He just makes it so easy...

Everytime I upload pictures from my camera I have at least 2 pictures of Bananer looking goofy. It's just who he is and what I do.

I felt like it was time to share some new ones with you. So here it is...Crazy Bananer Pictures: Summer Edition. Enjoy!

Season Finale Predictions

As you may or may not know Bananer, my mom and I have certain shows that we like to watch every week. As a matter of fact, up until a few weeks ago Wednesday was the only weeknight without one of our shows. Thanks a lot ABC for bringing in Notes From the Underbelly. No, seriously, thank you for this new show. I laugh my ass off at it every week but I'm not sure it needs to be on at 7:30. Some of, okay most of it, is a little too mature for that time slot if you ask me.

Anyways, I digress. As the season nears its end I have been making my season finale predictions. You know that it's not a good finale unless it leaves you with a cliff hanger. So, here's my predictions so far.


Monday: Dancing With the Stars - I can not pick a winner this season. I find myself torn between Joey & Kim, Laila & Maks, Apollo & Julianne and Ian & Cheryl. It really hurts when I try to pick a winner so I'm not going to. I do predict that the season finale will be filled with some great dancing (well d'uh).

Heroes - Yeah, I can't predict this one either. 1) I haven't watched this week's episode yet and B) they're great at throwing twists in here, there and everywhere. Every episode's a cliff hanger with this one.


Tuesday: NCIS - All I'm saying is something bad is going to happend to Tony's girlfriend. It's going to end with her either getting killed or kidnapped. They've been leading up to that the whole season. And what is up with Jenny's obsession with La Grenouille?! I'm telling ya...they've slept together. That's got to be it. She must have fallen for him during some kind of undercover operation.


Wednesday: Notes From the Underbelly - I can't make a prediction on this one either because it hasn't been on but a couple of weeks now.


Thursday: Grey's Anatomy - Here's my Grey's predictions....1) Callie's going to find out about George and Izzie and she's going to leave him. George and Izzie are finally going to admit that they're supposed to be together. 2) Alex is going to end up with Jane Doe aka Ava. That's been obvious since they brought her onto the show. Alex is also going to finally admit that he belongs on the "Gynie Squad". It's his calling. 3) McDreamy's finally going to dump Meredith and she's finally going to get over it. Seriously. 4) Addison's going to leave (we already know this) and her new spin off is going to kick ass. I'm actually looking forward to it. 5) Burke and Yang are going to get married and she's going to love it. 6) The chief's going to decide that he can't retire. He's not ready to give it up.


Sunday: Desperate Housewives - All I can say on this one is that Carlos is going to stop Gaby's wedding to tell her he still loves her and she's going to take him back. They belong together and it's about time they realize it.





So...there ya go....my season finale predictions. Anyone care to make a wager on any of them? ; )

Hey Jen!

I read this article and thought of you. I'm interested in your thoughts on this. Whatdoyathink?

I can't come up with a catchy title.....

So that's what you get. Sorry.


Here are some random things I came across online yesterday and today.


Prank call gone wrong - Poor woman....I hope these girls get what they deserve.

Bank robbery attempt gone wrong - Say hello to my little loan application.

Hey....he's not a man! - This had to have been an interesting discovery.

My boyfriend is really my girlfriend? - I'm sure mom and dad were real pleased when they found this out.

See...changing daylight savings time was a bad idea. - And I thought it was just screwing up my sleep.

This is just wrong. - These kids are 5th graders.

Whoops! - I really don't understand how they could have messed this up.

Only in Alabama - Seriously...I don't have anything to say about this one.

Warm fuzzy moment - Bananer doesn't think this really happened. What do you think?



And as promised......

Cruise slide show numero uno:

Cruise slide show B (these are all from our day in Cozumel):

*If you read the captions on the pictures in the slide shows you would have noticed that I mentioned emo kids talking about their lululerahs. You can find out what a lululerah is here**. Enjoy!

**Come back to see the lululerahs. I'm posting this at work and what do ya know, that site is blocked. Of course. I'll add the link to the lululerahs this weekend. ; )

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ETA: Here's the link to the lululerah. Enjoy!!

Look who's having a birthday today!!!!

Today is Little Man's 2nd birthday. And he is definitely a little man now. It's hard to believe that he's 2 already. I can hardly keep up with how fast he's growing.



Happy birthday Little Man!!!! Mommy loves you!!!!!

Random McRandomness

First off, before I even apologize for not blogging as often as I used to, let me say that stupid Blogger just ate the entire post I had just written. And it was a long one too. Full of wit and sarcasm. Shit, now I have to try to recreate that. Great.

Here's some random poo just for you since I haven't blogged that much lately.


