down to watch in stellar color and sound a real DVD. And the one thing I kept thinking was how amazing Heath Ledger was and that many people probably didn't realize his true gift until this movie. He was amazing as the Joker, just breathtakingly amazing. The laugh is what got me the most - it was so on point it was unreal.
The first time we watched it we weren't that crazy about it - why does everyone call him "The Batman"? And why does Christan Bale put on that ultra-scruffy voice to speak as The Bat? And my biggest complaint is schnauzer-faced Maggie Gyllenhall -- she does NOT deserve to be the leading lady in a Bat Man movie nor did Katie Holmes. It's like casting one of the Duff sisters as a Bond Girl. It doesn't work unless you are a descendant of Michelle Pfeiffer or Nicole Kidman.
But moving back to the movie...We both said how much more we liked it the second time around but my thoughts lead back to the horrible quality of the movie and that might have been more of a factor than I considered.

Favorite Cameo: Anthony Michael Hall as the news reporter - he is STILL fat

and Deebo from the Friday Movies - he plays the "Tattooed Prisoner" who throws the detonation devise out the window. Brilliant acting.

But my favorite quote of the movie was:
"Madness is like gravity, all you need is a little push" - The Joker

The best Christmas forward

I am a big fan of the emails with all the questions that instruct you to fill in the blanks and send to others in hopes that they are as easily amused as you and reply. And to my delight my sister, Sissy did and I had to copy and paste her answers because they were so lovely and her little family sounds so nice with their holiday traditions that I had to share it with the world (or the 5 people that read my blog)...

Welcome to the Christmas edition of getting to know your friends. Okay, Here's what you're supposed to do, and try not to be a SCROOGE!!! Just copy (not forward) this entire email and paste into a new e-mail that you can send. Change all the answers so that they apply to you. Then send this to a whole bunch of people you know, INCLUDING the person that sent it to you......Tis the Season to be NICE!

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Wrapping paper. I know it's so Martha Stewart, but I LOVE matching, coordinated wrapping paper, bows & ribbons!

2. Real tree or Artificial? Artificial AND real.

3. When do you put up the tree? The artificial went up the day after Thanksgiving and the real one went up last night.

4. When do you take the tree down? A week or so after New Years.

5. Do you like eggnog? I've never actually had it, but it sounds gross.

6. Favorite gift received as a child? A beautiful Chrissy doll, with gorgeous red hair that you could make longer or shorter by turning a huge knob on her back!

7. Hardest person to buy for? Nobody really - I can think of gifts for just about anybody.

8. Easiest person to buy for? Anybody in my family - we all have lists on the refrigerator.

9. Do you have a nativity scene? I have a beautiful Lenox one and my favorite one is made by Madison out of drinkable yogurt containers. The Fisher Price doll house baby is baby Jesus. Ray threw him in the trash last year by accident and I made him sift through the trash in the middle of the night until he found him!!!!!

10. Mail or email Christmas cards? I don't send cards out on a regular basis, but if I did - they would be regular mail.

11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? I'm sure there were one or two, but I can't even remember. I think I banished them from my subconscious.

12. Favorite Christmas Movie? Elf, the Bells of St. Mary's, & Emmet Otter's Jug band Christmas.

13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? I always by something during the year, stash it someplace and forget about it, so I would say all year round!

14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Sure, who hasn't?

15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Filet & coconut custard pie from Aunt Linda - not at the same time though!

16. Lights on the tree? Can you ever have enough?

17. Favorite Christmas song (s)? I love Josh Groban (I know, I know) singing O' Holy Night. It gives me chills. But I of course love, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas and The Little Drummer Boy

18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? Usually Christmas Eve is Mom's holiday, but this year I borrowed it! Christmas Day is always spent at home.

19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer? Dasher, Dancer, Comet, & Vixen, Cupid, Prancer, Donner, Blitzen and Rudolph

20. Angel on the tree top or a star? A star.

21. Open the presents Christmas Eve? Only the ones from people that won't be around on the Christmas morning.

22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year? Crowds, stressing about money and the COLD.

23. Favorite ornament, theme or color? Madison & Mackenzie's baby binky ornaments - they're usually the first ones on the tree.

24. Favorite tradition in your house? Going to the same Christmas tree farm that we've been going to since the girls were little, picking a tree, making a secret bet with Madison & Mackenzie if Dad will say "Timber" or not when the tree falls over. Going to Mass on Christmas Even and then spending the entire Christmas day in pajamas (clean pajamas of course). We don't leave the house, except for Ray, who goes out to get Chinese food, but he even goes in his pajamas. We watch movies, nap and enjoy the day. It's one of my most favorite days of the year!

25. What do you want for Christmas this year? Peace and harmony in my family.

26. Who is most likely to respond to this? Diane?

27. Who is least likely to respond to this?? Becky's right - my Mom.

This shit is still on Ebay

BATWING BLOUSE WOVEN ART PAINTING Wearable Art ChainMail

Buy it now price:
US $800.00

I think I posted about this before and had to post it again. Here is the listing and I recommend going to it because some of the comments are really funny.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=934710233#ebayphotohosting

Reasons that this is worthy of a re-post 1 - it's called a Batwing Blouse, 2 - it's called wearable art, 3 - it sells for $800??!!

I might be unpatriotic but...

I am SO over Michael Phelps. He's everywhere and his hayday is OVER. Yes I know he is a decorated American Hero but seriously what did he REALLY do for us? The economy still sucks and all the Olympics did was make this country patriotic for about 1 month then we all went back to being typical selfish Americans.
My hatred was spurned by last weeks' episode of Entourage. Vinnie was walking down the streets of NYC and ran into Michael Phelps - quite literally. I know that he is just NOW showing up on Entourage because it took his agents this long to get him on a show that has been pre-written so far that they had to probably make a scene up for him to appear in. I've been ok with seeing him in Rock Band commercials even though I don't think he has much right to stand beside such greats as A-Rod, Kobe and Tony Hawk. Yes I know he has broken every single Olympic swimming record further proving to us that he is in fact half man half dolphin and his body has the eerie shape of a bottle opener...
But truth-be-told in 3 more months people will be even more over him. This is what I consider abusing your 15 minutes of fame. We've all forgotten the rest of the Olympic winners why can't he just go and disappear into oblivion like Bruce Jenner and let his kids be the ridiculous ones in the family?
His appearance on SNL was embarassing to a point that I couldn't even stand to watch clips and thankfully Entourage had enough sense to not let him talk or else he will expose the man-child that he really is by opening his mouth.
Seriously Phelps, you don't belong with such greats so get off TV, shave your legs and get back in the pool.