Friday - Joke O' the Week **Happy Halloween**

A cab driver picks up a nun. She gets into the cab, and the cab driver won't stop staring at her.

She asks him why he is staring.

He replies: "I have a question to ask you, but I don't want to offend you".

She answers, "My son, you cannot offend me. When you're as old as I am and have been a nun as long as I have, you get a chance to see and hear just about everything. I'm sure that there's nothing you could say or ask that I would find offensive."

"Well, I've always had a fantasy to have a nun kiss me."
She responds, "Well, let's see what we can do about that. But first, you have to be single and you must be Catholic."
The cab driver is very excited and says, "Yes, I'm single and Catholic!"

"OK" the nun says. "Pull off to the side of the road, "maybe we will see what we can do."

The nun plants a whopper of a kiss on the cabbie! But when they get back on the road, the cab driver starts crying.

"My dear child," said the nun, why are you crying?"
"Forgive me, but I've sinned. I lied. I must confess, I'm married and I'm Jewish."

The nun says, "That's OK, my name is Kevin and I'm going to a Halloween party."

"I'm tired of trying to stay away from you, Bella"

Hawt! DeKalb library will be having a Teen Twilight Release Party Next week. Yeah I am so there. Granted it will be as a Library Volunteer, otherwise I'd be banned (since obviously I am most certainly NOT a teenager).

The movie comes out November 21st, which is already marked on my calendar. Anyone wanting to hitch a ride, let me know. I will be trying to get tickets in advanced, hopefully. I may just catch it Saturday morning, since I don't work the library that Sat.

Oh oh, maybe I can have a Twilight release party of my own. We can talk about the book and maybe then catch the movie afterwards. I know...I'm a dork.

Rock Bank- Say What???

I just heard the news that The Beatles have licensed a couple of their songs to Rock Band....yeah I am all over that! The edition won't come out until next year but that just rocked my world.

I will be planning a Rock Band Fest (maybe our 2nd annual) soon. Once I see the release date for that bad boy!

Let's get to the ROOT of the Problem!

So we shelled out the moolah and paid for a plumber. Turns out we would have never been able to fix this problem ourselves. They used an electrical rodder and put in at least 75 feet of rod through the sewer line and pulled out ROOTS! Stinkin' bushes is what I say. Apparently the roots were clogging up our sewer lines. We now have to dump some root killer in our lines at least every 4 months. Bummer-but whatever helps, I guess.

But at least that problem is behind us and we have the weekend to look forward too - problem free! Yipee!

I'm out.

CRAP! No really...

so are fargin sewer line decided to go on strike. Really sometimes owning an old home can be such a pain in the tookus.

We come home on Sunday night and I go down to start laundry, well John goes down the basement with me. We immediately smell something foul afoot! (heehee, had to throw that one in). He turns on the light and there is sewer water all over our floor but just on one side of the basement, thankfully.

Welp, the famous Craig temper got the better of him and my ears are still burning. So we had to do the unthinkable and head over to Barsema (where they have nice bathrooms) to do our business that night. Trust, John was NOT happy. Neither was I, but I can deal.

I got the good old steel tape from the City to try our luck unplugging it ourselves last night. Yeah...that didn't work. So I think we are going to have to pony up some hard earned dough and pay a plumber. We are going to try one more thing and pray that it works first. Hopefully it will work so I can bleach the hell out of our floor (not looking forward to that either).

Yuck!

Book Review - Queen of Babble Gets Hitched

AND you'll never guess with who!

So I loved this trilogy. It was spontaneous and fun. I found out I really did like Luke more, I don't know why, he's a bad boy. Maybe Chaz was a bit clingy? I don't know.

I definately recommend the series for a storyline out of the ordinary chick lit, I think. (hey that rhymes...sort of)

Series: 4 Stars ****
Book 3: 4 Stars ****

Book Review - Queen of Babble in the Big City

This book was like a getting a free pair of shoes at Nordstrom.

It was exciting and fun! Now being a romance reader I am a bit confused at this whole *two* male hotties vying for the lead role. I am going to read the third and last book in this little series. I am leaning a little towards Chaz as my hunk o'choice, just because of his laidback personality and attitude. But Luke does make my heart melt just a little bit more...could it be because he's part French??

