Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Get Ready for National Talk Like a Pirate Day!!!

Every year on September 19th, Dave Barry fans and pirate wannabes get all pirate-like. Get more info on National Talk Like a Pirate Day here.

You can even take inventory of your inner pirate with this survey. Here's my inner pirate:


You are The Cap'n!

Some men and women are born great, some achieve greatness and some slit the throats of any man that stands between them and the mantle of power. You never met a man you couldn't eviscerate. Not that mindless violence is the only avenue open to you - but why take an avenue when you have complete freeway access? You are the definitive Man of Action. You are James Bond in a blousy shirt and drawstring-fly pants. Your swash was buckled long ago and you have never been so sure of anything in your life as in your ability to bend everyone to your will. You will call anyone out and cut off their head if they show any sign of taking you on or backing down. You cannot be saddled with tedious underlings, but if one of your lieutenants shows an overly developed sense of ambition he may find more suitable accommodations in Davy Jones' locker. That is, of course, IF you notice him. You tend to be self absorbed - a weakness that may keep you from seeing enemies where they are and imagining them where they are not.


What's Yer Inner Pirate?
brought to you by The Official Talk Like A Pirate Web Site. Arrrrr!

Saturday, August 20, 2005

Entertainment Survey

Share your thoughts on entertainment sources and information by answering the questions in this survey: Click here to access survey.

(I would hugely appreciate it if you could answer the questions in this survey. It will help me out with a work project. Thanks!)

Thursday, August 18, 2005

MMmmmmm...Cookies...

I wish it wasn't so late in the evening right now and that I have butter, because I feel like baking cookies!

So, instead I'll just post one of my favorite recipes (they're my husband's favorite too).

Brown Sugar Shortbread
Makes 2 1/2 Dozen
By Mrs. Fields

Shortbread Ingredients:
1 C. salted butter, softened (my favorite is Plugra)
3/4 C. Light Brown Sugar, Packed
2 tsp. pure vanilla extract
2 C. All-Purpose flour (I use Gold Medal)

Topping Ingredients:
1 tbsp. salted butter
1 C. (6 0z.) semisweet chocolate chips (my favorite is Guittard)
1 C. (4 Oz.) pecans, finely chopped (sometimes I do walnuts, or a mixture of walnuts and pecans)


Directions:
Preheat oven to 325-degrees Fahrenheit.
  • In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar with an electric mixer at medium speed. Scrape down sides of bowl. Then add vanilla and flour, and blend thoroughly on low speed.
  • Shape level tablespoonfuls of dough into 1-inch balls, then form into logs 2 inches long and 1 inch wide. Place on ungreased baking sheets, 2 inches apart.
  • Bake for 17-19 minutes or until cookies spread and turn a light golden brown. Transfer to a cool flat surface.
  • To make topping: Melt butter and chocolate chips in a double boiler* over hot (not boiling) water or in a microwave oven on High power. Stir chocolate every 30 seconds until melted.
  • Dip top of each rolled shortbread cookie into melted chocolate, then into chopped pecans. Place cookies on waxed paper and refrigerate to set.

--For storing these cookies, I recommend placing them into an airtight container, using waxed paper to separate single layers of cookies.

*Alternate for double boiler: in a medium saucepan place 1 1/2 to 2 inches of water into the pan and bring to a boil. Once water is boiling, sit a medium metal (not glass) bowl on top of the saucepan rim (water should NOT be touching the metal bowl). Place butter and chocolate ships into the bowl and stir with a metal spoon or whisk until fully melted.

Thursday, August 11, 2005

:::Bock-Bock!!!:::

If it walks like a chicken, talks like a chicken, and smells like a chicken. Well then, it must be chicken.

Poor Kitty

One of my friends just sent me the link for this site where some person posts images on their blog of the stuff people put onto their cats. Hence stuffonmycat.com.

I think that this has to be one of the funniest images on there (I got in a giggle fit).



Thursday, August 04, 2005

I'm Blank.

I've been so, so busy at work lately that I really haven't had a chance to post anything super, super interesting. Oh well.

It's late, and I'm tired. I'm just waiting for a few things to print out so that I can take a quick shower before jumping into bed.

Oh...I actually do have something nice to talk about. Tonight I met with about seven former co-workers from the interactive agency that I first started working at when I moved down to Los Angeles - Full Moon. Sadly, like many other dot-com busts, Full Moon didn't make it past March 2001. We met at the old hangout, Birds, in the Hollywood area. One of the old co-workers I keep in contact with quite often, we actually worked together at another agency afterwards which he's still at right now. A couple of other ladies that were there used to work at this other agency too. Anyhow, it was nice to get together to visit and gossip about everyone else that couldn't make it.

That's about it.

Goodnight.

Monday, August 01, 2005

More Blue vs. Red

A friend just forwarded this great rant to me off of Craig's List:

"Dear Red States..." A Letter From The Blue!


Reply to: anon-80714812@craigslist.org
Date: Fri Jun 24 11:54:43 2005


Dear Red States...

We've decided we're leaving. We intend to form our own country, and
we're taking the other Blue States with us.

In case you aren't aware, that includes Hawaii, Oregon,Washington,
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and all the Northeast. We
believe this split will be beneficial to the nation, and especially
to the people of the new country of New California.

To sum up briefly: You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave states.
We get stem cell research and the best beaches. We get Elliot
Spitzer. You get Ken Lay.

We get the Statue of Liberty. You get Dollywood.
We get Intel and Microsoft. You get WorldCom.
We get Harvard. You get Ole' Miss.
We get 85 percent of America's venture capital and entrepreneurs. You
get Alabama.
We get two-thirds of the tax revenue, you get to make the red states
pay their fair share.

Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22 percent lower than the
Christian Coalition's, we get a bunch of happy families. You get a
bunch of single moms.

Please be aware that Nuevo California will be pro-choice and
anti-war, and we're going to want all our citizens back from Iraq at
once. If you need people to fight, ask your evangelicals. They have
kids they're apparently willing to send to their deaths for no
purpose, and they don't care if you don't show pictures of their
children's caskets coming home. We do wish you success in Iraq, and
hope that the WMDs turn up, but we're not willing to spend our
resources in Bush's Quagmire.

Click here to read the complete posting.