The GirlAlive Blog

Cool microwave thingy

I don’t have much to say today, but if you haven’t seen the Easy Mac Micro Maniac, you totally have to go and see it.  It’s just someone putting a bunch of random crap in a microwave.  I wish I had a job where Kraft paid me to throw crap in the microwave.

http://www.u-starvin.com/micromaniac/ 

Alana 

More baby names

I was bored at work and came up with a few more name ideas for my brother’s twins.

Chuck and Nora (in honor of Chuck Norris)
Mo and Henry (negative cutters rock!)
Al and Ana (Don’t just name one of your kids after me.  Name both of them after me.)
Alden and Marilyn (2 of my grandparents – my grandma Beulah specifically told us never to name anyone after her.  She hated the name Beulah.)
Wayne and Nona (2 minor characters from the Adventures of Pete and Pete)
Pebbles and Bam Bam
Linus and Lucy
Buffy and Angel
Gypsy and Tom
Pat and Chris (which one is the boy? which one is the girl? no one knows!)
Ren and Stimpy
Pinky and the Brain
Laurel and Hardy
Godzilla and Rodan (or Mothra or Gamera)
Trinidad and Tobago
Seattle and Tacoma

Anyway, that’s all the silliness I have for right now.  But if you want to buy some of my t-shirts, there is a big sale at cafepress right now, where if you buy 3 t-shirts you can get one free.

Alana 

New shirts!

I just wanted to point out that I’ve added a few new shirt designs to my cafepress store.  I’ve been on a bit of a non-conformity kick lately.  I’ve started to get to where all the women on the bus look exactly the same to me, and it is driving me mad.  They all have hip-hugger jeans, huge sunglasses, a belt over their long t-shirt, and ironed-flat dyed-blonde hair.  I seriously can’t tell any of them apart. It’s like the uniforms they have to wear in school here never wear off.  When you finish school, you just decide whether you’re going to wear a trendy, goth, or hippy uniform, and continue to look and dress exactly like all your peers. 

Anyway, there are new shirts celebrating how much I hate blending in with the sheep.

Alana 

stuff and things and whatnot.

So I haven’t been posting much lately.  I’ve been sick.  Not seriously ill, but just feeling crappy enough not to want to do much.  But I decided it was time for an update of a few things.

First of all, the guinea pigs.  They’re as cute as ever, but Fudge is no longer "little Fudgie".  More like "pudgy Fudgie".  He’s now even bigger than Homer.  We have the whole lot of them on a low-calcium diet to help Spike’s bladder problems. With four, it’s just too hard to only change the diet of one of them.  The others miss the broccoli and greens, but Spikey seems to be doing better.  We found out last week that guinea pigs love watermelon.  Even the rinds, so we eat the fruit, and give them the rinds, and everyone is happy.

Last week we also tried putting all 4 of them together in their playpen.  There was no humping this time.  Just a lot of strutting and posing and peeing on each other.  Except Homer.  Homer got all the others to accept his dominance in the first 10 minutes, and then just sat quietly eating a carrot while the rest of them fought.  Every once in a while he would look up at me and Neil as if to say, "Can’t you do something about those idiots?"

My brother and his wife Jaime are still expecting twins.  It’s getting closer and closer.  So far they haven’t told us what they’re planning to name them, and they have just been calling them Raisin and Kiwi.  Raisin is a girl and Kiwi is a boy.  My husband and I have worked up a few possibilities for them.

Papaya & Prune
Dragonfruit & Sultana
Mary Kate and Ashley (Ashley can be a boy’s name, and their last name is Olson)
Simon and River
Thing 1 and Thing 2
Regis and Kelly (or Kathie Lee, if you’re a traditionalist)
St. Paul and Minneapolis (you could call them Paul and Minnie)
Angela and Damon
Kibbles and Bits
Ken and Barbie
Luke and Leia
Bart and Lisa
Ben and Jemima (named after Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima)
Washington and Brooklyn (but only if they’re born on Sept 11)

Anyone else have any ideas?

As for my immigration stuff, it is going okay I guess.  I have about 1/4 of the money that I need, so I’ll probably end up putting it on my credit card and just adding another few months to my credit card debt.  But it’ll get paid off eventually.  

The worst part with immigration is that I need to have proof that I have lived at my current address, with my husband, since October of 2005.  I have lived here with my husband that whole time, but I don’t have a lot of paperwork proving it.  I didn’t have a job for the first 6 months, and it was my husband’s house so everything was in his name.  So if I don’t find something acceptable to immigration in the next month or so, I’ll be spending Thanksgiving back home in the US.  Possibly living in a van down by the river.

Guinea pigs are squeaking for food, so I better go get them some celery before they burst a squeaker. 

Alana