are you a coffee fool?

the accusation on this site is simple-

you've probably been drinking stale coffee and you're missing out.

the solution is also just as simple-

you need to drink the stuff that has been roasted in the last few days to taste truly great, sweet, amazing coffee.

although i'm not a full fledged coffee drinker (caramel decaf mocha's don't count as coffee), i can understand the attraction to good coffee, so i thought i should share this site with all you good coffee drinking folks.

castle smasher- time waster

it's been awhile since i posted a link to a time waster game, so i figure i can throw one out there without too much guilt...


here's castle smasher.

you catapult the castle until it's gone, and you try to fill up with more balls if you can.

of course, it's strangely addicting.

have fun!!

i love these kitties

this kitty is very interested.



i love interested kitties. they are very fun to watch.

another interested kitty...



so so much fun!

young burt reynolds

this ad is barely stomach-able, but so worth sharing with you all...

check it out in all it's glory here.

guess who...

someone i know and love sent me this update recently, amusing me to no end... I won't reveal her identity, since she was kind enough to let me post these embarrassing details, but if someone guesses, i'll give them a dollar.

and I quote:

Did I tell you about all the fun I've been having lately? I was taking a new prescription med for about 3 weeks when my body decided to let me know it was allergic. Wuhoo!! I started getting hives on Wednesday night and I was like, "Hmm, better take some benedryl." and went to bed.

Thursday morning....I had itched myself bald (okay, not quite) and I had hives so thick on my neck I could hardly turn my head...not to mention hives everywhere.

So I called the Doctor's office and saw the PA at 10:30. She sent the nurse in with a shot and went to consult the Doc. The nurse gave me the shot and left the room. Suddenly, I'm sitting on the nice, high table feeling like I'm going to pass out. I moved to the doc's stool and was sitting there with my head between my knees when the PA came back in. She was like, "How are we feeling." I said, "Would you like to tell me about the side effects from the shot you gave me?"

Seems passing out is a possible side effect.

I ended up laying on the table with a cool wash cloth and not passing out but geez. I could hear them in the hallway talking about the poor woman with the hives that they almost made unconscious.

Then I was on Prednisone and Loratadine for a week. The pred made me want to eat everything....everything... even when I was full. I swear I gained 10 pounds.

Then they taper you off that and the minute I went to the lowest dose, it started making me naseated all day....decided I'd had enough of that yesterday.

I go back Friday to make sure I'm not dead.

Plus, I have Polaroid skin right now, whenever I get warm the hives would pop out at first (which I swear the pred made me about 3 degrees warmer...my palms are sweating right now). But now it's just if I scratch my face or whatever, it turns bright red. I've been threatening to write messages on my forehead.

Yeah, I've been a happy, happy girl. Hopefully, that's behind me now though....no more better living through chemistry even if the doctor says so!

to the person i know and love: feel better soon!!

pb+j rediscovered

when i was a kid growing up, my older brother scott would make my sister and me lunch, and he would always make our pb+j sandwiches without much pb and probably too much j. i hated those sandwiches. they stuck to my mouth and really had no redeeming qualities. ick.

well, anyway, i blame my longstanding dislike of pb+j sandwiches on scott- and i think he knows that he deserves that.

i have ever since avoided pb+j's; they just don't appeal to me.

well that's all different now.

recently, i had lunch with my friend tracy at her home, and i told her that i'd love to eat whatever she wanted to make. =)

she made soup and pb+j sandwiches.

she did ask if that would be okay, but since i had just stated that i would love to eat whatever she made, i thought it better to push myself than to be picky to my super sweet generous friend. besides, it's always good to push oneself to re-evaluate food preferences (and actually, all types of preferences).

well, she made me a gloriously yummy pb+j and i have been craving them ever since.

i've made myself two since then (one of which was devoured just moments ago), and i couldn't possibly imagine living my life without eating at least one a week until forever and a day.

i've missed a lot of lovely pb+j moments because of you, scott richard. i can't forgive you for this, so don't ask. =)

aaron is an uncle, again

andrew charles was born on sunday and is already home with his mom, dad, and big brother carson.



















congratulations bridget and james!!

Need a 'break'?

I just can't get my break...

