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Hello All,

I hope that you had a wonderful and safe and awesome weekend! I had a decently good weekend, was pretty sick throughout, but here I am on Tuesday still kickin.’ So today’s blog title is brought to you by, Carolina Liar a talented rock band. So with that, I will jump right to it.

Erika’s 10 Things I Think I Think –

1. I want a rematch at the poker game we played Saturday night. I thought I played well, but I shouldn’t have gone toe to toe with my foe that knocked me out. Also it was suggested that we should start doing something similar to that on a weekly or bi-weekly basis. Friends getting together for game night, whether it's Rock Band, Poker, Monopoly, Scrabble, or something. We should definitely do it!
2. Some people are just ungrateful for the things that they get and often times are out for what they can get without so much as a thank you. I am starting to despise those people.
3. Is it football season yet?
4. I get annoyed easy. Like really easy. And when I do, I get eerily quiet and withdrawn from the conversation or the action.
5. I am not sure what I would do without my IPOD when I am in the office. I am starting to think I would go crazy and beat everyone senseless. Some of the things they say in the office amaze me, and not because it’s smart, but because it’s mindlessly stupid. I am subjected to stupidity on a daily basis. So Apple, and IPOD, I thank you wholeheartedly. You are saving lives…
6. While looking through my clothes, I noticed that some were missing and that somehow I am unable to find a few of my shirts…only one thought comes to mind…washing machine monster
7. It sucks to be sick. I haven’t been sick in like 4 years and this weekend, flu like crap all weekend. Today I finally feel loads better, but only after a ton of Sudafed, Benadryl, and other medicines.
8. I think that I am pretty set in my ways and won’t be changing anytime soon. I have grown comfortable and I like where things are headed.
9. I hate folding laundry. I need a maid.
10. Is it just me, or are the new Kobe and LeBron puppet MVPs commercials just plain hilarious?

Rachael Real Moment – So this week’s surgery is not a big deal, but a big deal if you know what I mean. They are doing a biopsy but only because I seem to have calcium deposits in my joint like an old man. The procedure sucks because I won’t be too mobile for about a week. A second follow up appointment on June 15th and then a final surgery sometime in July or August. Fun stuff.

Pete Thought of The Day – Guess when this show was on t.v. I should have given it a little bit more consideration, but seeing as how I didn’t, I can thank my lucky HULU stars that they have the entire first season on there. It certainly was a worthy show, but now I can watch it in its entirety. YAY for HULU!!!

Mindy Moment – So finally I booked all of my travel (this morning of course), at least the first part of July. July 3-6 (Seattle) July 8-11 (San Francisco) July 17-19 (Las Vegas). Now just waiting to book my Fairbanks travel for the latter part of July. Man I get to hang with Mindy twice in one month!!

Julie Happy Thought of the Day – Spending one entire week with the Jordan man every other week this summer will be a time for some father/son bonding time. Normally I get three to four days per week, but now 7-8 consecutive days will be a blast! He is starting Summer Camp on June 1st and boy is he giddy. Can’t wait for this weekend to get here! Love ya Julie!

Eugene Sports Moment - My friend Eugene is entering into the Nathan’s Hot Dog eating contest this weekend here in Tempe. The winner of this “Regional” gets a trip to NYC and a slot in the July 4th contest. I will be filming the event for him and posting it online. Saw him eat an XL pizza on Saturday and I um…think he will demolish the competition. Eat those wieners Euge.

Misty Movie Reviews –

Hot Rod – I love Andy Samberg! He’s a funny guy. This movie…not so much. I mean it had its parts but for the most part it wasn’t that funny. It was more painful to watch than anything because he kept getting hurt during his “stunts.” Overall I give it 2.5 stars.

Terminator Salvation – So I watched this movie, and I have to admit…it was pretty dope. I mean it drags in parts, but for the most part it is very very good. The visual effects are amazing. The story is good, and the acting is good. I overall liked it. Some of the CGI was horrible, but then again not everything can be perfect. Of course…I was waiting for the Christian Bale Tirade….Overall 4 stars.

