I (still) Love Airports

That title is dripping with sarcasm. Airports are full of weird people and disease, in that order. I previously ranted and expressed my dislike for these oversized disease platters (with a side of irritation), and my recent vacation to California only reinforced these feelings.We all know that I hate when people stand around the gate before their designated zone/group is called. Seriously people, we will ALL get on the plane, we have tickets for pity’s sake. There is no reason in the world to stand around in my way when your section hasn’t been called yet. Not to mention, you’re going to spend the next several hours trapped with these people. One would think people wouldn’t be so eager to be crammed into an aluminum trash can next to strangers, but you’re lucky if you can get on a plane without your feet being run over by someone’s rolling suitcase before you can board the flight.

This particular flight experience spared me the annoyance of old women asking if I was reading a good book AND bonus, there were episodes of, “How I Met Your Mother”, on one of the flights (I fully endorse that show). However, I was 9 rows away from my husband at some point, crammed next to some weird Asian girl who kept elbowing me. I may have given a little elbow of my own, shhh don’t tell. She also curled up and fell asleep, and for a brief second (and I do mean BRIEF) she put her feet in my lap. NOT COOL. I had a little seizure and her feet fell off. What is wrong with parents that they can’t tell their children to act appropriately?

If I had the time, I’d be a road tripper..but then I’d be robbed of the book fodder pleasure, such a catch 22. Enjoy this picture of us in the airport, ridiculous.

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Vacation: A Retrospective Blog

Our vacation was fantastic, and the third fight never even occurred. Prepare to be inundated with blogs about the trip, some of which will include pictures..yay!! Stay tuned…

I Need a Vacation From This Vacation…

And we haven’t even left yet.

About five months ago I approached my husband with the idea of taking a nice vacation this summer. King Frugal was actually willing to open his wallet and let the moths out to have a little fun, YAY! Immediately my vacation wheels started turning about all the places I wanted to go. Initially, I really wanted to go to Colorado, because I love the mountains. Then we discussed Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park, Cape Cod, Niagara Falls and somehow we settled on a trip to California. There have been several evenings spent planning and organizing, and honestly, I didn’t put this much effort into my wedding. Hey, I’ve got priorities.

So now it is vacation eve and I predict no less than 3 fights today with my husband. Actually, the first one is already brewing. When a wife says to her husband, “you barely have enough undershirts to last from now until next Saturday,�? that does not mean, “Husband, please go home and promptly change your undershirt so now you won’t have enough to last.�? He’s lucky I’m so sweet; otherwise I’d make him go dirty and stinky. Actually, I just don’t want to be stuck on a plane next to him for 5 hours when he’s dirty and stinky. If he was sitting by other people, it’d be another story.

Fight number two will be close behind. I’ve asked my husband repeatedly to set out clothes that he wants to wear next week. I’ve been repeatedly answered by my husband whistling “ABC�? by the Jackson 5. Then at random he will squeal out, “Come on come on come on let me show you what it’s all about.�? OBNOXIOUS. The worst part, he’s only doing it to irritate me, yet he won’t stop until I yell at him (there’s the catch-22). Then he shuts up for 11.3 seconds (long enough to laugh at me), and starts over. I think this time I am going to let him go naked, I’m quite tired of staying up all night to pack.

Finally, our third fight is going to be over something I forgot to do, amongst the 30 bajillion other things I was busy doing while my husband sat and picked his nose and whistled the Jackson 5’s greatest hits. This third fight might also not happen until we get to California and he realizes that I didn’t pack him any socks. Then I’ll snip at him, “If you’d have set out clothes instead of ABC-ing all day this wouldn’t have happened!�?

This is going to be the best vacation ever!

I’m Painfully Out Of Touch

Last week Aaron and I had a discussion concerning recent trends and how out of touch he feels looking at the kids these days and seeing what they are wearing or doing. He said he’s reached that point where he just looks at kids and thinks, “what? that’s in style..wait, is that even a style?”. To which I replied, “I felt that way a long time ago, I sort of took it as a rite of passage.” That being said, there’s a trend that people my age and older are completely obsessed with and I don’t get it. Rather, I don’t get him. I don’t get this Harry Potter character. I mean, I get that he’s Harry Potter, boy wizard, but so what?

Have you ever gone to a theater the night that a Harry Potter movie opens? Seriously…remember in “The Wedding Singer,” they had table 9? I feel like I’m in theater 9. There are weirdos everywhere, it smells like body funk, people are dressed like movie characters and they’re waving wands. It’s worse than a Star Trek convention during a full moon. I have a limit to how much douche baggery I can tolerate in one day and that exceeds my monthly limit.

People go nuts over these books too, it’s crazy. They are like the Cabbage Patch Kids of the new millennium. I love Laurie Notaro and Douglas Coupland, but I wouldn’t be running to my local B&N to get their book at midnight, or even noon the day it comes out. I can wait. However, if you wait around too long, people start talking and posting on the Internet about the latest Harry adventure and then the book is ruined and people are ready to punch babies. I haven’t read JPOD yet, but I’m not going to harm small children or animals if you tell me what happens.

I’m anticipating some Harry hate crimes in the near news future.

