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If you live in Southern California, in or near San Diego – get out your calendar – it’s San Diego Beer Week! More than an actual week, the celebration is a ten-day countywide festival that attracts beer tourism, fosters knowledge, and serves as a showcase for San Diego’s craft beer community. I’m a little late as the event began on Nov. 6, but it goes until the 15th so there’s still time to enjoy some of the 200+ events. Hooray beer!

…and we’re back!

Okay, peeps – I’m back from a fabulously hot and windy week in Aruba! Hopefully you haven’t forgotten about me completely. I won’t bore you to tears with all the nitty gritty details of our beach lounging and beer drinking, but I will give a few need-to-know things about Aruba should you ever want or need to go there. Here they are:

1. It’s hot. ALL. THE. TIME. Like 90 degrees hot. But it ends us being bearable (most of the time) due to number 2.
2. It’s windy. Like freakishly windy. Gale force winds. Forget your hairdryer and don’t even try to rock a style other than a ponytail or a hat. That kinda windy. And if the wind for some odd reason stops, the heat becomes unbearable. If you windsurf – Aruba is for you!
3. Aruba is basically a Dutch island, but everyone we came in contact with spoke Spanish. Some only spoke Spanish. The national language is Papiamento, but for most it seemed that was their third language behind Spanish and English.
4. Maps are useless. There were few street or navigational signs outside the hotel area. We had several maps at our disposal, each one more useless than the next. However, just as there are few signs, there are few roads, so if you head one way and get lost, with just a couple of turns you will be back on the original road. So no worries. The solution is just to roll down your window and ask a local – they are the only people who know where to go.
5. Sadly, it seems most of the reefs close to shore are not healthy, if not dead, making the snorkeling not great. I don’t scuba dive, but I imagine it would be far better than the snorkeling. We found the same kind of situation in Hawaii last year which is pretty sad. My thought is that some kind of non-profit should develop a brochure educating tourists on safe snorkeling and how to enjoy the ocean without disturbing or harming it in any way and hand them out to everyone at the airport. They hand out just about everything else at the airport so why not something educational as well?

That was basically our trip in a nutshell. Although we did go to the local butterfly farm which was really cool and educational. I wasn’t really sure how into the lecture/tour I would be but it was definitely a highlight of the trip. Anything else you want to know – just ask!

A different kind of word of the day.

Ever think that new words may be easier to remember when associated with  sex, drugs and swearing? Well they are now with the fucking word of the day. I like swearing like I like cheese so for me, this is like having a dictionary substitute. This site promises to enhance your lexicon one fucking word at a time and chances are you’ll remember the word a lot faster if there’s some shit in the definition that you’re actually interested in.

For example, let’s say you were given the word turbid.

Dictionary.com gives you:

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

While on the other hand, here’s what you’ll get with the fucking word of the day:

Hey shithead, change the fucking bong water. It’s turbid.

I know which one I’ll remember. You?

via Thrillist

See ya, wouldn’t wanna be ya!

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I’ve been a little lacking in the blog o’ world lately but it’s all been with the best of intentions. Life just moves a little too fast for my liking sometime and it’s all I can do just to keep up. And now I’m outta here until next week on a mini little vaca of sorts. I’m heading to Asheville, NC for a sorority reunion (yes, I’m one of those girls). Aside from the dogs part, I’m pretty sure there will be some of everything in the sign above – even despite the predicted rain. And of course I have packed inappropriate footwear so you know what that means – NEW SHOES!

God, I love vacation! See you in a week. Try not to forget about me while I’m gone!

I could be Mormon.

Last year, the state of Utah mandated four-day workweeks for most of its state employees. This meant offices were closed on Fridays and the regular 40-hour week was worked Monday thru Thursday, simply with longer workdays.

After 12 months, Utah’s experiment has been deemed so successful that a new acronym could catch on: TGIT (thank God it’s Thursday). The state found that its compressed workweek resulted in a 13% reduction in energy use and estimated that employees saved as much as $6 million in gasoline costs. Altogether, the initiative will cut the state’s greenhouse-gas emissions by more than 12,000 metric tons a year. And perhaps not surprisingly, 82% of state workers say they want to keep the new schedule.

