Pincushion

Bleys is officially back in action! We got a pass today to go back to regular activity after his appointment this morning. We are going to do more warming up before running and at least for a while we will be jumping only the lower jump heights. But all in all he should be mended. We are going back in 3 weeks for a checkup, but other than that we are all systems go. Bleys will be delighted since he is getting pretty antsy sitting around the apartment so much.

While we were at our appointment I took a couple of pictures of my favorite pincushion.

Beep, be-beep

Your regularly scheduled installment of the Food and Wine Festival vacation will resume shortly, but I just had to share this with ya'll. Yesterday I flew up to Michigan to visit with family and friends. Dave dropped me off at the airport, we said our goodbyes, and I went through the security checkpoint. As I'm walking down the ramp towards my gate I hear my name in a rather astonished tone of voice. I look up and who do I behold? Katie and her cohort of Cancun bound buddies! No freakin' way. They were just about to board so we didn't get much time to chat, but it was nice to see them all, and meet Becky. Hopefully I will get to see more of them after they return from their well deserved vacation.

Human Flyball

One of the ladies from flyball had this linked on her youtube page. This is what happens when the tables are turned. Warning the videography is questionable at best, and a bit on the loud side.

Painful

Some time ago I brought Clocky to your attention. This alarm clock rolls off the night stand and rolls itself someplace safe to hide so that you have to get up to turn it off. Now snooze button addicts have have options. Check out this lovely number which will be sure to have you (and your entire neighborhood) up and at 'em!

The Sum of Your Parts

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Via Pop Candy

Slime

Video making use of a youth spent watching Nickelodeon.

Via Pop Candy

Crayons

Drugs are bag m'kay?

Buck

Apparently there is a new spa in Las Vegas, and it was built with Roland in mind. In, Caesar's Palace you can now visit Qua Baths and Spa and enter the Artic Ice Room where it perpetually snows.

Drip

This lake disappeared. All the water up and vanished. How weird is that? I guess not so weird.

Vicious

Dr J....watch your back.



Update: Seriously folks check out Dr J's adorable dog. Look at the ears!

Muggles Misunderstand

Maybe he was just trying to deliver something.

River

I sort of want to try out some different shoes. I ran across these and these and wanted to see if they really do improve posture, and ease up on the knees. The good news? There is a store that sells them not 3 miles from our apartment. The bad news? For a girl who buys her shoes at Payless and Target prices I don't think I can even go try them on.

Random

While crusing around the intarwebs I found a couple of things that are cool. One, going back to my food related silicone fascination, are these silicone muffin liners. The other is just cute. I just wish they came in sets of two different styles, not the same one twice.

This and That

For your entertainment (thanks to Dethroner).

Do you know someone who looks like thier dog?
I hope to heaven I never see a pair of these walking around, but considering where I live, it doesn't look good.
Maybe we could afford a house like this?
Fun with ping pong.

Post It

Inspired by some random anonymous Trogdor art, some folks over at UCSC have made an homage to Donkey Kong that is made of awesome.

Tube

I thought this video was well made.

Mini-marshmallow

While looking around online today, I saw this. If you want one for your very own, click here.

My question is...why? You can't leave an ice cream cone with the ice cream in there, and if you used it as cone storage they would all go stale. There isn't a handle so that you could use it to transport four cones to your family waiting out on the deck either. So...why?

Your Suggestions Needed - What else could you use this for?

For Anne

DrJ totally posted the worst knitting fiasco to hit the world since The Sweater. Check it out.

Did you know?

Set to release in 2007: Hairspray

Some of the notables?
Edna Turnblad - John Travolta
Wilbur Turnblad - Billy Crystal
Motormouth Maybelle - Queen Latifah
Velma con Tussel - Michelle Pfeiffer
Penny Pingleton - Amanda Bynes

It says it's for primates.

Ever questioned the frivolity of all those fancy kitchen appliences and utencils, like the refrigerator and dishes? Ever wondered if there was an easier way than to prepare meal after meal after meal? If so, and you have a little extra time and need a laugh check out this and the ones that follow.

