DEAR GOD THEY HAD BABIES

Yeah I’m totally ganking this photo from someone elses site but it has to be done.

Two of the uglieset shoe creation in history have mated and had a ‘Seinfeldian’ ugly baby.  You remember when looking at the baby nearly knocks Kramer down?

Yeah, behold:

OMFG

CRUGGS!

The year in review

I know, I know, the year isn’t exactly over yet.  There is still one more day!  A lot can happen in a day, true, but I want to review the things that are long and slow and generally take a lot of time.  I’ll also throw in whatever else I feel is relevant.

This is my first full year at my new job.  Some days were stressful, others kind of relaxed.  Standard issue stuff.  So I guess it isn’t a new job anymore.  Well, if I use the radio station mentality it is!  Anyone notice that the River 97.1 is STILL NEW.  It’s been out for 4 something years right?  That means our car is still mostly new?

That’s great because we just paid the car AND truck off.  Now we can sell them for near what we bought them for and get new ones? Maybe not but they are officially owned by us.  We have the titles to prove it!  That is probably the largest accomplishment this year.  Now there is extra money to be applied towards our other debt (school, other credit cards, etc).

The one thing we did not do so well on this year was health/exercise stuff.  We will prevail.  A lot of that, with me, had to do with one of the major downsides of 2008.  I spent nearly half the  year with an injured shoulder.  Of all things, from getting into a push-up position the wrong way.  It happened in May and probably end of November was the last time I had any sort of trouble from it.  So, take care of your shoulders.  When they hurt, everything hurts!

The oldest kid turned 5 and the youngest turned 1.  I turned 30 and she 28.  I lost my wallet twice but found it one of those times.  Didn’t play as much golf as I wanted, again, thanks to the shoulder.

I did not attempt a shuttle launch viewing this year mostly because I had zero vacation time or any PTO for that matter.  This year has to be the year.  They retire in 2010.

We started and stopped another blog, coupondiva.net.  While it was fun to save tons of money (and even get stuff for free) we found it was sometimes excessive and a lot of work.  Hats off to the people that walk out of CVS with 1200 dollars worth of stuff after having the store pay THEM 50 dollars on top of it.  What would you do with 100 bottles of shampoo, hmm?!  Build a slip n’ slide of course.  Ladies only please.

I spent the first three months of the year with pharyngitis, the flu and then a nasty cold.

I stopped and started WoW twice I think.  I should probably stop again /sigh.  I did try Age of Conan and destroyed the DVD out of pure disgust two days later.  Horrible game!  On that note I also desrtoyed the latest WoW disk too… after a little in-game-rage.  Yeah, stupid video games! [post will not be viewable now from work due to mention of games, way to go!]

And that’s all I can think of right now.  Maybe I’ll do another one called “The last day of the year in review”.

Closed for business!

Ok, if you go to lm3design.com you’ll see a sign that says “Sorry, we’re closed”.  Is business slow or bad?  No!  It’s too much!  I get asked about once a week it seems to build a website.   I am flattered that I get asked but I do that and more all day long.  I want to go home and do stuff for myself/family.  Lately that hasn’t been the case.  I swore I’d kick the habit after the last couple of projects but I went back for more.

Well my New Years Resolution is:

No more work on the side for people.  Not for a long time.  I have to get my life more in order.  Then I can revisit it.

Welcome to Wal-Mart

I’m wearing a blue shirt with khakis today.  I go to Wal-Mart and I got asked to get a TV down for someone.  I politely laughed and told him I didn’t work there.

Went to the camera aisle where and older gentleman asked me about digital cameras.  I actually know a thing or two about that stuff so I helped  him out.  He never asked me to get one out of the case thankfully.  I ended up shoving my nametag in my pocket.  Lets see where else I can do and get mistaken as an employee!

This nightmare I had

I’m going to leave all of the super-freaky details out of the this post, regarding my dream.  I’ll sum up and say; it was weird.  But more than weird, there was one super scary part!  Lets dive in!

So I get a call from a friend and he says “Hey man, I saw that nice little car sitting in your yard.”  I reply back “Oh yeah I figured, hey since I don’t have a car payment, I might as well get something new.”  Then I thought to myself “Wait, you did what?  You FINANCED ANOTHER CAR?!”

How could this happen?  Was I drunk?  Had I eaten some holiday brownies that were in fact ‘magical’?  Did I make a deal with the devil?  Who cares?! I had gone out and gotten a loan for a car!

So I spent most of the dream figuring out ways to get out of it.  I recall that I didn’t sign any documents in the dream and that was my way out.  The sheer terror of that feeling actually eventually woke me up and I remember saying “Thank God!” out loud.

So  yes, I had a nightmare about financing a vehicle.  Dave Ramsey, do I make you proud?

What annoys a web designer: Part XI

When you tell a client:

“Yes, here’s the rough design.  I still need to make a few changes and some tweaks but this is basically what it will look like”

And the client responds with:

“Yeah, well we need to change this and that and this and oh that too and this isn’t finished and these links don’t work.”

Then I restate myself.

Then they say:

“Oh…”

Moral of the story?

If I’m still working on it.  It isn’t done!

The Umbrella Puzzle

Lately the strangest thing has been happening. We’ve been seeing umbrellas laying around here and there. It used to be shoes that were laying around then again they still do. So, is it a coincidence that we’ve seem them laying around? I think not! I shall explain.

Umbrellas, what do we use them for? We use them when it rains and that’s about it. The functional purpose is to keep small lightweight forms of precipitation from hitting our bodies. There ARE sun umbrellas but they’re a different technology adapted from smaller umbrellas. Technology, you say? Yes, do you think that Mary Poppins was magical? Flip no! She was a frappin’ alien! That was NOT a spoon full of sugar either but that investigation is being blocked by a bit of red tape. Not to worry about, we’ll… I’ll get to the bottom of it.

So, these “umbrellas” that are laying around are obviously travel devices that are spent. The technology is so advanced that they appear to take on a form of being built by human engineering. I’m onto it though! Just like Tang and Velcro and those other things we “developed”.

Oh crap, I hear helicopters again. Time to retreat to the basement.

-out!

Personality Quiz-Pretty darn accurate

You Are An INFJ

The Protector You live your life with integrity, originality, vision, and creativity. Independent and stubborn, you rarely stray from your vision – no matter what it is. You are an excellent listener with almost infinite patience. You have complex feelings, and you take great care to express them. In love, you see relationships as an opportunity to connect and grow. You enjoy relationships when they are improving and changing. You can’t stand stagnation. At work, you stay motivated and happy… as long as you are working toward a dream you support. You would make a great photographer, alternative medicine guru, or teacher. How you see yourself: Hardworking, ethical, and helpful When other people don’t get you, they see you as: Manipulative, weak, and unstable

Ugly as sin

I really don’t keep up with the Hollywood stuff, the celebrities, who is having who’s baby, etc.  I’ll tell you why.  What that tiny elite group of people does have little to no impact on my life.  Now, I love a great movie if it moves me (pun!) but I don’t care about all the ins/outs of someone’s personal life.  Let them live their life.  Now I can’t say that without defending why I’m a science buff.  Science does impact our lives every day.  Ok, that’s out of the way.

So the whole reason for even making this post was I saw a link where someone’s dress showed part of their nips or something.  Ok, I’m a guy and I like guy things and one of those things is scantily clad women.  So I clicked the link and got a peek.  Meh, totally underwhelmed by the false advertisement of the link.  In any event I got sucked into looking at pics of people on the ‘red carpet’.

At times, I wasn’t sure if it was a high end celebrity event or a Rodeo Clown Convention.  The outfits these women wear I mean they’re not even flattering.  Who designs half that crap?  It’s like, when you’re framing a house, you measure things twice, cut once, ya know?  You do your very best to make sure it all fits.  It just seems like these women had a designer look at them and then slap something together.  Then when they put it on it doesn’t fit.  Is it supposed to not fit?  You get the pizza toe shoes and flat scrunchy bewbs and this is attractive?  I mean where a damn dress that fits if you’re gonna have people foaming at the mouth over you.

So now I’ll go back into my hole of being in the absolute “un-know” on what’s going on with celebrity-dom.

How may I help you today?

My dress code at work is business casual.  I wear khakis and a polo shirt nearly every day.  I’m just used to it and see no reason to change.  Plus, it’s the dress code.

When I go to lunch though I’m finding that people constantly mistaken me for employees at places such as Target, Best Buy, Books-a-million and even Sam’s Club.  Yes I’ve been approach at all of those stores by people asking for help, while at lunch.

Now I’ m a very nice person, so I politely inform them that I am not an employee.  We chuckle and continue on our separate ways.  Someday love WILL find them.

But there is an evil twin version of me on the inside and it makes me want to do a number of things.

• Tell them the manager at the store is a worthless piece of horse squeeze and he made off with my wife and I’m looking for him now, have you seen him?!
• Tell them that the item they’re looking for is on the opposite side of the store from where it really it
• Tell them I have horrible diarrhea and don’t have time for conversation
• Tell them I don’t know where their item is but for a small ‘favor’ I could find it for them
• Learn another language and start talking up a storm and pointing in several directions
• Tell them I’m part of a Coup that has formed and we’re about to storm the front office because a 5% store discount just won’t cut it anymore!

I’d never do that, ever.  But it’s fun to think about how to mess with people who mistake me for working for someone else.

I’m wearing my “I work at Target” shirt today, btw.