Author: animar

That’s Right, It’s Snowing

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Here in Washington State we just don’t have regular old snow-  HELL NO

We have Thundersnow

Trap us on the Freeway here in Washington?

Oh.

I think not.

In this image from a Department of Transportation traffic camera, a driver who apparently abandoned their vehicle walks down State Route 520 Thursday morning.

In this image from a Department of Transportation traffic camera, a driver who apparently abandoned their vehicle walks down State Route 520 Thursday morning.

What you don’t see here is that a few minutes after this picture was taken cars started to turn around and drive the wrong way down the Shoulder ( behind this pedestrian ) so that they could get off of the freeway.

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you can click the pictures to get to the orginal news stories.

And if you think that here in Snohomish County we just build snowmen or ride sleds down one of our many hills or drive to the Malls and spend all day there eating Salted Pretzels and drinking Coffee with fancy French and Italian names because school was cancelled and we couldn’t get to work so we stayed home

HA HA ON YOU!

We do stuff like this:::

Jayden trying to sit in the snow filled chair as long as he can.

Snow Dare: Jayden trying to sit in the snow filled chair as long as he can.

Now for the best part of Snow Days

The Comics!

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Stay Warm Everybody and if you ARE warm remember- to much Sun is bad for your skin.

Ha.

a.m.

Day Four

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:::: A Twelve Day Journey To Christmas Day-

OR

Will Anita Marie Get Her Fiji Mermaid THIS Year?:::

And Now For A Seasonal Greeting-

Hey!

Merry Cursemas Everybody!

I figure if I put some effort into giving really unique gifts for Christmas that in turn will inspire my nearest and dearest to cough up the gift I would dearly love to receive on Christmas morning..

museum-mermaid

To recap- I’ve been asking for a Fiji Mermaid for 30+ years and my family have NOT been giving me one for 30+ years.

It’s a weird tradition.

Anyway this year I think I’m making progress  – I think it’s dawning on my husband and sister that I’m serious about my mermaid.

So as to not be coy or vague about what I want for Christmas I’ve designed a full out campaign and this is phase one-

I call this phase:::

 Gifts that keep on giving-

 mostly giving what you want.

For my cats I’ve chosen the following- okay they don’t give presents but maybe if people see I’m willing to do this  give this gift to to creatures that I dearly love…well…

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For my nieces- all of them- I’m going to send them this clip- with the suggestion that they share it with their parents often- in fact, I’m also going to get them versions of this song and CD and DVD just so they can really stick it I mean share the experience on a 24/7 basis.

Oh yes, there’s an empty shelf in my office and it’s the perfect place for the ultimate Christmas gift.

I can hardly wait for Christmas Morning.

On The First Day…

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:::: A Twelve Day Journey To Christmas Day-

OR

Will Anita Marie Get Her Fiji Mermaid THIS Year?:::

Today

On Day One

I set out and discovered that you can’t get it all from  The Mall

Today I asked my sister what her daughters wanted for Christmas.

One of my nieces wants Special Powers.

She wants to be able to understand what animals are saying.

I asked for a Fiji Mermaid – one of those awesome ones with fur and teeth.

I’ll bet my niece gets what she wants for Christmas this year.

On this first day I see my hopes for starting my own private Sideshow Museum slipping further away.

It’s Day One

and I am not feeling very Christmas’y’ right now.

There are 11 Days to go and that could change.

Right?

nothing says Merry Christmas like watching someone- or something smashing themselves in the head with a hammer

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Claymation Christmas::

 

Alone Time

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hauntorg

 

When I’m all alone

I sing.

I sing so bad my cats dive under the couches and purr- and I’m pretty sure they’re doing that because they’re scared out of their minds.

My dogs will stay with me but somewhere into the first song their eyes start to water and after I go into my third or fourth song they start chewing on their paws- at which point I stop because I’m afraid if I don’t stop they’ll chew their legs off or something.

So why do I do it?

Because it’s fun.

That’s why.

 

Your Call Is Holding On Line…

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Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection, [reproduction number, e.g., LC
Photo Credit: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection, [reproduction number, e.g., LC

For the past couple of days I’ve been receiving a lot of hits from a site called

Alpha Inventions.

