Ok so I joined weight watchers on-line...

Not wanting to wait and join all the other losers that decide to join weight watchers on January 1st as their new years resolution, I joined weight watchers on line ..... again....... a few days ago. I just finished my first week and posted my new weight Friday. I was impressed with the immediate high tech text message I received from WW: " So big boy, it looks like you gained a bit this week. Is this what you expected?  It looks like you were eating for the winter and trying to see how much body weight  you could actually put on before the next freeze?  Do you live north of the Arctic Circle? We are just sayin that perhaps you don't understand the concept of Weightwatchers?  The  game plan is to LOSE weight each week not GAIN weight each week. Are you with us on this fine point? And we are just wondering ,if you  have some ideas about what to change for  the weigh-in  this coming week? If you’re not sure what happened, look back over the last week and think about what you might be able to change.(We mean come on man, you are allowed 40 points a day and you averaged...yes we said .AVERAGED 75  points a day. ) Are you serious? Can you do it? Will you?

PS: We suggest that you reevaluate your membership commitment from a three month payment plan to a day by day plan.

Papa, where do reindeer come from?

Went to a neighbor's house for cocktails-n-cookies tonight. On our way home, well, it was actually out of the way by a half-block, we visited the reindeer display at another neighbor's house. Jay, having had a few too many rudolphs, decided to give baby Grayson a mini-lesson in livestock husbandry. A photo-opportunity if there ever was one, kids.

Oh, my!

Is america great or what????

As the Tim Tebow legend has grown, some wags have spoofed on his religion and miracle-making ways and said they won't believe in him until he performs a Jesus-like feat and turns the Gatorade into wine.

Well, how about beer?

The Bonfire Brewery, according to its Facebook page, is on the case. The Colorado brewery today posted an image of a kneeling (or "Tebowing") Tebow lookalike, in silhouette, holding a beer mug. And made this accompanying announcement about Tebrew beer:

"Tebrew Sunday Sipper -- a barleywine from Bonfire -- is almost here. In the style of 4th quarter heroics, we're waiting until the last minute to serve it up -- the moment the 10 oz. glasses arrive, the real games can begin. Stay tuned."

Rats have feelings too...........

I really don't give a rat's ass if you care about rats or not....but this story on NPR the other day was very interesting.......something to think about when you are done with all your chores, relaxing in the big chair in front of the fire place:

 A new study found that rats are actually quite willing to come to another rat's aid, freeing a rat trapped in a container. And they're not just doing it for a dose of sugar water or some other reward; they're doing it out of empathy of the other rat's plight."


http://www.npr.org/2011/12/09/143453479/rats-show-empathy-by-freeing-trapped-companions

Learned today: Boxelder bugs (aka stinkbugs) are positively fascinating. And indestructible. And perhaps a little salty.

If you ask nice, Plou will cook!

it is hard to beat a good home cooked meal: slow cooked pork roast, onions, bell pepers, carrots, mushroom soup, with a side of those good ole greenbeans with french fried onion rings, and home made buttermilk cornbread!!!

Foam Duck Lips?

plou and i heard this song on the radio...couldn't get the lyrics but sounded a lot like "all the little kids with foam duck lips".....texted polvo and he said it was either " Dump truck bricks" or "thumped up tricks" or " all the little girls with the frumped up sticks".....I still think it is foam duck lips!

Da'Osric, Nate G, and DJ Gray in 20 years....

wow we finally got it!!!

You know how we always wanted to be able to Search by Image? well Google has that option now....we can pop in a picture of a whatchamacallit and find similar thing!!!! Learn more about images on the web and your own photos http://images.google.com/ just to test it this is the image i put in a jpeg from my food pictures to search:

this is what I got:

is america great or what?

I'm jest sayin............

Dont get much better than this.................

Cool kids club. Yo.

I'll take your popped collar and gansta hand jive and raise you a rod stewart hairdo, outie belly button, and a 'who me?' straight up. Word to the next generation of cool kids.

I can sign too!

Today I learned that gangsta is apparently hereditary.

What Osric Learnt today . . .

How to pop his collar.
Aspirations: to join a frat
Major: Business
Personal Quote: "One at a time ladies."

Can your boobs save a life,or from breaking a limb?

I learnt last night that there actually is ONE good reason to have big boobs...when you take a dive over your bicycle handlebars, big boobs act as portable air bags. I know this is the only reason I did not have a scratch on my face, because my face could not get that close to the ground, even at high velocity with abrupt stoppage. Now mind you every other limb has several scrapes, and my left boob is almost a solid bruise colored dark purple & blue...I tried to get a pic of the boob, but then realized this might, just might be a little "TMI"...so I stuck with a safe pic of the leg.

I ask you again...if put in the same situation...Could Your Boob Do The Same?

"Does a bear sh*t in your yard?"

A: Yes! This weekend I learned - finally - not to roll the trash bin out the night before trash day. 'woke up Friday morning to heavy fog and trash shredded all over the lawn - 2nd time in 6 weeks. (George Bush: 'Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, I'm not putting the trash out until Friday morning.') On Sat, neighbor confirmed he had seen mama bear and 2 cubs picnicing at midnight

under the pine tree in our front yard. I actually had to shovel bear sh*t before mowing! (Hello - this is why I don't have a dog!) This followed the 6 a.m. Friday morning job of picking up trash and sweeping something that looked like flour* off the driveway and parts of the lawn. (*See previous blog entry below...perhaps)

Ribhard and Valencia's spouse deep fry chicken, onion rings, and wings

 This was some production last sunday.  Rob brought the cooker attachment from his grill and hooked it up to our propane tank. He also brought about 50 lbs of chicken and wings, seasoned, flourered  and all  ready to deep fry.  I bought a FryDaddy to do the onion rings. Plou made us cook outside after we did deep fried onion rings in the house the week before.  We had a great meal with all the sides. We kinda make this a sunday get together....lots of food...lots of beer!

Just when you think you have seen it all.........

Osric Bumbo 2.0

What Osric learnt today . . .

How to sit in his Bumbo!

i know very little about advertising...........

or the psychology of images and printed words to get a point across...but for some reason, this ad does not sit well with me.  (double click the picture to get full effect)