Emma’s Fantabulous Blog

So thanks to Telgator1, I’ve found a picture of the Ken Safari doll.

For those who havn’t been following this blog closely, I want to attach a Steve Irwin doll to Fifi, my iguana, for Halloween as a sort of tribute to the Crocodile Hunter. All the Steve Irwin dolls are way overpriced at about $40 and up on eBay, so we came up with the idea to use a “safari Ken” barbie doll instead….

That was until we found out what Safari Ken actually looks like….

I’m thinking its kinda Steve Irwin at a fabulously gay-disco night club.

So Safari Ken is out. I’m open to new suggestions.

Maybe a Safari Spiderman would work?

(Why they make a Safari Spiderman and not a Safari Ken doll that isn’t wearing pastel blue is totally beyond me.)

I’m back in Seattle, and somewhat re-adjusted to the time change. Boston was great. i got to see lots of my friends and family. I ate way too much. Its really hard not to when your brother works at a 5 star restaurant and he keeps telling you to come in for meals, and his girlfriend is an amazing pastry chef who always brings yummy sweet things over to our house.

Anyways. Pictures are here, but I gotta warn you, half of them are drunken house party pictures.

But yes. I’m home now. Devon is still working totally insane hours. Something like 109 over time hours in the last 2 weeks. Thankfully he’ll be off for a month in 2 weeks, but its really going to suck until then. At least I’ll have lots of time to make blog posts.

You’re too young to buy a thong if:

• you’re too young to have your driver’s permit.
• you’re not big enough to ride the big kid rides at amusement parks.
• you still wear a training bra.
• you don’t pay the adult fare at the movies.
• your mom still packs your lunch.

Feel free to add your own. Not that I’m THAT old, but back when i was in high school (not to even mention middle school!) the only girls that wore thongs were hussies.

I’m only surley because when I was shopping at Victoria’s Secret this evening I was blocked out of the underwear tables by a throng of 10 girls that couldn’t have been over 12. The little sluts.

In a couple of hours I’ll be on a plane, on my way to Boston once again. Devon’s been working crazy hours, so it will be nice to socialize with people. Its kinda sad that I have to fly 3000 miles to find people to hang out with people that don’t suck. I’m going to miss Devon and Fifi, but the dark Seattle winter has already set in and I need to be around people.

I don’t know how much longer I’ll be able to deal with living in dark and dreary Seattle, away from all of my family and friends. I think I’m over this city. I just need to convince Devon that we need to move back to the east coast. I should start sending his resume to random Boston companies.

Anyways. The lemur and I should go finish packing for our favorite red-eye flight on JetBlue.

Seattle baristas have been freaking out recently on some blogs, blaming some customers for cheating the system.

In one scenario, using Starbucks pricing in downtown Seattle, customers pay $2.05 before tax for three shots of espresso over ice. The same beverage with milk — also known as an iced latte with extra espresso — would cost $3.50 before tax.

People are ordering their  drinks like this, and then heading over to the free condiment and topping up their drink with as much half and half as they can… Not just the ounce or two that regular drip coffee drinks might warrent. The baristas are up in arms, saying that doing this is unfair and calling these customers cheap. They refer to these drinks as “a poor man’s latte”.

I don’t do this, and probably wouldn’t. I dont think I’ve ever even used the condiment bar. That stuff just has empty calories. Plus who actually adds enough half and half to espresso that it would double in volume and make a latte??? That’s so nasty! That’s like eatting cereal with ice cream. (Although I’ve done that in the past, I don’t necessarily endorse doing so.)

I just find it amusing that this is the only “big” news story to come out of Seattle in recent months. Seattlites being pissed about their coffee. Geeze.

See the source article here at the Seattle Times. 

William S. Burroughs is one of my all time favorite authors. However, I havn’t read anything by him in a few years. I decided to change that last night and unfortunately I began to feel redicuiously unschooled. It could be that it was 1am and I was exhausted, but it could also be that I’ve taken to reading mostly crappy mind candy for way too long.

So i’m going to start words of the day… or whenever I feel like doing them. I admit my lexicon isn’t as large as it could be, so no making fun if you learned these words before you left elementary school.

So the official first word of the whatever is:

dilettante

\DIL-uh-tont; dil-uh-TONT; dil-uh-TON-tee; -TANT; -TAN-tee\,

noun:
1. An amateur or dabbler; especially, one who follows an art or a branch of knowledge sporadically, superficially, or for amusement only.
2. An admirer or lover of the fine arts.

adjective:
1. Of or characteristic of a dilettante; amateurish.

Reference

Now class, please use this word in a sentence.

I’m sure that by now everyone has heard of the tragic death of conservationist and “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin. He died last week after being stabbed by a stingray barb, which he had unknowingly cornered.
What you may not have heard of is that some truely idiotic people have been mulilating and killing stingrays, as some sort of retaliation or possibly out of ignorant fear.

“Stingray bodies since have been discovered on two beaches in Queensland state on Australia’s eastern coast. Two were discovered Tuesday with their tails lopped off, state fisheries department official Wayne Sumpton said.”

What the hell is the matter with people? This is entirely the opposite of what Steve Irwin would have wanted and is the same type of stuff that he has been speaking out against for years! Stingrays are non-aggressive animals that only attack when provoked or scared. The stupidity of some people makes me want to rip out my hair. Ugh. People like that make me sick.
View newsday.com article here.

I was being uber cool and hanging out at the post office today and while looking for some fun and colorful stamps, I found these:

I’m lovin’ them! I mean, I’ve always wanted to stamp my letters with a Hawkman comic book and now I finally can!

Postage enable your letters with these colorful superheros: a sheet of 20 stamps cost $7.80.
They’ll probably only be around for another month or two, so buy them while you can at your local post office, or buy them online here.

Alright gang. I’m hoping to get more responses than I did last week. Special Kudos to Telgator1 for being an active participant in the weekly questionnaires.

1. What are your air travel pet peeves?

2. Do you reprimand other people’s kids?

3. As Halloween (and the PetCo costume contest) is quickly approaching, what should Fifi’s costume be?

4. Have you ever been called up for jury duty?

5. Would you ever try to get out of jury duty?

6.  You’re up against an important deadline. Someone who is emotionally dependent on you calls for help. What do you do?

7. What are your ring-tones?

8. What’s your favorite chick flick?

9. Say something totally random about yourself.

10. Would you be OK with a masseuse of the opposite sex?

We had a plush hotel room. We ate tons of tastey food. The lemur drank way too much. I learned how to play slots. Devon bought clothes that weren’t black… and he liked it! We saw lots of shows. I got to be an audience participant at “Bite”. (The head vampire bit my neck during a musical number!) It was around 100 degrees every day. And everything was always beautifully neon and “too-too”.

We had an amazing time.

View the pictures here.