You asked for a large bag of hair, on the way to Taganskaya Courthouse.

Bruce Willis trying to speak Russian and the cabbie saying what he actually said.

I'm paraphrasing, I'll fix it later.

Yes, this is late but at least it's posted.

So it's been a whirlwind of a day.

Woke up feeling like crap, headache, runny nose, sore throat but it's all mental so I figured I could power through 8 hours to get to the 3 day weekend. Though it occurred to me that if I called in sick and then took vacation on my birthday I could have like 5 days off in a row.

But I would go insane with boredom.

Anyway, another slow day for stats, think I increased to like 30ish, which isn't bad I guess though like 15 of those were electronic assistance cause it seemed like everyone was having problems in the lab today.

Watched an episode of UK Winter Wipeout at lunch.

I'm working my way through the other countries cause I finished the USA version, all that's online anyway. Then it was Canada, then Australia now UK.

I can always tell who's in charge of schedules for the day by checking the time I'm scheduled for lunch. If it's Bosslady I go at 1, if it's my other supervisor I go at 12. But that's cause BossLady knows I prefer 1 cause it breaks up the day, hour-wise. 4 stations in the morning then lunch then 4 stations in the afternoon.

Not important, anyway, I can't really remember anything spectacular about this afternoon, after awhile they blend together.

After work I picked up the Queen of Awesome as she is car-less and dropped her off at her place then like a crazy person decided to drive to the farmhouse stopping to see the boyfriend on the way there.

Which was stupid cause the roads are awful.

Was literally sliding all over the place, at one point I had my foot on the break for like half a mile and the car wouldn't stop. Glad the car ahead of me was far enough away for the car to just coast out. Otherwise I'd have to drive on the grass to avoid them.

It made for an interesting ride. I kept switching songs thinking, "do I really want to die to this song?"

Really weeds out the favorites in your playlist.

I know, morbid, sorry.

Here are a few surprises:

Be My Escape - Relient K

love these guys.

The Beat Goes On - Sonny & Cher

wow they look young. and happy.

guess history really has turned the page...

Anyway, these 2 are catchy but with the Beat Goes On it was like background noise cause I wasn't paying attention to it - I was actually focused on the road - but you know when you get like halfway through a song and then realize that you've been singing it from the beginning but didn't even realize it?

Or is that just me?

Delayed...Reaction used to karaoke that song all the time, but I haven't been there in years.

So I stopped by the boyfriend's place then went over to see a few of his friends. After that we hit up Die Hard 5 aka A Good Day To Die Hard.


It was pretty good. The boyfriend jokes that in the next one he'll have a walker. But he is in his 60's I believe so it is feasible.

Still fits the character perfectly.


"Need a hug?"
"We're not a hugging family."
"Damn straight."

Basically storyline is his kid gets in trouble - he hasn't seen him in years - so he goes over to talk to him and ends up getting caught in the middle of his son's mess.


"The 007 of Plainfield, New Jersey."

Keeps claiming he's on vacation like pretty much every other Die Hard movie.

Scale of Awesome puts it in the 7/10 range so not bad. Not great like the 1st and 4th but still better than 2 and 3.

It didn't help that the girl in front of us wouldn't sit still, she was driving the boyfriend nuts. And the rest of her group talked and texted through the whole thing.

We couldn't decide if they were high school band geeks - were conducting the opening orchestra - or just really annoying college freshmen.

In the end we decided freshmen.

Afterward I made it to the farmhouse unscathed.

Probably not so smart to drive home in that weather, but it was worth it. And I'm pretty sure the parentals wanted me to come home as I haven't been often lately.

What's interesting though is I think the last time I lived a full year at the farmhouse was in the 8th grade because I went to a dorm high school and college, then right after college I got the 2 jobs and moved out completely.

And the last time I lived here longer than a month was 2008 cause summer of 2009 I was taking care of Grams.

Weird.

Speaking of Grams, been working on some family history lately so you may be getting chunks of that throughout the week.

Interesting fact is I have so much more information on my dad's side than I do on my mom's. But that's cause I grew up half a mile away from them and went over there every day after school.

The irony being that the matriarch who could tell me all the stories I'm seeking on the other side of the family doesn't remember them.

Or me.

So I'm screwed there.

Sorry, morbid again, I know.

But I gave you the music rec's and the Scale of Awesome rating so I'm out. Have a good weekend.

Like the proverbial cheese I stand alone.

Oh my god did you watch Castle?

I screamed so many times it's ridiculous.

Would've made for an excellent Halloween episode, kind of random to bring it now, but it helped the season go out with a bang.

Next week will be even bigger since it's the season finale.

And the preview makes it looks intriguing. Especially after the conversation they had on tonight's episode.

Finally!

Most likely will suck to have to wait until fall when it picks up again.

I'm assuming it's been renewed for another season.

But I'll have The Closer to distract me.

Though I'm way behind, last I knew there she was just told there's a leak in the department, no idea from then on.

The Voice was great as well tonight.

