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08/11/2009 01:30 #49501

National Enquirer Personals
So work was really slow today and so me and rachelle were reading through the last issue of National Enquirer (or was it Examiner, basically the same either way) and we realized they have personals! they are the best personals ever. One lady who described herself as former model and actress ended her ad with the line Slightly Disabled is ok with me! It seems like a weird thing to put in an ad. LIke it is a fine thing to be fine with but do you put that in your ad and then do people have to ask you if there disability is slight enough for you. A lot were from convicts one that opened with Inmate but innocent. And then there was the one that was an inmate and said Beware: i love to hug and snuggle. They were hilar! But the best part of it all was the prices people pay for these things. The one that was ok with slightly disabled, i counted the words and the nubmer of heart graphics and it comes in at a whopping 123 dollars an issue (THATS EVERY WEEK), it seems like you could spend your money like 500 a month on a better way of finding someon than the national enquirer!
tinypliny - 08/11/09 21:04
LOL
heidi - 08/11/09 16:21
  • giggle* (e:jenks) - i was so confused by the spelling of the Philadelphia Inquirer - I thought "Enquirer" was correct until i was in my 20s! *blush*
jenks - 08/11/09 08:34
hahah tiny sometimes I forget you're not American. :) Ah, the Enquirer. "Enquiring minds want to know!" (And I've always wondered why it's not the Inquirer- is Enquirer even a word??) But anyway, it's like a super ridiculous tabloid paper... always in the checkout lane at the grocery story... but it always has the most ridiculous stories... like about "Bat Boy" and "700lb baby" and "Prophets have revealed: end of the world next tuesday!"

hahahahaha good stuff.
tinypliny - 08/11/09 03:12
Hmmm... what is the circulation of this paper? Is it really "national"? What kind of people read it? Is it like the ultra-gossip dirt-digging weekly of the masses - you know, like The Sun? If that is the case, then enquiring nationally might be worth $500. hehe

08/06/2009 15:45 #49473

Watermelon
Watermelon...i love it ... a lot.... that is all
tinypliny - 08/06/09 22:28
Or maybe they are just good at pretending. I went to get watermelon but some of the watermelons were so ripe that they had split open and leaked all over the floor. You could hear people's shoes peeling off the sticky linoleum floor.

Yeah. Pretense. The mother of all disgust.
mk - 08/06/09 22:16
Sometimes I wish I liked watermelon. Everyone else seems so refreshed and happy when they eat it.
james - 08/06/09 17:38
Shonuff!
tinypliny - 08/06/09 16:06
Thank you for the reminder. I am getting watermelon pronto, I am getting it NOW. (Well, in a few minutes.)

08/02/2009 23:36 #49444

My Weekend In Endicott
So this weekend I got to go to Endicott to go to two days of (e:libertad)'s famly reunions. I was very nervous and overwhelmed getting ready to meet about 80 million people I don't know. Those who know me know i freak out when meeting new people especially full extended familes of them. So we got up early on saturday morning to meet his mom and niece in Rochester at 930 for the drive to the first reunion. When we get there, his niece had decorated a barf bag for me from the plane for the long car ride which was awesome. She is actually quite an impressive teenager in many ways. She deals with everything life throws at her very well and it really impresses me. Anywho, so we went to Coleville Park I believe it was called and on the way his mom gave me the scoop on all the people i would be meeting , even dave was meeting many of them for the first time. The park was really pretty and there was tons of yummo food and i met everyone and everyone was relaly nice. It really was not nearly as scary as I thought it would be> Everyone was very welcoming and friendly. The lady who put it all together did a great job getting eveyrone together and getting everythig for it.

We left there around six and went to his aunts house for a bonfire which was nice cuz it was a little more chill and just his direct aunts and cousins , not a million extended family members. That was fun, it seems like a lot of the family lives all in the same neighborhood, even the same block which would be a little overwhelming for me. I guess that is how my dad grew up though where like the whole neighboorhood was his extedned family and eveyrone always got together for everything. AT the bonfire they made me go around and name everyone WHICH I PASSED WITH FLYING COLORS. I am really good at remembering names. I think i am actually gonna write down the fmaily tree tonight while i remember it in case i am ever quized again in the futrue.

So then that night we stayed at his cousin kyle's apartment which was relaly nice. We were too poooped to go out so we watched 40 year old virgin and went to bed. It was realy nice of him to let us stay at his appt. It is nice and i guess he got an awesome deal on it which was cool.

