Kenneth Brown, I love you

This is my new homosexual crush. Designer Kenneth Brown. I don’t know if he is gay or not but he has too much style and panache to be straight. He has a show on HGTV called ReDesign. His look is clean and modern and he uses rich colors and stone and wood and every redesign he’s done looks absolutely awesome. He’s not snooty—he’s framed old calendar pictures and made them look like expensive art. He’s just got “the eye.”

Kenneth, I want you. I want you to redesign my living room, bathroom, kitchen and bedroom. You could even redesign my kitty’s back porch. Take me, I’m yours.

Love,
Emma

Here's his website if you wantto look at some of his designs

Kenneth Brown

Maybe You can Help

All of a sudden when I visit websites, the font is very big. What did I do? Maybe I accidently pushed the control key and then a letter? I hate this big font! I reboot my computer but it didn't work. I also when into "Internet Options" under the tool bar and tried to see if anything was different. No luck there either. What happened?

Look what's getting released on DVD in MARCH!!!!

Is that cool or what????

Text Twist & French

Verbie mentioned that she's a Text Twist junkie. Schell plays, and I know that evil Respighi (highlighted in orange, you'll notice)plays because she's the one who got me hooked on Mah Jong. Do any of you subscribe and pay a monthly fee? I don't. I just play the online version, but I'm tired of getting the same words over and over. It pisses me off though when I don't get the six-letter word and my points go to zilch. I get all the other words, just not the six letter one, and I'm still screwed?

LP will ask me what's the big fascination with Mah Jong or TT. It puts me into a semi trance like state sometimes and then I'm not even playing the game anymore--I'm thinking about work and solving problems, or making lists in my head. I've thought of terrific stuff to try at work when Mah Jonging! Maybe when one part of my brain is concentrating on a repetitive game, the creative part is free to wonder.

When I was going to the Shelf, lots of people (Miss Pink Votary, Jaded, and Mems, I think) sang the praises of literati. I tried it a couple of times but it didn't float my boat.

I've tried most of the other online games on that site, but TT and Mah Jong are my favorites.

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On another note, I'm scouring the Internet to find a good site to learn French. I've got a bee in my bonnet about visiting the south of France and I figure I'd better learn the basics first.
Cornwall is also my list. St Ives and Michael's Mount. I saw a Samantha Brown special about Cornwall and when the tide is out you can walk across the water on this stone path to get out to Michael's Mount.

My sister’s off to London for ten day business trip. She said they sat on the runway at Indy for awhile yesterday while they de-iced the plane. She later emailed me telling me that she landed in London a-okay.

I found out that I have to go to Orlando for a meeting in March. I’m taking another employee with me. I told her that we’ll be able to do some fun things as well as the business meetings, so that made her happy. I haven’t been to Disney World in probably 15 years, I’ve never been to Universal but I’m going to let her choose. I really don’t care about the after –hours stuff.


Schell, I've had trouble with Gamehouse for the last week or so. Have you? If so, try www.shockwave.com they have our Text Twist and different Mah Jongs plus others.

Spidey

A few days ago I got the cutest Lucy postcard in the mail from the Spidey Woman. Thanks Spidey! I appreciate it.

Snow in the yard

I just took these pictures, and it's still snowing.

I left work and was not looking forward to brushing piles of snow off my car and an employee had gone out earlier and she brushed my car as well as her own! That was so sweet!

Lunch Time Reading and Dead Sea Salt

First the weather: It's colder than a witches tit and sometime this afternoon we will get between three and six inches of snow so I'm bringing along my snow boots to work.

I've finished the Underground book and pronounce it worthy to read. This lady at work has organized a Read-in for Black History Month during lunch time. For the next couple of days volunteeers are doing fifteen minutes readings from their favorite books by black authors. Everyone seems to be doing I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, or How Stella Got Her Groove Back, or MLK, Jr. I Have a Dream Speech. I think I'll go for Chris Rock's Rock This! lol.

Last time we were in Vegas one of those kiosk men (you know . . in the malls they have kiosks set up which usually sell sunglasses or engraving, things like that) reeled me in to try this lotion. It's called Sea Spa. Damn does this stuff smell nice. I bought some hand cream and some foot cream. I ran out of hand cream a long time ago and am now using the foot cream on my hands. The stuff is made in Israel and has some Dead Sea salt in it. http://www.sea-spa.com/

I guess it's my patriotic duty to post this picture

22 below

With the wind chill factored in, it’s 22 below this morning. Oh joy! And, no Bert, I do not want to hear about your lovely golf game.
I didn’t watch the whole Super Bowl, but checked the score periodically. There’s a rally downtown today, and even in sub zero temperatures I’m sure there’ll be a crowd. LP started to watch the game last evening but fell asleep on the couch around 8:30. I took off his shoes and covered him with a quilt and there he stayed until 7 this morning.

Since the school delay this morning, I’ll drop LP off at the high school and then go to work late. It’ll only be Monday morning quarterbacking at work today anyway. I may stop off at Panera for a coffee and bagel if the mood strikes.


Minor emergency: My dryer’s broken. The “start” button won’t push in, and it won’t heat up. This happened after all the loads were done for Sunday, so that’s a good thing. BP will fix it. He can fix anything.

I haven’t the slightest idea if I’m going to get BP a Valentine’s gift this year. Maybe a card. My niece’s 14th birthday is tomorrow and I need to send her a card/money!


Spidey, best of luck with Big Joe’s surgery today!!

Numi Moonlight Spice Tea

This tea, brewed 3 to 5 minutes, topped with a lemon wedge and packet of Equal helps my cough and sore throat. It's similar to Constant Comment tea--with that orange aroma. It smells so good. Numi has a pretty website too.

Christmas Lights

1. I thought of Schell this morning while reading The Born Loser Sunday comic. His wife was whining that they still have the Christmas lights up. The BL said that he had it planned that way. He put up green strands of lights and red strands of lights. Now he’s going to turn on just the red for Valentine’s Day, and in March he’ll turn on just the green for St. Paddy’s Day! Way to plan!

2. I drove to pick up LP at Craigan's house this morning and the car thermometer registered 3 degrees outside. Now that's damn cold. Brrrrr. I'm staying inside for the rest of the day.

3. I'm halfway through my Underground book. Who used to come into the Shelf and announce, "I'm 3 and 7/16's through the book I'm reading." Was it Max Pi?

4. Since my son was wearing a hoodie (or jeans, or a tshirt, etc.) for three hours then pitching it on his floor and putting on something else, and since I was doing four loads of his laundry to every one load for BP and me, we worked out an arrangement. I'll do his towels and sheets, but he's responsible for doing all of his own laundry: Sorting, washing, drying, hanging up and putting it away. This has been in effect for three weeks and now it's old hat. "Will you take my stuff out of the dryer if I'm at Jordan's?" "No." "Will you just do a load of my jeans for school this week?" "No." And let me tell you, I think he's learning. This week he wore the same hoodie two days in a row! Can you believe that shit???!!! We're saving water and detergent. He'll have to learn to do laundry when he's out of the house, so he may as well start now. It's a good life skill.