If you've ever been 'Footloose' and 'Fancy Free',
If you've ever 'Thanked Someone From the Bottom of Your Heart',
If you've ever been left 'High and Dry';
If you ever took a test that you thought was 'A Piece of Cake';
If you've ever refused to 'Budge and Inch';
If you've ever been 'Tongue Tied'; 'A Tower of Strength', 'Hoodwinked' or 'In a Pickle';
If you've ever 'Knitted Your Brow', made 'A Virtue of Necessity', insisted on 'Fair-play', 'Slept Not One Wink', 'Stood on Ceremony', 'Laughed Yourself to Stitches', had 'Short Shift', 'Cold Comfort' or 'Too Much of a Good Thing'.
If you've ever 'Cleared out Bag and Baggage' because you thought it was 'High Time' and that is 'The Long and Short of it'.
If you've ever believed 'The Game is Up' and if it involves 'Your Own Flesh and Blood'.
If you ever 'Lie Low' til 'The Crack of Dawn' through 'Thick and Thin' because you 'Suspect Foul Play'.
If you've ever had 'Your Teeth set on Edge', 'With One Fell Swoop', without 'Rhyme or Reason'.
And finally, if you 'Bid Me Good Riddance' and 'Send me Packing'.
If you wish I was 'Dead as a Doornail', if you think I'm 'An Eyesore', 'A Laughing Stock', a 'Stone-Hearted villain', 'Bloody Minded' or 'A Blithering Idiot'.
Well then 'By Jove', 'Oh Lord', 'Tut Tut', 'For Goodness Sake', and my personal favorite, 'What the Dickens?'
It is 'All One to Me' even if it's 'Greek to you' for you are QUOTING SHAKESPREARE!
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
It Might Be True! Think About It.
The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be. Here are some facts about the 1500's.
These are interesting....
Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and still smelled pretty good in June. However, they were starting to smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. Hence the custom today of 'carrying a bouquet when getting married'.
Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it. Hence the saying, 'Don't throw the baby out with the bath water'.
Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals (Mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof. Hence the saying. 'It's raining cats and dogs'.
There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house. This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That's how, 'canopy beds came into existence'.
The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other then dirt. That's where we get the saying, 'Dirt Poor'. The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on the floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until, when you opened the door, it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entrance way to keep the thresh inside. Hence the saying, 'Thresh Hold'.
(Getting quite an education, aren't you?)
In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while. That's where we get the rhyme, 'Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old'.
Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man could 'bring home the bacon'. They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and, 'chew the fat'.
Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.
Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or, 'The upper crust'.
Lead cups were used to drink ale or whiskey. The combination would sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. Hence the custom of, 'Holding a wake'.
England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a bone-house, and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 5 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they would tie a sting on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night, or, 'The graveyard shift'. To listen for the bell; thus, someone could be, 'Saved by the bell' or was considered, 'A dead ringer'.
And that's the truth... Now, who ever said History was boring!!!!
These are interesting....
Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and still smelled pretty good in June. However, they were starting to smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. Hence the custom today of 'carrying a bouquet when getting married'.
Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it. Hence the saying, 'Don't throw the baby out with the bath water'.
Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals (Mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof. Hence the saying. 'It's raining cats and dogs'.
There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house. This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That's how, 'canopy beds came into existence'.
The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other then dirt. That's where we get the saying, 'Dirt Poor'. The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on the floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until, when you opened the door, it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entrance way to keep the thresh inside. Hence the saying, 'Thresh Hold'.
(Getting quite an education, aren't you?)
In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while. That's where we get the rhyme, 'Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old'.
Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man could 'bring home the bacon'. They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and, 'chew the fat'.
Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.
Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or, 'The upper crust'.
Lead cups were used to drink ale or whiskey. The combination would sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. Hence the custom of, 'Holding a wake'.
England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a bone-house, and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 5 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they would tie a sting on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night, or, 'The graveyard shift'. To listen for the bell; thus, someone could be, 'Saved by the bell' or was considered, 'A dead ringer'.
And that's the truth... Now, who ever said History was boring!!!!
Friday, July 4, 2008
Messed Up, But So Funny!
