mood: fair
listening to: George Strait - Foolhearted Memory



Exclamation Mark's made my day...a review of one of my fave Vincent Price movies :)

The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)

I am a grammar snob. I can't handle it when people use grammar incorrectly. So, for those of you that are grammar-challenged, I present the following tool that I find very useful.

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/

After, oh, MONTHS...I finally reinstalled the software for my web cam...so if you are on yahoo, you can see the Saffi Beastie again ;) (who STILL looks like a Smurf on the webcam, btw :P)

mood: introspective
listening to: Don Williams - Lord, I Hope This Day is Good



Lord, I hope this day is good
I’m feelin’ empty and misunderstood
I should be thankful Lord, I know I should
But Lord, I hope this day is good

Lord, have you forgotten me
I’ve been prayin’ to you faithfully
I’m not sayin’ I’m a righteous man
But Lord, I hope you understand

I don’t need fortune and I don’t need fame
Send down the thunder Lord, send down the rain
But when you’re planning just how it will be
Plan a good day for me

You’ve been the king since the dawn of time
All that I’m asking is a little less crime
It might be hard fo the devil to do

for my first gift from Tiffany & Co. :)

Armadillos sleep in the middle of the road with all four feet in the air.

There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 live in Texas.

There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 live in Texas, plus a few no one has ever seen before.

Raccoons will test your melon crop and let you know when they are ripe.

If it grows, it will stick you. If it crawls, it will bite you!

Nothing will kill a mesquite tree.

There are valid reasons some people put razor wire around their house.

A tractor is NOT an all terrain vehicle. They do get stuck.

The wind blows at 90 mph from Oct 2 till June 25; then it stops totally until October 2.

Onced and twiced are words.

Coldbeer is one word.

People actually grow and eat okra.

Green grass DOES burn.

When you live in the country you don't have to buy a dog. City
people drop them off at your front gate in the middle of the night.

The sound of coyotes howling at night only sounds good for the first few weeks.

When a buzzard sits on the fence and stares at you, it's time to see a doctor.

Fix-in-to is one word.

There ain't no such thing as "lunch". There is only breakfast,
dinner and then there's supper.

"Sweetened ice tea" is appropriate for all meals, and you start drinking it when you are two.

"Backwards and forwards" means I know everything about you.

"Jeet?" is actually a phrase meaning, "Did you eat?"

You don't have to wear a watch because it doesn't matter what time it is. You work until you're done, or it's too dark to see.

You measure distance in minutes or hours.

You can switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.

Stores don't have bags. They have sacks.

You see a car with the engine running in the Wal-mart parking lot with no one in it, no matter what time of the year.

All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit or a
vegetable.

You install security lights on your house and garage, and leave both unlocked.

You carry jumper cables for your own car.

You know what "cow tipping" and "snipe hunting" are.

You only have four spices in your kitchen: Salt, Pepper, Ketchup, and Tabasco.

You think everyone from north of Dallas has an accent.

Sexy underwear is a tee shirt and boxer shorts.

The local papers cover national and international news on one page, but require six pages to cover Friday night high school football.

The first day of deer season is a state holiday.

You know which leaves make good toilet paper.

You find 100 degrees a "tad" warm.

All four seasons are: Almost summer, summer, still summer and Christmas.

You know whether another Texan is from East, West, North, or South Texas as soon as he opens his mouth.

Going to Wal-mart is a favorite past-time known as "goin Wal-Martin" or "off to Wally-world."

You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good
chili-eatin' weather.

A carbonated soft drink isn't a soda, cola, or pop....It's a Coke regardless of brand or flavor.

Labels: texas

Thought my previous post was just a fluke, a flub, a faux pas on the part of Hallmark.com? I present today's exhibit...an email for EACH item I ordered telling me the ENTIRE order shipped:

For such a large company...there is always SOMETHING you do that annoys me. Either it's crappy customer service when a gift card I purchase through you never gets to its recipient, or it's stupid stuff like this:



If it really *did* end on December 31, 2005, then you need to take the link down. If it doesn't end til 2006, then fix your information.

mood: blech
listening to: nothing at the moment





The results of your analysis say:

You plan ahead, and are interested in beauty, design, outward appearance, and symmetry.
You are a social person who likes to talk and meet others.
You are diplomatic, objective, and live in the present.
You are not very reserved, impatient, self-confident and fond of action.
You enjoy life in your own way and do not depend on the opinions of others.



I have also updated Sarafina's Kitchen and my new, experimental blog, Sarafina's Weight Tracker.

mood: sleepy
listening to: Could I Have This Dance? - Anne Murray


Things Learned on New Year's Eve:

(to be added to later on today...)

-When in doubt, it's Close Encounters of the Third Kind
-Unusual straws make any party better
-It's impossible to hit the middle circle of Trivial Pursuit at 2 in the morning
-None of us are prepared to watch Ryan Seacrest host the New Year's Rockin' Eve party for the next 30 years
-Erin *never* gets Disney questions