California bans oversized sunglasses

I thought this was BS, so I looked it up...

Traffic Ordinance #23120. No person shall operate a motor vehicle while wearing glasses having a temple width of one-half inch or more if any part of such temple extends below the horizontal center of the lens so as to interfere with lateral vision.

Really? One of the most liberal states can give you a ticket for wearing one of their biggest fashion trends? Really? And to make it even worse, you don't get to just pay the fine. If you get pulled over and ticketed for driving with huge glasses on (like atom ant) you have to go to court and THEN they will decide what the fine is. Good grief.

March madness

That's right, it snowed yesterday! That's madness!!!! It didn't stick but it was still crazy, considering just last week it was in the 70's.

And of course there's that other March madness thing ~ college basketball right? Just kidding. I hear it's been very successful. There sure are a lot of people downtown! I will have to say though, I'm starting to like the downtown area. Some people would bee surprised to hear that I know at least 6 ways to get to work AND get home!!! There are so many things to do downtown and tons of places to eat. It's kinda neat. And as the weather gets warmer, it's super nice to walk outside for lunch.

We finally got to see Gran Torino Saturday night. Clint Eastwood, even at 79 (yes, that's right, old as hell) is still a very imposing character. I didn't care for it though. I don't like ugly people. He redeemed himself in the end, but he didn't really have a happy life so the redemption was kind of bitter sweet.
Also, we watched Australia. Grand, sprawling, epic. Visually it was a great movie to look at. It's a commitment though, at 2 hr 45 min.

Somebunnys and a chick

Breakfast is good!

Sometimes I get tired of oatmeal for breakfast. I don't like to have a lot of choices though, that messes me up. So I just stick to oatmeal. However, once a week I treat myself to breakfast in the cafeteria. For $3.35 you can have 2 scrambled eggs, 2 slices of bacon, home fries and a biscuit. It's yummy too! I usually treat myself on Friday mornings. I was STARVING this morning though. Why does that happen? I think I wake up starving if I've eaten dinner too late the night before? Hmmm. Maybe I'll look it up.

LOST is on tonight! I don't guess that we'll see a shirtless Sawyer though. A girl can dream!

LOL !!!!

Thanks to my cousin JC for sharing this hilarious blog...

http://www.photobasement.com/

Trees

I bet they call our street Oak, for a reason. It must be all Oak trees! And Hickory and Maple and Pine trees as well. Hundreds of them actually. I think it's all so beautiful. You know how Bill feels about it. Messy, messy, messy. He would like to have ALL of our trees cut down. He says there are plenty of trees in our neighbors yards for me to look at. Goober. I try to tell him it's not the same thing!

Last week though, we had ONE tree that we BOTH wished we didn't have, cut down. It was a Hickory tree. Not terribly big but in the worst spot! 6 feet in front of our front door, literally. What a weird place to plant a tree. It turned out to be a really good idea because it had termites!!! And even though it wasn't terribly big, it made a huge difference in the way our yard looks! You can see our front door now! It's great.
Over the weekend, we went to the Flower and Patio Show. What a big waste of $$. There was only one exhibit that had anything we liked. The rest of them just had all of the same things you see everywhere you look. So we really liked this pine bush thingy called a Golden Spreader.


Then there was the Weeping Alaskan Cedar....

But you really have to see it in person to appreciate it's uniqueness. It's leaves are like a kind of Juniper looking thing...

The only thing I know for sure I want to plant, is Dwarf Mondo Grass, in the backyard.

Totally LOST

From EW.com

The intermission is over. Lost's fifth season resumes. Where were we? Jack, Kate, and Hurley were back on the Island, circa 1977, locking eyes with bespectacled, now respectable Dharma stud Sawyer, a.k.a. James LaFleur. Over on Hydra Island (maybe in the same year, but probably not), Locke was alive, but Ben was unconscious. MIA: Sayid, Sun, and Lapidus. In tonight's episode, ''Namaste,'' you'll see all of the aforementioned — except one. You will also become formally introduced to a figure of great interest to those of us fixated with Dharma Initiative mythology. Remember the season 2 finale, when we learned about Desmond's button-pushing days in the Hatch? He had a partner, Kelvin Inman, who spent his extracurricular time finishing the Map on the blast door — a project that started with Kelvin's old hatchmate, Radzinsky. According to Kelvin, Radzinsky committed suicide. Left a bloody stain on the ceiling, in fact. But in ''Namaste,'' you'll see Radzinsky alive and well in the Dharma '70s. You'll also see Radzinsky building...something that adds provocative shading to his map-making project in The Swan.

Happy Green Day!!!

St. Patrick

Did you know….

Far from being a saint, until he was 16, he considered himself a pagan. At that age, he was sold into slavery by a group of Irish marauders that raided his village. During his captivity, he became closer to God.