I would say three and half stars.

TINA FEY ROCKS!

Hopefully you guys all caught the SNL Weekend update last night. If not, you have to check out the opening skit with Will Ferrel as Prez Bush.

It was hilarious! And it gets the message across, they couldn't be any clearer (more clear?).

Friday - Joke O' the Week

This is how the fairy should have been told.

Once upon a time in a land far away. A beautiful, independent, self-assured princess happened upon a frog as she sat contemplating ecological issues on the shores of an unpolluted pond in a verdant meadow near her castle.

The frog hopped into hte princess' lap and said: "Elegant Lady, I was once a handsome prince, until an evil witch cast a spell upon me. One kiss from you, however, and I will turn back into the dapper, young prince that I am. And then, my sweet, we can marry and set up housekeeping in your castle with my mother. Then you can prepare my meals, clean my clothes, bear my children, and forever feel grateful and happy doing so."



That night as the princess dined sumptuously on lightly sauteed frog legs, seasoned in a white wine and onion cream sauce, she chuckled and thought to herself: "I don't fecking think so."

Book Review - Queen of Babble

I read this book in one day...it was a pretty fun read.

The story follow a young lady just out of college (or so she thought) going on a summer trip to England with a boyfriend she met only once in the 6 months she's been dating him. It is a pretty hilarious ride for her and a nonstop read.

I thought at first that it would take me a while to get through it because of her (the charachter, Lizzie) aimless thoughts. They don't call her the Lizzie Broadcasting System for nothing. The constant babble of her thoughts are pretty distracting in the beginning of the book, but I quickly got used to it.

The main guy character is completely dreamy and perfect, which is probably why I liked the book so much.

I've never read a book by Meg Cabot and found her writing style very straightforward. I like that. She really makes you feel like you are inside the character's head instead of watching the story on a sideline.

I give it a 3 1/2 stars, only because it took me a couple chapters to get into it.

110 Hits and Counting!!!

Much to my surprise and pleasure...

I am now on Google!!! Tempting Fate is on their search engine and has already received 110 hits!! I am so excited. For all you interested readers out there, it is available for download for free :)

Website is http://www.lulu.com/content/3096135 or YOU CAN GOOGLE IT! Woot Woot!

I remember when I was 11....

Weee!!! So I had my first book club meeting yesterday at the library. All the lovely gals that attended were all under 12. I was extremely excited about talking Twilight Talk with them so we immediately started on their favorite topic....Edward.

All I said was 'So why do you guys think Bella fell for Edward? What makes him special?'. And the overwhelming response was 'Edward is so dreamy!' 'I love Edward!' and the always favorite 'He's my hero'. I looked around the table at all the girls lit up faces and thought this is our future dating scene! Wow!!!

So I played the devil's advocate and tried to disolve the image that Edward (the hero) is not the elusive 'Perfect Man'. It was hard but I think I got some of them to think that-Yes Edward is a bit possessive and restrictive and a bit depressing! Score one for the jaded mind! Woot!

Anyhoo, we talked the whole hour on all things Twilight and I was astounded how an 11 year old girl's mind works. Geez, was I that gullible. All in all it was fun and I felt like I myself was 12 years old, especially when we started talking about Dreamy Jacob **sigh***. Go Team JACOB!!!

The Week After

We are back from our honeymoon!

The weather was beautiful, the flights were not delayed, and we didn't get sunburnt! Woohoo!!

All in all, it really was the perfect vacation. We went parasailing, kayaking, snorkeling, swimming, rode a banana boat (see picture down below). I don't have pictures as of yet, but I will soon. I will try that new Snapfish thing so everyone can see them all. There are too many to post!



It was so blasted hot down there that we essentially in a pool/beach for 85% of the time down there! Luckily for me there weren't any jellyfish or sharks nearby :) There were however, my to John's chagrin, geckos, lizards, iguana running rampart down there. Much to my chagrin, there were also moths the size of Timbuctu as well. Not cool.

The locals were very nice, as always ;) and the drinks were good too! I had never drank so many pina coladas and tequila sunrises in my entire life! Honestly.

I hope everyone had a good week. And now that things are back to normal-I will try to keep posting and entertaining you all!

I'm out...for now.

Friday - Joke O' the Week

Whether Democrat or Republican, I think you'll get a kick out of this!

