Mini Red is at Washington HealthCare Center volunteering for The DC Emergency Healthcare Coalition’s city-wide emergency preparedness exercise.

 Her and her friends have volunteered to play victims and seems they dressing them for the part.

She’s taking lots of pics so check back for more.

Stages of a Relationship can best be defined by farting.

From the movie “Love and Other Disasters“.

Hilarious!!!

I happened across this new show on the Sundance Channel called Green Porno by Isabella Rosselini.  It is so different from anything I have ever seen… Odd but fascinating.

Before you watch an episode of Green Porno check out this interview, which explains it best:

Now I suggest you go to the Sundance channel and watch Green Porno. I’d have to say the Whale and the Snail have to be my favorites.

Have you ever wondered how a woman’s brain works?

Well….it’s finally explained here in one, easy-to-understand illustration:

Every one of those little blue balls is a thought about something that needs to be done, a decision or a problem that needs to be solved.

A man has only 2 balls and they take up all his thoughts.

I sent this email to a few friends at work and my co-worker says this is not true. Women are only concerned about two balls…

The man’s two balls!

It has been quite a week! There has been a lot of work to bring this week to fruition.

First: Mini Red got Confirmed!  She chose the name Joan as in Joan of Arc because Joan represents a very strong woman. Mini Red had to do research on Joan of Arc, write a report about her and another paper on why she chose that saint.  We had other paper work to do to including details of her sponsor and Mini Red chose Uncle Brotha-Man. Lastly, she had to do 10 service hours and went way above that.  She did a few hours working in the religious education office, she volunteered herself for eight hours to be a Mother’s helper for a Mom with three kids. On top of that she volunteered to clean up the Potomac Watershed on Saturday morning. The clean up sounded like fun so I volunteered too!  We met some great people and had a lot of fun getting grimy to do some good for the watershed.  It is truly unbelievable the things people throw into the creek, e.g. grill, car grille, bike, knife. We will definitely be doing more of this type cleanup.

The Confirmation Mass was Thursday night and Mini Red was even chosen to read one of the petitions.  I am so proud of Mini Red and I’m proud of myself for that evening and having to deal with FN who was in fine form. During the signs of peace he decided to hand me child support rather than shake my hand. Such a jerk!

Second: Mini Red played her violin at Music in the Parks, in Williamsburg, with her school Orchestra. I must mention that just a month ago they got a perfect score at  the County and State Festivals.  This was the first time her school’s Orchestra made it to State Festival. So this week they went to Williamsburg for Music in the Parks and won Overall and First, yet again. I’m so proud.

Third: While Mini Red was in Williamsburg I headed to the beach for a Bachlorette weekend for Sis. Eighteen of us stayed in this big beautiful house on the beach in Fenwick Island.  For two nights I fell asleep and woke to the sounds of the ocean waves.  Saturday brought a nice run up Coastal Highway into Bethany and we got back just in time for games on the beach. The drinking got started early and by the time it was my turn to play cornhole I had quite the buzz going on thanks to the Vanilla Vodka and Diet Coke. Then the games got much more interesting and were even funnier due to the amount of alcohol consumption that was going on. We broke for lunch and I, evidently, had some drunken texting going on and even called a friend (Imelda/my Boss) a Pussy. I must add I had a good reason for calling her a pussy. Shortly after I passed out and woke to them taking pictures of me. The nap did me good and gave me a second wind for the evening. We all got dressed, played pin the penis on the groom until the vans arrived to take us to the Starboard in Dewey.  We had a great time and by the end of the evening there were a ton of great stories that involved fights being provoked, dirty dancing, handstands and flips as well as nakedness and the hot tub. A good time was had by all and many were feeling very rough today. SIL and I had gotten up quite early so when many got up around noon and I went to say my goodbyes I was a bit taken aback when one girl told me to clean up a bit before I left.  Ummmm yeah I had been… All morning while you were sleeping.

It took us six hours to get home possibly due to the crusiers heading home after showing their cars all Cruisin Week in O.C.

My body is hurting from the running, the games, the sunburn and the dancing. So very tired now.

Thank you VHMPrincess for the link to Awkward Family Photos.  I could spend MANY useless hours here laughing hysterically.

Here is my favorite:

This is just so wrong.

I can’t believe Screen on the Green is cancelled.  Check it out here.

At least there are others in the area but down on the Mall was always a treat.

My fallback is always the Comcast Film Festival at Strathmore.  The lineup looks pretty good this year:

Friday, August 14 – “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button“

Saturday, August 15 – “The Dark Knight“

Sunday, August 16 – “Kung Fu Panda“

Monday, August 17 – “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull“

Tuesday, August 18 – “Singing in the Rain“

Wednesday, August 19 – “Twilight“

Thursday, August 20 – “Slumdog Millionaire“

Friday, August 21 – “Enchanted“

Sometime last Fall I had to take on a work Blackberry.  When I did that I got rid of Mini Red’s phone and gave her mine in an effort to save money.  Then my Blackberry got stolen in Vegas so I got a personal phone while I was there because I needed to stay connected.  So there was a lot of number changes for me and many still call the old number, which is now Mini Red’s number.  I’ve had that number for such a long time so making sure I got to everyone with the update info can be difficult. Mini Red knows the drill and now at 14 she can become quite amusing as GoogleBoy found out:

GB: So I heard a rumor.  Confirm / Deny

Red: What rumor and who is this?

GB: GoogleBoy.  Maybe, might be hopefully going to…??

Red: What going to…?? what phone are you on?

GB: I’m on my cell.  So i guess it was just a rumor

Red: Wait..  Are you looking for Red?

GB:  Maybe.  This isn’t her number anymore??  Little Red??

Mini Red: No it’s her daughter Little Red.  Hi Person!

Mini Red: Si

GB: LOL.  Hey it’s Googleboy from The Company.

Mini Red: Right, u want moms #

GB: I forgot your mom got a new cell!!!  please!!

Mini Red:  XXX-XXX-XXXX

GB: TY!

Mini Red:  No prob dude, what’s the rumor??

GB:  Your mom would kill me if I told you.

All of us are finding it a bit difficult to concentrate today.  It is now 2:00 and no word yet on the RIFs.

Tensions are high and that seems to flowing into all sorts of other areas.

Then I noticed on Twitter that Dom DeLuise passed yesterday.  So sad! He was only 75 but was suffering from kidney failure and respiratory issues. 

We all started talking about this over the cubes and got us very easily disrupted us since it’s so difficult to concentrate anyhow.

This then led to a discussion of stars and plastic surgery starting with Burt Reynolds, since he is who you think of in conjunction with Dom DeLuise and those Cannonball Movies. 

The discussion turned to Kenny Rogers and Roy Schneider’s bad plastic surgery. 

Then someone said that Darryl Hannah had plastic surgery which led to this awful photo and somehow I came across an article on famous people who are borderline austistic.

Oh and then there was the discussion that Kelly McGillis recently came out in an article with SheWired.com. Kelly Reminds me of Kathleen Turner who has aged HORRIBLY! If you saw her in “Marley and Me” then you know what I’m talking about.

See what happens when you can’t concentrate!

**UPDATE**
I still have my job but many good people are leaving.  It is very sad at work this week.  Keep those who have lost their jobs in your prayers.  It is happening too much lately and NO ONE is immune.  Not even IT.

I logged onto Facebook this morning to find this in my highlights: