Ugly People In The Hizzouse!

Fugly Friday to you all, my little gingersnaps. In the news, a recent Tiffany's party wanted to make sure only pretty people attended. They asked all the models to attend to not bring any guests unless the guests were models too. After some guests were offended, to safe face, they sent out an email stating that "the best looking people will be admitted whether they are models or not." Oh ok. I'm sure that cleared up all the offense. You know what? I'm going to have an Ugly People Party where only ugly people can come. Sorry Jamie, you're too pretty to attend. So... who's coming to my party?

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As if I needed another reason to like Orlando Bloom... here he is wearing PURPLE sweatpants. I think that's all I need to say about the subject.

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How about a video of a flat-faced kitty wearing a necktie, playing a cat piano? Bet you haven't seen that before... unless you've already seen this video and in that case nevermind.

And now, for today's FAIL: Were they assigned seats?

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And today's WIN (status FAIL, but comment WIN)

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Hey, WTF?!! Here's Terry Crews, and his co-stars from Expendables, doing what he does best... being crazy.

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And that's all the time I have for today. Have yourself a razzle dazzle weekend and don't do anything I would do. (Mr. G and I are going away for the weekend sans kids. *wiggles eyebrows*) Until Monday then, here's something you should know...

Surgeons make fewer mistakes if they're video gamers

Next time you're about to go under the knife, ask about your surgeon's Call of Duty skill! A study found that surgeons who play video games frequently make fewer mistakes on the operating table.

When the doctors played for at least three hours, they made 37% fewer mistakes in surgery and operated 27% faster than those who don’t! Many say that they use the same hand-eye coordination that they use for surgeries as well as playing Playstation. Dr. James Rosser practices his hand-eye coordination by playing Super Monkey Ball, a popular game where you roll a ball into a hole.

He says it’s a simple game and it helps him build the same skills he uses during surgeries! Now when your parents badger you to stop playing video games, you can give them a reason.

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Family Values

Theoretical Thursday to you all, my little gingersnaps. In the news, a mom and her boyfriend take her five your old son with them on a bank robbery. The boyfriend armed himself with a knife, the mom wore a disguise and then buckled the five year old into his car seat. The mom went in to count the number of tellers and after she returned to the car the boyfriend robbed the bank. So they robbed a bank. At least they brought the kid with them instead of leaving him home. Those are family values right there in that family.

Mom And Boyfriend Takes 5 Year Old On Bank Robbery: Lauri Ruble And Brandon Stancliff Arrested

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Here's a bad family outing.

An Illinois mother is accused of bringing her five-year-old son with her on a bank stickup led by her boyfriend, according to The Chicago Sun-Times

Brandon Stancliff allegedly armed himself with a kitchen knife and grabbed a bandana for a disguise while Lauri Ruble strapped her son into a car seatbefore they drove to Wauconda Community Bank in Island Lake in December.

Ruble allegedly left her child in the car while she went inside to count the number of tellers. When she came out, Stancliff went in for the robbery. Authorities say he stole $4,800.

A tipster looking to receive a reward called the police and reported the couple.

Now, child welfare officials are looking into the crime and considering if anything should be done about the boy.

Ruble, 30, has bonded out of jail while Stancliff remains locked up.

Rihanna has had "Thug Life" tattooed on her knuckles (like Tupac Shakur had on his chest), though she chose the girly color of pink for her tattoo. "Thug Life"? Really Rihanna? I'm sure you're not going to ever regret getting that tattoo on your hands where they will always be on display even when you try to dress up. *nods emphatically*

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Tim Gunn would like us to know that he hasn't had sex in 29 years. He says it's very personal and then goes into the details of why he hasn't had sex in 29 years. Uh, Mr. Gunn? I could've gone my whole life and been perfectly happy never having known about your past and currently non-existent sex life. And next time something is "very personal", how about you don't share it during an interview that will be posted on all the major websites. Just a thought.

Tim Gunn: I Haven't Had Sex in 29 Years

Tim Gunn has revealed that he hasn’t been intimate with anyone in 29 years – and he’s fine with it!

The Project Runway personality, 58, said that his reason for abstaining from sex are because of a past relationship.

“It’s very personal,” Tim explained. “I was in a very intense relationship for a long time. And my partner ended it, saying that, quite frankly, he was impatient with my sexual performance.”

Tim also cited worries about health, saying that around the at the time, the AIDS epidemic was going on.

“I’m a perfectly happy fulfilled individual,” Tim concluded.

