OK - for something a little lighter than yesterday's rant, I will share something my Sweetie just shared with me.  A little site called "Yeti vs. Gnome" filled with little shorts about a bumbling Yeti and yodeling gnomes. 

I know.  It's silly.  But I needed silly this evening.  And this is so perfect for the two of us.  I partially come from a yodeling heritage.  My hubby, being well-follicularly endowed is sometimes mistaken for a Sasquatch.  Who else in the world would put such things together?  Unless.....do they yodel in the Himalayas????

Anyway - check this out.

And even though it is not Valentine's Day, I dedicate this next one to my Sweetie, for finding this site for me:

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ok, explain this one to me - you have a fitted sheet for your bed. This is the one that goes on the bottom that is elasticy and it fits the mattress and doesn't move around (for you guys who have never made a bed. ha! sorry).

Unless your bed is perfectly square, your mattress - and your fitted sheet - is longer on one side than the other.

So, there you stand....with fresh sheets....ready to make your bed....and you got a fitted sheet in your hand. And you have a mattress. Sheet. Mattress. Four sides. Four corners. You grab a corner of your fitted sheet, you aim for a corner of your mattress. You slip it on. You pull the side to the other corner.

Four corners. Four sides. Two sides lengthwise. Two sides widthwise. Statistically speaking (which I hate doing - having almost flunked upper level stats in college), you have a 50-50 chance of matching up the right corner of your sheet to the correct corner of the bed.

50-50. 50%. A one in two chance of success.

Why is it that, in all my days and years of making a bed - I NEVER MATCH THE RIGHT CORNERS?! Never. Not ever. Even when I stretch the sheet out to gage which is the long side. Even when I reach for the corner of the mattress and think "Uhh ohhh...you've made the wrong choice! Abort mission! Re-start! Re-do! Computer, end program!" and I switch corners.....only to be wrong AGAIN. I'm always wrong. Why is that?

It is down to the final three teams!

I suppose the best thing I can say is, I don't have a strong preference for any of them. Gotta say - the more I care about a team, the more nervous I am watching the show. Sucks when my team gets eliminated. I've never really gotten over the elimination of The Clowns. Oh Jon and Al! You were such great players!

This season, the All-Star Season, I was rooting for David and Mary, the West Virgina coal miner and his wife. Once they were gone, it was very sad, but at least I could watch the show without sitting on the edge of the couch.

So, I've been trying to think about which of the final teams I dislike the least.

Ooops. But now I have to go watch (yawn) 24.

Twice in a row Baby!

I picked the NCAA National Champs for two years in a row in my office (now ex-office) pool. Wa hooo!

Of course, absolutely no one in our pool this year could catch the leader from Day 1 - she picked most of the top seeds to start, and stayed in the lead up to the end, even though she picked Georgetown to win.

However, it's a small victory, and I'll take those when I can get them.

What's my super-secret, highly-scientific, well thought out Picking strategy?

Simple. Since I don't know much about college hoops during the rest of the year, I am loyal to the alma maters of my good friends. Plus, I pick schools located in states where I have ever stepped foot in. Not many states there, but it helps with the picking. I've lost points before picking North Carolina, so the last couple of years, I went with Florida. Last year, I think I was the only only who picked them. Not this year, of course.

But, like I said, small victories.

This is a fun task I saw on Maija's blog, who got it off Katha's page.

Give it a try!

SCATTERGORIES...it's harder than it looks!

Rules:
Use the 1st letter of your name to answer each of the following...
They MUST be real places, names, things...NOTHING made up!
If you can't think of anything, skip it.
Try to use different answers if the person before you had the same 1st initial.
You CAN'T use your name for the boy/girl name question...

Now Go!

Your Name: Stone Girl

So, I wrote this long eloquent rant about Ann Coulter, but my computer ate it. I'll have to save the re-write for another time.

My new question for the evening is - Why are many vacuumn cleaners now bagless

I don't get it. I didn't mind changing the bags. But now, with a bagless(at least our bagless), you have to remove the canister and empty the damn thing yourself. I now take the canister outside the house, which is a pain in the arse to bother to do. But otherwise, I inevitably get a whole pile of dust BACK onto the carpet that I just frickin vacumned Can anyone explain the logic of this to me? Am I doing something completely wrong?

Also, our carpet sheds like an Afghan pooch in summer. So, the canister fills up pretty darn quick as I vacumn the house. It takes at least two dumpings of the canister to finish the house. And the carpet fuzz sticks to the side of the canister, but is not heavy enough to be dumped out when I turn the thing over and whack it a few times. So guess what?! I have to reach my hand into the canister and drag the pile of carpet fuzz into the trash bag. But not just carpet fuzz, mind you. It's carpet fuzz mixed up with half a lung-full of Maui red dust, along with spider webs, hair, food crumbs, and who knows what else finds its way onto the carpet. This is the ultimate grossness! I don't want to touch this crap after I suck it up off my floor, let alone inhale some of it back into my lungs. ARGH!

So, I ask you - do you know why these cleaners are bagless? I love my vacuum cleaner, except for that part. Whose idea was it to ditch the bags?

They've gotten a bit of criticism lately about an incessant run of media appearances. Not all of it is about the death of Mr. Irwin. A lot of the media appearances are about the new show. And yes, it seems a little exploitative to be promoting little Bindi's new show so hard, so fast. Should her mother let her? Should little Bindi look so garsh darn happy about being in the spotlight ALL the time?

I'm not going to answer questions about what other people should do. I'll just tell you, they creep me out. Both of them, but especially the 8-year old. Creepy creeps is what she gives me. Guess I won't be watching her bubbly new show.

Today’s question from Yahoo 360 is “If you could vote for the Golden Globes, what would your choices be?”

In answering this question, I am ignoring the actual nominees - partly because I haven’t seen so many of these movies or shows. I’m also skipping a bunch of categories because of my deplorable lack of movie-watching experience this past year. I need to get out more often. I’m putting these in order of my strongest preferences. No supporting role picks for me either.

Best Motion Picture (Comedy): Thank You for Smoking

Best Television Series (Drama): Battlestar Galactica (way better this season than Lost and I can’t stand Heroes)

Best Television Series (Comedy): Scrubs (why was Scrubs not nominated??)

Best Actor Television Series (Comedy): Alec Baldwin (30 Rock - I don’t watch it every week, but he consistently steals every scene I see - and makes me laugh!)

Best Actress TV (Drama): Grace Park (Battlestar Galactica)

Best Motion Picture (Drama): The Departed

Best Actor Motion Picture (Drama): Leonardo Dicaprio (The Departed)

Best Director Motion Picture: Martin Scorsese (The Departed)

Best Actress Motion Picture: I honestly don’t know

Best Actor Motion Picture (Comedy): Aaron Eckhart (Thank You for Smoking)

Best Actor Television Series (Drama): Gary Sinise (CSI: New York. Ok, I rarely watch it, but I gotta vote for my guy)

Best Actress Television Series (Comedy): Christa Miller (Scrubs) (I don’t think she’s even a regular, but her portrayal of Jordan cracks me up!)

Best Reality Television Series (What? that’s not a category??): Tie between The Amazing Race and Top Chef

And finally, my own special award to 2006

Most Disappointing Movie of the Year: X-Men III: The Last Stand. (really folks...it could have been so good)