I have a sick sense of humor. I think it runs in the family. my mother's family was not only English, but alot of them were funeral directors. Dry British humor and dark humor are a funny combination, let me tell you.
Why is there a special place in hell for me, you might be asking.
Because I have a sick fondness for Helen Keller jokes. Like, one afternoon in a class where we were doing presentations, which I had no interest in, the presenter mentioned Helen Keller in passing. It sparked my imagination and I proceeded to tell my buddies around me Helen Keller jokes (quietly, so as not to disturb my fellow presenters/sensitive classmates) my professor was sitting in front of us, and turned around to chuckle at one of my jokes.
Soooo this evening, I'm messing around on good ol' Facebook and find an amazing bumper sticker, which I will post as my image for the time being. It made me literally laugh out loud. I love it. I'm a sick bastard, and I own it.
Anyhow. Off to bed soon I think. Actually, I'll read for a bit.
Currents:
Reading "Zodiac" by Robert Graysmith, and "When Will Jesus Bring the Porkchops" by George Carlin
Listening to: Taylor Swift, Kisses for Kings, Eminem
Later all
Tori
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Sunday, May 11, 2008
sunday sunday sunday!
It's Mother's Day.
I haven't sent out my mom's gift or card yet. I'll get that out this week, she'll like the mug I got her from the Corvette Museum.
I read the PostSecret posts this morning, and I cried a little bit. The one that got me was the one about the mom with cancer. My mother had cancer, years ago. I don't remember much of it, just going to see her at the hospital once or twice. A while back, I found some homework from grade school that I had kept, for various reasons. One was a spelling quiz from 3rd grade (I think) and the word was visit. The sentence I wrote? "Last night, Pop, Chrissi, Dave and I went to visit Mom in the hospital." Kind of makes me sad that I used visit in such a sad manner.
Mother's Day cards bother me. All of them are all mushy about how "You're my best friend, I respect and love you...yadayadayada." Not to say I don't love or respect my mother. My mom is a tough, hard core woman, who deserves all the respect in the world, and I love her dearly. But, I don't need Hallmark to tell her that for me.
I felt bad dragging Ethan out to get stuff for my mom for Mother's Day. He kind of just looked sad and irritated the entire time, and I can sort of understand why. He hasn't gotten a Mother's Day card for anyone in almost 13 years. How sad is that? Father's Day must kill him, too. Just another reason I hate holidays in such a shitty way.
Now that I've thoroughly depressed everyone, let's move onto some light things, yes?
Actually, now that I think about it, I can't think of anything lighter. It's Mother's Day. Enjoy your mother today, and actually-everyday. That's another reason I hate holidays, but we'll save that for another time.
Later
Tori
I haven't sent out my mom's gift or card yet. I'll get that out this week, she'll like the mug I got her from the Corvette Museum.
I read the PostSecret posts this morning, and I cried a little bit. The one that got me was the one about the mom with cancer. My mother had cancer, years ago. I don't remember much of it, just going to see her at the hospital once or twice. A while back, I found some homework from grade school that I had kept, for various reasons. One was a spelling quiz from 3rd grade (I think) and the word was visit. The sentence I wrote? "Last night, Pop, Chrissi, Dave and I went to visit Mom in the hospital." Kind of makes me sad that I used visit in such a sad manner.
Mother's Day cards bother me. All of them are all mushy about how "You're my best friend, I respect and love you...yadayadayada." Not to say I don't love or respect my mother. My mom is a tough, hard core woman, who deserves all the respect in the world, and I love her dearly. But, I don't need Hallmark to tell her that for me.
I felt bad dragging Ethan out to get stuff for my mom for Mother's Day. He kind of just looked sad and irritated the entire time, and I can sort of understand why. He hasn't gotten a Mother's Day card for anyone in almost 13 years. How sad is that? Father's Day must kill him, too. Just another reason I hate holidays in such a shitty way.
Now that I've thoroughly depressed everyone, let's move onto some light things, yes?
Actually, now that I think about it, I can't think of anything lighter. It's Mother's Day. Enjoy your mother today, and actually-everyday. That's another reason I hate holidays, but we'll save that for another time.
Later
Tori
Friday, May 9, 2008
long day
so, it's been one of the longest work days I've had in a looooong time.
I went to work at 7am. I took a 20 minute break from 12:30-12:50, then worked again until 4pm.
Then, I took a half hour so I could change/eat/relax a bit before clocking back in to work until 8:30 again. I'm beat, my feet are killing me and I'm tired, but not enough to go to bed yet. I think I might try and stay up until Ethan gets home so we can have some din din together (I brought back yummies from work, get there soon.) Maybe I'll grab the book I've been reading since...oh, last summer, and read a bit more.
