random thoughts on a Tuesday morning

**someone must have really needed to get home:
Judy Garland's Famed Ruby Slippers Stolen

**discussed with Andi over email this morning: it really irritates me when girls wear low waist pants with a high rise thong. c'mon! they *do* make them in low-rise styles ya know. i mean why go though the trouble of wearing a thong in the first place just to have it all hanging out there for the whole world's viewing...ummm...yeah, pleasure isn't the word i want to use here. i was under the impression that the purpose of putting up with a thong was to avoid pantylines, not advertise your underwear & your backside to the entire planet. *shrug* maybe i'm just getting old...

**trying to convince me that the Bucs are a sure win against New England...at Foxboro...in December--it's just going to make me laugh. a warm weather team playing in a New England winter, they're just going to be shivering their timbers out there, blowing frosty breath on their ice cold fingers. against a team who thrives on their home field weather conditions & who hasn't lost a game at home since December 2002. playing a team that hasn't had a winning season since they won the Super Bowl in 2002. yeah yeah, i know anything is possible. that doesn't mean it's going to happen though. i promise to eat those words if the Bucs find a way to win that game but until then...BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

**i used to get my grandfather the Old Farmer's Almanac as a Christmas gift every year. that little publication has an unacanny knack for weather prediction. the 2006 edition has now been released & since we all know my preoccupation with the weather, you know i am very interested in what they have to say. you can check out the current month's & next month's weather predictions--which for me says that there will be another hurricane threat to the Gulf Coast somewhere around September 12th *sigh* hope they're wrong. and what about this winter forecast huh?? hope you New Englanders kept all your shovels & ice scrapers handy. ;-)