Alice in Wonderland

I cannot wait for the new ALICE IN WONDERLAND movie to come out. The cinematography and colors look amazing. I will be seeing it at the ArcLight in 3D for sure. Hopefully I can make it to the opening weekend.

From Walt Disney Pictures and visionary director Tim Burton comes an epic 3D fantasy adventure ALICE IN WONDERLAND, a magical and imaginative twist on some of the most beloved stories of all time. JOHNNY DEPP stars as the Mad Hatter and MIA WASIKOWSKA as 19-year-old Alice, who returns to the whimsical world she first encountered as a young girl, reuniting with her childhood friends: the White Rabbit, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the Dormouse, the Caterpillar, the Cheshire Cat, and of course, the Mad Hatter. Alice embarks on a fantastical journey to find her true destiny and end the Red Queen’s reign of terror. The all-star cast also includes ANNE HATHAWAY, HELENA BONHAM CARTER and CRISPIN GLOVER.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjMkNrX60mA

Landing An A320 With Nose Gear At 90 Degrees

The nose gear of this JetBlue flight was locked in the turn position, i.e., as one would turn the steering wheel in a car to make a super hard left turn. For fear of a devistating crash the pilot had to land the plane safely on the ground without crashing the nose of the plane.

The pilot of this plane had a very steady hand, and is one heck of a pilot. He stayed right on that center line all the way down the runway which is super hard to do under the circumstances.

Take a look at the tires & wheels at the end of the video. It gives you a clue as to how easy he let that nose wheel down at the very end as opposed to dropping it early and having the whole wheel shaft be ripped from the plant. He kept the nose up as long as he could and safely landed the plane preventing a major catastrophe.

RR Crossing in North Dakota

You can see the train, but you can't see the track! This was taken at a crossing near Donnybrook, North Dakota, about 40 miles northwest of Minot on US 52. It is the snow plow train that clears the tracks for longer trains to pass through. Neat video but too short.

Almost makes you want to see it in real life.....

People of WalMart

Walmart is a beast all its own with its own since of class. Check out the link below and tell me you do not agree.

I am not sure where the hell these people shop but I am soooo glad I have yet to come across them.

http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/

People of the Park

Oh my gosh...My new favorite site. Since I am not one to pass judgement on anyone EVER I turn to my friends at peopleofthepark.com to point out other people's flaws. This site is nuts. I always wonder if people actually look in the mirror before they step foot out the door but I think NOT.

This link takes you on a journey through Disneyland and its many many worlds and characters.

http://www.peopleofthepark.com/

WOMAN'S PERFECT BREAKFAST
She's sitting at the table with her gourmet coffee.
Her son is on the cover of the Wheaties box.
Her daughter is on the cover of Business Week.
Her boyfriend is on the cover of Playgirl.
And
Her husband is on the back of the milk carton. Keep reading-they get better!!!


WOMEN'S REVENGE
Cash, check or charge?' I asked, after folding items the woman wished to purchase.
As she fumbled for her wallet, I noticed a remote control for a television set in her purse. 'So, do you always carry your TV remote?' I asked. 'No,' she replied, 'but my husband refused to come shopping with me, and I figured this was the most evil thing I could do to him legally.'


UNDERSTANDING WOMEN
(A MAN'S PERSPECTIVE)
I know I'm not going to understand women. I'll never understand how you can take boiling hot wax, pour it onto your upper thigh, rip the hair out by the root, and still be afraid of a spider.


WIFE VS. HUSBAND
A couple drove down a country road for several miles, not saying a word. An earlier discussion had led to an argument and neither of them wanted to concede their position.. As they passed a barnyard of mules, goats, and pigs, the husband asked sarcastically, 'Relatives of yours?' 'Yep,' the wife replied, 'in-laws.'


WORDS
A husband read an article to his wife about how many words women use a day. 30,000 to a man's 15,000. The wife replied, 'The reason has to be because we have to repeat everything to men... The husband then turned to his wife and asked, 'What?'


CREATION
A man said to his wife one day, 'I don't know how you can be so stupid and so beautiful all at the same time.
'The wife responded, 'Allow me to explain. God made me beautiful so you would be attracted to me; God made me stupid so I would be attracted to you!