The Following are entries to a contest by The Washington Post, in which respondents had to write a two-line romantic poem... except that the last line had to be as un-romantic as the first line was romantic.
Here is what some people sent in:
" My darling, my lover, my beautiful wife;
Marrying you screwed up my life."
"I see your face when I am dreaming,
That's why I always wake up screaming."
" Kind, intelligent, loving and hot;
This describes every thing you are not."
"Love may be beautiful, love may be bliss,
But I only slept with you because I was pissed."
"I thought that I could love no other,
that is, until I met your brother."
"Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, and so are you ~
but the roses are wilting, the violets are dead,
the sugar bowl is empty and so is your head."
"I want to feel your sweet embrace,
but don't take that paper bag off your face."
"I love your smile, your face, and your eyes.
Damn, I'm good at telling lies!"
"My love, you take my breath away.
What have you stepped in to smell this way?"
"My feelings for you no words can tell,
except for maybe, 'Go to hell.' "
"What inspired this amorous rhyme?
two parts vodka, one part lime."
Think these are funny? Think you can do better? Feel free to add your own submissions in the comment box. And I'll add the ones I like here.
Here is what some people sent in:
" My darling, my lover, my beautiful wife;
Marrying you screwed up my life."
"I see your face when I am dreaming,
That's why I always wake up screaming."
" Kind, intelligent, loving and hot;
This describes every thing you are not."
"Love may be beautiful, love may be bliss,
But I only slept with you because I was pissed."
"I thought that I could love no other,
that is, until I met your brother."
"Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, and so are you ~
but the roses are wilting, the violets are dead,
the sugar bowl is empty and so is your head."
"I want to feel your sweet embrace,
but don't take that paper bag off your face."
"I love your smile, your face, and your eyes.
Damn, I'm good at telling lies!"
"My love, you take my breath away.
What have you stepped in to smell this way?"
"My feelings for you no words can tell,
except for maybe, 'Go to hell.' "
"What inspired this amorous rhyme?
two parts vodka, one part lime."
Think these are funny? Think you can do better? Feel free to add your own submissions in the comment box. And I'll add the ones I like here.
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Going Up.
Don't take the title wrong. My life is still in a rut, I'm still jobless, pretty much still outside any thing close to a social life, and still boyfriend less. (Family, please don't leave comments about my life choices on my blog in this post.)
No, what is going up is the Weather.
Now I love Arizona. I was born in Utah, moved to Arizona when I was eleven. And then grew up here. Arizona is great, at first I hated it, the weather was horrible it was brown and lets face it I miss the mountains and hills. But Arizona has grown on me and I love it.
Of course there is one thing that has problems. Arizona has crazy unnatural weather. In the winter there is no snow, in the autumn there is no colors on the leaves, (There's not leaves.) And the summer is just insane.
Well, Arizona has hit summer here. And that means the heat waves come rolling in. Three digits or more, reaching temperatures of 112 or higher for the past two weeks. And when all your family cars have no air conditioning, you don't want to go anywhere. And every one becomes a hermit in their own houses.
I'll I have to say is thank heavens for relatives who live across the street and has a pool.
No, what is going up is the Weather.
Now I love Arizona. I was born in Utah, moved to Arizona when I was eleven. And then grew up here. Arizona is great, at first I hated it, the weather was horrible it was brown and lets face it I miss the mountains and hills. But Arizona has grown on me and I love it.
Of course there is one thing that has problems. Arizona has crazy unnatural weather. In the winter there is no snow, in the autumn there is no colors on the leaves, (There's not leaves.) And the summer is just insane.
Well, Arizona has hit summer here. And that means the heat waves come rolling in. Three digits or more, reaching temperatures of 112 or higher for the past two weeks. And when all your family cars have no air conditioning, you don't want to go anywhere. And every one becomes a hermit in their own houses.
I'll I have to say is thank heavens for relatives who live across the street and has a pool.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
At Least Things Are Always Interesting.
My family is very odd and we can be really random. With a younger brother who is completely random. You kind of get used to his odd antics around the house during the day. But you also learn to throw a questionable look in his direction.