Night at The Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian – This movie…was very enjoyable. I LOVED the first one and this one falls right into the realm of that one. Visually amazing, funny, and just overall amazing to watch. I loved every second of it. Even Jordan who normally gets bored was enthused to watch it. If you have kids, they will enjoy it, if you are a kid yourself you will enjoy it. Either way, watch it. 4.5 stars.

JJ song of the week – Now that I no longer have cable, VH-1 and me are no longer homies, so I will have to pour a little bit o’ apple juice out for them. The song of the week is brought to you by Keri Hilson, Kanye West, and Ne-Yo, entitled Knock You Down. What a great song, and the video is pretty awesome as well. I think the coolest part of this video is when Kanye falls down…it’s dope.

Mary Random Facts –

1. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated
2. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
3. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
4. Almonds are a member of the peach family.
5. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
6. Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula
7. A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
8. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
9. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
10. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
11. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
12. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
13. In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.

Heather Joke of the Day -

Dead Dog - A man runs into the vet’s office carrying his dog, screaming for help. The vet rushes him back to an examination room and has him put his dog down on the examination table. The vet examines the still, limp body and after a few moments, tells the man that his dog, regrettably, is dead. The man, clearly agitated and not willing to accept this, demands a second opinion. The vet goes into the back room and comes out with a cat and puts the cat down next to the dog’s body. The cat sniffs the body, walks from head to tail, poking and sniffing the dog’s body and finally looks at the vet and meows. The vet looks at the man and says, “I’m sorry, but the cat thinks that you’re dog is dead, too.” The man is still unwilling to accept that his dog is dead. So the vet brings in a black Labrador retriever. The lab sniffs the body, walks from head to tail, and finally looks at the vet and barks. The vet looks at the man and says, “I’m sorry, but the lab thinks your dog is dead too.”The man, finally resigned to the diagnosis, thanks the vet and asks how much he owes. The vet answers, “$650.”“$650 to tell me my dog is dead?” exclaims the man. “Well,” the vet replies, “I would only have charged you $50 for my initial diagnosis. The additional $600 was for the cat scan and lab tests.

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OWNED (:41)
OWNED PART 2 (:45)
Things you Never Hear – (3:11)
MVPs another one (1:32)

Jordan Quote of the week - "If you drink more water, you will get taller, you won't be sick, and girls will stay away from you." Oh the things you learn from a child! That's what he tells me all the time about water, that we all should drink more. Tomorrow is his last day of kindergarten and he is pretty ecstatic. Got his report card and he got a glowing review and he is definitely ready to move on to first grade! I have a first grader! Holy CRAP!!!

Coming Attractions –
Today – I am in this repugnant place I call the office. Getting off of work today and going to work out. Then going out to dinner tonight.
Thursday – In the office…AGAIN! I am working and trying to get some stuff done for the week is out. YAY for work.
Friday – At home working. Going down to Tucson Friday afternoon and then coming back home early Saturday morning.
Saturday – Hanging with Jordan, going to the Hot Dog eating Contest and then to watch Up in 3D.
Sunday – Thinking about going to the waterpark with Jordan, he loves that place.
Monday – At home. YAY! Working of course.
Tuesday - Meeting the scalpel, glad I have a ride, those medicines make me loopy. Will try to blog :)

The end – of the blog is here. I hope that you all had a SAFE and wonderful Memorial day Weekend. I hope that you all are in the best possible spirits and that life is treating you well. Thank you so much for reading, have a great day, an awesome week, God Bless you…and I love you!!

Unpredictable

Hello All,

Hope your weekend was spectacular! I had a wonderfully AWESOME weekend! Not that I did much, I spent a lot of time with Jordan, but it was and is always great to spend the week with the coolest kid on the planet. Today’s blog title is brought to you by Jamie Foxx (a talented musician, comedian, and Oscar winning Actor). So with that, I will jump right into it.

