IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!!!!!

One more year older and I still feel like a 19 year old......YEAH RIGHT!!

On the eve and day of my birthday, I've had the connection problems for hell. After purchasing a new modem (after being told that our modem had an error) we've since found out (after spending countless minutes on the phone with our ISP and router manufacturer) the problem was the router. Everything seems to be working well now so keep your fingers crossed it stays that way. We will be making a stop at the local Best Buy to return the modem and spend that money on something else....ie me!!!!! YAY!!!

Since my plans for this evening were so rudely changed on me (see previous post) I'm off to find something to get into this afternoon and evening.

I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend!!!

P.S. McCain is STOOPID!!!

Thanks For Nothing!

Hello, this is Ticketmaster Customer Service with an important alert for your upcoming event. Eddie Griffin, scheduled at Robinson Music Hall on Saturday, August 30, 2008, at 8:00PM, has been cancelled. Your credit card will automatically be credited the ticket price and convenience charges, and should post to your account within 7 to 10 business days. Please note, the $3.40 per order processing fee and any ticketFast or UPS delivery charges are non-refundable. >>>>This is reason why I always have them mail my stuff by USPS. I still want the $3.40 back though.

*off to what else I Saturday night*

Gawt Dayum the Democrats!!!

And the phluckery of it all continues.....


Please meet Harriet Christian, yet another AVID HRC supporter that felt is was also her duty to make a complete and utter jackass out of herself (in front of the cameras of course) in the name of all things Clinton. The thing about all of these crazy folks poppin up out of the woodworks is that I totally get that they supported and wanted HRC as the Dem. nominee. I can respect that BUT that part of the process is over. She's not even a contender anymore so why all the uneccessary fuss and tears?! This mess is just ridiculous but yet comical at the same time.

Just for shits and giggles, here's another vid of Ms. Christian defending her actions. Oh yeah, and also explaining why she will not be voting for Barack. *sigh*

That was Presidential??!!

This is video of Ann Price Mills ( a delegate) who was interviewed on CNN after HRC gave her convention speech last night. She is, as you will see, an AVID HRC supporter and even though she didn't flat out say it she feels like her homegirl was robbed of the nomination. Ummm, yeah whatever.....get over it. This lady annoyed me on so many damn levels from her butterfly hair clips to the words coming out of her mouth. How can you be a TRUE democrat yet be faced with such a hard decision as to vote or not to vote??!!! Ho saddown!

This comment someone left on the message boards summed it all up for me:

Hillary's supporters remain upset because they lost to a rookie. She wasn't that great of a politician after all. She had the greatest asset any candidate could want: a spouse-President! Forget about the alleged sexism she received. The national media was pro-Hillary from day 1. She played every GOP trick she could think of & worst of all invoked the tragedy of RFK to justify staying in the race & lied about sniper fire in Bosnia. She's pathetic for that alone. Shame on her "historic" campaign.

Have you ever......

....... had a convo with one of your friends where you seriously just wanted them to STFU??!! This happened recently to me while speaking with a friend of mine on the way home from work. We had to cut our convo short as she was at the eye doctor and was just called back to the examining room. Not ten minutes later she calls me back:


Friend: You will NOT believe what just happened to me

Me: Nope...what?

Friend: Okay, so I had just gotten called back for the doctor to see me. She comes in the room to tell me that she will be right with me but she needs to take a call from her vet. She comes back in the room and just before she starts to examine my eye, she breaks down crying.

Me: Her pet must have been really sick or died.

Friend:How did you know?

Me: Weeeeeellllll, it was kinda obvious. Which one was it?

Friend: Girl, her dog died and then this bitch canceled my appointment.

Me: Yeeeeaaaah, that's hard to deal with so I could see why she would.

Friend: Puuulease! We're talking about a damn animal not a human being here!!!

Me: *hears record scratch in my head* Ummmm, what?

Friend: She should have just taken a few minutes to get herself together and come back in to do her job.

Me: Yeah, so you know you called the wrong one to vent to right?

Friend: What?

Me: *I repeat what I just said above* I hear what you're saying but a lot of people, such as myself and Z, think of their pets as family so when you have that loss it's hard.......extremely hard. I've lost a pet before, as you know, and that shit hit me like a ton of bricks. Unless you've had that experience it's hard to relate. I don't expect you to understand though.