They're down to the semi-finals so everyone sang, tomorrow one on each team gets eliminated leading to the final four.

I'm guessing Tony Lucca - even though I love Katrina Parker - Juliet Simms - you could tell by the amount of applause - Jermaine Paul - though Erin has grown on me - and I'm hoping Lindsey Pavao moves on, if Christina has a say she would definite favoritism, but I'm guessing Chris Mann will move on and he had a better song then she did.

I'm really really hoping it's Juliet but I'm guessing it'll go to Tony Lucca or Jermaine Paul.

It's interesting though cause it seems Christina really doesn't like Tony that much even though they were on the Mickey Mouse Club together, she thinks the show should be about the voice not about stardom storylines.

Which it should, but she's called it out a couple times now, even tonight when she was promoting Katrina.

Stoked for tomorrow's episode, still gotta buy some of the songs off iTunes to show some support. Tony Lucca and Juliet Simms were the best tonight. Though they're always good.

It's cool that you can vote through Facebook or itunes downloads.

Anyway, slept in, 4-6 at work, was totally out of it as I told Slim Shady I was glad to see she survived Italia. Which I already told her as she's been back since Wednesday. And we sat together at inservice for the majority of Thursday.

Woops.

Remembered another item for my to-do-list, finish editing the stories my friend sent me back in January.

Woops.

Awful editor.

I'm on it though, like 10 pages left in one of them.

Currently I'm watching Big Bang Theory.

Math, science, history unraveling the mystery that all started with a big BANG!

Sheldon is training Penny with chocolate.

I want chocolate.

But I have none.

I'm stuck with cereal.

Not that that's a bad thing.

I love cereal.

The combination of that and chocolate plus apple juice fixes all, but I've posted that already.

Scroll back a few pages and you'll run across it.

So tomorrow is another full day, plus the Voice, but Wednesday I'm going out with a friend to see Hunger Games again, which I surprisingly haven't seen since opening day. You'd think I'd have gone again since I'd talked to so many people about going.

Stoked.

"Oh, big talk for a man who was once treed by a chicken."

I'm out. Falling asleep at the wheel. Well, keyboard.

"Crazy" Relient K cover of Cee-Lo


loving this cd.
Interlibrary Loan man, yeah!

They also cover Bieber Fever, Chicago and the Wallflower's "One Headlight" which reminds me I should go back to Jake/Lindsay depression mentioned here: My Life in Closed Captions: This is a week of my favorite things Day Five: Hob...

Which of course I'm stuck on. Though I have made progress, and figured out how she died.

But it still sucks.

Yes this post was boring.

Sorry.

I'll try to be more entertaining tomorrow.

and a totally insufficient dowry

Alright, the episode count is on.

Mom and I are watching Castle Season Three. How many episodes until she falls asleep in her chair?

So, apparently there's a gang war going on at the farmhouse.

Between the North and the South Cats.

Aka the ones that stay on the North Side of the house on the deck and the South Side ones that sleep in the window wells in the front.

The North Side ones are more vicious so Mom gave the leftovers to the South Side ones. "Here South Cats! Here South Cats!" Gotta give them something, Carter is probably staring them down at the moment - the window wells look straight into the basement where he's living it up.

He was good today, didn't chew on the Christmas trees at all. I was proud. Yeah, why do cats decide to chew on green things? They just throw them up later! I don't get it.

Alright, we're on the second episode and she's still doing sudoku's.

Oh, might have spoke too soon. No wait, she moved. Back to sodoku's.

It was an excellent Christmas. Opened some presents, went to church, ate some good food, played some pitch, watched some more Red Green, took a nap, ate some more good food, now Mom and I are watching Castle.

"And now it's back with a vengeance, course it brought along its friends high maintenance and shopaholic." I love Castle.

Alright, it's that time. Made it down to the last day which means it's time for the best Christmas song of all time.

Christmas Music that Doesn't Suck: Day Twelve

The Twelve Days of Christmas

and since it's the best song ever I'll give you my favorite versions.

Indian 12 Days of Christmas by boymongoose

and a totally insufficient dowry

Mashup version by Straight No Chaser

I blame this new found fascination on Sensei. Thanks for that by the way.

Rock version by Relient K

I jam to this often no matter the season

Redneck Christmas by Jeff Foxworthy

classic

and my personal favorite

Janice Dickinson's modeling version

choose this one, seriously it's fantastic. i love 1:03. that's my favorite.

Okay, but see, the problem with listening to this many versions is trying to remember the actual words.

Whenever I attempt to sing it it comes out a little like this.

12 Pack of Bud
11 Charges pending
10 Minute yoga
9 Years probation
8 Table Dancers
7-11 Workers
6 Cans of Spam
5 Flannel Shirts
4 Italian Suits
3 Former Husbands
2 Giant Breasts
and a totally insufficient dowry.

So now the question is...what is a partridge in a pear tree? And why would you want one?

Also how exactly do an ox and lamb keep time?

Aaannd she's out. Beginning of episode three.

Which means I should go too. Hope you had a good Christmas.