rude people

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/tor/242045021.html

okay, no questions about why i'm reading the best of craig's list for toronto, but this guy's toronto subway rules apply to trains all over the world.

now for my personal metro horror:

on tuesday (yes, the day after christmas), i was walking through the entrance (which is somewhere between 8-9 feet wide, and just to make a point, i am nowhere near being 8-9 feet wide). a girl, about 5-4, maybe 120 pounds, blonde, mid-twenties, shoves me as she walks past.
shoves.
after regaining my balance, i say "geez."
she turns around, steps right up to me, and yells, "did you say something? you said something to me!"
"well, you pushed me."
"i had to push you because you were in my way."
"you had to push me?"
"if you wouldn't walk so slow you wouldn't be in my way and so i pushed you." (she is now screeching. for some reason, she thinks i did something horribly wrong.)
"and so you pushed me?" turning, i study the 8-9 foot doorway, comparing with my size 8, sometimes a 6, hips. nowhere even close. but now the irate rude person is gone, and i am wondering if she also pushes the elderly, the infirm, small children, people on crutches and new mothers carrying infants.

our society has become filled with inconsiderate, self-obsessed people who go out of their way to be rude to complete strangers.
i hope santa brought her coal for christmas.
geez.

five things

a bunch of the other blogs i read are doing a 'five random things you don't know about me' series. and i'm jumping on board.
1. my lizards have boy names, but they are both girls. i can't tell my frogs apart.
2. i've broken four bones, two at a time, but have never had stitches.
3. i've never seen any of the rocky or rambo movies all the way through. and the peices that i have seen i'm not sure which numbers they were from.
4. i was decatur's labor day queen in 1996. i have a trophy and got to ride in a parade.
5. i've won 2 school awards, one in home economics and one in drama/theater. i tripped up the stairs at the ceremony for the theater award.

merry christmas!!!

for christmas? please?

the new shelby cobra. 0 to 60 in 3.2 seconds. 0 to 100 in 7.3 seconds. what more can a girl want?

luau christmas party

the luau christmas party:
i'm cleaning. i swear.

we are all super fantastic!

ultimate coasters from monolo the shoeblogger.

the best thing about wintertime

is gingerbread lattes. skim, with whip please.

its fricking freezing

about a week ago it was 75 degrees outside.

now it's 21 and super windy. i want to move to cabo. it's nice and warm there.

happy birthday mom!!!

we're just bowling fools.

don't laugh, i think this was the first time i've broken 100 since bowling class in high school.
somebody got a strike!!!

christmas list

for people who can, um, influence he who buys the presents.


oh, and it's style #40275. thanks.

all the wit that's fit to print

here's a friend's website - check it out! http://www.cafepress.com/in_joke

happy turkey day!!!

take the turkey test!
http://home.aristotle.net/Thanksgiving/trivia.asp

us soccer: new retirement plan

the day before the mls cup game, the brass announced a new salary cap rule: the beckham rule. teams are now allowed one 'designated player' position, to be traded among teams, with no team ever having more than two. this way, teams will be able to pay those elite players more than the mls salary cap of $400,000.
so now u.s. teams can afford to court european players, like beckham and figo, who are nearing the end of their careers. giving these players another option besides retirement - come play in the u.s.! hey, they're too old to play for real teams, since those teams are always getting younger, faster and better. but not ours - we're willing to override current salary caps in order to sign star players who are past their prime to play anywhere else. now that sounds like a plan to get u.s. soccer taken seriously by the rest of the world.
the kicker is that many u.s. professional soccer players are not paid enough, and need to have a second job to live comfortably. that actually goes against the definition of being a professional.

dc united players:

bobby boswell, 2006 mls defender of the year.

troy perkins, 2006 mls goalie of the year.

both players were salaried $29,400 in 2006, 1/3 of the league average salary.

fear the turtle!

go terps!!!!!
they had a great game last night!
yeah, still not quite sure how i got to be a umd fan.

weird, but true

imagine the poor guy who discovered this fish.

bet you couldn't get him in the water again.

(Anoplogaster cornuta, c.n. fangtooth)

woohoo!!!

they were serving his favorite scones at tea.

the new obsession

cirque du soleil - corteo

this show is awesome. if you have a chance to go, GO. i love the acrobats, they were amazing. everything was amazing. i am stunned. i want to go join the circus.

dog days of, um, winter?

last friday, veteran's day, was the most beautiful day. so i took the girls to the park. we were the only ones there, and they spend more time sniffing stuff than they did running around. i guess without other dogs there, they weren't really interested in playing.