Mardi Gras !

It's funny how the brain does not put 2 and 2 together sometimes. Mardi Gras is considered a French thing. But did I EVER translate the French meaning in my head before? No, why? I have NO IDEA. One would think I would have, since I am *ok* at French. But no... funny how the American "version" of it was just embedded in my head. I feel really dumb :-\. It means "Fat Tuesday", btw, which is extra stupid on my part, since I know Mardi Gras' big day is "Fat Tuesday" !!!

I know I've ran into other similar things before, especially with English<-->French, but this is the latest one so I had to share it, since it's insanely stupid of me and rather comical :)

Rule #76. No Excuses. Play Like a Champion !

Gunn, Joe, and myself, being the champs that we are (we were the only 3 to go all 3 days last time in Tahoe) are going to the slopes again today -- they are really good skiing, and I attempt to snowboard. It's rather insane, since it's a 4 hour drive to Tahoe, so that means we have to leave at like 4-something in the morning to get there to get a full day in. So I have my RedBull packed, some snacks, and am ready to get worked by the mountain! Woo-hoo!

Funny VW Commercials

...can be found here. It's the guy from BadBoys II and Armageddon ("Components. American components, Russian Components, ALL MADE IN TAIWAN!").

And by Kings I mean QUEENS :-D

That's for you, Maya :)

Thank you DirecTV

For TNT HD. Now I can watch all their basketball games in HD, which is the way it should be. Eric happy. (And the Lakers beat the Kings tonight, so that helps too!) :-D

If you understand this, you understand NBA ball :)

I found this QUITE funny:

"Sitting two rows ahead of Joe Dumars, I was praying for Flip Saunders to accidentally put Dwyane Wade in with the four Pistons, just to see the expression on Joe D's face. Didn't happen." - ESPN.COM

Wow...

I will NEVER understand why the Bush administration thinks that outsourcing its control of six major ports to a Midle East country is a good thing. It is pretty much the stupidest thing I've heard of in a while. Just sadly, stupid :-\

Snowboarding in Tahoe!

A bunch of us rented a cabin in Tahoe this weekend, so I am trying out snowboarding for the first time. Yesterday I was pretty horrible, and the first half of today was the same. Then my sister showed me a few things and I'm literally a billion times better, if not more. My sistah rocks! Snowboarding is soooo much fun now! And the view coming down from the slopes tonight was breathtaking!

Oh you have GOT to be KIDDING

This lady has no place even CONSIDERING politics.

Lost

HooBird, Jeff, and myself have been watching "Lost" (season 1) on DVD. This show is insane! It's definitely on the same level of 24 & Alias, that's for sure. It could be better than Alias, although I'll probably never give it props over 24 since that has a special place in my heart, lol. Seriously though, Lost is awesome. Check it out if you haven't.

(And yes, 3 posts tonight, I'm "zesty" as Jeff would call it).

Serenity

So Jeff & I watched Serenity tonight finally, after him & I watched Firefly (this is my second time through). The movie rocked! Wow. I really wish Fox would get their act together and have a night of programming with Futurama, Arrested Development, and Firefly. Seriously, that would be probably the best night of television EVER. Unless Kobe scores 82 this time (sorry, I have to keep my mentioning of Kobe up in my postings, lol). :-)

Hahha

Thank you Keith for this one:

"Three Arkansas surgeons were playing golf together and discussing surgeries they had performed. One of them said, "I'm the best surgeon in Arkansas. A concert pianist lost 7 fingers in an accident, I reattached them, and 8 months later he performed a private concert for the Queen of England."

One of the others said. "That's nothing. A young man lost an arm and both legs in an accident, I reattached them, and 2 years later he won a gold medal in field events in the Olympics."

The third surgeon said, "You guys are amateurs. Several years ago a woman was high on cocaine and marijuana and she rode a horse head-on into a train traveling 80 miles an hour. All I had left to work with was the woman's blonde hair and the horse's ass. I was able to put them together and now she's a senator from New York."