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The Lions Won A Game!

2009-09-27T21:09:37Z

For most teams, this would not warrent an entry, but with the Lions, its monumental!

Sigh...

2009-09-13T21:30:19Z

Lions lost again...

Championship game

2009-04-05T22:33:39Z

Yea! Championship game Monday night! Go MSU!

We're in the Final Four!

2009-03-29T22:00:26Z

MSU is Final Four bound again! Gotta go shopping for a new Final Four T-shirt!

Go State!

2009-03-09T02:37:54Z

MSU Mens Basketball is the Big Ten Champions! Woo hoo!

Happy New Year

2009-01-02T05:09:43Z

Happy New Year Everyone!

And to celebrate the new year, I went shopping and found the cheapest winter coat I have ever seen. It was $5.99 at Steve & Barry's since they were going out of business. The only thing I don't like is that it can't be washed (like machine washed or dry cleaned). But at that price, I guess I can't complain...

The weather outside was frightful...

2008-12-21T03:20:36Z

It snowed and snowed and snowed yesterday. I had to dig out the car from two snowdrifts (one on each side) and the bank of snow that was behind it from the plow. Now it's snowing again...joy. I do not want a repeat of yesterday.

It's official...the people who run Black Friday sales are crazy!

2008-11-28T04:05:18Z

Whoever thought that having a sale start at 4AM was a good idea was smoking crack! That is just too early. I still plan to go, but at the more reasonable hour of...well, I don't know that yet, but it likely isn't 4!

A funeral and a fire all in the same day...

2008-11-09T04:19:35Z

Yesterday, I had the sad task of going to a cousin's funeral. She died unexpectedly as a direct result of refusing to see a doctor in many years and being in denial that she was diabetic (and knowing two of her close relatives had diabetes as well) which she finally had to face (and accept) in the ER when gangrene (and sepsis) set in. Afterwards, I stopped off at an sick elderly cousin's house (and happened to arrive just before the cousin's almost daughter-in-law) to see how he was doing since he is over 90 years old only to discover there was an electrical fire in his house (his wife was so busy seeing about him that she ignored the smoke). Fortunately the fire department determined that the fire burned itself out in the dryer, before anything bad happened (other than smoke). It was a long day...

A Change is Gonna Come...

2008-11-06T05:32:41Z

The election is over, the bad people in the office I work in are now hopefully gone and how I feel can be summed up in the old Sam Cooke lyrics...

"There's been times that I thought
I wouldn't last for long
But now I think I'm able to carry on
It's been a long, long time coming
But I know a change is gonna come
Oh, yes it will"

A new era is coming! (I am optimistic it will be better)

sigh

2008-10-12T20:26:31Z

The Lions lost again...will someone feel sorry for them and let them win a game?

Fireworks and bad singing!

2008-07-06T01:48:13Z

As I stood watching the fireworks show last night, a group of idiots decided to get setup nearby and start their own 4th of July concert. If the idiots could sing it wouldn't be so bad. However, these guys looked like they took singing lessons from the people who were rejected in the early rounds of American Idol. Even when the crowd started telling them they were terrible (or starting laughing) they kept going on. Whatever they had before coming to the fireworks show, it wasn't the good stuff.

Stormy Weather

2008-06-09T02:53:08Z

My goodness! These past three days have been filled with one storm after another! I literally made it home about 1 minute before the storm hit Friday. Today I went to the computer lab to enjoy the air conditioning. I found out later, the building was nearly soundproof when mom calls and says, "Don't you hear the sirens? What's going on?" (no one in the room heard anything and two of us were sitting right next to windows) I check on the computer (apparently, turning on the Weather Channel, or any local channel was a lot harder than calling me) and I see it's a tornado warning for our area as the skies turn darker and darker. Needless to say, I told her to take shelter, while I did the same. Here's the kicker. The shelter was the first floor hallway. The other people in the building included three idiots who went outside two different doors in the hallway to look for damage/tornadoes/flying objects/lightening (I guess they had hidden storm chaser ambitions). Fortunately, the tornado decided to go to another community.

ichigo_usagi @ 2008-06-01T17:39:00

2008-06-01T21:52:10Z

I looked at this today and realized I hadn't posted anything in ages. So I'm here to remedy that with some thoughts & questions.

1. The Rasheed Wallace of the Pistons is a whiny baby. For his own benefit, he needs to grow up in the off season. Perhaps he should watch a few Red Wings games to see how veteran professional athletes in Detroit should act.

2. Go Lakers! (as an aside, Kobe Bryant, you should do the same as Rasheed in #1 because you've had some classic moments too)

3. Do the oil companies really need all that profit they make every single year? What are they going to spend it on?

4. Is it too much to expect baby boomer co-workers to actually be sanitary in a restroom? You'd be amazed at the really gross things they do in there.

