apparently....

http://lucid.lunacy.nu/quiz/pirates.html This will tell you which Pirates of the Carribbean star you are most like.
I, apparently, am Will Turner.

coming to the end of October..

I can hardly believe it's nearly upon us. Halloween, that is. Rob is making many of my fantasies come true by dressing as Captain Jack Sparrow (Pirates of the Carribbean) and I am going as a pirate wench. Be still my heart.
Considering we have to meet the DJ on Saturday night in Salem, and it is, after all, Halloween weekend, we thought "why not dress up?" and thus we are. Best thing is I can wear it to work as well. Halloween is a big holiday around here at work. Had a haunted house yesterday and we are up to our hoo-has in candy. It's awesome.

So apparently Mom is having a great time...

Enjoying the good life in CA with her new best friend Ollie... my aunt and uncle's dog. What is really funny is that the last time my mom was out there, Ollie bit her in the leg - perhaps even the leg he is laying against at the time of this picture? :)

Great line from Bumpa

So we go to visit Bumpa and my Uncle Brad in the nursing home last night and we are discussing where we are going on our honeymoon, and I reply probably the Carribbean, we're not sure yet and then I said I would lvoe to go to Paris, but I don't think Rob would like it. My uncle, who was in Paris during the war, says how much he loved Paris. My grandfather pops up and says "There's a lot of whores in Paris." Best. Line. Ever.

Paradox

boxing rings are square.
A guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
Why is it that writers write but fingers don’t fing, grocers don’t groce and hammers don’t ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn’t the plural of booth beeth?
One goose, two geese. So, one moose, two meese??
There’s neither egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger.
There is neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
English muffins weren’t invented in England nor French Fries in France.
Sweetmeats are candies, while sweetbreads, which aren’t sweet, are meat.
Why is it that you can make amends, but not one amend?
If you have a bunch of odds and ends and you get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn’t preachers praught?
If a vegetarian eats only vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
Where else but English....
do people recite at a play and play at a recital?
Ship by truck and send cargo by ship?
Have noses that run, and feet that smell?
Park on driveways and drive on parkways?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while quite a lot and quite a few are alike?
How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell on another?
Have you ever...
met a sung hero or experienced requited love?
Have you ever run into someone who was combulated, gruntled, ruly or peccable?
And where are those people who ARE spring chickens or who ACTUALLY hurt a fly?

mid October

And damn, it seems like winter is already here. I broke out the heavy ass sweater that I usually do not don until the snow flies. And I am comfortable. You know it's chilly when Rob says he wants to be under the blankets.
Family emails are flying, takeoff courtesy of me, regarding Thanksgiving plans. I can't believe it's like 1 week and one month til turkey day.
Sharrie's moving this weekend, mom leaves for CA for a week, Eddie and Joe Diaz's birthday are both on Friday....and work has been really busy - with new launches of Experiences coming right up. My favorite line from training was "this is launching to 900,000 customers, but we only expct 1500 calls." That's a good one.

maybe it wasn't the bubonic plague.....?

Symptoms of Avian Influenza in Humans
The reported symptoms of avian influenza in humans have ranged from typical influenza-like symptoms (e.g., fever, cough, sore throat, and muscle aches) to eye infections (conjunctivitis), pneumonia, acute respiratory distress, viral pneumonia, and other severe and life-threatening complications.

H5N1, Thailand and Vietnam, 2004 and 2005: Beginning in late June 2004, new lethal outbreaks of H5N1 among poultry were reported by several countries in Asia. The new outbreaks of H5N1 in poultry in Asia were followed by renewed sporadic reporting of human cases of H5N1 infection in Vietnam and Thailand beginning in August and continuing into 2005. Of particular note is one isolated instance of probable limited human-to-human transmission occurring in Thailand in September. Visit www.cdc.gov/flu/avian/outbreaks/asia.htm, www.oie.int, and www.who.int/en for more information.
Not that I've had excessive chicken contact, or contact with a great deal of folks from Thailand, OR Vietnam.
Everyone in the office is blaming their coughing and sneezing on me. Unfair. I was home when I was most contagious. At least it's not SARS. Serious ailments.

October 4

Finally feeling better. Gosh, I hate being sick.
That's a really dumb expression. Duh, like there's someone who actually likes hacking up a lung, not being able to taste anything, and feeling like crap?
Photographer has been booked, Jess's dress is bought, met with Rev. Peggy today. Gosh the plans are just rolling along for Wedding of the Year 2006... lol....
Sharrie's been having a horrible time in FL, I feel so bad. She so needed a getaway, and instead got crap. That just sucks. Big time.