Happy Towel Day!

So did you all remember to bring carry your towels with you today?

Sarah forgot hers. I guess she's just not a hoopy frood.

I found a great link that will allow you to create your very own Vorgon poem. Here's mine:

See, see the sickly sky
Marvel at its big tangerine depths.
Tell me, bryan do you
Wonder why the aardvark ignores you?
Why its foobly stare
makes you feel icky.
I can tell you, it is
Worried by your ***** facial growth
That looks like
A butter.
What's more, it knows
Your intercourse potting shed
Smells of snot.
Everything under the big sickly sky
Asks why, why do you even bother?
You only charm dog doos.

Pac Man

Happy 30th Birthday, PacMan!

I sure spent a lot of hours and a lot of quarters playing you as a kid. What a pop icon.

If you haven't seen it yet, go check the Google page for today. They put a working version of it up.

I did not know until today when I went and looked it up (using Google, thank you very much) that the ghost/monster guys have names. Did you?

Red = Blinky (aka Shadow)
Pink = Pinky (aka Speedy)
Blue = Inky (aka Bashful)
Orange = Clyde (aka Pokey)

Huh. The things you learn.

I Want One!

Oh my gosh, you guys HAVE to see how cute these baby sloths are!

Meet the sloths from Amphibian Avenger on Vimeo.

Who knew there was a sloth orphanage? I've got to go visit!

Hot Water

Oh, hot water, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways...

1. You are hot.
2. You are wet.
3. You are in my shower.

I will never take you for granted again.

More St. Helens

Mount St. Helens was a Blowin

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Where Were You When The Mountain Blew?

I can't believe it has been 30 years since Mt. St. Helen's erupted. I was 10 when it happened, and I have to say I don't remember it that well. I do remember some of the songs, though. I'm trying to find more on line, but here is one to start:

A Bit Better

Things are a bit better 'round here today. The floors, wall, ceilings and everything else are now dry. The fans, dehumidifiers and heaters have been removed. It is once again quiet in the house. The temperature is slowly going down. It's only 87 downstairs and 84 upstairs now. I'm not even sweating! And, most importantly, Zinger has come out of the closet and is checking stuff out again. He's still pretty freaked out, but he's not cowering in the back of my closet any more.

Tomorrow the insurance guy comes over to look at everything. Then we'll see what happens next. I'm really looking forward to actually talking to someone that knows what is going on and what the game plan is.

Things Could Be Better 'Round Here

So today's MTTS song is "Jeanette's Broadway" from The Full Monty. She has this one line that she keeps saying throughout the song...

Things could be better 'round here

Uh, that's us.

Last night, after a rather rotten day at work, our hot water heater decided to leak. Our hot water heater is on the second floor.

Need I explain further?

MTTS

My friend Leah finally nagged me into listening to Wicked. I had this mental block against it because I didn't really like the book and just figured the musical would be the same. I've had the cast recording for ages and just never really put any effort in to listening to it (which means listening to it with no distractions). I ran out of books on tape to listen to last week and keep forgetting to update my iPod with the other books I have to listen to, so one day on the way to work I decided to listen to it.

Wow.

I'm an idiot.

It is so good! The story is really kind of sad, but the music is so great! I've been listening to it endlessly for the past week. I love it when I have a new musical to break in. The only bad part is you wake up with songs in your head that you don't know all the words to, so you find yourself shouting out things like "Good news! She's DEAD!" and "Loathing, unadulterated loathing!" at odd times. Or you mutter "Eleka nahmen nahmen ah tum ah tum eleka nahmen" to yourself at the copy machine.

This does make your co-workers look at you oddly, even when you sheepishly explain it's a tune stuck in your head from a musical.

I think I have a diagnosis on this now. I think I have Musical Theater Tourette's Syndrome (MTTS). It's a disease that mainly effects musical theater enthusiasts and manifests itself in the odd non-sequitur of lyrics being shouted/sung at odd moments. As far as I can tell, this is not fatal, but can result in embarrassing moments.

Are there enough other MTTS sufferers out there to merit a support group? If so, I'm going to see Curtains at the Lakewood Theater this Saturday. We could meet up there.

P.S. Just so you know Wicked isn't the only musical that this happens with. You have to be careful with lines like..."Being on the elevator when somebody shouts "Hold the door!" and then what follows!