Saturday, June 30, 2007
The Joy of Cats
Hooray, it's Caturday! What does Marlena like to do on the weekends? Sleep in.
Thankfully, I have two loving cats that know what I need better than I do, so they decided to wake me up at 8:30 with a loud crash from the kitchen. No big deal, we've always got comic books, toys or some sort of art on the table that beckons at our cats (mostly Chewie) to knock them off at night. But not THIS morning. Oh no. They had something even BETTER to jack around with than mere comics or toys.
Here's a precursor. Ben and I went grocery shopping last night instead of Sunday when I usually go. I had a craving for cupcakes while we were there and decided to buy a small package of them.
Can you tell where this is going?
There were 6 cupcakes in the package. We went shopping early since we got off work early, so we each had one before we went out to dinner with Ben's family because it was going to be a couple hours before dinner.
Then later that night as we were watching Cujo, we each had another cupcake. This left 2 cupcakes for us to eat today. At least that was my plan.
Well, the package these cupcakes came in were one of those hard plastic clamshell type containers and apparently when Ben served up our Cujo cakes last night, he didn't snap the package closed all the way. So the fun crash I heard this morning was the sound of a waterfall of cupcakes hitting our kitchen floor.
Did I mention that the cupcakes were in the kitchen on top of our counter, that the cats are NOT allowed on? Yes, they were!!!
So Ben gets up to investigate and brings me a cupcake that has been licked CLEAN of frosting. I was going to get a picture of it, but he threw it away before I got the chance. This means that our cats (but probably only Chewie, Fizzgig detests anything that isn't cat food) feasted on frosting ALL NIGHT LONG. So not only did he hop himself up on sugar, but we will probably be paying for the fact that cats shouldn't consume sugar by strategically placing piles of cat yak a la land-mine-style for us to find all over the house.
Here's the lesson today, kids: If you have cupcakes and cats do not leave the cupcakes out in the open, because apparently, cats not only have strange cravings for V8, but they also love them some sugar frosting...
Thankfully, I have two loving cats that know what I need better than I do, so they decided to wake me up at 8:30 with a loud crash from the kitchen. No big deal, we've always got comic books, toys or some sort of art on the table that beckons at our cats (mostly Chewie) to knock them off at night. But not THIS morning. Oh no. They had something even BETTER to jack around with than mere comics or toys.
Here's a precursor. Ben and I went grocery shopping last night instead of Sunday when I usually go. I had a craving for cupcakes while we were there and decided to buy a small package of them.
Can you tell where this is going?
There were 6 cupcakes in the package. We went shopping early since we got off work early, so we each had one before we went out to dinner with Ben's family because it was going to be a couple hours before dinner.
Then later that night as we were watching Cujo, we each had another cupcake. This left 2 cupcakes for us to eat today. At least that was my plan.
Well, the package these cupcakes came in were one of those hard plastic clamshell type containers and apparently when Ben served up our Cujo cakes last night, he didn't snap the package closed all the way. So the fun crash I heard this morning was the sound of a waterfall of cupcakes hitting our kitchen floor.
Did I mention that the cupcakes were in the kitchen on top of our counter, that the cats are NOT allowed on? Yes, they were!!!
So Ben gets up to investigate and brings me a cupcake that has been licked CLEAN of frosting. I was going to get a picture of it, but he threw it away before I got the chance. This means that our cats (but probably only Chewie, Fizzgig detests anything that isn't cat food) feasted on frosting ALL NIGHT LONG. So not only did he hop himself up on sugar, but we will probably be paying for the fact that cats shouldn't consume sugar by strategically placing piles of cat yak a la land-mine-style for us to find all over the house.
Here's the lesson today, kids: If you have cupcakes and cats do not leave the cupcakes out in the open, because apparently, cats not only have strange cravings for V8, but they also love them some sugar frosting...
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Delivery Driver RANT
Ok all you pizza (and/or any type of food) delivery drivers out there. LISTEN UP!
Please do not come to my house without change for a $20 and expect me to give you a $10 tip because you are bad at your job and don't come prepared.
