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My kid is such a character. We had a Thanksgiving recital today. His preschool class had to sing a song where each kid had to shout out what they were most thankful for...all the kids are saying 'mommy', 'daddy' and 'parents'. When it gets to my son, he shouts out 'chicken'.

I guess mom and dad rate below his tummy. :P

For those of you that live in Florida, like me, you might be interested to know that you can attached emergency contact information via your drivers license. All you have to do is go to https://www6.hsmv.state.fl.us/dlcheck/findcustomer and enter your drivers license and birthdate. Then they'll ask for your contact's name, address and phone numbers. Then if you get in an accident, police will beable to notify your emergency contact.

It has been almost a month since I got my papers signed, and I can honestly say that there are no regrets. In fact between getting the papers signed and getting a new car (yes, I finally turned in the hunk of junk and got myself a 2005 Toyota Corolla), that my mood has improved dramatically. I find myself waking up with a smile on my face and little things don't seem to get to me as much as they did.

It's weird. A divorce is just some legal mambo jumbo...a piece of paper that legally acknowledges you're no longer married. However, that little piece of paper has seemed to have a major impact on me. Hmmm, maybe I'm more traditional than I thought. :P

So what brought on this line of thought? I was driving this morning and one of the channels was talking about Divorce Party Planner. Apparently, it's now vogue to throw yourself or throw a friend a divorce party. Hmmm, I was just hoping to drag mariness to the Melting Pot...oh, and just like a wedding planner, this site offers resources for contacting a divorce party planner (hmmm, I wonder if they cost as much as a wedding planner).

I was shifting through my usual reads this morning when I came across this wonderful commentary on Ellen Burstyn's nomination for the Emmys for 14 seconds of work. I've thought for years that the award shows were nothing more than fluff but really, that's seriously pathetic.

Just my 2 cents anyway. :P

Well, it's been a while since I've posted...mainly because I haven't really had much to say. I've been neck deep in my life and haven't felt like whining about it...hence the silence. But something funny happened today at work and I feel the need to share.

My boss had a speaking engagement last night at Florida Atlantic University, so he asked one of my minions to update the website with a link to www.fau.edu. The minion...being the rather dim soul that he is, created the link to www.fau.org. Now if you look at both sites, you will see that they differ quite a lot. One is a link to a university located in Boca. The other is a link to some German labor union. Very, very different.

Not to bash the Jewish community, but my boss, who's Jewish, immediately starts going off on how my minion has linked him to a Neo Nazi website...hello! It's German, not Neo Nazi...at least I don't think it is based on what I could translate to English using a handy dandy free online tool. It irritated me that he immediately assumed it was Nazi related because it was in German and had words like 'chaos' on it.

On an SEO Note: Companies out there...if you have a domain name that you love and don't want to have annoying problems like this crop up, please buy all the extensions to your domain name, or you may risk what FAU is risking. :P

I was going online to check my bank account when low and behold, my bank account went in the negatives yesterday. I was a little confused because while I made a cash deposit after 5pm (which is their cut off time for same day deposits), I didn't make any purchases until approximately 8pm that evening. When I called my banking rep to ask them what was going on, I found out something disturbing...( Read more... )

Hmmm, I've discovered something today. Diphenhydramine affects me like valium...I'm drowsy, numb and all together not giving a crap about the world around me. My boss is all hyper about something and I'm like 'okay, whatever' mode.

Here's to drug induced apathy! I would discuss this wonderful state more but I have to get back to work...there's no rest for the damned. :P

Yes. I'm in hell. It's hot, noisy and there is a distinct smell of sulfur in the air. :P

Hehe, well, okay, I'm stretching it, I know but this whole 're-roofing all the buildings in my complex' is getting really annoying. I got in at 9:00am, just as the workmen were starting the wonderful ritual of tearing up the tile on the roof above me. The building next door already had it's tile removed so they're tarring it. I can't get that damn sulfur smell out of my nose. It's just there, torturing my sinus cavity, causing my eyes to water and my skin to itch (I have a minor allergy versus sulfur). My pregnant co-worker has the AC turned off cause she's 'cold'. And my demonic boss is standing over me with a whip and slave driving (okay...he's not 'standing' over me and there's no whip but you get the picture.)

The only thing we're missing is the screams of the damned...hmmm, I wonder. If I just start randomly screaming, do you think that would rattle my boss? Or just add to his sadistic enjoyment.

Disclaimer: My boss is not a sadistic bastard, he just has an annoying Type A personality that lives to work and works to live. Most days we love him...more importantly we love the paycheck he provides but there are just some days the 'go, go, go' mantra is really irritating.

My grandfather is in the hospital again...some type of blood infection and there was an amputation scare because his leg, which is where the infection started, swelled up rather alarmingly. Between this and attending 2 shivas this past week, I'm feeling pretty drained.

Took my little one to Wannadoo City. For those of you not familiar with this theme park:

At Wannado City, kids can be whatever they want to be – right now. From paleontologist to news reporter, to everything in between, kids try out tons of grown-up jobs in the first indoor city just their size. They can operate on a patient, cook up a pizza or even solve a crime. Wannado City, where kids can do what they Wannado!™ http://www.wannadocity.com

My toddler loved it! We were there for 4 hours and my little guy was running non-stop. Now from the adult perspective, here's my review of this theme park.

Overview: Over all, a wonderful experience. I ended up feeling jealous that they didn't have this when I was a kid.

Favorite Job: Fireman...it was very well done. They get to go down a slide, put on the 'fireman' gear, run over to a building that's 'on fire' and use the hoses on the fire truck to put it out. My kid loved it so much that we did it twice.

Worst Job: Policeman...it was pure chaos. The kids show up, they section off one group into police and the other into villians and then let them loose. Now the older kids can grasp this, but my little one was completely confused on what he should be doing. And the play between the kids got a little rough when they were 'arresting' their suspects.

Other highlights: Each time your kid does a 'job', he gets fake money that he can spend in the park or deposit in the bank. While this concept mostly went over my kid's head. It was very funny to watch him finish a job and then go to the person in charge of the ride and demand his payment.