UPDATE: Cease and Desist Unicorn

It seems that the "CORNY JOKE/UNICORN" I blogged about earlier was unattributed. To appease the Unicorn Nazi, I provide his original email and attribution :-)

Begin forwarded message:

Date: August 10, 2008 1:26:26 AM CDT

Subject: Cease and Desist

This is a Cease and Desist Notice.
As I am sure you are fully aware, plagiarism is against ethical conduct as well as illegal.
It is with great disappointment that I must issue this Cease And Desist Notification as I have become aware of the illegal use of my original copyrighted material entitled "CORNY JOKE." Please discontinue all uncredited use of said material on you blog as it is an original intellectual property of one MR. James E. Deshotels. Continuing to use this material in this unauthorized fashion may result in serious consequences. Evidence of said illegal acts is attatched. You will notice time of sent email and notice of your posting of Mr. Deshotels works. Please respond in due time.
Cordially,
Mr. James E. Deshotels

Screenshot images of his original email and my blog were included for evidence.

Not hard enough!

I didn't even try the door as I was afraid someone might think me a weakling if I could muster up the strength to pull even harder.

Lint Special

I am in the mood to shuck! My sister has arrived for a stay until the end of the month. Thank goodness her husband called at 10:30pm or else we would have stayed up all night yakking with each other!
I preparation for her arrival, and my mom's in October, and the baby in December, I have begun the laborious process of moving my onion and potatoes to a better location than the hot pantry next to the outside wall of the house. How does that equate? WELL...it gets hot in the pantry and I get bad root veggies. They needed to be moved to the large storage cabinets that were filled with small appliances, junk, and my stone bakeware. That stuff needed to go somewhere, and there were shelves in the garage next to the kitchen door. The stuff on those needed to be combined with the other garage goodies. In order for all of that to fit, I needed to move the desk (that is currently undergoing a refinish) into the house. The refinishing project began as the garage stuff was consolidated, the kitchen items moved to those shelves, and the potatoes and onions put in the cabinets. This also opened avenues for the crafty items to be put with the kitchen goods (lap loom, crayon maker, paper making kit, etc.) This all was in preparation for visitors and family expansion.
During this clean out, I would take a break but still needed that "mood for shucking" feeling to be appeased. I began going through our families' extraordinary large collection of photos. As I do, there are some that are going to need to go on the blog. Here is one now that I got around Easter time. Who knew that Easter and Lint were so closely related? Must be a dust bunny thing! OH, har de har har.

iPhone screenshots

While looking through my photos in my camera collection on my iPhone, I kept thinking it had freaked out and switched to my phone favorites. It took a couple of days until I realized that I had somehow taken a screenshot.
How'd I do it? Hold the home button and then press the power button for the screen you want.
Voilá!

crazy card

Another prize from the collection is this card. They do indeed make cards for everything! The preposterous wording makes me laugh every time I read it.
Before we go any further-
before we continue with our relationship-
before we go deeper into this-
there's something I need to tell you.
I'm a little confused, I'm a little unsure.
I love being with you and spending time together but I can't help but think-
Is this too perfect to last?
Where will it go from here?
Please understand that it's not you-
it's me.
I want you to believe in us.
Just give me a little understanding and a little time.
Oh, the comments for this abound!

face bowl

I used to work for a university. My office was decorated with every piece of insanity and human conundrum. When I left, I kept much of the junk and just recently went through it to shuck. Here is one of the prized pieces from the collection.
This was posted above the faculty restroom sink in one of the buildings. It stayed up all semester until some staff member removed it. I wonder who could have done that? Hmmm?

Desk redux

Mike's dad's desk's (had to go with the listing of apostrophes there) refinishing project is coming along like a charm.
Here he is wiping it down to prep for staining. Stay tuned for the finished project!

Have you checked out www.apostropheabuse.com