People who have never attempted to cut an onion have no appreciation for the pain and torture it causes the person cutting it. I have tried every trick in the book to stop from crying when cutting an onion, but nothing seems to work. Even worse, my eyes actually swell shut if I am even in the same room as an onion being chopped. This does not help, since I am a huge cook and like onions. I have to have someone else cut an onion, and come back in the room to finish my cooking. Embarrassing, I know.
So, I thought I would put a warning label on the onions today at Target. People deserve to know that the flavor of onions is NOT worth the pain. At all.
Here is my label:
I realized when I got home that you can't read the label very well.
It reads, "Warning!! This product is not worth your tears. May cause you to cry uncontrollably or make your eyes swell shut."
While I was at work this week, my manager let me know that she her cat recently had kittens and her mom was bringing one in today before they gave it away. Awesome, I don't really like cats but I didn't mind too much. Until I saw that it was black. But, then I started thinking that I may be making my own superstition up in my head. Do black cats actually cause bad luck? Well, I sat with the black cat for about an hour, and this is how the next 48 hours went:
The day after:
Nothing too out of the ordinary happened, except that we were supposed to have very bad storms but all we got was rain. Also, class was cancelled...so I guess that was good luck?
2 days after: I woke up with a headache. Not a terrible start to my day, but who likes waking up with headaches? I'll answer that: no one. I was going to go to Target to do some unnecessary impulse grocery shopping, when I saw a wasp flying around my car. I didn't think too much of it, until I stood there like an idiot making multiple attempts at quickly opening my door and getting in. Well, the attempts failed and I was left looking like a loser running and dodging the air around my car.
Then, I saw about 5 more wasps come out of my drivers side mirror. COOL. So I gave up and went inside, guessing that God didn't want me to spend money on sale items at Target. But later, when I tried to leave again, I realized that the lovely wasps made a next inside my drivers side mirror and I would have to fight a swarm to open my door. So, I manned up, got wasp spray and killed them all.
So, even though the first day was great, it's those last 48 hours that get you. I cannot say that the wasps were a direct correlation to me holding the black cat, but I cannot say they were not either. I mean...they are technically both animals, right? Maybe that was my payback for not wanting to be around the cat.
I learned my lesson, next time I see a black cat, I will RUN far far away from it and hope no wasps are chasing me along the way.
Even though God he tells us the 10 Commandments, there is one commandment that I believe should be added to the list and complete the set.
The last commandment should be: Thou shalt honor and respect others as if they were their own blood.
Basically, this means that you should respect people as if they were your own family. People are so mean to others sometimes and don't understand that people should be nice to everyone and should treat those as they would like to be treated, like family. I chose a tablet, but instead of the stone, I decided to do a dark marble. If you etch in marble, it is permanent and looks better than stone, in my opinion.
Since it rains pretty much every other day here in Tuscaloosa, it is very important to invest in an umbrella. Yet sometimes, even umbrellas don't do their job! So yesterday, when yet another monsoon made its way through Tuscaloosa, I walked to class with my umbrella, only to get to class with half of my body soaked because it wasn't big enough to cover me! I decided that I wanted to redesign the umbrella, because I am tired of half of my body being dry, and the other half soaked because my shoulders are too dang wide apparently. Water dripping from an umbrella down your arm is just not fun.
So, here is a picture of the lovely normal umbrella that we all have come to know very well.
Now, here is my new and improved version of an umbrella. (I do apologize, drawing an umbrella seems to be a much harder task than I originally thought.)
As you can see, the umbrella "stem" as I call it, is on one side, and most of the top cover is on the other, therefore your entire body is actually covered by the umbrella. What a concept that my whole body can actually stay dry!!! Basically, this is just a lopsided umbrella. This, obviously, is an umbrella designed for only one person, but honestly, I hate being under an umbrella with other people anyways!! All manufacturers would have to do is move the stem over and lop-side a regular umbrella a little bit and voila! there is a perfect umbrella designed to keep you (and your arm) dry!