Such things as bursting into random songs that he makes up out of other tunes. Dancing across the room in odd moves. Breaking out in weird facial expressions and sounds. It would be cute, if he was still five.
But mostly my older brother and I just spend our day making fun of him and his overly big ego. And his odd sayings when he's trying to be clever.
But as I've gotten older and my siblings have all moved out I've been able to spend more time with my Mom. And there have been plenty of times when I've been able to just sit down and talk to her about anything and everything. And I've learned quite a lot that I didn't now before.
Well, recently we were watching T.V. and and add for a movie about assassins came on. And my Mom, (Got to love her and her random thoughts). She started talking about how if she didn't have any morals, and she was a completely different person. How she would love to be and have a job like an assassin. And how intriguing it would be to try and kill and get to someone in a high place.
Of course that's kind of disturbing coming from your mother, which I quickly vocalized. Of course we both laughed and then she said she could never do that of course. Because you would have to be able to have no qualms about killing someone. And of course she has morals. I LOVE MY MOM!
Anyway my family is never boring. We always have fun, sure we get on each others nerves some times, but we have a lot of fun together too.
Such things as bursting into random songs that he makes up out of other tunes. Dancing across the room in odd moves. Breaking out in weird facial expressions and sounds. It would be cute, if he was still five.
But mostly my older brother and I just spend our day making fun of him and his overly big ego. And his odd sayings when he's trying to be clever.
But as I've gotten older and my siblings have all moved out I've been able to spend more time with my Mom. And there have been plenty of times when I've been able to just sit down and talk to her about anything and everything. And I've learned quite a lot that I didn't now before.
Well, recently we were watching T.V. and and add for a movie about assassins came on. And my Mom, (Got to love her and her random thoughts). She started talking about how if she didn't have any morals, and she was a completely different person. How she would love to be and have a job like an assassin. And how intriguing it would be to try and kill and get to someone in a high place.
Of course that's kind of disturbing coming from your mother, which I quickly vocalized. Of course we both laughed and then she said she could never do that of course. Because you would have to be able to have no qualms about killing someone. And of course she has morals. I LOVE MY MOM!
Anyway my family is never boring. We always have fun, sure we get on each others nerves some times, but we have a lot of fun together too.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
My Butt of a Family !
All right to be perfectly honest my family isn't entirely a Butt. They just can be at times. Most of the time I love my family to death. Seriously they are the greatest. But other times they are really annoying and a pain in the rear end. (But what family isn't?)
I come from a large family, got to LOVE the large families. Eleven siblings, I'm near the bottom of the food chain, or as my family likes to call it. I'm at the bottom of the pecking order. (Not that I really believe in the pecking order of things. Which is why I fight back.)
My family is very loud, very opinionated, and very much up in each others faces all of the time. I avoid debates with my family at all costs unless its something I'm very much interested in. We are sarcastic, which doesn't mix well in debates. And some times we are not to keen on listening to other people's opinions. (For the family who might be reading this, don't deny it! It's totally true.)
Examples of the Butt end of the family:
Every so often I like to change the background on the computer, just to shake things up a bit. I was looking for National Geographic pictures, (Because they are pretty!) And well, I found this story about a little girl who was born with a parasitic twin and had eight limbs in India. And the story was about her and how every one considered her a goddess. And her journey to get the undeveloped twin removed. Really interesting story.
Well, I had never heard of it before. But apparently it was an older story from the beginning of the year. I thought it was interesting so I tried to bring it up to my parents. Well, my brother scoffed a tone with me that sounded like I was stupid because I hadn't known about it before and the story was old.
Geeze, sorry!
Example #2:
I also have siblings that constantly like to bring up the fact that I am jobless, again thank you, I know! A problem I am trying to remedy. I don't need all of you reminding me over and over again that I should get a job.
Example #3:
Siblings who come home for visits and then try to tell me how to live my life. Or siblings that still live at home and try to tell me how to live my life. Or tell me what to do. I have parents for this kind of thing. And they are enough of supervision. I love my two parents dearly. I don't need ten more. (Thank you to the one sibling who doesn't tell me what to do.)
I don't mind suggestions every once in a while. But it's when you guys start beating it into the ground that I can't stand it any longer.