WHO DOES WHAT
A man and his wife were having an argument about who should brew the coffee each morning.
The wife said, 'You should do it because you get up first, and then we don't have to wait as long to get our coffee.
The husband said, 'You are in charge of cooking around here and you should do it, because that is your job, and I can just wait for my coffee.'
Wife replies, 'No, you should do it, and besides, it is in the Bible that the man should do the coffee.'
Husband replies, 'I can't believe that, show me.'
So she fetched the Bible, and opened the New Testament and showed him at the top of several pages, that it indeed says . 'HEBREWS'


The Silent Treatment
A man and his wife were having some problems at home and were giving each other the silent treatment. Suddenly, the man realized that the next day, he would need his wife to wake him at 5:00 AM for an early morning business flight.
Not wanting to be the first to break the silence (and LOSE), he wrote on a piece of paper, 'Please wake me at 5:00 AM.' He left it where he knew she would find it. The next morning, the man woke up, only to discover it was 9:00 AM and he had missed his flight
Furious, he was about to go and see why his wife hadn't wakened him, when he noticed a piece of paper by the bed. The paper said, 'It is 5:00 AM. Wake up..'
Men are not equipped for these kinds of contests.

Little Britain

Little Britain was a sketch comedy show that started in Britain and then extended into the USA and Australia.

The two main characters are men who do such a great job and their make-up people are amazing. The prosthetics are great. The story lines are awkward but hilarious.

If you search LITTLE BRITAIN on YouTube.com you will see many of their characters come to life. They have since ended the show do to the death of the partner of one of the leads.

Fat Fighters
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVzP7wp3AV8

Vicky Pollard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3HfCTz74UQ

Bubbles and her arch nemesis Desiree
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yry5Hn_wM7A

Tiger Mistress Golf Game

You have to play at least once...

Tiger Mistress Golf Game

Just point your arrow at the mistress and click. Watch your windage though.

Click to Play....Watch out, it's addictive!


www.atom.com/fun_games/tiger_woods_defense/?xrs=eml_121709

The new Hoover Dam Bypass

Creeping closer inch by inch, 900 feet above the mighty Colorado River, the two sides of a $160 million bridge at the Hoover Dam slowly takes shape. The bridge will carry a new section of US Route 93 past the bottleneck of the old road which can be seen twisting and winding around and across the dam itself.

When complete, it will provide a new link between the states of Nevada and Arizona . In an incredible feat of engineering, the road will be supported on the two massive concrete arches which jut out of the rock face. The arches are made up of 53 individual sections each 24 feet long which have been cast on-site and are being lifted into place using an improvised high-wire crane strung between temporary steel pylons. The arches will eventually measure more than 1,000 feet across.

At the moment, the structure looks like a traditional suspension bridge. But once the arches are complete, the suspending cables on each side will be removed. Extra vertical columns will then be installed on the arches to carry the road.The bridge has become known as the Hoover Dam bypass, although it is officially called the Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge, after a former governor of Nevada and an American Football player from Arizona who joined the US Army and was killed in Afghanistan.

Work on the bridge started in 2005 and should finish next year. An estimated 17,000 cars and trucks will cross it every day. The dam was started in 1931 and used enough concrete to build a road from New York to San Francisco . The stretch of water it created, Lake Mead , is 110 miles long and took six years to fill. The original road was opened at the same time as the famous dam in 1936.

An extra note: The top of the white band of rock in Lake Mead is the old waterline prior to the drought and development in the Las Vegas area. It is over 100 feet above the current water level.

Why dogs bite people...

Sometimes I feel that dogs bite people out of pure annoyance and they deserve what they get. Check out the pictures below and tell me that these poor dogs should not bite the crap out of their owners.

Would you like fry's with that?

Spud did not realize he doubled as a dry erase board.

You better back off before I sting ya.

OH LORD..WHY ME?

Umm anyone seen my flat iron? All this walking around in this humidity is making my hair go frizzy.

Lunch? Check!

King Tut!

WTF?

He can call me flower if he wants to! Oh wait that was Bambi.

...zzzZZZ

Ohhh how I enjoy this sun today. Good thing I wore my new bathing suit. Can't always have the same suit on.

Oh and at another angle. So sexy!

Belly shot. HOT!

EWOK look alike.

I need to get used to my legs before getting used to shoes.

Disney Princesses: Where are they now?

I was reading online and came across a blog that linked me to the link here (click the title of this section). It takes you into the world of the Disney Princesses - Haven't you ever wondered WHERE ARE THEY NOW? This site takes you on an interesting journey through the lives of 9 princesses in modern times. Life isn't so perfect afterall it seems. Sometimes reality hits a little too close to home. But this artist's renditions are great. I personally like the Little Mermaid one of Ariel in an aquarium.

http://www.fallenprincesses.com/

My willy...

