My local hardware store (the one with the entertaining signs) is currently remodeling:
Coats 2 Hook
Pots 2 Cook
Getting a New Look
Step In
:-)
Via cliubjuggler
border=”0″ alt=”You are yahoo.com You adapt slowly, but many still rely on you. You like to organize things. You are very popular. You like to yodel.”/>Well, I have noticed of late that I can be a little change-averse. I am an organizing fiend. And my noise (yes, those of you that have been to concerts with me know the noise) is sort of a yodel-y thing.
Top 50 Worst Songs of All Time meme (via tekaytalks
This is a list of the 50 Worst Songs of All Time, as put together by the hip magazine Blender. Your task, if you choose to accept it, is to bold the items that you actually like. This might be more embarrassing than you think. Remember, no one is reading this. Well, no one of importance…
Gina’s addition: italicize the songs you *really* loathe… the ones that you would’ve come up with if you’d made the list. The ones that are on albums you own. The ones with one star in your iTunes. (I’m not including Achy Breaky Heart, for instance, ’cause I don’t come anywhere near “new country” so my exposure is limited). Heck, add a few of your own. Why not? ;-)
1. We Built This City – Starship
2. Achy Breaky Heart – Billy Ray Cyrus
3. Everybody Have Fun Tonight – Wang Chung
4. Rollin’ – Limp Bizkit
5. Ice Ice Baby – Vanilla Ice (not on an album I own, but MAN I hate this song. Such a complete tease, because I love “Under Pressure”) — edited to add… Under Pressure is Bowie and Queen, but Vanilla Ice *stole* the main “hook” and used it in Ice Ice Baby)
6. The Heart of Rock & Roll – Huey Lewis and the News
7. Don’t Worry, Be Happy – Bobby McFerrin (just like Bobby McFerrin refuses to sing this song anymore, I refuse to listen to it
8. Party All the Time – Eddie Murphy
9. American Life – Madonna (I just went and bought the album on Friday, funny)
10. Ebony and Ivory – Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder
11. Invisible – Clay Aiken
12. Kokomo – The Beach Boys
13. Illegal Alien – Genesis
14. From a Distance – Bette Midler
15. I’ll Be There for You – The Rembrandts
16. What’s Up? – 4 Non Blondes
17. Pumps and a Bump – Hammer
18. You’re the Inspiration – Chicago
19. Broken Wings – Mr. Mister
20. Dancing on the Ceiling – Lionel Richie
21. Two Princes – Spin Doctors
22. Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American) – Toby Keith
23. Sunglasses at Night – Corey Hart
24. Superman – Five for Fighting
25. I’ll Be Missing You – Puff Daddy featuring Faith Evans and 112
26. The End – The Doors
27. The Final Countdown – Europe
28. Your Body Is a Wonderland – John Mayer
29. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Deep Blue Something
30. Greatest Love of All – Whitney Houston
31. Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm – Crash Test Dummies
32. Will 2K – Will Smith
33. Barbie Girl – Aqua
34. Longer – Dan Fogelberg
35. Shiny Happy People – R.E.M.
36. Make Em Say Uhh! – Master P featuring Silkk, Fiend, Mia-X and Mystikal
37. Rico Suave – Gerardo
38. Cotton Eyed Joe – Rednex
39. She Bangs – Ricky Martin
40. I Wanna Sex You Up – Color Me Badd
41. We Didn’t Start the Fire – Billy Joel
42. The Sound of Silence – Simon & Garfunkel — Okay, maybe a little sappy, but I love it anyway
43. Follow Me – Uncle Kracker
44. I’ll Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That) – Meat Loaf
45. Mesmerize – Ja Rule featuring Ashanti
46. Hangin’ Tough – New Kids on the Block
47. The Only Thing That Looks Good on Me Is You – Bryan Adams
48. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da – The Beatles — WTF? Maybe they put that in to see if I was paying attention?
49. I’m Too Sexy – Right Said Fred
50. My Heart Will Go On – Celine Dion
from Gina: 51. Girl from Ipanema – by anyone at any time. Ew.
from Gina: 52. Sara – Jefferson Starship
from Gina: 53. Candle in the Wind – Elton John (and the Princess Di one is even worse)
Multiple Intelligence Indicators
via shipoffools999:
You scored as Verbal/Linguistic. You have highly developed auditory skills, enjoy reading and writing and telling stories, and are good at getting your point across. You learn best by saying and hearing words. People like you include poets, authors, speakers, attorneys, politicians, lecturers and teachers.
