Pirate-y sunglasses

Pirate-y sunglasses, originally uploaded by mdesive.

Who needs an eye patch when you've got these? Arrrrr!!!

This is the one and only time in my life I've bought sunglasses because I wanted them, instead of when I was desperate because I'd lost or broken my other pair. :-)

more animals

Arrrrrr, Matey! It's Talk Like a Pirate Day!

(Thanks to Rebecca Ryan for the link to the video)

Come on over!

Today I'm guest blogging at my friend Cheryl St. John's blog, From the Heart, about one of my guilty pleasures.

Hi, my name is Mary and...

I'm posting this video mostly to remind myself that I really need to try an "unplugged" night of my own. I know I've posted about it before...but I'm still such a techno-addict that the idea of a whole EVENING without it makes me break out in a cold sweat.

Library car commercial

Little Girl says "Actually, beauty is something without brains: STU-PID!" :-D

"...wearing your pageant sash and your Tina Fey glasses!"

Wednesday morning when ABC ran the promo for Charlie Gibson's interview with Sarah Palin, I told my husband "Tina Fey totally needs to play her on Saturday Night Live." He pointed out Fey isn't on SNL anymore, but I told him that didn't matter. Thankfully, the SNL gods heard me. :)

Just in case you live under a rock (and if you do, how did you get to THIS blog?) and missed it, here is last night's SNL opening sketch:




Love it! Tina Fey is my hero! :)

Um.....okay... :-)

Your 80s Theme Song Is:

Little Red Corvette by Prince

What's Your 80s Theme Song?

Men in kilts

Pretty hot, but some of these make me ask, at what point does it stop being a kilt and become a skirt?

"Some creepy guy"

Which president is this (2), originally uploaded by Travelin' Librarian.

Last Wednesday I stepped out of Murphy's Irish Pub in Rapid City, after a few drinks, to wait for my dad to pick me up from my sis-in-law-to-be's bachelorette party. Eight hours of driving followed by three beers and a shot of something yummy but inebriating had taken its toll and I was more than ready for bed.

I was about to head for the corner to wait, but noticed a creepy guy in a long coat standing there, so I decided to stick close to the door I'd come out of. I stood there several minutes, watching people go by, checking my e-mail on my phone ("Addict!" I hear hubby saying), and wishing I was already in bed. I glanced at the creepy guy. He hadn't moved. People came and went. I checked my e-mail again. I checked what time I had called Dad. It had only been about five minutes. I wished again that I was in bed. I glanced at the creepy guy. And finally, I remembered...

Rapid City has statues of presidents on the street corners downtown. The "creepy guy" was Millard Fillmore (I think...I'm not totally sure WHO it is). So, I smacked myself on the head and twittered it. ("Addict!" hubby mutters)

I think I'm lost

I think I'm lost, originally uploaded by mdesive.

I was browsing the maps at a gas station in Mitchell SD and found the usual South Dakota, North Dakota, Nebraska selection, but also one for the Greater Middle East. Now that'd be a loooooong drive.

Little streams

Little streams, originally uploaded by mdesive.

One bonus (if there is one) of being drenched at Mt. Rushmore is seeing the little streams and waterfalls I've never seen before. You could stand still and just listen to all the water gurgling and bubbling its way down the mountain.

The hardest part of the drive

The hardest part of the drive, originally uploaded by mdesive.

We're so close, yet there's so much nothing yet to cross

Beemer

Beemer, originally uploaded by mdesive.

I have nothing interesting to say about Beemer...

Our first "stop"

Our first "stop", originally uploaded by mdesive.

Goodbye, West Point. Hello, road construction.

It's Hooper-dooper!

It's Hooper-dooper!, originally uploaded by mdesive.

Heading out!

Heading out!, originally uploaded by mdesive.

Road trip!

RWA Conference on The Today Show

Why does the media always sound so surprised that romance sells well? This looks a lot like the segment they do EVERY year. They always take the tack of "Wow! Romance actually sells? Why?" rather than "Hey, look a romance conference. How cool!" or at least something other than bemused surprise.

Follow me!

I'm loving Twitter (when it works...sometimes it gets overwhelmed and then I'm sad)

Here's an explanation of Twitter. Once you've watched it, check out my "tweets" and I hope you'll follow me. :-)

Turning on the lamp

I love this scene from The Big Bang Theory. This episode was on tonight.