Fashion Police I Am Not, But……

Rosie O’Donnell decided to take the opportunity to bash Elisabeth Hasslebeck and Donald Trump on her family oriented gay/lesbian cruise. You know, the cruise that cancelled the vacations for a lot of non-gay people (what I’m really saying is cancelled vacations of legitimate families). First, if it’s a gay family fun cruise, should she really be sitting around making fun of others? Because when I think family entertainment, I think let’s go listen to a squawk box talk poorly of others. Please, I can do that at home, Joy Behar is still on The View. Anyways, Rosie decided it would be fun to make fun of others while dressed in this stunning ensemble.

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Yep, that’s right. She is making fun of others, meanwhile she is dressed like a 1990 nightmare in yellow crocs. She also appears to have some sort of ankle boot tattoed on her leg. I pity the fool who had to do that. Dykes everywhere, behold your king…or better yet, just stick with Ellen.

This Town Continues To Be Ridiculous

So, remember when I said this town was ridiculous for the onion delay? Today, we have ourselves a new, equally bizarre, produce delay. A watermelon truck overturned on an entrance ramp from I-75 to I-74 and that’s just dumb. It’s a sharp turn, you can see that its a sharp turn, there’s no reason to roll your truck, just slow down! I can’t even begin to express how ridiculous I think produce these produce delays are, onions, watermelons…I sincerely hope that our next produce delay is something delicious like pineapple. No, better than fruit, I hope our next delay involves farm animals, I really liked that time we had the cow delay (true story).

UPDATE: I was sent an actual news article concerning the watermelons, and behold, a quote from CPD, “We have watermelons all over the road,”. I can’t get enough of the train wreck that is this town. The coroner has apparently been called to the scene, so I might be a little more understanding if the driver wrecked because he was dying. If he died because he wrecked, well then my simply will be waning.

UPDATE (pt. 2): The same person who sent me the news article alerted me to the fact that it takes 6 CPD cruisers to sit on an entrance ramp and guard squashed watermelons. Do you want to take a guess at how many cruisers will show up if your house gets robbed? One. Just one. Watch out for watermelons, they’re feisty. Meanwhile, back at the ghetto ranch, every felon in Cincinnati is running wild, stealing $1 bills, bowling balls and Jeep Cherokees.

Why I Moved: Pt. 3 – Cars in the Lawn

So I was reading the local news websites, looking for blog fodder and boy did I come across a gem! A car crashed into a house near the intersection of Montana & Anaconda, and I thought, “Hmm, I used to live near that intersection.” So I did a little more digging on other news websites

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As you can see, there is clearly a car parked into a house. No, that is NOT my old house, that’s my neighbor. That black strip, that’s my old driveway. According to the video I watched, this super (drunk) douche plowed through the fence of my previous home and crashed into my neighbors house. The driver then fled the scene. I think that brings new meaning to 40 oz. to freedom. $50 says CPD can’t manage to find him either. So glad I moved.

Rehab Be Not Proud

So Lindsay Lohan is 21 today, finally legal to drink, too bad she’s been doing that for at least 3 years now. Congratulations Linds, you’re finally legal to drink and you’ve already been through rehab twice. TWICE. There’s no telling how long she’s been snorting lines of blow off a toilet seat either.

Sometimes when people go to rehab or join AA we think, “Good for them, getting their life together,”. When Lindsay goes to rehab we think, “Again? Is she even old enough to drink yet?”. Rehab, twice in 1 year, and all they do is pen her up for about a week, then let her bike around on the beach with her posse of idiots, and then 30 days later set her free to go hang out with Rumer Willis, who smokes pot and chews on condoms by the way. Oh, but she’s going to do the extended outpatient program, which means that she is free to go drink and then she can go to her meetings and say, “I’m trying to stop! See everyone, I go to meetings! See Judge, I’m trying to be responsible! Please have pity on me and don’t put me in jail, I really don’t want to be EXACTLY like Paris”.

Responsible is not having a drug and alcohol problem before you’re legal to drink. Responsible is having millions of dollars and calling a cab. Responsible is not patterning your life after Paris Hilton. I’ll even go as far to say this, responsible is going to rehab to improve yourself, not put on a show for everyone around you. We’re not impressed Lindsay (Britney, Nicole Richie, etc etc), we’re just laughing at your expense.

Shall we start the betting for how long it will be before she falls of the wagon (again)?

I Don’t Even Believe This….

What’s better than your city being kicked out of VH1′s “Save the Music” program? When your city starts boasting it’s program that gears high school students toward college. Wow, what a great idea, encouraging kids to actually DO SOMETHING after high school. Who knew that’s what you should do? Oh that’s right, thousands of other kids who do it every year!

Apparently Cincinnati is a ghetto, the entire city is a ghetto, at least according to the article I read. It stated that only 70% of high school students in this country actually graduate (I need a statistic for Kentucky, you know, where education pays!). However, only 53% of students from low income areas actually graduate. Thus implying that this whole town is full of uneducated poor people. At least that’s what I got.

This program, “Project Grad” (that’s original guys), requires students and their parents to sign a contract that they will fulfill certain requirements. These requirements are pretty grand, it would be awfully tough to do these things, brace yourself it gets pretty rough. (If you’re easily offended stop here, reader discretion is advised).

Students must:
- attend class 93% of the time
- maintain a 2.5 GPA
- pass state exams
- attend 2 sessions on a college campus
- graduate high school in 4 years

Someone is kidding right? Is this a joke? You have to sign a contract that says you will go to class and graduate in 4 years? You are told to maintain a C+ average? For heaven’s sake, you have to pass the state exams to graduate!! I don’t see what Project Grad is going to accomplish, it’s not even a Band-Aid solution, just more smoke and mirrors from the Queen City.