My Kindle 2…I Think I’ll Name It…

Posted on April 19, 2009 by insider53

I received an Amazon Kindle 2 for my birthday and with the exception of my children it is the best gift ’73 (my husband) ever gave me. I love this thing, I want to marry it and give it babies…a dozen or more little Kindles running around and we could get rich because these things are expensive ($350 and up). I had been wanting one for sometime but felt it was too extravagant…old habits die hard, always spend money on everyone else but not yourself. I thought I would feel different when the kids grew up but oddly…no. When ’73 gave it to me he made sure there were witness’s to avoid a scene…smart man ’73. My first instinct was to kill him…to verbally detach his manhood and feed it to him for being such a thoughtful husband and getting me something I really wanted….wait a minute…that doesn’t sound right…Oh God, I can’t be angry at him for being nice. We can’t afford it but his heart is in the right place. What kind of person would I be if I gave him a hard time for being sweet….come on this is me we are talking about…I would tear Mother Teresa’s head off in a hot minute (while she was feeding the hungry) if I was pissed at her. Unbelievably after only a minor skirmish and obligatory protest I decided to take the high road and keep it. I still think the darn thing is too expensive but with all the money I’ll save by downloading books it should pay for itself in…Oh.. ruffly 10 years. Thank you “73 I love it and see I do too know how to be grateful gracious.


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Meet my Kindle 2…George… isn’t he cute! He is only 8 inches tall and 1/3 of an inch thick but he is mighty, mighty and can hold over 1500 downloadable books…. can you say whispernet …sexy.

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I know I have gone overboard here… but that’s me….one of my biggest passions is reading. I love that if I finish a book at 2:00 am, I don’t have to wait until the stores open. I can download another one immediately and start reading. The darn thing talks to me…for real…it will read out loud to me…’73 never did that.



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The Great And Powerful Mechanical Contrivium…

Posted on April 18, 2009 by insider53
Robin's Trivialities

The Sacred Robin

I was reading The World According to Me, Kathy B’s blog yesterday and she had already done this and it was so funny of course I had to do it too. Kathy B. says she got the idea from Inktopia for you to put your name into The Mechanical Contrivium that then pops out trivia about you. It makes no sense but is just hilarious. These are the 10 top trivial things (more information than you probably wanted to know) about me, robin.


Ten Top Trivia Tips About Robin


It’s bad luck to whistle near robin!

It might startle me and then I would kick you…hard. That might be called bad luck.


Robin is the sacred animal of Thailand.

Does this mean if I go to Thailand they will throw me a parade. I could wear a sash that says “The Sacred Robin “.


There are now more than 4000 satellites orbiting robin!

Yeah and they are giving me a headache like you couldn’t believe. Someone tell NASA to give it a rest.


Robin can run sixty-five kilometers an hour – that’s really fast!

Faster than a speeding bullet…able to leap tall buildings in a single bound…no wait that’s Superman….never mind.


68 percent of all UFO sightings are by robin!

Not surprising with 4000 satellites orbiting me, that’s  bound to attract a few UFO’s


The robin-fighting market in the Philippines is huge – several thousand robin-fights take place there every day.

Hey!.. what can I say, I’m a scrapper. Must be the Irish in me.


The book of Esther in the Bible is the only book which does not mention robin!

This makes me sad, I love Esther but you know how she is…I said a few things…she said a few things….now she won’t mention me. I think she’s jealous because I’m sacred.


Robin has often been found swimming miles from shore in the Indian Ocean!

Not really….I drank too much at a party and fell overboard once.., ok twice but thats it.


Half a cup of robin contains only seventeen calories.

Ironic that a woman who struggles with her weight is also a low calorie dessert.


The ace of spades in a playing card deck symbolizes robin.

The ace of spades is also known as the death card, so I guess it really is bad luck if you whistle around me and it startles me. Oh I get it, symmetry I like it.


See this was a lot of fun and you got to know more about me…bet you didn’t know I was sacred. Remember no whistling…R.


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High Speed Pursuit Knocks On My Door…

Posted on April 16, 2009 by insider53

This morning at 2:30 am ( crazy things never happen during normal hours) I was alone and obsessing over my theme, as usual when I can’t sleep. (Trying to tweak the details in CSS is like traveling in a foreign country without a map and you don’t speak the language….at least for me.) When all of a sudden there were sirens screeching through the neighborhood. My gosh I thought…must be firetrucks and paramedics, something must be wrong at a neighbor’s house. I went outside expecting the worst….but not what I found.


There were about 15 to 20 police officers with guns drawn in my front yard and the street in front of my house. Oh crap!..I thought…. what has my son been doing (I’m a bad mom for thinking this because ’88 has never been in trouble with anyone but me) There was yelling, rushing and general chaos. A man was screaming and then there was this sound….a small sound…like a pop or a click. Oh My God!.. they Tasered him…right there in front of my house. I couldn’t process it. I didn’t know what to do so I stood there frozen. Finally I snapped out of it long enough to call my husband who was on his way home. That conversation went something like this:


’73….”Hello”


Me….“Honey! there are a bazillion cops on our lawn and they just Tasered this guy and he’s like yelling and he almost ran his truck into the neighbors house”…


“73….”What are you talking about”…


Me…“Honey! there are a bazillion cops on our lawn and they just Tasered this guy and he’s like yelling and he almost ran his truck into the neighbors house…Really I’m not joking“.


’73…. ” No kidding” (ok we used cuss words but I can’t print them)


Me…“ No kidding”


’73….” What happened”( I’m paraphrasing here because he truly expects me to know….with details. He asked about 20 questions, none of which I could answer.)


Me… “Honey! there are a bazillion cops on our lawn and they just Tasered this guy and he’s like yelling and he almost ran his truck into the neighbors house”…


Maybe I should have found out for him…catered to his curiosity. Yes, I should have walked right up to the men with the shiny weapons and said “Hey, what’s going on…why did you tasar that man…my husband wants to know” yeah that would work, why didn’t I do that…because I’m not stupid.


A few hours later ’73 talked to the officers still at the crime scene (street in front of my house) and he was told: The pickup fled a crime and a high speed pursuit began. The police chased him for just enough miles to get them really pissed off…then it ended in front of my house. It was just like on TV when the driver abandons the car to go it on foot (like that ever works) they get him. I live in a quite neighborhood…not much crime….nice…you know the kind…boring. Things like this never happen here…until now. So in case you didn’t hear me before: “There were a bazillion cops on our lawn and they just Tasered this guy and he’s was yelling and he almost ran his truck into the neighbors house… Really I’m not joking…it happened…right here…on my lawn…at 2:30 this morning.




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Ever Changing Scenery…

Posted on April 15, 2009 by insider53

pinklady006Yes, once again I have been changing the look of the blog in my on going quest to make up my mind and settle on something….anything….pick one. I would like to thank “The Background Fairy” for the lovely free background which was easy to install and it looks great. Maybe now I will quit obsessing over the silliest details and be content. WordPress makes it so hard to personalize your blog if your CSS challenged like me. Now if I could only figure out how to change the font to something I like…hmm… stylesheet here I come.

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