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And now, for today's FAIL... Hey, let's show how wholesome we are by wearing matching Black Face knit sweaters! Oh my... *thud*

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And now for today's WIN... Why have I not seen this before? This is GENIUS. No more crunchy part of the oreo that doesn't get dunked because you're holding it, or no more sticking your fingers in the milk to avoid the crunchy part under your fingers... GENIUS.

*runs out to buy a bag of double stuff oreos, ice cold milk and this new device*

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Hey, WTF?!!! And this is a reason why I try to never use public restrooms.

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And that's all the time I have for today. Grab yourself an oreo dunker and have yourself a milk-dunking party. Until tomorrow...

J.K. Rowling has edited the Harry Potter books to fix continuity and factual errors!

Like many books, J.K. Rowling has gone back and revised certain errors in the first few editions. For example, Rowling has revised small errors in her books such as Ron saying “I take one step forward and she’ll take me…” Rowling realized that since Ron is riding the knight, it would be impossible to move one space (knights move in an L shape). Knowing this, she changed the quote to “I make my move and she’ll take me…”

However, there have been things changed in earlier books in order to fix the continuity for later in the series. For example, in the first edition of the first book, Hog's Head was mentioned as the pub in the village. It was later revised because another pub, The Three Broomsticks is visited in later books in the series.

Another famous case of retconning a past book is J.R.R. Tolkien with The Hobbit. The chapter dealing with Gollum and the Ring was changed later in order to better flow into the continuty of The Lord of the Rings, once Tolkien decided that Gollum's ring was to become The One Ring, and cause all that trouble.

Check out those Harry Potter changes, and others here

If Pajamas Are Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Wear Pajamas

WhythehelldidIspendallmybloggingtimewatchingWhoseLineIsItAnywayBloopers onYouTube Wednesday to to you all my little gingersnaps!

In Louisiana, a commissioner is proposing a ban on wearing pajamas in public. All I can say is thank God he isn't the Los Angeles commissioner so I can still go to Target in my jammies. This commissioner believes going out in your jammies is a slippery slope to going out in your undies. Next thing you know people will be playing strip poker at your local drugstore.

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The celebrities don't seem to be doing anything ridicule-worthy lately, so instead let's have a little Public Service Announcement about walking while texting...

Little known fact: I once wanted to be a Veterinarian. That was, until I found out how many years you had to go to school for that. And yes I did pick my profession based on what professions only required four years of college. Seeing this reminds me that the amount of schooling is not the only reason I'm glad I never followed that dream.

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And now, for today's FAIL... Not necessarily who you'd choose to babysit your kids.

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And now, for today's WIN!!! I don't know about you, but I'd never consider anything related to Chuck Norris a FAIL. Chuck Norris can roundhouse kick any FAIL into a WIN. Like these jeans.

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And that's all the time I have for today. Get your action jeans and I'll see you tomorrow. Until then, this is something you should know...

Dr. Seuss wrote Green Eggs and Ham as a result of a bet!

Random House is a publishing company who distributed one of Seuss’ biggest success, The Cat in the Hat, which had only 225 different words! Co-founder of Random House, Bennett Cerf, was amazed by Seuss’ ambition and proposed a challenge for a different book.

Cerf bet Seuss that he couldn’t write a book using 50 or fewer different words. 3 years later, Dr. Seuss released Green Eggs and Ham, which is one of his most popular books. Upholding the bet he made with Cerf, Dr. Seuss used only 50 words for Green Eggs and Ham. Do you think you know all 50 words used by Seuss? Take this quiz!

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Ghostbusted

Trembling Tuesday to you all, my little gingersnaps. In the news, police responded to a disturbance call and found a badly beaten woman. The woman claims her husband tried to strangle her twice and struck her in the face when she tried to dial 911. His first response was to say that her injuries were a result of several falls. But after being grilled by the police he changed his story and said, "A ghost did it". Crazy idgit. Ghosts aren't corporeal. But if the wife thinks she saw her husband do it, maybe it was a shapeshifter taking the form of the husband. If you ask me, this is a job for Sam and Dean Winchester. Or you can just lock up the husband.

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Snooki tweeted a picture of herself sans make-up and guess what people... she looks better. Much, MUCH better. Why in the H... E... Double Hockey Sticks does she spend so much time making herself look so much worse? Mr. G thought I was messing with him when I showed him this photo. He still doesn't believe the one on the left is really her. Maybe it's not. Maybe it's her much prettier sister we don't know about.

