Embracing my inner cat owner.

This is the best picture of Oskee yet! Unfortunately we had to go to the vet in order to get it. It seems he had a sore in his mouth that was getting him down and making his breath smell even worse than normal. It was downright brutal....

A vet visit and two weeks of antibiotics later, he's good as new! I was relieved. Now I won't have to trade him in for this years' model like I was planning on doing if he turned out to be a lemon.

I'm going to go out on a limb here....

...and declare that this is the best rock song ever about Australia's involvement in World War One.

Freakin' Sweet!

Lightning kick ass!

Lightning hitting a REALLY tall building kicks even more ass!

From our recent storm:

Oh, so THAT'S what God's wrath looks like.

As you may or may not know, Chicago was hit with a wicked bad storm last night right around rush hour. They say winds in my neighborhood topped 70mph. It ended up taking me over three hours to drive the 18 miles home (that's an average of 6 mph to me and you Russ!).

When I did get home, this is the scene on my block that welcomed me...

This is about four houses down..

These are the roots of that same tree.

Different tree, another car....

View from the end of my block...

Needless to say, I parked a block over.

I ask you...

How in the world could I not own this movie?

Pearls Before Swine is on a roll!

The last two days have been quality...

Properly Shorn

Recently, I won an all purpose gift certificate from a drawing at work. I can use it at any number of a myriad of stores. What I finally decided to do to help me make up my mind on what to buy was just browse Amazon.com for awhile. I figured that eventually I'd stumble upon something worth purchasing or what the heck, maybe I'd finally purchase that copy of Young Lady Chatterly that I've had in my "Save for Later" queue since December of 2004.

Well after about 45 minutes of browsing I came upon this bad boy:


Ain't she a beaut? What you have there is the Philips/Norelco Bodygroom. It's expressly made for "manscaping". As any listener of Radiotiki knows, I have a smidge of the body hair. Well my body thinks it needs to protect me from this cold, harsh world by continuing to sprout it in areas I just don't need or want hair to sprout. Until now the options to solve this problem have seemed fairly limited. With this wonderful product, all my prayers may finally be answered! Okay not all of them, but a couple of them....and I'm really due!

I felt the need to do some research on any product that will eventually be spinning sharp blades at a high rate of speed mear millimeters from very delicate body areas. Doing this I stumbled upon the Bodygroom's website. It has to be one of the funniest product related websites I've seen. I even showed it to a couple people who replied, "Is this real?" Remember, Philips is a Dutch company and you know how wacky those klompen-wearing buggers are.

Well as soon as I can hit the local Coinstar to exchange some loose pocket change for more Amazon play money, I'll have to place the order. Hell, I may even have enough that I can throw the latest Harry Potter (unintentional pun)book in my cart as well. Then I can spend a night curled up with good book, a warm cup of tea and a freshly shorn {insert body part here}.

Oh, I'm really hoping someone at work asks, "So what did you spend your gift certificate on?"

"Hey, let me show you."

UPDATE: It was purchased this weekend and is due to be delivered by tomorrow! Woo Hoo!

I'll keep you in the finely trimmed loop on how it ends up working.

*zipper noise*