just a Friday reminder::

You will never be younger than you are today.

DUDE.

(we've all done it- distractedly left something important sitting idly while we rush on unawares, but seriously! Really Philippe? REALLY??)

Musician reunited with $4M violin he left in N.J. cab
Grammy-nominated violinist has been reunited with a $4 million violin he left in the back of a cab.

Philippe Quint exited a minivan cab at New York City's Battery Park early Monday, leaving the 1723 Antonio Stradivari "Ex-Keisewetter" inside.
The violin spent the remainder of the night on the seat of the cab, which owner Mohamed Khalil parked on a Newark street. By the morning, he was still unaware of what he was carrying.
By then, the frantic Quint was calling the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and Newark's Taxi Commission, which put the word out that the violin was missing.
On Monday afternoon, Khalil checked his taxi while at Newark Liberty International Airport and discovered the violin case with the instrument inside.
Quint soon arrived, dropped to his knees and shed tears of joy.

texts. the saga continues.

-Maybe so. Wiry hair?

-Kgpdmwwtajg.tkag.adtjamwtjt

-i just heard an avril song on the radio, i always think about how told me that jason loves her. It makes me smile.

-what's the book We're reading for club this month? i just remember some long author's name that no one could pronounce but you.

-(i promise i won't be a psycho neighbor and stalk her)

-Full on drum set or something like tymphani? (haha! someone thinks i know what a thimpyni-thingy is.)

-i'm watching two squirrels attacking each other at the park. small cute furry animals are VICIOUS!!

--i hope they don't realize i have kettle chips. i bet they wouldn't heitate ripping my throat apart for some tuscan three cheese.

---oh no ive lost sight of one of the squirrellys. am i being distracted? they don't hunt like raptors do they?

----oh wait. i spotted him. he is chewing on a sprinkler pipe. chewing like a raptor that is.

-----they went up a tree. im sensing an aerial strike.

-i'm literally teething, kallie. and oragel tastes nasty.

-this is all most definitely going in our screenplay.

-Well PTL!

-Mischief of the most brilliant kind.

-Iphone says thankyou

-May i come borrow mr drill motor?

-can lyn borrow you ironing board?

-I wish you would guppy up and get your pooch on so i could take her for walks!

-That will be enough of YOUR lippy!

-And That's serious because the Academy will take your film equipment away for that shit.

-whitneys still alive? its a miracle!

-Google says To Much To Handle.

-my hands smell like baby.

-its all secret files! dont show anyone!!

-"i've been using pretty much 1 new word a week, but i forget them." -just overheard from NYU undergrad girl

-I hear desmond and faraday have a passionate gay sex scene tonight. Faraday asks desmond to be his constant and bam...They are at it like 2 cowboys in the montanna mountains after a long day of hearding sheep

-I can do that, i'll whisper her to the best of my abilities!

-Doggy?

-there was a shrink on the island??? where has she been this whole time?! so much could have been avoided!

-tim riggins' dad! and also, juliet's boobs!

-No so much smarty now huh

-Go go gadget paws

-this apple tastes like green onions.

-Steak me

-She's not a dude! She's kinda cute... So we'll see what happens.

-i get annoyed being around really "nice" people. they are corny and not witty, and therefore boring.

-We doing naps and then maybe cookies later

-have fun with that bleh

-i want a job where i just ride a lawnmower at the park all day.

-you know what they should make? deodorant that smells like freshly cut grass.

-what color eyeshadow do you wear to meet tami taylor?!?!

-You should run over and see the cutest mt puppy... Tylers parents

-a waterbra. HA! i kid! something homemade and awesome, natch.

-i have NINE lip balms/glosses in mt purse right now. NINE. no one needs that much lip gloss. not even angelina jolie. and she's got more real estate to cover than anyone!

-happy easter! the chocolate-filled easter bunny is risen!

-a last just came into this 99cent Chinese food restaurant yelling that french fries gave her diharrea all night...What did she expect?!?

-Cupcake week on martha!

-i said REJOICE WITH ME!!!!

-the tudors is so boring this season! its all "separation from rome" and no sex!! 

-Did you mean Jer Shuggiebear Skatemaster?

-Bahaha! A neat face!

-agreed! can marc come too? we need a gay best friend too dont we? to tell us what not to wear etc....

-god i HATE meredith grey.

-Yeah!! Ass kicker!

-i declare today pat benetar day. 

do it

Make a list of your top 50 songs. Out of that, make a list of the top 15. Out of that, rank the top 10 in order of topmostest to less topmostest.

Don't get hung up on criteria like whether it represents the best music has to offer or 'does this cover version count?' or 'classical music included?' or 'excluding religious songs?' or 'can i have 49 Radiohead songs and one Britney Spears song?' or anything like that. Just name your top 50 songs. Simple as that. You can have varying reasons for why a song is on your list, it's totally personal. You don't have to defend any of your choices, so go ahead, put Clay Aiken on there!

Don't do it overnight. A list like this takes rumination. Start with your favorite artists, albums, maybe your favorite movie and work from there. This is not your version of 'the 50 greatest songs ever made' nor is it your life's soundtrack, though elements of both will most likely be present. It is purely the 50 songs you like the most. If you don't have 50, make a list of 30. Rank your top 10 though...you must. Why? because. Those are the rules.

Check back in a few days. i'll have my list and you must share yours. Those are the rules.

You're peanut butter and jealous.

This is Ruby, to whom belongs our friends Josselyn and Deven, and she lives just over the river from us so we get to see her frequently. In addition to being heartbreakingly cute, she is, like so many parents THINK their children are (but who really aren't), a genius and a comedian and a visionary. No really, it's true. i want to become (no, not HAVE, become) a baby just so i can make her my babybff and we can be awesome babies together and take the world by storm. First step, overthrow the Pampers corporation, one box at a time.

funny pets

Just to be that annoying couple who think their mongrols are God's gift to the planet: our two pets are pretty funny. Penny is currently curled up on a pile of clean laundry, and every time the baby cries on the movie we're watching (yes, the pile of laundry is in the living room) she sits up and rotates her head around really oddly. She also occasionally runs to the window to stare at the white pit bull who always reaches the window at the exact second she does, and just so happens to look and move exactly like her. Cosmo just finished making sweet love to a couch pillow then passed out asleep only to wake up, belch, and fall back asleep. 

i just can't stop myself

It's that time of year again: the season of sports betting and chest thumping.
Much like my gradual take-over of the Lucky Lady Fantasy Football league, i'm climbing the victory ladder in our office March Madness bracket mayhem. My irconclad selection system went something like this (for better or worse):
"USC fans are bit nutty, so i'm choosing Kansas."
"Xavier is a cool enough name to carry them to the Final 4, for sure."
"Josh didn't let me name the dog Memphis, so they're going to the championship."
"I don't know what UMBC stands for, so they can't be that good."
"So-and-so would never shut up about Gonzaga, and she bugged me, so they're not making it out of the first round."

So far that technique has propelled me to 2nd place (and no, it's not out of 2 people) so if "North Carolina? why not! John Niemeyer seems to like them, and he's tall" does what it's supposed to do, i just may be the golden goddess of sports and Josh will be taking my lucky butt to Vegas real soon.