A man wakes up in the hospital, bandaged from head to foot. The doctor comes in and says, "Ah, I see you've regained consciousness. Now, you probably won't remember, but you were in a pile-up on the freeway. You're going to be okay, you'll walk again and everything, but something happened. I'm trying to break this gently, but the fact is, your willy was chopped off in the wreck and we were unable to find it."

The man groans, but the doctor goes on, "You've got $9000 in insurance compensation coming and we have the technology now to build you a new willy that will work as well as your old one did - better in fact! But the thing is, it doesn't come cheap. It's $1,000 an inch.

The man perks up at this. So, the doctor says, "It's for you to decide how many inches you want. But it's something you'd better discuss with your wife. I mean, if you had a five inch one before, and you decide to go for a nine incher, she might be a bit put out. But if you had a nine inch one before, and you decide only to invest in a five incher this time, she might be disappointed. So it's important that she plays a role in helping you make the decision.

The man agrees to talk with his wife.

The doctor comes back the next day. So, says the doctor, have you spoken with your wife?

I have, says the man.

And what is the decision? asks the doctor.

We're getting granite counter tops.

What's up with...

What's up with people crossing the street once the red hand has already come up on the crossing signal? It is so irritating that these ignorant fools enter the crosswalk on the red and you are stuck in the street trying to make your left hand turn but can't complete it because some ignorant tool is standing there. We should get bonus points for teaching them a lesson and bumping them out of the crosswalk with the bumper.

I actually have made the turn anyhow and honked my horn and made the guy jump. GET OUT OF THE STREET PEOPLE. There are signs for a reason: YOUR SAFETY. They would be the fool that would sue once they got their sorry butt run over by a car too.

This just irks the crap out of me and had to vent. What is your take on it?

Fire Extinguisher Training

So today we had fire extinguisher training at work. We are going through this safety overhaul of our office which is nice so that we will know what to do in case of an emergency.

The bummer part was that we did not actually get to burn anything. Would have been neat to see how the fire extinguisher actually responds to real fire but using it for the first time in my life should make the real thing easier.

My co-worker shot a video of me being a professional fire putter outter.
{notice: There is no fire :-( so sad }

Things you should know but probably don't

THINGS WE SHOULD KNOW BUT PROBABLY DON'T

1. Money isn't made out of paper; it's made out of cotton.

2. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.

3. The dot over the letter i is called a ‘tittle’.

4. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top. (That makes my day!)

5. Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.

6. 40% of Mc Donald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

7. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

8. The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor, who had red eyes. He was albino.

9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents, daily. (Just as I suspected))

10. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.

11. Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces will kill a small-sized dog...

12. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

13. Most lipstick contains fish scales (eeww).

14. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants. (The Little Perv.)

15. Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine.

16. Upper and lower-case letters are named ‘upper’ and 'lower' because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the 'upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the smaller, 'lower case' letters.

17. Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time, hence, multi-tasking was invented.

18. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

19. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

20. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan; there was never a recorded Wendy before!

21. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, or silver!

22. Leonardo DaVinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.

23. A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

24. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original 'Halloween' was a Captain Kirk's mask painted white.

25. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar. (Good to know.)

26. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand

(And you thought this list was completely useless.)

27. The phrase 'rule of thumb’ is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

28. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.

29. Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. It's the same with apples.

30. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!

31. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

32. "Guinness Book of Records" holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public Libraries.

33. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages it. (I NEED TO REMEMBER THIS.)

34. George Carlin said it best about Martha Stewart. “Boy, I feel a lot safer now that she's behind bars

Just for a chuckle!!

Do you know the difference between Bird Flu and Swine Flu?


Bird Flu you need “tweetment”,
&
swine flu you need “oinkment”.

Valentines Weekend

This Valentines weekend was so busy for us. The weather was amazing. You have to love the weather here in Southern California in the winter where we can wear shorts. SORRY EAST COAST.

Friday night we spent setting up for our party on Saturday and got to bed so late. Then we spent the day Saturday setting up outside as well as getting food and stuff together. We had around 50-60 people come over and the last ones to leave left around 4:30am.

I was so exhausted and then woke up at 9am for some reason. On Sunday we had a bbq to go to at my friends house and then another party in the evening right after it. Luckily they were 5 mins apart. Then we squeezed in THE WOLFMAN.