The ultimate in whimsy

There once was a Very Sad Tree in Seattle. In the fullness of summer it sported just a few meager leaves and when winter rolled around...forget about it. So, this poor pitiful tree needed some love, and a kindly neighbor named Erika was compelled to give it. I absolutely cannot look at this picture and not smile. She provides the pattern on her blog, so if you feel so inclined you too, can share some love with a Very Sad Tree in your area. She also has a hat that speaks binary, and through her site I found the perfect thing for all you zombie knitters.

Eeesh

Apparently other people agree with you Anne:

http://www.awfulplasticsurgery.com/

Nostalgia Heidemann Style

Over yonder you can read about the crazy fun that was Showbiz Pizza. However, in my family we didn't go to Showbiz. For one thing we would have had to drive an hour to get to one (the joys of living in a small town which is actually the largest town in it's area) and for another I think my parents would rather have walked on hot coals than have to suffer through a dinner there. Don't get me wrong though there was still fun to be had with pizza. When we went out for pizzertainment, we went to the Roaring Twenties Pizza Parlor, but it was still an hour drive so we only did so if we were already in Grand Rapids for something else.

If you drive down 28th street a bit west of Patterson Street you will find a strip mall called 'The Roaring Twenties Plaza' on the North side of the street. The reason it is the Roaring Twenties Plaza is that the Damon's there used to be the Roaring Twenties Pizza Parlor (which in turn became Good Time Charley's). Inside was pizza (of course) and...wait for it...a theater organ! As you dined the organ would dramatically rise up out of the floor and an organist would play for you. This included all sorts of bird sounds, trills, and bubbles. It was pretty sweet, and my dad really enjoyed it. Now that the Roaring Twenties is gone that particular Wurlizter can be seen and heard at the Public Museum of Grand Rapids.

Now perhaps some of you can see why there was absolutely no way I was going to turn out normal.

1/17/2006
Update: Apparently Damon's is now closed. I was chatting with my mother the other day and she was at Erika's (which is in the Roaring Twenties Plaza and is home of some of the tastiest food anywhere) at noticed that it was no more.

Seriously

Possibly only funny to fellow crafters, my Sistrah pointed me to this.

Jibblies

I was walking the dog this afternoon and it was like The Birds. There were a huge number of birds on the ground looking for food, and in the trees, and on the garbage bins, everywhere. What made it creepy-like was that they stayed where they were until we were very close and then all took off together in a sort of moving carpet of feathers. Then they only went into the trees above and around us making us walk through a tunnel of cawing beady-eyed-ness. Turns out Bleys isn't feeling very well today either. While out on our walk this morning he yakked up some bile on the sidewalk and after dinner this evening we hurled that back up on the kitchen floor. I hope he is feeling better soon.

Bad news: Jason isn't coming to visit in December. Bummer, but understandable. His family is having some holiday festivities when he was planning on visiting. Maybe he will be able to come in early January or soon thereafter. I hope so, I miss seeing people that I know. If not maybe I can weasel another trip to Breckenridge or Vegas out it. I might even let Roland come along too (gotcha there didn't I honey). IPublish've been thinking I would like to visit Vegas again. I would like to go to a Cirque du Soleil show and get some really good food. I would like to go to the Star Trek Experience before it goes away and maybe get a crazy smoking drink. Turns out if I had hit up V she probably would have gone with me, who knew? I had such a great time with the girls. I might also want to see some show that is quintessentially Vegas too, with giant hats that look like they might make the dancers fall over. Then I think it would be awesome to go back to Colorado for some skiing. I just want to go on a permanent vacation all over the place.

Latest crazy, wish-I-was-rich idea: Open a dive shop with Jason here.

Great news: it is supposed to get "cool" here - it might even get below 70 degrees!

Please, just buy a blender

Ok, there is this ad on TV for Citi Bank in which a woman puts chopped fruit in a garbage disposal to make a smoothie, which she then ladles out for her husband because they are waiting for their visa rewards to get a blender. I seriously dislike this commercial. I know that for the commercial the dude didn't really drink a smoothie that was made in a otherwise used garbage disposal, but even the thought of it gives me the heebie-jeebies of the digusted sort.