GooOOOOO DAWGS!!!

Georgia started off its season right, beating GA Southern! Hopefully we can keep the season going even with some of our best players out for the season. And the new Uga, Uga VII (Loran's Best, by his official given name) is very cute. Hopefully he'll do a good job. But he seems to have a slight problem with his tongue draping out of the right side of his mouth. Maybe his trainers can get that fixed before he looks as goofy as some of his predecessors (have you seen pictures of Uga II? Special. That dog was special.)

Making words plural is so cools.

Why have younger people (I thought it was middle/high schoolers, but it's seeping into my age bracket) started puralizing words when it doesn't make any sense? "I loves it," "Hecks yes, I'll be there!" Is the extra "s" really necessary? Does it add some certain emphasis that can't be expressed through italicizing or underlining or even, since those aren't available on your facebook wall, simply hitting your Caps Lock key for a few letters? It makes us look ignorant. And simple-minded. And foolish. Text-speak is one thing, but people. An extra "s"? With all the slang and extra words we've already created for the English language, this is what we resort to? Just stop. Before we screw up the next generation's grammatic futures permanently.

For reals.

Argh.

Seriously, Dish Network, must you lose reception when the Olympic closing ceremony is on? I get that it's storming outside, and satellites are a little finicky with clouds, but the opening and closing ceremonies are the best parts of the Olympics. I love it. the artistry, the people, the spectacle of it all. Dish Network, fix your system, please.

Amen, Sister. Amen.

I completely agree. If God wanted us to have spikes on our feet... well, he would have put them there. Obviously he though height only looked good on giraffes.

(Postcard's from PostSecret...check it out)

No sleep + rainy day =

Today is a good day for a nap. I got about 4 hours of light sleep in due to my lovely allergy-induced wheeze/cough attack, and since it's supposed to rain all day today (thanks, Fay!) I'm very looking forward til I get home from church and can curl up in some kind of allergen-free blanket and get some sleep. That's all. I'm up early and needed something to do.

It's MEEE! And RAAAY!

Sort of. Leslie told me about this site where you can make your own manga character (excuse me if I'm behind the times), so I made one of me. Then I did one for her because she was wondering if the one she did had any resemblance (check it out on her blog). And of course I had to try to make one into Ray. What do you think?

Random thoughts that need to leave the head

1. We had dinner at this restaurant in Marietta called the Rib Ranch. Mmm, I love barbeque.

2. All but two of the 150-160 invitations are finally out... and we're already getting RSVPs back! I like having something to look forward to in the mail. I wish people still had pen pals. Maybe I'll be one of those people who sends cards. But then I don't know who would send them to me.

3. I love my grandparents. Why? Out of many reasons, they so predictably follow etiquette rules. Of course they're coming to my wedding, but I knew that their RSVP card would come within the first five we got back. Guess what. We got five back today. And theirs was one of them. Family is awesome.

4. I'm discovering that as much as I love new clothes and I love looking at nice things in stores, I really hate shopping for anything but maybe tennis shoes. I like to say I hate shopping for dresses. But then what about dress pants? Jeans never fit (for all the girls of the world who claim to have rears that don't fit in pants, you'd think someone would make a line that fit a girl's behind-- I can't even fit into Apple Bottoms). And the way they make shirts with those puffy sleeves and bands at the end you'd think girls had toothpicks for arms. Brooke tells me I should call my limbs "muscular." I say even when my arms were muscular they had trouble fitting into clothes. Let's not even begin with how bustlines fit me. I know, every girl complains about how clothes fit. But a lot of it's me. My size has been fluctuating both directions for the past few years so I have lots of clothes. But every time I need to wear one thing, it's too big or small and I have to go buy it again. And whenever I look for shoes, I always think, "I don't need those, they aren't brown or black, and the heels are too high and the toes are too pointy." But I always really enjoy looking at tennis shoes. Cute ones, practical ones. They're sturdy, reliable.

5. I actually started cleaning my room today. I still keep getting distracted by searching for jobs. I can't decide which one I want to do more.

6. There will probably be more of these to come. I have lots of random thoughts. Sorry I've been boring lately, but when your life consists of job hunting, telling yourself to clean your room and watching Little House on the Prairie, there's not much to talk about but what the voices inside your head are saying.