Can't wait for people to start making these! I still don't understand how I am the first to think of this easy concept...
Both of the movies closely resemble each other in many ways. Both Batman
and James Bond are orphans, who are great at fighting crime, and are the “good
guys.” The villains resemble each other because they are scary, rude men that
are a just little twisted (and slightly odd looking...). They also both show the main character's family graves in the
movie.
The mansion that Bond escapes to in Skyfall is reminiscent of the house in Looper because they are both in the middle of nowhere because they
don’t want anyone finding them. Also, they both have to do with running away
from something.
Charlie Croker was believed to be dead after his car was shot off a bridge, kind of like Bond when he fell off the top of the train into the valley. Both
disappeared for a long time, leading everyone to believe they had passed away, only to
come back being very much alive and defeating whatever they needed to defeat. The obsession with cars in Skyfall also immediately made me think
of The Italian Job.
James Bond’s back story is finally revealed in Skyfall which reminds me of Jason Bourne
trying to figure out his past in all of the Bourne series of movies. Bond
"never left" even when he was dead, but that's all Bourne really wanted to do.
The beginning of Skyfall
heavily alludes to Mad Men in the
sense that the entire time the opening credits are rolling, there is a man
free-falling. This is like the advertising campaign that Mad Men put out where there was a man free-falling off a building.
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen – Genre: Literature
James Bond’s childhood home heavily reminded me of Elizabeth
Bennet’s countryside home in the novel. The old British charm of the home is
what really made them similar and brought you back to the 1800’s when Jane
Austen wrote the novel.
Silva’s city in Skyfall is reminiscent of the society in
Revolution. They are both more or
less abandoned cities with only the few inhabitants living there. They are both
very eerie places.
Year of the Dragon - Genre: Time
When Bond was in Shanghai, he fought a Komodo Dragon, and there were dragon images everywhere. The film was released in 2012, which also happens to be the year of the dragon.
“It's been a long time since I enjoyed a Bond movie so much. By taking a
good hard look at itself and going back to first principles,
"Skyfall" pulls off something quite special. This is Bond
resurrected, redeemed and reinvigorated, ready to face a new half-century.”
“As Bond sprints from peril to pleasure, Mr. Craig and the other
players — including an exceptional, wittily venal Javier Bardem, a sleek Ralph
Fiennes and a likable Ben Whishaw — turn out to be the most spectacular of Mr.
Mendes’s special effects.”
ONE PRIVATE TERTIARY TEXT:
Ashley Hays via Twitter (@AshleyHays): “Daniel Craig is the
best bond. #Skyfall.”
I went to the cemetery in front of
Bryant Denny Stadium yesterday to pay my respects. I came across this really
cool gravestone that was shaped like a tree stump. The interesting part was
that the gravestone looked brand new, but the actual gravestone in the ground
was cracked open and broken. It was such a juxtaposition of old and new. I love
that even though he lived from 1899 to 1918, he was still remembered so
recently by the new gravestone.
Before:
After:
When
I am gone I want to be buried in a grave plot that will have my husband beside
it and children near it also. I never really think about death too often, and I’ve
got a lot of life to live, so I don’t want to plan it quite yet.
So, if you know me, you know I love the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. So, I decided that if I were to hypothetically take something hostage, it would be Jiggy, Lisa Vanderpump's most beloved dog. She always says: "life isn't diamonds and rose, but it should be." Well, Lisa, you are loaded and you have all the diamonds and rose that anyone could want. So, therefore I am demanding that you meet me at the restaurant you own, SUR, and give me your diamonds and rose (cause lets be honest, you have some to spare), in order for you to get Jiggy back.
If difficult to read, this is what the note says: "Lisa, give me all your diamonds and rose or Jiggy will be mine. Meet me at SUR, 9 p.m."
