Argh!  Another Friday the 13th!  We just had one.  And we still have one more to go this year (it’s in November).

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The birds are in the air and in the trees, the squirrels are in the yard, the bugs are coming back.  Yes, Spring is coming.  Time to get your lawnmowers ready for the yard, get the ax sharpened, get the saw blades sharpened, and get the weed whacker some new line.  The time for getting outside and getting sunburn is at hand. Spring begins on March 20th. Yes, you only have until a week from tomorrow to enjoy Winter.

But I’m still pissed about the early time change.

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An experienced farmer marries a young, ditzy city girl and he takes her home to his farm.  The young wife is a pretty good cook, cleans well, and even makes him a large glass of iced sweet tea every afternoon.  The farmer is really impressed and is very appreciative, but he is concerned that she is spending all of her time attending to his needs and she is beginning to look tired. After a long talk with his wife, the farmer convinces his wife that she should take it easy and maybe take up a hobby to help her relax.  The wife decides that she would like to take-up knitting so the farmer takes his wife into town and she gets some books on knitting and huge amounts of yarn.  The farmer was concerned about the amount of yarn his wife was buying, but he reasoned that, being a novice knitter, she would need plenty of yarn for practice. 

After a few months the farmer was dying to see how his wife was coming along with her hobby.  He was amazed at her output when she showed him a room full of small sweaters. Upon closer examination, the farmer found that the sweaters were perfectly knitted but they all had flaws – none of the small sweaters had sleeves or even arm holes.  Not one to disappoint his wife but curious about the same mistake on all of the sweaters, the farmer pointed out the missing sleeves. 

The wife said “Oh silly, chickens don’t need sleeves on their sweaters.”

Perplexed, the farmer asked why the chickens needed sweaters. 

The wife said, “I heard you talking to the farmer next door when he asked if you were going to sell your surplus roosters and you said no, I’ll just pluck them and put them in the freezer. I thought they might get cold in there with no feathers.”

And I felt the groans of a billion souls….

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1. Mourning :: After, The
2. Approval :: rating
3. Lotion :: motion
4. Perspire :: deoderant
5. Language :: French
6. Defection :: poopy
7. Play :: hard
8. Graphic :: novel
9. Spicy :: meatball
10. In love :: with the other woman

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What would you do?

1. If your car/bike is wrecked (if your mass transit service goes belly-up), do you know what you would do to replace it, perhaps even have the car or bike you want already picked out?
If my car was wrecked, my insurance would pay for a replacement car, a cheap one no doubt, do it will be whatever is available.

2. A client/friend gives you a lottery ticket, which wins you a prize worth (after taxes) ten times as much money as you earned/received last year. What will you do with it?
Share at least part with the client/friend and then pay off my debts.

3. Fight or flee?
Depends on the circumstances. If anyone else is in peril, I will fight. If not, it is a good chance I’ll flee.

4. Someone performs a random act of kindness that is exactly what you need on a bad day. If you wish to pay them back, would you write a poem, bake, buy something, or what?
Take them to dinner, a good one.

5. Your manager commands you to pick a charity to contribute to. Do you resist? If not, which charity would be your first choice?
I don’t take kindly to commands. Try asking and you might get it.

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‘Fess up, how many of you forgot to spring forward on Sunday morning?  Yes, that is way all of you were late for work Monday after sleeping all day Sunday.  I really hate the way the time changes this early in the year (thanks a lot Bush).  I was just getting used to a little sunlight as I make my way to work, but now it is back to pitch black night… with fog most mornings.  Yes, the afternoon is nice though I have no idea what to do with it this early in the year – the grass has not started growing, too early to plant anything, not enough daylight after work to start on next winter’s firewood – so basically I am just blinded by the evening sun flashing through my den windows.

And I am sleepy all the time.

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Washing clothes and nothing on TV! The one time all weekend I get to sit down and watch TV while the washer and dryer are running and nothing is on.  At least the Simpsons et al will be on later.

And yes, I was the clothes and cook meals.  And no, I do not have a maid outfit as my sister-in-law’s did not fit me.  That was a joke people.  Why isn’t anyone laughing?

Now the people in my head are saying “Feed me! Feed me!”.  Oops, that is actually my son talking.

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Since I was going to town anyway today, I took my daughter and her friend to see Coraline.  From what I can gather, they both liked the movie though they didn’t say much more than talk about the fat naked woman (in a PG movie?).

My sister-in-law when to see Watchmen and commented that though it was a superhero movie, it was not like Iron Man or Spidey.  Not that it was a bad movie, she said it was quite good, just don’t expect to see a bunch of villain-fighting or superpowers.  From what I remember of the graphic novel, the whole point was that there was no traditional comic book action rather insightful studies into heroes.  She did mention that there was not giant squid at the end… though there is plenty of glowing blue penis.

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I am sooooo glad the work day is over.  Too bad I’m not going to see Coraline or Watchmen this weekend.I was hoping that I might, just might, get a chance to have a weekend off, but it seems I have a list of things to do since we will have warm, summer-like weather this weekend. Yes, it is going from freezing to hot!

Well, y’all enjoy your movies.

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