I used to love, love, love watching Steve Irwin. He is so enthusiastic, and so informative, it is great to watch him. What really turned me off to his style of showmanship, was watching his show about spitting cobras. Yeah, it was quite educational to see how he was prepared - wearing wrap-around sunglasses and having plenty of bottled water to rinse venom off his face. It was brave of him to hold that cobra up where it could spit right at him so we could see both how the cobra would defend itself and how good preparation would protect us, should we ever want to experience a spitting cobra safari. Then I thought, Irwin really should have let the cobra go after it spat upon him five or six times. His points - about the cobra's capabilities and behavior and about first aid - were well and truly made. But he did not let the thing go. It (or perhaps, they - he may have rustled up more than one) kept spitting at him. I quit counting at eleven shots of venom. There was so much venom running down his face that the wrap-around shades ceased to be helpful. Still he hung on to the cobra, still the cobra spat. He ran out of bottled water, and had to be driven to a nearby village to beg for their meagre water supply to wash his face with, or risk blindness.
Overkill, thy name is Steve Irwin.
But he redeemed himself by picking up the bottle of champagne and glasses into the kitchen and bringing me a pillow. I moved to the other couch, 3.0 and I assured him that there was still an unopened bottle of White Star, and we went right back to sleep.
Oh, he is just the best ex-boyfriend EVAH.
Just had brunch with Hil and her sister (who is very like Hil and very NOT like Hil at the same time). And by "just" I mean we ate and then talked for several hours and now I'm hungry again.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!
A new year snippet from our favorite raptor girl. Scene: Dinner table. Once again, Kara and Nick are sitting beside one another.
Kara: You look yummmmy Nick.
Nick: Uh...
Greg and I: Uh? Wha?
Kara: You do. You look yummy.
Nick: Heh. heh. Thanks. I guess.
Greg and I: Um....
Kara: Mmmmmmmmm.
Nick: Heh. Stop that.
Kara: Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Nick: Mom, make her stop.
Greg and I::::laughing:::
Kara: I'm a pigeon and I eat people. See my pigeon feet?
Nick: jumping up and running. Uh....thanks for dinner!
Kara: Mmmmmmmmmmmm
Greg: That's my girl! Profoundly disturb all the adults in the room with just four words.
Happy New Year.
I am hungover.
There is ginger gelato and homemade chocolate sauce downstairs.
I think I must eat it.
BEEEEEP.
Happy New Year!!!
I had a wonderful New Year's Eve at thessaly and Victor's place. Lots of yummy food and good friends. Best way to ring in the new year, imho.
No way am I answering the phone now because they both seem to be getting more obnoxious as the evening goes on.
Nicole, I'm sorry that I added to the obnoxiousness. Dave and I called to wish you a happy new year.
{{{Cass}}} Easy passing~ma to your grandmother. I'm so very sorry. Call me if you need to talk.
The world is going to be an interesting place when Kara has achieved world domination. An interesting place with killer pigeons.
I just saw a red-tailed hawk tussling with a squirrel in my back yard. I'm not sure what the hawk was thinking; the squirrel was way to big. There was a great flurry of feathers and then the squirrel ran off and the hawk started brooding in a tree.
i like that name.
Ginger, when she heard me laugh out loud and read your post to Greg, she said, "I don't like that name that girl gave me." I told her that world domination meant that she'd be ruler of everything. She asked what that meant. I said, well, queen of the world. She said, "Oh, I like that name. I shall type it to her that I like it." I told her she couldn't, we argued, the result is above. I was required to spell it for her, but she did the typing.
:: is ded from the cute::
