Got free time on your hands?

Hey,
If you are bored and need a break, we will be up in Provincetown from sat to sept 3. We just booked a house tonight. We are getting pretty good at this last minute planning. People call Provincetown "P-town", but I think that you are not supposed to do that if you are cool and local. I am not cool or local, but I think I will stick to Provincetown. I do not like the sound of P-town personally. Oh no, am I hung up on words again!!

Mike and I will have to practice guitar. We will become guitar gods since we nagged a guitar pick a the Better than Ezra concert last night. It was a great show as usual.

Guilty Pleasures

Everyone has a few. Like admitting that you like a pop song (I like Beyonce's Crazy in Love for some unknown reason!) or a show that your friends would not understand or expect you to like. My latest guilty pleasure is Project Runway. I could care less about fashion (as my NY based friends would recognize). I do not even think shoes that most women describe as cute look nice. I keep thinking about the pain they will cause, and maybe my work as a PT has made me hypersensitive to maladies of the foot. At any rate, Project Runway is my guilty pleasure. I have no clue what makes something on that shoe brilliant or a failure. I guess it is my lack of fashion sense. I was hiding the fact I was watching Project Runway from Mike, but I came clean. I watch it on my own time. My recent discovery was that one of the contestants looks just like a really scary mannequin in a store that Mike and I pass on the way to the gym. I hate to have another mannequin story so soon, but oh well. These all have a freaky clownish smile with plastic short hair in a rainbow of colors! They are scary!!!

The flintstones birthday present

Mike just suggested I may have given him the proverbial "bowling ball". He is referring to the Flintstones episode when Fred gave Wilma a bowling ball he wanted for his birthday. I just got him a couple of CDs. But I have been listening to them more since I downloaded them into the computer. I have also been home a lot more lately to my defense. My other recent bowling ball was the Freaks and Geeks box set I got Mike for Christmas. I was not a fan of the show when I bought it for him, but now I am one of the Geek geeks. We will watch the last episode and cry one of these days.

When mannequins attack

I would be mad if I was the mannequin, it did not want to be humiliated with its shirt off.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060818/ap_on_fe_st/mannequin_attack

Goosed

You know how much I like geese
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060817/ap_on_go_ot/geese_be_gone

Me and a gorilla

There's a fine line between clever and stupid.

Birthday Boys

Happy birthday to Mike and John R. I hope they enjoy their days. I will not be throwing Mike a suprise party. I learned my lesson years ago. Kevin and I threw him a suprise party when he turned 30. To prepare for the event, I bought snacks and drinks, etc. Kevin turned on the little dorm sized fridge in the basement. Mike noticed this somehow (went to do laundry or something), so he was suspicious. I took Mike out to dinner and the guests came over when we were out. My fatal error was the fact I had Mike drive (so Kevin could unload the car with the goodies). After dinner, Mike suggested that we go for coffee. I wanted to get home, so I made up some lame excuse about having to call somebody. Then he started to get on the freeway! He wanted to get coffee in Royal Oak (we were in Dearborn). I convinced him to go back towards home, and he wanted Dairy Queen! Then he slowed down and gave me a look. He did drive home (thank you Lord!!) and did have fun. I guess if I was to do that again, my planning should be better!

Yankees 2

We made to another game last night, but we were really late since Mike had to work late. Since we were so late, we parked on a surface lot across from the stadium. During the game I was thinking that we would have to wait in a huge line for the valet. When we got there, everyone was zooming out of the lot. They just kept the keys in the car to clear it out. I had a naive assumption that they would check our tickets to make sure that they matched, but they did not do that. So thankfully we still have a car!

Lefty

Happy belated left hander's day. Ned Flanders would be proud. I am not excited about all the famous leftys out there though.

http://www.lefthandersday.com/

I really liked this link. I never realized that I put belts on backwards until tonight. Oh, the shame. Back in Michigan, the only social kissing done is with your family. Out in NY however, the kiss hello is pretty much a requirement (and not necessarily done with anyone that you even know well). I thought the awkwardness was just because it is not automatic with me, but maybe my leftyness is messing with me too. I am still not sure if you really are supposed to kiss people on the cheek or just air kiss. I need to figure that out. Hell, I am not adverse to putting my lips on somebody, but who knows who I may be freaking out.
http://www.anythingleft-handed.co.uk/lefty-kissing.html

I will not be insulted by being called Lefty, but I think other languages or cultures are not as kind.
http://www.lefthandersday.com/tour5.html

OK Go - Here It Goes Again

This is really fun.

Fluids

I wish they were banning fluids on the planes this week. That word offends me much more than liquids. My immediate family will understand this one.

Daily Show: Bush is Fat

There is another short story in the beginning, but stick with it.

Nature (Marine edition)

They spotted a manatee in the Hudson River. Around here they spot seals there too sometimes.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/08/07/manatee.hudson.river.ap/index.html?section=cnn_latest

Hotter than H E double toothpicks

I am sure that everyone (regardless of where they are living) that I know is currently suffering with this nasty heat. This week I started wearing sandals and tank tops to work. I used to dress professionally, but when you are on the floor with kids all day, your standards change. Especially all of my 3 year old patients sneezing in my face and transferring boogers everywhere. I am sick of needing a shower at 11 AM after running around.
Tonight Mike and I usually do a brick (workout where you bike and follow it with a run to get used to the pain in triathlons). But the heat is a good excuse to be lazy. Hopefully it will not be this hot for any races (otherwise I will get my shirt, do the swim, and go home). Tonight's training was eating ice cream and watching crappy TV. I recently confessed to Mike that my latest TV guilty pleasure is Project Runway. I do not like fashion, but I can not stop watching.
On an unrelated note, Happy Birthday tommorrow to Joshua!! I can not believe you are 4!

Newport news

We are back to work this week after a relaxing weekend in Newport. It is only about 2.5 hour drive to get there, so it was a fun get away. We stayed right by the beaches about a mile out of town. There is a big surf scene there, so that is cool to see too. We plan on taking lessons next time we are out there.