Friend: I mean I understand the woman is sad but damn...I had to drive all the way from (insert small town AR about 20 minutes away from LR) to get there and now I have to drive back next with.

Me: I can sympathize with that BUT would you rather her have tried to examine you with tears and snot fallin down her face and doing a poor job at it? Me personally, I would have preferred that she rescheduled so that she could do her job with a fresh mind.

Friend: I guess. I may not even go back now...I'm pissed

Me: Bless your heart.


I was not upset about her feelings about the situation, I just really wanted her to shut up talking to me. I know she was upset and needed someone to vent to but I mean seriously.....*sigh*

Yeah I know...I have issues.

Ehhhhhh......

.......nothing much to say, just hanging out on a Saturday evening. We were finally going to see "The Dark Knight" (shutty FreakD! lol) but when we looked up the times online, we found that we are too late as the only showing (at the local theater) started @ 7:30.....it is now 8:16. Neither one of us felt like driving to LR, me especially since I commute there everyday. Oh well....there's always tomorrow or next weekend. :)

I am craving an Oreo cookie blast from Sonic right now and nothing else. No meat, no potatoes, no veggies just cream, milk, and sugar! I had turkey bacon, toast, and milk w/Nesquick mixed in (strange combo I know) around 1 or 2 this afternoon and nothing for breakfast so you'd think I'd be A LOT hungrier. My appetite on the weekend can be extremely akward as opposed to during the week. I can eat once or twice during the day and be fine but at during the work week I'm always starvin like Marvin.....go figure!

The movie "Enchanted" has started showing on cable. Can I just say that I really really really REALLY like that movie. There's this song that is sung I would guess about halfway through called "How Do You Know" (I think that's the title) and I think that's half of the reason why I like the move. I'm a little ashamed to admit that I have watched it 3 times today just to hear the song. Sue me! lol

I've suggested a game of Monopoly this evening but the man of the house's mind is focused only on dinner. Him hongray! What's that you say dear? You're not cookin?? Guess what....me either! Your debit card is on the table you say? Great! Sonic here I come!!

Hey You…......

Yeah you crazy lady driving the SUV. The next time someone tells your that’s okay just go with it….mkay? Thanks.

I took the pooches walking yesterday and the particular route I chose to go caused me to have to cross a busy street. I was in no hurry and was demonstrating such by occasionally glancing up to check traffic and looking down at my fingernails when all of a sudden I hear a horn honk. I glance up thinking it was just a disgruntled driver when I see this lady had stopped to apparently let us cross the street. Now this street is a two lane with a turning lane in between to get to the street I wanted to cross to. I look the opposite way like mama ‘nem taught me and see cars coming. I turn back to her smile and mouth “That’s okay” and wave for her to just keep on going. I can be bold but I wasn’t about to risk life, limb, and my babies’ paws just because she said it was okay to cross! What happened next not only shocked me but forced me to go hood in the ‘burbs. This woman, instead of just keeping on like normal folk, then decides that I am not appreciative enough of her random act of kindness and proceeds to pull up to my bumper, roll down her window, and tell me so.

“Kind” Crazy Lady: Hey, I was just trying to let you cross the street!
Me: Yeah, I see that. I also see traffic is coming from the opposite side of the road and didn't feel it was safe.
KCL: So why didn’t you go?
Me: *thinking is the bitch serious?* Are you seriously holding up traffic for this? Didn’t you just hear what the hell I said?
KCL: You could have been gone.
Me: You also could have had your dumb ass at the house a long time ago but instead you chose to ignore my signal for you to get the hell on. Now you’ve held up traffic and pissed off me, my dogs, and the folks behind you. Go home stupid ass!!

**Emma was growling by then again she growls at anything that she doesn’t know so that’s not unusual. Lol

She drove off after that but I was just left there standing dumbfounded by that idiot. I almost turned around and went home but I wasn’t about to let her ruin our walk. I did however find a nice size rock on the ground to chunk at her just in case she came back for round two. I swear I have seen/heard/experienced some crazy stuff in my life but this one ranks right up there near the top of the list. What’s even crazier is that she is a part of the staff or teaches @ my alma mater which is just right up the street. I saw her hangtag through the windshield and just shook my head. Just to think, she could possibly be teaching folks something……that’s a scary thought.

