Destination: Abu Dhabi?

As some of you may recall, on the Garfield & Friends cartoon, Garfield was always trying to mail Nermal to Abu Dhabi. I threaten the cats with that punishment if they don't behave. I think Hobbes was feeling guilty about something when he just hopped into the Priority Mail box full of bubble wrap...

I Need My Portion of The Bailout Money, Please...

So, I wasn't really sure that the government bailout was the greatest idea, but now, I'd like my share sent to me asap. Why you ask? Well, after a trip to the mall to pick up my engagement ring (I got a lovely wrap to accompany the center stone, and it had to be sized and the two rings joined together), Crystal and I had dinner at Chili's. Delicious!

We leave Chili's and I'm heading back to Crystal's house to drop her off. As I'm turning left from State Road onto Brookpark Road, I notice the police behind me. I say, "Hey, is that the police behind me?". Then, being the fine upstanding citizen that I am, I pull to the right so he can go around me and be off to fight actual crime that might be happening. But wait, as I pull over, he gets behind me. WTF ??? He gets off of his motorcycle and comes up to the car and says something to me that I didn't totally understand and takes my license. Cut to the chase, I allegedly ran a red light. I think it was still yellow, but honestly, I was too busy talking to really have noticed what color the light was. (maybe that's part of my problem???)

So, please, Mr. Secretary of the Treasury, get my check over to me so I can pay my ticket in the amount of:

wait for it...

$126!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, you read that correctly, one hundred-twenty six dollars! For $126 I should have a much cooler story to tell other than I ran a red light!! If this is any indication of how the rest of the weekend is going to go, I'm getting under the covers right now and not coming out until Monday morning!

This is fun!!

Linda got this from her cousin Ellie’s blog, and I stole it from Linda...

YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet & current car):
Duke Galant

YOUR ROCKSTAR TOUR NAME: (”The” + Your fav craft, fav weather element + “Tour”):
The Cross Stitch Sunshine Tour (I wouldn't make a very hard core rockstar with a tour name like that!!)

YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (fav ice cream flavor, favorite cookie):
Blue Moon Snickerdoodle

YOUR “FLY Guy/Girl” NAME: (first initial of first name, first three letters of your last name):
M-Low

YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal):
Red Karma

YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, hometown city):
Christine Cleveland

YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first): Lowmi

SUPERHERO NAME: (”The” + 2nd favorite color, favorite drink):
The Pink Diet Coke

STRIPPER NAME: (the name of your favorite perfume, favorite candy):
Red Delicious Peanut Butter Cup

WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother’s & father’s middle names):
Ann Lewis

WEATHER ANCHOR NAME: (Your 5th grade teacher’s last name, a major city that starts with the same letter):
Wagie Wilmington

SPY NAME: (your favorite season/holiday, flower):
Spring Pansy

CARTOON NAME: (favorite fruit, article of clothing you’re wearing right now + “ie” or “y”): Banana Pantsie

Interesting, huh?

The Zoo!

Last Sunday, Ray & I went to the zoo. He was given free tickets through his work last year, and we finally used them. I haven't been to the zoo in several years, so I was excited to go. The weather was perfect, not too hot & not too cold.

I guess if you've seen one zoo animal, you've seen them all, but here are few pics:

You gotta love anything who's natural hair (feather) color is pink:


These are some kind of African singing dogs. They were not singing or barking , but soooo cute:


Most of the animals were sleeping while we were there, I think they knew it was Sunday. This polar bear reminded me of the Coca-Cola bear:


Here's a pic of Ray & I taking a rest while walking up the deck. (please excuse all of my chins, it's not easy to take your own picture):


Lastly, I have no idea who this woman in the video is, but this song is for my mom:

Americas Favorite Pastime

Linda and I went to the Indians game last night. They played the Detroit Tigers, which if Detroit was on the other side of the country would be fine, but the fact that they are within driving distance is not good. There were entirely too many obnoxious Detroit fans there.

I love an Indians game, the crowd, the hotdogs, the cute players, however, when Linda and I do anything we usually talk the whole time. But, we did manage to watch some of the game:-)

Well, we were watching and not screwing around at just the right moment when this happened:



What you don't see in the video is even the guys in both bullpens run all the way across the field to get in on the action. At about the 4 minute mark is when you get a decent shot of FaustoCarmona pounding on Gary Sheffield, who by the way, is about a 150 in baseball years (39 years old in real life). Honestly, is there anything better than a baseball brawl?

So, a good time was had by all, we ate hotdogs, drank fountain pop (sorry, I'm not a beer drinker), heckled the Detroit fans, watched Gary Sheffield get his ass kicked, and won the game 6-5!!

I love this town!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Lil' P!!

Happy Birthday to Crystal & Rob's son Peyton. He's 2 today and not so little anymore, but he'll always be Lil' P to me ;-) Love you guys!!

Here we are having Honey Hut earlier this summer.

NEVER, EVER FORGET!

This is the most upsetting, disturbing and heartbreaking video I have ever watched, and that is exactly why you need to watch it too!!