Posts Tagged: light


7
Jan 10

i’m game

hey, you know what’s really fun? trivia and games and trivia games.  i have some really fun trivia that I think is “clearly germaine and pertinent to the issues being addressed” in my divorce. I also “submit that there are aspects of this” trivia “which are troubling and disturbing at best, if not calling into the question the stability and parental capacity” of The Asshat “at this juncture.” in that spirit, i have drawn from the “vent” -ings of “a mad suburban housewife,” to design my own nifty trivia game. it’s called:

Guess the Assholio

1. Guess which Assholio sleeps with, carries in his briefcase, and caresses a blue blankie while driving:

a. Sloth from the Goonies

b. the creepy Meghan’s Law neighbor from down the block

c. Manchildholio

2. Guess Which Assholio blows snot on the shower walls instead of using a tissue & leaves it there as a permanent art installation:

a. Animal from The Muppet Show

b. Mr. Clean’s alter ego, Mr. Filthy

c. Pigholio

3. Guess which Assholio purchased synthetic urine online to allegedly use for a pre-employment drug test:

a. Ben of Ben & Jerry

b. Pauley Shore

c. Mary J. Holio

4. Guess which Assholio withheld conjugal relations from his wife during most of the marriage preferring his  giant collection of porn, a plastic vagina & penis pump:

a. 80 year old Hugh Heffner

b. The Hedgehog, Ron Jeremy

c. Pervertholio

5. Guess which Assholio didn’t answer his phone or the banging on his door when his kids wanted to wish him a happy new year:

a. Al Bundy

b. Father Time

c. Superdadholio

6. Guess which Assholio started a fire in a room next to where his children were sitting by putting ashes from his “incense” in his wastebasket full of paper and then left the room & said children alone:

a. Smoky the Bear’s half-wit cousin, Sooty

b. Fire Marshal Bill

c. Impairedholio

7. Guess which Assholio didn’t shovel the driveway after 2.5 feet of snow fell so his children could be safely driven out of the garage or walk down to the hill to the school bus without falling on the ice:

a. Lazy Smurf

b. Frosty the Snowman’s Evil twin, Slippery the Snowman

c. Slackholio

8. Guess which Assholio has refused to buy groceries for or wash articles of his kids’ laundry when specifically asked by said children to do so at the exact time he is already performing these very acts for himself:

a. George Jefferson

b. Darth Vader

c. Dildoholio

9. Guess which Assholio stole his wife’s checkbooks, cash, & moved assets after divorce filings necessitating the hiring of expensive forensic accounting experts:

a. Donald Trump

b. The CEO of Enron

c. Brokerholio

10.  Guess which Assholio removed approximately 54 light bulbs from his kid’s home to limit household utility usage, forcing his children to sit in the dark to do their homework & was eventually court ordered to replace said light bulbs:

a. The Heat Miser

b. Ralph Nader

c. Cheapholio

11. Guess which Assholio eats toaster oven steak almost every night:

a. Bobby Flay

b. A Homeless Dude

c. Chefholio

12. Guess which Assholio worships one of the crappiest bands of all time to the point of certifiable obsession akin to a trekkie (in my opinion), and “toured” with them (his word), i.e., followed them across the country, for 3 weeks one summer while leaving his wife and kids home:

a. Jack Black

b. Cameron Crowe

c. Dorkholio

13. Guess which Assholio travels with a finger puppet on vacations and takes pictures of it, once going so far as to ask his wife to take a picture of him with it instead of asking a passerby to take a picture of him & said wife & then got violently angry at said wife because she refused to do such:

a. Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog

b. Jeff Dunham

c. Nutholio

14. Guess which Assholio threw a giant old school rotary phone at his wife’s head when he couldn’t get international internet access while on an all expense paid trip in italy to read about the crappy band’s concert and then later screamed at her in front a group of people, he would rather be “touring” with that crappy band then be on vacation with her:

a. Ike Turner

b. Mike Tyson

c. Abusiveholio

15. Guess which Assholio, while on a Disney Cruise for a “family” vacation,  shoved his wife into a stairwell in an alleged attempt to push her down the stairs in front of his young children & other guests:

a. Pete the Bully

b. Scrooge McDuck

c. Mouseketeerholio

16. Guess which Assholio won a 5K jackpot in vegas when on vacation with his wife, and then became uncontrollably paranoid & completely convinced he was being followed, chastised her nastily for celebrating the win publicly, and forcibly dragged her back to their hotel room to hide out for the rest of the evening:

a. Steve Wynn

b. Howard Hughes

c. Dellusionalholio

17. Guess which Assholio claimed to be on a business trip but, i strongly suspect actually went to RatCon 2009 (the dates of said trip & this event matched up suspiciously) at a cheesy motel to listen to music and talk about his most favoritest awesomely horrible band for several days with his bestest psychonerd bff’s in their motel rooms (i ask you, does it get any douchier than that?):

a. Derek Smalls of Spinal Tap

b. Geddy Lee, himself

c. Rusholio

18. Guess which Assholio was bullied as a kid & pooped his pants at sleep-away camp at the age of 10:

a. Steve Erkel

b. Screech

c. Camperholio

19. Guess which Assholio watched over 7 hours of wrasslin’ most  every week of the marriage and may have believed it to be real:

a.Vince McMahon

b. Peter Griffin

c. Hulk Hoganholio

20. Guess which Assholio will soon realize his dream of being freed of the bitchy wife (a.k.a unruly indentured servant), unfit mother of his children, and cushy life he has lead for 13 years:

a. Schmuckholio

b. Divorceholio

c. a & b

Scoring:

Give yourself 0 points for every a or b answer. Give your self 1 point for every c answer. If you score under 20 points, you are clueless and have not been paying much attention to this blog. go back to the beginning. if you score 19 points, congratulations, you are expert in all things Holio.

