Are We Home Yet

It's going to be a boring tirade Tuesday this week. Amazingly there is very little annoying me.

When riding on a public bus why do people feel the need to stand in front of the entrances/exits? Unless the bus is completely full please move away from the doors. It's not enjoyable having the ability to see every pore on your face just to get off the bus.

Headaches. Why? What is the point? GO AWAY!

At Issue

Happy Monday. I hope you like the new look of my blog. I've changed the layout a bit and although it's still a little boring, I hope it brings a new life to my little part of the web. I hope you enjoy it. See you tomorrow for Tirade Tuesday.

Through This World I Stumble

Whenever I drive past a landfill I always wonder at how much trash can fit in one. I also ask myself what happens when there are no more landfills. This question always brings me back to recycling. With more and more efforts to "Go Green" recycling has become even more popular. From the home to the workplace many people are trying to do their part to help the environment. In our new condo we are somewhat challenged as to where we would put a recycle bin but we still make an effort to recycle anything we can. At work I try to reuse paper and I make sure anything that can be recycled does.

All of these efforts may not be enough to solve the environmental challenges we face but they sure don't further them either. I encourage you to do your part. Recycle!

Why Is He A Dumbass

Adam recently suggested I start watching a particular TV show and I had to decline at watching even ONE episode. To some that may sound a bit odd, after all it's just one episode, but I can't take the chance of liking it. You see, I have reached my TV show maximum.

I currently watch eight shows. That may not sound like a lot since other people I know (including Adam) watch many more than that but being that I travel for work I can't always watch them when they are on. A few times I've come home to five hours of television waiting for me. Don't get me wrong, I love to sit on the couch and watch TV but after being gone for a few days I have other things to do besides watch TV. Often I'm left scrambling to watch everything I missed and get my errands done before I leave for work again and a new week of TV begins. Add in the enjoyment of a couple of old episodes of The Golden Girls and it's a full TV schedule.

Here are my current shows:
Amazing Race
Dancing With The Stars (Monday & Tuesday)
Top Chef
Modern Family (if you don't watch it you should)
Cougar Town
Private Practice
Project Runway

So far I'm keeping up but just barely. Is it summer yet?

The More You Know

During the month of November to go along with my posting a new blog everyday I'm going to share a fun fact/story about myself every Friday that most of you don't know. Here's your first one.

When I was a little kid I'd often visit my older cousins that lived on the other side of town (I use the term town lightly.) They would call their phone number from a different room so that the phone would ring back and tell me to answer it. When I answered they pretended to be Alice, Flo, and the other waitresses from the show "Alice." I would be so excited and never understood why there were ALWAYS people laughing in the background. I'd go back home and tell my mom and dad every time this happened and was always met with the same smile. This went on for years without me figuring it out until one day it all fell into place. I was so gullible.

Knock Knock

This weekend we're off to Bloomington, IN to visit our good friends Jill & Nick and FINALLY see their new house. While there we're also going to watch the Indiana Hoosiers take on the Wisconsin Badgers at Memorial Stadium. It'll be a weekend of college football, beer, and great friends. Adam and I have been trying to get away for a month now and we finally are. Southern Indiana here we come!

Hold Me Closer Tony Danza

How many of us listen to music and make up lyrics when we are unsure of what they actually are? Like you I have all kinds of "lyrics" that I sing to songs and if I don't make any up I just repeat "watermelon asparagus" until I do know the words.

My most recent lyric "misunderstanding" if you will is to the Lady GaGa song "Paparazzi." When she says "will you love me pa pa paparazzi" I thought she was saying "will you love me pappa rossi." I know, sad. What's even more sad is the fact that I figured out the correct lyrics at 3am while dancing at a bar after a long night of drinking.

Maybe alcohol is good for something after all...like figuring out song lyrics.

The Fight

Today you are going to get two blogs from me. This one is a last minute addition that I needed to put out there.

Yesterday, Maine voters overturned the law giving gay and lesbian citizens the right to marry. I want to know why. Why do other people get to decide who marries who? This law didn't force heterosexuals to marry someone of the same sex. It didn't nullify your heterosexual marriage. Did the end of the world occur while the law was in effect? Were people marrying cats and dogs? Where children harmed? The answer to all these questions is NO. This law had absolutely NO effect on straight people who are single or married except that those who voted to overturn the law don't "agree" with homosexuality. If these anti gay marriage people put all the effort they did in overturning this law into helping the economy or fighting poverty there would probably be not one person poor or out of work in the state of Maine. It's a fucking shame.