Erika’s 10 Things I Think I Think –
1. Can’t believe that the school year is nearly over. Jordan is completing his first year of kindergarten and I am ecstatic. Trips me out a little bit sometimes when he spells or says something that he just read. Especially off of my desk. Have to be careful now. I spelled B-I-T-C-H and not only did he read it but he said it out loud. So um…yeah. No more of that.
2. Found a new show on Hulu, Legend of the Seeker and it’s like a more fleshed out version of Lord of the Rings. Very mythical very cool one hour show. I am addicted, I can’t lie. Stupid Hulu…Hulu Pimp Obligation complete.
3. It is stupid to see that it is already 87 degrees outside at 5:32 a.m. pst.
4. Desperate Housewives season finale was pretty good, although I think that the ending pissed me off a little too much. I mean c’mon! You don’t end a show with a cliffhanger like that…whoa what? I am sorry? That’s what all the shows are doing this year. I haven’t watched 24’s Season Finale but I am sure it will piss me off in the same manner.
5. It’s amazing to see people still getting caught by speed cameras here in AZ considering they have 3 distinct signs. 1 Sign is a mile away, 1 sign is a ½ mile away, and the last sign is 300 ft away from the speed camera. We live in a society of idiots.
6. South Park once had an episode that stated ¼ of society is retarded. I wholeheartedly agree with that.
7. July just got busier for travel. 1 month, 5 trips, maybe six. By August I will need a vacation from July.
8. Have the ABC Disney Fellowship writing deadline looming. I have written a “one off” (an episode that can be inserted into any season of any existing tv show) episode of Eureka. It’s a sci-fi show on the Sci-Fi channel and it was fairly easy to write. Now time for re-writes. It’s a 50k internship, lasts a year long, and I would have to move to L.A.
9. Since my blog is no longer private…I will pig latin this. Ossby = iotidy. Screw it. My boss is to idiot as snow is to Alaska.

10. There I said it. This…is shaping up to be a long week. I will need a straightjacket before it’s all over.

Rachael Real Moment - Yesterday was as an emotional day as I’ve had in months. Can’t explain why or what caused it, but I was teary eyed all day yesterday. I wish I knew what caused it or why I felt that way, but everything made me want to burst into tears. So finally last night I was able to let it all out. So with other things I am having a biopsy in the first week of June (June 2nd to be exact) and will be immobile for a few days. I have a follow-up appointment on June 15th and probably surgery again sometime in July. Yes July will be a busy month…again.

Pete thought of the day – I have to be more guarded now. I am hiring “Guards” to safeguard my life and my future. You see I have had a few intellectual properties stolen and by stolen I mean hijacked and made into full length movies. So now I won’t be leaking any movie ideas nor doing online submissions anymore for my work. Hollywood will have to come up with their own original ideas OR buy mine from now on.

Mindy Moment – 4th of July weekend in Seattle. Wow, that will be a WILD weekend. I haven’t spent a ton of time in Seattle in a while and this one will be a doozy. I hope I get to go to SafeCo field, haven’t done that in a while either. Hell it's a perfect start to an awesome month of travel.

Julie Happy Thought of The Day – It feels SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO good when you are able to get to the end of a story or something that you’ve written or worked on for a while. I closed out two of my written works this week as I have started two more. Going to be a good 7 months and ought to steamroll into the next year on a high note.

Jordan Quote of the week – “It’s a moustache kinda day” This after church on Saturday and it was hilarious, which prompted us to take the photos of us in Our moustaches! This just contributed to one of the best weekends we had in a while. Video games, the mall, Gameworks, bike riding, swimming, watching Bed Time stories, cooking breakfast together. Just an overall blast. I am privileged to have a wonderful son.

Misty Movie Review – So I saw two movies in the last few days and here is my review of them both.

