how much do I love this? a lot.

from cnn.com:

Reality TV star Anna Nicole Smith dies at 39

Okay, so I don't love that she's dead, I mean, I'm not evil. But I love that this woman was her own soap opera. She gives birth and her other child dies while visiting her in the hospital. THEN she marries Howard K. Stern, her attorney, but it's not legal because they married in the Bahamas (or some other foreign island country). THEN she claims Stern is the father of her new child, not the other guy that says the kid is his. THEN she refuses to have a DNA test performed on the baby. THEN she gets sued because the diet pill she was spokesperson for doesn't work. THEN she dies in the Hard Rock Hotel. And all of this happened in the past two weeks. (Or past few months, but whatever)

Seriously, has there ever been a celebrity with more drama? And I'm not even getting into the fact that she was a stripper and married some guy that was like 164 years old. And convinced her whole family to get tattoos of her on various parts of their body.

Good lord, I'm going to miss Anna Nicole.

[update] A judge just ordered her body to be preserved. PRESERVED! It's like she's Cleopatra. Will a mummified Anna Nicole be scarier than a living Anna Nicole?

how to make your wife laugh

as performed by jparks

1. Rub Bengay on her shoulders and neck
2. Go pee (use the same hand that you just used to apply Bengay)
3. Whine, while grabbing at yourself, and doing a sort of "I'm in pain" dance, that you got Bengay on your wanker and the Bengay is on its hot phase.

If she doesn't laugh when you do this, maybe you should consider divorce as she can't possibly have any sense of humor.

ugly shirt goes to town

Do you guys remember Ugly Shirt™? I'm not sure if I ever mentioned it, but Ugly Shirt's™ price finally dropped as low as it would ever go ($19.96, I think) and I bought it. I've had it hanging in the recesses of my closet since October waiting for the right reason to wear it out.

Saturday night that reason finally came: Professional Bull Riding or YEEHAWIN' as we liked to call it. A few girls and I were headed to the Oracle Arena to watch boys in tight Wrangler jeans ride 2000 pounds of meat bull and this event was just calling to Ugly Shirt™.

I had doubts as I pulled it out of the closet, but I must say, once Ugly Shirt™ was on, it looked good! Surprisingly good. And I didn't feel like a moron wearing it.

And since I promised that when I finally wore Ugly Shirt™ I would post pictures of it, here you go:



I think I was lecturing jparks about how stupid I felt during this little photo session


After the pictures were taken I pulled my hair back into pigtails, because nothing says country to me like pigtails.

new lens

On Friday I got a sweet new lens for my D80. I am absolutely in lurve with this lens and have no idea how I survived so long without it. I'm eternally grateful to Whitney for telling me about it.

you can't reason with the unreasonable

me: why do you have to get all pissy when you're asking me to turn the tv off? Didn't I tell you that you catch more flies with honey than vinegar?

jparks: yeah, but I don't want to catch flies!