I heart pumpkins

Perhaps it is the pumpkin shortage... Or maybe the fact that it is the only thing making it feel like fall during these 80-degree days... But, I have been totally obsessed with pumpkins this year. I have been dying to buy some and carve them for weeks now. Finally, my pumpkin craving was satiated this weekend.












Our pumpkin pictures:

Lee's is an "OV" pumpkin for Ocean View, our 'hood here in Norfolk.

Mine is a pumpkin cat. I wouldn't want to meet a pumpkin cat at night in a dark alley. Scary!!

I'm Thirsty!

So, on Friday, I was thirsty. Not sure why. Perhaps it is the fact that my exam was a week away and I knew I should be studying. Perhaps it was the fact that I didn't have anything to do the next day besides watch football and nurse a hangover. Maybe a little of both.

Anyway, Amos came over to help Lee with his Explorer. (Spark plugs, I think.) Amos and I decided to make a beer-a-mid (note: pyramid with beer cans). Lee wasn't part of it because he was drinking Miller High Life and that just didn't cut it for our classy beer-a-mid.

(This is the beer-a-mid about 1/2 way through the night.)

At the end of the night, I was the only one still concious, but boy did I pay for it on Saturday.

Drinking stories that put yours to shame

Finally a CNN headline that catches my eye!!

Maybe some of Fubar's drinking stories will go down in history.

Survivor Rant (spoiler alert if you haven't watched this week)

Ok, so I have been SO mad at the idiots on this season's Survivor, I just had to rant.

It started from week 1 when they voted off Chicken, the only dude that might be handy to have around.

Then there is Courtney. The ultra blonde, anorexic looking chick from New York. Now, you KNOW she is from New York because she mentions it pretty much every other sentence.

Peih-Gee drives me crazy. Something about her really irritates me. Plus, she keeps plugging how she is Chinese, yet she doesn't know crap about the country.

Sherea won't do crap around camp because she is "saving her strength" for the challenges. Ok, so let's just sit around and starve and have no fire, food or shelter so we have strength for challenges? That makes no sense.

Now, the latest thing to happen is that the tribes switched their two best players. This is a pretty big screw-job because it puts these strong players in danger of getting the boot. So, Zhan Hu took James & Aaron and Fei Long took Sherea & Frosti.

The morons at Zhan Hu (mainly Peih-Gee) decide to THROW the immunity challenges so that they can vote off Aaron & James, getting rid of two really strong players AND balancing out the numbers of original Zhan Hu/Fei Long members. I personally don't think that throwing a challenge ever ends up working out well for tribes, but that is just me. Things change too fast for a long-term plan like that to pay off. Plus, this whole plan rests on the tribes merging at 10 players. You never know if that is going to be the case (from the previews it looks like she was right, but you never know.) If they voted off Aaron & James and the tribes DIDN'T merge, then they wouldn't have a prayer of winning immunity. The other mistake they make is that they can't throw the challenge without laughing like idiots. Peih-Gee even stopped in the middle to chat about Sodoku. WTF? So, James figures out that they threw the challenge and gets PISSED. He says he doesn't even want to be there and tell him to vote him off. They ignore him and vote off Aaron, who wants to stick around. (This makes me sad, because he's some eye candy. Mmm.)

SO, they did all of this in order to keep their original tribe intact. The only problem is THIS week, they discover that Sherea and Frosti have no interest in still being a tribe with them. So, they just threw a challenge, voted off Aaron, pissed off James, and screwed themselves. Ha! Now they're all "maybe we should try and win now..." DUH!

At the end of the episode, I am just happy that lazy Sherea went home. I miss hottie Aaron, but I really want James and the lunch lady with a mullet to make it far. I like people with work ethic!

Look what finally came in the mail...

(Name changed to protect my professional reputation.)

...I should have considered professional reputation before some of those company happy hours...

Seeing this certificate is a little rough though. Looking back on all those hours spent studying... Fun nights out drinking missed... Basically, the early part of my 20's... And here is my fancy piece of paper for it. Doesn't quite seem worth it.

(The raise, bonus & promotion help ease this a little.)

Crazy Crash

Friday evening I was finishing up some work and watching some tv. All of the sudden I heard a big crash at the same time the power went out. I figured someone had just wrecked and had taken out a phone pole. I went outside and saw this:

That semi got F-ed up!!! Yes, it appears that a phone pole broke in half and fell onto the semi...

Failure as a sex offender...

Reading stories like this just get me so angry. There is something terribly wrong with this:

According to a police report, Benitez admitted to police that he showed the girl an undisclosed amount of cash and asked her for a lap dance while she waited for her school bus to arrive. Police said the girl told investigators that she did not know what a lap dance was.

It was a good reminder to checkup on the Family Watchdog website to see what I'm working with in my neighborhood.

Look at all those sex offenders.

It could be worse though, I could live here.

Sam from Beauty & the Geek IV

This season of Beauty & the Geek has been awesome so far. I totally got Lee hooked on it. As expected, the girls have been saying absolutely idiotic things and the guys are painfully nerdy! This season, to "mix things up" a bit, they have one couple that is a nerdy girl and a "beautiful" man. Which brings me to Sam...
According to the show Sam Horrigan is a Party Promoter. The first impression you get from him is TOTAL DOUCHE. With his Blue Steel-esque facial expressions and his incessant flexing he is rather annoying. But, I have found myself cheering for him... This is mainly so he will stick around and continue saying ridiculous things. When he was first on the show, he was talking about how he didn't understand why the Geeks didn't just "act cool". Oh, Sam!

Not surprsingly, one of the ditzy beauties, Rebecca, totally fell for Sam since he is apparently her type. She probably became interested when he did his stripper lap dance for the beauties. It was CLEARLY not the first time he had done that. He had the moves down pat. Sam & Rebecca angered Sam's partner by getting it on in the top bunk while she was in the bottom bunk. Classic!

Sam has actually done really well in the competitions, however. He won the debate challenge and the bottle rocket challenge. This week's episode was no different. The Beauties had to teach a 3rd grade class. At random, they got one of three topics to teach: geography (basically the states), fractions, or dinosaurs. Sam happened to draw dinosaurs. He did great explaining them to the 3rd graders. Once he got in the hall with his partner he says something to the effect of: "We were supposed to say whether dinosaurs shoot fire out of their mouths or not. I couldn't remember. I don't think they do, but I wasn't sure." Are you SERIOUS? Dinosaurs are not dragons!!!

Anyway, it turns out that Sam is actually an actor, complete with a profile on IMDB. It definitely makes me wonder how much of his persona is acting. Oh well! It's still entertaining!!!

There IS more than corn in Indiana...

Apparently there are also leaves.

These have to be some of the most exciting web cams around. No, you are not mistaken, these are indeed just cameras set up to watch the leaves change color... About as exciting as watching paint dry.

Apparently the Visit Indiana website was drawing a blank on ideas.

Although they do have THIS as a place to visit in West Lafayette. [hint: get a malt!! even if you're eating breakfast. YUM!]

Hardee's does it again!!!

If you want to get 60 of your 65 grams of recommended fat for your day all at breakfast, try this.

I do love how Hardee's is not getting on the "healthy bandwagon" that a lot of other fast food places are. That being said, I doubt I will try the Country Breakfast Burrito. Maybe Fubar will though...