The site of this car,

which I spotted across town, 

instantly angers me:

• I hate the “Herbie The Love Bug” movies.
• People who insist on doing cutsie stuff with their cars annoy me to no end.
• I don’t like VW Beetles to start with. Add the Herbie crap, and it’s doomed.
• No matter how hard I try, I cannot escape this stupid car. The movie has been made in 1969, 1974, 1977, 1980, 1997, & 2005.
• As if the movie itself isn’t annoying enough, they just had to cast Lindsay Lohan in it, didn’t they?
• All in all, it’s safe to say that Herbie The Love Bug is not only a waste of time and film, but also created a bunch of nimrods who feel the need to convert their car to look like the one from the movie.

GET A LIFE, PEOPLE!

Call me what you may, but I completely feel as though this blog post is necessary.  I made the mistake of recently giving my email address to a person or two who clearly don’t see the big deal in sending me constant spams and/or chain letters where my email address is visible to EVERYONE else on their list.  This disturbs me for a plethora of reasons:

• When I gave my email address to said person/people, I didn’t not realize I was giving the okay to accept every spam message, joke, and other piece of junk mail the person could muster up.

• I have ZERO interest in politics. Lately, it seems as though a good 90% of these spam emails contain political opinions, jokes, and/or information. Simply put; I couldn’t care less about politics or any of this drivel I’m being sent on a near daily basis.

• I have a MAJOR problem with my email being visible to everyone on the person’s list. When I give my email address out, I prefer to be the one who decides whom gets my email and who I would rather not have it.  Well, these people who have me on an enormous list of junk mail recipients, have either not given thought to this…or simply don’t care. Either of which is unacceptable to me.

Sooo, this brings me to the heart of the matter. The fine folks over at thanksno.com have taken all of the work out of telling these people where to stick it.  Here’s the sum of what’s said on their site:

Thanks. No.

Hi. The person who sent you this link is a friend who likes you a lot but who wants you to respect their email address, their privacy, and their time.

Chances are, this person asked you to visit this page because you did one of these things:
• Forwarded a funny story, a virus warning, or a photo that you enjoyed
• Sent email to lots of people using the “To:” line (instead of the “BCC:” line), thereby exposing your friend’s email address to strangers
• CC’d your friend unnecessarily on something you had sent primarily to someone else

In any case, you might want to go back and have another look at the email they’re replying to. They asked you to visit here because, while they love getting one-on-one, personal messages from you, they really don’t want to receive more messages like the one you just sent. Cool?

You’re not a bad person, and no one hates you, but it would be valuable to learn the very personal preferences of your friends, family members, and co-workers before including them in unrequested email or choosing to expose their private address to people they don’t know.

So yeah…if you think you might be one of the people I’m referring to here, just play it safe and remove me from your bulk list, okay? I would greatly appreciate it. If all else fails, just ask me how I feel about it. The worst that can happen is I will tell you that I prefer to remain anonymous on your bulk list…and prefer to be taken off of your spam list.  

 Hooray for bouncing cupcake bullets!

Although I’ve had a pretty long day and am fairly tired, I’ve decided to stay up and get some stuff accomplished. This Random Randomness© is one of those things.

I’ve come across some really awesome stuff online lately! The first thing I want to tell you about is a Twitter application called Toro. It’s a brand new application, so it’s still in it’s development/beta phase. Both Casey and I have tried it, and I think she will agree when I say that it’s really freakin’ cool! Anything that can keep up with my babbling as well as Toro does must be pretty awesome!  

I found out that the value of my blog has increased! It’s now worth $4,516.32. w00t! Isn’t that awesomely awesome? Then again, it doesn’t really matter. I don’t see anyone pounding on my door with a bag full of cash…begging to buy this thing!

Even if someone was pounding on my door wanting to buy this thing, I’d not sell it. I’m not a blog pimp, for cryin’ out loud! GOSH!

I know I’ve been talking a lot about Twitter…can’t help it. I love the thing. Anyway, if you’re a Mom and you like Twitter, you might consider joining Twitter Moms. I’ve not joined yet, but I’m seriously considering it.

We have an upright freezer in our garage. It’s basically a back-up freezer so we don’t have to go shopping as often. We just fill that sucker up with frozen food, and we’re good for a long time. Well, I sent my daugher into the freezer earlier this evening, and when she came back into the house she mentioned that there was water in the freezer.       Water? In the FREEZEr? Umm, yeah. So, I hauled my keister into the garage, flung the door of the freezer open, and discovered that the stupid thing is no longer freezing our food!    :mad:   I have absolutely no idea what happened, but it’s dead. Lonnie and I made about 23948732 trips from the garage into the house with our arms and hands full of the food that was in the freezer. Luckily, we discovered the problem before any of the food could go bad. Instead, I’ve been cooking all of this food! Once frozen food thaws, you can’t refreeze it…unless you enjoy getting violently ill. So yeah…I’m a tad less than thrilled about the whole thing.