I am so tired today at work. Gustavo is at home because he is a county worker and they have today off for President's Day. He is soo lucky and I am so tired and hungry. Hope everyone had a great Valentines Day :-)

Have you ever wondered where the old telephones and phone cords go when they are no longer in use?

Check out the photo below.

Artist's are so creative and come up with the most innovative ideas. I wish I were half this creative.

Bored At Work?

Someone sent me this via email and I thought it was so clever!

What to do when you are bored at work...

1. Kill a few Flies

2. Put them in the sun to dry for one hour.
3. Once they are dry, pick a pencil and paper... Let your imagination flow.

Here are a few examples...

Commitment Dinner

So a little while after Gustavo gave me the ring we had a dinner at our house to celebrate this occassion in our lives. We had family and friends over for a nice dinner by the pool. Everyone had a nice time and it was great to get family and friends together for us but also to introduce them to each other. This evening went over well with the dinner, conversations, the champagne toast, etc.

Our cake

Us by the pool.

The table outside by the pool before it got dark outside.

The table inside before the champagne toast.

VIVA LAS VEGAS

We went to Las Vegas in November 2009 for a friends Birthday weekend getaway. We stayed at the Luxor in a jacuzzi sweet which was awesome. It was large enough for the two of us to fit into. I am not a club person but I had the best time at XS in the Wynn. It was a very straight bar but there were a lot of gentlemen of the homosexual persuasion.

We arrived late Friday night after work and headed to the bar to meet up with a friend of ours who's birthday it was. Club XS was amazing inside and outside by the pool.

So towards the end of the evening we were talking with our friends and there was this girl bumping and grinding while sitting down on the wall. Well she was flashing her "STUFF" for the world to see. My goodness alcohol does interesting things to people.

We also went and saw Bette Midler which was actually pretty good. I liked the music and the skits of her show.

XS - This is the chandelier in the middle of the dance floor.

Breakfast the next day after clubbing. Actually I think it was lunch since we woke up late.

The second night of clubbing at Studio 54 at MGM. We had such a great time in both clubs but XS was way better and the crowd was better looking.

The birthday girl in red and birthday boy.

Us with the birthday girl.

Club Admission Fee: $30

Margarita: $12

Flashing your JUNK for the world to see: PRICELESS!!!

Whose friend is this? She came next to us and nobody knew her.

This is my woman. As you can see Gustavo is behind me, bless his good heart. I don't know how to dance. I always figure I look like someone having a seizure on the dance floor. So while Gustavo and I were dancing at XS this lady (I believe she was totally wasted) started dancing and grinding on me. It was sooo funny. I have NEVER IN MY LIFE had that happen.

On the road again...

My first trip to San Francisco was right after Gustavo and I met in the Summer of 2009. It was going to be a true test of our relationship by being the first time traveling together and being stuck in a car for 5.5 hours. The drive up was great though. We left after work on a Friday and we talked the whole time and it allowed us to really get to know each other and learn a lot about each other.

San Francisco though was amazing. We hit all the major tourist spots in one day since that was all the time we had in the city. We did the Golden Gate Bridge, Castro, Golden Gate Park, Coit Tower, Downtown, Fisherman's Wharf, etc. It was just a quick weekend get-away for us so now when we go back we will have a better understanding of where we want to spend more time.

One the way back we too PCH home which took forever but the scenary was amazing and we just had a great time together. If we saw something we wanted to see we would stop and take pictures. We stopped into Monterey at the visitors center and asked for local information and also information on Big Sur. The guy who worked there was like, oh you need to get on the road and get out of town. It is going to get dark. Yeah it always does, it is called NIGHTTIME. REMINDER: It was around 1pm at this point of the day so we found it odd. This couple came in behind us and he told them, of go down to the wharf and get some food. They have lots of shops and restaurants there. He never told us about that he kicked us out of town.

We did the drive south and Big Sur was amazing. We got there around dusk and you can see in the pictures below how gorgeous the waterfalls were there. It was just a great time even though we got home at like 2am or something and had to work the next day.

The ever amazing Golden Gate Bridge

Lombard Street - No idea why you would actually want to live on this road.

One of the water falls at dusk in Big Sur

The same waterfall/cove in Big Sur but at a different angle.

This was another waterfall in Big Sur. You had to hike a little ways down this trail and up this mountain to find it but it was worth it. We went way off the path though to get next to the waterfall.

Shhh don't tell.