A high school associate of mine was born on Feb. 29. When he told me this, I just laughed and laughed. "You're only four years old!" I exclaimed. He wasn't vey amused, but I was. I am easily amused.
Spent vast portions of my weekend sleeping, due to the manifestation of various physical woes.
"I need to remember to pack clean underwear...and maybe some baby powder..."
Jovial Bob, thinking out loud about what to pack for a business trip.
We are six weeks out from deadline one, and four weeks from deadline two; still no news at all.
Since no one has raised any objections here, I will be picking up some nicotine patches after payday this week. I need something to help me maintain my competitive edge without making me smell bad, so I think that the N Patch is the way to go.
"I'm not feeling too well today...and I didn't bring an extra pair of underwear..."
Clearly, customer service is a stressful department.
"We now return you to our regularly-scheduled blog, now in progress. "Today the part of Ginevra will be played by Drew Barrymore..."
(Picture from the goddesses at ficbitch.com)
Not. But that would be one way to increase readership. Anyway, due to a screwup beyond our control, we were down, but now we are up. Which is good, because I was really eager to get that second quote from Jovial Bob about his underwear out and onto the Internet.
I used my Chick-fil-A calendar coupon to pick up a breakfast biscuit last weekend. Imagine my surprise when I saw the word "steak" printed on the inside of the wrapper. Isn't this the place that urges us all to "eat more chicken"? Allow me to present Exhibit A:
Further research is needed. I will have answers, dammit!
1 no (from my alma mater, no less!) and 1 maybe.
They are eating cinnamon and butter flavored pork rinds at The Office today.
There's no emoticon for how gross that is!
Yes, I can be bought. My price currently involves health insurance.
A cursory glance at the Chick-fil-A web site reveals no steak biscuits on their breakfast menu. Then why would they have the word "steak" imprinted on their breakfast biscuit wrappers? Curiouser and curiouser...am still conducting research on this vital topic, starting with an e-mail to their corporate HQ. Will report the results as they happen.
On a slightly related note, why do I always crave Chick-fil-A on Sundays, the one day they're closed?
One no, one maybe - and now one yes.
Still waiting to hear from three schools, plus there's that 'maybe' that needs to be firmed up into a definite answer.
Lots to think about in the weeks ahead.
The response I received from the people at Chick-fil-A:
"The steak biscuit is an item that was previously sold at all Chick-fil-A Units, but has since been removed from the menu. Chick-fil-A's Dwarf House restaurants, which are located in and around the Atlanta metro area, continue to sell the steak biscuit. Since the Dwarf House restaurants use the same packaging as do our Chick-fil-A Units, we have not yet changed the packaging to remove the words "Steak Biscuit".
Hmmmm... so, they used to sell steak biscuits? The place that's known for their "don't eat us cowz cuz we're so cute and cant spell" marketing campaign used to sell steak biscuits? Not a good "moooove" there. And they have a restaurant chain called "Dwarf House"?? I can't believe in this day and age of PC speech that they would use the term "dwarf" instead of "vertically challenged", for starters.
I am still suspicious. They are trying to buy me with some coupons. I assure you that my silence cannot be bought - but I will be doing more research. Next, I plan to investigate why their tasty "waffle" fries are not sold with maple syrup.
A spam message recently received: "Ginevra, start smoking today!" I guess they read my blog and learned of my plans to either take up smoking or start wearing nicotine ptches.
Wouldn't you know that a freak accident involving a candle and my toothbrush (with disasterous results) would happen right before I had to go to the dentist for my cleaning. So I borrowed Godrey's toothbrush. This really seemed to disturb the dental hygenist - she gave me two free promotional toothbrushes, and she reiterated several times that I should replace Godfrey's toothbrush at once.
In addition to said promotional free toothbrushes, I also received samples of toothpaste in various flavors. I think it was Colgate. Citrus toothpaste - an intriguing concept.
My hair hurts, I had to brush it for several minutes as it had become inexplicably and extremely tangled.
The other day, Grandpa Simpson asked me to call him "Abe". I much prefer calling him "Mr. Simpson"; keeping it on a formal basis is an added layer of protection. If I start calling him by his first name, then it's only another step from calling him "Dullard", "Senile, Crazy Old Man", "Dumbass" or something similar.
Installment 43
Powerful, very powerful
Here the naked youth at last
Clutching at whatever
delirium without any filth
Intellectuals you come
Oppression chronic
University degrees to the highest bidder
Destroy the temple
The stranger smiled
Men with bound
Of my retinue
The blood left
But lightened their dour lest
Eerie predict
Embellishing the story
Conjunct deterring
Opening his mouth
Hear pigeons cooing
"Greetings to you,
Alexandrovich Berlioz."
Then he changed
Deniable guise
To understand what?
Engine, generator, water pump
New fields
So much better
Without fear of losing anyone
Give the greatest gift
Warning! You will succeed!
Spent the weekend at Mum's; my big brother had a milestone birthday Friday which we celebrated in typical low key fashion. We had a nice visit, and spent hours looking at Mum's collection of family photos.
I think that we should all go back to black and white film! So classy! And the cameras back then - well, I suppose it was the film, the negatives were about as big as the 3" x 3" images they created. Everything was so artsy! (I should hasten to add that, of course, these black and white pics were all before my time here on Earth.) Here are a couple of treasures I brought home with me.
My brother quipped that back then, people wore those sorts of eyeglasses with "no sense of irony". That's my grandmother, by the way.
I have no idea who the puzzled lady is. This is just your average tourist shot of a Bavarian castle - but look how cool it is, thanks to black and white!
Well. lucky for you that's all the time I have today to post pictures. I'll probably cull some more interesting shots in the next few days. You've been warned. A prize to whoever can name where the title of this entry originated.
