O hai, I can haz Bibul plz?

Anyone who knows me knows that I think that LOL Cats are quite possibly the funniest genre of things on the internet (and maybe even in real life, too).

Well.

A couple weeks ago, I stumbled across the lolcat Bible, which is a wiki project in which people are translating the whole Bible into kitty pidgin (which is the language of the lolcats). Since I regularly conduct entire IM conversations in kitty pidgin, I just KNEW that I would have to translate a chapter (at LEAST) for the lolcat Bibul.

So I did.

I translated Mark, Chapter 3, from the King James Version to the LOLCat version.

And you can read it here.

Blessings and cheezburgrz of teh Ceiling Cat b pwn u, lolz.

Edit: I did another chapter. This is WAY too fun. Good way to pass time at work, too!

On this frosty day...

So, ever since Wendy's came out with their vanilla Frosty, I've been silently protesting it. A Frosty is supposed to be CHOCOLATE. The whole appeal of a Frosty is that it's chocolate, but totally different from any chocolate soft serve I've had anywhere else, right? I figured a vanilla Frosty would be nothing more than Vanilla soft serve in a Wendy's cup.

So, today, I broke my own picket line and I bought a vanilla Frosty.

I have now crossed back over the angry picket line and apologized profusely to the picketers, as they were right all along and I never should have wasted $1.49 on something that wasn't even as good as a cheap cup of vanilla soft serve from one of those Dairy Queen knock-off booths that only open during the summer (like "Cow Juice Princess" or whatever they call themselves). I didn't even eat half of it.


Lesson learned? I'm usually right when it comes to what foods I will or won't like, and I should totally trust myself. It would have been even more of a new thing had I been wrong about it and LIKED it, but alas... it is not to be. No more vanilla Frostys (Frosties? What's the plural of a Frosty?) in my future!

HabanerOUCH.

So I passed up the whole "eating a straight habanero pepper" thing last night because, well, I already had a weird thing happen to me yesterday and... to be honest... I was scared.

But, tonight? I figured why not.

WHY NOT??

Because they're painful little demons packaged in a deceptively beautiful orange wrapping, THAT'S WHY.

But, alas... Today I ate a bite of straight habanero pepper (and lived to write this blog).






One bite was it, though. Even my TEETH burned after that. They still kind of do. Even after I rinsed off with my favorite non-dairy treat:

So! That was my adventure today. My Wii is glowing at me, so I need to go see what updates it wants. Until tomorrow...!

Fun with the lottery!

So today was my first "thing that unexpectedly happened to me" new thing.

The boy and I were at the grocery store tonight and decided to get a couple scratch off lottery tickets on the way out of the store. So I chose my ticket and Alex pushed the button and... out came a torn off nothing of a ticket. Like... part of the title was there, but there was no bottom half to scratch off!

So we took the ticket (or lack thereof) to the Customer Service desk and the lady thought we were trying to redeem it. No, no. Just trying to either get the money back or get a new one!

So, that was new. Today, I got a defective lottery ticket and filled out the paperwork to get a refund for it.

To be honest, the "new thing" was going to be taking a bite of a habanero pepper (which we did purchase at the store) but when even Alex had to drown himself in chocolate milk after one good bite, I figured I'd save my taste buds for doing more interesting things this year!

(Oh, for those of you who have asked me - no, the replacement ticket did not win me anything. I am firmly convinced that the missing part of the defective ticket was indeed the $10,000 winner. At least, that's what I console myself with.)

This post has been brought to you by the letter C.

So! I have no pictures of today's endeavors, mainly because most of the "new thing" took place at the polls, where no pictures are allowed!

This project idea started last night while I was at the grocery store, and I managed to carry out a pretty strict interpretation of the idea today.

Today, for the whole day, I only ate foods that begin with the letter C. And I was not interpreting this loosely--it was the actual food KIND and not brand name or temperature or anything else. And, when possible, I tried to combine both brand AND kind of food. Here were the things on the menu today:

* Chicken
* Cucumbers
* Cheese
* Carrots
* Cheez-it Cheese Crackers
* Chips
* Caramel Crunch Chex Cereal mix
* Caribou Coffee Cereal bars
* Chocolate
* Chips ahoy Chocolate Chip Cookies

It was a pretty interesting project! I think other letters of the alphabet would be pretty difficult, but I may see what I can do with them sometime in the next year!

(Thanks to Cookie Monster for his clarification on today's activity!)

Office Jewelry!

So today's new thing was a little random. I was looking around my desk area, trying to come up with something that I could make with office supplies. After an unsuccessful try at (and a paper cut from) making a doll, I fashioned a set of paper clip jewelry, then proudly sported it for the whole day.

Now, certainly I have made paper clip chains before, but I know I have never created a necklace and bracelet from them, much less kept them on them for a day at work and a trip to the grocery store.

I am indeed a pretty, pretty princess today.

Lucky for me (and all of you!) I have a fun and interesting plan for tomorrow. I'll be working the election polls allllllll day - from 5am until about 8pm - so my mobility and free time will be quite limited. But never fear! Exciting things to come. Here is a hint: Tomorrow's activity has been inspired by Sesame Street.

An A-MAIZE-ing Start!

This was supposed to happen LAST Sunday, but we had to wait until this Sunday instead... since I wanted to start my "new things" with something really cool, I put things off for a week!

Today, Alex and I went to a corn maze. Even in all my years living in the farmlands of Ohio, I had never been in a corn maze before today.

Here is an aerial shot of the maze we went to conquer:


We were pretty sure of ourselves--after all, we were both masters of mazes on paper when we were little kids, and our mad video game skills are great enough that we were both confident of the other's ability to navigate when (and if) the other got off-track. We were so confident, in fact, that we opted not to take a "help us" flag, which was basically this 8-foot-tall flag that you waved if you got hopelessly CORN-FUSED (you have to LOL at that one) and the "corn cop" (haha, get THAT?) would come help you. (I almost wish I could take credit for those puns, but that is what our hostess told us as we entered the maze!)

Anyway, we got through the first part and got allllll the way back down to the end where the exit was. We could SEE the exit, but we couldn't get there! So we went back and forth and ended up near the beginning and middle and end again...

And stopped to take a picture of ourselves lost in the maze. I was happy just to be outside in the beautiful fall weather and I think Alex was keeping his eye on this path he thought we needed to get to:
So anyway, we finally found our way to that elusive path we'd had our eyes on and... WOOHOO! We made it to the bridge! The bridge is the victory point - head up the stairs, cross the bridge, and you're on the exit path!

Here is the view of part of the maze from the top of the bridge:
So! Today, November 4th, begins my quest for 365 (well, 366) brand new things in the coming days. Some of them will be fun and a-maize-ing (haha, I crack myself up) like today, others will probably be not-so-fun, but it will force me to step outside of my comfort zone a bit and see what I can find!