5. Why is it that parents will wait until late at night to suddenly decide to want to have long conversations with you when they KNOW you have to get up the next morning (and they don't)? If you say anything to them, then you're wrong because you're the selfish child who won't listen (and before anyone asks, no it's not me, it's a cousin of mine and his parents).

Why do parents have to make things so diffucult?

2008-03-30T03:28:31Z

Sigh. I thought the issue was simple. Three weeks ago, mom noticed a tire was continuoutsly loosing air. I said "take the car and have the tire checked out." Mom instead adds air to the tire three times and then complains that air is leaking out of the tire and refuses to go have the tire checked out saying it would "be too expensive." So today we end up going to Sam's auto center to have them check the tire out since I got sick of hearing "the tire is loosing air." Turns out the tire is fine. FINE! It just needed new beads. The cost? FREE! As a bonus, Mom finally shut up. But still, why did it have to be this difficult?

Demi Moore likes leeches

2008-03-25T04:13:04Z

I just saw on Letterman that Demi is a leech girl. Jay Leno had a guy that once drew a pic of a horse (and his "equipment") for a catholic school art project. I guess you can never tell what will show up on late night TV.

We're in the Sweet 16!

2008-03-23T03:56:07Z

MSU Won! We beat Pitt! Take that Seth Davis (who thought we'd lose to Temple, of all people)!

Now I feel better.

OK. It's official. I want spring here NOW!

2008-03-23T03:04:22Z

You know, nearly 5" of snow is not a good way to start out spring. It's not fun trying to walk down snow covered icy sidewalks when you know the calendar says that you're in Holy Week and Easter is 2 days away. I highly doubt that anyone will be wearing any spring-like outfits in church when it's supposed to snow.

Baking is hard work!

2008-03-17T03:16:49Z

I just spent 3 hours baking cupcakes and cookies for a charity bake/booksale tomorrow (for the people who aren't in the bars) and I'm tired. All I got to say is that these people better like this stuff or else I'm going to be really disappointed.

Bus riding 101

2008-03-16T02:19:54Z

Due to the high gas prices, I (along with a whole lot of other people!) an riding the bus more. 10,000,000+ riders/year can't be wrong. The buses become more crowded with each year. However, the bus riders can be strange or ignorant. Take for instance the many people who have yet to realize that when you are standing at a bus stop that is serviced by multiple bus routes, not every bus that shows up is going to be the one you are waiting for. You'd be amazed at how many people get on the wrong bus and only realize it when it starts going in the opposite direction that they want. One guy realized this after the bus got two blocks away from the bus stop and acually asked to get off the bus in the middle of a 4 lane road. The bus driver actually raised an eyebrow in disbelief at that one before explaining that letting people off in the middle of the road was not a good idea for all involved.

However, the best adventure I've had to date was when a man who was missing fingers and teeth got on the bus with a long tree pruner and decided to talk to me about a deer leg that was in the trash (yes, there was just a leg dangling from the trash can) at the local Meijer's store. But that's a tale for another day.

Strange...

An added bonus to this winter (for once!)

2008-03-09T04:32:20Z

I just saw the weather forcast and all I have to say is, thank goodness I don't live in Ohio! The weather there today was horrible with all that snow and blowing snow. If you live there, you have my sympathies! Here, we just have colder than normal weather. That, I can handle. 18" of snow, well that's hard.

Anyone watch the eclipse tonight?

2008-02-21T04:21:00Z

Anyone watch the lunar eclipse tonight? It was pretty cool to see the red moon and Saturn without a telescope.

An unwanted added bonus to this winter

2008-02-15T04:09:20Z

If the extra snow isn't enough, now I hear that we can expect a bumper crop of insects when the weather does warm up, there will be a bumper crop of insects to deal with. Apparently, since there was snow to insulate the ground when it snowed, the insects just had a nice blanket to keep warm and safe.

Where did the salt go?

2008-02-13T04:25:10Z

Maybe it's just me, but how in the world does not one but several areas around here just suddenly run short/out of salt? Michigan, Ohio and Indiana all have salt supply issues. That I just don't understand. It's the north, not Hawaii! This isn't a new thing that is suddenly appearing. What do we do if there's another major snow/ice storm? Strap on skates to go to the store?

There is such a thing as a bad winner

2008-02-04T03:51:45Z

The Giants just won the Super Bowl and I had to endure a certain person's laughing, cheering and pinching and love taps for the past half hour accompanied by "listen to a pro" or something to that effect because I didn't cheer for them as well.

Edit: I now have to endure switching between Home Shopping and QVC shows selling Giants memorabilia in addition to more laughter.