My question is when the hell are other states and the private sector going to catch on and institute this as a widely accepted policy? My mister’s company works this type of schedule and he is still home before me. And he gets to sleep in on Fridays while my ass is up before the sun. I’m pretty sure this would make any job better as long as I didn’t have to commute as far.

What do you think? Should we all go “Utah or Bust” or do you prefer a 5-day workweek?

from Time via Neatorama

Learn something everyday.

“Learning wasn’t fun when we were at school, but it might have been if we had learnt things like this.”

Learn something everyday is a fun little doodle project from UK design firm, Young.

via booooooom

Couch potato schedule

via Yahoo!TV

Summer is nearly over and you know what that means — Fall TV! Hallefreakinlujah! Summer TV bites the big one and I, for one, am ready to get my watch on! Izzie’s in, George is out, Nathan Trasoras is going to ROCK IT, fatties are already making me cry, and apparently Claire’s joining a sorority! Whah?!

What’s your favorite vice fall show?

Tuesday, Sept. 8
90210, 8 p.m. (CW)
Melrose Place, 9 p.m. (CW)
Sons of Anarchy, 10 p.m. (FX)

Wednesday, Sept. 9
America’s Next Top Model, 8 p.m. (CW)
Glee, 9 p.m. (Fox)
So You Think You Can Dance, 8 p.m. (Fox)

Thursday, Sept. 10
Supernatural, 9 p.m. (CW)
The Vampire Diaries, 8 p.m. (CW)

Friday, Sept. 11
Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?, 8 p.m. (Fox)

Saturday, Sept. 12
America’s Most Wanted, 9 p.m. (Fox)
Cops, 8 p.m. (Fox)

Monday, Sept. 14
Gossip Girl, 9 p.m. (CW)
The Jay Leno Show, 10 p.m. (NBC)
Lincoln Heights, 8 p.m. (ABC Family)
One Tree Hill, 8 p.m. (CW)

Tuesday, Sept. 15
The Biggest Loser, 8 p.m. (NBC)

Wednesday, Sept. 16
The Beautiful Life, 9 p.m. (CW)

Thursday, Sept. 17
Bones, 8 p.m. (Fox)
Community, 9:30 p.m. (NBC)
Fringe, 9 p.m. (Fox)
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, 10 p.m. (FX)
The Office, 9 p.m. (NBC)
Parks and Recreation, 8:30 p.m. (NBC)
Saturday Night Live: Weekend Update Thursday, 8 p.m. (NBC)
Survivor: Samoa, 8 p.m. (CBS)

Friday, Sept. 18
Crash, 10 p.m. (Starz)

Sunday, Sept. 20
Curb Your Enthusiasm, 9 p.m. (HBO)
Bored to Death, 9:30 p.m. (HBO)

Monday, Sept. 21
Accidentally on Purpose, 8:30 p.m. (CBS)
The Big Bang Theory, 9:30 p.m. (CBS)
Castle, 10 p.m. (ABC)
CSI: Miami, 10 p.m. (CBS)
Dancing With the Stars, 8 p.m. (ABC)
Heroes, 8 p.m. (NBC)
House, 8 p.m. (Fox)
How I Met Your Mother, 8 p.m. (CBS)
Two and a Half Men, 9 p.m. (CBS)

Tuesday, Sept. 22
The Forgotten, 10 p.m. (ABC)
The Good Wife, 10 p.m. (CBS)
NCIS, 8 p.m. (CBS)
NCIS: Los Angeles, 9 p.m. (CBS)

Wednesday, Sept. 23
Cougar Town, 9:30 p.m. (ABC)
Criminal Minds, 9 p.m. (CBS)
CSI: NY, 10 p.m. (CBS)
Eastwick, 10 p.m. (ABC)
Gary Unmarried, 8:30 p.m. (CBS)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, 9 p.m. (NBC)
Mercy, 8 p.m. (NBC)
Modern Family, 9 p.m. (ABC)
The New Adventures of Old Christine, 8 p.m. (CBS)

Thursday, Sept. 24
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, 9 p.m. (CBS)
Flash Forward, 8 p.m. (ABC)
Grey’s Anatomy, 9 p.m. (ABC)
The Mentalist, 10 p.m. (CBS)

