Watching this, I nearly exploded!

I am now an Evgeni Plushenko fan!!

Here’s a clearer video, if interested in looking close-up!

No ifs, ands, or buts! I am going to the tailor to have my gown altered this morning. I know Audra would not appreciate me walking down the aisle ahead of her slipping nip to all her guests. This is where Lisa will call me over, point to the sentence before this one and say, “No Donna, they’ll be wondering why you aren’t wearing a tuxedo.” This has been going on ever since I went through puberty. If it wasn’t Donna has tiny little ones it was Donna has a big nose or thunder thighs. It is not easy being the older sister.

At any rate, Lisa and I went to Radio Shack and I told the salesman the RF Modulator they sold me last year was garbage and I want a new one! Apparently the warranty on it was just 90 days and he couldn’t do anything for me but sell me a new one. I said “No Thanks!” to a new RF Modulator because for all I know it will only last a year. There are other places that sell RF Modulators. In fact I am sure I saw one at K-Mart for 10.00 which is quite a savings since the ones at Radio Shack were 30.00.

After Radio Shack we went to TGIF’s and drank Yuengling and ate hot wings. The wings weren’t very good. I wish I knew a place that made good wings. The best ones I have ever had were with Audra in Wilmington, Delaware when we went to see Tony Curtis in Some Like It Hot. Right next to the DuPont Theater was a Comfort Inn or some similar hotel and next to the lobby was a bar/restaurant. Audra and I were famished after meeting Tony Curtis and getting our butts pinched so we retired to that little bar and ordered Buffalo wings. They were the best I ever had and only .25 each! We must have ordered about 100 wings. So yummy!

Later we went to Barnes and Noble and I checked out the section on Sales and Marketing. I didn’t find any of the books I was looking for so that means I will continue the search today.

Lisa and I are going out this evening. I need to buy some books at Barnes & Noble. I would like to go to Marshalls but I don’t think that will happen. Probably for the best. The RF Modulator I bought Lisa last year broke and so we will take that back to Radio Shack. Once the chores are done then we’ll probably grab something to eat somewhere. Buffalo wings would tast good. Mmmmmmm!

I ate too much pizza and Entenmann’s chocolate cake. My stomach feels like it might explode. I wish today was Friday and not tomorrow. Whatever. I’ve got such a to do list to accomplish this weekend. Maybe I will try to get most of it done tomorrow so I can just relax on Saturday. Sunday I leave for Dallas. Ugh! Ugh! Triple Ugh! No, it’s a good thing. Training on everything that I need training on.

In bed last night I kept thinking about that person who jumped in front of the train. I hope they are at peace, I cannot imagine what they were feeling that compelled them to end their life in such a certain way. I also thought about the conductor of that train. What he experienced must have been horrific and I hope it doesn’t haunt him.

In lighter news, I am working from home today! HOORAY! And a couple days ago I bought a little t-shirt from Target that has the M*A*S*H logo emblazoned across the chest. I can’t stop wearing it, I love it so much. It makes me feel like Major “Hot Lips” Houlihan! (Admit it, you thought I was going to say Klinger!)

I always wondered if Miss Piggy’s look was based on Loretta Swit. Maybe Jim Henson or Frank Oz was a Hot Lips fan?

Update: Wikipedia states, Miss Piggy was reportedly inspired by the actress Loretta Swit.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! Something is wrong with Donnaville! Every time I try to save my entry, the entry doesn’t post and I get a blank page. I hit the back button and save the entry as a draft. This works fine. Once it is saved, I can now set the post status back to publish and save it. I wonder what the heck is the issue? I haven’t made any changes to my site. UNLESS IT’S THE CRAZY INDIAN FAMILY WHO HOST DONNAVILLE!!!! I bet it’s them! They screwed up!

I hope the problem fixes itself– but if it doesn’t, at least I can post, even if it’s a pain in the butt.

Update! It worked fine this time!

The other day I watched Back to the Future! It was so cute! I got a kick hearing Doc pronounce the word gigawatt like JIGawatt. I never use the word gigawatt in conversation but I very often use the word gigabyte which I pronounce GIGabyte, just as Micky, Davy, Peter (Tork is a Dork), and Mike would say, “We got a gig tonight!” Have I been pronouncing it wrong? Bartleby.com shows jig as the preferred pronunciation and gig as the second pronunciation. Who knew!?! I’m sticking with gig mainly because I think people would think I was insane if I said jig.

BTW I pronounce forte with one syllable, like the English word fort, the t is silent in often and I never pronounce the h in forehead.

How weird is it that the spellcheck on the Google toolbar marks the word, “googled” as incorrect?

I have started to listen to a different radio station than I normally do, it’s WXPN 88.5. It reminds me of a radio station I used to listen to when I was working in Baltimore, WRNR 103.1. I loved this one DJ named Damian Einstein. He had the strangest delivery I had ever heard. When I first started listening to him, I had a very hard time understanding him. After awhile, I just got used to his tongue clucking as he talked like a bushman from the movie The Gods Must be Crazy. I always wondered how he ever got the job as a DJ. One day I googled him and found out he had been in a terrible accident which resulted in injuries and a speech impediment. He was fired because of it but his fans rallied and he filed a discrimination suit and then eventually he created WRNR. Pretty interesting, huh? Just as I miss Fell’s Point, The Inner Harbor, soft-shell crab sandwiches, and fried pepper rings dipped in powder sugar, I miss WRNR. Listening to WXPN brings back some nice memories, Miss Josie! I think I’ll try the crab fluff this evening, if you don’t mind, Miss Karen. Why! I don’t mind it a lick!