Posted in: craziness, Jake, video on Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at at 10:40 PM 1 comments    

I was peeling apples tonight to make some homemade applesauce. I pushed the peels into the garbage disposal and turned it on. It sounded like something was in there that shouldn't be. At first I thought it was a baby spoon, but it wasn't loud enough. I forgot about it for a few minutes and put more in the sink. When I went back to get it out the water was backed up, so I had to run it again figuring it would just finish chopping up the mystery item.
It still sounded like it was in there, so I got a flashlight and looked down in there and found this...

a COMPLETELY UNDAMAGED nipple. Despite going through two full runs of the disposal, it was as good as new. Way to go, Gerber Nuk nipples! (Gerber, you may now send me some free ones. Thank you.)

Posted in: awesomeness, craziness on Sunday, November 22, 2009 at at 10:16 PM 2 comments    

This used to be a bag of potatoes.

A peek inside.

The whole alien monster underwater plant creature of the deep.
Gross.

Posted in: craziness, creepy things, gross, ridiculousness on Thursday, March 05, 2009 at at 1:15 PM 5 comments    

Two things I wanted to mention, but am just putting them in one post. A few nights ago, circa midnight when I was sitting at the computer, I heard a fire truck going down the street outside the apartment complex. This happens often around here. However, I heard the siren stop close. I went outside and saw it pulled into our complex, down at the building around the bend. Jon came out and I noticed that there was black smoke. Something was on fire, but we couldn't tell if it was a building, dumpster, or car. We put on shoes and walked down there and saw a car engulfed in flames. Engulfed! By the time we got all the way down there, the actual fire was out and the car was still smoking. I decided not to bring my camera because that just wouldn't be right.
I didn't mind taking it back to the scene of the crime the next day though. The car that was on fire was gone, but the one next to it was still there.

The ground below the car that had been on fire was clearly badly burned. The car next to it was also totaled. I went up close and the whole driver's side was burned out on the inside, since the windows blew in. I feel so sorry for both of these people. What a crazy thing to happen! Jon said that he saw police cars still there past 2:30am (He couldn't sleep that night.) so maybe something happened involving arson. Crazy!

And now for a completely different story. I'm teaching 2nd grade crafts at our church's Vacation Bible School in a couple of weeks. All of the grades are doing the same crafts and tonight we had practice night to make the crafts. We had to see what might be hard for the kids or whatever and make examples for them to see. We made these adorable turtles with river rocks and large puzzle pieces. I didn't want to lose mine because it came out so cute, so I brought it home.


And I got the best compliment after my evening of giving good ideas and painting my super cute turtle. A lady asked me "Are you an art teacher?" I said "No, but I used to teach first grade." "Oh!"

Posted in: craziness, creativity on Wednesday, June 04, 2008 at at 11:06 PM 0 comments    

Ever since we moved here our water heater has been wonky. The hot water just doesn't last very long. Jon will tell you it last five minutes, but that's because he boils himself in the shower. I say it lasts a little longer. However, I've always had to choose between washing my hair and shaving my legs during each shower. There isn't enough hot water for both.

Jon said it was getting worse, so Saturday morning he went to the apartment office and turned in a work order. A few hours later, a twelve year old maintenance kid showed up. Now our apartment in Texarkana didn't have a water heater, as far as we knew. I think the building shared several large ones somewhere underground or something. (Seriously.) Apparently we do have one here. He came in and said it was in our pantry. Eh?

Here's a nice photo of what our pantry looks like.

It even has a nice little shelf over on the right side to store more things. It goes as deep as the washer/dryer which are in the adjoining closet. It's great.

The maintenance kid opened the pantry and I said "Oh. Sorry. We have a lot of stuff in there." (Meaning the brooms and ladder.) He said "Yeah. Everything from HERE (pointing at the TOP shelf) down needs to come out. I smiled at his joke and moved the brooms and ladder out of the way. When I turned around, he was pulling all of the food off of the shelves. He wasn't joking.
He started at the next to top shelf and I was pushing the stuff to the opposite end of the table as he went (wishing I had taken a picture of the pantry before he started), so it would stay in order, because I wanted everything right back where it was. When he got to the canned food shelf, the same time we ran out of space on the table, I took over and did the rest.

Here's the pantry completely empty. Except for the top shelf of course.

Here's most of our food out of the pantry, on the kitchen table.

And here's the rest of the food in a laundry basket.

And the other random things that were on the floor below the bottom shelf and over on the side leaning against the Secret Wall.