Obsessed – O.k. So I saw the movie. Idris Elba is one of my new favorite actors (The Wire on HBO..DOPE…HELLO!) and Beyonce, top 25 hottie, and Ali Larter (Top 25 as well). Well the movie had me all the way up until the last 10 minutes. First of all Beyonce in a fight…HA! The probability of that really happening is as likely as Jordan becoming President in the next 30 minutes (although if he were President in 30 minutes, man we would have some fun, the world would be our playground!!) And I would have to say that the fight scenes were terrible. Although Ali Larter in Underwear…very appealing. The ending pissed me off more than anything and subsequently ruined the movie for me. So with that I give it 2.5 stars and I am demanding a refund.

Ghosts of Girlfriends Past – Two years ago I wrote a book called…My Unfunny Valentine…about a guy that is visited by three ghosts and is forced to live up to his player ways and to get back in with the girl he loved as a child. Now in 2009 it’s a feature film…only I am not attached as a writer or anything at all. Swear to the man upstairs I wrote it. But I have to admit…it was DOPE! I loved every second of it. I mean Matthew McConaughey was masterful in this…AND he kept his shirt on the entire time. Michael Douglas was a great actor but in my mind he just stepped up his persona in my mind. He was AWESOME in this movie. I love Jennifer Garner and many of the other actresses and actors in the movie. I hate to admit it but it was a well thought out and awesome movie, I should know…I wrote the book. I give this movie 4.5 stars and I will definitely want to see it again.

Mary’s Random Facts –
1. The word "racecar," "kayak," and "radar" are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
2. No word in the English language rhymes with "month."
3. You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
4. The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave it to Beaver."
5. Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
6. In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.
7. The Bible has been translated into Klingon.
8. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
9. Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food FROM freezing.
10. Benjamin Franklin wanted the turkey to be our national symbol instead of the bald eagle.

JJ song of the week - Like I said last week, VH-1 and I are homies, only before 7a.m. I saw this song 1234 by the Plain White T's and I loved it. Hope you do as well.

Heather Joke of the Day – “The Accident”

A woman and man get into a car accident. Both of their cars are totally demolished, but amazingly neither of them is hurt. After they crawl out of the wreckage, the woman says, "Wow, look at our cars - there's nothing left! Thank God we are all right. This must be a sign from Him that we should be friends and not try to pin the blame on each other." The man replies, "Oh yes, I agree with you completely." The woman points to a bottle on the ground and says, "And here's another miracle. Somehow this bottle of Scotch from my back seat didn't break. Surely God wants us to drink this Scotch and celebrate our good fortune." Then she hands the bottle to the man. The man nods his head in agreement, opens it, and chugs about a third of the bottle to calm his nerves. He then hands it back to the woman. The woman takes the bottle, immediately puts the cap back on, and hands it back to the man. The man asks, "Aren't you having any?" The woman replies, "No. I think I'll just wait for the police..."

Video Links –
Why You Should wear a Helmet (:55)
Sweet Light Display (2:15)
One hell of a catch and then OWNED! (:31)
FAIL (:30)
Shots (2:01)
DOPE Basketball shots…ON a Farm (1:31)

Coming Attractions –
Today – Um in the office. Nothing really planned. Picking up Jordan and we are riding bikes. Probably swimming and then I won’t see him again until Sunday. Can’t wait to hang with him. Work sucks already today. Currently watching…24.
Wednesday – At home working. Not much else planned after that. Most likely writing and watching some shows and stuff.
Thursday – In the office. Not a lot of fireworks there. I will be writing and cleaning up my apartment.
Friday – have friends coming to town for the Memorial Day weekend and ought to be a fun weekend. Can’t wait until Friday.

The end – Of the blog is here. I hope that you all had a wonderful and SAFE weekend and that you all are in good spirits. I do appreciate you taking the time to read my thoughts. Thank you so much! Have a great week, keep smiling, and God Bless. I love you…really I do!