Bunnie Blog

Have you ever watched Fox News Channel? What’s the deal? Like every single one of their female newscasters is HOT! And I am not the only one to think so. Click here, here, and here.

No wonder my husband likes to watch Fox News with me. Hey, it is better to look at a hot chick reading the news than an old fat dude!

Lula, originally uploaded by Bunnieblog.

At time she has such great hair. It can be so shiny and silky and curly, that I just want to pet her. At other times, like when she refuses to brush it out, it is fully of knarly knots. Once she gets older and learns how to take care of it better, I’m sure it will be great. I am also sure she will wish she had straight hair, just like I do.

Have a HAPPY and SAFE 4th of July! And don’t be douche bags by NOT remembering the real reason for the holiday. It is not just a day to be off work and drink it up with your friends, even though that is true and quite convenient, actually try to celebrate the birth of our great country as well and stop bagging on it! It is still the best place to be!

Other people have kids. I know these other people have kids that are shitheads misbehave. I can’t possibly be the only one. I am really getting sick and tired of other people acting like they have the most perfect kids that never act like assholes in an unbecoming fashion. You know who you are! Stop lying. We all know you are lying and it really makes you look silly.

All kids live to misbehave. It’s their freaking jobs! You have to deal with smart-ass remarks, the rolling of the eyes, selective hearing and willful ignoring, just like the rest of us. Get over it and just admit that your kids are just like the rest of ours. You will have no need to confess your lying ways to God anymore during your nightly prayers and this will help you sleep better. I promise.

So, after work today I needed to stop at Quicktrip to get some coffee. I walk in like normal, as if everything in the universe was not about to be body slammed and given a big old noogey on the old grape.

I grab a coffee cup, head over to the ice machine that has THE BEST ice in the world, you know the kind, what they call “crushed ice”, but it is really the little rabbit poop pellets that are best for chewing on, a put a little bit of it in the bottom of my cup. I put ice in my coffee cup, not because it is summer and who on God’s green earth would be drinking coffee in Hotlanta, but because their coffee is always BEYOND scorching, ranging in the I just hit the bottom of the hottest place in HELL kind of hot.

I notice a lady looking at me funny, but I ignore her, mostly because I despise don’t like people I don’t know. I continue back to the coffee area, pour my coffee and then head back to get a lid from the lid and straw counter. In the mean time, Ms. Staring Problem has filled up an Icee cup and is also headed to the lids. She is once again staring at me and has that look on her face like she is ready to say something to me, which immediately puts me on edge. I don’t recognize her, she is in her 50’s, decent looking and fairly normal looking, besides the obvious STARING PROBLEM!

Damn it! She does speak to me and this is what she had to say…”You don’t even feel guilty, do you?”. I’m a little taken back, but manage to reply, “Why? Because I am drinking coffee in summer?”, with a quizzical look on my face. To which her natural reply was, “You don’t even have any remorse do you?” Um, OK? I was obviously mistaken. This was not Ms. Staring Problem, this was Ms. Loony Toons! I should have recognized her right from the start.

I say…”What are you talking about?”. She looks me up and down with a pretty heavy crusty, and walks to the cash register. I am in shock and stand there for a minute trying to comprehend what just happened. She is still at the cash register when I get up there…still with the up and down crusties going on. WTF? I say to her once again, “What are you talking about?” Obvious confusion written all over my face. Still nothing but up and down crusties. Then she walks out, eyeballing me the whole way. WEIRD!!!

I finish up, and walk out to my car, she is STILL parked 3 spaces down from me, with no protecting cars in between. As soon as she sees me, she jumps out of her car to act like she is throwing something away. Giving me the stink eye the ENTIRE time. I get in my car and drive away.

I STILL HAVE NO CLUE WHAT WAS UP HER ASS!!!

I have decided to do another new thing on this here blog. I am going to start replying to some of the comments you leave for me. When I comment on other blogs, I love when they answer back. I don’t know why I never thought to reply to y’all. Please forgive me for this faux paux.

So, if you leave comments, be sure to check back for replies.

PS - I LOVE to get your comments!

Also a few new additions to the site. Please direct your eyeballs to the upper right hand corner of the screen. I have added a Google search bar, so you can search the interwebs directly from here. There are also a few Google ads in the right and left columns. If you see something your interested in, click away kiddies!

The company I am working for may have some issues. Issues that may or may not mean I have a slight possibility of being laid off at some point in the future. Issues that I can’t really get into, mainly because specifics about my job are taboo as far as blog posting goes. Blogging about job specifics is a really bad idea, just ask Dooce.

I like my job, even though I don’t like where it is geographically located. I like the people I work with, mostly. I like that I am learning LOTS of new stuff. Plus, the pay is good.

Here’s the deal. The last three companies I have worked for have laid me off. Not fired, laid off. Two because they were sold, they kept us just long enough after the buy outs and then laid us off. The other was due to loss of business after 9/11. I hate looking jobs. It’s brutal!

I am just hoping and praying everything works out.

As promised, here are the pictures from the wreck. Click here to see my flickr set. When you get there, click on the pictures for larger images and descriptions.

