sightings

A Twitter friend found some bug eggs or  of some kind. She posted the pic (probably to see if anyone knew what they were).

When I clicked the link for the photo, I got a terrible ad beside the photo she took:

click for a larger view. Eeeeew!

Last weekend was Emil’s class reunion. It was so great to meet some of his old friends and reconnect with others.

• I got to meet the fabulous Ken & Denise Hawk for the first time. They were just as much of a joy in real life as they are on facebook. They are the kind of friends that make you want to be more like them so you can be a better person. Inspiring is not a big enough word.
• We got to hang out with Dave & Debbie. I worked with Dave in the MSC and have known him longer than I’ve known Emil. Debbie went to St. Joseph Elementary with Emil and they’ve know each other almost their whole lives. Dave & Debbie met ~8 years ago and have been inseparable ever since. Dave & I had a blast swapping war stories about the people we hated working with. Kevin P. J. & David “P” C., I’m talking about you, you bastards.
• We got to reconnect with Tommy & Lisa. They live here in Austin and we haven’t made any plans to see them in the 14 months we’ve been here. Shame on us! But, now the plans are ready to take some kind of form and shape. yay!

It’s fun to go to Emil’s reunion and hang with people I consider to be my own friends, too.

At lunch on Friday, from across the room, we saw who we thought might be another friend (who used to live in Austin). He works undercover in Houston, now. If it was him, the disguise is working. Funny that we’d almost run into him in College Station.

Then, today, at Dream Dinners, I kept staring at one of the women there. I looked at her name tag on her freezer shelf and it started to come back. By the time I put it all together, I was in the car and on my way home. I doubt she’d have remembered me, anyway. I was friends with her Advisor when I worked in Student Activities. The funny thing, I remember how much grief she caused, not the good she did. Maybe it’s best that I didn’t introduce myself!

Google is my go-to search engine. So, when a quick search for the Paris, Texas, Chamber of Commerce returned a mistake, I was floored.

Google returns the correct map and address for the the Paris, Texas, Chamber, but lists the website as http://www.barnesville.org , which is the site for the city of Barnesville in Lamar County, Georgia. (Paris is in Lamar County, Texas).

So, it seems some database at Google has Lamar County in Texas mixed up with Lamar County in Georgia.

Catering company looks forward to the Brown-Dick wedding.

Guess who this LOL cat reminds me of?

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I’ll give you three guesses and the first two don’t count.

This is a great holiday themed add that is meant to deter drinking and driving.

At around 12noon today, we had snow in Austin! I was at our Dream Dinners session making our meals for December and early January. It was perfect timing when “Let It Snow” came on the Muzak. And then, the sun came out while it was still snowing. That was an interesting thing to witness/

By the time I left our session, it was sunny and warming up. It’s supposed to be a hard freeze (26 degrees, last I heard).

If you want to see some pictures, KXAN is gathering images from their audience.

If you want to read people’s reactions, search the #AustinSnow tags on Twitter.

(And no, it wasn’t nearly as nice as the snow we had in Bryan last year. ..but it’s early in the season!)

(The Customer is) NotAlwaysRight.com is one of my favorite blogs. Since I’m also a huge Legally Blonde fan, this one cracked me up!

Getting To The Root Of The Problem

So, today on Twitter (and through either Foursquare which I play or Gowalla which I’d play except it crashes my phone), a guy I’ve met like-two-times-in-really-crowded-environments-&-he’d-never-remember-me situations posted where he was. He was Black Friday shopping at Toy Joy.

What? Did I read that right? Toy JOY? TOY Joy?

Did he just say that out loud? Does his mom read his Tweets?

“Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war; this war talk’s spoiling all the fun at every party…”
-Scarlett O’Hara, Gone With the Wind