Friday, Sept. 25
Brothers, 8 p.m. (Fox)
Dollhouse, 9 p.m. (Fox)
Ghost Whisperer, 8 p.m. (CBS)
Law & Order, 8 p.m. (NBC)
Medium, 9 p.m. (CBS)
Numb3rs, 10 p.m. (CBS)
Smallville, 8 p.m. (CW)
Southland, 9 p.m. (NBC)

Saturday, Sept. 26
Saturday Night Live, 11:30 p.m. (NBC)

Sunday, Sept. 27
60 Minutes, 7 p.m. (CBS)
The Amazing Race, 8 p.m. (CBS)
American Dad, 9:30 p.m. (Fox)
Brothers & Sisters, 10 p.m. (ABC)
Californication, 10 p.m. (Showtime)
The Cleveland Show, 8:30  p.m. (Fox)
Cold Case, 10 p.m. (CBS)
Desperate Housewives, 9 p.m. (ABC)
Dexter, 9 p.m. (Showtime)
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, 7 p.m. (ABC)
Family Guy, 9 p.m. (Fox)
The Simpsons, 8 p.m. (Fox)

Monday, Sept. 28
Lie to Me, 9 p.m. (Fox)
Trauma, 9 p.m. (NBC)

Tuesday, Sept. 29
Hell’s Kitchen, 8 p.m. (Fox)
Shark Tank, 8 p.m. (ABC)

Wednesday, Sept. 30
Hank, 8 p.m. (ABC)
The Middle, 8:30 pm. (ABC)

Thursday, Oct. 1
Private Practice, 10 p.m. (ABC)

Friday, Oct. 2
‘Til Death, 8:30 p.m. (Fox)
Stargate Universe, 9 p.m. (Syfy)

Sunday, Oct. 4
America’s Funniest Home Videos, 7 p.m (ABC)
Three Rivers, 9 p.m. (CBS)

Monday, Oct. 5
Rita Rocks, 7:30 p.m. (Lifetime)
Sherri, 7 p.m. (Lifetime)

Tuesday, Oct. 6
Scare Tactics, 9 p.m. (Syfy)

Friday, Oct. 9
Sanctuary, 10 p.m. (Syfy)
Ugly Betty, 8 p.m. (ABC)

Wednesday, Oct. 14
Nip/Tuck, 10 p.m. (F/X)

Thursday, Oct. 15
30 Rock, 9:30 p.m. (NBC)

Friday, Oct. 16
Supernanny, 8 p.m. (ABC)

Friday, Oct. 23
White Collar, 10 p.m. (USA)

Tuesday, Nov. 3
V, 8 p.m. (ABC)

Saturday, Nov. 7
Legend of the Seeker (syndication)
The Wanda Sykes Show, 11 p.m. (Fox)

This list is from E!Online, but here’s another calendar in a pretty colorful format from TV Guide. And for those of you super couch potatoes – here’s a printable version from TV addict.

Double Down

“Double Down” is exactly what your weight will do after eating the new Double Down Sandwich from KFC. And which, to no suprise, can also be found on This is why you’re fat. For a mere $4.99, here’s what you get:

• 2 Original Recipe Filets
• Bacon
• Pepper Jack Cheese
• Swiss Cheese
• Colonel’s Sauce

Now, I’m not sure what the Colonel’s Sauce is as I have never heard of it before nor seen it on any of KFC’s other menu items. However, it has been described by some as “a party in my mouth” – so it can’t be all bad, even if it really is Colonel’s Sauce. Ewwww, but okay.

I’ll try just about anything once and we all know I’m a sucker for all things fried, so: heart attack on a plate, here I come! What do you think? Will you try it?

via foodgeekery

Pig out.

They may look like they haven’t eaten in a week, but au contraire my friend. Celebrities actually do eat. Who knew?

All you can jet

Have some extra vacation time lying around? From September 8 to October 8, 2009, JetBlue is offering an All-You-Can-Jet Pass. Basically, you can fly anywhere you like, as often as you like, between the qualifying dates. The cost is just $599, including domestic taxes and fees and there are over 57 cities and 600 daily flights available. I wish I had some vacation time saved up because you bet your ass I’d be taking the whole month off and flying somewhere new every day.

Send me a postcard!