crazy pound pup
You need a ride?
Well come on girl
hop in the truck
-- Jason Mraz

Why do they use a caulking gun at Taco Bell to squirt sour cream on tacos, gorditas, chalupas, et al??

Really -- is that the image you want to portray in your fine food establishment? Outfitting your sour cream workers with weapons. Don't you know when it's not busy, those teenagers working back there are shooting each other with the sour cream?

Of course no fast food story or observation can even parallel what went down at Wendy's in college with the chili ------


Amy

I've never been there, but the brochure looks nice
-- Sheryl Crow

What is with the buddy factor?? I'm talking about boys calling each other buddy. Conversation overheard:
boy 1: Hey, if you could take a look at this error, I'd appreciate it. Thanks buddy.
boy 2 (whose name is not, in fact, "Buddy"): Sure, man. Not a problem.

Ok, before any of you say anything, let me just admit that I use "dude" and "man" in the same fashion in conversation. But I do it in jest always and only when the vernacular of the group is super casual and it seems appropriate. It’s endearing. It’s cute and it almost always elicits laughter.

So knowing that I do it may be why my ears perk up when I hear someone else do it. I wonder what boy 1 in conversation would have thought if boy 2 had of said, Sure sweetheart, not a problem.

My very wise friend Breezy once told me that she was going to make a point of saying the person’s name that she was talking to in conversation. For example:
Amy: Hey, how’s it going?
Breezy: Hey Amy. How are you?

See how nice that is. Try it, maybe swap up a “buddy” for the person’s name. This is an especially nice touch if you casually know the person – it lets them know you know who they are and care enough to call them by name. But you guys can just call me dude, that’s cool with me.

Amy

Random song lyrics, I know, but it's the only thing I could think of at the moment with Red in it. So, this is going to be weird, but I have a question for you...

Do really hot redheaded guys exist? I'm talking about drop dead goregous guys that have what I like to call "fire engine red" hair. I have seen some beautiful guys with blonde, brown and black hair, but never a rehead.

Do they exist?? Have you seen one??

Amy

I say pah-tat-o
You say tomato
I say to-mot-o
Let's call the whole thing off
-- Cole Porter

"Words, words, words"
-- Hamlet

Ok, first in news, a huge rat ran across the road in front of me the other day on the way to work. It made me want to puke, really, it did. Why did the rat cross the road? To get to the better garbage can on the other side? Who knows. Anyway, it was nasty. Again, like previous bug entry, why do rats exist? What is their purpose? They carry disease and stuff, they don't do anything good that I know of, so what the deal?

Now, onto words. Johnny Depp is starring in "Pirates of the Carribean: The Curse of the Black Pearl". Do you say Care -uh - be - uhn or Cuh-rib-e-uhn?

What about research? Is it ruh-search or rE-search?

And my favorite -- data -- dat-uh or date-uh?

Don't you always kind of feel weird in a meeting and you say, uh, yes, we need to tie that date-uh base in with this site. And someone else says, what's the purpose for the dat-uh base? Then you start in again, well, the date-uh base serves this function. Then them, well, do you have to build this dat-uh base from scratch? Does it drive you nuts?

I don't care that I speak differently from other folks, that's fine. It is just a little twlight zone for me to have a conversation and hear the same freakin' word pronounced different ways.

Ok, enough with that, "E-- ther, eye- ther, Nee-ther, Ni-ther, Let's call the whole thing off" (Insert snaps in a Z formation here)

Amy

You just stand there
I could say so much
But I don't go there, 'cause I don't want to

Do you ever wonder what people are really thinking? Like when you're sitting in a meeting and you'd just give your left hand to know what is running through everyone's minds. Sometimes I worry too much about what people think. I mean, not on a personal level, per se, but more on the business level, I guess.

I'll be all up in a meeting and I'll think, hmm.... what if this was a good idea -- maybe I should share it. Then I think, what if it is the worst idea in the history of the world other than Michael Jackson's hair being anywhere near an open flame in that Pepsi commercial. So sometimes I sit thereand say nothing. And I shouldn't and I'm totally working on it.

Or, you may be like me and sit in most meetings and think, now, this impacts me how? and I have to be here because why? I stared out the window a few weeks ago, not paying a single bit of attention during a meeting. In the back corner of my mind, I could almost swear I heard someone say, "Amy, do you have anything for the group?" I ignored the voice. Then it grew louder and was preceeded by a small cough, "Uh, Amy, do you have anything for the group?" Oh, me? Hmm... "Uh, no. thanks." And the funny part is, I wasn't embarassed, in fact, I coudn't care less! this is only because I know every other person in the room was not paying attention, either.

Like I'm sure you're not paying attention to this either --- right? right??!! =)

Amy

I'm gonna tell everyone to lighten up
-- Sheryl Crow

I'm minding my own business last night, watching my tv and all and then the commerical came on...

"No matter what I do, all I think about is you" No, this wasn't Nelly and Kelly singing, mind you, this was a bunch of little kids. I slid to the end of my seat. Oh, how I would love to hear how Kidz Bop would have said the line, "Oh no, she got a man and a son though." This diddy was followed by, "I gotta get through this" by Daniel Beddingfield and "Don't let me get me" by Pink.

Ok, now all throughout the ages, kids have listened to music. Kids listen to adult stations, kids hear what their parents and older siblings are listening to. Any 9 year old can turn on the radio and hear "go, go, go shorty, it's ya birthday, we gon' party like it's ya birthday" and anything else under the sun. This is nothing new at all.

My question is what in the free world is this Kidz Bop crap?? Please take a minute out of your busy schedule and look at the songs on these CDs. I mean, it says they are kid friendly and that's good. But just how freakin' weird, man. When I was 9, I was buying (or rather, asking for) Debbie Gibson and New Kids on the Block tapes. Who wants some lame version of a cool song sung by a bunch of kiddies? Maybe kiddies do, I don't know!

Anyway, just weird and I had to share!

Amy