The best part though was what he told us a few minutes later. He said the water heater was actually leaking and we needed a new one. He called the office and they said they couldn't get one until Monday. So our food sat out on the table and laundry basket Saturday and Sunday. Luckily we were both off Monday, but it didn't matter. Monday afternoon they still hadn't come, so I called the office and they said it might be Tuesday morning because it hadn't come in yet. We had to close Jack into the bathroom on Tuesday because they won't come in if there's a dog out, and I didn't want him to have to be in his kennel all day. Tuesday came. Tuesday left. No water heater. Jack went BACK into the bathroom today. They finally came this afternoon and replaced it, and all of our food went back in the pantry after five days of super easy access to it.
It was nice to be able to slightly reorganize some of my ridiculous placement of food on certain shelves when we moved in, though. And we have hot water. So yay.

Posted in: craziness, food on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 at at 11:19 PM 3 comments    

Some weird lapse in time and space happened tonight. Between 10:18 and 10:24pm I had a huge inflow of visitors (who almost all stayed for less than 5 seconds, except for good ol' The Netherlands who stuck around for 9 minutes!) from (listed in order of visitation, including repeats)... Germany, Guatemala, New York, Colorado, USA, Michigan, Australia, Florida, Florida, Massachussets, North Carolina, Michigan, USA, Pennsylvania, California, Tennessee, Argentina, Tennessee, Chile, Texas, Massachussets, California, USA, Alabama, The Netherlands, Mexico, Mexico, Canada, Canada, Louisiana, California, Canada, Mexico, Texas, Australia, Nebraska, Columbia, Texas, Dominican Republic, Madagascar, and Pennsylvania. All in 6 minutes. They all came from the Blogger website somewhere. That's just really really weird. Maybe my blog was listed on the front page for a few minutes or something.

Posted in: blog visitors, craziness on Saturday, February 02, 2008 at at 1:45 AM 0 comments    

Sonic (the drive-in restaurant for any of you poor souls who happen to live somewhere that this wonderful place doesn't exist) copyrights a bunch of stuff. I was sitting waiting for my drink the other day and looking at the menu. I noticed how many words or phrases had that R with a circle around it. I wrote them all down:
Route 44
SuperSonic (Cheeseburger, etc.)
Sonic Size
Your Ultimate Drink Stop
Sonic Blast
Jumbo Popcorn Chicken
(Chicken Club) Toaster
Frozen Favorites
Sonic Boom
Your Morning Drink Stop
CreamSlush
Ched'R'Peppers
Ched'R'Bites
Wacky Pack
Sonic Wave
Ocean Water
And as a I drove out, a sign in the grass said something catchy about working there that was also restricted. Hmph. I should copyright something. Like the word "the".

Posted in: craziness on Friday, February 01, 2008 at at 12:05 AM 0 comments    

I was checking out my visitors today and saw one came from Fort Worth. At first, I thought it was probably my mom and dad, but when I looked I saw that they came from a Fort Worth Star Telegram page. I went and found out that the TV blogger for their website linked to my American Idol list yesterday! Awesome! Here's the page!

Posted in: craziness, tv shows on Tuesday, January 15, 2008 at at 10:50 PM 1 comments    

Good grief. Advice: If you want a bunch of people to visit your blog in one day, write about a bunch of movies and include a bunch of actors' names. I usually have about 15-20 people visit per day. Today I had 42. 26 of those 42 people clicked on something that took them directly to my movie post from yesterday. The google search terms that brought people to my page were: Gerard Butler (3 people), Helen Mirren (2 people), movies blogspot, James Marsden, Melora Hardin, and Hilary Swank. These all baffle me, but especially the Gerard Butler one with three people. I googled him and went through all 87 pages of results and didn't even see my page. I have no idea how that happened. The coolest thing though is where these people are coming from. That little map over on the left side of the page somehow catches SOME of the people who come on here, but another thing I uses catches everyone. This was the map for today:

Zoomed in to Europe:

Zoomed in to the United States (I seem to be popular in Southern California):

And here is the list of cities for the day (At the top of the list were 7 people from Little Rock.):

Absolutely crazy! Now granted most of them only stayed on the page for less than a minute because my movie review wasn't exactly what they wanted to read, it's still fun to see that all those people came to my page today.
FYI: I'm completely addicted to checking these pages about my blog visitors. I check them multiple times each day. It lists search terms used to find my page, where they clicked to get to my page, pages within the blog visited, countries the people come from, etc. It's super fun. The one I've using for a while is BlogPatrol but I recently added GetClicky and it's the one with the google maps like I used above. I can't stop!

Posted in: blog visitors, craziness on Saturday, January 05, 2008 at at 12:11 AM 1 comments