Posted By Teeni on February 2, 2010 |

Well, this post is waaaaaay overdue.  I’ve been meaning to get to it for about a month now!  Here’s the quick recap of my January for you:

School

Eat

Birthday Party

Eat Some More

Think about writing a post

Procrastinate

Vacuum, laundry, dishes, dust (okay - not really dust - I don’t do that as often as I should)

Eat some more

Peek in on facebook

See some friends

Death of a young cousin

Crocheting some stuff

Think about posting some more

Procrastinate some more

More eating, housework, school, thinking and procrastinating, yadda, yadda, yadda

Yeah, I know - very boring.  But at least I’m honest.  So that was pretty much my January - EXCEPT
for the following awesome things that  happened in between all the other stuff that I’ve been meaning to post about:

♥The Girl From the Ghetto presented me with an award!!!  I know I’ve retired from doing awards but really,  do you think I’m going to turn it down?  Don’t be crazy!  The Girl From the Ghetto puts me to shame with her up-to-date blog and her pop culture knowledge, as well as her entertaining writing style.  I also love the video blog posts she has done lately.  If you have not visited her yet then at least check out this post - it is just one of the reasons I love her site.  Who else would go through the trouble of linking all these wonderful videos clips for you?  Seriously, I spent at LEAST an hour on this one post of hers, playing all the clips and reliving all those wonderful movie moments.  But that is only a fraction of what you will find on her blog.   Thank you, GFTG!!!!!  Love you!

♥JavaJunkee also presented me with an award too! It must have been my lucky month!  DoubleJ’s award was for best post of the week and she gave it to me for my Shopping Cart Thieves Post (she loves it when I get all snarky, LOL) which is the one previous to this one if you have not yet seen it.  Feel free to go read it and come back.

Okay, now that you are back we can continue.  DoubleJ is a fun and witty blogger.  Sometimes she will do things just to get a little attention but who can blame her when it seems the blogosphere has slowed down a bit (which is something we are going to have to get on and change around in the near future but THAT is a topic for another post).  Anyway, it’s always something fun over at my favorite Javajunkee’s place so be sure to check her out!  Thank you, DoubleJ - love you!

♥Last but certainly not least - a good buddy of mine on the blogosphere, the Diva herself, will be coming stateside in the spring!  Not only that, but she will be staying in MY state!  And  not only that, but I will get to meet her IN PERSON!!!!  And we will get to tootle around Boston together for a short time while she is here!!!!!!  So I have been extremely excited about this new development and have been trying to come up with things we will need to see and do while she is here.  If anyone has any ideas or tips about what needs to be seen or done in Boston if you were able to spend a weekend there, then please let me know.  I would love to hear your ideas!  The Diva is the one who introduced me to blogging about search terms and she always has some interesting thoughts going through her mind - take a peek for yourself here.  I’ve been following her blog about as long as I’ve been blogging and feel I’ve come to know her as a friend -  so excuse me while I go through the motions of excitement, anxiety, fear, and all that fun stuff that comes with knowing you are going to meet a good friend IN PERSON for the first time!!!

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Posted By Teeni on January 6, 2010 |

Half of my hatred of shopping comes from the loathed shopping carts.  When you are lucky enough to get your hands on one that isn’t cold and wet, full of someone else’s trash or germs, or broken and making some horrible screeching sound, you then have to really keep an eye on it.  There are shopping cart thieves, you see.  And they are in department stores as well as grocery stores.  They are everywhere.

I have found myself the victim of shopping cart theft on several occasions at one particular “bargain” store otherwise known as The Christmas Tree Shop.  Maybe it is the caliber of the people who shop there.   Or maybe the workers are playing tricks on me.  I just don’t know.  What I do know is how infuriating it is to have a relatively full cart, and be half way done with my shopping when I notice that my cart has up and disappeared.  Gone.

You would think that someone who accidentally made off with your cart would soon realize their mistake and just leave it somewhere for you to find. Or even better, they could go to the front of the store and have an announcement made so you could pick it up there.  They could do it anonymously and avoid any embarrassment.  But I guess that is too much trouble.  I have actually found my cart before, pushed into the remotest corner of the store, back where I would never have found it if I hadn’t been looking for a particular little tea cookie.  And I’ve actually seen with my own eyes a person, who had obviously made off with someone else’s cart by mistake, quickly push and release a half full cart into a remote corner while looking over their shoulder and making a quick getaway.