Everyone is doing fine. We are all seeing the chiropractor for a few visits. Lula and I got it the worst in the neck and back area and Talin keeps getting headaches. The truck should be back in about two weeks. In the mean time I am loving the hell out of the 2008 Nissan Maxima rental they gave us. Not only is it more zippy than the truck, it gets MUCH better gas mileage.

Learning the ropes

Originally uploaded by Bunnieblog

Tigger is such a studious little guy. Always wanting to learn new things. He is helping Blain fix a jet ski. Since he is only interning at this point, he will not get paid for his efforts. We are training him to take over the business some day, so we can lay on the beach with Mai Tai’s. He’s the son that Blain never had and the son I never wanted. Good ol’ Tigger.

Please take the time to watch this video from Hope Line.

In the past year, I talked someone into calling a suicide hotline (not this one, it was a local one) and he got some help. A few months later, I had to call 911 to help that same person, and he got the help he needed again.

Depression and suicidal thoughts can affect anyone. It does not matter what gender they are, what economic level they are at, what kind of seemingly perfect life they might have or not. You may not understand it, if you have not had to deal with it in a personal way. Do not judge the person in need. Unfortunately, they are in such a deep dark place, that suicide seems like the only option. I have never personally felt that type of despair. I didn’t want to have to deal with it when I came to helping someone I love. It was brutal. Having a place to turn to for help was crucial, because I, alone, did not have the ability to help him with his inner struggle.

Suicide has really affected me my whole life really. My Father’s Mother committed suicide when he was 18 years old. This changed my Dad in ways that I can not even explain. My Husband’s Mother also committed suicide 10 years ago, after a long history of depression and other mental illness. It has definitely affected my husband, which in turn affects my whole family. I’m just glad I was able to talk him into making the call and grateful he was willing to accept not only my help, but the help of others.

I have had this new blog design up for a while now and I have to say that I am really not loving it. I go to lots of other blogs and there seems to me like there is a lot of white space, very minimalist. Why do I feel the need to fill every space with color and graphics, then I hate the end product.

I love the design on this site. It’s nice and simple an easy on the eye, plus it is a good blog and as been added to my blog roll, so check it out.

I think I will change up the design again. Depending on if I feel like not being lazy.

How many of you out there have heard the terms, “Social Networking” or “Social Media” or “Web 2.0″. I hadn’t heard of them until recently either. Probably because they are fairly new terms. Should you know them? Damn skippy you should! Not only so that you don’t look like a doof when you can’t join in a modern conversation with peers or colleagues, but if you have kids or grand kids you need to know what the hell they are up to.

Hate to break it to you, ya old fogies, but this ain’t no fade, it’s a REVOLUTION! (Don’t you know it’s gonna be…alright!) It’s this generations hippy awakening. The millenniums sexual revolution, but it is not going to only affect the LSD-trippin’ flower children at Haight Ashbury or Woodstock. Because it is the WORLD WIDE WEB! after all. This is how the youngest of our population will see the world…no boundaries!

There has been no other point in history that so many voices can and will be heard. It is no longer the powerful that step on the little people as they climb the ladder, who will force their ideology down our throats. Have you heard the news reports about the coming death of religion? That’s because it is no longer a few old men spewing hellfire and damnation while brainwashing their flocks. It will go the same with politics and the repression of women and minorities.

The corrupt few have lost control of the many. It’s beautiful!

For those of you who are kicking and screaming your way into this newfangled technological age, here are the Cliffs Notes: (These brief descriptions were lifted directly from Wikipedia, to find out more info, look up each of these terms individually.)

Web 2.0:Web 2.0 is a term describing the trend in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aims to enhance creativity, information sharing, and, most notably, collaboration among users. Examples would be wiki, blog and folksonomy websites.

Social Media: Social media is an umbrella term that defines the various activities that integrate technology, social interaction, and the construction of words, pictures, videos and audio. This interaction, and the manner in which information is presented, depends on the varied perspectives and “building” of shared meaning among communities, as people share their stories, and understandings. Examples would be Wikipedia, Flickr and YouTube.

Social Networking: A social network service uses software to build online social networks for communities of people who share interests and activities or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others. Examples would be MySpace and FaceBook. It is not just for pleasure any more either, but for business as well on such sites as LinkedIn.

Micro-blogging: A form of blogging that allows users to write brief text updates (usually less than 200 characters) and publish them, either to be viewed by anyone or by a restricted group which can be chosen by the user. Examples of this are Twitter, Pownce or Plurk.

It’s a booming industry folks. Check ‘em out!

I get home from work every night at around 6ish. This gives me time to mess around on my computer a bit, do dinner and that’s about it. I would really like to get to bed by ten, since I have to get up by 6am. My tiredness actually hits at around 1-3pm. Obviously, not conducive to a regular 8-5 work schedule. The sleepiness fades a bit around 6pm, hits again slightly at 7pm and is gone until about 3am.

Every night for the past two weeks I have had to take Tylenol PMs to make sure that I get to sleep on time. I don’t want to have to take something every night to make sure I get to sleep. The insomnia is getting old. Why can’t I sleep at night? Why can’t I work my job at night and sleep during the day like my body wants me to? Life is not fair and I am just figuring that out at 38!

However, you can bring your dog, as witnessed here. Dogs know how to do it right…stupid cat!