Choice

This happened a while ago, but I just remembered/found it and it made me giggle all over again (you may have seen this question on my Twitter* a few months ago...)

 

Rach:  If you had the choice, which would you want to lose arm or leg?

 

Bing: Lose the leg. We're much more dependent on the dexterity of your hand and fingers for everyday things. Toes are useless and you can get around just fine hobbling around on a wooden peg (who needs to run anyway? this ain't middle school gym class anymore). And you're more likely to score yourself a handicapped parking spot with a wooden leg than you would a prosthetic arm.

 

Gotta love him =)

 

 

* www.twitter.com/mrsrgb

 

Fall

I love fall.  As I sit here sipping on my first Pumpkin Spice Latte of the season I'm excited about the decrease in humidity levels among other things (also pretty stoked about the new Starbucks promotion of "buy a latte get a cookie for a dollar, but that's not really the point*).  I love wearing jeans, particularly with my boots (still not quite time to bust out those bad boys) and the need for a sweater at night couldn't come fast enough for me.  I can't wait to smell more grills firing up in the evenings (or in our case smokers' crammed full of BBQ ribs), wood fires burning at night, and the return of soups, stews, and chili as acceptable dinner-fare.  Fall also mean the return of college football and regularly scheduled television programming which we all know that I love.  For me, nothing's better than a Saturday of football, with some tasty eats in hand, and no sweating on this side of my TV screen.

 

I'd say "Happy Fall", but technically I suppose that doesn't start until next Tuesday...whatever...today it starts for me with my latte =P

 

*My cookie of choice has M&Ms in festive fall colors.  Love it!

Cookies

This will probably still not stop Hubby from eating raw cookie dough...

 

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,545581,00.html

Blood

Rach: I hate paper cuts. They feel too ridiculous to require a Band-Aid, but if I wear no Band-Aid I get blood shmears on my documentation. Now that's classy.

 

Bing: Wear the Band-Aid proudly. If anybody asks about it, give them some great war story about being wounded in battle while saving the planet from venomous blood-thirsty creatures.

 

Rach: My binders?

 

Bing: Right, those venomous blood-thirsty creatures.

Obsolete

So, I'm feeling rather nostalgic today as the news reported on "a glimpse of the world through the eyes of each incoming class" of college freshmen due to graduate in 2013 (which I thought was a fairly laughable claim in of itself...but that's beside the point.  Apparently Beliot College (whoever they are) has put out a list of items that they claim will help professors understand the new incoming class ever since the incoming class of 2002 came along (hooray for Hubby!)  I took a look at several years (Hubby's, mine, and the class of 2013) and was not too impressed by some of the points that were brought up...I think the timing may have been slightly off for some things, but all in all a decent idea.  Very entertaining.

 

Then things got really entertaining as I found another article on obsolete technology.  Now this was entertaining and kinda crazy to see how far technology has come, even in my lifetime...

 

...sometimes don't you just wish you could make a banner using a dot matrix printer? 

 

I do.

Cupcake

Now this is MY kind of record-breaking event!

 

1,224-Pound Cupcake Sets Record as World's Largest

 

...man I love cupcakes...

Geese

http://www.wtopnews.com/?nid=25&sid=1731692

 

If you've known me any length of time, in the past 4+ years I have probably complained about the ridiculousness of the Canadian Geese (I generally refer to them as "Those Ducks Again") that plague our area.  They are everywhere, and most annoyingly, in my work parking lot.  Sometimes they take up parking spaces, sometimes they fly toward your head as you walk to the door, sometimes they poop on your car....the list goes on and on.  Needless to say, there is a plethora of these things roaming around Fairfax and Loudoun counties (at the very least) and really, no one needs to go to great lengths to ensure the survival of a few more.  I would have honked my horn with all it's honking power had I seen this insanity in the middle of the road. 

 

Those ducks would have figured out soon enough to flap their little wings and fly across the road, at least that's what they do when I start heading toward them in my car on my way out of the parking lot at night, gaining speed as I go!