But as I said, it happens in other stores as well. And sometimes people just don’t realize they have the wrong cart for the longest time.  One time, in a grocery store, a gentleman left his cart about five feet away from himself and went across the aisle to peer into the prepared foods freezer.  When he returned, he grabbed my cart instead of his own and went merrily about his way.  The groceries we had in our carts weren’t even very similar so I guess he just wasn’t paying close attention at all.  Fortunately for me, I quickly noticed he had MY groceries and I saw his abandoned cart so I went and grabbed it.  I just followed him for a little while until he went to look at something else and then I left his cart and stole mine back.  Fair is fair.

Of course, I’m not perfect myself.  I’ve mistaken another person’s cart for my own at times too.  But I try to do it with panache.  For instance, one gentleman once caught me about to place a lovely bag of hand chosen loose green beans into his cart.  When he pointed out my mistake, I  just looked at him and held the bag up and asked, “Oh you didn’t WANT these?  I picked some really good ones out too!”  We both laughed and I went on my way.  In  hindsight, I should have told him that his mother called me and wanted to be sure he was getting his veggies! 

At checkout counters, I have decided I like to be in front of my cart and keep the cart between myself and the person behind me.  Since I am short, it is easier to reach back over the lower part of the cart to empty it.  Also, it keeps the people behind me from pushing their carts into me, coughing and sneezing on me, or just from breathing down my neck while I pay for my items.  And you thought shopping carts were only good to carry your items around! 

Out in the parking lot, it is pure chaos.  People leave their carts all over and are too lazy to return them to the corrals where the employees can easily retrieve them.  I have been making  a special effort to return my carts (and some other people’s) to the corral when I am done with them because I don’t like them banging into my vehicle and really it isn’t that much more work.  Plus it is a few more easy steps of exercise, even in the cold  weather.  It is irritating to see people go out of their way to take their cart and leave it in front of (or in back of) another person’s vehicle so long as it is not in THEIR way when they pull out, especially when returning it to the corral would only be a few more steps.  Sheesh. As a result, there are usually a bunch of carts congregating together in a perfectly good parking space.  You know, the one space that looks empty so you figure you will park there and you overlook some available parking spots that are further away from the store only to get to that space and see it is full of carts.  Grrr.

So between the shopping carts and the people, I don’t really enjoy shopping much.  And although sometimes the idea of tossing a lacy negligee onto some random older couple’s shopping cart sounds like fun, I don’t really do it (often).

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Posted By Teeni on December 25, 2009 |

Okay, I’m not really rich or famous but I got your attention, right?  ;)

My holiday gift to you is the most recent batch of wacky search terms for your viewing pleasure!

pics of a midget popping out of a cupcak - Wow!  I’d come here to see pictures of that too.  That would be one huge cupcake.

“top to bottom” mistress - I don’t know what a mistress would do if she was all top or just all bottom.  So I guess it is a good thing that she is a mistress all the way around?  I don’t know.  Sorry.  I got nothing.

sorry i’m late rice krispies - You know you really overslept when you feel the need to apologize to your breakfast.

dentist slogan - Um, okay.  How about, “Getta Betta Bite with Us at XXXX Dental!”

cartoon yourselves - Woah!  Just a minute there.  You go and cartoon YOURselves!  Sheesh.

double jointed tricks - Hmmm, could be interesting.  I have to admit, I’m curious.  Aren’t YOU???

gary sinise barefoot - Woot!  And I’ll take him even with shoes ON! 

spootula - I think this must be the tool you use to scoop the clumping kitty litter.

wilton giant cupcake pan weight watchers - Obviously, this googler is expecting miracles.  I think he is going to be disappointed.

amazing tricks anyone can do - Um, if anyone can do them, then what makes them so amazing?

ornament that says hussy - Is this like that cursing parrot in that joke?

meez jail - I didn’t know this existed.  It could certainly change things around here, though!

touching hot cartoon - Not without your potholders, you don’t!!!

friendly smiling teenage boy - This one just makes me nervous - he’s gotta be up to something, right?.

really cool things that will leave peopl - That’s just the problem.  Cool things are always LEAVING and that’s why we don’t have any.

teeni sexting pics - No, no I’m NOT sexting pics and I never will be in this body, anyway.  You’re welcome.   

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