I followed the traffic back to the referral  because I’d never heard of Alpha Inventions and generally when I notice a surge from one specific link I do get curious and always go back and check it out.

What I found out is that A.I. is an experiment in connecting webmasters ( bloggers ) together’faster’. As opposed to being a ‘chatty’ site like Facebook or Myspace Alpha Inventions deals strictly with information .

Here’s brief description about how it works from the Alpha Inventions Blog:

If you update or publish your blog at the same time my visitors are browsing blogs in my site then my visitors will get a chance to see your blog in real-time. BAM! (the entire blog is in their face instantly) It’s not even annoying to watch.  Is it alpha addicts??

I also provide a link to your blog in case they want it to open your blog in a new window, or bookmark your blog . The links provides your title, and description to help my visitors get a better understanding on what your blog is about, and get more interested. Alphainventions.com is useful for wordpress.com , typepad.com, spaces.live.com, and blogger.com I love it, and want to grow it like a tree. Yahh!

To get more traffic from alphainventions.com just keep your blog updated . It’s so simple.

More..

I would say that if I had to describe A.I. in simple terms it’s a bit like wandering through a bookstore or cruising through the footnotes in books ( which is something I like to do with pen and notebook in hand) for some new ideas to feed the old Grey Matter.

So  give Alpha Inventions a visit if you’re interested in the new ways that people are finding to stay connected through the Internet and information sharing.  And if  you are just a writer like me you’ll be intrigued by the desire that people have in a Cyber Universe to find a life line as it were to stay connected to each other.

It’s so real world.

a.m.

Vampires SUCK!

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Who Has The Best Job In The World?

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Who has the best job in the world?

Some would say it’s a costume designer named Katrina Lindsay:

Katrina Lindsay, measuring up the Time Lord  (David Tennant ) for his next Shakespeare role is just part of another day at the office. And if that’s not enough to drive his fans wild with envy, she even gets to tinker with his tights and mull over his inside leg measurement (!) Read More HERE

When I was a kid I wanted to be a writer like Rod Serling and have my own TV show- I also wanted to own my own Funeral Home and Cemetery.

Maybe I should have aimed higher.

Maybe.

An Open Letter To Sarah ” Caribou Barbie” Palin

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Dear Sarah ” Don’t Yell At Me, I’m Holding My Infant In My Arms- Former Beauty Queen ” Palin

I see that you went after Obama a few nights ago.

I found that amusing after watching him go up against real opponents like  Hillary Clinton- however, I wasn’t worried once your heavily made up face started to make noise ( I’d watch that if I were you, you should hear what McCain said to his own wife about wearing too much makeup- WOW! ) because after a few minutes it was obvious you were never intended to be more then a little distraction with a lot of lipstick ( hey now…she started the lipstick joke with that dog comparison ) at the RNC.

Do you know what made me mad?

You went after Community Activists ( code word for Uppity Minorities ).

Those are people who work to make their communities a better place- they do that work for free, they will probably never be recognized outside of their community for the work they do- and sometimes they  don’t even get recognized inside of it because Community Activists work in groups and rarely does one name bubble up unless they’ve been appointed a spokesperson-

I do work like that.

So does my husband.

And so do my friends ( thanks guys ).

You know, I’m the same age as you- which means that you HAVE benefited from the activist work that women did back in the 1960’s and beyond that I have.

They were activists Caribou Barbie- and if it had not been for people like that you would be up there in Alaska, sitting in your kitchen wishing that you could have been more in life then a floor waxing- baby making machine.

I haven’t forgotten that- but obviously YOU HAVE- which explains why you are  willing to play ” The Hostess With The Mostess ” for McCain.

Way to set the Women’s Movement back 100 years you ‘Book Banning- Her hope is to be on ESPN one day’ girl.

Oh and FYI

I was NEVER a Hockey Mom like YOU.

I Played Hockey.

Sincerely,

an activist from Washington State

HELP MEEEEEE

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Watched five minutes of the RNC…must cleanse brain…

must

rock and roll