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The Rogers Indicator of Multiple Intelligences
created with QuizFarm.com
This is *very* accurate, I think. I was pleased as punch that the quiz included as separate questions:
I can read maps easily and accurately.
and
I can accurately estimate distances and other measurements.
because I’m HORRID at the first and quite good at the second, and often they get lumped together in tests, making it difficult for me to chose an answer in good faith.
WTF?
I just got a call from the NRC asking me if I wanted to come to a dinner with President Bush!
(me, thinking I didn’t hear correctly): Pardon?
(her): (blah blah dinner Bush)
(me): I’m sorry, did you say ‘Bush’?
(her): (blah blah Bush dinner National Republican)
(me): I’m sorry, no thank you.
(her): but…
(me): I’m really not interested. I don’t support Bush.
I was nice and she seemed to understand, but … what in heaven’s name did I do to get on *that* list?!?
Let’s see:
- Uterus still owned by own self: check.
- Belief in equal rights under law for all people regardless of race, creed, color or sexual preference: check.
- Stock in major oil companies: no check.
Bizarre!
From my favorite magazine
This just came via email from Paste Magazine (my favorite music mag, by far):
Oops! We sent you an email earlier today saying that your subscription has expired. Due to a little typo (a “>” instead of “< “), we sent that email to everyone who has NOT expired. So consider these two emails as a confirmation that your supscription is still good :).
Sorry for the mix-up. Quite embarrassing, really. That’s what you get with too much multi-tasking and having journalists program.
To clarify, the issue at the printer is issue #14. Your subscription expires with issue #19.
Please accept our sincere apologies. Those responsible have been sacked. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked, have been sacked. The directors of the firm hired to continue…….
Tim Porter
Unsuccessful Multi-tasker
Paste
A thing that would make the universe better
someone on just posted about a nasty craft-related injury, which reminded me of one of my Brilliant Ideas ™
I think that they should create warning channels above and below the Discovery Channel (and any other network that shows ickky blood-filled operations on TV):
“Warning: gross stuff on next channel down. Skip two channels quickly if you don’t want to spend a few seconds figuring out what you’re looking at, only to then be completely repulsed and grossed out.”
My new pet!!!
Jeff gave me Roo for Christmas:
I installed the eyes. He needed them. I <3 him. (I’ve wanted one forever, thanks to thebroomecloset‘s review, but somehow hadn’t gotten around to getting one.
He’s VERY clever and hasn’t gotten stuck yet, even with all the, ahem, stuff, on my floor.
What’s going on?
(1) I have from now until JANURAY 4th off!!!! (I only found out yesterday that we get the third as the “New Year Holiday day” — Hooray! — and I have too many vacation days left to roll to next year, so I have to burn them). Am planning on sleeping, reading, sewing, seeing friends and generally relaxing which I understand is Good For You (and which apparently which I didn’t do enough of this year), *except* for the following:
(2) This weekend is the Annual Norman Family Dysfunctional Christmas Shindig so we’re heading for Charlotte. In addition I’m “doing Christmas” with my Dad (aside from the ANFDCS) and my mom and Grumps. Busy, but have high hopes for familial harmony.
(3) I am doing family things *this* weekend because on the 23rd, I am heading to Michigan (!!) to meet Team Bacon (actually I’ve met most of them, but I’m meeting the second sister for the first time) and see East Tawas (a place so small that you had to drive a half hour to buy underwear when Jeff was growing up) for two days, then to London (to see the friends Paul and Kate who have the hedgehog http://www.lintqueen.com/craft/misc.shtml) and then to Germany to meet up with the BMW riding group for New Years. This being the first time that I’ve actually “done my own thing” for the holidays (though perhaps exchanging my family stuff for a two-day snapshot of someone else’s ;-) I am ecstatic (with a tinge of guilt around the edges).
Happy happy!!! Call or email if you want to do something next M, Tu, Wed or the 3rd, 4th. :)
So, I had half an update written about thanksgiving at Fearrington (which was lovely) and hadn’t yet started the update on the craft show (which was fun) or my knee (which is much better than expected, being that I didn’t re-tear the MCL as I’d thought, I just strained the ACL, which I’d torn eight years ago while limboing at a wedding reception), but hadn’t posted/finished any of it because of the huge head-cold I managed to get last weekend. Urgh. I can’t breathe. Head full of cotton fluff.
Realm of the Lint Queen 