Month: July 2004 (page 4 of 6)

The VP’s House

Huh. Where does the Vice President live? I didn’t know that.

Happy birthday, Max!

Happy birthday, Max! May the day bring you much joy and lots of navy polo shirts that bring out the blue in your eyes. 🙂

CornCam

Wow… CornCam. Man, that kinda makes me homesick! (Link courtesy of fellow Midwestern girl Amy.)

1920’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party

Snookums as Ernie ('Bet a Million') G. AmblerLast night we finally had our much-anticipated Murder Mystery Dinner Party. The theme was 1920’s Chicago and the guests went all out on the costumes. The Snook, as you can see, was a dodgy millionaire gambler. (He also cooked us an excellent four course dinner.) It was an entertaining evening of alcohol, murder, sex, greed, bootlegging, crooked cops, and dangerous ladies. Nothing but good clean fun at the Chippendale Legitimate Businessmen’s Social Club! Photos are available here. Thanks to all the guests!

Happy Birthday, Sis!

Happy Birthday to my sister Amy! Our cat’s namesake turns 25 today. (Well, yesterday really, but it’s still her birthday where she is!)

RIP, the Frug

Awww… Jeff Smith, the Frugal Gourmet, has just passed away. Man, I used to love his show. I had a crush on his hot assistant Craig.

Voting Overseas

Excellent. OverSeasVote.com makes registering for a US absentee ballot pretty darn painless. I’m definitely using it this year!

Identify the Cereals

Can you help me identify these breakfast cereals? I was able to get 14 of 26 on my own but the damn thing won’t show you the rest of the answers! In fact, the site wants you to pay to see the answers! I think we can do better than that. Read on for my answers. (Link courtesy of Matt.)A – Smacks
D – Frosted Flakes
E – Chex
F – Fruit Loops
H – Wheaties
I – Trix
J – Apple Jacks
K – Rice Krispies
N – Raisin Bran
O – Cheerios
P – Cookie Crisp
U – Count Chocula
X – Kix
Y – Lucky Charms

Can you get any others?

Bloody hell.

Bloody hell. I just had a big long post about how I’m getting better at work but it’s still hard standing all day, and how it’s really fun when we get American tourists in, and how I managed to take a phone call and handle the whole enquiry myself, and how I got a great pep talk from my boss with nothing but positive reviews… but somehow I lost it. So bugger that. I’m too tired.

The O.C.

Have I told you how much I friggin’ love The O.C.? As I mentioned before, Channel 10 purchased the rights (after it tanked on another station) and they started showing it a few weeks ago. I think even the Snook is getting hooked! At first he claimed he didn’t like it – because “there aren’t any cute girls, and that main one looks like she’s 35” – but it’s slowly winning him over. Last weekend I had on a hooded sweatshirt and he was all, “You’re pretty far from 8 Mile!” and I was all, “Welcome to the OC, bitch!” We need something to replace the aching void of Buffy and Amazing Race.