Domestic Geek

Man, I swear I must have holes in my head. I had all these things I was thinking about on the drive home from work today that just slipped out by the time I got my computer booted. *sigh* I also make notes to myself when I'm at work about stuff, like things I want to do or a hexadecimal code for a color that I'd like to work into my site and danged if I can find those notes I made yesterday, either.

I think I caught my dog's diarrhea (just kidding about the catching it part — not the having it part).

I'm trying to fix my web site because something has been slowing the loading of it down and now it won't load at all. Marcus says our server is getting hammered. I hate hackers and spammers.

I've written before on here about sites where you can send eCards. I found a really cool site that is all about eCards. The post today had a new one I can add to my list — Bluemountain.com. Their site has some cute Christmas online games that are contained with an eCard. It's like sending two gifts to your friends in one! My favorite one has to be the Gingerbread Hangman Word Puzzle — everytime you pick a wong letter, someone takes a bite out of the poor gingerbread man! It's too funny! Blue Mountain has a 30-day free trial, so you can send some of these cool eCards to friends this Christmas.

Have you ever had a dream where you won the lottery and then reality hit you hard in the face when you woke up that you hadn't? I did this morning. That's how my day started. My mom was also in the dream (very much alive and well), so that hurt, too. I was so bummed when I woke up (two hours early) that I couldn't get back to sleep. Then I find the dog in my craft room, no word as to whether I'm ever going to be full time at work, forgot to send my Netflix movie back so I could get Pirates of the Carribean for the weekend, diarrhea on my carpet, poop on my great aunt's heirloom quilt, my shower is leaking and I don't have the money to go buy parts, I'm a burden on Marcus, there's no money for Christmas presents again this year, I want to bake Christmas cookies but I don even have enough money to buy regular food...I'm at the end of my rope.

I've been trying to not vent this stuff here because I've been trying to be more positive about life, but today was bad. While I was scrubbing the carpet, I just lost it. The huge feeling of hopelessness just overcame me and I started bawling. I'm just so tired of bad things. I'm at the same point I was last year. I don't want Christmas to come at all.

OK, I'm having a crappy day and need some humor. Since I haven't posted any funny things I've found lately, here's one I've seen around and most recently at Geeks Make Me Hot:

Please join me in remembering a great icon of the entertainment community.

The Pillsbury Doughboy died yesterday of a yeast infection and trauma complications from repeated pokes in the belly. He was 71.

Doughboy was buried in a lightly greased coffin. Dozens of celebrities turned out to pay their respects, including Mrs. Butterworth, Hungry Jack, the California Raisins, Betty Crocker, the Hostess Twinkies, and Captain Crunch.

The grave site was piled high with flours.

Aunt Jemima delivered the eulogy and lovingly described Doughboy as a man who never knew how much he was kneaded. Doughboy rose quickly in show business, but his later life was filled with turnovers. He was not considered a very smart cookie, wasting much of his dough on half-baked schemes.

Despite being a little flaky at times he still was a crusty old man and was considered a positive roll model for millions.

Doughboy is survived by his wife Play Dough, two children, John Dough and Jane Dough, plus they had one in the oven. He is also survived by his elderly father, Pop Tart.

The funeral was held at 3:50 for about 20 minutes.

On a serious note, the Pillsbury site has some cute holiday downloads, such as recipe cards, gift tags, cookie exchange invitations, etc.

I hate scrubbing sh*t out of the carpet! It's a good thing The Office is on tonight so I can get a little humor. It will probably not be as good as last year's, but it better not suck.