Beatbox Fame Game
Uploaded by loranger

... to turn out like his (hers?).

turns and then more turns

i love love love the photography on this site- Bill Sullivan

this guy takes pictures of people coming through the subway turnstile, and i think it's so fun.


























































i probably wouldn't think it was so funny if it was me with a stupid look on my face.

are you man enough?

i guess mitchum deodorant presumes to tell people if they are man enough, via 'nina'...








































first, i've never even heard of mitchum deodorant and this seems like a lame attempt to get on the map.

second, it's a sad state of affairs that this will probably actually get them on the map.

sigh.

flu shot, i should have never doubted you

i've always doubted that the flu shot really does any good. i remember one year that i got a flu shot and then i got strep like three times and i swore off the flu shot as an immune system weakener...

silly me.

thankfully, rmg offered free shots this year and i stopped in to get one, snickering to myself as i did: 'silly flu shot'

so saturday night i felt a little tightness in my chest and left lindsey and michael's party early to get some rest. on sunday, the tightness was still there, but not so bad. on monday, i left work to go home and get a few hours rest since i was a little tired and afraid i was getting sick. I got two hours of sleep, worked late, and since then, i've felt increasingly better, never looking back. i feel great now. at the worst of it, there was a little tightness in my chest and i felt somewhat tired. that's it.

okay, so compare that to aaron's poor story...

sunday he started with a little cough. little. monday morning, he had a roaring fever and couldn't move. it was all he could do to force down food and liquids last night in between passing out exhausted on the couch. same story all day today. though he says he's feeling better, he really has only been able to get out of bed to go to the bathroom. if i hadn't been here to force him to take ibuprofen to reduce his fever or to eat, i imagine he would have done none of those things. i'm sure it's influenza, without a doubt. i really should go check on him again.

flu shot, i thank you.

buddy, hang in there.

geni- neat family tree site

this site makes it easy to create a family tree- geni


you sign up, and enter in the family members you know. then, if you want, you can enter their email addresses and they can login and add in additional family members that they know about, but whom you might not know so well.

this way, the family shares in the fun of creating the family tree, and it's probably more accurate because of that. it's all secure and everything. i think it's a great idea!

ass slices- served up in australia

so my brother took this picture on the sly in australia. it's a little fuzzy cause he took it kinda fast, cause he didn't want someone to see him take a picture of the ass. slices...




















of course, it's short for assorted slices, but it's too funny not to snicker at anyway.




















i'm thinking $2.00 is pretty cheap for ass. slices...

also, does anyone need an 'abuse of older people' resource kit?




















i want to live in australia...

smoking kills

my sister sent me this video.



hunny go upstairs and look thoroughly...

(thanks sister)

where we had our first kiss

happy valentine's day!!

aaron and i had our first kiss on ellis road in muskegon, michigan, sometime in june 1993. i was seventeen and he was eighteen and it was an awesome kiss to lead many other awesome kisses.

i put the exact spot on the map at whereihadmyfirstkiss.com.

when we were home for christmas, we learned that the airport had taken over more land recently and that the place where we had kissed for the first time is now inside the airport perimeter.

if i were going to try to read meaning into that, what would it mean?

kitty- an update

they told me on tuesday that there's no sign of infection in kitty's 'sample'. i didn't quite trust it, since it wasn't cleared up the first time, but after a few days with her still doing well, i'm relieved to think that it's over. and so thankful.

she's sitting here with me as i blog and i really love her. i would do just about anything for her- which includes sitting on this couch longer than i wanted just so that i don't disturb her when i get up.

damn cat, you are spoiled.

pi - this gay bar seriously rocks

aaron and i met michael and lindsey at pi last night, the new "queer women's social club".

we closed the place down after taking it to the dance floor like a bunch of john travolta's.

i really just loved the place. it made me glad to live in minneapolis. there was such a fun, hanging out, having fun, being gay atmosphere. it's like no other night club / bar that i've ever been to. i predict it will be wildly successful and packed on most weekends, which is a tall order since there is a lot of room in there.

aaron and i found the back hallway / restroom area. it's quiet back there. ;-)

oh my god, it was so so much fun.

here's the star tribune article about it.

there are monkeys in my office

lori baker made window treatments for me for my birthday.















they have monkeys on them.















they also have fishies, birdies and butterflies.















when we went into the store to select the fabric together, we grabbed all sorts of samples. i liked the monkeys on this one, but never dreamed in a million years that this would be the sample that worked best in our office.

now i realize, it was always the monkeys for me.

thanks lori!!!

a few fine photos

i've updated my 'chillin' at michael and lindsey's place' photo set on flickr with new photos- slinky is included, so make sure you check them out...




















this is the cool poster lindsey made for michael to celebrate one month of not smoking:















i've uploaded all my pics from jeff and gene's annual white elephant party. my favorite gift of the evening was the 'shoe' that michael selected.















i was slightly drunk, but i seem to remember that kat and scott stole it from him in order to re-gift it at another white elephant party they were planning to attend.

oh shoe, everyone wants you.

i have both enhanced my life, and cursed it!!

i bought a featherbed on saturday.

enhanced- it is pure heaven and i look forward to going to bed all day long.

cursed- it is next to impossible to get out of in the morning. i don't know how i did it today.

the kitty loves it too, which is important.