A little boy goes to his dad and asks, 'What is Politics?' Dad says, 'Well son, let me try to explain it this way: I am the head of the family, so call me The President. Your mother is the administrator of the money, so we call her the Government. We are here to take care of your needs, so we will call you the People. The nanny, we will consider her the Working Class. And your baby brother, we will call him the Future. Now think about that and see if it makes sense.'

So the little boy goes off to bed thinking about what Dad has said. Later that night, he hears his baby brother crying, so he gets up to check on him. He finds that the baby has severely soiled his diaper. So the little boy goes to his parents' room and finds his mother asleep. Not wanting to wake her, he goes to the nanny's room. Finding the door locked, he peeks in the keyhole and sees his father in bed with the nanny. He gives up and goes back to bed.

The next morning, the little boy says to his father, 'Dad, I think I understand the concept of politics now.' The father says, 'Good, son, tell me in your own words what you think politics is all about.'

The little boy replies, 'The President is screwing the Working Class while the Government is sound asleep. The People are being ignored and the Future is in deep shit.'


Happy Friday! See you guys in a week and half!

I'm out.

Wedding Pics

Here are a few pics. Enjoy!

Debate

Did anyone else watch the debate last night? I watched the last 15 minutes of it, unfortunately. I thought that they had the debate on foreign policy last week? They were recapping a lot of what they had talked about in the last debate. Well at least the last 15 minutes of it.

If they had drifted with the questions, then Tom Brokaw did a bad job! It seemed towards the end Obama was a little unsure of his words because he kept stuttering. McCain seemed really strong on his proposed foreign policies (experience?).

Anyhoo, I did read on MSN that McCain proposed a bailout of the homeowners.....WTF? Is he really bribing the American people with $300 billion dollars in order to vote for him? Since I didn't see that part (which I would kill to see it now), I am not sure what Obama's reaction to this was.

All I can think of (for the reason for this bribe) is that McCain is losing voters completely and has decided to throw caution to the wind! So really what he is saying is that 'Vote for me and I can solve your housing problem?'. If that isn't a sorry excuse for a vote, I don't know what is.

Any thoughts on this?

One Foot Out the Door

I am counting down the days til Saturday! I can't wait to get on that plane and head down to beautiful, sunny (I hope) Mexico.

Now that the wedding is over, I feel much more relaxed, of course! I can't wait to post some more pictures. I think we should have some by the end of the week or so.

I'm sorry I'm a little sparse on the blog but I promise to have much more juicy stuff when I come back.

From the desk of Mrs. Craig

Dang it! I've gone and done it...I've gotten married! I will soon have pictures for your viewing pleasure. :) Yes I am at work today, but-I will be leaving for beautiful Mazatlan, Mexico on Saturday! WOOT!

The ceremony was a blur and the reception was so much fun. I hope everyone had a great time and enjoyed themselves. There was much dancing and much drinking. I will leave you with some photos that Tere's husband Benny took for us after the ceremony.

Friday - Joke o' the Week

In honor of Sarah Palin's craziness...

Alaska Crazy Law
Alaska's More Important Laws

In Fairbanks it is considered an offense to feed alcoholic beverages to a moose.

Looking for more dumb laws? Check out DumbLaws.com!
While it is legal to shoot bears, waking a sleeping bear for the purpose of taking a photograph is prohibited.

It is considered an offense to push a live moose out of a moving airplane.

It is the state policy that emergencies are held to a minimum and are rarely found to exist.-Sec. 44.62.270. State policy.

Moose may not be viewed from an airplane.

Source: www.ahajokes.com



Source: http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/sarahpalin/ig/Sarah-Palin-Cartoons/Palin-Mini-Me.htm

One And a Half.....

Welp, still a bit sick. I am sitting here cheering our Joe Biden. Can I just say that Sarah Palin does not know what the word "Debate" means. Did she even refute any solid points and counterpoints that Joe made? No. Anyhoo, I will save that political post for another day.

So for those concerned citizens out there. My throat is no longer sore, I still no hearing on one ear but my sense of smell is coming back! :) I am still stuffy in the nose area. But have no fear I am ready to roll-I think. I will be posting a joke tonight because I will too busy tomorrow. Woot Woot!