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Prepare to be amazed*: Mystic Ball.
In other news: When I went to Rock & Roll Ralphs on Saturday night I saw a genie, two cheerleaders, the Big Bad Wolf, Dr. Seuss's Thing 1 & Thing 2, and three girls who could either have been wearing rock n' roll slut costumes, or they could just have been flaunting their usual Saturday night finery. It was hard to tell.
*said with heavy sarcasm
There is something strangely comforting about being able to argue with someone without fearing that it will become The End of All Things... about being able to begin a conversation at the top of your lungs and end it with soft spoken I love you.
Glasses on glass shelves
California residents, is the State holding your unclaimed property?
Once a year, the State Controller's office runs ads to try to find the owners of property that has been turned over to them - this year they have a nifty new searchable web interface. Who knows? You might find some money you didn't know you were owed, or an item that was willed to you but somehow got lost along the way.
Even if you don't find anything of yours, you can always browse the auction and bid on unclaimed items recovered from safe deposit boxes, etc.
Check it out!
There are so many reasons to hate Wal-Mart. Here's another one.
Susan Chambers, you are a piece of work. Really. 46% of your employees don't have benefits for themselves or for their families. 46%! And you think the answer is to cut 401K contributions, raise spousal premiums, and cut company-paid life insurance while searching for more "healthy" employees.
Sure, you're rolling out that new healthcare plan, but it's targeted at healthy people and doesn't really cover serious illness, regular prescriptions, and hospital stays.
Basically, given the demographics of your work force, it won't help many of your employees at all.
Well done.
But hey, at least you're paying your employees a fair market wage so they can afford to cover their own insurance rather that relying on state funded programs.
Oh, wait...
You're not. So my tax dollars are going to pay for your employees' health care.
Both Costco and Starbucks offer better wages AND more comprehensive benefits to their employees and somehow manage to stay financially solvent. Costco is, in fact, your biggest competitor. So what excuse do you have for Wal-Mart's behavior?
From Charles Kahn, President of the Federation of American Hospitals: We have a health care system in this country that assumes people will be covered by their employer. If the biggest employer in the country isn't providing some kind of affordable and meaningful coverage, that is a problem.
Yes it is Ms. Chambers; it's YOUR problem.
My mother, an avid bird watcher, found Magnolia Warblers, Myrtle Warblers, and Pine Warblers in her backyard this morning... no doubt blown north from their winter homes in Southern Florida by Wilma's force.
About 1200 miles north, actually; my parents live in New Jersey!
Pauly, I have found someone who is in desperate need of your tutelage.
This morning I managed to muster just enough strength to drag myself to Ralphs in search of Robitussin, orange juice, and soup. As I was about to set my things down on the checkout counter of the Express Lane, a guy cut in front of me with a suspiciously full shopping cart.
Me: Excuse me sir, this is the Express Lane.
He: exasperated sigh I don't even have ten items. Yogurt, orange juice, milk, tortillas, salad, cheese. Happy now?
Yes sir, I see that you only have 6 types of groceries, but I believe that the 12 containers of yogurt, 3 quarts of orange juice, 2 quarts of soy milk, 2 packages of tortillas, and 6 bags of salad count as FAR more than 10 items.
Asshat.
Somehow, I resisted the urge to club him upside the head with my 1 container of orange juice.
I stole this fun meme from Kathleen:
It's the one where you take your complete playlist, hit shuffle, then post your favorite lyric from each of the first twenty songs - whether they are embarrassing to you not - and then people guess them in the comments section. Since my musical taste is all over the place, I could be very embarrassed. I will add the artists to the main post as they're guessed.I must admit, I did skip the instrumental songs:
01. Crash and burn we all fall down and I can still hear the sound of love, run
dry.
-Exit to Exit, Ryan Cabrera
02. I'll kick you out of my home if you don't cut that hair
-Fight For Your Right, Beastie Boys
03. I find sometimes it's easy to be myself, sometimes I find it's better to be
somebody else
-So Much To Say, Dave Matthews Band
04. King of the world with a pool cue in his hand
-Fleet Footed Dan, Chris Orbach
05. I go to my oracle, ask her for a miracle, she smiles a glassy smile and she
says join me on this mountain here, set aside your fears and open up
your ears
-Oracle, Pacific Allstars
06. Well I guess I should be goin' / I sure found out too much to stay / Please
don't say your sorry / I might wait another day
07. I seen her children crying / As the police tore apart their home / And no
they didn't need a reason / It's what your votes condone
08. In this life, I strive for improvement / Be your own guide, follow your own
movement
09. You ain't nothing to me if you got nothing to say
10. I believe that my life's gonna see the love I give return to me
11. We don't need no special occasion. so come on it's a celebration
12. So much water under the bridge, and I'm standing here at the water's edge
looking into your eyes
13. Memo to myself: do the dumb things I gotta do
-Inside the Puppet's Head, They Might Be Giants
14. Its like a long, cold walk in a winter beach, Love is a game you
cannot teach, when it comes to love Im in need of advice
15. It's just you against your tattered libido, the bank and the mortician,
forever man and it wouldn't be luck if you could get out of life alive
16. Well listen man I ain't goin' to school no more it starts much, much too early
for me
17. Darling, I know you'll be there to relieve me, the love you give to me will
free me
-Sexual Healing, Ben Harper's version (in this case)
18. There's no light at the end of the tunnel tonight, just a bridge that I gotta
burn
-Gone, Kelly Clarkson
19. Your angels speak with jilted tongues / The serpent's tale has come undone
you have no strength to squander
20. I'll be stuck fixated on one star when the world is crashing down
*cough*
*hack*
*snuffle*
*sneeze*
*wheeze*
*whine*
*whimper*
*grouse*
*cough*
*cough*
*cough*
*sigh*
Stupid cold.
At least I have Batman Begins on DVD, and I'm crocheting an afghan that's keeping me nice and warm while I work on it.
Now I just need someone to bring me soup, juice, cough syrup, and love (not necessarily in that order).
*pout*
*cough*
