Chica Blanca Bathroom Progression

Chica Blanca Update!

As many of you know, I've been renovating my bathroom (and by "I", I mean the contractor). The demolition began on December 3rd, and except for one little thing, it was finished last week. Not surprisingly, the project was not on time or under budget (thank god I am not paying for it!). Now, I only have one bathroom in my house, so having the project take so long was a tiny bit difficult, to say the least.

Here you can see just how beautiful the bathroom was before construction began. Notice the mismatched tiles by the bathtub! Oh, and the ceiling was glossy aqua blue as well.

No Blogging

Wow, I didn't realize just how long it had been since I last posted something. Honestly, I don't know why I wasn't posting anything in December, but I'll use the holiday excuse: I was just so busy with the holidays, and blah blah blah. However, I do have a great reason for not blogging in January... this month has been INSANE! Work has been out of control, and with all the writing I do at work, I just didn't have it in me to write about my life. I didn't even have the energy to talk about my life! January is almost over, and my life is nearly back to normal, so I will now attempt to go back and blog about some of the interesting things I have observed or experienced over the past two months. Cheers!

Edited to add: I realized why I hadn't been posting... my mom broke her hip, so I was going to my parents' house all of the time. That, coupled with the holidays and the bathroom reno, caused me to be super busy from Thanksgiving until now. Wow, I did have a reason!

Singed Hair

I am an idiot. I did something stupid lighting my fireplace and burned my hair. I am sad. I really like my hair and now I have a layer of short burned hair. I am sure I will catch a man now. Groan.

I am scatterbrained.

I met a nice fellow for coffee tonight. We had a nice time and chatted for a couple of hours. As we got up to leave I couldn't find my purse. We sat outside when we first got there, so I went outside.

No purse.

Mr. Nice says he didn't notice my purse, but wonders if I could have left it in the bathroom.

At this point I am freaking. If I left it outside someone would surely have taken it. I am going to have to call my parents to bring my spare car key and spare house key. It will take then 40 minutes to get here and by then the coffee shop will be closed. The guy I am with is nice, so he will feel he should stay even though a) we just met and b) he has been up since six am.

I look in the bathroom even though I am positive I didn't take it in there. As I'm coming out Nice guy (and I'm being serious, not patronizing) is talking to the girls at the cash register. One of them comes over to me and asks if it is a small black purse. She brings it over to me and explains that she found it on the table outside.

Apparently in all the excitement of meeting a nice, cute man I left my 200$ bag outside with my 250$ wallet and 200$ phone inside with the keys to my fancy car in it. OH MY GOD! I am so dumb and soooo lucky!!!! And, I am sure I made a great impression (now I am being sarcastic!)

Pharyngula Mutating Genre Meme

There are a set of questions below that are all of the form, “The best [subgenre] [medium] in [genre] is…”. Copy the questions, and before answering them, you may modify them in a limited way, carrying out no more than two of these operations:

— You can leave them exactly as is.

— You can delete any one question.

— You can mutate either the genre, medium, or subgenre of any one question. For instance, you could change “The best time travel novel in SF/Fantasy is…” to “The best time travel novel in Westerns is…”, or “The best time travel movie in SF/Fantasy is…”, or “The best romance novel in SF/Fantasy is…”.

— You can add a completely new question of your choice to the end of the list, as long as it is still in the form “The best [subgenre] [medium] in [genre] is…”.

You must have at least one question in your set, or you’ve gone extinct, and you must be able to answer it yourself, or you’re not viable.

Then answer your possibly mutant set of questions. Please do include a link back to the blog you got them from, to simplify tracing the ancestry, and include these instructions.

Finally, pass it along to any number of your fellow bloggers. Remember, though, your success as a Darwinian replicator is going to be measured by the propagation of your variants, which is going to be a function of both the interest your well-honed questions generate and the number of successful attempts at reproducing them.

My great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparent is Flying Trilobite
My great-great-great-great-great-grandparent is A Blog Around the Clock.
My great-great-great-great-grandparent is Shakespeare’s Sister.
My great-great-great-grandparent is Excuse This Mess…
My great-great-grandparent is Saying Yes.
My great-grandparent is Really Small Fish
My grandparent is A Drinking Song
My parent is oklahomeless.com
My siblings: overlyverbal, What’s Bubblin’ in Dublin, Kittenpants, Matthew

1. The best cult movie in scientific dystopias is: Dr. Strangelove

2. The best sexy song in rock is: I really have no opinon on this, but I'll go with Pour Some Sugar on Me.

3. The best play in absurdist fiction is: Waiting for Godot

4. The best dead comedian in American comedy is: Phil Hartman

5. The best moment in live television was: I can't think of any in my lifetime... most of them are pretty bad. I guess maybe the moon landing was pretty amazing (for those who were alive)

6. The most disgusting of all the salt-cured meats is: ham. yuck.

7. Most reviled of all the elements on the Periodic Table: Plutonium

Okay, Blomquist Family and Seth Peck, you have been tagged.

More On Our Friend, The Greatest Living Poets!

Because I have nothing better to do, I've done a tad more investigating on our poet friend (who by the way, apparently believes himself to be not just one, but two poets!). I spent a bit more time and discovered his books are self-published by the Xlibris Corporation. Go here to see how you too can become the greatest living poet or poets, if you'd like.

I also discovered that you can purchase a signed copy of his books FOR HALF PRICE! Woohooo! They are a mere $15.00 a piece. A "savings of about $9," it says. I guess he isn't the greatest living mathematician (thank you, Daniel). You can get this amazing offer until "the authors private collection runs out" -- my understanding of self-publishing is that they are ALL the author's private collection.

Here is what the website says about the greatest living poets (well, or what the greatest living poets says about the greatest living poets, anyway):
"The age of Academic Poetry IS over!
Modern Poetry IS like Rock & Roll...
The age of Academic Poetry is OVER!
Move over, Ziggy Stardust, forMark Rendina"

He also has a page all about string theory. I'm the first to admit I know nothing about string theory except that I think it has to do with physics, here is what the greatest living poets has to say about it, "By one of the oddest paradoxes in human history, String Theory can restore William Blake's credibility to the cab drivers and the hot dog salesmen of every city. " Huh. Okay. Sure, greatest living poets, I believe you.

I highly recommend you visit our friend's website, if for nothing else to enjoy the really bad clip art!