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This kitty takes the task of ascending a spiral staircase VERY seriously.

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And now, for today's FAIL. Guess the t-shirt didn't work.

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And for today's WIN! Harry Potter's iPhone:

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Hey, WTF?!! Cause all women want to wear bras with fake nipples on them.

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And that's all the time I have for today. Go and find yourself a fake nipple bra and see how everyone reacts around you. Take notes and report back. Until tomorrow then...

All the drawings in Titanic were drawn by the director James Cameron, including the nude sketch of Kate Winslet!

James Cameron is quite the artist. He has the two biggest movies of all time and countless other contributions to cinema. However, it’s been said that he was difficult to work with on the movie set.

Other fun facts about Titanic. All the rooms within the ship in the movie were exact replicas of the real Titanic ship based upon photos. The colors and china were accurately depicted of the era, also! Cameron actually hired Russian diving equipment to take real footage of the Titanic wreckage that was over 2 miles under the ocean. He made several high risk dives to capture the footage. Cameron put $200 million into the film and came out with the biggest gross of its time with $1 billion and was nominated for 14 Academy Awards! Bruno Garcia

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Keep Your Cucumbers To Yourself

Well Miracle Monday to you all, my little gingersnaps! I'm back! Mr. G is safely home from Ethiopia. My sis is no longer visiting and now life can go back to normal. Well as normal as it was before.

In the news, a Muslim Cleric is warning Muslim women to stay away from Cucumbers, Bananas and other phallic foods to avoid having "sexual thoughts". I guess that applies to carrots, jarred pickles, and uh... help me out here. Eggplants? Squash? As a woman, I can honestly say I have never had a piece of food at the grocery store give me sexual thoughts. But what do I know? I'm just a ginger infidel.

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Hey all you Spice Girls fans! (well, all 3 of you anyway) Looks like they may be reuniting at the Summer Olympics. That is Victoria Beckham (the one holdout) can take a break from not eating and join them. I'll add this to my list of things to be super excited about this summer. *shakes head no*

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This here is the classiest possible response by a concert violinist (Lukas Kmit), for the ruined mood of his concert by a cell phone ring... (it's around the 40 second mark)

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And now, for today's announcing-your-baby's-sex FAIL:

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And for today's WIN:

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Hey, WTF??! Yes, yes, today's pic was provided by me. A special thank you to my two cats Lupin (above) and Dobby (below) for participating. In a related note, the Furminator removes a sh*t load of fur from your pet when you're brushing them. Just ask Lupin.

And that's all the time I have for today. Thinking of running a marathon? Think again, unless you like your odds. Knowing me, I'll be the 1 in 500,000. Which is the only reason I'm not out there running marathons. Until tomorrow then...

For every 50,000 marathon runners, 1 dies of a heart attack within 24 hours of finishing the race!

This statistic applies to anyone who does strenuous activity for three or more hours. Researchers know that the reason is over-exertion of the heart muscle, which causes muscle cells to die. It's not an age thing either. According to their findings, younger, fitter people have a higher risk of having exertion related heart problems because they put more strain to their heart while exercising. Other facts about heart attacks:

• 39% of all heart attacks are fatal.
• About 57.5% of victims die before they are able to reach a hospital
• Watching the World Cup increases the risk of a heart attack

To read more about the marathon runner statistic and the research behind it, click the source below!

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**HEY! If you want to check out some of Mr. G's Ethiopian pics from his trip, hop on over to his photography blog today.

Still Alive

Hey guys, remember me? I'm still alive. I know I've been on radio silence for a bit. It was not my best Christmas, to be honest. 3 out of 4 of our free range bunnies were taken out by raccoons in December... bunnies who have run free in our yard for YEARS. Somehow word got out that there was a tasty bunny buffet at the G-home. I've got 3 caged bunnies and now the only free one is my giant one Anya. I'm hoping she's too big for the raccoons to get. Because I will open a can of whip-raccoon on them if they touch her. (she's unfortunately too big for a cage)

Then my favorite aunt, who has battled cancer for 2 years passed away the day after her stem cell transplant. This was the week prior to Christmas and the week after was the memorial service in North Carolina, that I wasn't able to attend. Why? Because I was getting Mr. G ready for his 2 week trip to Ethiopia on a Photography Workshop with his favorite Professional Photographer.

