Psychology of Citrus?

Okay, so the title may be a bit deceptive, but bear with me. My mother is a notorious forwarder. She forwards any and everything that comes through her email. At the risk of her reading this and being offended, I usually delete them. I am NOT a fan of the forward. Occasionally I'll indulge (or, more likely, accidentally open it while going straight from one message to another) and sometimes they are amusing/thought provoking. Today I accidentally opened one called "I chose pineapple." Weird. But I did, in fact, indulge. You were instructed to choose one fruit from a list and then scroll down and it explained what that fruit said about your personality. This is what mine said:
MANGO - A mango lover is a personality to reckoned with; quite often, you are a person who has quite fixed ideas, and influencing you is not an easy task. You tend to be an extremist with strong likes and dislikes, and at times even like to control a situation.. You enjoy getting involved in something that presents mental challenge.. Strong as you may be, you are like a kitten when you are with your partner. You accommodate the love of your life, and make up for all the strong will elsewhere!
hmmm.... some good points, and actually pretty true, although I realized that there are a lot of people in my life that wouldn't necessarily know that about me. Am I hiding? Lying? Changing? Reading waaaaay too much into a dumb little forward?
Interesting. Also interesting: mango varieties. Turpentine?! Pope? Irwin? Julie? Jeannete? Sensation? (I want one of THOSE!)

Additions to our family

Meet Max!

He's a 7 year old who may have been around the block a time or two, but that's about it. With only 53000 miles under his timing belt, this guy still has lots to give and we are more than pleased to be on the receiving end!
Goodbye nasty Berretta - you were never even good enough for a name of your own. Max will not leak and mold on us; he'll blink on command, and he even lets me inside via EACH AND EVERY DOOR! You will not be missed. I appreciate your dedication the past two year, but enough is enough.
Peace out

Meet Goose!

He is a one and a half year old chocolate lab/pit bull mix and is one stout bundle of lovin'. Still a puppy at heart, this little guy loves to run and fetch and even go down the slides at the park. He will happily climb into your lap, even if he doesn't exactly fit, and his facial expressions are the shiz. That's right, I say the shiz.

Neither of those photos are actual pictures of our new friends, but as close as I could find in like .084628 seconds on google.

So, hopefully this will quell all those baby-seekers for a while. In the last two months we have purchased a house, a new car and now have a puppy (not to mention the rabbit) to take care of. So do me a solid and SHUT IT about the babies! All in good time my friends all in good time.

Oh, and did I mention YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!??? I am so excited for all this newness in my life. A little apprehensive - it's all happening so fast! But excited.

Anyone want to help me train the dog?

My New Favorite Joke:

Rene Descartes walks into a bar and sits down.
The bartender sees him and says "Hey Rene! How's it goin' man? Can I get you a beer?"
"I think not" replies Rene, and then he disappears.

HA!!!
A little pretentious I suppose, but MAN it's funny!

Also, my elation at the return of my dearly beloved comedy mockumentary on Thursday is surpassed only by ... well, NOTHING!!! I'm so stoked!

All My Life...

Music is POWERFUL! Okay, so that's pretty much a given, but WOW! I am currently slaving away at work - it's 4:20 (yeah, yeah, I know), I've been here since 7am and I'll be here for hours to come. This has been the norm for the past few days, and is especially difficult after a nearly sleepless night. Everyone else has gone home for the weekend, so my exhaustion is only magnified by the lonely silence. In an attempt to remedy this, I go in search of that old internet radio that got me through numerous term papers in college (launchcast). Things are a little different, but my own personalized station is still there! Cool. It's been interesting to see what my favorite music was at the time, as well as Launchcast's recommendations based on what I told them I liked. I was a weird kid. Still am, I suppose, but I digress.
All of a sudden I'm feeling incredibly nostalgic, visiting memories of days long ago, filled with a pleasant mix of emotions - contentment and exicement, joy and anxiety, anticipation and comfort. Ah, young love.
But wait. Why am I thinking about this now?
It took me a while to realize that it was KC & JoJo serenading me with a song that was once on the "repeat 1" mode of my boom box for days, maybe even weeks at a time. A song I'd fall asleep listening to; the song I just knew was written for "us." All of those emotions rushing over me just because of that song? Amazing. Even more amazing is that now, with the song long over, the butterflies in my stomach are still very much a-fluttering.
Don't misunderstand - this is no long lost lover I desperately want back. The "romance" fizzled quickly. Well, I guess it never really existed in the first place. We were friends before and great friends afterwards, but the experience itself was a nice one. I suppose that's why this particular song was always so powerful; it fit our relationship before, during and after the whole "dating" fiasco.
hmmm... this is leading me down a path full of romantic musical memories, pleasant and otherwise, and again leading me to say - music is POWERFUL!!!

In light of that, I think I'll leave my cheery Christmas music up on here just a little bit longer!