Princess Consuella Banana-Hammock

Americans enjoy the right to name your children any bizarre name you can come up with! In Germany there will be no Pipers, Nightshades, Willows, etc... Every name here must be approved by a special council for name approval. You cannot doom your poor child to a lifetime walking the earth as a "Ocean" or "Reef" I think this is outrageous! Where is the creativity, the individuality? What do you think?

Illegal baby names

I wasn't lying about the speedos!

Here is scientific proof!



more graph humor and song chart memes

Get to know your friends 2008 cont.. (aka: I can't move out of my chair because I rode my bike to work today so I might as well fill out this form)

1. What time did you get up this morning? 10:00 ... pretty early for a Tuesday

2. Diamonds or Pearls? Diamonds are a girls best friend! (not that I own any ... yet)

3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema? Charlie Bartlett - in Berlin. We wanted to see "Sex in the City" but we would have missed our train.

4. What is your favorite TV show? The Office in America, The Rock of Love here (what? we only get CNN and MTV in English!)

5. What do you usually have for breakfast? Cereal

6. What is your middle name? Manning

7. What food do you dislike? Most cheese and Vegemite

8. What is your favorite CD at the moment? Elizabethtown soundtrack

9. What kind of car do you drive? Nope

10. Favorite sandwich? come on, it's a sandwich, how great can it be?

11 What characteristic do you despise? Thinking the world owes you something and always playing the victim (is that a characteristic? )

12. Favorite item of clothing? I don't have one

13. If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation, where would you go? Magfest...I miss it!

14. Are you an organized person? Nope

15. Where would you like to retire to? I know I'm old, but I'm not THAT old!

16. What was your most recent memorable birthday? My 29th birthday I spent at the drum circle on Siesta Key Beach

17. What are you going to do when you finish this? Try to peel myself off of my chair and do some work.

18. Furthest place you are sending this to? The World Wide Web

19. Person you expect to send it back first? If you don't have any expectations you are less likely to be disappointed!

20. When is your next birthday? This year I am going to have it in January, after that I can't make any promises.

21. Morning person or night person? Night! (see #1)

22. What is your shoe size? 8

23. Pets? Mattie and Ebony who traveled with me from the States. And Lucy who stayed behind :(

24. Any new and exciting news you'd like to share? I saw hedgehogs trying to mate (see last post)

25. What did you want to be when you were little? Ballerina, singer, cowgirl...

26. How are you today? Feeling better now that I have sat for 20 minutes.

27. What is your favorite flower? hibiscus

28. What is a day on the calendar you are looking forward to? I have nothing to look forward to, isn't that sad?

29. What are you listening to right now? I don't listen,

30. What was the last thing you ate? Cereal

31. Do you wish on stars? Yes, because unlike Emily, I am still amazingly superstitious for a scientist.

32. If you were a crayon, what color would you be? I haven't the slightest idea!

33. How is the weather right now? Warm and breezy

34. Last person I spoke to on the phone? Lori

35. Favorite soft drink? Dr. Pepper baby!

36. Favorite restaurant? The Magic Mushroom

37. Hair color? Jury is still out, I am growing out all of the dye. I let you know when I find out.

38. What was your favorite toy as a child? Probably my cat.

39. Summer or Winter? Winter in Florida.

40. Chocolate or Vanilla? Chocolate. A thousand times chocolate.

41. Coffee or tea? Tea.

42. Do you want your friends to email you back? That would be nice, but see #19

43. When was the last time you cried? I'm too tough to cry!

44. What is under your bed? Whatever Mattie has dragged under there.

45. What did you do last night? Went to the gym, made dinner, watched two episodes of Next (I'm not proud of that OK, but again there are only two channels in English!), and tried to complete four different Sudoku puzzles (without success)

46. What are you afraid of? Never falling in love and horror movies

47. Salty or sweet? sweet

48. How many keys on your key ring? a bunch

49. How many years at your current job? 1 in September

50. Favorite day of the week? Sunday

51. Do you make friends easily? Yeah, but I usually only have a few close friends.

52. How many people will you send this to? Emily might read it.

53. How many will respond? Why do you keep asking this? See #19

54. Do you like finding out all this stuff about your friends? Some of this stuff I don't really care about, but some of it is interesting. For instance, I don't really care about anyone's shoe size unless it is freakishly large (Emily) or freakishly small (Shelly)

Hedgehog Mating Rituals

I realized I have been remiss in my educational responsibilities of late. So, the lesson for today is on the mating behaviors of hedgehogs (which are surprisingly similar to the mating behaviors of humans).

The male hedgehog (by the way, hedgehogs live wild in Europe) tries to mate with any female he comes across in his nightly wanderings. He approaches the female and begins to circle around her. He circles because she won't let him get anywhere near her private bits. He makes all sorts of grunting noises to try to impress her, but generally she just ignores him. This can go on for hours. Eventually one of the two will give in. Either she will spread her hind legs and lay flat on the ground or he will go away.

This guy is having better luck than the one I saw.