Oh crappy day!

So...I'm sitting here, "waisting time" by doing various job searches, looking around on Facebook, playing solitair (I've won 3 out 10 so far) and looking for some "peppy and snappy" songs to play on this very grey day. (What is the correct spelling of that word please? I always use grey and then I'm corrected to use gray)

A few Facebook pals gave me suggestions for some peppy songs: Kari suggested: And She Was by the Talking Heads...very peppy indeed.

My pal Jenni in Chicago threw in: Mr. Blue Sky by ELO...also very peppy and quite apporpriate for a crappy day!

I played them both...felt a little better for about 8 minutes or so and then I started looking around on YouTube.

I typed in: Snappy and I found the Snappy Theatre Vagina Dance!

This would definitely fall into Dive's WTF? Monday because...WTF.

There are some strange things going on in this dance.

Around 1:22 I think these vagina's get crabs. But that is just my interpretation.

Then around 2:15 I'm thinking there is a yeast infection of some kind. But again...that is just my interpretation.

But I only have one opinion...I would LOVE to hear yours!

The ending is kind of odd, but cute...but still kind of odd.

Enjoy!

You'll have to click on the link...they've disabled the embedding...sorry:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GbHkhGr6-A

Just a few things...

before I go!

M and I are flying out to Chicago tomorrow to see my son "S" graduate from Loyola University! Yikes - this is one of those - I feel so proud and so old at the same time! (I'm only 45 though)

We're looking forward to the trip - it's been a while since we've gone away just the two of us. My son has promised to be our tour guide on Thursday and Friday and then on Saturday I think we'll roam around ourselves for a bit. We hope to meet up with Deb from the Middle Girl blog on Saturday if we can. It's always nice to meet a fellow blogger! The weather is supposed to be so-so, but that's ok. With all the rain we've been getting this spring I've developed web feet and gills so it shouldn't bother me.

I haven't had much time to do any work around the yard this week because of the soggy weather but I've been keeping myself busy by taking lots of naps and trying to plan a trip to the UK for sometime in June. That's my new project.

SOooooo, since I won't be around for the weekend I thought I would leave you with some odd picture of things around my house. These aren't really my artsy pictures that I have but more of the mundane, the odd and the fascinating variety. Or at least I thought so.

First up is this little gem I found in one of my bushes while I was cleaning up the leaves:



It's a Praying Mantis egg sack! I've been watching it closely and it still hasn't hatched yet, but soon hundreds of these little guys and gals will be roaming my gardens eating aphids and spiders. Very cool bugs!

Next up: Two lazy squirrels.



This guy was hanging out on a really hot day last week. It was about 90 degrees and he just looked tired and hot and was trying to just take a break from running around.



Same branch a few days later in the rain and there were two squirrels huddled together. I thought it was adorable how the first one is all tucked in.

Here is one of my completed projects:



My rain barrels! I didn't paint them just left them their industrial blue color but maybe next year I will get the chance. I finished these on Wednesday - and by Saturday afternoon each 55 gallon drum was filled. That is just from a few days of light rain! I was amazed how quickly they filled up. This should keep my house plants and gardens happy for a while!

Last up is an object of questionable nature and if anyone can tell me what it is I will be truly thankful:





It's a blob of some sort. I don't know if it's a fungus or what? It was in my neighbor's cedar tree and I kept seeing this bright orange blob so I investigated. It is quite slimy in nature and sticky so perhaps it's a sack of sap - I really don't know.

Anyone have a clue?

Last but not least I thought I would leave you with this weeks Sugar and Spice selection.

The spicy songs are a bit harder for me to come up with because I'm not really a "spicy" kind of girl, but since I reference Axl Rose in my last music post I thought it only fitting to leave you with him this week.

What a loon this guy is, but they knew how to rock!



I know it's only Wednesday - but have a good weekend all!

Peace!

P.S. The orange blog is Cedar-Apple Rust! (thank you Google)

Favorite Flavor

I have to give a hardy nod to my pal SharkB over at East Coast Randori.

Her most recent post has just cracked me up and it's become an ongoing discussion between us, but I would like to hear other opinions about ths subject.

Her question: Why is there a flavoring agent in Preparation H?

If you have any insightful answers, please go on over to her blog and list them.

http://ecrandori.blogspot.com/index.html

Twisted

No...really!

This chick is definitely twisted...in all kinds of shapes. It's amazing and scary at the same time!

WTF

Ok...this is one odd looking little critter.

It's called an Aye Aye and it's from Madagascar.

Freaky - in a cute sort of way.

Stop clownin' around

no...seriously.

Studies by the University of Sheffield have found out that kids really don't like clowns.

Penny Curtis - a senior researcher at the university found that: "...clowns are universally disliked by children. Some found them quite frightening and unknowable."

If you ever read the book IT by Stephen King, you'd be afraid of them too!

Weird News

MSNBC came up with their Top 10 Weird News Stories for 2007!

Here are my favorites!

Potty Mouth! Woman is Cited for Cursing at Toilet
Man Gets Propation for Dead Deer Sex (check out the picture of this guy!)
Naked Pair Falls from Rooftop to their Deaths

Car Leap Frog

Have you ever played this game while driving down the highway?

This is when you keep passing the same car over and over again and they keep passing you?

I usually drive with my cruise control set at 75 - 80 so I feel that I'm going at a pretty consistent speed, but this guy in a Red Sportage kept passing me...then he would slow down and then I would pass him and then he would speed up and he would pass me and so on and so on, etc....etc.

This happened from Exit 7 all the way down to Exit 4 on the NJ Turnpike.

Dude - get cruise control.