This isn't my first rodeo and you aren't the first delivery person to try and pull this on me. Even though you always feign that you can't BELIEVE that you don't have enough change, I am not going to cave.
If I show up at my job and I'm unprepared I would get reprimanded, sent home or possibly fired, what makes your job any different?
Please do not come to my house without change for a $20 and expect me to give you a $10 tip because you are bad at your job and don't come prepared.
This isn't my first rodeo and you aren't the first delivery person to try and pull this on me. Even though you always feign that you can't BELIEVE that you don't have enough change, I am not going to cave.
If I show up at my job and I'm unprepared I would get reprimanded, sent home or possibly fired, what makes your job any different?
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Ben's Blog
Ben and I updated his blog. He finally did a redesign for his part of the site. He's on 2.0 and I'm on like 10.0 I think.
He's changed the format so it will be more of an art blog, so if you haven't already, go check it out!
Ben's Blog!
He's changed the format so it will be more of an art blog, so if you haven't already, go check it out!
Ben's Blog!
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Menehune in the HOUSE
Ben, Chris and I went to Trader Vic's last night for some booze and grub, and it was CHOICE.
First it was booze because we got there "WAY early" according to the girl at the hostess station when we arrived to let them know that we were here, but that we'd be back at our reservation time, but if they had an opening before then, to let us know. Needless to say, THAT didn't happen.
I was drinking some of Queen Charlotte's Fruit Punch (non-alcoholic) because I was driving, but thankfully it was still served in a coconut, so I felt VERY festive. I'm also very ticked that they don't sell these coconuts, because I would make it my beverage container of choice for everything thereafter.
That's Chris with my Menehune that came with Ben's Menehune Juice. He's cute and has a nice bare bottom.
These pictures were from the beginning of our time in the main dining area. It was our first time actually eating there, we'd gone before just to partake in the awesome adult beverages and bar food. The cheese balls are DIVINE, and so is the Beef Cho Cho.
We had an awesome time, and it was like being thrown back into the fifties. I wanted to put on a grass skirt and do the hula by the time the night was over.
The other cool thing was that my cell phone got NO reception inside the actual dining room. Which may be accidental, or they may work like the Las Vegas Sportsbook and scramble reception so as not to disrupt the ambiance of the dining room. Either way, it was rad.
So if you like 50's Tiki cool chic and old reruns of Gilligan's Island, check out Trader Vic's. But make sure you make a reservation through OpenTable.com, because you aren't about to just walk in and get a table.
To all my Vegas peeps, don't worry, they are opening a Trader Vic's there in September of this year!
First it was booze because we got there "WAY early" according to the girl at the hostess station when we arrived to let them know that we were here, but that we'd be back at our reservation time, but if they had an opening before then, to let us know. Needless to say, THAT didn't happen.
I was drinking some of Queen Charlotte's Fruit Punch (non-alcoholic) because I was driving, but thankfully it was still served in a coconut, so I felt VERY festive. I'm also very ticked that they don't sell these coconuts, because I would make it my beverage container of choice for everything thereafter.That's Chris with my Menehune that came with Ben's Menehune Juice. He's cute and has a nice bare bottom.These pictures were from the beginning of our time in the main dining area. It was our first time actually eating there, we'd gone before just to partake in the awesome adult beverages and bar food. The cheese balls are DIVINE, and so is the Beef Cho Cho.We had an awesome time, and it was like being thrown back into the fifties. I wanted to put on a grass skirt and do the hula by the time the night was over.
The other cool thing was that my cell phone got NO reception inside the actual dining room. Which may be accidental, or they may work like the Las Vegas Sportsbook and scramble reception so as not to disrupt the ambiance of the dining room. Either way, it was rad.
So if you like 50's Tiki cool chic and old reruns of Gilligan's Island, check out Trader Vic's. But make sure you make a reservation through OpenTable.com, because you aren't about to just walk in and get a table.
To all my Vegas peeps, don't worry, they are opening a Trader Vic's there in September of this year!
Friday, June 15, 2007
SiP Wrap Party Recap
Ben found this video of the SiP wrap party.
It's really choice and bittersweet, especially with "I Dream of You" as the background music.
iFanboy Video
Nerd on, people, nerd on.
It's really choice and bittersweet, especially with "I Dream of You" as the background music.
iFanboy Video
Nerd on, people, nerd on.
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
From Here to Maternity
I've just finished reading issue #90 of Strangers in Paradise. It was the final issue of the series. And, of course, it turned me into a blubbering idiot.
Thankfully the clerk at my local comic shop didn't try to talk about it and ruin the ending for me (which DID happen to me by a co-worker when Preacher ended and if I'd had a knife, I would have CUT him), or so Ben told me because a phone call thwarted my efforts to accompany him to the counter to pay for it.
We went out to eat, came home and I cracked open the last issue of, in my opinion, the greatest comic story ever told. It's funny, reading the last issue was like hearing the dying breath of a family member who has just succumbed to a debilitating disease. And not in a bad way, like "Thank GOD this was the last nail in the coffin of an excruciating journey that needed to end", but more like the welcome slumber after a long and exhausting battle of the heart and mind. We all knew it was coming, and that there was no cure no matter how hard we cried, but in the end, we knew that it was for the best.
I've been disappointed in the past with "final issues" or other comic series' that I've committed my life to. (Yes, I AM the kiss of death to any and all comics. If I start to like something and get into it, it WILL end... sorry Terry, but I know you were ready to move on anyway, and you had 14 years) Much to my delight, this final issue did not disappoint. I had an idea of where the story would end up, but I was also pleasantly surprised by some of it.
I won't give away any spoilers for anyone that hasn't read it yet. I think I've said too much already with the title of this post anyway. BUT, you won't know WHO is "with child" until you read it.
So I just want to say thanks, to Terry Moore for giving us the best story in comics, EVER, and to giving me, personally, a small parallel into my own life.
Now that it's done, I can't wait to go back and read it all over again. And most likely blubber like an idiot even though I've been there before.
Thankfully the clerk at my local comic shop didn't try to talk about it and ruin the ending for me (which DID happen to me by a co-worker when Preacher ended and if I'd had a knife, I would have CUT him), or so Ben told me because a phone call thwarted my efforts to accompany him to the counter to pay for it.
We went out to eat, came home and I cracked open the last issue of, in my opinion, the greatest comic story ever told. It's funny, reading the last issue was like hearing the dying breath of a family member who has just succumbed to a debilitating disease. And not in a bad way, like "Thank GOD this was the last nail in the coffin of an excruciating journey that needed to end", but more like the welcome slumber after a long and exhausting battle of the heart and mind. We all knew it was coming, and that there was no cure no matter how hard we cried, but in the end, we knew that it was for the best.
I've been disappointed in the past with "final issues" or other comic series' that I've committed my life to. (Yes, I AM the kiss of death to any and all comics. If I start to like something and get into it, it WILL end... sorry Terry, but I know you were ready to move on anyway, and you had 14 years) Much to my delight, this final issue did not disappoint. I had an idea of where the story would end up, but I was also pleasantly surprised by some of it.
I won't give away any spoilers for anyone that hasn't read it yet. I think I've said too much already with the title of this post anyway. BUT, you won't know WHO is "with child" until you read it.
So I just want to say thanks, to Terry Moore for giving us the best story in comics, EVER, and to giving me, personally, a small parallel into my own life.
Now that it's done, I can't wait to go back and read it all over again. And most likely blubber like an idiot even though I've been there before.
Wednesday, June 06, 2007
Bat Mobile
Ben and I were at On the Border several months ago and I saw my cosmic twin in the parking lot (I've had too much going on to post this sooner):
As some of you may know, in Vegas I was known as "BATGRRL" and I got MANY roadside shout-outs in my little Nissan.
So whoever you are, kudos for an awesomely nerdy plate!
As some of you may know, in Vegas I was known as "BATGRRL" and I got MANY roadside shout-outs in my little Nissan.So whoever you are, kudos for an awesomely nerdy plate!
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