Google, you kill me

Today, and today only you get a little treat from Google, a cartoon music video of Queen's Don't Stop Me Now.

It's cute, and clever and a fitting tribute to the best singer of all time.

I'm a fan.  Maybe I didn't make that clear.

Ten on Tuesday

1. What temperature do you keep your thermostat on during the day?
Depends on who leaves last.  I like to conserve energy during the hours that we're not around and set it at 72-74.  Corey likes to come home to a chill in the air and has been known to set the 'stat at 64.

"Sorry Beetle, I didn't know I set it that low..."

Mmmhmmm.

2. What temperature do you keep your thermostat on at night?
Same as above, but at least now that it is much cooler at night we can agree to leave the windows open.

3. In a canister of mixed nuts, do you pick out certain varieties and leave the others?
I'm not a big fan of nuts.  If I'm forced to eat a nut I'd prefer a cashew or almond.  Walnuts, please, on my salads and in my oatmeal, an no peanuts anywhere around me....unless finely chopped in a McDonald's sundae.

4. What is your favorite kind of M&M?
Peanut...HAHAHAHA!!

I'm not consistent.

5. How do you buy books? (Amazon, bookstore, new, used, electronic, etc)
Our library has a book sale three times a year where I buy paperbacks for 50 cents and hard covers for $1.  I crawl under, over and through sweaty stink-pots for last year's new releases and it is soooo worth it.  But sometimes I do miss being able to browse without holding my sweatshirt sleeve to my nose...

6. How do you like your eggs cooked?
Over medium.  With a side of hash.

7. Can you whistle?
Yes, but I still cannot do the fingers-in-mouth-eardrum-piercing kind.  Mine comes out as a raspberry with extra spittle.

8. What common word do you always misspell?
Ridiculous, it has more to do with how I pronounce it: reeee-diculous.  Also, sheriff and squirrel. 

Which letter is doubled, again?!

9. Are you afraid of flying?
Oh mama's corn fritters, yes.  Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.  And I have a trip coming up...oh boy, I have a trip coming up.  We fly from Albany to Indiana, from Indiana to Mississippi, from Mississippi back to Albany, with about a dozen layovers in between.  I'm feeling tingly already...

10. How often do you go shopping?
For groceries: once a week.  For Stacie things: not nearly as much as I'd like.  Although I do sense a pair of shoes in my future.

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Happy Tuesday!  Or Monday if you're like me and get completely thrown off by three-day-weekends.

Wrap Up: Hurricane Irene

You may have already noticed Corey and I made it through Hurricane Irene.  She wasn't as angry by the time she made her way aaaaallll the way up here, but there was still plenty of damage to speak of.

Luckily, there was no significant damage in our area.

Trees fell but managed to miss most of the power lines near us.  We were only without power for about three hours.

Three very long hours for Corey.  While I fired up a Youtube episode of Matlock, the poor guy could only pace back and forth, looking out windows and every now and then shouting "Hey did you see that?!"



My parents had some damage to clean up.  A dying birch tree they already wanted to take down did actually blow over.

Into their pool.

But I think they're still putting a check in the win column.

Unfortunately, though, the counties surrounding us are having some serious flooding.

Not our county.

Reporting live, this is Stacie Lucas with Channel 3 News.

Yancy Pants

"Hey Beetle, how's it going."

"Fine.  We've been pretty busy today"

"Sorry...I'm just walking the dog."

"All these angry people decided to call and..."

"...hang on, there's a car with a Georgia license plate here.  Three-six-eight-Adam-David-Yancy..."

"Did you just say 'Yancy'??"

Friday Confessions

1.  On Wednesday I checked my blog stats, I was specifically interested in how people find Corey & Stacie.  The following search engine keywords have led people here:

• look busy at work
• midget land palm springs
• corey in poo letters
• inner elbow crease

2.  Let's see what happens when I mention dog farts in every post!

3.  I had an iced coffee from Rock Hill Bakehouse twice this week.  It only comes in one size: 50 gallon drum.  Not only was I not able to sit still for two days, I could not stop peeing.

4.  I should not be allowed to drink coffee.

5.  My grandma's name is Irene.  Poor grandma.

6.  Jimmer Fredette is from the town in which I work.  Back in June his dad agreed to take some items to him to sign for my boss and some of her colleagues in the senate.  While on the phone with Mr. Fredette I shamelessly begged him to have Jimmer come to the office to sign everything.

"Um, well, I don't know what his schedule is..."

"Oh I was joking!"

Awk-ward...

7.  A google search yesterday on "hermaphrodite" was work-related.

8.  Corey's new favorite prank is startling me while in the shower.  He thought it was funny the first time he popped his head in the bathroom when I wasn't expecting him to even be home and I screamed as if my eyebrows were on fire.

9.  He also likes to tease me that we're doing a whale watch when we're in Cape Cod later this month. (see post below...)

10.  I vomit all the contents in my stomach, your stomach and your mom's stomach on whale watches.  Gross, I know.

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All vomit aside, have a happy Labor Day weekend!!

Its almost time to head to the Cape now that racing season is coming to an end....and what better way to get things started upon arrival...a WHALE WATCH!

There are only 4 days left of racing at the 2011 Saratoga Meet. How did 36 days go by that fast? It seems like just yesterday we were sitting inside Siro's on opening day toasting the meet. Wait...Keeneland is just around the corner, oh, everything is ok I guess.....and with the end of the meet also comes the beginning of football season....one of Stacie's favorites. She has even showed an interest in fantasy football this year....a giant step in the right direction!

In just 14 short days, its off to Cape Cod...a nice relaxing ocean vacation to unwind.....the last 40 days of racing, and all the antics that came with it took its toll. Lobster, shrimp....mmm, I can taste it now....Moby Dick's...here we come!

So we go...Saratoga, to Cape Cod, to Keeneland....(in a later blog)

and then Mississippi....what??? Heck, bring on the Catfish

Sneakers are too chewy anyway

Corey and I have been seriously neglecting our pantry.

It's bare.

I mean, there's stuff there.  Like sugar, and spices, and a waffle maker.

But there isn't any foooooooood.  Like the kind I can eat for breakfast, lunch or dinner.

I don't think I need to tell you (for the half a billionth time) that I was up-to-my-eyeballs busy this summer, and Corey has his track commitments (and I say "commitment" very loosely) every hour of the weekend.  So any time we might have had to shop for groceries has been taken by passing out exhausted on the couch/bed/toilet.

This morning after looking through the fridge, freezer, and pantry for the sixth time I realized I would have to utilize my back-up's back-up for breakfast: Dunkin' Donuts.

My regular back-up is a bagel with maple walnut cream cheese.

Yum, right?

I had that yesterday, and I just wasn't feeling it today.

Plan B: double chocolate donut from DDs.

People, don't get me wrong.  I love me some chocolate donuts on. special. occasions.

Like Saturdays.

But regular days I need good food.  The kind loaded with fiber and antioxidants.  The nutritional value of a donut is about the same as if I had eaten a sneaker.

Don't get me started on lunch.

We don't have any of that either.

I'm currently wondering what will go best with one of those 100 calorie packs of Cheezits (thanks to the office snack stash) I already have in me.

Iced coffee?

Or a large gulp of air...?

Coffee wins.  This time.