Random poo numero uno:

My doc has me on a low dose antidepressant for these headaches I've been getting everyday. I don't like it. Not at all. First, it's not doing a damn thing for these headaches. I'm still getting them just about everyday and some days they are almost unbearable. The med she gave me to take when I get a headache doesn't work either. Second, they make me irritable. And that really sucks. Plus they've got me all scatterbrained. I've been stumbling over my words a lot lately and I've been acting like a crackhead. (You don't want to know how many times I've had to erase words or sentences already and I'm not nearly done with this post.)


File this one under Tales from the Workplace:

I seriously wonder about some, if not most, of the people that work here. Right behind our building is a ditch. This ditch fills up with water when it rains, like just about every ditch does, and it is home to quite a few snakes. This is normally something you are warned about when you come to work here because every spring/summer they will see at least two snakes on the property. Okay, so let me tell you about something that happened this morning.

Boss Man was on the phone and his other line started to ring. Me being the good little Admin Assistant that I am, I answered it. On the other end was someone we'll call Linda.

Linda: Hey, is Boss Man around?
Me: He's on the other line. Can I take a message?
Linda: Well, I hate to complain but I hear them out there with the mowers and Boss Man needs to get over there and unlock the gate to the patio (it's the smokers' normal hang out behind the building) so that they can mow there. We're going to get snakes.
Me: I'll give him the message.

Boss Man got off the phone and I gave him the message. His response to me was that he didn't have the key but he would contact the person who does. He called that person and left him a message and we went about our business. Not even two minutes later Linda came flying into Boss Man's office and said "You need to go unlock that gate so that they can mow around the patio." He told her the same thing he told me and she left. Not even two minutes after that, Boss Man got a call from Big Boss Lady (his boss) saying that Linda had called her and told her the same thing. Some people.


It's time to give a shout out and a big congratulations to...

Jen and Chris. They found out this week that they will adding another little ruffian to their family. He should be making his appearance sometime in July. Yay!! I was waiting until they found out the gender of their little person before I started shopping for baby gifts. Bananer will tell you how much I like shopping for baby gifts. : )


I leave you with this....

Be jealous. Be very, very jealous. Bananer and I are heading down to Mobile tonight so that we can be some of the first people to board our cruise ship tomorrow. Yep, we're heading out on an extended weekend courtesy of the Carnival Cruise ship Holiday. Woohoo!!!!

Has it been a year already?

Hard to believe it's been a year since I literally bumped into Bananer at one of the local watering holes. Of course we had been chitchatting on the email for a few days prior to but that was the *first time we had actually met in person. Who would have thought that a year later this would be the person I'm going to wake up to the rest of my life.

Happy anniversary honey! I love you!!!!

*We found out that we've actually run into each other before in the past but didn't know who each other was. Weird huh?

It's official!

Bananer and I have now officially set a date. As you can see from the ticker at the bottom of the page we have decided on April 12, 2008.

I promise to keep everybody up to date as the details unfold.


*edited February 13th - For some reason my tickers do not want to cooperate with my template. Urgh!!!!*

So I've been having migrains all this time? You mean the sinus monsters have not taken up permanent residence in my head?

Really? It's that simple? A prescription? Two at the onset of the headache and one every hour? Could it really be this easy? Will the pain finally go away? Woohoo!!

Wait...what's that warning label on the pill bottle? What does that say? May cause drowsiness? So I can't take these when I get a headache at work?

Guess I'll go back to beating my head against the wall until it goes numb.

Ouch!!!

Did you know that it really hurts if you get it in the head with a Maglite even if it is only being wielded by a 2 year old? And did you know that if you tell a 2 year old not to hit Mommy in the head with a Maglite they're going to do it because they weren't even thinking about doing it until you said something?

Way too much time on my hands...

I found this link today on somebody else's blog and I've been addicted to it all day.

Here's Bananer if he were a M & M.





I'm sure I'll have more to post tomorrow. : )

Yup...another slideshow

I felt it was time for another slideshow. Don't worry...there will be more. ; )

The end has come...

I know you don't want to say goodbye but we must. It's better for me if we stop seeing each other. Yes, we did have some good times. Like that time when we were out with HeHo and she knocked us off of the bar stool. Yeah, that was pretty funny. And then there was that time when you burned a big ass hole in the back seat of my parents' Explorer (that they have not seen yet). That wasn't funny. No, not at all.

Yes, I am sure this is what I want. I want to be able to wake up in the morning and not feel like I'm dying because we partied too much the night before. I want to be able to still smell my shower gel at the end of the day (which has been really nice this week). I want to be able to run after Little Man without having to stop to catch my breath.