So, tonight we did a dinner for the Navy at work. Great thing about it? (Besides meeting some very funny and very nice Navy Fellows?) THE FOOD! We had carved roast beef, rosemary pork loin, Yukon gold mashed potatoes, green beans, carrots, a bread basket with various butters (my personal fave: ancho butter....yummmmmm!) and fruit salad. Needless to say, Ethan and I will be eating good this evening.
Sunday is Mother's Day, and I need to mail out my mother's package. I got her a mug from the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green. My mother collects mugs. She has about a billion of them (okay, over estimate. But it's alot!) She had told me to pick her up a mug when we went down South, so when we stopped, we got her one. I think she'll enjoy it. This past year for Christmas, my parents both got "Grand Valley Mom/Dad" mugs, which they use quite often, I must add.
Grey's Anatomy rocked my face off this week. I DVR'd it and loved it.
okay, off topic, but I need to make this evident.
I hate that certain nouns have now become verbs. Such as: "Friending" on myspace/facebook. "Facebooking/Stalkerbooking" someone on Facebook. "DVR'd" something. Yes, I did it. But it doesn't make it less annoying. Those words are not verbs. If they were verbs, they wouldn't have started out as nouns, yes?
So, one of Ethan's friends, John, and I were "talking" about the upcoming election while we were visiting. He was very adamant that I needed to vote for Ron Paul, because "he's a constitutionalist. that's what america needs!" He refused to listen to me when I said a)I'm a Democrat. I'm voting for Obama. and b) that no matter how many people vote for him, he's not a candidate anymore, he won't be getting the nomination, no matter how many damn people write him in at conventions. It's mathematically IMPOSSIBLE.
Why this bothers me? It has nothing to do with Ron Paul. I looked at his web page. He's admirable. Perhaps if Obama doesn't happen to get the nomination, perhaps I'll write in Ron Paul's name. It bothers me, however, because John was *so* pushy about his views it almost offended me.
Sure, I have views of my own, and I make them known, if need be. However, I do not, and will not push them down your throat if I think your views are different/wrong. It's rude, and makes no sense. The great thing about this country is that everyone can have their own views, and make them known. I just wish that we could do that without everyone getting their panties in a bunch because someone's view is different from theirs.
In other unrelated news, I went and saw Iron Man on Saturday. It was AMAZING!!! I'm not a comic book fan, but I really liked it. Robert Downey Jr is an amazing actor when he's not coked out. Funny how that works, huh?
Also, I'm really looking forward to seeing the upcoming Batman/dark knight movie that will be released in June. I must admit though, that seeing Heath Ledger on screen will be a little sad. it's such a shame he's gone....
Enough being depressed. It's definately time for bed now. My eyes hurt.
later all
tori
I went to work at 7am. I took a 20 minute break from 12:30-12:50, then worked again until 4pm.
Then, I took a half hour so I could change/eat/relax a bit before clocking back in to work until 8:30 again. I'm beat, my feet are killing me and I'm tired, but not enough to go to bed yet. I think I might try and stay up until Ethan gets home so we can have some din din together (I brought back yummies from work, get there soon.) Maybe I'll grab the book I've been reading since...oh, last summer, and read a bit more.
So, tonight we did a dinner for the Navy at work. Great thing about it? (Besides meeting some very funny and very nice Navy Fellows?) THE FOOD! We had carved roast beef, rosemary pork loin, Yukon gold mashed potatoes, green beans, carrots, a bread basket with various butters (my personal fave: ancho butter....yummmmmm!) and fruit salad. Needless to say, Ethan and I will be eating good this evening.
Sunday is Mother's Day, and I need to mail out my mother's package. I got her a mug from the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green. My mother collects mugs. She has about a billion of them (okay, over estimate. But it's alot!) She had told me to pick her up a mug when we went down South, so when we stopped, we got her one. I think she'll enjoy it. This past year for Christmas, my parents both got "Grand Valley Mom/Dad" mugs, which they use quite often, I must add.
Grey's Anatomy rocked my face off this week. I DVR'd it and loved it.
okay, off topic, but I need to make this evident.
I hate that certain nouns have now become verbs. Such as: "Friending" on myspace/facebook. "Facebooking/Stalkerbooking" someone on Facebook. "DVR'd" something. Yes, I did it. But it doesn't make it less annoying. Those words are not verbs. If they were verbs, they wouldn't have started out as nouns, yes?
