I am in the new place!  Yay me!  That said… moving sucks.  We did what grown ups do this time round… we hired young people to do the heavy lifting.  It was bliss.  5.5 hours of manual labor for 300 bucks plus gratuity.  Worth twice that.

The new place is phenomenal… honestly.  It is a home without all the bullshit like a lawn and property taxes.  My master bedroom is HUGE and the master bath is enough to make me all giddy.  Two words… Jetted Tub.  Need I say more?

Hands down, the best thing about this place other than the dark hardwood floors and fireplace and 12 foot ceilings in the living room?  I have a ginormous kitchen with stainless appliances and granite counters.  It get emotional walking into it.

I am still in the midst of unpacking but making progress!

Gallo over on ESPN wrote “The Five Stages of Patriots Grief” and I am still laughing over it. Thanks to Unabrewer for the linkie. Read a few excerpts…

Stage 1: Denial and isolation

No! No! No! No! Noooooooooooo! No! No! No! No! No! Noooooooooooo! This did not happen.

There is no way Eli Manning—Eli Manning!—stopped us in the Super Bowl from going 19-0. Eli Manning did not just beat Tom Brady. Tom Brady did not get knocked out of the playoffs in back-to-back years by the Manning brothers. I refuse to believe it. Such a world does not exist.

Stage 2: Anger

You [Bill Belichick] just got outcoached by Tom Coughlin. Badly. By Tom Coughlin! Half of the man’s brain is still frozen from the Green Bay game, yet he made you look like Rich Kotite.
And Tom Brady … really? You needed a haircut from your stylist the night before the game?!

Maybe you should have spent more time watching film, you dainty little girl. And didn’t you learn anything from Tony Romo and Jessica Simpson?

Stage 3: Bargaining

I can’t even believe I’m saying this, but do you want me to admit that Tom Brady is overrated? I will. I’ll say it. I’ll say it if you’ll let the Patriots play the game over. Do you see how far you’re making me go? How much I want this? He’s been folding under pressure in big games for three years in a row. He’s like a Manning, but with a better jaw line and two fewer Super Bowls since 2004.
Stage 4: Depression

Life is not worth living.

Now I have nothing. They’ll get over it. They’re rich. They have hot wives and girlfriends. But I have nothing. Just this tattoo on my head and a crappy, second-shift job at Dunkin’ Donuts.

There’s not hope for the future, either.

Tom Brady is balding. He’s past his prime… His ankle is hurt. His shoulder is all messed up. Who knows what else is being hidden in the injury report. Gout? Scabies? Mumps? Measles? Rubella? Gisele will see the writing on the wall soon enough. She’ll dump him. Then he’ll start dating Jessica Simpson. And then it will get worse from there. Three years from now, he’ll have a 65 quarterback rating and four kids with Britney Spears. We should just use our first-round pick this year to draft a quarterback and get it over with. Goodbye, Tom.

Stage 5: Acceptance

OK. So we lost. It happened. We were 18-0 and lost in the Super Bowl to Eli friggin’ Manning and the New York Giants. It still sounds insane to say that out loud, but facts are facts.

Truth is, I’m fine with it. That’s three years in a row the Patriots haven’t won a Super Bowl. What kind of dynasty is that? If they’re not going to represent Boston the right way and win championships, they can get lost. I’ll go back to pretending they don’t exist like I did before January 2002.

It is brilliance, go read the rest.

205 Facts:

This is the kind of stuff that really sticks in my brain. Good if you are my Trivial Pursuit partner, useless otherwise.  Some other person afflicted with excessive useless knowledge  compiled a list.  Many are new to me!  Yay!  Here are a few.

1. The cruise line, Queen Elizabeth II, moves six inches for each gallon of diesel it burns.  JenNote: And people bitch about my desire to buy an big ass SUV? Fuck you.
   


2. “Stewardesses” is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand


3. It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year’s supply of footballs.
   

There is much interesting little useless factoids here.

Bunnies!

Why Ninja’s Don’t Wear iPods

Don’t try this  at home, not even if you have been drinking a great deal.. especially if you have been drinking a great deal.

I have recently started playing around with Stumbleupon.com.

Stumble is one of those little deals where you fill out a few questions and the hit the “stumble” button and you off to some nifty site it thinks you might enjoy based on the way you answered their survey.  It is a time killer and helps when I cannot think of anything to say.

The latest little gem I discovered is called VideoJug and particularly the Dating Humor section.  Loads of short videos addressing such age old issues as:

1. How to undo her bra with one hand…
   


2. How to Stop Being Horny…


3. How to get naked together for the first time…

There are many other categories and I was able to waste a good 20 minutes on these gems.    Enjoy!

These are always pretty amazing to me.  I am easily amused.

1.  When did Robert Downey Jr get hot?  I am so use to the drug addled Robert that I do not know what to think.  I have always thought it was tragic how fucked up he is.  He is funny and brilliant and well fucked up.  Hopefully he has his shit together for good.    New movie, a big one, Iron Man starts in May.  Some movie stills.

2.  A funny thing about my Median Child, the seven year old, is her love of pop tarts.  Not just her love but when she eats a pack, one has to be hot and one cold.  Kids are weird.

3.  Horrible and funniest comment I have read in quite a while.  From Frank G posting on the debate thread at Ace’s

2 Hillary actually looks relaxed and composed. Either she got some extra sleep, or ate an additional fetus this morning

4.   “Democrats have a much better grasp on the situation we face in Iraq”  Senator Hillary Clinton on the tube as we speak.  Second funniest thing I have heard today.

5.   I think Blizter just called Senator Clinton,  “Senator McCain.”  hehehe

6.   Oh my God!  Her laugh.  I just got a chill.  That was the most frightening sound I have heard since Howard Dean’s seizure.

7.  An observation:  Regardless of what the media says.  I just gotta give this one to Hillary.  She almost answered some questions.  She was of course wrong about those almost answers.

Fabulous…

“And maybe America, and Europe, and Japan, and Canada—the rich counties—would say, ‘OK, we just have to slow down our economy and cut back our greenhouse gas emissions ‘cause we have to save the planet for our grandchildren.’ We could do that…’

Misunderstood statement?  Post Coital Brain Fart from his “personal assistant” who knows?  But this is just hysterical. 

In all honesty he goes on to say the other countries will not fall in line so it would damage us all etc.   Then goes back to this magical ability we have to lead by example and force them to fall in line or some such nonsense.  Either way it reads: Slow the economy to save the planet.