He escaped from slavery after six years and went to Gaul where he studied in the monastery for a period of twelve years. During his training he became aware that his calling was to convert the pagans to Christianity.

His mission in Ireland lasted for thirty years. After that time, Patrick retired to County Down. He died on March 17 in AD 461. That day has been commemorated as St. Patrick's Day ever since.

Much Irish folklore surrounds St. Patrick's Day. Not much of it is actually substantiated.
He is said to have given a sermon from a hilltop that drove all the snakes from Ireland. Of course, no snakes were ever native to Ireland, and some people think this is a metaphor for the conversion of the pagans.

One traditional icon of the day is the shamrock. And this stems from a more bona fide Irish tale that tells how Patrick used the three-leafed shamrock to explain the Trinity. He used it in his sermons to represent how the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit could all exist as separate elements of the same entity.

The St. Patrick's Day custom came to America in 1737. That was the first year St. Patrick's Day was publicly celebrated in this country, in Boston.

True or False?

1. St. Patrick loved to listen to Irish tales. So much so he declared that they all must be told in poetic verse from then on.
2. St. Patrick changed Ireland's national color to green.
3. Ireland is the only country to have a musical instrument as a national symbol.
4. There are about as many Americans of Irish descent in the United States as there are Irish in Ireland.

1. True – He declared all Irish tales be told where "every third word have melody".
2. False - During St. Patrick’s time, the color was blue. Green wasn’t popular until the 19th century.
3. True. The Irish harp is the national symbol of the country.
4. False. About 34 million U.S. residents claim Irish ancestry. Ireland has a population of about 4 million.

Triskaidekaphobia

13
It seems that whenever Friday the 13th creeps onto our calendars, people can't help but blame the date for everything that goes wrong on that day -- and not without reason. The number 13 is commonly associated with bad luck, and there is even a name for the fear of the number 13: triskaidekaphobia.

Theories abound about how Friday the 13th came to be. Here are the main ideas:
One hinges on eating as a group of 13. Historians tie it to the Last Supper (13 men, a betrayal and a final Good Friday crucifixion) and Norse mythology (12 gods have dinner, a 13th crashes the party, one god dies and the entire Earth goes into mourning).

Another theory rests on the downfall of the Knights Templar (hundreds of religious knights executed in France on Friday, Oct. 13, 1307).
Perhaps these stories explain friggatriskaidekaphobiacs' fear of the No. 13.

And someone along the way cared. Just look at the fact that many U.S. buildings are without a 13th floor. Many people are careful to avoid black cats.

Another explanation for society's fear about the No. 13 is simply the holiness of the No. 12. Live Search tells us that twelve's significance is everywhere, dating back to the B.C. era. You know Zeus and all those gods and goddesses of Olympus? You guessed it: They total 12.
Even in our day-to-day lives, 12 rules. We have 12 zodiac signs, 12 months in a year and 12 hours on a clock.

Every picture tells a story

Her picture...
His picture...

1/2 of 100

You know I'm not the only icon turning 50 this year. It's also Barbie's 50th birthday.






Aaaaaand, Etch a Sketch and Lego are 50 this yr too!

Do you know what time it is??

Hoosiers don't. See, there was this phenomenon in Indiana where time stood still, for decades! We NEVER sprung forward or fell back. Our time stayed the same all year long. As a matter of fact, we were one of only 3 states that didn't change their clocks. It was always so confusing to people, even to the natives. Every year, law makers argued about whether we should observe daylight savings or not. Finally, a few years ago, they decided we were ready for the change. Then they spent a year trying to decide what time zone we should be in. And even though we're called the MID west ~ you know, like in the middle or central area ~ they chose the Eastern time zone for us. So at the peak of summer, it's like living in Alaska when the sun never sets.

Anyway...don't forget to change your clocks Sunday!!!!

They're baaaaaaaack!!!!!

Best jelly beans EVER!!!! Even better than buttered popcorn flavored Jelly Bellies! And only available around Easter time, so stock up!!!

Argh!

Now I'm REALLY tired of being sick! Enough is enough already. Ugh.
Another weekend gone, lost to illness. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Oh, but I did get to watch some fun movies this weekend.
Fools Gold - total fluff. Donald Sutherland was great though and Matthew McConaughey is always good eye candy. I finally watched Mama Mia. It was cute and it helps if you're an ABBA fan. Also, The Secret Life of Bees was pretty good. I'm a big fan of Dakota Fanning. I squeezed in a couple oldies too. Sunset Boulevard, with Gloria Swanson and William Holden. I had never seen it. It was great! I love a good action movie but sometimes I really miss those old movies with all those wonderful dialogs and superior over acting. And Anastasia, with Ingrid Bergman and Yul Brynner.