Then Mr. G actually left for Ethiopia and I realized something about myself. Me & Mr. G are like a bonded pair of bunnies. (there are many reasons I chose to compare us to "bunnies" *wiggles eyebrows*) But as with bunnies, when one goes, the other one is barely able to function. I had very little contact with him as he was in remote areas without internet. He returns home tomorrow and I still haven't been able to talk on the phone with him. So... I didn't tweet much. I didn't post on FB much. I didn't blog AT ALL. It's all really rather pathetic. But now that he's on a plane on his way back home, I can feel myself returning. I will be back, people!

Also, my sis is flying in tonight to visit me for the first time in 10 years. Woo Hoo!

What else has been going on with us? Well remember that shelter kitteh from my previous post that we were going to try to adopt?

Well we did adopt him. His name is Merlin. And I think he cast a love spell on Mr. G, because the man who was annoyed we had so many damn cats, has now proclaimed Merlin to be the love-of-his-life kitty. He's obsessed with this cat. I've been married to the man for 15 years and I can't believe what I'm seeing. This cat can do no wrong, even when he does the exact same thing Mr. G gets mad at the other cats for doing.

He's actually a very, very sweet kitty that is supposed to end up being 20 pounds of muscle when he's full grown. The entire family loves him. Even the other kitties!

Especially little Tonks who is cuddling with him. Another reason for the chaos of the season is that Tonks has been sick all of December, eventually getting pneumonia. After several vet visits, she was sent to an Internist who did a CAT scan on her (yes a CAT scan on my cat) where they found she has a very rare genetic birth defect that they may or may not be able to fix. There are thousands of dollars of tests they have done and need to continue to do before they can find out if they can do surgery (more thousands of dollars) to fix her. She is my favoritist kitty, so she's lucky I'll do anything to fix her.

Needless to say, there's been lots going on... Oh how can I forget... My oldest turned 12...

And my youngest turned 6, all within the week of Christmas.

We didn't blow her up, but we did gun down her and her other brother...

And last but not least, one of our outside cats Norbert (who is not the favoritist kitty, hence his outside-only status) got blown to bits. Too bad. He was a good kitty.

Rest assured, my friends... Gingersnaps in the Morning is baaaaaaaaack!

Hello Kitteh

With the crazy holidays, I'm totally off my normal routine, with less time to blog. But rather than leave you hanging, I figured I'd share with you a little about what's going on in my personal life. But not too personal. Just slightly personal.

Remember Breaking Dawn weekend? Where Spank flew out to spend the weekend and we had more fun than should be legal? As promised, the police were involved. Again. Okay, maybe this time it wasn't our fault. Someone left a bomb on the bus outside the theater and police closed off the two main streets outside. So when Spank went outside to smoke, the police told her she wasn't allowed to be outside due to the bomb on the bus. Of course Spank complied, AFTER she asked the policeman to take a picture with her.

Well I also neglected to mention the party favor she flew home with... one of my cats. That's right. She and her kids needed a cat, and I had the perfect cat for them. Ollie (short for Ollivander). Here's Seamus holding him. He's a Ragdoll. (the cat, not Seamus)

Here's Spank's first meeting with Ollie. It was love at first sight. I think he looks like an Ewok there.

Now that Ollie is home with his new family, he is getting spoiled silly. He even has his own Facebook page. Thankfully he accepted my friend request.

But I entrusted my cat to her care, and then she goes and does this to him...

I couldn't be more proud. Because here's another picture of him when he still lived with us.

What a beautiful adoption story. She adopted my kitty. I think that makes Spank and I lesbian co-parents once (or twice) removed. *shrugs* We're so happy for you, Ollie!! You deserve to be spoiled, you little love muffin!!!

So you know what that means, right? There a kitty space open at the G-family home! Okay, not really. We do have 5 inside cats and 2 outside cats. I'd say we are pretty maxed out on cats. But 3 weeks ago my oldest and I were at Petsmart and we saw this hilarious kitten sleeping against the glass. He looked broken and was fogging up the glass with his nose. So I took a picture. I made a note of his card & name and saw that he was with his sister.

Then Monday night my oldest and I ran to Petsmart again. And we saw the exact same kitty! Except his sister had been adopted without him, and the card said he loves being with other kitties. And then he started to do this...

Seriously, how could you turn THAT down?!! He's half Maine Coon and 100% gingerrific. We're meeting his foster mother at Petsmart on Saturday. If she likes us... we will get to adopt him. After this, I'm fairly certain Mr. G will revoke my pet store visiting privileges.