Shut up and Drive!

FYI....if you are in the central AR area the Sam's Club in Sherwood has their gas down to $3.31/gal.

Ummmmmmmmmmm..............

......just press play 'cause I ain't got shit else to say

Pole Position

I saw THE craziest thing driving home from work yesterday. I was in the left lane on the interstate behind a big dodge ram. The truck passed me earlier but ya'll know how crazy rush hour traffic can be. Well anyway, I ended up behind the truck again. The person behind the wheel was driving all foolish and almost swerved off the road. You know how people kinda move to the left to see what's holding up traffic? Yeah that's what they were doing. Anyhoo, I soon found out that the reason they were shucking and jiving was because they were trying to catch up with another truck, a dodge ram no less. So anyway, I'm move over to the right lane because I got tired of folks slammin on their breaks and whatnot and still end up behind the original truck. Well, all of the sudden they increase their speed to catch up with the other truck and then these fools go in towards the lines on the road and the driver of the original truck starts passing stuff out of his window to the passenger in the other truck. My mouth was open and my head looked like this

I just kept saying to myself...OMG OMG O.M.G!! lol Of course this caused people to slam on their brakes because noone wanted to be close to either one of them driving all slaphappy and whatnot. I just want to know what kind of hurry that they were in that they couldn't have just (1) pulled over to the side of the road or (2) gotten off on the next exit which was all of ummmmmmmm 30 seconds away to make their exchange. Makes you wonder what they do in lieu of pottybreaks on roadtrips. Ewwwwwwwwwwwww. *shudders* Anyway, I was just glad to make it home in one piece and be off the road with the fast and the furious wannabe's.

What's the craziest driving technique you've ever witnessed?

AR PSA......

It is neither right nor will it ever be okay to see a grown man walking around in public with these on (especially with WHITE SOCKS!!!!)))

or these

UPDATE: I added this as I'm sure to get a lot of questions as to what these thingamajigs are. These are Five-finger shoes which apparently help to enhance your natural walking motion. *shrugs shoulders* Find out more about them here: http://www.fitsugar.com/166456

This PSA was brought to you by my shopping experience at the local Wal-Mart this weekend.

That is all. Carry on.

Another Legend Lost......

An entertainter of imminent proportion...... Isaac Lee Hayes, Jr.

August 20, 1942 – August 10, 2008

You will be missed........

.....in this household as well as many others across the world.

I've loved Bernie Mac since his days with Def Comedy Jam, to "The Kings of Comedy", to "The Bernie Mac Show" and everything in between. You were truly gifted and made me laugh even if I was sad or mad at the world. I wish you peace in the after life and peace and comfort for your family during this time.

Well done Uncle Bernie....well done. :)


I had to come back and add this vid because this is some of the funniest ish I've ever heard in my life and it's one of my favorite parts of "The Kings of Comedy".

Thank God It’s Friday!!

I’m sitting at work right now and the power is out so what better time to post! I’m on my laptop and the battery is really low so I hope that I am able to get this put up before it dies out on me.

Work has been kickin my butt like a slave with calluses on their feet. One of my pet peeves about places of employment are companies that thrive on having unnecessary meetings. I mean really, how do you expect for folks to complete assigned tasks from one meeting if you are having to rush off to another right after the one you just left? Oh vey!! And since when is needle pointing in a meeting kosher??!! Yes, one of the folks, a regional director no less, was sitting in there chillin’ getting her multi-task on! Lol At first I thought she was about to floss her teeth because all I saw was a string hanging from her mouth. The closer I looked; I realized she was threading the needle. It sounds crazy but that is the type of environment I work in. They encourage stuff like that because they know people get bored having to sit for hours at a time discussing strategies (ie the same ish over and over). It’s probably just me and I just need to loosen up but dammit if that’s still not awkward as hell! lol