*5 points extra credit if you figured out the finger puppets in the photo at the top are the likenesses of 3 famous psychoanalysts: freud, anna freud, & carl jung complete with couch. these nifty guys are available at uncommongoods.com. my hope is that the shrink puppets will analyze the conky puppet and help him work out all those mommy issues of his.

conky, the puppet with whom i toured italy. best company i had whole trip.

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1
Jan 10

resolution solution

confetti

i stopped making new year’s resolutions a few years ago when decided it was a futile exercise designed to make me feel shitty about myself; especially since i didn’t keep them up past january 3rd. this year i am taking it a step further – i am making a list of what i resolve not to do this year. i am optimistic i will have no problem with this year’s list…

for 2010, the year of the gggb, i  resolve NOT to:

  1. eat less, drink less, or exercise more.
  2. make my bed.
  3. stop procrastinating.
  4. text less & call more.
  5. listen to my voice mails.
  6. cut back on shoe, purse, & coat purchases.
  7. remember coupons.
  8. give up $4.00 daily lattes.
  9. kick my kids out of my bed at night.
  10. stop making multiple lists of crap to do that i wont do anyway.
  11. clean more.
  12. get up earlier than my kids on school days.
  13. squeeze my kids’ tushies less.
  14. drink enough water.
  15. floss. ever.
  16. lose that eternal 5 pounds.
  17. conserve light bulbs in these most “dire economic times.”
  18. worry about the small stuff or even most of the big stuff.
  19. stop missing my dad every day.
  20. brush my teeth before noon.
  21. stop picking my zits.
  22. eat less chocolate.
  23. “rescuing” stray change or bills from the laundry.
  24. stop embarrassing my girls by wearing my jammies & slippers to put them on the bus every morning.
  25. make anything for breakfast that can not be microwaved & ready for consumption in  23 seconds.
  26. keep the civil in civilization.
  27. make any real resolutions.

hmm. seems a lot like 2009…

**and  now, a segment,  new to 2010**

***The Hat’s Corner***

in an effort to bring humor back into humorless, this space is dedicated to you Mr. Hat, if you could just check this space regularly for personal messages since you are a regular reader now…

can you pick up some milk for the girls? 2%. 1/2 gallon is good.

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2
Sep 09

timing

still in love

still in love

it’s been awhile since i blogged. blame it on the suckass lemon mac back in the shop for a week for random un-guaranteed part replacements (another $300 to me & you, rusty). sigh.

today, i sit down with a heavy heart though. while i would love to be a clown all the time, i am only human and today is a tough day for the weinstein woman. today would have been my parents’ 40th wedding anniversary and i have felt it creeping up upon me like the inevitable end of summer, & the departing of the fireflies. the running joke in my family was how i forgot it every year and how my parents’ always forgave me. now it’s emblazoned upon my mind permanently – a date i can never again forget. and yes, alanis, it is ironic. of course i feel some pangs of guilt over that, but more so i am so very sad for my mother. i can only imagine how hard this day must be for her over all the other “firsts” she has had to endure since february and i feel not only the pain of my loss, but the pain of her grief as well.

in my classic “the good daughter” style, i am going to her house later to replace her automatic wall timers for the outdoor lights. an act that will confound the irony, because my father was the ultimate fix-it guy & these timers in particular are something that i associate solely with him. i am sure he was way ahead of his time as a homeowner, lo those many years ago, when he switched over to the programmable in wall timers as opposed to those primitive plug in deals. one of the first things he did when i moved into my house, was outfit us with those. “the useless one” of course, just watched him rather than actually helping, & remarked to me “why do we even need those.” to which i thought, “why wouldn’t we, mr. ungrateful?” growing up as kid in the ghett-o left it’s mark on my dad &  he was always very security conscious living even in suburbia. naturally, proper lighting was important to foiling would be evil-doers.

then there was always a whole shtick to setting these damn things to actually operate the lights according to your lighting wishes. it took me years to get it right and my dad made endless trips over here to reset them for me. since dad is gone, the mantel has been passed on to me and i have been charged with that highly specialized task at mom’s house. and you can be sure that every time i go to my mom’s, she asks me to take at look at the timers and reprogram them. after infinite unsuccessful adjustments, we decided they are busted, & i will just put in new ones.  it hasn’t occurred to my mom or me for one second to just take them out & actually use the wall switch as god intended to operate the outdoor lights. no way. we have been trained to use timers and dad gummit, use timers we shall. the commandments in the book of norm in the homeowner’s bible specifically state:” it is commanded that yea shall use programmable timers for operating all outdoor lighting.”of course i will be turning off the breakers not in the name of safety as dad taught me, (“susanne, you don’t fool around with electricity”), but rather so as not to electrocute myself with the tears that will surely be spilling over my bottom lashes while i do my electrical work. it just doesn’t seem right for me to be doing these things in his place with his tools, but i am sure he is pleased that he taught me well & i am taking care of my mother, his beloved wife. but, my lord, he has left some very big shoes to fill.

my parents anniversary always has coincided with labor day and the beginning of a new school year. as my almost 6 yr old prepares to begin first grade, it is a very bittersweet feeling for me. i am very excited for her, but conscious of my loss. my dad would have been waiting at the bus after school on her first day. both of my girls so loved when he surprised them with a visit after school. after requisite piggy back rides were completed, they would show him all of their papers and have a snack together. i am forever grateful for the time my children had with him.

and this year, in spirit, my father gifts us on his anniversary. he gifted me with his teachings that allow me to be the strong, independent woman i am that i will use to gift my mother by changing her timers. to those on the outside a small, possibly needless act, but to us it has enormous meaning.

the tool bench. you did not violate it ever.

the tool bench. you did not violate it ever.

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