So, one of Ethan's friends, John, and I were "talking" about the upcoming election while we were visiting. He was very adamant that I needed to vote for Ron Paul, because "he's a constitutionalist. that's what america needs!" He refused to listen to me when I said a)I'm a Democrat. I'm voting for Obama. and b) that no matter how many people vote for him, he's not a candidate anymore, he won't be getting the nomination, no matter how many damn people write him in at conventions. It's mathematically IMPOSSIBLE.
Why this bothers me? It has nothing to do with Ron Paul. I looked at his web page. He's admirable. Perhaps if Obama doesn't happen to get the nomination, perhaps I'll write in Ron Paul's name. It bothers me, however, because John was *so* pushy about his views it almost offended me.
Sure, I have views of my own, and I make them known, if need be. However, I do not, and will not push them down your throat if I think your views are different/wrong. It's rude, and makes no sense. The great thing about this country is that everyone can have their own views, and make them known. I just wish that we could do that without everyone getting their panties in a bunch because someone's view is different from theirs.
In other unrelated news, I went and saw Iron Man on Saturday. It was AMAZING!!! I'm not a comic book fan, but I really liked it. Robert Downey Jr is an amazing actor when he's not coked out. Funny how that works, huh?
Also, I'm really looking forward to seeing the upcoming Batman/dark knight movie that will be released in June. I must admit though, that seeing Heath Ledger on screen will be a little sad. it's such a shame he's gone....
Enough being depressed. It's definately time for bed now. My eyes hurt.
later all
tori
Monday, May 5, 2008
dirty south
Greetings from somewhere outside Florence Alabama!!!
We're down here visiting friends and family for a week (we'll actually be leaving for home on Wednesday morning, we came down very early Thursday morning, so it's been a nice stretch of visit.
I'm enjoying it down here: gas is cheaper, so is soda. That makes me happy.
Sunday night, we went to Ethan's grandma's house for dinner, and to see his cousin Kerri and her husband Joey. We all had dinner, and played cards while we were there as well.
We were getting dinner served up and Ethan's grandma pointed out that the platter she was using was his mother's china set. It's a beautiful set with poppies, violets and tulips (I think that's what was on it. There were alot of flowers, that's for sure) with a thin silver edge. Turns out, during dinner, I look in front of me, and Ethan's mother's china set, is sitting in the china cabinet with Grandma's set. It's complete too: salt and pepper shakers, gravy boats, platters, bowls, all of it. It's a gorgeous set, and to be honest with you: I'd really like to get it, if Ethan and I were to get married. Of course, I'd like to register for my own set, but I'd love to have her's in a nice cabinet. I wonder what will be done with it, considering that neither of Ethan's sisters have it. (Obviously)
Anyhow. We went to see "Iron Man" on Saturday. AMAZING!! I'm not even a comic book fan, and I really enjoyed it. I think most of the enjoyment came from Robert Downey Jr, who was amazing in it. I recommend it to all of you out there in Internet Land.
In other news, I passed all my classes. I was a little disappointed in one of my classes, for my grade, but all's fair I suppose.
Okay. Guess that's it for now, I'm going to play some Solitaire then go to bed (finally)
Later all
Tori
We're down here visiting friends and family for a week (we'll actually be leaving for home on Wednesday morning, we came down very early Thursday morning, so it's been a nice stretch of visit.
I'm enjoying it down here: gas is cheaper, so is soda. That makes me happy.
Sunday night, we went to Ethan's grandma's house for dinner, and to see his cousin Kerri and her husband Joey. We all had dinner, and played cards while we were there as well.
We were getting dinner served up and Ethan's grandma pointed out that the platter she was using was his mother's china set. It's a beautiful set with poppies, violets and tulips (I think that's what was on it. There were alot of flowers, that's for sure) with a thin silver edge. Turns out, during dinner, I look in front of me, and Ethan's mother's china set, is sitting in the china cabinet with Grandma's set. It's complete too: salt and pepper shakers, gravy boats, platters, bowls, all of it. It's a gorgeous set, and to be honest with you: I'd really like to get it, if Ethan and I were to get married. Of course, I'd like to register for my own set, but I'd love to have her's in a nice cabinet. I wonder what will be done with it, considering that neither of Ethan's sisters have it. (Obviously)
Anyhow. We went to see "Iron Man" on Saturday. AMAZING!! I'm not even a comic book fan, and I really enjoyed it. I think most of the enjoyment came from Robert Downey Jr, who was amazing in it. I recommend it to all of you out there in Internet Land.
In other news, I passed all my classes. I was a little disappointed in one of my classes, for my grade, but all's fair I suppose.
Okay. Guess that's it for now, I'm going to play some Solitaire then go to bed (finally)
Later all
Tori
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