Anyway, enough of that! I ventured off to M-town last weekend to kick it with my mom and 3 and 4 year old nephews. I do believe I have filled my quota of Disney channel, cartoon network, and piggy back rides for the rest of this year. Needless to say those tiny tots wore me out. I swear if anything ever comes through this birth canal of mine, I truly hope it’s a girl ‘cause boys are ROUGH!!! One was kung foo fighting, the other was tryin to wrestle, both were whining and fallin out on the floor when they didn’t get their way (da hell???). Auntie had enough and called for both of them to go sat their asses down somewhere. I’m not used to all that commotion and noise. Auntie likes peace, quiet, and serenity and I was just WAY outside of my comfort level. What better way to cure that than a nap! One for me, and two for them! YAY!!! After they woke it up, it seemed to rid them of the evil that was lurkin within and they both regained some sense and sensibility. Sunday was a risne and repeat of Saturday but different. We got to go to Chucky Cheese to celebrate my 3 year old nephews birthday (he turned 3 on the 4th). WHOOPEEEEE!!! It actually wasn’t that bad. I’m guessing it’s because it was on a Sunday *shrugs shoulders* Anyway, we had fun, the kids had a lot of fun and my other nephew and niece showed up. I’ll have to post the vid when I get home of them dancing in front of the CC camera. Hilarious! Lol

Anyway, lemme shut this sucker down because the battery is on it’s last leg.

Have a good weekend!

Run for it!

I wasn't going to post today but I saw this video this morning and I could.not.stop.laughing. It's footage of the earthquake that happened in CA yesterday while the Judge Judy show was taping. Now, of course, I'm not that insensitive to laugh @ the actual event. What got me is the plantiff in this video would.not.budge from the table. Not because she was scared but she seriously thought they were going to continue with her case. Ya'll....I hollered. I tried to contain myself but......just watch. You'll see what I'm talking about. lol



I will also admit that I got tickled watching everyone, except the plantiff, run out of the courtroom. Not because they were running for their lives but for the fact that all it took was one person and everyone else was out! Lol Watching it made me think back to something similar that happened to me.


Back when I was a young buck I was in Nashville visiting my best friend. We had all gone out to this club and hadn't even made it in when a fight broke out in the parking lot. So we backed on outta the way so we wouldn't get caught up in the crowd of people watching/participating/whatever. As everything settled down we started making our way back to the door when this girl screamed. It was as if some cattle had suddenly been herded because folks just broke out runnin. Well I look @ my bf and the other folks we were there with and we break out runnin too. A few moments after we started running, my other homegirl just stops, busted out laughing and asked "What is we runnin fo'?" After she caught up (cause I was still runnin), I answered her question. I ain't know but I d@mn sure wasn't about to stand around and find out. Hell those folks were NOT running all willy nilly for nothing. lol Turns out, one of the guys that had been fighting earlier had said he was going to get his gun. That was reason enough for us to take our tails back to her apartment and call it a night.

What do you want now????

I don't blog about the j-o-b too much on here because most jobs are pretty much the same story with the same characters just with different faces and diff't challenges (read bullshit). My current gig is pretty sweet for the most part. The work is relatively easy (it just involves a lot of reading and writing), everyone is pretty cool, and the dress code is extremely lax. You can wear pretty much anything you want on any given day...jeans, shorts (no coochie cutters of course), flip flops, I've even seen some folks with spaghetti strap attire. Now that's a bit much IMO regardless of what they say you can wear but I digress. I guess I just haven't loosened up enough from a strict corporate dress code to get with that program (and probably never will).

The environment is pretty laid back and everyone seems to get along for the most part although I have been able to detect some of the "cliques" and strong dislikes some people have for others. Speakin of which, I've been invited to join the "cool kids" lunch club. In an effort to combat high gas prices and average pay a group of folks decided to form a lunch club that meets a few times a week. They decide on a theme (mexican, italian, etc) and each person brings something to contribute. I was first asked verbally and then sent an email invite. I guess this means I'm "in" now. lol I normally bring my lunch everyday but I may go against my anti-social grain and stop by a few times here and there before the year is up. lol

Anyway, I'm gettin off track because that's not even what my post is about. lol Soooo, within the fancy building you can find almost any nationality of people. It's truly like the UN. Our admin happens to be from the motherland. She's sweet as pie and I really do like her but can I just put something out into the universe real fast?? She.gets.on.my.damn.nerves.sometimes!!!! I know you're like AR Gal, what doesn't??!!

