Crabby Blogging Lady

Well, Halloween is gone for another year, thank God. Here comes Thanksgiving and then, a month later, Christmas. And then, a WEEK later, New Year’s Day. And then… it’s a dry, dusty desert of nothing until Easter, in April.

Why is this? Why are all our holidays scrunched together within a few weeks of each other? Holidays help break up the monotony, especially during the winter season when the days are cold and dark and forlorn. But how about late January, February, and March? Those months are awful, especially February. There’s no holiday at the bleakest time of the year!

Oh, I guess there’s Valentine’s Day, but that’s not really a holiday. It’s just a pink Halloween, actually. The candy still flows but it’s pink or red and in the shape of hearts. And besides, Valentine’s Day is only for a few.

Maybe we should change the holiday schedule, or at least add a holiday in February or March. What kind of holiday could it be, hm? I can’t think of anything in particular. Maybe we could move the Fourth of July to February. Holidays in the summer are needless– we’re all practically on holiday for those months, anyway. Well, I guess we HAVE to have at least one holiday in the summer, for those folks needing rv loans and good weather for travel…

ANYWAY. I don’t like all these holidays scrunched up together from November to New Year’s. BAH.

Ah yes, the Oscarzzzzzzz. Perfect timing. The world is going bananas with earthquakes, wars, rumors of wars, and Hollywood dances to the golden idol. Well, I need a good sleep, anyway. I’ll skip the sleeping aid and adapexin p and take a good long snooze and skip the chips, too.

I haven’t watched the Oscars in… must be close to 25 years now. Wow. Back then, I was a star-struck kid. I honestly don’t like watching movies anymore. I’ll watch some documentaries (I recently saw an old Francis Schaeffer one called How Should We Then Live that was fantastic), and I love Drive Thru History with Dave Stotts. Which reminds me, why don’t they get Oscars? Those are GREAT features. To me, the Oscars are a waste of time. They honor themselves and pass over very many worthy features. It’s a crying shame.

FINALLY. February 3rd! Groundhog Day is over!

What IS it with the groundhog thing? I never understood it. Is it some ancient native american legend for telling weather that we still cling to in this modern age? How can this be? We have a sky filled with satellites, balloons, wireless bleeps and blips, and STILL they can’t forecast the weather correctly. It’s just as accurate to flip a coin! You can’t tell me a groundhog possibly peeping out of his hole is going to determine an early spring or not.

Or is Groundhog Day just another day to have a sale? To which, by the way, I am not averse.

But seriously… why do folks still “celebrate” the little rodent in his hole? We all know there’s nothing to it.

I don’t get it.

Come ON!

The news story, I admit, is severely lacking information. Makes my paranoid mind shift into overdrive, people.

Apparently, 200 cows in Wisconsin were found dead.

Investigators are “investigating” but they already know it’s a virus that causes respiratory and reproductive problems.

OK OK– I can understand a couple of cows dead. A cow here, a cow there. And wouldn’t the farmer have, you now, KINDA KNOWN something screwy was going on with his cows? Like, maybe they sounded a little horse? (BWAHAHAHA!! Get it? OK OK I’ll be serious now). Maybe the cows were eating right, and it just MIGHT HAVE been a virus not those amazing appetite suppressant reviews.

But 200 cows? DROP DEAD???????????

A virus did that?!

They really expect us to believe this? How could this possibly be?

Any cow expert out there? Got any opinions?

Since I had plenty of free time over the holidays to do nothing, slack off, and watch my home succumb to the house cleaning law of entropy, I did a lot of thinking…. and lo and behold, have thunk just enough to concoct another Things That Get My Goat post! Yee haw! This may just become a habit!

Why does the Drudge Report link to skanky British “news” tabloid websites? And why does he especially link basic U.S. news stories to these skanky tabloid UK sites? I have decided to block them all from the network, so that the family’s corneas are not burned by the sordid “other news stories” images of Bambi, Buffy, and Toni baring their bulbous bosoms from the website’s sidebars. I mean, does Drudge REALLY need to link to The Sun for a story about prices on light bulbs in the U.S.? Something screwy going on…

Why do politicians and ministers make extremely bold and sometimes harsh statements on television, and then retract the statements when the liberals go bananas? What the heck do you have to apologize about?! Why can’t folks be like Ann Coulter, who spouts off the most offensive stuff (well, not offensive to me, I guess it is to others)– and when she is excoriated, she spouts off even nastier stuff in response! That’s how to do it, yeah!

Why don’t I get cool, free address labels from charity in the mail anymore? It seems that every charity under the sun was sending me reams of free ones, in the hopes that I would send them money. Did it become too expensive? Did they ever really get people to donate by flooding them with hokey address labels? Well, I don’t need those goofy stickers with the American eagle or pandas on them. I can now afford to get classy address labels on my own. Still, those free stickers were great ways for keeping the kids entertained for hours at a time…

How is that Congress can WHHOOOOSHHHHHHH pass a heinous, bloated, over-bearing, liberty-crushing “health” “care” bill in a very short period of time, but when it comes to lower taxes, it’s an agonizing, gut-wrenching process that almost never happens?

Sarah Palin was excoriated by the press and politicians for her claim that Obamacare legislation contained language for “death panels.” She was called a liar, and mocked by everyone. Now it seems that she was right. How come the media and politicians aren’t apologizing? And worse still– how come they are keeping that legislation in the bill? Hmm.

Why doesn’t the media report deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan anymore? Soldiers aren’t dying? They were being bombed by the billions during the Bush presidency! Gee… not a peep about the wars anymore…

Have a happy Monday, everyone! :D

Saw this ad on numerous blogs recently. Apparently, it makes people into angry, rabid, roving maniacs, ready to smash their firstborn child through the TV glass to end this guy’s annoying whine and bravado.

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I don’t get it. Why is this ad so annoying? How is this ad more annoying than other ads? I mean, sure it’s not as WONDERFULLY fascinating as those ads for quick weight loss! But… it doesn’t make me gag (haha) or wanna scream at the TV.

But I don’t have a TV. So maybe that’s the magic answer. I only have to endure this guy ONCE, and then it’s OVER. Not like you TV freaks, who watch TV ALLLLL DAY LOBG and see this guy again and again.

Score once again for throwing the boob tube outta da window! ;)