I'm sorry Marlboro Man but this is the end.

It's a Festivus for all of us.

And my gift to you is another edition of tales from the workplace.

I know it's not what you asked for but by golly it's all I have.

Characters -
D - Boss
E - Second in Charge
A - coworker in my section
R - supervisor in Purchasing section
RT - coworker in Purchasing section


- R and RT decided to bring lunch for everybody today since it's the last work day before Christmas. R has the greens cooking in her crockpot in our kitchen and RT picked up some fried chicken on his way in to work this morning. Now, it's a running joke in our office that if we have any kind of goodies (cookies, cakes, etc.) in our kitchen that you better get some before RT gets in there because he'll eat it all. R's always telling me that RT will bring 2 sandwiches for lunch and he normally eats both of those, whatever else he brings (chips or cookies) and then finish off the rest of her lunch. The guy can eat people.
So, I get to work this morning and RT's standing there talking to D. I wasn't paying any attention to them until I heard RT say "I had to eat one of those chicken legs on the way to work this morning." Yeah, I had to ask him about it. He said that he couldn't help it because the chicken smelled so good. Then he said "a chicken leg for breakfast is good!"

- Bananer called me yesterday while he was driving to MS for work. We were talking about something and then all of a sudden he said "Holy Shit! I'm in Cuba*!" So I told him to stop in the Welcome Center to see the vending machine my agency has there. About this time D was walking by my office and I caught him stop out of the corner of my eye. I turned to look at him and he said "He must be in Cuba. Did you really just tell him to stop and look at our vending machine?" I said yes and he started laughing. He then went in to E's office and told him that I just told Bananer to stop and look at our vending machine.

- A and I spend a lot of time talking during the day because we really don't have anything else to do half the time. We talk about anything from clothes and food to our personal issues. Here lately I've had a hard time paying attention to some of what she's saying because she has a bad habit of saying "you know what I'm saying" after every other word. I find myself fixated on how many times she says it. This morning though she was telling me a story about something and she had a new overly used word....like. It was like this and like then like this like that and then....URGH!!!!

So with that people I leave you with this....have a like Merry Christmas and like it's a Festivus for all of us, you know what I mean?

*Yes, there is a Cuba, AL.

Tales from the Workplace 12/05/06 Edition

My department has a big Staff Conference going on in another town this week. It started yesterday and ends tomorrow. I, like everyone else in my little office, decided not to go. I haven't been to one of these conferences in the 3 (almost 4) years that I've worked here. I really haven't seen the point in going, other than not having to do any work (and it's not like I do a whole lot lately anyways because this is the time of the year when my workload slows down), so I always skip it. Sure, it would be nice to meet some of these people from the other offices across the state that I only know through phone calls and emails but that's not enough incentive for me to sit through boring speakers that talk about things that don't pertain to me and my job.

So, since I decided to skip it again this year I got stuck with switchboard relief duty today. No biggie really. I only had to sit up there for 15 minutes this morning and 15 minutes this afternoon so that the person that's covering it for the regular receptionist, who did go to the conference, can pee and whatnot. Sounds like a piece of cake right? I mean it normally is. You sit up there, answer the phone, transfer the caller to the person they need to speak with and voila! Yeah, well I wasn't quite prepared for GhettoFest 2006 this morning so my normal piece of cake switchboard duty turned into a case of "What the hell is she thinking?!"

I got up there this morning and the chick was playing a local rap station through the computer. See, we're not allowed to listen to streaming music on our work computers because it slows down the department's servers. We're not allowed to watch video either. Even if it is important news videos. Like the coverage of Susy Q winning Miss Hole in the Wall 2006 (yes folks, that is important news around here). So, not only was she listening to rap music at the switchboard, which to me is very unprofessional and tacky, she was listening to it through the website. You can only imagine how irritated I was when the song would pause to buffer and then start playing again only to buffer for 30 more seconds.

Then...when I went back up there this afternoon she was on a personal call on the switchboard phone. Not a "Hey...your child is sick, come get them" kind of call either. Again, very unprofessional if you ask me. What if some bigwig came walking in and heard her talking about sister girl's baby daddy's cousin who shot the drug dealer because he really needed that crack rock so that he could sell it to pay his child support?! Yeah...not very good.

Okay...let me add this...I have nothing against this chick. I really don't know her. I had only talked to her one time before today and that was to tell her where to sign for her card key to the building. So..this is not a personal attack against her or anything like that. And I'm sure that phone call was not about sister girl's baby daddy's cousin who shot the drug dealer.

Just for Bananer...

Wow...look at that...I said goodbye and I got dragged back for an encore. Bananer commented that I have some great work stories I could blog about so I felt like I should share this one with you.

