We're All Mad Here » 2008

07-16-08

I claim Wednesdays as my day…

ok, here’s the plan…

S: 6:00 yoga, 7:00 meditation, 8:00…I don’t know what the hell I’ll be doing…9:00 PROJECT RUNWAY (And did you see that lady with the yellow paper dress? How pissed was she not to win. WTF-EVER) and 10:00 WHAT THE BUCK!!!

D: oh?

S: OH! I CAN READ PEREZ HILTON from 8-9, PERFECT

D: shhhhhh…..

07-16-08

“We’re making the bed” (p.s. ick)

Babble’s 14 Lies to stop telling your kids. Do people really do number 14? I’m not saying I would, but I can see why they would. There have been many a nights where by the time bedtime roles around, there is barely enough energy to crawl in the sack let alone roll in it.

07-16-08

Recession?

IndyMack Bank collapses, sending 200+ ppl to the bank yesterday demanding their cash. Looks familiar? No?

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke didn’t call it a recession today, but he might as well have.

Yeah dude. It was a recession last year.

Maybe former Sen. Phil Gramm isn’t the best person to make the case that much of America’s economic gloom is self-inflicted.

Yeah, but last century’s depression wasn’t exactly caused by unseen forces either.

Yet the former economics professor shared with Americans an important lesson. He was right that, despite what it feels like, the economy is not in a recession because there haven’t been two consecutive quarters of negative growth. He was right that the problem could be our response to adversity and our collective state of mind – what Gramm called a “mental recession.” Most of all, he was right that we’ve become “a nation of whiners” who find it easier to complain about our problems than to turn off the television, get off the couch and do something about them.

Well, kind sir, whiners cause recessions. A recession isn’t going to happen without a fall in consumer “optimism”. We whine, others hear, we all cut back on our spending and walla…the economy slows down. We FREAK THE HELL OUT and pull our investments from stocks, pull our money from banks and watch everything collapse like dominoes. One thing the media doesn’t tell you…it’s your own damn fault. They are too busy making you freak out. You’ll tune in, they get more ratings. But those ratings will eventually mean crap when the effects of their shock and awe tactics trickle down to their advertisers and they stop getting as much revenue.

In all honesty, knock on wood, our family really hasn’t been effected that much. Maybe because we haven’t lived outside of our means. We didn’t fall victim to the “american dream” ARM scandals, we still rent. We don’t have a big screen tv, an ipod, our kids don’t have sooo many toys that we cringe everytime a recall is made. We can still almost afford food minus towards the middle of the month, when, god forbid we actually have to get creative and turn the stove on and cook that frozen chicken/ a pie/ frozen veggies. Ick.

Gas has gone up. We get a tank a week at the most, but public transportation is right down the street and it is our own fault for not using it more often. A tank a week is costing us $80 more a month. There are 42 gallons in a barrel of gas, of crude oil which refines to 19 gallons-sih (and the rest is used for things like heating oil). Oil is at $139 a barrel or ruffly $3.31 a gallon before the cost of processing, transporting and distributing. $4.15 a gallon for gas seems about right. I doubt drilling in the states will help…anyone but the Bush families agenda.

07-15-08

Baby Green Bean

Baby Green Bean, originally uploaded by shellgreenier.

The beans are here…

07-15-08

Keep Your Temper.

Lil caterpillar, originally uploaded by aussiegall.

I was looking at sites today as a distraction after Solaris drew on my 85% complete piece. I realized, caterpillars really freak me the hell out. Read more.

07-15-08

Band Geek Hero

Bryan sent me this great new link, a store that sells Band Geek Hero shirts. My personal fav: Cowbell Hero! David wasn’t amused since they skimped out on the Baritone Hero Shirt, but that’s what you get for NOT playing the Sousaphone (which they in fact, have).

07-14-08

Drum Corps and Breast Cancer

You may wander what the two have in common? So did I as I sat in the stands of the recent DCI show in Orlando listening to two people talk over the show…big deal right? How about from the field. Suspended on this huge circle platform stage thing that looked like Oprah’s rejected stage (or one of those Christian talk shows), two “actors” (in the middle of a marching band performance) we pretending to talk about a lady’s life in “the pursuit of happiness”. In introducing the lady, “she was happy, successful, and has breast cancer” and then…it was never brought up again through the WHOLE piece. WTF? So each piece went with the lady’s life in some way… “being independent and going to college”, finding love to “working on wallstreet” complete with flag girl flags with money printed on them. My head exploded when they brought out the smiley face banners. HELLO? It looked like Forest Gump’s Shit Happens T-shirts. And then they came in third. POP there goes the head.

The sad part was I remember bitching to david about how i wished his band took more creative liberties. I know eat my words. I’d lie if I said I didn’t have fun. There were lots of good shows, like the carnival themed on, the rocky themed one and the gallatica x thing. It’s just that last one that killed me. Oh, and the $6 beer.

07-11-08

The David A Cake

Just kidding, it’s the Tom Selleck Cake

07-11-08

Where They Come from

Where They Come from, originally uploaded by shellgreenier.

Our Passion Flower Plant has butterflies all over it, and in turn we have caterpillars, too! This annnnnnnnnooooooys David beyond all belief but I won’t let him kill them. The other day I was out feeding the plants (burying some bad produce) and knocked this guy out of one of our black eyed pea plants…

He climbed back up the plants and gave me dirty looks…