Cheezburger

OH MAH CEILIN CAT!!11!

Since when did LOLcat become an "official language"? :)

I recently discovered the LOLCat Bible Translation Project.

HEERS SUM FUD 4 THOT:

If u try be Ceiling Cat of any of mai creayshunz up in floaty skai, down in erth or in watr or I shoot yous wit mah lazer eyes. If u think faek Ceiling Cat iz Ceiling Cat, I mek u ded An ur children ded An ur children-children ded, for being stupid. If not I wuv u An all ur childrenz-childrenz-childrenz!

U sez Ceiling Cat bad, I shoot yous wit mah lazer eyes, cuz I dun liek it. Srsly.

Remembur caturday An keep holy. U werk 6 dais An finish werk, K? Caturday, u no werk. U An all ur peepz go wrship me.

Exodus 20:4-10

Royal Mail

I bought this Royal Digital Rate Scale (RC40) years ago at CostCo.

I remember having some difficulty setting things up with the cable provided. (I had to buy a converter cable in order to connect it to my computer to download rates.) Once I figured the trick out, it worked like a charm! (I was an active eBay seller those days, so this scale came in very handy for estimating S/H without having to go to the post office.)

Then, one day, the scale inherited a glitch where the only thing it could do was turn on and display the weight in the standard unit (ounces) - not too convenient when weighing packages that weighed several pounds! It wouldn't even turn off with the ON/OFF button; it would just eventually turn off on its own. I kept the scale, despite its glitch, because it was still useful, albeit in a limited way.

Fast forward to tonight: I was weighing an envelope which seemed just a little too heavy to be 1oz. Out of old habit, I pressed the OFF button ... and it worked! Hooray! My scale has recovered from its malady and is fully functional!

It's time for me to update the shipping rates! Now, where did I put the cables ...

Hello Kitty

I took my cats to the vet yesterday for their booster shots.

Poor Yoshi! He's such a scaredy cat! He would not get out of the kennel, not even when I flipped it over to one side so that he could "fall out" ! He'd put his little legs out to the sides of the kennel to hold on! I was left with no other choice but to pop the top!

His entire examination was done with him huddled up in the corner of the kennel!

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I just learned here that cats aren't getting the medical attention that they should on a regular basis! I'm glad I did my part in watching out for mine :)

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UPDATE:

LOLYoshi

Green Thumb

My grandmother gave me this plant, a Alocasia Amazonica, also known as Elephant's Ear, or, as she called it in Spanish, cara de caballo (horse's face).

On closer inspection, the leaves have been chewed up! :(

A caterpillar? No! My cats!

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Outside, I planted a carambola, or star fruit, tree (Averrhoa carambola) that I was given at work. Right now, it basically looks like a big twig!

"Tomorrow, Tomorrow ..."

"... I love you, Tomorrow,
You're only a day away!"

Tomorrow is the grand opening of the first Best Buy store in Puerto Rico!

Lucky for me, I have a brother who works at one. Unfortunately, he's in Texas! I have asked him to consider relocating ...

Going Postal ... again

I just discovered this:

Hooray! ^_^ Time to bring out the stamps!

Flower Power

I knew Addis Ababa translated to "new flower," but I didn't know which word meant what. Thanks to an English-Amharic dictionary, now I know!

Addis = አዲስ = new

Ababa = አበባ = flower

All this was spurred by Fred Flare asking What's Your Fave Flower?. I wanted to answer that it was me, but, alas, "Addis" does not mean flower.

Bebi uploaded by Jacob Eliosoff

Gankutsuou

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Retail Relapse

Just as I predicted last week, I succumbed to my routine retail relapse yesterday. I think it was in anticipation of the horrible night I had at work last night! Shopping is a much healthier alternative than, let's say, "going postal."

I'm looking forward to receiving two clutch handbags, and these shoes:


Can you say "Imelda Marcos" ?

Destination: BDL

It's official - I'm going to Connecticut for a short, weekend getaway very soon :)

Devil Beside You

The devil has arrived ...

... and its name is Roomba!


It will eat your soul!


(Thank you, yhancik, for pointing me towards Google Patent Search :D )

Shoes !

I know I should do something about my unnecessary spending habits. Each pay period, I tell myself I will handle my finances better, but then I spot a fabulous dress, or a great bag on sale, or some yummy shoes, or a book I want to get my hands on, or curtains to dress up the windows, or designer cat furniture, or ...

And then I start thinking about where I am going to put that fab dress and great bag and yummy shoes, and I think about the pending house projects (i.e. walk-in closet, for one!), and how if I had an organized closet system, I could see what I do have, and make sure I don't splurge on repeated designs -- why do I need 3 black evening bags!? Black is black! :$

So, until I relapse in my weekly consumer meltdown, I'll be dreaming of these shoes:

Not again!

Oh, no's! Not again! Somebody vomited this morning and I don't know who it was. Kudos to my kitties (at least) for keeping it all on the terrazzo tiles. Unfortunately, there's something in that regurgitated mix that seeps into the tiles, leaving splat marks where the vomit once lay - no amount of scrubbing with detergents gets those 'stains' out!

Pick-me-ups

I was feeling a little under the weather last week due to an infection, and was still struggling with a fever early this week. What was an uninspired girl to do on Christmas Eve while aimlessly walking around in the mall? Why, hit the cosmetics counter, of course, for a little fabulousness!

I only had a question concerning filling in eyebrows, but I walked away with a whole mini-makeover and a handful of products (and accompanying hole-in-the-wallet).

For the eyebrows, brow zings.

For my uneven complexion, some kind-a gorgeous foundation and get even powder.

For a healthy glow, some 10 and some hoola.

The pampering was just what I needed !

Coming Soon ...

... to a location near me !

It's West Elm !

Had I known, I would have waited on ordering my black Parsons desk, which is still in its box, unassembled! I could have saved the $200 I paid my parents to ship it to Puerto Rico (since West Elm does not ship large items like this themselves) !

Paranoia Agent

WTF ?

UPDATE:

Let me elaborate a little more on this post. I watched the first four episodes of this series not too long ago. I have an infinite list of pending rentals via Netflix. Sometimes I don't even remember how a title or series winds up on my queue. When I read the description of this series (before popping in the disc to view it), I asked myself "What was I thinking !?" I anticipated a gray and dismal intro, not this loud and cheerful (?) opening theme song !

There are many translations out there of the lyrics. This is one of my favorite lines: "A magnificent mushroom cloud in the sky ..."

Reminds me of ...

"... a giant mushroom. Maybe it's friendly!"

Beware of Cat Vomit

Ugh! I woke up this evening to find two splats of kitty vomit on the floor! In the 2 years I've had cats, I've discovered regurgitated messes only some 3 or 4 times, and, thankfully, it's always been on the tile floor and never on carpet or furniture!

I don't think it's hairball-related - that's never been a problem ... even more so now that I recently bought a FURminator!

Mail Call !

Who doesn't enjoy a little postal love? Happy Mundane does.

Apparently, Pai Mei does, too!

The contents will be revealed shortly :)

Score !

Woohoo!

My results from the EXADEP test I took last month are in. I scored the following in these sections:

• Verbal Aptitude ...................................................... 62
  
• Mathematics + Analytical Reasoning ......................... 80
  
• Written Expression ................................................. 66
  
• English .................................................................. 80

... which translates to a total score of 709 (on a scale of 200 to 800)!

You, too?

I always go for the yummy, kitty ear kronsche myself!

(via Cute Overload)