Hold it right there bucko!!!

Right. I am back from my vacation in sunny Portugal. 2 weeks of lovely warm weather. Most Finns would say it was HOT. But hey, I am from NE where we get all that lovely sticky warm humidity in the summer. It was a slice of heaven! Toasty crispy brown farmers tan has been achieved.

Lots has happened since I was away:

- K has a blog which will make you shoot milk out your nose if you are reading it while drinking moo juice - as long as someone doesn't try to assasinate it and the stoopid wireless internet doesn't go down.
-Sandra Day O'Connor is retiring from the US Supreme Court - heaven help us the swing vote is in the balance
- States pay over 221 million dollars in remedial writing courses for their employees (go US education system!!)
- The voice artists of Tigger AND Piglet both kicked the kicked the bucket within 1 day of each other - RIP boys
- Luther Vandross and 'Obie' Benson of the 4 Tops both met their maker too..
- Porn goes mobile (PortaPorn anyone?)
- Gina had her 3rd child
- Melanie's capacity for missing people is directly related to their geographic postion to her
- Mira scared all of the gay people in Portugal - pride in Lisbon consisted of 5 people in the middle of the woods... driving around for 2 hours to find the "Pride" celebration in Portugal was quite amusing though...
- I haven't heard from my SUG in ages and think she has been swollowed up by the San Andreas thingamabob or something. Sug are you alive??


God damn it. I go on 1 bleeping vacation and the whole world turns topsy turvy (good phrase that one..I should use it more often). My holiday was great though. It is very polite of you to ask :) Lots of sun and sangria..38 C degree days, heavy fat ladened food, bacon wraped in bacon, more bacon, Pasteis de Belem, Yards of Beer, and naps. Mmmmmm naps. Naps are so under-rated anywhere else than in places like Italy, Spain and Portugal. You gotta love cultures that say "Okay folks, it is nap time. Go home and catch a couple of z's and we will see you in a few hours." I think the whole world should do that. Think about it. Wasn't life so much less complicated when you were in kindergarten or pre-school and you had nap time..and milk and cookies time? I say we start a petition that makes EVERY country adopt the nap time rule. Milk and cookies could be optional..say as a post nap snack for instance...

So now I am back from holiday (vacation for all you non euro-trashy types) and hopefully can catch up on my posting.

Oh..and there is something right with the world.. The BoSox are 1st in the AL East and the Yanks are 5 games back.. :)