Overheard.it pwns!

I need to remember to write a note to my daughter’s teacher before I get off of my computer…whenever that’ll be.

I put in an application with the Tag Society, but haven’t heard back from them yet. I hope I get accepted.

I have no idea why I hope I get accepted. I just do.

I’m going to the doctor again tomorrow…for my back/neck issues. I still have yet to find a regular doctor here in Vancouver. I tend to procrastinate being seen by doctors…I hate them.

I sold another text link ad to a company. I can’t say which one because I don’t want them to pull their ads…but I’m very excited about it! Now if I could just get my site to load at a normal speed again, I’d be totally content with it!

Speaking of my blog being so slow…I spoke with Lonnie about it a little while ago. He said that he thinks he’s just going to move it to a different server (again) and see what happens. He’s just gotta find the time to do it.

I’ve been sleeping on my stomach a lot lately. Not sure what that’s all about. I generally lay on my left side.

Ever wish you could be ordained and therefore be able to legally marry people, park in clergy spots, perform funerals…etc.??? Well, now you can! Believe it or not, it’s completely legal!  

I spoke with my Dad on the phone earlier. He is doing so much better! He sounds like he’s back to his usual self…and he said he’s even back to his usual routine. I can’t tell you how relieved I was to hear that! I’ve been SO worried about him.

My upper lip keeps itching. Grrrr! I’m about ready to rip it off!

My Mom starts her new job on Monday. I’m really hoping it’ll be a job she likes and is happy with. When she’s not happy, I’m not happy.

I’m going to head over to a neato site I just found and fill out the registration form! Thanks again to everyone for being so patient with the lagging going on around here. You guys rule!  

 • I’ve gotten a really good start on the site design for that fireworks company I was talking about previously. It feels good to have gotten so much work done today…although I probably should have gotten even more done.

• I’m listening to this album called “Arabic Lounge” right now. I enjoy this stuff quite a bit. It’s a lot different from the norm, but that’s a good thing.

• We watched “The Sasquatch Gang” two nights ago. I totally loved it. It’s from the same guys who made “Napoleon Dynamite“…and you can tell. It has the same feeling to it - not to mention lots of the same actors are in it. If you enjoyed “Napoleon Dynamite”, you’d probably enjoy “The Sasquatch Gang” as well.

• Dinner sucked tonight. Everyone else liked it, but I hated it. I decided to make Hamburger Helper…but with ground turkey instead of beef. (Lonnie and I don’t eat beef, pork, lamb, buffalo, deer…anything but chicken, turkey, and seafood.) Hamburger Helper is already pretty disgusting, but when you make it with turkey, it’s even more nasty.

• I need to make a bunch more designs for products in my shop. It’d be nice if there were more hours in a day. I hate feeling so bogged down with this ginormous To Do list.

• My coffee was SO good today. I got some fresh beans last night…Mmmm…  

• I’m going to the doctor tomorrow. I promised Lonnie I would. I hate doctors. They suck. All of ‘em. They’re never very nice…and the ones who are nice don’t seem to help much, anyway.

• The reason I’m going to the doc…well, there are actually two reasons. 1. My back/neck pain has gotten unbearable again. 2. I need an increase in dosage of my meds. The anxiety/panic and depression are getting super bad again, and I hate it. I’ll be okay…I just need the right level of chemicals in me.

• I’m hungry for dessert. I shouldn’t say that. I’m actually not hungry at all…just craving something sweet. Ice cream would be good. Or a Snickers would rock, too!

• It’s so weird that I like sweets so much lately. I used to dislike them a lot. I never ever craved sweet stuff. It seems like the older I get, though, the more I like them. Just what my thighs need!

• I switched back to the Mirage Alpha Opera skin yesterday. I needed a change.

• For those of you who use Twitter, you should really check TweetDeck out! I sent the link to Casey earlier today, and she agrees that it’s badass! Do it!

• I’m soooo cold! I wish I could talk Lonnie into turning the A/C off.

• I downloaded a new color browser today. It’s really awesome. I’ve already put it to good use while working on that fireworks site earlier. You should check it out if you’re into that sort of thing.

• These people should pay me to be advertising their programs like this! …just kidding, but wouldn’t that pwn?!

• Alright…time to go back to work. The last thing I need is to get out of my creative groove. That would TOTALLY suck!