Monday, January 28, 2008

I'm Back... I Promise!

Hello friends! I've been 'away'. Thank you for hanging on... thank you for reading :)

Yes, I've been lazy but partly it's also because I've been thinking of switching blog sites; or having an entirely new one. After all, I'm now in Seattle. I can no longer live being the mountain tortoise that I was now that I'm in a semi big city - time to grow! Even if I am a san-gu/sua-gu deep inside, only those of you reading would ever know - and some of you, I might never meet :)

Yes, we're settled in Seattle. The husband has been away for the last ten days in Japan learning the art of sake making. Yes, as if he didn't know a lot about it already, the man is coming home with a certificate to call himself a professional. Be afraid, be very afraid lol! No I didn't go, can you believe it!? This might be the first trip to Japan the man's gone on his own since we got married! Yeah, I decided to hang out here at home in Seattle instead. Sure it got old after day three and I was ready for his return but it taught me many things while I was on my own. Among many lessons I learned, I was starting to take my husband for granted; his time, his company, his brain... it's hard being on my own and not having a walking googleable-brain next to me. I actually had to use google search to find answers to my unmanageable questions. I needed to key in where I wanted to go to get directions and still get lost. I needed to ask people for help because my one and only walking encyclopedia was not by my side. Yes I owe him a massage when he comes home tonight. Shit, I owe him a lot more than that!!! Get your bloody brains out of the gutter... tho' that isn't such a bad idea right now LOL!

But I'm back... lots to talk about, lots of questions in my head (that are not googleable), lots of stuff I need your input on. Yes, all blog worthy and maybe slowly, you'd all return to reading me on a regular basis again.

Saturday, January 05, 2008

You Might Get Another Idiot For President LOL

Don't believe me... judge for yourself

via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on 1/5/08



Watch video here.

Mike Huckabee may have won the Iowa primary, but does he really think that Canada's Parliament resides in a "national igloo?" Rick Mercer's comedic Canadian TV show "Talking to Americans" (asking people on the streets of US cities nonsensical questions about Canada to see if they call shenanigans or whether they become genuinely alarmed at the idea that, say, the Canadian elderly are set adrift on ice floes instead of being sent to retirement homes) caught Huckabee on video during his days as governor of Arkansas and asked him to send a message of support to Canada and its struggling "national igloo," a notional ice-sculpture scale replica of the White House in which the Canadian Parliament meets and debates.

Huckabee gave a stirring endorsement to the igloo, presumably after ascertaining that the igloo was not used by homosexuals.


Where in the world do you guys find these candidates?!?!?!