A picture is worth a thousand captions

"Can't you see my veins are exploding?"
"I do not have baby teeth!"
"Sparta! What is your profession?!"(Funnier because he went to U of M)
"I said no mushrooms!"
"Everybody come see how good I look!"
"My skeletal system is escaping!"
"My Speedo is chaffing!"
"I'm tired of shaving my ENTIRE body."
"Carbs! Carbs! Carbs!"
"I am mad as a wet hen!"
"I make you seem lazy!" (It's so true)
"My name is the only thing people will remember about the 2008 Summer Olympics!" (Even truer)
"Fuck this! I'm becoming a florist!"
"My daughter is in pain, can't you understand that! GIVE MY DAUGHTER THE SHOT!"
"Michael hate being three feet taller than Chinese hosts."
"My fuel is pure gold."
"I call shotgun!"
"Give me an M!"
"Look at my innie, ya'll!"
"Who peed in the pool?!"
"Where is my jacket?!"
"My body absorbed my shirt!"
"'My Boys' is a rerun?!"
"Cannonball!"
"Who wants pizza?!"


Seriously, I could do this for days.

Got a haircut. Needed it. I was stuck between a mullet and the flowy locks of that middle Jonas brother that I have a jailbaity crush on.

I was not impressed by my first desert flash flood.


As the intern, I am the paper's official unofficial weather girl. So when it rained .16 inches last week, everyone lost their ever-living minds. Insert some spooky skies, bathwater rain and minor flash flooding and this girl got three hours of overtime and a section front story. Oh and caked-on desert clay and littered rocks made driving a dream for about a day.

Try harder next time, Momma Nature. (I'll probably eat these words later)

Still obsessed with the Bellagio fountains

Never gets old.

I apologize for having fewer posts about Sin City and too many posts about the Catholic girl (and her quirky observations).

Here is a post to even the score.

It took me a while to notice there aren't any squirrels, chipmunks, birds (not of the pigeon variety, that is), etc. How did I notice this? Well, I was driving down the highway when I thought to myself, 'Boy, these roads are so clean.' No roadkill.

Obviously, it's the desert. Rodent-like creatures couldn't survive. I was told there would be scorpions but I have yet to see them. I just have to settle for these strange little bugs. Anyone know what they are?

Monday, Monday. Can't trust that day.

Mondays are troubling for me.

The conflict doesn't start until a few hours after work. I hunker down and watch the new episodes of my two reality TV obsessions — Intervention on A&E and Jon&Kate Plus 8 on TLC. Trouble is they both air at the same time, giving my remote trigger finger and my emotions a work out. They're subject matters could not be further apart from each other.One represents something benevolent and heart warming. The other highlights an active dirge lamenting a walking corpse whose addiction fuels and destroys them and their families.

I'm an addict myself. I can't bear to miss either show.

Last night was extremely difficult to handle. Just when I think Intervention couldn't reach new heights, you meet someone like Allison. She is addicted to huffing computer cleaner. Everyone together now, "Oh my God."

Ain't Eight Great?

Happy Eight Eight Oh Eight, everyone!

Seeing as how everyone else in the world is arranging their C-sections or wedding dates to fall on this numerology wonder day, I will bring to a totally pointless list of my top eights of the day.

Eight things I have eaten today:
1. cantaloupe
2. toast with peanut butter
3. Cheez-Its
4. Yogart covered raisins
5. A Wendy's cheeseburger
6. A Wendy's dollar menu side of chicken nuggets
7. A frosty
8. An antacid

Eight ways I've avoided work
1. Recaps like this (Seriously, how did Twitch lose?)
2. Gchat
3. Cleaning out my cubicle
4. Gchat
5. Hyping the Olympics' opening ceremonies
6. Gchat
7. Recovering from my food coma
8. Gchat

Eight things I'm looking forward to right now
1. MSU Football
2. Visitors (Fact: Las Vegas is the easiest place to persuade friends to visit)
3. The Olympics
4. Every one of the movies on my Netflix queue right now
5. Possibly visiting Utah
6. Reading all of the 8/8/'08 related stories today and tomorrow
7. Tackling my ever-growing list of places to visit here
8. Project Runway (because all of my other summer shows are done)

Sidenote: We are having "stormy" whether as of late (a post about baby's first flash flood is to follow) but when I left the house today, it was 88 degrees.

My spirit died a little bit when I discovered the card game Crazy Eights might only be a Midwest thing.