So then today was dave's grandmas' family reunion (yesterday was his grandpas). So it was a lot smaller and now at this point I knew like half the poeple there from the day before. it was at his mom's cousins house and it was a relaly cool old house that she has put a lot of work into. it looks relaly good and her plans for the future for it sound relaly neat. The basement you can see the foundation and it is just all these like rocks stacked together with like trees in between. It is really cool to see. I guess one day poeple who had owned the house years before drove by and stopped and told them about the house and gave them all tese pictures of how it was changed over the years.

OOOH i forgot in the morning before the reunion me and dave and his mom hung out with his grandparents at their house. It was relaly nice, i love toalking to grandparents, i miss having grandparents sooooo much!! I really do. His grandpa was so cute telling me all about his medicines and stuff cuz i work in a pharmacy and like insisted we eat because it would be a whle til lunhc and brought us out like a huge bowl of cashews each and then wehen we wlaked away put yogurts on our seat and insited we eat them. His grandma told us all about this crazy crime going on in town where this rich guy supposedly killed his wife the day before the divorce but there is no body and no crime scene and no weapon but he got convicted but now six years later a man came out with a new memory that he saw the wife slater and so he couldn't have killed him but someone else claism they saw this new man being given bags of money. So i guess anywya a new trial is going on now... can't wait to see what happens

OHHHH and i had for the first time and can't wiat to make/have again grandma kethcums chip dip which is like french dressing and cream cheese mixed together maybe, anywho YUMMO! All in all a lot of driving time but an awesome weekend...

...and later i have to write about how i forget there are any cities between here and nyc and that everyone in the middle of new york does not know about buffalo and consider it there big city.
libertad - 08/03/09 22:51
This was my first ever.

Thanks for coming (e:mike). I'm so glad you were there. You were so impressive to my fam. I'm so lucky to have you.
tinypliny - 08/03/09 10:44
That is so cool - how frequently does this sort of reunion happen in (e:libertad)'s family?

07/26/2009 19:40 #49389

Kathy G-Dog
I love Kathy Griffin a lot of the time. part of it might be that she reminds me of all the best parts of my friend diana but she is really hilar! I love this clip ...here she is...i also LOOOOVE when she does a thing about Anna Nicole Smith on Hollywood Squares, Whitney Houston, and an Oprah/Barbara Streisand encounter. Anywho this clip has special meaning to me , cuz GD was a big part of growing up right paul? We always were only minutes away from a GD! I planned on writing about the party boat bachelorette party but i can't get the video of the crazy older lady and amanda dancing from my phone to my blog so that will be later.


james - 07/27/09 01:04
Pontius Pilate at the last supper!
libertad - 07/26/09 20:48
That was hilarious!

07/21/2009 22:13 #49347

I Should Start a Blog
Me and my (e:mom) went to see Julia and Julie tonight. yeah that's right , its not out yet but we had exclusive free preview passes she got at Channel 4! It was really good. It is a true story, well 2 truish stories. One is the story of Julia Child and the other is the story of Julie who is like a disgruntled feels like a waste of life 30 year old who decided to start a blog and blog about cooking through the whole Julia Child cookbook in one year. It seriously was way better than that description may seem. Meryll Streep was amazing as Julia Child and Amy Adams I always love. And the supporting cast was good too. The whole thing was really good and I recommend it when it comes out.

It made me want to start a blog where I write about something and people follow what I write and then they ask me to write a book about it and then it cbecomes a movie like this. But what shall I write about now that the whole Julia Child thing is taken? So i recommend and I recommend making me famous. thank you
lilho - 08/03/09 22:57
you should write about things like being a fugitive unicorn!
mike - 07/23/09 18:27
never
tinypliny - 07/23/09 18:05
Do you actually cook anything regularly, Mike? Just wondering...
tinypliny - 07/22/09 09:17
I have wanted to blog about my science readings for so long now. Maybe if I get into the habit of writing first thing every morning, I might get somewhere. Addressing a general audience about niche topics is an art that is really quite tough and I think therein lies the reason for my laziness.
tinypliny - 07/22/09 09:13
I have been wanting to see that movie since LAST YEAR. I am SO jealous of you. I love well-made cooking movies.

You do have a following. You even have a #1 fan/deranged stalker. What more could you possibly want? Serial killers sending you newspaper-font-clipped "love" notes?
paul - 07/22/09 00:01
Maybe if you blogged more regularly and about something consistent, you would get a bigger following.