Dear guy whose back hurts;

Hope you're feeling better! I'm glad you got a laugh--that's really what I'm here for--on earth, not just on the internet--to provide random entertainment for people who google random crap.

Random crap...it's my speciality ;)

Toothpaste

Yes it is possible to get it in your eyes without some sort of weird thing going on in your bathroom. And it hurrrrts!

Wanna know what else hurts like a mother?

Teriyaki sauce in your eye. Holy Mother of God.

Another gorgeous day!

And between shopping for and planting flowers with my mom yesterday, and sitting on the deck all day to day, I'd say I'm a good medium to medium-well at this point. A little salt and pepper, some A1, I'd make a pretty good dinner!

Yes, mom, I know I should be wearing sunscreen, but sometimes I don't feel like it...until later...when even with the Advil I just took, I certainly do feel like it (shrimp on the barbie, that is.)

Anyway, here a pic. In my defense, my verysmartphone's camera does lean on the reds a little, so it's not as bad as it will seem. However, that little circle? The fastener on my swimsuit top, burned into me for the rest of eternity...

Do NOT tell my mom I got a sunburn. I can hear it now, "OH Merri, don't you have any sunscreen?"

I'm gonna get t-shirt with this conversation printed on it :). Or maybe a tattoo (to go along with my Trident submarine tat, mom) ;)

Happy New Years! (Part I)

Well, I, for one, had so much fun at the NYE party!

Things I've learned from having a NYE party...
There were 51 people there, I believe, including the kids. At least that's the best estimate I can come up with now. 51 people bring a lot of food. Mmmm, food.

A bunch of people and kids were there at midnight to ring in the new year, fewer people were there around 4am when karaoke wound down, I went to bed at 430ish, around 13 people stayed over, the JV squad apparently stayed up until 7(!), it looked like Jonestown in the living room until about 9pm last night.

Clear plastic champagne flutes have a tendency to splash your drink if you set them down too quickly.

Flirtinis hurt like a b*tch if you get them in your eye (see above). Although, one of your friends may kindly offer to let you rinse it out with some of their beer.

Beer bottles bounce when they hit the floor. Red glass champagne flutes, not so much.

Neither Chuck nor Larry will let you paint their toenails blue. Even when they've been drinking. Even if you ask really nicely and offer 2 shades of blue.

Karaoke roulette rocks. Who cares if you've got a good singing voice if you're not the one who picked out the song. Everybody can sing Sexual Healing...you just have to try...

Now, Ed ain't sayin' you a golddigger...

Drunk people will play the h*ll out of little wooden instruments and a few tambourines.

A group of 5 year old girls singing Pussycat Dollz "Don't Cha" is the funniest thing ever. So's having it on tape for future blackmail.

Abby K likes giving people tours of the upstairs of my house. Particularly the master bathtub.

Italian beef should stay where you put it.

The Superlatives nominations list from the fridge will be posted tomorrow, but Bobby R, Mary T, and I were all wearing red underwear.

Purple Hooters taste like poison.

Peanut butter S'mores do not taste like poison, however. They taste gooood.

It gets really cold in the basement at night, in winter. Particularly when Meredith opens the window during karaoke and never closes it.



.....more to follow....