48 posts tagged “random”

Loathe:

• Losing my voice
• Getting a bloody nose
• Being disappointed by new episodes of shows that have been gone since December
• Not being able to teach since I can't talk
  

Love:

• Accepting a job (at least I really, really hope I signed under "accept")
• Changing almost $20 worth of coins into an Amazon.com gift e-certificate
• The accomplished feeling I got after breaking up my first fight
• Surfing YouTube for random videos

They're always so true.

1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks.
Creek

2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called.
Grocery cart

3. A metal container to carry a meal in.
Lunchbox

4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in.
Skillet/frying pan (it really depends)

5. The piece of furniture that seats three people.
Couch

6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof.
Gutter

7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening.
Porch/deck (again, it depends although my family doesn't really use ours)

8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages.
Pop

9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup.
Pancakes

10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself.
Sub sandwich

11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach.
Bathing suit (I don't think I've ever really called them anything before)

12. Shoes worn for sports.
Tennis shoes

13. Putting a room in order.
Clean

14. A flying insect that glows in the dark.
Firefly

15. The little insect that curls up into a ball.
Potato bug

16. The children's playground equipment where one kid sits on one side and goes up while the other sits on the other side and goes down.
See-saw

17. How do you eat your pizza?
By hand but if it's really hot, occasionally with a fork

18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
Garage/yard sale

19. What's the evening meal?
Dinner

20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
Basement/downstairs (again, we don't really use ours)

21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places?
Drinking fountain (and the first time I went to Disney World I could have sworn there was a talking one)

My house smells like a gas station and it's freaking me out a little.  I've already called my dad and let him know and he thinks it's probably from a leaking gas can in the garage but (because I'm crazy like this) I'm still worried the house might explode.  And of course my bedroom is right over where the leaky gas can is so my previously minor headache is getting bigger.  Thankfully I'll be leaving in a few minutes to go pick up my mom so hopefully it will diminish in that time.  But, for now, I think I'll go find the place in the house furthest away from the garage.

Edit 4 hours later: The gas cans were moved outside to the back porch about 3 hours ago and the house is almost completely free of any gas-like smell.  (The garage still smells some but that could also be due to our gas heater & water heater.)  My headache thankfully went away but it was this close to coming back thanks to our not so lovely Red Robin dining experience.  *sigh*  Today has not been a good day.

Show us something green!

Show us a sign.

Saw this ad during "The Daily Show".  I would love to live in a world covered in bubble wrap.

I was checking my G-mail and there was a link at the top which read something like, "Do you crave pizza?  The Crave Reader knew that."  I checked it out and Honda has created a 20 Questions-type game to advertise their CR-V and it's called "The Crave Reader".  It's actually pretty good.  I did it twice (first with sleep then with a job) and it guessed both of them.  I'm going to have to think of some harder things and see if it can guess them.

I was getting ready to shut everything down on my computer and I happened to scroll down to the bottom of my Vox and came across an ad for Cliff Notes.  Except, it wasn't any ordinary ad for Cliff Notes.  It was an ad for Shakespeare: The Manga Edition.

So far they have "Hamlet", "Romeo & Juliet", "Macbeth", and "Julius Caesar" available.  I mean, I'm all for getting kids to read but manga?  Wow.  Wasn't really expecting Shakespeare to show up in that form.  Although it kind of makes sense.  They're plays that are meant to be watched not read so putting them in comic book/manga form seems like a logical step.  And who knows?  Maybe they really will get kids more interested in Shakespeare.

One of the most awesome shirts ever.

Can be purchased here.  If I had the money, I'd probably buy it.

I love their little blurb about the shirt on the main page:

The Ironic Sans blog brings you clothing with a name tag that says, "Hello, my name is John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt." Then when you meet someone wearing the same shirt, you can shout, "Hey! His name is my name, too!"

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