I went outside on my break this afternoon and I could smell a horrible smell coming out of the door to the other building. One of the chicks who's office is right inside the door stuck her head out and said that they couldn't figure out where it was coming from. It smelled like cheap weave burning (I know what that smells like because this chick I knew in Jr. High lit her's on fire one day just for the shits and giggles). I came back in and sent my boss man to investigate.

He came back to our office shaking his head muttering something about people over there being idiots. This is nothing new but my coworker and I felt like a good laugh so we asked him if he found the smell. He said yes and that we would never believe where it was coming from. Some chick in our Accounting section had plugged her space heater (why she needed her space heater since it's the end of November and 70 degrees outside I don't know. I mean people are walking around in shorts and tshirts right now.) into the power cord for her computer (which boss man and our computer services people are always saying not to do). The damn plug caught on fire. Burned it right up. Come to find out she didn't even know it was on fire until she heard the sizzling noise.

Now let me tell you this...my coworker had walked over to the other building during her lunch break (between 11:30 and 12:00) and could smell something funky. My boss man found the burned up plug around 2:45 - 3:00. These people were sitting there smelling the burning plastic for hours and nobody said anything. Great huh?

It's been fun. No really, it has. It's okay to cry. I understand.

I'm going to miss you too. I was having so much fun trying to come up with something interesting to blog about everyday. It's going to be really hard for me to stay away from here but I think it will be better for us if we don't see each other everyday. Trust me...you'll thank me later. You see, I'm only doing this for your own good. I know what a bore some of my posts have been this month and I really want you to be able to walk away from this without a concussion from beating your head against the wall. Repeatedly.

I'll still post so don't think I am abandoning you completely. I just don't think I have it in me to post everyday. Who knows. I might. There's that smile I was looking for. Yes, I will post as much as I can as the wedding plans start to progress. I'm sure you will tickled pink to hear all about it. Just like I'm sure you're going to be thrilled when I tell you that I've spent the last couple of hours trying to find wedding locations for this wonderful town we live in and have not been able to find squat.

You see Bananer and I don't want a church wedding. We're not church people(Easy there killer. Put down the "You are not Christian people!" comments. We have our faith and our beliefs...we just don't believe in mass worship.) I had my heart set on getting married at the local Museum of Fine Arts but I found out from my coworker that they only do receptions there. Well, what fun would it be to have the ceremony in a church (that we're not members of) and then drive to the museum for the reception? You got it...not a whole lot. Now I'm struggling to find a sophisticated location like that to have both our ceremony and reception at. I kind of want an outdoor wedding but I want it to be in the evening. And I want it to be classy. That narrows my options way down.

On top of all that I can't send in for a price quote from the two locations I did find because we haven't set a date yet. We can't set a date until we know how much we need to save. Great. Looks like we're just going around in circles chasing our tails.

Okay, I know you don't want me to go but I must. My daily posts here have come to an end. Unless you're really nice and bribe me with nice things. Maybe then I'll consider posting everyday. Just remember, it's going to take a lot to get me to post on the weekends again.

Have I told you lately...

How much Blogger sucks? I just spent over an hour working on my stolen blog post and then Blogger decided to go and fuck it up. Now I have to post this pathetic little post about how much I hate Blogger because I'm too tired to try to fix my first post. Great.

I've got nothing yet again...

This is why I said I was not going to blog at night anymore. I have absolutely nothing to blog about. I guess I can try to do that Tuesday Ten that everyone else does. Here goes...ten random things.


1. I feel like there's a high school prom going on in my head right now.
2. I think the little sinus monsters are doing the YMCA right now.
3. If they do the Macarena I'm going to bang my head against the wall and hope that I knock myself out.
4. Damn "winters" here in the South. How can it be the end of November and the highs be in the 70's?!
5. I blame this for the krunkfest going on inside my head.
6. Bananer's sitting here trying to read me the latest bashing of the Alabama head coach issue from his beloved Auburn forum.
7. I had to give him my "I'm not amused" face.
8. Thank goodness he understands the face.
9. That and our daily undressing ritual are some of the reasons why I said yes when he asked me to marry him.
10. I can still smell the Nag Champa incense that I burned two days ago.

Well there ya go....10 random things from me. I hope you enjoy. I'm off to bed. Hopefully the krunkfest is almost over. If not...I'm unplugging the damn sound equipment.

Yada, yada, yada....

Here we are again at 10 pm and I have nothing to blog about. Maybe I should go back to blogging during the day. At least it would make my day at work go by. But then again, now that shithead's no longer working with us I don't have anything to blog about during the day.

So...with that you get TV Land's list of 100 Greatest Catchphrases. Enjoy!