INTRODUCING - BETA LEO

i know betta fish is spelled 'betta', but his name is officially 'beta leo'. he came w/ papers. his favorite artist is m. ward. he spends his time swimming, hanging out w/ pals zubra, duhr and chort. and his favorite animal is the lion.

TRADITIONS OF NOT FOLLOWING THRU AND PREVENTING SPOILED DOGS

tomorrow will be the third time i've signed up for the shamrock shuffle and NOT ran it. i think it's partly due to the fact that i always sign up so far in advance i never know what i'll be doing that weekend - this because of the fact that it ALWAYS fills up so quickly. and it's partly because i sign up on my own each year and have no one to keep me accountable. and partly because of the weather.

the first year i signed up i lived in the burbs and it was freezing rain. i woke up in the wee early morning and quickly fell back to sleep. the year after i was just too hung over to get up. and this year there's supposed to be 3 inches of snow on the ground when i wake up tomorrow...so thanks but i'd rather go sit in bio class for 4 hours then ride the train downtown at 7:30 to plod thru 8 miles of slush by myself.

i should come up w/ a part two to this tradition. "every year i will enter the shamrock shuffle and then instead of running i will spend the day sleeping in and eating italian beef sandwiches" (i'm hungry)

ps maddie literally just stole my pillow. she moved it w/ her long ambidextrous limbs over to her half of the bed and proceeded to fluff and prod it to her liking before plopping into it. i quickly pulled it away in an ongoing attempt to prevent her from ruling the apt.

CLOTHING OPTIONAL

why do people crochet accessories for tree trunks? i don't know what else to call them and since i don't have a proper camera i won't have a pic for you. we'll since i am holding a computer w/ answers i guess i'll search for the one to this question and provide you with it.

so i searched tree scarves and this is the first thing i found. not what i was looking for but awesome!

i found this helpful diagram that helped me figure out the old children's song to teach kids how to tie their shoes. i had never understood it.

finally success! after google-ing 'yarn around tree' i found this! oh no. it's pretty much what i expected. there is no real reason. these people just think it looks good. that it's art. i don't think it's art at all. i think it's tacky garbage around perfectly fine tree trunks. it's the kind of idea i'd expect to come out of walmart. kits at home to make 'sweaters' for your naked trees. :(

BABY MOMMA

my favorite lines from the movie:

Kate Holbrook: Did you just stick your gum under my coffee table? Angie Ostrowiski: I don't know. Kate Holbrook: What do you mean you don't know? You think you're at an Arbys right now? Angie Ostrowiski: You know what? I WISH I was at an Arbys cuz theres better food and cooler people there! Kate Holbrook: [Kate looks under coffee table and gasps then looks at Angie] Did you stick all this gum under here? Angie Ostrowiski: I DON'T KNOW! Maybe you stuck some of it under there! Kate Holbrook: Yeah, actually you might be right cuz sometimes when I work a really long day I like to come home and chew a huge wad of bubbilicious gum and stick it under my reclaimed barnwood coffee table! Angie Ostrowiski: B!t@h, I don't know your life!

DON'T THINK ABOUT IT AND YOU WON'T LOSE

you, my friend, just lost the game :)

I WISH I WAS A LITTLE BIT TALLER, I WISH I WAS A BALLER

it really annoys me how people judge celebrities no matter what they do. i guess because some people judge any/everyone no matter what they do and celebrities are easy to pick on because everyone knows their shit so people don't feel like they're gossiping quite as much. "not like i spread the rumor. everyone already read all about it. just putting my two cents in."

anyway, this morning power/B52/something...was talking about kid cudi. (day an night) the mention of it sounded familiar and i just looked him up. i had heard the song and i had liked it a lot. i shared it w/ friends. i looked him up to see if i could find more of his songs. i still do like it a lot. but they were making fun of him cause he made a statement that he doesn't think he wants to record anymore because his friends are telling him he's starting to change (not for the better). so the radio people were joking, saying he doesn't know what famous is and just giving him a hard time for thinking he's something that he's not. and yet when celebrities are pushed and pushed into fame and it becomes too much and they crack then people say, 'well they knew what they were getting into. they chose that career....".

just irritates me.

MAD DOG

my first shot using my comp cam. maddie lept onto my bed and decided my back was a pretty decent location to chew on her new bone. her way of showing gratitude. guess that $30 trip thru the pet aisle was worth it :)