Some Guilty Pleasures

Ok I thought of some more of my guilty pleasures:

• working with introverted, smart old men
• watching people in the rear view mirror when stopped at a stoplight; people watching in general
• poo jokes; laughing with Rebekah about poo
• hearing Aubrey respond, "So is/does your face" to just about any remark
• the smell of cigar smoke
• all-day "America's Next Top Model", "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", and "Veronica Mars" marathons
• anything by Joss Whedon and any other extremely well-done sci-fi/fantasy
• interrogating and making crazy comments to 3- and 4-year-olds to see how they respond. For instance, saying, "The sun is kissing me," or "See that over there? [point out blinking radio tower] That's a giant firefly." Or "Dirt is tasty." Or putting a toy being fought over into time out for causing problems. Then let the entertainment begin.
• comic book stores
• baby prunes (the little jars of baby food)
• children's books
• complete silence
• Barry Manilow
• anti-heroes
• fan fiction
• not answering the phone
• making loud straw slurping noises. Also makes whatever it is taste even better.
• rude eating as a family
• helping Rebekah dye her hair the color of the week: pink, blue, purple...
• sniffing Rebekah
• extended couch lounging/sleeping/eating

That's it for now. I'm off to watch "Firefly" episodes starting at the very beginning!

Morgans are Pirates

• Check it out. Source is here if you care (you don't).

6 Last Names Reveal Pirate Ancestry
Shiver me timbers! If your surname is
Morgan, Kidd, Teach, Rackham, Bonny or Read, there's a good chance there is a
pirate lurking in your family tree.
People who have these names could very
well be related to Britain's most famous pirates, reports London's Telegraph. Of
course, proving that will take some genealogical sleuthing, a difficult task
since pirates rarely kept permanent records of their nefarious backgrounds.
Still, the payoff is well worth it. "What could be more exhilarating than
finding you are related to one of Britain's most colorful characters?" Abigail
Baker of the genealogy research organization Achievements Ltd., asked the
Telegraph.

• I was planning to try to put a video clip in my blog today, but apparently you can't (very easily, anyway) "pirate", if you will, clips off of YouTube. So here is a link instead, to the video of the day, "Stephen Fry's Guilty Pleasures" (part 1 of 3) which had me trying desperately to smother my sniggers while watching at work. And it makes me want to start a list of my own guilty pleasures. I'll start with 1) watching "Stephen Fry's Guilty Pleasures" at work, 2) stealing the other SAIC division's miniature candy bars to eat while doing item #1. I will ponder on this some more and add to the list as they come to me. Feel free to list yours in a comment.
• Aubrey is at King's Dominion today. Darn her all to heck.
• Rebekah is cleaning the house. She darns Aubrey all to heck too.
  

Screeching

• The above pic is Mom and Aubrey in Phoenix. I hear Aubrey got a manicure/pedicure, played golf, watched the Mr. Bean movie. I'm curious how she managed to let someone touch her feet for so long, without screeching. Yay, no more boredom!
• Empty elevators reek of people. I have a bionic nose. I can smell their leftover cigarette smoke, their breath , B.O., perfume/aftershave, what they just ate, what they were carrying with them.
• Quotation of the day: "Go up his rear and get a smear. Which reminds me, kinda feel like a bagel." --Dr. Greg House

Pass the Marmalade

• Quotation of the day: "Read less, more TV." --Dr. Greg House

Dr. Who

• Word of the day: moniker
• So yesterday Aubrey and I were both bored nearly to tears. She was nearer than I was. She went for a bike ride. I watched Netflix stuff online. This is the best ever: hundreds of movies instantly available to watch on the PC. I watched two episodes of "Fawlty Towers" (BBC) and three episodes of the most recent "Dr. Who" series (also BBC). Maybe it was because I was so bored, but it seemed to me yesterday that British TV moves slower than American. Anyway, I still really liked both shows. I liked "Dr. Who" better than "Fawlty Towers".
• Just fixed the boredom issue: Aubrey is flying to Phoenix tomorrow to clean Grander's house for a few days.
• I checked in millions of dollars of equipment today. Learning a lot of IT-type stuff.

Wilde

• I saw "A Good Woman" the other day with Helen Hunt and Scarlett Johansson. I mean I didn't watch the movie with Helen and Scarlett; rather, Helen and Scarlett were actresses in the movie I watched. At the end I saw that it was based on Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde. No wonder I liked it so much. I dig Oscar. So much so that I think I will dig up some more of his stuff and read it online. Project Gutenberg has tons of literature free online. Good for the workplace.
• I also saw "Dreamgirls". It was good, but I liked "A Good Woman" better.
• I dislike pretty much anything having to do with sports, but Mike and Mike in the Morning on ESPN Radio rocks.
• Amy Schumer is my favorite on "Last Comic Standing".
• Yea for Miss Madison, who is going to be a ballerina and tap dancer. You go, girl.

Someone gave me clothes~ I'm free!

• Do you know that "vendor" can also be spelled "vender"? It's true! Whom do you petition to expunge a word from the dictionaries? I don't like "vender".
• There's nothing to brighten the life like someone handing you a couple thousand dollars' worth of clothes that fit perfectly, that you like, for free! A friend of mine who is six feet tall did just that yesterday. Stuff she didn't want anymore, but it was like getting a lovely new wardrobe for me. Mostly Banana Republic, wahoo!!
• 'House costars Jennifer Morrison and Jesse Spencer have called off their engagement, PEOPLE has learned exclusively. "After much consideration, we have decided not to get married," the couple said in a joint statement. "We are still very close, and we look forward to continuing to work together on House." Spencer, 28, who proposed to Morrison, also 28, over the holidays at the Eiffel Tower in Paris, recently said that it had taken him six months to ask Morrison to marry him. They had planned to wed later this year. ' (Source: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20051905,00.html) Then I read here that they are already married! Wedding pictures and everything!