Lemme explain. My employer emphasizes that face-to-face interaction is the preferred form of communication. Me, I'd prefer to just receive an email or talk on the phone and be done with it (please see anti-social reference above). The AA....not so much. She truly takes the ish literally and I suppose I shouldn't knock her for that but still....................*sigh* Anyway, today she came down to my desk no fewer than 10 times (seriously I'm not exaggerating). About the 4th time, I had this look on my face that screamed WHAT DO YOU WANT NOW?? UGH!!! I'm not the one to tell people how to do their job but ya'll just don't know how bad I wanted to tell her "really, it's okay if you just pick up the phone and call". lol Honestly, I think the reason why she does it is because english is not her 1st language so her accent is really thick and she may think it's easier to understand her in person -vs- on the phone. To me she sounds the same either way. *shrugs shoulders* I think the annoyance was the fact that the things she wanted were simple things liikkkke I need the key # to your lock on your desk for such and such, do you still have that file on your desk (if she had called she would have found out I didn't and could have saved herself an unecessary trip to my desk), do you have any agenda items for our meeting next week.......the list goes on.

Oh well, there's not much I can do to change it now. I just needed to vent I suppose. I'm going to go to work tomorrow with a better attitude and try to keep it that way.....unless she comes down to my desk again. lol

UPDATE: It is not even 9 am and she has been down to my desk twice already.......

Me and you must neva part............

......ma ki bouncy ball.

Not to be outdone, Emma must get her two minutes of shame....I mean fame too.

Simply put, this dog is a freak of nature. Other than food and the 'rents, fetching is her reason for living. Ever since she grasped the concept, it's been non-stop ever since. Climbing a mountain, walking in hot temp's, getting her shots, sometimes not even dinnertime will make her stop. Nothing but death will keep her from it! Now I don't want folks to get the wrong impression. I love playing fetch with her (because truly it's funny to watch) but when I do certain things of a personal nature, I need her to understand that we need to take a time out.

Sadly we must ignore our precious baby girl sometimes in order for her to get the point that it's not all about her. I too had to learn this lesson and it was a hard pill to swallow. I do believe that it will take her a lot more pills (or a slightly bigger one) as she has quite the big head. It hurts my heart but it must be done.

That's just Nasty................

Dogs eat grass.....

Said grass sometimes makes dogs vomit.......

Vomit is not meant to stay in the body..........

Throwing up is not fun.............

Believe me, I know.............

Seeing a 90 lb. dog do it in front of your face is even less fun............

90 lb. dog usually gives a signal..........

When we see that we rush him outside................

No signal this go 'round....................

Vomit+ carpet= some really fucked up shit...................

Why didn't he move to the tile..................

He's done that before too...................

He's a smart dog........................

Carpet=not good.....................

Tile=still not good but better than carpet..................

Thank goodness for home steam cleaners.................

Thank goodness I happen to really love this damn dog.......................

OMG!

I decided to check my blog history to see how long I had been back in the blogging game. I figured it had been really close to a year since I started back. If you'll recall, I technically started blogging about 3 years ago but due to unforeseen circumstances (read laziness) I stopped. Well, I jumped back on the wagon last summer and was surprised to see that I've been going at it(somewhat consistently) for over a year now since 6/28/07. GO ME!

I honestly didn't think I would last this long and thought I would have a lot more depth to my writing but alas......I don't. lol I'm cool with that though. Blogging for me is really something to do in my spare time. I'm not out to change the world one keystroke at a time, my blog doesn't have a theme, and I've found that I thoroughly enjoy reading other blogs more than I like conveying thoughts in my own. Again...I'm cool with that. There's a lot of things that happen in the day of life of AR Gal that never make their way to the screen you see in front of your eyes and most likely never will. Partly because I don't want to share (sowwy, some things need not be on the internets (yes I spelled it like that)) and also because I just don't have the time or desire to type it out.

With that being said (because this post seems to be taking a rather depressing turn), I think I'm gonna stick around for awhile. I promised myself that I would try and stay with this for a good year before deciding if I wanted to hang up my "Gone Fishing for Good" sign. For the most part, I like my blog and I definitely have taken a strong liking to the folks that swing by and comment. For me, that's reason enough to keep on keepin on.

AR Gal PSA.....

I absolutely positively, without a shadow of a doubt, cannot stand summer heat!

That is all, carry on.