Some Random Friday Things

I apologize for not giving you a well written, thoughtful, poignant, post today.  But…it’s Friday.  And since I write my posts the day before I post them (usually) that means that it’s Grey’s Anatomy/LOST night here at my place.  Most of my evening is taken up by television so that doesn’t leave me a lot of time to come up with a witty and meaningful post.  And truth be told, I’m saving my really good stuff for when my blog finally gets popular.  Kidding. 

I’m just going to chat about a few things that are on my mind at this moment. 

LOST was so good tonight.  Next Thursday is the 2 hour season finale!  Grey’s was good too, but LOST has taken the number one spot on my TV list.  And I really like this time zone here in Houston.  We are Central time which means the television shows come on an hour earlier.  So instead of having to wait until nine o’clock to watch LOST, I get to watch it at 8 p.m.

There’s a guy in Michigan who’s walking across the state in stilts to raise money for Cerebral Palsy.  I guess the longer the legs you have the more ground you can cover. 

My granola crunching sister pointed me to this great video about how Americans are over-consuming our resources away and steps that everyone can do to help.  It’s about 20 minutes long, but I really like how the whole process is explained in lay mans terms and crisp graphics.  See what happens to all that crap that we don’t need, but buy anyway.  Check it our here:  http://www.storyofstuff.com/

And since I love my granola crunching sister, I’m going to point her and all of you to another interesting website.  I saw these folks on the news and knew she would dig them.  This family of four grows everything that they consume on their 5th of an acre in the suburbs of LA.  Anything they don’t eat, they sell.  It made me want to go plant some crops or at least get a tomato plant.  Here’s there website:   http://pathtofreedom.com/

I think I have the world’s first litter trained dog.  Remeber my recent post about the new ”dog proof” litterbox?  Well, it apparently wasn’t dog proof enough.  Hurley was missing for a minute and when I called him he came running out of the laundry room which is where the cat’s litterbox is.  I went in there to check it out and there was fresh poo in there.  It wasn’t buried and could possibly/maybe be Hurley’s poo.  WTF!!!!???  I don’t want him to poo/pee in the house.  Not even in the litterbox.  This is just bizarro!

I also have an insane cat.  Who made me want to kill someone Thursday morning when I was trying to get my beauty sleep.  Ok…we keep Hurley in a crate during the night in the bedroom.  We keep the doors closed so that the cat doesn’t come into the room.  Hurley starts whining and barking when he sees the cat when he is locked up like a furry, litte prisoner.  And she seriously taunts him when he’s locked up.  So…for the past few mornings I’ve been rudely awakened by the cat meowing, Loudly outside the bedroom door.  I layed in bed waiting for this to stop and hoping that T would be bothered enough to get out of bed and do something about it.  But NO-he just pretended to sleep for the next hour.  I attempted to swat the cat with a shoe, but she just kept coming back!  She wants to sleep on the bed, but I don’t want Hurley to bark all night.  Tonight we’re going to put Hurley (in his crate) in the bathroom.  That way the cat can come into the bedroom and Hurley won’t see her taunting him.  Why can’t we just all get along?

Wal-Mart is doing a deal where you can cash your stimulus checks for free!  I think banks do that too, right!?  But then again, you can’t buy cheap, imported, unnecessary goods at banks.

Speaking of global warming/Earth/recycling, you should rent The 11th Hour.  It’s a movie that has experts talking about our planet and how we are destroying it at an alarming rate.  I liked this more than Al Gore’s video because it was less about fancy charts and colorful graphs and more conversational and relatable.  And there were some good things mentioned that we can all do to help.  And it’s narrated by my other boyfriend, Leonardo DiCaprio.  Seriously, if you aren’t recycling then shame on you.  It’s the least you could do-so……do it!  And don’t use paper plates anymore either. 

I think we may go to the movies this weekend and watch the new Narnia movie, Prince Caspian.  The first one was awesome, so this has to be good.  Indiana Jones looks good too.  I love the first ones and I’m so glad that Harrison Ford is still Indiana and I also love that my other other boyfriend Shia LeBeouf is in it! 

And………that’s the end of my randomness!  Happy freakin’ Friday yall! 

And just cuz-a sneezing panda video:

Pandas are the cutest bears!  It’s those little black teddy-bear ears that they have.