catheroominations

Just look at the ceiling:

holy crap. did you see the story about the southern illinois university cheerleader who fell during a routine? she fell 15 feet. she landed on her head. she fractured her neck. doctors expect a full recovery. thank goodness.

this little 18-year old has so much spirit, she continued the arms portion of the routine to the SIU fight song even as they rolled her off the court on a stretcher. at first I thought it was just plain silly. cheering after such a terrifying fall. that feeling only lasted until the lump formed in my throat. because how adorable is she?

oh, and in case you’re wondering, SIU went on to win the game. against bradley, which happens to be the boy’s alma mater.

msnbc has the story here.

want to help those who are gramatically challenged?

do you have an apostrophe key you’d like to donate?

here’s your chance.

(no that is not the beginning of a joke)

he’s wearing nice dress slacks and dress shirt. he’s carrying the skateboard he rode from his office. he chats it up with the sandwich artist and convinces her to add more bacon to his chicken ranch on itialian bread. she complies. no charge. they know him.

the cashier asks, “why the skateboard?”

the businessdude explains, “because by the time I get out to the car, hit all the lights, try and find a place to park…you know? this is quicker.”

nevermind that he’s in full business attire and looks like a neo-maxie zoom dweebie shredding down stevens creek blvd.

the cashier nods, as if to understand this logic.

the businessdude then begins to recount his weekend, “dude, I had such a wild weekend. me and (dude), and (dude)…we…”

I don’t recall their names and didn’t hear how or why it was so wild as I was ordering my own sandwich.

the cashier enjoys his story. he himself had a wild weekend.

the businessdude was apparently in the doghouse after his boyz night out, “yeah, my wife was pissed! but it’s ok because I gave her a big ole diamond ring this morning. gotta pay ’em off, you know?”

pigeons, specifically.

*krissy gave me the heads-up on this story, and the genius photoshopping is courtesy of (e).

this is a poster you can buy from lion brand yarns. it makes me wonder:
1. is this geared toward men or women? I’m guessing women, but a man could see it and think “dude, I could do that.”
2. is the size of those needles or the length of his project implying something? or perhaps those needles are over-compensating for something?
3. is this supposed to inspire me to knit? if so, where can I get that yarn and how about a pattern?
4. is he shirtless because he has nothing to wear and therefore is knitting himself a sweater?
5. does he participate in a stitch-and-bitch? or maybe attend boyz nite at knit new york? do the boyz there also not wear shirts?

I guess I just don’t get it.

unbelievable.

last night, the boy and I settled in to watch lost. we were “dvr’ing” it on the replacement box that the boy picked up after the last fiasco with 24 two nights earlier. the new and improved (bull5h!t) box was set to record both episodes of the best show on tv, and since we like to skip commercials, we tuned in to the psalm 23 rerun about 20 minutes after it started. the smoke monster in high definition, on a screen bigger than I, was much more intense and cooler than on my basic-quality recording from last week. and ladies, mr. eko looks even better in hd. just an fyi.

after watching the repeated episode, we fast-forwarded the dvr to skip more commercials and get to the 9 p.m. new episode.

then it happened.

again.

yes, I’m serious.

just like the other box did on monday, this new box crashed. and just like with the other box, it happened 15 minutes into the second hour’s show. and as we were lagging behind a bit to avoid commericals, when the dvr crashed, it flipped over to live tv, which was about 15 minutes ahead. so those minutes of lost were…well…lost. (if you have ever watched lost, you know how important it is to see the entire episode.) once again it was tivo to the rescue. sure, it was on a small, non-hd screen, but tivo dvrs actually do the r part. weird that a digital video recorder would actually record.

that would be a neat trick for comcast to learn, I think.

actually, comcast dvrs are great. as long as you have tivo too.