~~~~~~~~
Just don't tell me what to do, stop bothering me about a job, and stop taking my room when you come down to visit.
Anyway, that's my ranting for the night. And don't take any offense by anything that was said in here. Its really just that, ranting. I really do love my family, I love you all so much, but sometimes you guys just drive me crazy.
I come from a large family, got to LOVE the large families. Eleven siblings, I'm near the bottom of the food chain, or as my family likes to call it. I'm at the bottom of the pecking order. (Not that I really believe in the pecking order of things. Which is why I fight back.)
My family is very loud, very opinionated, and very much up in each others faces all of the time. I avoid debates with my family at all costs unless its something I'm very much interested in. We are sarcastic, which doesn't mix well in debates. And some times we are not to keen on listening to other people's opinions. (For the family who might be reading this, don't deny it! It's totally true.)
Examples of the Butt end of the family:
Every so often I like to change the background on the computer, just to shake things up a bit. I was looking for National Geographic pictures, (Because they are pretty!) And well, I found this story about a little girl who was born with a parasitic twin and had eight limbs in India. And the story was about her and how every one considered her a goddess. And her journey to get the undeveloped twin removed. Really interesting story.
Well, I had never heard of it before. But apparently it was an older story from the beginning of the year. I thought it was interesting so I tried to bring it up to my parents. Well, my brother scoffed a tone with me that sounded like I was stupid because I hadn't known about it before and the story was old.
Geeze, sorry!
Example #2:
I also have siblings that constantly like to bring up the fact that I am jobless, again thank you, I know! A problem I am trying to remedy. I don't need all of you reminding me over and over again that I should get a job.
Example #3:
Siblings who come home for visits and then try to tell me how to live my life. Or siblings that still live at home and try to tell me how to live my life. Or tell me what to do. I have parents for this kind of thing. And they are enough of supervision. I love my two parents dearly. I don't need ten more. (Thank you to the one sibling who doesn't tell me what to do.)
I don't mind suggestions every once in a while. But it's when you guys start beating it into the ground that I can't stand it any longer.
~~~~~~~~
Just don't tell me what to do, stop bothering me about a job, and stop taking my room when you come down to visit.
Anyway, that's my ranting for the night. And don't take any offense by anything that was said in here. Its really just that, ranting. I really do love my family, I love you all so much, but sometimes you guys just drive me crazy.
Sunday, June 1, 2008
Twilight Update!
I just finished reading "New Moon" For the second time. Loved it even more the second time then I did the first. My sister in law had a friend with an extra copy, and wanted to get ride of it. So I have my own Copy now. I'm so stoked. Now to buy the first and third, along with the fourth when it comes out. Three cheers for "Breaking Dawn" WOOT!
So I've been following closely the updates for the movie coming out in 12/12/08. Couldn't be happier. Just six days after my birthday. Can we say Twilight Party? That is so my birthday movie this year. I don't care what it takes. I'm going opening day. ( Don't know if I could handle the crowd of girls that would be going to the midnight showing.) But then again December is a LONG ways away. And things could change before then. We'll just have to wait and see.
But anyway, MTV Movie Awards showed and exclusive finished clip of the movie. It's better to go straight to the source at http://moviesblog.mtv.com/?s=twilight . Just scroll down a bit, it's there.
But for those who are too lazy or just don't have the time. I thought I would make it easier for all of those 'Twilighters' out there to find the new exclusive first finished Scene: Enjoy!
So I've been following closely the updates for the movie coming out in 12/12/08. Couldn't be happier. Just six days after my birthday. Can we say Twilight Party? That is so my birthday movie this year. I don't care what it takes. I'm going opening day. ( Don't know if I could handle the crowd of girls that would be going to the midnight showing.) But then again December is a LONG ways away. And things could change before then. We'll just have to wait and see.
But anyway, MTV Movie Awards showed and exclusive finished clip of the movie. It's better to go straight to the source at http://moviesblog.mtv.com/?s=twilight . Just scroll down a bit, it's there.
But for those who are too lazy or just don't have the time. I thought I would make it easier for all of those 'Twilighters' out there to find the new exclusive first finished Scene: Enjoy!
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